Bestiary Softcore ladder stats so far

I had a look at the softcore ladder, and compiled these basic stats for the top 2000 players in Softcore Bestiary League:



Note this does not include things like skills used, passive nodes taken etc.

Please post your thoughts/reactions/etc below!


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Here are my thoughts about it:

- I guess people really wanted to try out the new Necromancer nodes. Necro is no longer a generically strong class, but it is still strong as a summoner / support class.

- Deadeye is fun again! Woohoo.

- 2 additional totems means Heiro is the go-to for most totem builds. Sorry Chieftain!

- Juggernaut isn't the strongest class, but it is clearly very reliable this patch.

- Champ/raider/slayer remain reasonably popular, but nothing like the glories of leagues past. Well balanced now? Or just people not liking 20% cull in bestiary?

- What happened to Inquisitor?

- Occultist is still strong, but mostly the same as before so people were more interested to try the new classes. Perhaps with Atziri's mirror becoming visible on trade websites, the numbers might go up?

- Assassin, Elementalist and Berserker - the three 'glass cannon' classes that GGG tried to make relevant for Softcore, and failed really hard.
Elementalist: Golem builds are nice, but summoners have more interesting builds to try in Necro! Unreliable buffs aren't that great, and the nodes are spread out too thin (too many 4-node branches). Probably still quite strong in the right hands though.
Assassin: Better charge generation, worse crit chance. Nobody loves you Assassin, but at least you have more players than Berserker.
Berserker: lolrage. Everybody knew this would fail hard as soon as they posted it. And, unsurprisingly, it failed hard.

The fuck that is a lot of dead eyes

ROFL BERSERKER HAHA BOTTOM SHIT CLASS

Surprised at chieftain. I thought the conversion, phys added fire and 1% fire leech were serious business.

honestly thought there would be more juggs, however if doing a jugg SST or tectonic it makes sense these would have been deserted

Nice stats thanks ! Only surprise to me was I wasn't expecting assassin to be so low

Edit: I really want to know the #2 occulists build and #4 and #5 whoa!

This is the best distrubition of classes ive ever seen.

but rip zerker.

ci is still fucked in leagues so very little hope for occultist to take off tbh, its amazing, and if youre not playing in standard with % crafts on rings and proper es rolls on gear who gives a shit because ci is garbage.

In standard ci is actually balanced against life, its so stupid what they have done to energy shield. Nerf guardian, buff es in general tbh, give back ring crafts at 8c each, reverse some of the stat nerfs on gear.



Hard to say with most of it tbh because its ppl trying new stuff. What theyre doing in 5 months time when they know whats hot and whats not, thats gonna be telling of subclass power. Right now its ppl giving things a shot so hard to say if its rly working out for them.

Gladiator is what happens when you force people to decide between the fun nodes and the powerful nodes.

I love the gladiator and am playing one again this league, but one has to admit that the by far most interesting node is Gratitutous Violence aka the bleed exlosion. I didn't think so much about it at the initial release, but the current layout is pretty shitty.

So if you want the fun node you can only take one of the three powerful(spellblock, maxblock or dmg +&- combined with charge QoL) nodes and if you decide to go full offence, you have to take Painforged which is pretty useless für any non block build.

Imo GGG should not have switched the nodes, instead they should have added some interesting mechanics to the following node(the blind is strong, but i dislike the interaction with the gladi's other nodes and i would have prefered a more interesting form of dmg reduction). And they shold have either reworked Painforged to be more flexible or added an other path for DW/Bleed focus.

P.S. I really like the overview provided bei poe.ninja, but it also depresses me a little bit because of the classes =<2%

http://poe.ninja/builds?league=Bestiary


Edit: I still don't get why they didnt rebuff ES after the VP/ES-Leech nerfs. I was a strong proponent of the initial nerfs, but that was because the VP/ES combo was op as fuck. And even then i would have prefered a direct VP nerf instead of first nerfing ES and then VP -.-

I'm surprised Beserker got 18 slots. Elementalist revamp was bad, but I didn't think it was Beserker Bad.

People aren't playing Zerk because they're tired of it. It was overplayed last league.

There's also a bias towards the ascendancies that match the new skills the best. Deadeye is a pretty obvious choice for SST, and Jugger is a likely choice for TS.