0:03 Yo, what is up everyone? It is Spicy
0:05 Sushi and again we have a League
0:08 starters tier list yet again for a new
0:10 league. This league I decided to make
0:13 the list ranking builds based on how I
0:15 think they will perform with the new
0:17 league mechanic because uh the way I was
0:18 thinking of League starter tier list was
0:20 that usually people rank them like based
0:22 on how they will just perform in general
0:25 in a POE league start and uh that is
0:26 definitely fair. I just wanted to keep
0:28 it simple when in terms of like ranking.
0:30 So, you know, don't be offended if you
0:32 see a build rank lower than others. I
0:33 wanted to rank them based on how they're
0:35 going to perform with Breach 2 cuz I
0:36 feel like most people that come to play
0:37 a Path of Exile League, they're they're
0:39 not the kind of player like me that just
0:41 plays a League no matter what. Even if
0:42 the league mechanic is completely
0:44 terrible, but the base game is good. I
0:45 will play the hell out of a Path of
0:47 Exile League, right? But most people
0:48 that I know, most of my friends that
0:50 play Path of Exile casually, the only
0:52 reason they're coming to play a Path of
0:53 Exile League is to try out the new
0:55 league mechanic. So, I wanted to rank my
0:58 starters based on my opinion on how they
0:59 will perform on a league start budget
1:02 with Breach 2 uh in Keepers of the
1:04 Flame. And so, keep that in mind. I do
1:06 have assumptions that I'm uh ranking
1:08 these builds based off of. I am assuming
1:10 that Breach is not going to be a total
1:11 pushover, especially considering they're
1:13 porting over the monsters. I I know they
1:15 said they are just porting over like the
1:16 monster models and maybe some stuff from
1:19 PE2, but either way, I am going to
1:21 assume since these are like larger
1:22 models of monsters, they look a bit
1:24 juicier, look a bit meteor, I feel like
1:26 they're going to be a little bit tanky.
1:27 I think they're going to be not a
1:29 massive pushover that you can just roll
1:32 over. Uh cuz you know, if Breach 2 is a
1:34 complete pushover, you're just blasting
1:36 them, destroying the entire screen, no
1:37 problem. They're not nuking you. They're
1:39 not doing much damage. They don't have
1:41 crazy ondeath mechanics like the PoE2
1:43 ones do. Then obviously kinetic blast
1:45 dead eyee is going to just be an absurd
1:46 build, best build in the game, as well
1:48 as other squishier like super good
1:50 mapper builds like lightning arrow, like
1:53 uh venom gy, like extanguinate mines.
1:55 Um, obviously that could be a thing. But
1:57 what I'm basing my assumption off, I'm
2:00 assuming that Breach 2 is going to be a
2:01 little bit difficult early on a budget.
2:02 It's not it's not going to be something
2:04 you can roll over, which is what I've
2:05 tiered the builds off of. And so that's
2:07 how I'm going to go into starting with S
2:09 tier. S tier, I think slams are really
2:11 really good for this. Uh they are very
2:14 tanky on a budget. They are pretty fast
2:16 on a budget. Obviously not as fast as
2:18 like dead eyee, but they're pretty fast
2:20 with leap slam. And they do really
2:22 really good damage with very pretty easy
2:25 to acquire weapons and easy to acquire
2:27 gears with a lot of power also coming
2:28 from their ascendancy and the passage
2:30 themselves. Last league this was the
2:31 same. Slams were very very solid and
2:33 they're going to be solid again. Now the
2:34 difference between earth shatter
2:36 berserker is you are going to have
2:37 faster attack speed. you're going to
2:39 have really really high damage and you
2:41 are going to press like one war cry that
2:43 is double exerted. I mean well I'm going
2:45 off of I'm Exile's guide. He has one war
2:46 cry that that he's pressing. You can
2:48 press more. There's also like an offhand
2:50 swap war cry that you can do. It's up to
2:51 you. It's very customizable like he
2:54 says. Uh K also has a guide you can
2:55 check out, but he will be pressing a lot
2:57 of war cries. So if you're wanting to
2:58 sweat a bit, that is who you want to
3:00 look for. But he is slayer. Um bleed
3:03 slams. I honestly when I hear bleed
3:05 slams, I don't think of an S tier build.
3:06 I'm going to be honest. Maybe I'm biased
3:08 cuz when I think bleed slams, I think
3:10 Quinn, so I immediately think it's
3:11 probably not going to be a super high
3:13 high performance build. But then I
3:16 watched FaZe uh plays build guide and
3:17 that build looks like an absolute
3:19 blaster. It presses one war cry. It's
3:21 not double exerted cuz it's not a
3:22 berserker, but it still looks really
3:24 comfy on a slayer when you're just
3:27 pressing one. And the AoE is insane. And
3:29 I really am biased towards like DOT play
3:31 styles where you can just throw down a
3:33 slam and and dodge mechanics. You don't
3:35 have to focus as much as DPS uptime. I
3:36 mean, you do a little bit, but it's not
3:38 like, you know, super sweaty, and it
3:40 looks really good. I recommend you check
3:41 out his build guide. If you're wanting
3:43 to try something a bit different as
3:45 opposed to, you know, regular slams, I
3:46 think it looks really, really solid.
3:48 Now, going into the A+ tier, the only
3:50 reason I don't have some of these builds
3:51 in S tier, I had to separate them, is
3:56 because if Breach is actually pretty
3:59 hard, I think Dead Eyee is going to
4:01 struggle a little bit early. Uh, not a
4:03 lot, but a little bit. And it's not
4:04 going to be super comfy. I think there's
4:06 going to be some deaths. I think it's
4:07 going to be, you know, it could be
4:08 really hard even if the monsters are
4:10 super overtuned. I hope they aren't. I
4:12 think GDG's learned at this point to not
4:14 crazy overtune monsters. We've gone
4:16 through years of pretty bad patches with
4:18 that. So, I'm I'm pretty hopeful, but I
4:20 think they won't be a pushover. So,
4:23 Kinetic Blast, super fast, amazing
4:26 mapping, very solid damage, crazy buffed
4:28 with this league. So that is something
4:30 to look out for if you are, you know, I
4:32 mean, if if you're going to follow a fub
4:33 gun build, you know what you're getting
4:34 into, right? I mean, you're going to
4:36 play a map blaster that is a little bit
4:37 squishy. So, but has really good
4:39 scalability and a good build guide. So,
4:40 I don't think you have really anything
4:42 to worry about as long as you know what
4:44 you're getting into. Now, poison
4:47 concoction of bouncing as usual, really
4:48 strong league starter. Uh, it's been
4:50 really long strong for quite a while. I
4:52 do recommend you checking out build
4:54 guides and watching the game play. is
4:55 something that you'd be into doing
4:57 because it is maybe an acquired taste
5:00 for some uh poison builds and peacon in
5:02 general. You know, usually you start
5:03 poison concoction and then you
5:05 transition into the next build like
5:07 Mamba or Poison Penance Brand for
5:09 bossing. Like I have two examples here
5:12 for you. Uh Mamba looks very solid for
5:14 mapping and it looks pretty doable if
5:16 you want to before peon. I honestly I've
5:18 looked at poison concoction POVs and it
5:20 looks way stronger just to just to play
5:22 that as long as you can until you start
5:23 running out of fumes like you know you
5:25 start running low on fumes or something
5:26 you're like all right I I got to do
5:27 something different and I have the
5:29 currency to swap uh I'm going to do it
5:31 but Crouching Tune is going to be
5:33 starting Mamba from campaign so it's
5:35 pretty interesting I looked at the POB
5:37 it looks pretty solid as long as you you
5:38 know understand that you have to get
5:40 like some pretty solid weapons early
5:42 from either the vendor or crafting with
5:44 an essence or something. So, just keep
5:46 that in mind. And then, uh, Path of
5:48 Exile actually came out with a really,
5:50 really, really good league start guide.
5:52 Uh, it is in, you know, it's not in
5:54 English, but it is dubbed to English, so
5:56 you can watch it and you can follow it.
5:58 So, and and it's really wellm made. If
6:00 it was just poison pennants brand, I
6:01 would be a little bit hesitant because I
6:02 don't think poison penance brand is
6:04 super new player friendly. But he
6:07 includes a very very extensive poison
6:09 concoction of bouncing setup that you
6:11 can follow as long as you need to or as
6:13 long as you want to and it does really
6:15 solid damage going up to like 30 million
6:18 DPS on medium budget. Uh so I think it
6:20 looks super good. And the last build in
6:23 A+ tier I have corrupting fever kinetic
6:25 blast elementalist. Uh corrupting fever
6:27 kinetic blast elementalist. I watched,
6:29 you know, I looked at the POBs. I looked
6:30 at I'm Exile's video on it, and I think
6:33 it looks very solid. As a super comfy
6:36 breach farmer, the only thing that I'd
6:38 be a little bit worried about is the
6:40 damage. If these breach monsters are
6:42 very tanky, uh, this could pose a
6:44 problem, but it's not a situation where
6:45 you're going to die because they're too
6:47 tanky and you don't do enough damage.
6:49 The build looks extremely tanky with
6:52 7575 block, uh, spell suppression,
6:56 evasion, massive ES pool. So, you're
6:57 definitely not going to be dying to
6:58 these monsters, but they might be dying
7:00 a little bit slowly, uh, if that is the
7:02 case. So, I I think it looks really
7:05 good. If I were to do T7 strong boxes or
7:06 something, this looks like an amazing
7:08 build for that. Uh, it looks very comfy.
7:10 The T7 boss will take a little bit of
7:12 time to die until you get to like high
7:14 budget, but it does look a very, you
7:16 know, a very comfy farmer for that
7:18 content. It it is also obviously solid
7:20 for legion and breach and stuff, but I
7:21 think in content that requires you to be
7:23 very tanky, I think it I think it excels
7:25 at. So, I do recommend that. So, moving
7:27 into the A tier. I'm going to cover some
7:29 of these builds quickly. Uh, hit based
7:30 Viper Strike with the Mamba. This is
7:33 what Rutu has cooked up instead of Smite
7:34 from Last League. This build looks like
7:36 it does a lot more damage and is a lot
7:38 more comfy to play than smite early. The
7:41 AoE is significantly less than Smite. I
7:43 I will say that the DPS looks very good
7:45 though. And he did mention that he
7:48 recommends going to smite of of divine
7:50 judgment later. Not having a mercenary
7:52 is not a problem because his smite is
7:54 cold smite. It's cold scaling instead of
7:56 lightning. So, the Doriani Merk was
7:58 never a consideration anyway, so it
8:00 should perform just as well as it did
8:01 last league. Uh, so it should be pretty
8:03 solid and I recommend checking that out
8:05 and uh, you know, following him for
8:06 that. And I heard Tai Tai Killer might
8:07 be playing this build as well, so you
8:08 could watch him. All right, going into
8:11 Extanguinate Minds Trickster. Uh,
8:14 Exanguinate Minds is an amazing mapper.
8:17 It was incredible lastly with T16.5
8:19 memory maps, uh, doing like four risk
8:20 content. Even though the maps were
8:23 excruciatingly hard, it did not matter
8:25 because Extangate Mines just clears off
8:26 screen. You can sit off screen, throw
8:28 your mines, and it just kills the whole
8:30 map. And it doesn't even matter if uh
8:32 you know, normally for a T7 farming
8:33 build, you want to be able to kill the
8:34 map boss and be tanky enough to tank
8:36 those attacks or kill it faster than it
8:39 can do an attack, which could pose a
8:41 problem for like Exanguinate Mines on a
8:43 budget or any other build really, right?
8:46 Uh but for T16.5, you know, memory maps,
8:48 there is no boss really. There is a map
8:50 boss, but it's much less difficult than
8:53 a T17 boss. So, it's perfect for that
8:55 content. Uh, so is KB. KB is going to be
8:57 amazing at that as well. So, if we're
9:00 talking like T16.5 breaches, that's why
9:02 these map blaster builds might turn out
9:04 just being so far above everyone else if
9:06 the breaches are actually not that crazy
9:08 difficult like Exanguinate Mines, KB,
9:10 Connect Blast of Clustering, Mana Man,
9:12 right? Uh, I think those builds might
9:14 turn out being extremely far ahead other
9:16 builds if if that content ends up being
9:17 better than most. Oh yeah, also
9:19 Exanguinate is an amazing bosser. It
9:20 does require a bit of currency to get to
9:22 the point where it's doing uber bosses
9:23 compared to maybe arch mage or
9:25 something, but it'll be very solid. I
9:26 think if you're getting into this build,
9:27 it's not as much the bossing that you
9:29 care about, but you care about bossing
9:31 and mapping, and I think it's a perfect
9:33 mix of those two. Fearless Dumbo makes
9:34 really good build guides, so I recommend
9:36 checking him out. Uh, Lightning Arrow,
9:38 Elemental Hit Eye is the next build I
9:40 have in A tier. The build is obviously
9:44 squishy, uh, but it is easy to play, uh,
9:46 easy to league start, does exactly what
9:49 you want it to do. Fast map blasting,
9:50 and does very solid damage, but
9:53 obviously it is squishy. So, if you're
9:54 getting into that, you know what you're
9:56 getting into. Poison ranged animate
9:58 weapon. Uh, this is probably going to be
10:01 the strongest breach minion build in my
10:03 opinion. Uh, if you go look at the build
10:05 guide, you can kind of see what that
10:07 gameplay is like. I looked at quite a
10:08 few minion builds. I'm not a minion
10:11 player, so I do apologize if you know,
10:12 maybe I don't have a correct
10:14 understanding of how minion builds work
10:16 or, you know, what the best minion build
10:18 actually is. But this is just from what
10:20 I could tell from gameplay that I
10:22 watched, poison animate weapon looked
10:24 very solid for breach and pretty solid
10:26 for bossing as well. And it is what
10:28 Helmreaker told me that he recommended
10:31 as the top minion build for this league,
10:32 at least for league start. But speaking
10:34 of minion builds, Holy Relic is also
10:36 really strong. It does look like it
10:39 requires a bit more startup cost than
10:42 other minions, but most people that love
10:43 holy relic know exactly what you're
10:46 getting into. Once you get to a certain
10:48 level of budget, the build starts to
10:50 become super super smooth and super good
10:53 at T7s with like a fallen setup and and
10:54 stuff like that. I just think it might
10:57 have a small issue early compared to
10:59 other minion builds getting up and
11:00 running. Uh but I do recommend checking
11:02 out Baylor Mage's guide. uh it did get
11:04 buffed this league, so it's much
11:06 smoother to start than it was before. So
11:09 that is important to keep in mind. Now,
11:11 uh power siphon of arch mage totems. If
11:13 you're a totem enjoyer, I think this is
11:15 probably the best totem. I have it far
11:17 up here because, you know, people really
11:18 enjoy totem builds. I think this is
11:20 probably the best totem build currently
11:22 because of breach. Now, uh, Totty came
11:24 out with pizza totems and he has his
11:27 storm burst totems from last league, but
11:28 I feel like when it comes to clearing
11:29 breach, power siphon is going to be
11:31 stronger, even if it does a little bit
11:33 less damage than maybe pizza totems and
11:35 definitely a lot less damage than storm
11:36 burst. So, that's why I have it up here.
11:38 Uh, I have it here for now. I might
11:40 remove it if Palestron doesn't end up
11:42 updating it. I'm pretty sure he's
11:43 updating it though and I will have that
11:46 here when he does. The build easily
11:48 reached about 10 million DPS even after
11:50 the nerfs. And I think it'll still be
11:52 easily able to reach like 8 to 10 mil
11:54 DPS now and that'll be no problem. And
11:56 speaking of Palron's builds, I know I
11:58 don't have kinetic blast of clustering
12:00 here yet. I will have it later. I'm
12:02 waiting for Palron's build guide to come
12:04 out and I will add it to the sheet. So
12:05 if there's something you don't see here
12:07 yet, it's it's because I have not
12:09 watched the build yet and I will add it
12:11 as soon as I do. Like for example, Venom
12:12 Gyire. I I've had a lot of people tell
12:14 me about deck stack venom gy. I do need
12:16 to still look at that some more and add
12:17 it to the sheet. I will have them added
12:19 later. Uh I'm just kind of like, you
12:20 know, this is like super last minute.
12:22 Everything's like last minute for me.
12:24 So, I I apologize for things not being
12:26 like updated earlier. But anyway, moving
12:28 into B+ tier. Uh explosive ballista
12:30 still good, still solid. It did get
12:33 nerfed slightly in the early game. In
12:34 the end game, it is barely a nerf, but
12:35 in early game, okay, not slightly. The
12:36 early game, it's definitely going to
12:38 hurt a little bit, but uh the build
12:40 still looks fine if you enjoy the build.
12:42 Uh Bleed Retaliate Gladiator still looks
12:45 super solid. I would have it higher, but
12:47 it just takes a lot longer for the
12:49 damage to really ramp on bleed
12:51 retaliate. But Garatha makes a super
12:53 solid build guide. You will eventually
12:56 reach like 20 mil, 30 mil DPS, pretty
12:58 massive power spikes with Rice Lotha,
13:00 with getting a good rare weapon, getting
13:02 clusters put into the build, and it is
13:05 by far probably the most comfortable
13:07 build on this list to play in terms of
13:10 tankiness. Uh, but the play style is not
13:12 the most comfortable for some people.
13:14 So, uh, I recommend checking that out. I
13:16 feel like if you enjoy Righteous Fire or
13:18 those types of like AFK gameplay, uh,
13:20 just being super super tanky and just
13:21 being able to complete the content, you
13:23 know, at a comfy pace without worrying
13:24 about dying, this is definitely a build
13:26 for you. Flicker Strike Champion, Mage
13:27 Fist looks like he's switching it up,
13:29 maybe going into some new tech like
13:30 madness tech with Bloodlines
13:32 ascendencies. Looks like a pretty solid
13:34 league starter as usual. So, I do
13:35 recommend checking that out if you enjoy
13:36 Flicker Strike. I mean, if you're a
13:38 Flicker Strike player, there's no, you
13:40 know, there's no uh debate for for you
13:41 guys anyway, right? you're going to mage
13:43 fist. So, and then at the bottom of B+
13:45 tier, I have arch mage ice nova. I made
13:47 the pub for this build for this season
13:50 cuz there wasn't an update for one year.
13:52 And people kept asking me, sushi,
13:53 where's the arch mage update? You always
13:55 play arch mage, but there's no build
13:57 guide in the past year for Ice Nova,
13:59 Katava's Thirst, and so I made it. Okay,
14:01 I might have a build guide out tomorrow.
14:03 You know, Arch Mage Ice Nova did get
14:04 nerfed by half, but it's still
14:06 overpowered. I would actually place it
14:08 further up even possibly into S tier,
14:10 but I think I'm just super biased
14:11 because I'm an arch mage one trick
14:12 nowadays, so I'm not going to put it
14:15 higher. Uh, but it does extremely solid
14:17 damage on a budget, exceptional damage
14:19 when you actually put like 5 to 10
14:21 divines into it, and then over the top
14:22 damage once you get to like, you know,
14:24 uber farming and stuff. So, uh, keep an
14:25 eye out for that build guide if you do
14:27 want to follow that. Obviously, uh, even
14:28 though I am biased and want to put it
14:30 higher, I do think it belongs, you know,
14:31 not super high up because it is a clunky
14:33 build. Uh, and I don't want to bait
14:34 anyone into something that they don't
14:36 know what they're getting into because
14:39 Arch Mage is not a super super smooth
14:40 build. It does have a bit of clunk to
14:42 it. There are buttons that you have to
14:45 press. There are conditional damage that
14:47 you have no control over if you're
14:49 automating it, stuff like that. So,
14:50 that's why I have it this low. Anyway,
14:52 Btier builds. I'm not going to go over
14:53 Btier builds cuz they're not totally
14:54 updated. Uh, they're basically builds
14:56 from 3.26 26 that I haven't looked into
14:58 a lot, but they were in Btier last
15:00 league and they haven't gotten any
15:02 significant buffs whatsoever. Uh, not
15:04 really any crazy changes. Although
15:05 minions might have been changed quite a
15:06 lot from the blood lines of tendencies,
15:09 so I might be moving up minions, but um,
15:10 I'm not going to go over the Btier
15:13 builds besides RF Chieftain is a solid
15:15 Btier build every league because it is
15:17 an amazing build guide. I mean, Pox
15:19 makes probably the best Path of Exile
15:21 build guide uh out of all creators, and
15:23 a lot of people play this build every
15:24 single league, no matter the changes, no
15:26 matter how underpowered it might be to
15:28 other builds. But because they know, no
15:30 matter what, they will have all of their
15:32 questions answered. Any issues will be
15:34 addressed in the FAQ or like by asking
15:36 the creator and it has like kind of
15:37 stood the test of time. So, if you want
15:39 to play RF, you always know that you
15:41 have Pox to look at for a guide. So, I
15:42 have it here. Obviously though, I am
15:44 just worried about these Btier builds
15:48 because if breach is really difficult
15:50 and it's like not easy at all to do on
15:52 like 1 mil DPS or something, I think
15:54 these builds in this B tier are going to
15:55 have a lot of issues like like RF
15:57 Chieftain. If you can't just explode the
15:58 entire breach and you suddenly have
16:00 three or four beefy breach monsters
16:01 surrounding you, passing you back and
16:02 forth, you know, there might be some
16:04 issues. So either way guys, uh this
16:06 video has gone on forever, but I want to
16:08 come out with it even if the sheet is
16:09 not totally done. But I will be updating
16:12 it as the day goes on and tomorrow. And
