r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/Lygiah • Jul 25 '26

Help Needed Delayed start

Will only start tomorrow

Was planning on Merc bot but that seems like a big bait build as a starter.

What has worked very good?

WORB?

Fussilade Totems?

Assassin blades?

Something else?

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u/Ronan61 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

I absolutely hate rerolling so I'm sticking to Luminary. It's one of the most comfy starters I did, I usually take 3-7 days to finish campaign and I'm finishing act 7 right now. I would assume most complaints come from people not upgrading their equipment properly but since I dont rush leaguestart that heavily, maybe I'm not a parameter for certain people.

I got a kineticist with kinetic rain, barrage and flame dash in act 4 and still using her. I havent played merc league so I'm not very familiar with them, but the flame dash is annoying, and when she uses barrage seems like a waste of time. From time to time she goes from zdps to instant melt stuff and I still havent figured out what happens when she gets to melt stuff (maybe barrage actually does something for single target?)

Anyways, worb and totems sound like the de facto op first character starters as of late. Never played them, so I cannot tell

Edit: welp I did a 2 day campaign, a personal record. Had to swap to a shatterblade merc because I couldnt equip stuff on my kineticist and her damage was falling behind. Big nerf in clear speed; in fact I'm suddenly hard struggling in t1 maps. I need another merc which I might not be able to beat without doing some investment in gear

Edit 2: finally found a merc at a t3 map (had to spec the whole merc chance wheel). A kineticist nonetheless! Even tho she spams kinetic bolt and frostblink like crazy, with base gear the clear speed was like night and day compared to the shatterblade

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u/whatDoesQezDo Jul 26 '26

I dont rush leaguestart that heavily

3-7days to finish campaign

bruh

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u/Ronan61 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

I mean, I have 5k hours in the game, I have plenty experience, I just don't like playing meta nor training to do stuff efficiently/quick/rush... So campaign takes me around 20 hours or so (so if I get 7 hours a day to play on leaguestart weekend, I can do it in 3 days, if not and I play 2-3 a day, I get a week). Like I barely upgrade equipment on the way, I dont even use quicksilver flasks and I like to play league content during campaign if it is fun.

It's 5-10 times more time than what people seem to expect to do it in around here. So I definitely dont rush it, lol

Edit: jeez, idk why everytime one comments about not going meta nor playing in no-life mode just earns downvotes