📖 Written Guide: www.poe-vault.com/guides/trial-of-the-ancestors-league-mechanic-guide 🏆 Cheat Sheet: i.imgur.com/ncH0Dvr.png *EDIT:* The Cheat Sheet and Written Guide have been updated for patch 3.22.1. The strategy in the video is still the best way to beat Trials, but the changes to Tribe leader AI make it significantly more difficult. If you're looking to farm at rank 2k, I strongly recommend making a dedicated build focusing on crowd control and capping Evasion/Spell Dodge/Block and Spell Block.

I was absolutely lost in my first battle, and this guide helped me alot when I came back for the second one!! Thanks

I love your guide! By far the best guild available, even though we are one month into the league. I first hated TotA, only because i didn't understand it. With your guide things changed and now im rank 1350, winning 90% of the tournaments. Thanks to this league mechanics , this is my best and richest league ever. Thank you so much for creating this amazing content! ❤

I'm a month late but I'll finally be trying the league mechanic out for real now. Thanks for this well thought out and presented guide!

I'd recommend taking sunset mages over the thunderbirds as flankers. With there range they can channel over the field masters walls so enemy unit struggle to hit them and also totems with the chaos aura on them have no effect

Thank you for the tips ❤

This is, BY FAR, the best and most complete guide I've ever seem so far about TOTA. Nothing comes even close. It has, literally, everything you need to know to win, succeed and make currency.

Tota 2k rating enjoyer here. Good vid overall and I also use the same attack strat where i go for defenders then work my way down flankers and problematic units. Ill share the strat that works for me. Use a 4link void sphere(supports: increased aoe, second wind and increased duration) good for early matches and dealing with turtles and ravagers Unit acquisition priorities: flankers>defenders>attackers. Imo any cheap unit can fill the attacker spot and i only use navali warriors to fill that spot till final round. Best flanker combo for me is: goliath(stun immune and knockback)and sunsets. Jade hulks, jade shaman,trawlers, the 1500 utula warrior, camouflaged tuataras and riptides are amazing flankers as well. For defense units: ravagers are best but also riptides are also suprisingly really good defenders for their long range hooks and can drag multiple units at a time.if you got extra favours, storm conduit is also a really good defender bcuz she has a large aoe skill that can teleport enemies away from your side. Saved me alot from some matches where i get overwhelmed with so many mobs rushing for my totems Escort: best escort is storm guard. Prioritize getting him when you can bcuz his barrier blocks so many attacks especially when youre going for ramako and ikiaho tatoos. Also one of the best flankers if you got spare favours. One warcaller is also a great escort to have especially if youre build is slow. Speeds up your escorts and flankers which helps greatly with taking out totems if youre rushing towards defenders first. Double hinekora horn escorts is notable escort setup too if you die often for faster revives. Interesting info i discoverd recently is that honourable warriors are suprisingly really quick and theyre faster than tuataras so they make for really good escort and flanker units if youre starting lineup is bad or youre starving for decent flankers Hope this helps

I tried this and they just ignored me and banished my totems faster than I could banish theirs.

im playing a build with 95% evasion, 85% attack block, 75% spell block, 75% spell dodge and CI. then i have ballista totems with ensaring arrow, cull, chance to flee, void sphere as cc for enemy team, and i just run to their strongest units totem and destroy it

The trials are absurdly fun when you add in more people. I’ve helped one of my friends push up to 2k ranking, which is the max, and we frequently enough find 5div rewards. 2 players is a nice sweet spot, since you can both rush towards the back and start knocking out totems super quick. I’ve also managed to find the +1 proj tattoo twice so far, at sub 500 rank on one of my characters, but it seems like Ahuana has an affinity for losing her first round a lot, so it’s really difficult to get her as the final fight. She also just so happens to have given me the overall best rewards in general. Yesterday I found an Unnatural Instinct from her, as well as rolled a 16c reward to 1div, and I’ve found quite a few winged scarabs off her too. She’s been my jackpot almost every time lol

Regarding the best units, sunset sage is also extremely strong in flanker role due to ranged banishing.

The strategy is only good if you have a fast and squishy character with a lot dps, I tried with an RF build and it isn't effective, so I changed the strategy I put more efforts defending the totems (pretty tank can survive 99 % of the time all by myself) while the majority of units flanks and attack and it's working.

This is a really great video. Thanks for posting.

Your sanctum guide was amazing and am glad you made one for tota

Thank you for this video. Great work! Liked and subscribed.

The breakdown is 🥇. PoE can be so arcane. Subbed

The video helped a lot, this is game changer.

Please make a video about Builds and Defences. What Abilities different Enemies do, what is the cooldown of those abilites. What Damage types, what type of defense you need to survive oneshots from them etc etc. Like for example you can survive death's oath with CI or lower its damage by half taking Lethe Shade. You can Spelldodge shots from Tidecaller including Wave. You also can spelldodge Firebreather explosion, but you CANT avoid Righeous Fire aura. In High Ranks that kills you under a Second even with 90 Fire Res and Ruby Flask.

Nice video. Thanks for sharing.

Great vid, good info! Subbed!

I currently am sitting on 700+ rankings with a ward loop build (I haven't channeled a single totem cause i self-stun) & i would like to point out that the " Sunset Sages " is the ONLY RANGED flankers; counters the chaos totems; imo is quite possibly the best

Sunset Sages are THE best flankers after Fieldmasters. Thunderbirds are actually surprisingly viable as defenders.

helped me out a lot. as per our devil's bargain, I have subscribed.

Subscribe? You had me at written guide included. You had me at written guide

good job on this one.

Legend!

Sunset Sage can banish totems in range , great in tandem with Fieldmasters and hard counter against Death Sages(has chaos damage aura on her totem) and as for my strategy , rush to get fieldmasters , always get fieldmasters

Sun Sage is a suuuper flanker as well :| Also the unique necklase from Hinekora tribe is insane and super nice

there is this item that gives additional projectiles which is awesome on the Tidecaller giving tons of waves that interrupt enemies

Just a quick correction starting at 8:54 the Tidecaller unit is not from the Tasalio tribe its Arohongui. Otherwise really good guide, well put together thank you for this.

This is cute, I remember my first couple of tournaments too 😝

Great video, but 1x speed is too slow, 1.25 is perfect

pretty nice guide. However, sunset sage and jade hulk are both amazing flankers, that is probably their optimal position. I would also have liked to know whether or not there are ways to know which enemy teams are going to be potentially strong or not. Some say that the higher the reward, the more likely it will be hard, but that could just be confirmation bias so .... cannot find any information on this :S

I think I just really suck at the mechanic lol, this is a great guide but it's not great enough to help me :)

Someone commented on another video that once you hit rank 200,, you'll see about as big of rewards as you will ever see with only a couple of exceptions, so there's no use going past rank 200. I haven't tested this myself yet.

It doesn't work for me, the enemies destroy my defenses and I lose fast

Missing round 1 gameplay. How to position your 3-4 units, which one where and how to play. At one point I couldnt just win the first matches

Great video and guide! Would be useful to add the graphics about good units to the written version, but they may be somewhere and i missed them

dude, how do you keep ahuana till the end or tournament? she often dissapears after round 4 and even if i get her to round 5 it leaves after 1 my win

Sunset Sage is actually best as support.

idk i just get my totem fcked and I lose

good guide, but sunset sage is in the wrong recommended position.

stun...and then frozen then one shot from off screen. while trying to get the defender totems....not to mention ALL defenders suck even though they are in the right position = game over. still cant get past the first set of battles. and another league that craps on melee builds. Still cant get past the first set of rounds.

Really good guide. I felt you could have spoken slightly faster. I know not everyone would like that though.

Pretty condensed and easy to understand, better than a 2 hours non scripted video lol

Thanks for the video, lots of useful stuff ))) Can you please tell me how to prioritize filling positions? In the first round I personally first completely fill flankers, put 1 defender and 1 attacker. And then I try to fill defenders and attackers and lastly - my escort. Probably you have some better strat on your mind? I'm currently at 1000 ranking with Hexblast miner (not very well equipped). Mostly I win but sometimes (maybe it's a minion AI issue) i lose almost immediately and from the second try I win very fast. So I just can't understand where these defeats come from. And sometimes my units just don't manage to get into enemy's flank or just don't channel the totems... I don't know if it's an AI issue or just my bad understanding of strategy. Thank you!

Thank you so much for the guide

your written guide is nice. BUT: It reeeeally lacks the "which units to buy and put where" section... You write: "Choosing which Warriors to place where will be key to mastering the League Mechanic " Cool, now tell me which warriors are good where o.O

should you really kill hinekora... when you can get the lock

Dunno, Im at 450 and rewards are still laughable and games not enjoyable at all. Through the climb I had maybe 2-3 divines in rewards plus some tatoos for extra 2 divs. Thats awful money per hour ratio

Got to 2000 rank, rewards are usually suck, even when u use those same strategy

doesn't work anymore

Is shockwave totems build good for tota?

Also, noticed that losing at lower rounds makes the rewards worse. I am at 900 ranking and it's becoming too hard. If I lose a lot of rounds, my overall loot gets worse. This includes worse and smaller stacks od currency and 1 fusing uniques. My idea is to lower my rank to 400 ish and see the difference. I like your video, it s really informative.

Ain’t hineokas locks the best?

lost two tournaments in a row trying this shit

how to banish on ps4/5

Does not work what you describe here... these stupid mobs are all taunt resistant and freaking unbalanced high defence and resistances. In my opinion the worst season since 5 years. It sucks so hard.

The rewards part is correct, but this strategy to win is very bad.

I appreciate trying to create suspense, but I think you should hold back on using words like incredibly and massively with every sentence.

Rewards suck so bad. Worse profit per hour in poe yet. You would make more in white maps lol

I can promise you that this does not work.

god i despise these kinds of degenerate strats, and when i say that i mean no offense to you, you're probably right about it being the strongest way and thats what a guide should show, but it's like in hearthstone playing "go face" decks utterly abandoning so much of the substance for a SMOrc race instead. I hate the gameplay if this is what it's boiling down to

Why do you people keep making guides??? They nerf everything everytime.

You talk too slow. I had to watch the video at 1.25 speed but later i changed it to 1.5

Terrible terrible league mechanic... totem banishing instead of killing mobs

these are terrible tactics and only work with minion builds which you definitely did not explain well enough. bad advertising, bad video Edit: after further testing theese tactics proved even more useless when not playing a minion build. with minion build it works, but every tactics work in the trials with a minion build. down with content creators who have no idea!

Whats the point to play it in party ? Usually second dude don't get anything at all, and when he do it's completely random

is this guide and cheat sheet still good with the new patch or have things changed?