Animate Weapon 02:30 Arc 03:53 Mana Builds 04:42 Armageddon Brand / Brand Recall 05:58 Artillery Ballista 08:40 Blade Vortex 10:15 BAMA 11:18 Bone Shatter 12:36 Caustic Arrow 13:07 Cleave 13:55 Corrupting Fever 14:27 Cyclone 14:53 Zoomancer Summoner 15:12 Detonate Dead 16:48 Divine Ire 17:52 Explosive Arrow 18:43 Explosive Trap / Ice Trap 20:04 Exsanguinate 21:51 Flicker Strike 22:47 Frost Blades 23:45 Frostblink 24:16 Wave of Conviction 24:59 Hexblast 26:45 Ice Nova 28:08 Ice Shot 28:57 Ice Spear 29:53 Icicle Mine 30:28 Kinetic Bolt 31:01 Lightning Arrow 32:55 Lightning Conduit 34:02 Lightning Strike 35:40 Manaforged Arrows 36:29 Penance Brand of Dissipation 37:06 Bleed Bow / Puncture 40:01 Poisonous Concoction 41:22 Spectres 43:32 Zombies 44:01 Righteous Fire 44:52 Smite 45:27 Shockwave Totem 45:37 Reap 46:37 Spark 47:30 Splitting Steel 48:34 Toxic Rain 50:49 Tornado Shot 53:50 Summon Raging Spirits 54:51

Animate Weapon 01:00 - C Arc 03:53 - C Mana Builds 04:42 - Not a starter Armageddon Brand 05:58 - A Brand Recall 06:27 - S Artillery Ballista 08:40 - A Blade Vortex 10:15 - Not a starter BAMA 11:18 - A Bone Shatter 12:36 - A Caustic Arrow 13:07 - C Cleave 13:55 - C Corrupting Fever 14:27 - B Cyclone 14:53 - C Zoomancer Summoner 15:12 - B Detonate Dead 16:48 - XDD Divine Ire 17:52 - C Explosive Arrow 18:43 - C Explosive Trap 20:04 - S Ice Trap 20:40 - S Exsanguinate 21:51 - A Flicker Strike 22:47 - Master Card Tier Frost Blades 23:45 - Master Card Tier Frostblink 24:16 - B Wave of Conviction 24:59 - B Hexblast 26:45 - A Ice Nova 28:08 - B Ice Shot 28:57 - B Ice Spear 29:53 - C (Totem) Icicle Mine 30:28 - B Kinetic Bolt 31:01 - Not a starter Lightning Arrow 32:55 - A Lightning Conduit 34:02 - S Storm Brand 34:02 - S Lightning Strike 35:40 - B Manaforged Arrows 36:29 - Not a starter Penance Brand of Dissipation 37:06 - S Bleed Bow / Puncture 40:01 - C Poisonous Concoction 41:22 - C Spectres 43:32 - Not a starter Zombies 44:01 - C Righteous Fire 44:52 - B Smite 45:27 - Not a starter Shockwave Totem 45:37 - A Reap 46:37 - Not a starter Spark 47:30 - B Splitting Steel 48:34 - B Toxic Rain 50:49 - B Tornado Shot 53:50 - Master Card Tier Summon Raging Spirits 54:51 - C

SRS lost damage, but poison-based SRS gained damage with the unholy might changes where the net change is relatively the same amount of damage. Animate weapon has the same drawback as SRS, and can also be mitigated with unleash support.

Great Video Asmo ! Thank You for your opinion for league starters. This will help a lot of people :)

@AsmodeusClips is heist league start still a good strategy? If yes, would you still go TR raider instead of TR pathfinder?

Thanks for the tier list!

I will start with flicker im here watching just because im subscribed 😂

Poison SRS ended up with a net buff after all, but thanks for putting it in C tier so my gear will stay cheap!

Gonna push back on frost blades.. specifically ele claw FB Trickster.. The heatshiver nerfs hurt but its still incredibly viable as a starter.

Thanks for the work, very nice video!

3 seconds into the video.. I see flicker strike icon, gotta watch to the end now D:

i just came back to PoE after like a 3 years break and wow the game changed quite a bit in the meantime :D Thanks for your thoughts, i just tested Bane with Blight/Essence Drain and got really smooth into low tier maps. i think quite a viable build as well :)

Love to see you on camera!! Also love your videos, thanks for all the hard work :)

what are your thought about cobra lash ?

Thanks Asmo!!!

Amazing list. Thank you for putting this together and your explanations were clear and super helpful!

Thanks now my plan is approved by both you and Tyty, if I'll sleep well now (even if I was already comfident lol).

You need to do another one of these tier lists for endgame bossing.

You are the best!

The corpses life scaling is limited to T16, just a note

Cast on Death portal! Yup, I got that secret skill too!

Should I do mage as a starter or do it as a second chr? i was thinking some easy liek explosive arrow(seems easy for controller) and then looking for a build that plays like a d4 mage but maybe I go in with decent gear and stuff playing it :)

Which DD build would you recommend ?

i start frost blades every league and u have like 3m dps with no gears on trickster....for me is a A to S tier

I’m going Necro Arakaali’s Fang. I think it’s going to be solid on a decent budget with the Necro’s new leech.

Where does someone find this storm brand lightning conduit build? Can’t even find most of these

Am i missing something or did we lose the heist implicit thing? It isn't on the atlas and there are no heist scarabs.

Flicker strike. Has been my favorite skill since the very first time i played. - I dunno... Just something awesome about the skill, that i love... But i've never had a very successfull build, until last league... Finally got it to "click"... And it just tored through just about everything. But it's a currency dump, and... Not a league starter, but absolutely worth playing, and investing in, if you like the skill like i do...

Last night I did a Alch'd T16 Ice Nova of Frost bolts all the way to the boss which he was the only thing I could not kill at level 70 with campaign gear. Since it clears the entire screen nearly at once it has amazing clear. Bossing would be my only concern with it. But it's certainly not slow. Well I could have killed the boss, but I didn't want to sit there for 5-8 min, which is how long it would have taken. Of course he was 13 levels higher than I was.

nice always nice

I really believe that BAMA deserves an S tier, going Guardian might have less damage then a Necro late game , but early it has smooth leveling and all the benefits of a Guardian later on

Ngl im amazed how all melee build guides offer cleave and other stuff which usually require you to build up rage and then spend it and be slow again and they never say thing about frost blades where you basically need no gear and just scales so easily, destroys maven and every other boss.

what would make explosive traps S and Hexblast an A?

Hi, ive league starred flicker strike and im watching your video. I watch a lot if league start video at league start. Because that's the inky content yall make during league start lol

I thought you were gonna put dd in Mastercard tier since you need mtx to save your computer

is there any peanance brand of dissipation starter on youtube? didn't find any at least some real build with pob?

In what way would mana builds ever struggle with resistances... 1. Decent res from tree 2. Life and mana prefixes and random res + attributes are pretty much the only stats you need. Obviously this is based on Archmage carrying damage as hard as it seems from theorycrafting.

Divine ire with Aurora , incandecent heart and Anathema with Vaal Discipline cost like 2 divines- 4 divines. You go Chaos inoculation and stack energy shield and block/spell block chance. Could clear all pinnacle encounters, delve 650 in the first 2 days of playing. Still, going with the same build and swapped to penance brand of dissipation and my dmg went up with 2.5mil dps in 3.23. I do believe Divine ire is a B-tier build atm.

How do u get penance brand at league start? Don’t u need to chance it at labs?

I totally disagree on frost blade. Played few last leagues as fb trickster and had no problem to clear all contests. Last league made fb slayer rakiata dance and it was even better. Very decent clear speed and single target.

Explosive trap or CoC DD, which of those two will be better for uber uber bosses ?

Probably gonna go with lightning conduit/ storm brand. Played guardian srs last league and want something totally opposite of that.

Wait, venom gyre isnt on the list...should I be panicing the queue for the league just popped.

I leaguestarted Explosive Trap Trickster last league... it was extremely squishy until I managed to get a 6L Kintsugi, and even then would occasionally get deleted. The summon holy relic/guardian's blessing/zealotry tech was also something I found very clunky, and it had weak sustain but needed utility flasks. I enjoyed it, especially with Shrapnel for clear, so it can do both aoe and single-target... but I don't think I'd recommend it to someone else as a league-starter. Too many buttons and too squishy for how much damage it eventually did.

Well, there certainly is a lot I disagree with on this list, many things said that was either "Not a starter" or in the Master Card list that I did a starter build with and they were very reasonable to do so with. For example I did a multiple T16 just yesterday with a single 5 link and a Sinvicta with Splitting Steel, The build has over 40 EHP and 1.5M dps at level 80. Nearly all of it cheap gear the most expensive probably cost 10C on league start, well maybe a 5 link cost more than 10C but that's it. You got a lot of good stuff, but then lots of these builds I'm wondering what you call good and bad or why you exclude the best starter class just because it doesn't have sky high end game numbers, like the Frost Blade Trickster.

Can someone tell me, what rank would be a holy flame totem hierophant?

Good list, bama it is for me. I'll mess around with necro and eventually transition to it once I got the transferred gem and whatnot. I'm just tired of SRS and might transition to specters depending.

LA not being in XDD is funny

banger title

Hey guys, will most of this skills be in poe 2 as well?

Ima try flicker strike I’m a complete newbie first time playing but for sure a giga chad lol dig it but it just looks fun curious how to level and get it started since never played at all poe

Hmm...Lightning Conduit or Explosive Trap...

What about venom gyre? Pls

you stopped talking about corrupting fever really quick 😂 I wonder why hahaha

Nice to finaly have the definitive non subjective correct guide to starters. Thanks!

So much builds S tier and no guide for them :( You know a good Storm brand/lightning conduit build?

Can't decide between LA Deadeye, Explosive Trap Trickster or Excsanguinate Trickster :( Kinda want something with better single target dps but don't want to lose clear speed.

I'd say this is a good starting point for a main gem focus build; From here you can then go on to find the best guide for whichever main gem you'd prefer for your build. Unfortunately the Warcry changes destroyed the viability of melee being all rounders as League Starters. They are now all relegated to map clearing and have such slow bossing damage that you're forced to contend with mechanics... yuck.

So I'm a brand new player, this is actually my first league Was planning on playing the zoomancer using ur most recent necro video, is this a good idea or do u have another suggestion for my first league as a new player?

You've got to be kidding on Frost Blades, it's very easy to play in the beginning KobeBlackmamba was leveling with it yesterday and there are speed run videos of it with a 2 hr 15 min Act 5 clear. You level Frost Blades with a 2h early then move to DW when you bring Trinity on line. After that it's easy. Frost Blades is only slow for a short period of time. Depending on your route once you get to Multi shot and Trinity between lvl 14 and 25 depending on your route then it's all pretty easy. It was easily one of the best leveling build I tried this league and i tried it as a starter right into maps. It's easily B or A tier, Zish as a very good guild on it and extensive video.

Mastercard Tier on point KEKW

which builds would you recomend for abusing legions?

Lightning conduit/stomr brand on a elementalist?

How about venom gyre?

i love flicker strike, flicker is literally me, my second name is Comrade

I wanted to try starting EA elementalist for the first time but I don't know what to do now... I was hoping it would be higher in the ranking. F. Ty for the video!

I watched your video just to see what builds would be worse than mine FLICKER STRIKE

What about Caustic Arrow but as death aura occultist? Yeah some single target for ubers is lacking but normal bosses are fine and clear is one of the easiest

I am roughly 100% sure that BAMA Guardian is better for league starting compared to necro. So why list necro as the starter build?

only disagree with frostblades its definitely insane starter especially this league got even buffed with 10% more damage for free imo it deserved place arroud A/S/XD

I need to learn how to make builds. Every league it is the same few builds and I refuse to believe that this redundant, boring stuff is all there is.

Great job, really well thought of! Love it! Any chance you can put a googledoc or a writting tier list with names and tiers in description? I cannot guess those skills icons for shit :(

Im not sure what you are on about with this "master card" tier. FB trickster is an amazing all rounder with one of the best clear skills in the game.

Dark Pact got snubbed

popcorn srs.......

Finally someone made a tier list of league starters

Lol, frost blades rider. Dude is stuck in 2017. Ez 20mil+ pinnacle on the first week with trickster

Flame Dash Totems where?😢

Cut down on the adds another time, 6 minutes in and 2 sets of adds is just too aggressive for me.

SRS necro is still great i guess. Maybe better then ever mid and late

frostblades in lowest tier true true dont let them know i respect the play

if your duel wielding credit cards go flicker

SRS is still S tier for Necro

Animate Weapon is S tier minion build, u def never played it, saying its C :D esp with OP necro changes now

Where is Volatile Dead?

LA is A-tier because it's lacking single target... then putting storm brand on S-tier. Hahahah. This guy.

where is blade flurry, best skill to start! xd

no hierophant siege ballista ?

Also idk how can u put Storm Brand into S< did u even read the patch notes, that skill got destroyed into oblivion lol

um lunatico!

So strange...even after Lili shows that coc dd is absolute garbage at league start they still put it in S tier.. Build, that requires 5-link and a lot of alt gems just to start going and even than it`s much worse that ignite ele.. You can say that it is 1button DD, but Kitava`s Thirst is 1button too, but have ten time more damage, survivability and comfort..

Why no one cares about siege ballista, op af

Sorry but you got Frost Blades 10000000000000000% wrong my guy. Most peope play it with Trickster b/c it outshines Raider is every way possible. It has been proven as a league starter over and again each league. Check out Zish's Channel for literal receipts on this. I get it. This is your tier list but speaking on matters, if you don't really know, don't make it up. I've seen several content creators that could EASILY do some research and find this information. Wonder what else was seriously looked over.

Rate chaos dot!

So... the only s tier is DD...

You can go all the way to t16 map on a 1-3 div setup with BV (poison or cold) how is it not at leastt B :O Only negative : a bit slower on lvling

Please say what the acronyms mean at least once.

pcoc in C when u can actualy kill maeven with 4 link, ok

Lul with Frostblades i legit killed every content easily last leagues.

nothing new ill wait for poe twi )