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MY LEAGUE STARTER TIER LIST FOR PATH OF EXILE 3.27

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This content provides a tier list of Path of Exile league starter builds, specifically ranked based on their anticipated performance with the new "Breach 2" league mechanic, assuming the mechanic will present a moderate challenge on a budget.

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Yo, what is up everyone? It is Spicy

Sushi and again we have a League

starters tier list yet again for a new

league. This league I decided to make

the list ranking builds based on how I

think they will perform with the new

league mechanic because uh the way I was

thinking of League starter tier list was

that usually people rank them like based

on how they will just perform in general

in a POE league start and uh that is

definitely fair. I just wanted to keep

it simple when in terms of like ranking.

So, you know, don't be offended if you

see a build rank lower than others. I

wanted to rank them based on how they're

going to perform with Breach 2 cuz I

feel like most people that come to play

a Path of Exile League, they're they're

not the kind of player like me that just

plays a League no matter what. Even if

the league mechanic is completely

terrible, but the base game is good. I

will play the hell out of a Path of

Exile League, right? But most people

that I know, most of my friends that

play Path of Exile casually, the only

reason they're coming to play a Path of

Exile League is to try out the new

league mechanic. So, I wanted to rank my

starters based on my opinion on how they

will perform on a league start budget

with Breach 2 uh in Keepers of the

Flame. And so, keep that in mind. I do

have assumptions that I'm uh ranking

these builds based off of. I am assuming

that Breach is not going to be a total

pushover, especially considering they're

porting over the monsters. I I know they

said they are just porting over like the

monster models and maybe some stuff from

PE2, but either way, I am going to

assume since these are like larger

models of monsters, they look a bit

juicier, look a bit meteor, I feel like

they're going to be a little bit tanky.

I think they're going to be not a

massive pushover that you can just roll

over. Uh cuz you know, if Breach 2 is a

complete pushover, you're just blasting

them, destroying the entire screen, no

problem. They're not nuking you. They're

not doing much damage. They don't have

crazy ondeath mechanics like the PoE2

ones do. Then obviously kinetic blast

dead eyee is going to just be an absurd

build, best build in the game, as well

as other squishier like super good

mapper builds like lightning arrow, like

uh venom gy, like extanguinate mines.

Um, obviously that could be a thing. But

what I'm basing my assumption off, I'm

assuming that Breach 2 is going to be a

little bit difficult early on a budget.

It's not it's not going to be something

you can roll over, which is what I've

tiered the builds off of. And so that's

how I'm going to go into starting with S

tier. S tier, I think slams are really

really good for this. Uh they are very

tanky on a budget. They are pretty fast

on a budget. Obviously not as fast as

like dead eyee, but they're pretty fast

with leap slam. And they do really

really good damage with very pretty easy

to acquire weapons and easy to acquire

gears with a lot of power also coming

from their ascendancy and the passage

themselves. Last league this was the

same. Slams were very very solid and

they're going to be solid again. Now the

difference between earth shatter

berserker is you are going to have

faster attack speed. you're going to

have really really high damage and you

are going to press like one war cry that

is double exerted. I mean well I'm going

off of I'm Exile's guide. He has one war

cry that that he's pressing. You can

press more. There's also like an offhand

swap war cry that you can do. It's up to

you. It's very customizable like he

says. Uh K also has a guide you can

check out, but he will be pressing a lot

of war cries. So if you're wanting to

sweat a bit, that is who you want to

look for. But he is slayer. Um bleed

slams. I honestly when I hear bleed

slams, I don't think of an S tier build.

I'm going to be honest. Maybe I'm biased

cuz when I think bleed slams, I think

Quinn, so I immediately think it's

probably not going to be a super high

high performance build. But then I

watched FaZe uh plays build guide and

that build looks like an absolute

blaster. It presses one war cry. It's

not double exerted cuz it's not a

berserker, but it still looks really

comfy on a slayer when you're just

pressing one. And the AoE is insane. And

I really am biased towards like DOT play

styles where you can just throw down a

slam and and dodge mechanics. You don't

have to focus as much as DPS uptime. I

mean, you do a little bit, but it's not

like, you know, super sweaty, and it

looks really good. I recommend you check

out his build guide. If you're wanting

to try something a bit different as

opposed to, you know, regular slams, I

think it looks really, really solid.

Now, going into the A+ tier, the only

reason I don't have some of these builds

in S tier, I had to separate them, is

because if Breach is actually pretty

hard, I think Dead Eyee is going to

struggle a little bit early. Uh, not a

lot, but a little bit. And it's not

going to be super comfy. I think there's

going to be some deaths. I think it's

going to be, you know, it could be

really hard even if the monsters are

super overtuned. I hope they aren't. I

think GDG's learned at this point to not

crazy overtune monsters. We've gone

through years of pretty bad patches with

that. So, I'm I'm pretty hopeful, but I

think they won't be a pushover. So,

Kinetic Blast, super fast, amazing

mapping, very solid damage, crazy buffed

with this league. So that is something

to look out for if you are, you know, I

mean, if if you're going to follow a fub

gun build, you know what you're getting

into, right? I mean, you're going to

play a map blaster that is a little bit

squishy. So, but has really good

scalability and a good build guide. So,

I don't think you have really anything

to worry about as long as you know what

you're getting into. Now, poison

concoction of bouncing as usual, really

strong league starter. Uh, it's been

really long strong for quite a while. I

do recommend you checking out build

guides and watching the game play. is

something that you'd be into doing

because it is maybe an acquired taste

for some uh poison builds and peacon in

general. You know, usually you start

poison concoction and then you

transition into the next build like

Mamba or Poison Penance Brand for

bossing. Like I have two examples here

for you. Uh Mamba looks very solid for

mapping and it looks pretty doable if

you want to before peon. I honestly I've

looked at poison concoction POVs and it

looks way stronger just to just to play

that as long as you can until you start

running out of fumes like you know you

start running low on fumes or something

you're like all right I I got to do

something different and I have the

currency to swap uh I'm going to do it

but Crouching Tune is going to be

starting Mamba from campaign so it's

pretty interesting I looked at the POB

it looks pretty solid as long as you you

know understand that you have to get

like some pretty solid weapons early

from either the vendor or crafting with

an essence or something. So, just keep

that in mind. And then, uh, Path of

Exile actually came out with a really,

really, really good league start guide.

Uh, it is in, you know, it's not in

English, but it is dubbed to English, so

you can watch it and you can follow it.

So, and and it's really wellm made. If

it was just poison pennants brand, I

would be a little bit hesitant because I

don't think poison penance brand is

super new player friendly. But he

includes a very very extensive poison

concoction of bouncing setup that you

can follow as long as you need to or as

long as you want to and it does really

solid damage going up to like 30 million

DPS on medium budget. Uh so I think it

looks super good. And the last build in

A+ tier I have corrupting fever kinetic

blast elementalist. Uh corrupting fever

kinetic blast elementalist. I watched,

you know, I looked at the POBs. I looked

at I'm Exile's video on it, and I think

it looks very solid. As a super comfy

breach farmer, the only thing that I'd

be a little bit worried about is the

damage. If these breach monsters are

very tanky, uh, this could pose a

problem, but it's not a situation where

you're going to die because they're too

tanky and you don't do enough damage.

The build looks extremely tanky with

7575 block, uh, spell suppression,

evasion, massive ES pool. So, you're

definitely not going to be dying to

these monsters, but they might be dying

a little bit slowly, uh, if that is the

case. So, I I think it looks really

good. If I were to do T7 strong boxes or

something, this looks like an amazing

build for that. Uh, it looks very comfy.

The T7 boss will take a little bit of

time to die until you get to like high

budget, but it does look a very, you

know, a very comfy farmer for that

content. It it is also obviously solid

for legion and breach and stuff, but I

think in content that requires you to be

very tanky, I think it I think it excels

at. So, I do recommend that. So, moving

into the A tier. I'm going to cover some

of these builds quickly. Uh, hit based

Viper Strike with the Mamba. This is

what Rutu has cooked up instead of Smite

from Last League. This build looks like

it does a lot more damage and is a lot

more comfy to play than smite early. The

AoE is significantly less than Smite. I

I will say that the DPS looks very good

though. And he did mention that he

recommends going to smite of of divine

judgment later. Not having a mercenary

is not a problem because his smite is

cold smite. It's cold scaling instead of

lightning. So, the Doriani Merk was

never a consideration anyway, so it

should perform just as well as it did

last league. Uh, so it should be pretty

solid and I recommend checking that out

and uh, you know, following him for

that. And I heard Tai Tai Killer might

be playing this build as well, so you

could watch him. All right, going into

Extanguinate Minds Trickster. Uh,

Exanguinate Minds is an amazing mapper.

It was incredible lastly with T16.5

memory maps, uh, doing like four risk

content. Even though the maps were

excruciatingly hard, it did not matter

because Extangate Mines just clears off

screen. You can sit off screen, throw

your mines, and it just kills the whole

map. And it doesn't even matter if uh

you know, normally for a T7 farming

build, you want to be able to kill the

map boss and be tanky enough to tank

those attacks or kill it faster than it

can do an attack, which could pose a

problem for like Exanguinate Mines on a

budget or any other build really, right?

Uh but for T16.5, you know, memory maps,

there is no boss really. There is a map

boss, but it's much less difficult than

a T17 boss. So, it's perfect for that

content. Uh, so is KB. KB is going to be

amazing at that as well. So, if we're

talking like T16.5 breaches, that's why

these map blaster builds might turn out

just being so far above everyone else if

the breaches are actually not that crazy

difficult like Exanguinate Mines, KB,

Connect Blast of Clustering, Mana Man,

right? Uh, I think those builds might

turn out being extremely far ahead other

builds if if that content ends up being

better than most. Oh yeah, also

Exanguinate is an amazing bosser. It

does require a bit of currency to get to

the point where it's doing uber bosses

compared to maybe arch mage or

something, but it'll be very solid. I

think if you're getting into this build,

it's not as much the bossing that you

care about, but you care about bossing

and mapping, and I think it's a perfect

mix of those two. Fearless Dumbo makes

really good build guides, so I recommend

checking him out. Uh, Lightning Arrow,

Elemental Hit Eye is the next build I

have in A tier. The build is obviously

squishy, uh, but it is easy to play, uh,

easy to league start, does exactly what

you want it to do. Fast map blasting,

and does very solid damage, but

obviously it is squishy. So, if you're

getting into that, you know what you're

getting into. Poison ranged animate

weapon. Uh, this is probably going to be

the strongest breach minion build in my

opinion. Uh, if you go look at the build

guide, you can kind of see what that

gameplay is like. I looked at quite a

few minion builds. I'm not a minion

player, so I do apologize if you know,

maybe I don't have a correct

understanding of how minion builds work

or, you know, what the best minion build

actually is. But this is just from what

I could tell from gameplay that I

watched, poison animate weapon looked

very solid for breach and pretty solid

for bossing as well. And it is what

Helmreaker told me that he recommended

as the top minion build for this league,

at least for league start. But speaking

of minion builds, Holy Relic is also

really strong. It does look like it

requires a bit more startup cost than

other minions, but most people that love

holy relic know exactly what you're

getting into. Once you get to a certain

level of budget, the build starts to

become super super smooth and super good

at T7s with like a fallen setup and and

stuff like that. I just think it might

have a small issue early compared to

other minion builds getting up and

running. Uh but I do recommend checking

out Baylor Mage's guide. uh it did get

buffed this league, so it's much

smoother to start than it was before. So

that is important to keep in mind. Now,

uh power siphon of arch mage totems. If

you're a totem enjoyer, I think this is

probably the best totem. I have it far

up here because, you know, people really

enjoy totem builds. I think this is

probably the best totem build currently

because of breach. Now, uh, Totty came

out with pizza totems and he has his

storm burst totems from last league, but

I feel like when it comes to clearing

breach, power siphon is going to be

stronger, even if it does a little bit

less damage than maybe pizza totems and

definitely a lot less damage than storm

burst. So, that's why I have it up here.

Uh, I have it here for now. I might

remove it if Palestron doesn't end up

updating it. I'm pretty sure he's

updating it though and I will have that

here when he does. The build easily

reached about 10 million DPS even after

the nerfs. And I think it'll still be

easily able to reach like 8 to 10 mil

DPS now and that'll be no problem. And

speaking of Palron's builds, I know I

don't have kinetic blast of clustering

here yet. I will have it later. I'm

waiting for Palron's build guide to come

out and I will add it to the sheet. So

if there's something you don't see here

yet, it's it's because I have not

watched the build yet and I will add it

as soon as I do. Like for example, Venom

Gyire. I I've had a lot of people tell

me about deck stack venom gy. I do need

to still look at that some more and add

it to the sheet. I will have them added

later. Uh I'm just kind of like, you

know, this is like super last minute.

Everything's like last minute for me.

So, I I apologize for things not being

like updated earlier. But anyway, moving

into B+ tier. Uh explosive ballista

still good, still solid. It did get

nerfed slightly in the early game. In

the end game, it is barely a nerf, but

in early game, okay, not slightly. The

early game, it's definitely going to

hurt a little bit, but uh the build

still looks fine if you enjoy the build.

Uh Bleed Retaliate Gladiator still looks

super solid. I would have it higher, but

it just takes a lot longer for the

damage to really ramp on bleed

retaliate. But Garatha makes a super

solid build guide. You will eventually

reach like 20 mil, 30 mil DPS, pretty

massive power spikes with Rice Lotha,

with getting a good rare weapon, getting

clusters put into the build, and it is

by far probably the most comfortable

build on this list to play in terms of

tankiness. Uh, but the play style is not

the most comfortable for some people.

So, uh, I recommend checking that out. I

feel like if you enjoy Righteous Fire or

those types of like AFK gameplay, uh,

just being super super tanky and just

being able to complete the content, you

know, at a comfy pace without worrying

about dying, this is definitely a build

for you. Flicker Strike Champion, Mage

Fist looks like he's switching it up,

maybe going into some new tech like

madness tech with Bloodlines

ascendencies. Looks like a pretty solid

league starter as usual. So, I do

recommend checking that out if you enjoy

Flicker Strike. I mean, if you're a

Flicker Strike player, there's no, you

know, there's no uh debate for for you

guys anyway, right? you're going to mage

fist. So, and then at the bottom of B+

tier, I have arch mage ice nova. I made

the pub for this build for this season

cuz there wasn't an update for one year.

And people kept asking me, sushi,

where's the arch mage update? You always

play arch mage, but there's no build

guide in the past year for Ice Nova,

Katava's Thirst, and so I made it. Okay,

I might have a build guide out tomorrow.

You know, Arch Mage Ice Nova did get

nerfed by half, but it's still

overpowered. I would actually place it

further up even possibly into S tier,

but I think I'm just super biased

because I'm an arch mage one trick

nowadays, so I'm not going to put it

higher. Uh, but it does extremely solid

damage on a budget, exceptional damage

when you actually put like 5 to 10

divines into it, and then over the top

damage once you get to like, you know,

uber farming and stuff. So, uh, keep an

eye out for that build guide if you do

want to follow that. Obviously, uh, even

though I am biased and want to put it

higher, I do think it belongs, you know,

not super high up because it is a clunky

build. Uh, and I don't want to bait

anyone into something that they don't

know what they're getting into because

Arch Mage is not a super super smooth

build. It does have a bit of clunk to

it. There are buttons that you have to

press. There are conditional damage that

you have no control over if you're

automating it, stuff like that. So,

that's why I have it this low. Anyway,

Btier builds. I'm not going to go over

Btier builds cuz they're not totally

updated. Uh, they're basically builds

from 3.26 26 that I haven't looked into

a lot, but they were in Btier last

league and they haven't gotten any

significant buffs whatsoever. Uh, not

really any crazy changes. Although

minions might have been changed quite a

lot from the blood lines of tendencies,

so I might be moving up minions, but um,

I'm not going to go over the Btier

builds besides RF Chieftain is a solid

Btier build every league because it is

an amazing build guide. I mean, Pox

makes probably the best Path of Exile

build guide uh out of all creators, and

a lot of people play this build every

single league, no matter the changes, no

matter how underpowered it might be to

other builds. But because they know, no

matter what, they will have all of their

questions answered. Any issues will be

addressed in the FAQ or like by asking

the creator and it has like kind of

stood the test of time. So, if you want

to play RF, you always know that you

have Pox to look at for a guide. So, I

have it here. Obviously though, I am

just worried about these Btier builds

because if breach is really difficult

and it's like not easy at all to do on

like 1 mil DPS or something, I think

these builds in this B tier are going to

have a lot of issues like like RF

Chieftain. If you can't just explode the

entire breach and you suddenly have

three or four beefy breach monsters

surrounding you, passing you back and

forth, you know, there might be some

issues. So either way guys, uh this

video has gone on forever, but I want to

come out with it even if the sheet is

not totally done. But I will be updating

it as the day goes on and tomorrow. And

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