3.8 Top 3 META builds - Guessing Game

There is a lot of information out there about the changes, so it is time to play.

1. Summoner necromancer:

reasons:

- hype/marketing
- fits for tower defense
- easy and braindead playstyle (can play on console)
- new uniques

2. Slayer Cyclone

reasons:

- no major nerfs happened, lets continue what we started last league
- easy to play (can play on console)

3. Assassin HoA Cyclone/TS

reasons:

- assassin is the new trickster
- some Cyclone addicted pepole want to go hypster and try it out
- maybe poison is going to be viable (not seen perfect agony yet)
- agony crawler is cute
- easy to play (can play on console)


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Rules:

The winner gets the bragging rights about his/her insane amount of poe-knowledge and insight. Because it is really, really hard to predict...

If multiple pepole get it right, then the first one who posted it will win. Only your first top-list post matters. Those who edit thier post are disqualified. (So im not going to fix my typos/grammar either.)

You can post whatever you want besides the top list.

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I urge everybody not to pick these builds, to make sure i will not win.

Self casting MoM / ES Volatile Dead Necromancer.
Assuming VD counts as 'consuming a corpse'

I can take it further and say using Consuming Dark and Infernal mantle (?) for that sweet almost 50% fire to chaos conversion. Well .. thats my build anyways. It'll probably be shit...

Slainte,
Matt.

don't think it will hit the top right away but I reckon icicle mine will be up there. So long as the damage numbers and base crit aren't super low it looks mechanically strong with its multiple in built projectile for clear and crit scaling for bossing, then it also has the new factor going for it.

Cylone and TS.

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essemoni wrote:

Self casting MoM / ES Volatile Dead Necromancer.
Assuming VD counts as 'consuming a corpse'

I can take it further and say using Consuming Dark and Infernal mantle (?) for that sweet almost 50% fire to chaos conversion. Well .. thats my build anyways. It'll probably be shit...

Slainte,
Matt.

It does count as consuming corpses.

The new necro is pretty good for corpse casting thats for sure. I expect some cyclone-cwc or poets pen action here.

I believe top 60% -80% of coming league will be just different kinds of necromancers: zombies, specters.

About 10% - deadeye ts farmers
And the rest of this 20% are some freak builds.

Yeah.
Freedom of choice.

1) necromancer with spectre focus

2) Dual Claw/Dagger Crit Cyclone Poison Assassin with Agony Crawler

3) Tornado Shot Raider

Well I lost already rip Tornado Shot...

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Motopsycho wrote:

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essemoni wrote:

Self casting MoM / ES Volatile Dead Necromancer.
Assuming VD counts as 'consuming a corpse'

I can take it further and say using Consuming Dark and Infernal mantle (?) for that sweet almost 50% fire to chaos conversion. Well .. thats my build anyways. It'll probably be shit...

Slainte,
Matt.

It does count as consuming corpses.

The new necro is pretty good for corpse casting thats for sure. I expect some cyclone-cwc or poets pen action here.

Thanks for that info :)

I thought of Poets pen, but then realised that the dual weilding nature of them was nerfed.

And then i realised that Consuming Dark was getting changed so that the +1 fire gems is now global :) Alas, dual wielding is out, due to needing a shield for ES.

Thanks,
Matt

raider? no. raider is still trash.

i think we'll see the stormblast mine sabo, slayer cyclone (still), and dual claw poison assassin.

i also think late in the league people will really go for dual claw assassin deadeye with cobra lash.

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xMustard wrote:

raider? no. raider is still trash.

i think we'll see the stormblast mine sabo, slayer cyclone (still), and dual claw poison assassin.

i also think late in the league people will really go for dual claw assassin deadeye with cobra lash.

I see zero potential in the new poison skills. They are too slow for the current space of the game. You can get more hits with spectral throw and have innate pierce, which is superior compared to chain in almost every aspect.

You still have to detonate mines, so i dont think it will be all that popular (still clunky).