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Path Of Exile 3.23 Mid-League All Ascendancy’s Top Meta Builds

Jan 22, 2024

Currently, Affliction League has been launched for a month, and some new skills have been introduced in the game. So I bet you’re wondering which skills have been molded into powerful builds so far. So here’s a guide to each of Ascendancy meta-builds that currently rank high in DPS in Softcore Trade League.

To be fair, I’m going to filter these based on Mageblood and Original Sin builds to provide real data for a wider audience. But some of these versions may not even make it to the next league because they’re so inconsistent with the developer’s standards.

Path Of Exile 3.23 Mid-League All Ascendancy’s Top Meta Builds

Top Deadeye Builds

Deadeye is the most used Ascendancy in POE 3.23. This is true in every league, as Deadeye comes in multiple types, from Bows to Wands and Caster builds.

This time, we have Sanctum Farming Icicle Miner Build followed by Omni Tornado Shot Build. Icicle Miner has been dominant in Sanctum since its introduction in POE 3.20.

By the way, these builds can handle hitless Sanctum runs to farm high-level items such as Original Sin, which currently sells for 1.3 Mirror of Kalandra.

Without Progenesis, both Icicle Miner and Omni Tornado Shot Build can be completed in Affliction League for less than 100 Divine Orbs.

Top Pathfinder Builds

Second on the list is Pathfinder, with most of its builds being Chaos or Poison. But what’s interesting is the diversity within the list.

The most important is Hexblast Miner, mainly used by Uber and Sanctum Farmers, followed by Viper Strike of the Mamba.

This is also a fairly affordable build for most players in POE 3.23, requiring only an extremely low POE Currency budget. This caught my attention when it first launched.

Interestingly, there is a guy playing a Crit Ice Spear Build with Pathfinder. Looking at his kit, I can say that this looks to be a pretty realistic defense considering he has good physical mitigation and spell suppression abilities. But this is another Pathfinder build that doesn’t use Master Distiller.

Pathfinder remains the best choice for Blade Vortex Poison Builds. Most players here seem to like Vaal version, and there are some guides for budget ones.

You may notice that Scourge Arrow of Menace and Caustic Arrow of Posion do not appear in DPS numbers. This is mainly because they are primarily used for Magic Find Builds that require less gear to run.

Magic Find Builds are significantly weaker than your average budget builds. Also, both skills have low theoretical POB counts, although they perform quite well in practice.

There are several other skills as a Pathfinder, such as Seismic Trap of Swells, Reave, Exsanguinate, Ethereal Knives, Ethereal Knives of Linging and Massacre, Spark of the Nova, and more. This is also the class used for Posion version of Herald of Thunder Autobomber.

Top Ascendant Builds

Ranked third is Ascendant. Now you’re probably looking forward to Aura Stackers and Ward Loop Builds. But this time, we have some Life Stacking Righteous Fire Builds led by some really cool budget Reap builds. It uses Entropic Devastation Gloves, which looks very simple.

We don’t see a lot of Impale Spells builds, but this one looks pretty stunning for a mid-budget project.

Top Inquisitor Builds

Inquisitor is the fourth most played build in the game. The top Inquisitor’s critical strike has several casts, using Cyclone of Tumult and Ice Spear of Splitting.

Most of the top Inquisitor builds are Energy Blade Ivory Tower builds. This brings me to Storm Brand of Indecision and Penance Brand of Dissipation. You can improvise to suit your play style.

Top Guardian Builds

With Guardian, we have several minion builds, such as Absolution and Summon Raging Spirits. Interestingly, we have a Righteous Fire on the top floor using Ivory Tower.

Top Champion Builds

Most Champions use Lightning Strike in POE 3.23, which is interesting. We also have some Spectral Shield Throw and Splitting Steel builds based on pure physical Impale, with good defense and damage.

Another great Champion Build is Corrupting Fever/Reap build, which is a purely physical DOT build.

Top Necromancer Builds

For Necromancer, we created Detonate Dead builds that couldn’t show their actual DPS numbers because most of them were based on Specter or Corpse’s life.

I should also mention that a new meta minion build is being built right now. And that’s exactly what Blink Arrow of Bombarding Clones is. You can check out some of their displays because their builds are pretty amazing.

Top Chieftain Builds

Besides the regular Righteous Fire Trap Builds, there are now several Chieftain Builds. One of my favorites is Volcanic Fissure of Snaking. I did try one version of it and it’s great for casual T16 mapping and bossing.

Top Occultist Builds

As usual, we have Ice trap Uber bossing builds for Occultist. This also competes well with Hexblast Miner and Cold BV Builds.

Top Elementalist Builds

At the top of Elementalist list, we have a Discharge build, which is your typical Power Charge stacker.

We’re excited to see a critical strike-based Lightning Conduit build. It’s one of the most powerful skills in the game, with the only drawback being that you have to use a secondary skill to apply shocks.

Then we have Ethereal Knives of the Massacre, which is basically a new upgrade of the old Ethereal Knives Ignite. DPS numbers look better, but not sure about their defense unless you use Progenesis setup.

Top Trickster Builds

For Trickster, we have Kinetic Bolt of Fragmentation builds. They won’t appear on the upper floors as it uses a type of Shenanigans with Nimis. This is pretty backward, but the ability to be nerfed in future leagues is pretty strong.

Top Hierophant Builds

Hierophant Builds are popular in Uber bossing using Ice Spear Totems. But you know what this league has really enhanced? That’s the old Siege Ballista Hierophant.

Because of the effect of quality on attack speed in this patch, they fire much faster than before. This was something I planned to try before the league started. Then we mixed in a few other builds. Storm Brand of Indecision is a good thing for Hierophant. It has good synergy with Ascendancy.

Top Slayer Builds

Most Slayer Builds are still the best choice for Voidforge Flicker Strike. This is a build you should try at least once during league time!

Top Juggernaut Builds

The top build on Juggernaut list is the quintessential Strength Stacking Reave. This is one of the purest melee builds out there. The only downside to these builds is that most spell hits are one hit because of the lack of spell suppression or spell blocking. However, they are quite resistant to most attacks.

Top Assassin Builds

Assassin Builds are usually DPS builds. This is the only Fire Trap of Blasting build. This is also a meme made as something overly restrictive, even if it actually works. I can confidently say that this is the best option for one-hit Searing Exarch and Eater of Worlds.

Top Saboteur Builds

Most Saboteur are Hexblast Mines. This probably means this build is best suited as a Saboteur.

Top Berserker Builds

For Berserker, there are so many builds you can play with. Besides Flicker Strike, Ice Crash, Strength Stacking Reave, Boneshatter, Blade Flurry and Venom Gyre are all the most popular ways to play.

You may be wondering about Cyclone build with 900 million DPS. It’s basically a Frenzy stacker using Adorned Jewel. What I can say for sure is that this is another build designed for farming Uber Searing Exarch and Eater of Worlds.

Top Raider Builds

Raider is also very flexible in terms of variety in builds. The most popularly used to be Flicker Strike, but now we have Lightning Arrow, Rain of Arrows, Spectral Shield Throw, Cyclone of Tumult, Frost Blades, Kinetic Blast, Bleed Bow, and even Penance Brand of Dissipation!

Top Gladiator Builds

Finally, let’s look at the best Ascendancy in the game. I’m just kidding! Here, you’d expect a Bleed Bow like the builds in my previous leagues.

But among 13 super-powerful builds, we have a new winner! Lacerate of Haemorrhage is the top melee blood build in POE 3.23. This is a build right that has yet to be replicated and popularized by famous streamers. So the build here looks pretty good and tanky for a melee build.

Summary

So my overall summary is that Affliction League has opened up a wide variety of builds. Whether you Magic Find, run Sanctum, Harvest, Heists or sell Essence, you can earn currency easily!

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