need help findind a end game build!

like in every league I am having a super hard time finding a build, I started with Cold Blade vortex build, I really like it, but it has super low dps and no survivability, and in the POB if I invest 10-20 divines it will only reach around 2,5m dps and will be a build that will die alot

so I am looking for a good build that can handle all content, maybe a build that can start out with low investment and later on invest highly in it.

my all time favorit builds I have played have been bleed bow / Burning arrow ignite / COC builds

I have been looking into trying a totem/Ballista explosive arrow build, but not sure how map clear speed is and the guides I have found arrent really detailed how to progress with gear

so I really hope someone can share a nice build and save the league for me , because I am atm stuck on my current build :/

If you arent a pro player, then Champion EA totems are really strong and probably better than elementalist which is a little bit of a glass canon.

Map clear with EA is very, very good. You are sprinting past everything just dropping totems, and everything blows up and dies. Bosses melt. I mean you dont have insane movespeed like a nightblade raider but its one of the faster clearers with the least danger.

Its also fantastic at low investment, with a high ceiling. You can do T16s on 25c budget probably, unless you are super unlucky.

I could link a guide but you are better off looking at different characters here
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds

Sort by EA, then Champion.

What do they have in common?

Leveling - just get a high damage bow, ele damage to attacks, your ballistas will cover you

Early maps - start to look for bows with +2 to gem level, get lvl 21 EA, get attack speed, defenses, exposure on hit, +fire damage to burning enemies, amulet with + to fire gems

Late maps, look for the bow with +2 to support gems, +1 to all socketed gems and 6L, get lvl 3 empower first and upgrade later if you want (I did up to Maven/Sirus last league with a 20c lvl 3 corrupt empower), fill out gear slows using poe.ninja above.



And if you dont like this advice, just go down the list from the most popular.

Poison Seismic is super popular and strong.

Venom Gyre is strong but for my money is a slower weaker EA.

Ice trap is getting more popular with Heatshiver.


But poison seismic and EA totems are going to net you the best dps and defenses under 20 divines for sure, with a relatively easy ride to T16s.

I have been searching now for a guide on totem build, but so far only finding 3.19 not sure if they still work for 3.20. I can only find elementalist explosive arrow ballista build.

Found this one https://pastebin.com/bBb5wmbj but I have no idea if it is good. every league I have played I get burned by ppl sharing builds that they claim are good damage and good survivability, and I can't get them to work :/

and when I look at builds on poe ninja, for me without a guide and something to tell me what stats to aim for, I find it super hard to get gear

Other than Champion EA Ballista (and this pays for it in damage at the top end), most totem builds do not have good survivability in the character. The survivability comes from you the player not getting hit (since your totems do all the fighting, you are free to just dodge things after placing them whereas other builds need to stop and do damage). If you aren't able to do that, totems isn't for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGX7PjKKnrg

Build guide from the best.


As for paying for it in dps ([Removed by Support]), here is for a player doing 35 million dps with a playstyle where they rarely get hit, with 40k armour and evasion and permanent fortify (recall even melee builds dont have full stack fortify at the start of boss fights). Also all of your 6 totes taunt multiple times per second.

https://poe.ninja/kalandra/builds/char/RawringSheepie/Salmi_Kalandra?i=28&search=skill%3DExplosive-Arrow%26sort%3Ddps

(the listed dps is a single explosive arrow while this character would always get 20 in. Use PoB and they have over 35 million dps)

Yes some of the glass cannon cast on crit get over 100M dps, but they also die if touched slightly wrong.

Sure doesnt look like you pay for tankiness with dps here...


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Sjoe - do whatever feels fun. I am just offering my experience as someone who had a hard time getting to endgame. Basically, a bad player. This build still got me to T16s with zero effort, and finished all non-uber content with under 9 divines.

Good luck!

Nothing I've said is untrue. The build you shared indeed has 35MM Pinnacle damage, which is a lot. But if you flip it to Uber setting (which is key because the OP wants something that handles Ubers), that number drops to 15MM. And that's on a build where several hundred divines were invested. I'm not saying that's weak. But it does not invalidate my claim that Champion EA Ballista pays for it in damage at the top end. All you need to see that is true is to look at what the ascendancy offers you--none of the nodes taken help his damage in any major way.

I mainly play totem builds and play one every league. My guy last league had 33MM udps and was the character I did all the ubers on. He cost me less than 40 divines. While I stopped him at 98 last league because I wanted to play other builds (ended up playing 6 different builds), I played a similar character (different spell) the previous league with similar results and played that character to 100.

Totems are what I know. I play them all the time. They aren't bad builds. But we don't know OP's skill level and if he wants to kill ubers on it, he needs to know that a fair amount of manual avoidance is important when playing such a build. Even on that expensive champion build, he's not facetanking anything ubers throw at him. Pinnacle bosses yes, ubers no. It's not different from the Toxic Rain characters of old. I like the builds and if OP likes the playstyle, I'm happy to see more people playing what I like. But I don't want him to go in without all the info and then get disappointed after investing a ton into the build.

That sounds great, which of your characters was doing 33MM udps for 40 divines exactly?

My Creeping Frost totem guy. He's not 40 divines this league given how things like Rain of Splinters exploded but he was last league.

Here you go: https://pobb.in/l1bRd1K8SpX5

So I am not accused of PoB warrioring, I spelled out why the settings are such in Custom.

Oh and I was wrong on the dps. It's not 33MM udps, it's closer to 38. I also did not count Self-Flagellation (left curses at 0 but realistically, there's an average of 5 curses on me).