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Follow These Strategies To Create The Best League Starter Build In Path Of Exile 3.24!

Mar 23, 2024

If Affliction League is difficult, Necropolis will be even harder, and if you can’t choose not to play in it, finding the right build before completing a challenge is crucial. In this guide, we’ll give you some tips that can help you find the best league starter build in Path of Exile 3.24.

What Does A Good Build Require?

In my opinion, a good League starter build requires no Transfigured Gems, no mandatory Uniques. The core rare items are easy to craft, and the build perfectly serves the purpose of a new start, especially if the goal is to unlock all Voidstones.

For Transfigured Gems, there are many options, namely Explosive Trap of Shrapnel, Blade Blast of Dagger Detonation, Volcanic Fissure of Snaking and Fire Trap of Blasting. The problem is, however, that these are well known to most people, and as more gems dilute the gem pool, these gems will become very expensive.

However, if any of them is limited to 1 Transfigured variant, it can be farmed on its own without going through several Merciless Labs.

Follow These Strategies To Create The Best League Starter Build In Path Of Exile 3.24!

So, we did a survey here. I selected a few of the most played league starting builds in December in POE 3.23 and let players choose the worst one. They are Boneshatter Juggernaut, Detonate Dead Elementalist, SRS Guardian and Lightning Arrow Deadeye.

Among them, Boneshatter Juggernaut was voted the worst starting build with a high vote. In fact, Boneshatter is great for cleaning up maps on a budget. But this can have considerable drawbacks for a single target. If you don’t invest appropriately in the build, it will perform worse than HC SSF build.

Lightning Arrow, on the other hand, is great at clear speed, but poor at basic defense and single target. Additionally, most players who play Lightning Arrow still choose to switch to Tornado Shot once they obtain 60 or more Divine Orbs.

Detonate Dead is a better option and is popular among hardcore players. The reason it’s so popular is that you don’t need to invest too much in damage scaling since most of its damage comes from the corpse’s life.

Another example similar to Vaal Detonate Dead is my Lightning Conduit Elementalist. Unlike DD, this is a build that scales to God-tier. It has everything you need for a league start. It has great clear speed, top boss damage and is cheap. If you like it, you can even upgrade to the crit version of it later, which is one of my favorite builds.

Path Of Exile 3.24: Detonate Dead Elementalist

Plan Your Atlas Before Starting A Build

None of them mean anything if you haven’t planned your Atlas before deciding on your league starter build.

Most skills in POE excel in some areas and fail irrefutably in others. If it’s built to farm Uber, it might not necessarily be good at mapping. It’s also possible that your build can clear the entire map in less than a minute, but takes more time to take down the map boss.

So ideally, before you plan your league starter build, you need to plan your Atlas first.

If your goal is to buy Mageblood during the first week of the league, then you should prioritize the most profitable ones. If your goal is just to unlock all 4 Voidstones and switch to another build, then you should look for a Boss build with decent mapping and defences.

I earned most of the early POE Currency running Labs and Heist in POE 3.23 using the same build. Since there are almost no other Labs to farm on day one, it’s easy for me to sell these Transfigured Gems. We just run basic Labs repeatedly.

When I mine Chaos and Divine Orbs from this strategy, I’m not even on the map. Because the build I’m using has a pretty fast clear speed, and it has decent physical damage mitigation and spell suppression.

If you’re running Labs, you can even use the same build to run Heist, as both benefit from speed and delivery time.

While the rewards are huge, the downside is that it gets really boring since you have to do the same tasks repeatedly. That’s why if you plan on doing this, you should switch between Labs and Heist every few hours.

Long story short, plan your goals, then plan your build.

Running Labs and Heist with the same build in POE 3.24

Check POB

Finally, if you choose to follow a build guide, be sure to check for outdated, invalid, and misleading configurations when importing a POB.

There are several important factors in checking a POB. To compare a POB to similar POBs, the first thing to set up are Guardian or Pinnacle Bosses. If you entered any configuration into custom modifiers, be sure to check the guide to understand why.

For the skill part, there are many ways you can gain massive damage and Effective HP. These include checkmarks for Auras, Totems, temporary Buffs, and even the count value. If you specify multiple options that support gems as skills, make sure the checkmarks are appropriate for the item they are inserted into.

For items, always check if they are Uniques. I would avoid anything tier 2+ rarity at the start of the league. For rare items I prefer up to 4 mods. But I wouldn’t care too much about the flask unless the build relies too heavily on it.

Finally, damage and Effective HP in POB may vary from build to build, so this is not a legitimate way to compare builds. For example, Scourge Arrow of Menace shows significantly lower value, while in practice it performs much better than many builds with higher DPS.

Therefore, besides DPS and Effective HP, there are many other important things that should be considered. For example, mana cost, evasion, chaos resistance, area of effect, block or spell suppression.

If the build relies on life or energy shield instead of mana, you will need to check how to fix these issues. Anyway, I hope this information helps you take the next step in POE 3.24!

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