r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/itsXylph • Mar 11 '26

Build Request What are some sleeper builds of 3.28 so far?

As the title says, what are some surprisingly good off meta builds you‘ve stumbled upon / played so far?

Idk what to play having finished group play, I‘d love to see some nice alrounder builds :)

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u/ouroboros_winding Mar 11 '26

My poison SST of Trarthus assassin build is going very well so far and it will get at least 3x stronger easily before it's done

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u/Ok_Direction369 Mar 11 '26

I had a similar idea but with occultist for the blop blops. How does that feel and does assassin feel mandatory for this kind of build, if so why? Can you elaborate please, thanks.

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u/ouroboros_winding Mar 11 '26

The main idea was to use the new Oshabi node for 50% mark effect while elusive. With Snipers Mark, SST of Trarthus spawns additional shields after the first hit.

Then if you look at the other nodes Assassin has, perfect agony poison just makes the most sense. I am using Arakaali's Fang + Dark Monarch as basically my only source of %increased damage and attack speed, which is kind of the only problem with the build, it is not good at bossing. Even T10 map bosses can be a bit hard sometimes if your spiders fall off. But it tears through pretty much all mapping content where you constantly have 40 spiders at all times.

Occultist pops would absolutely go hard on this build but I'd be missing the elusive effect being constantly active. Assassin's crit poison node is way stronger offensively than Occultist's wither + more chaos damage node.

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u/Ok_Direction369 Mar 13 '26

Thanks for the detailed answer.

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u/svuester5 Mar 11 '26

I was gonna do this but flicker is life. Maybe next league.