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SRS not nerfed and actually may scale better (???) with stuff like Hatred/Added Fire now.

oh man that warcry extra item thing is going to lead to some hilarious vids. probably see a warcry into a mirror vid within a week

can someone help explain penance brand changes to me? I've never played it and am considering fucking around with it this league with maybe energy blade or disintegrator and spellblade. It seems like its just a straight up enormous buff or did it lose something big as well?

Tytykiller's league start list. He's usually correct every league with these lists. I'll either play Slayer Bonezone (Depends what Carn says, gotta talk to him) or Absolution/SRS guardian.

Map mods look good for the league. It seems like everything will change so much with these new gems that there will be OP builds popping up all over as people discover them.

For anyone who is considering going SRS this is a very good comparison video. I don't think the meta shake up will significantly affect any of these build but I could be wrong. If not then I'm league starting SRS guardian and then maybe swapping to Champion Lightning SRS for end game.

So whats a good build for the new League for a relatively noob player? I dont play totem builds because they look boring. Stuff need to look cool and explode.

Trying to understand the ralakesh boots change. Do you actually get the benefits of having max charges, or is it just for the conditional stuff(in which case it’s still pretty nice). For example, you get onslaught from raider’s ‘you have onslaught at max frenzy charges’ requirement without actually getting any of the other benefits of frenzy charges

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Tytykiller's league start list. He's usually correct every league with these lists. I'll either play Slayer Bonezone (Depends what Carn says, gotta talk to him) or Absolution/SRS guardian.

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This looks fine, but he's sleeping on splitting steel bigtime.

With the shard QoL and easy access to return support it can easily faceroll the entire atlas + all pinnacles with like, a Terminus or Ichimonjis or something.

Beltimber is in the core pool these days so even if the skill is popular it won't cost shit and is just ~50% more damage once you can get it for 50c or whatever.

I believe Cutedog or Jungroan did a Belltimber/Fury Valve spectral helix build that was pretty good mid-league. Blasted the campaign on a 4link pretty quickly, but obviously Fury Valve was rare and now that it's global pool probably much less rare as no one really focused Metamorphs.

Some things I've found in review:

-Blade Vortex isn't 45% faster, it's like 15% faster as the 5% per blade is on top of the 35% per blade already on the skill. So really a ~10% buff but -100% increased crit.
-SRS completely unchanged really. May scale better with phys scaling due to the new phys levels to SRS attacks. Hatred/Added Fire very good.
-Str Totem Stacker took an even bigger hit. No boot enchant for 120% crit chance and no 18% IAS from Ancestral Totem helmet enchant. The crit can be overcome to hit cap still, but the helm enchant was the QoL that made the build playable.
-Spectres (maybe not new, but classico ones) may be bossable with new Phantasm mark that lets them sustain soul harvest with Unending Hunger. Spectre bossing for the 2nd time in like 8 leagues! Whew!
-Utula's + Crimson power could be great. Something like +1000 raw hp after the -600 penalty. That's decent even though you have to forego life mods on jewelry/weapon/shield as well. Utula's going to be a great item all around for a lot of builds. Glad it went core.
-Guardian untouched. Hilarious. If you want the easiest push to red maps in the game, just stack some minion life and let Big Gold Boi carry though through. Guardian SRS is going to be the new RF for noobs and lazies.
-Chieftain explode working on totems means we're going to see Chieftain totem characters without strength stacking. It's been a WHIIIILE. (EA totem fans INC)
-Phantasm Mark + Devour Support + Necromancer Corpse Pact tech will be used... somewhere? It's going to map like a champ and it may be viable for non Uber bossing as well.

I will say I'm a little let down we don't have ways to fuck with items or new mods for rares. I really want to find new and exciting rares or rares I can manipulate, but the loot pool outside of Primalist charms and Transcribed gems has all stayed the same. Feels a little stagnant especially after the temp Recombo league. The end game is going to remain the same of constant farming of the same league mechanics plus or minus Ultimatum as always in maps with some blaster. Or bossing ubers with a bosser. Nothing really new and progressive for endgame and that kind of sucks.

Also people saying Spark is dead are grade-A braindead retards. They just have to invest in duration and/or proj speed now. I'd buy some of those up early if you're looking to flip. Proj medium clusters are going to go big. It's one of those things, same as RF, they'll say is dead, but it'll just take 1 brain-haver to readjust gearing to find out it's perfectly good and in some small cases better.

I feel a pull for a new poe league.

Their FAQ for the league. Probably add new ones in the coming week as well. Some nice clarifications like the Micro belt, how Ralakesh boots work, and their plans to help with Spectres.

Tinctures being only for attacks is pretty funny. Nice boost for melee and it works for attack totems too. I'm sure casters are salty, but melee's needed some love for a while.

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Their FAQ for the league. Probably add new ones in the coming week as well. Some nice clarifications like the Micro belt, how Ralakesh boots work, and their plans to help with Spectres.

Tinctures being only for attacks is pretty funny. Nice boost for melee and it works for attack totems too. I'm sure casters are salty, but melee's needed some love for a while.

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Ralakesh so OP now.
Tinktures buff...melee ...? I mean sure but it just makes bows even better imo.

Updated gems, not transfigured ones. mostly just whats in the patch notes

Crazy shakeup this league.

So LA into TS?