The Bestiary league offers more than just the poe currency ability
The Bestiary league offers more than just the poe currency ability to capture monsters for your nefarious crafting purposes. It also introduces a host of changes to Path of Exile's endgame, in addition to three new skill gems and a load of new items. To get the full scoop, read our preview.
Path of Exile's Bestiary league, which lets you capture and sacrifice monsters for powerful loot, opens today. Like all of Path of Exile's temporary leagues, this means you'll have to start a brand new character if you're looking to catch 'em all. But where to start? Hardcore players will have already planned out their builds weeks in advance. For us more casual types (and especially if you're new), picking the right build to get a good start is daunting. Fortunately, I've rounded up some personal and community favorite build guides that can help you survive your first weeks in Wraeclast.
Called League Starters, these builds are designed to get you up and killing with minimal effort. They're built around readily available skill gems and usually don't require too many specific unique items—which is fantastic since most uniques are very expensive at the start of the league. In short, they'll get you through most of Path of Exile's medium-difficulty content so that you can stockpile currency to spend on more expensive endgame-viable characters.
Even if you don't care about that extra hard endgame content, though, any of these builds will let you experience all but the most challenging of Path of Exile's maps. And they're fun as hell. For this list, I'm also trying to give you a wide variety of play styles instead of prioritizing what's technically best of the best—which is pretty hotly debated anyway.
This build holds a special place in my heart because it was the build guide I followed that finally let me appreciate why Path of Exile is the indisputable king of ARPGs. The core concept around this build is using Scorching Ray to sweep over packs of enemies, letting its damage over time ability melt them away while your (hopefully) maxed out blocking stat mitigates any incoming damage.
What I love about this build is how it comes together over time. As you level, you'll start to grab nodes on the passive skill tree that increase your fire damage. Each one provides such a raw boost to your damage that it's intoxicating when you unlock one. By level 50, you'll feel like Hephaestus, God of Fire, and the entire world is yours to burn.
There are some downsides: because Scorcing Ray is a channelled attack poe trade currency positioning is critical and some boss fights will require constantly moving around to avoid damage. That can get really annoying sometimes.
Engineering Eternity's build guide is the one to read, especially if you're new, since he breaks down how to level the character (something a lot of build guides skip).
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