I can safely say this is the tankiest character that I ever played. The damage is amazing even in Uber boss fights.

How We Deal Damage?

First, let's talk about damage. Let's see what things I got on the damage side: our skill choice is Blade Trap.

You throw a trap and when it gets triggered, it will use your weapon and start spinning around, like cyclone. Therefore, it's important what weapon we are using. And we need to reach 100% accuracy rating and use a really cheap weapon, namely Ephemeral Edge Dusk Blade, which is a unique weapon. This weapon has a few important stat that are only exclusive to this weapon.

First and the most important part, attacks with this weapon have added Maximum Lightning Damage equal to 20% of Maximum Energy Shield, while also give us tons of Energy Shield. Therefore, we need lots of Energy Shield to benefit from this weapon. With that much Energy Shield, this weapon become over 1.5k elemental DPS weapon, which is superb for 1 Chaos Orb.

We can use 3 curse of our choice because we are using the newest unique ring, Anathema. Our curse limit is equal to our maximum power charges. Every character can have 3 charges, so we can add 3 curse to the build. It's up to you to go full offensive and use all the damage curse or use 2 damage and 1 defensive curse.

I took the defensive route because I have enough damage even with two curses. So, the offensive curses I'm using are: Elemental Weakness & Conductivity.

You can add punishment as your third curse if you want more damage. But I like to do this when I have a good balance in offense and defense.

On the defensive side, I have a tremendous surprise for you: Aspect of the Crab. This will give us Crab Barriers every half second and it will grant Physical Damage Reduction per crab stack. But when we take a hit, we will lose all the stacks. This is when we come in handy with our high evasion rating.

• We are using Grace for evasion rating, so we almost can't die from the monsters' basic attacks or projectiles.
• 100% Spell Suppression. This is coming from the tree.
• A unique boots Atziri's Step. This will give us a huge chuck of Spell Suppression and evasion.
• A Watcher's Eye. While Grace affects it, you have Increased Spell Suppression. The really interesting part is our Energy Shield.

Where Is The 17k Energy Shield Is Coming From?

Let's start with the biggest source: our chest piece, Ghostwrithe.

This chest alone gives us more than 7k Energy Shield because it will convert our Maximum Life to Energy Shield. From now, we can scale our Life and Energy Shield at the same time. Therefore, I have Life and Energy Shield on every single piece of gear.

We also stacked intelligence to get more Energy Shield. I reached over 800 intelligence.

We achieve this with intelligence on every gear slot, using a very cheap solution in our belt slot: Cyclopean Coil unique belt. This has good rolls and attributes. Catalyst can give 18% increased attributes.

Another big chuck of Energy Shield is coming from our amulet Presence of Chayula. It will also convert our Maximum Life to Energy Shield. You may already notice we are reserving a little less than 50% of our life. I'm using Arctic Armour with Arrogance Support, so I can become immune to Freeze. Maybe you wonder that we have that much energy shield, but what happens when we encountering with Chaos Damage? We just die?

What We Do Against Chaos Damage?

This is when another unique item came in: Esh's Visage unique shield. Chaos Damage taken does not bypass our Energy Shield while not on low life. Therefore, I mentioned our spell that are reserving life.

In short, don't reserve more that you 50% of your life and you will be safe from the Chaos Damage.

Flask Permanent Uptime - NO Mageblood

I mentioned earlier, we have a permanent flask uptime. We achieve this with a few simple things.

Maybe you wonder why I'm only using 3 flask. Because I'm using the Traitor Keystone form a Timeless Jewel. The Traitor gives 4 Flask Charges every 5 seconds for each empty Flask Slot. Alone, this is not enough to sustain our flask.

We need quality up our flasks with Hillock from the Betrayal mechanic and you need at least 26% Quality. You need him in research and he needs to be ranked 3 to get this option.

Energy Shield Regeneration

We have almost 3k Energy Shield regeneration. This is coming from our ascendancy. We get life regeneration when our trap is activated. Therefore, you see melee sometimes just throw the traps and POE Currency even there is no enemy nearby.

We convert this regeneration to Energy Shield with Zealot's Oath keystone. All life regeneration applies to energy.

Items

You should use a bunch of unique items in this build. Let's start with our weapon: Ephemeral Edge unique weapon. This weapon has a few important data that are only exclusive to this weapon.

• First and the most important part, attacks with this weapon have added maximum lightning damage equal to 20% of maximum Energy Shield while also give us tons of energy shield.
• Esh's Visage unique shield. Chaos Damage taken does not bypass our Energy Shield while not on low life. Thanks to this shield we can have only 600 life and not die in Chaos Damage.
• Ghostwrithe unique body armor. This is the reason we can scale our Energy Shield from our life. Because these items are converting our maximum life to Energy Shield while also give us tons of Chaos Resistance.
• Atziri's Step unique boots.This pair of boots give us spell suppression, life and a bunch of evasion rating. It's important to use this because we can't cap our spell suppression without this. Also, this pair of boots give us at least 100 plus Energy Shield because we are taking on the tree evasion and Energy Shield mastery +1 to energy shield per 8 evasion rating on boots.
• Presence of Chayula unique amulet. With this, we cannot be stunned and convert our Maximum Life to Energy Shield and we are anointing arcane focus for more energy shield.
• Anathema unique ring. With this ring, we can use 3 curse in the build. It also gives us intelligence and a little of Energy Shield.
• Cyclopean Coil unique belt. Because we are stacking intelligence, this is a cheap option to get high intelligence. Also, it will help us get the rest attributes equipment for our gear and gems. It is worth to mention that it also increases our damage with the lowest attributes we have.

Implicit

The following is implicit you can craft with the Eldritch Currency. Spam till you get:

On your gloves - Ghoul Clutches Sorcerer Gloves (Inflict Lightning Exposure On Hit. While there is a unique enemy nearby, there's 15% Increased Trap Throwing Speed).

On your helmet - Viper Veil Hubris Circlet (Physical Damage From Hits taken as cold, but every other element is good and conductivity has Increased Curse Effect).

Worth to mention: we are using a helm Enchantment Blade Trap rotates +1 times. Also, we have an aspect of Crab Skill. On this item, you can apply this mod from Blood Altar in the Menagerie.

Flasks - Important

Flasks we are using are Sapphire, Topaz and a Ruby Flask. You need the following mod on the flasks. The order doesn’t matter.

Only one mod needs to be present on all the flasks - Increased Charge Recovery and you need the highest tier nearly 50%.

When you crafting your flask, pay attention because there is a Hibrid Mod that also charges recovery. But you will get less flask effect.

The sub mods are:

• Regenerate 3% of life per second during effect. You can get this mod from the Betrayal mechanic when you are unveiling flasks.
• Reduced mana cost of skill during effect. You need to have mana cost on your blade because if you have a high flask effect, it will be free and you don’t get the inspiration stacks.
• Additional elemental resistance during effect. I’m using this because it was hard to get the resistance capped.
• Evasion rating during effect. It is suitable if you can be resistance capped without the effect of the previous mod.

Passive Tree

I just want to highlight a few things on the passive tree that you need for the build.

We are using 8 passive cluster jewel with Smite the Weak, Advance Guard and Veteran Defender.

We are using four point medium cluster jewels with Set and Forget, Guerilla Tactics, Energy From Within (This jewel will convert our life node to energy shield) unique jewel, Brutal Restraint Timeless Jewel (This will give you the Traitor keystone) and a Watcher’s Eye with gain maximum mana as extra energy shield.

While affected by grace, you have increased spell suppression. If you can’t find this combination or it’s too expensive for you, you only need the suppression while affected by grace.

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Ascendancy

We are taking Saboteur as our ascendancy.

The notables in order are:

• First lab: You will take Perfect Crime because our mana cost in the early stages is high. This helps sustain our mana, also it gives us extra damage.
• Second lab: You will take Chain Reaction. It will increase the Blade Trap area effect, so it can hit bigger area and can overlap on bigger enemies.
• Third lab: You will take Pyromaniac. This is what I really like. In this ascendancy, you will get health regeneration and you will be immune to Shock and Ignite.

When you complete your Uber lab, take born in the shadow. This is our defensive part. You will take less damage from the blinded enemies while nearby enemies are also blinded.

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Gem And Links

Gem and Gem links are starting with our fundamental skill in our body armor Divingert Blade Trap, Awakened Elemental Focus, Inspiration, Swift Assembly, Awakaned Elemental Damage and Trap and Mine Damage Support.

When you’re doing maps, switch out the Swift Assembly Support to Cluster Traps Support in our weapon and Arrogance with Arctic Armor and Enlighten level 3.

• In our gloves, we are casting Elemental Weakness, Anomalous Conductivity, and Enfeeble.
• In our boots, we are casting Flame Dash, Precision and Clarity.
• In our shield, we are casting Increased Duration, Bear Trap and Immortal Call.
• In our helmet, we are casting Summon Skitterbots, Discipline, Grace and Enlighten level 3.

Should I go corrupting fever gladiator? or maybe it's time to try out Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist? What about Lightning Strike? I don't know about you, but I'm sure lots of people having a really hard time choosing what build a league start this time. Of course this is nothing new at this point, it's practically tradition to try between different builds before the new league actually starts. I can't be the only one that make the build guides, you're probably flooded with guides of the absolute best league starters builds for POE 3.20, so let's just dissect what makes a good League starter for you.

First off, what qualifies as a good League starter is incredibly subjective, we've each had our own experiences with different builds, and we will naturally compare other builds. Some people even only play one build for many years and won't settle for anything less than being an Uber boss killer on day one of the league. On the other hand, some one just started playing the game last league, and it is really hoping you can make it to maps clearing this time around a good build with less POE Currency costing.

Three Main Build Genre
But if you're playing in hardcore or ruthless or solo self, then it goes without saying that you'll absolutely need to factor builds aspect into your choice of League starter. So I like to separate builds into three main categories. First up, Fast Mappers, these are builds designed with running through maps fast and efficiently, think about auto bombers cast on crit builds. So on the goal for these guys is to blast through as many screens of the monsters per second as possible, while still doing enough damage to kill map bosses without too much trouble.

Secondly we've got Bossers, Bossers are builds meant for killing end game bosses with ease oftentimes, these are either totems traps, or mines, or minion builds, since they have a big uptime advantage on their DPS compared to other types of builds, allowing them to just run around dodging everything coming at them. While these builds can still complete Maps, they would rather be spending their time in actual end game Boss Fights once they have all.

The last big category is All Rounders, these are builds that don't specialize in either fast mapping or easy bossing, but are competent enough in both, they're in the middle and are generally safe builds to play if your goal is to just get through maps and do some endgame bossing, like spark and toxic rain builds.

Keep in mind that builds in this category could usually be pushed in either direction if you really wanted to with enough Currency Orbs investment, so those are the three main types of bills that I think of.

Other Build Genre
However these categories only really encompass good or meta builds, what about your funky Glacial Hammer builds or Firestorm? These types of builds I would put under the For Fun category, just as important as any of the other types of builds, Fou Fun builds are oftentimes interesting and not necessarily good builds, don't get me wrong, they could come up to a totally crazy build as well, and I wouldn't be all that surprised. But generally when playing one of these builds, the expectation is that you'll eventually hit a wall in progression where you either need to farm up a bunch of currency for better gear to push past it, or just decide to play something else. If you're okay with that, and just want to explore new builds that look fun to you, this is the way to go finally.

The last category that comes to my mind I've simply dubbed Other, these are good builds that are hyper focused on accomplishing a specific thing that isn't mapping or Bossing, like specific builds for currency farming or something else. Reddit and Poe ninja are all helpful places to find build ideas, just find something that looks fun to you.

So here are two good Mapper I would like to recommend that can be used widely in POE 3.20 Expansion.

Build Recommendation
Mapper One:
Corrupting Fever Champion is a top League start Mapper created with a focus on speed, explosions and survivability. For the skills, we can use Corrupting Fever, Kinetic Blast,Utility and Auras, Reap, Vulnerability. As the main skill, Sacrifice the blood in your veins to activate Corrupting Fever, causing hits against enemies to apply a stacking Corrupting Blood debuff causing Physical Damage over Time.

Meanwhile Utility and Auras is our primary movement ability providing quick progress through maps. To escape in the blink of an eye, use Frostblink to instantly teleport away evading large telegraphed attacks or quick reactive abilities. Unleash your anger and become frenzied with Blood Rage giving you Frenzy Charges on kill and additional attack speed. Thus Champion is the best choice as it offers the best defences in the game and gives you very powerful damage through Adrenaline and Aura effect.

Playstyle
When playing as the Corrupting Fever Champion you aim and click your Kinetic Blast into large monster packs applying the Corrupted Blood debuff and applying a separate bleed which triggers your Haemophilia on kill explosions. Every 20 seconds reactivate Corrupting Fever to take your Life down below 50%, triggering First to Strike, Last to Fall giving Adrenaline.

Mapping
When mapping as the Corrupting Fever Champion apply your Corrupted Blood to enemies with Kinetic Blast and then quickly Shield Charge to the next pack of monsters. For stronger enemies use Reap to quickly dispatch them.

Skill Gems
Gems are a fundamental part of your build, and getting the correct link setups and levels before entering Maps is your main goal. This is how your Gems look throughout the endgame stage of progression.

*Corrupting Fever - Awakend Brutality Support - Awakend Swift Affliction Support - Efficacy Support - Empower Support - Reap

*Anomalous Kinetic Blast - Maim Support - Greater Multiple Projectiles Support - Lifetap Support

*Flam Dash - Lifetap Support - Storm Brand - Culling Strike Support

*Handed Ranged: Malevolence, Tempest Shiled, Enduring cry

*Shiled: Shiled charge - Faster Attacks Supports - War Banner

*Cast When Damage Taken Support - Molten Shell, Pride - Vitality

At this point in the build your gearing should be starting to finalize. Purchase from another Player or grind from Syndicate missions a T4 Vorichi in the research branch to switch a random number of sockets into White. This allows you to easily swap your Kinetic Blast setup to a Frenzy and Maim Support setup which allows you to obtain Frenzy Charges on bosses while also causing them to take 10% increased Physical Damage from being Maimed.

The next big upgrade is to purchase an Empower Support at Level 4 to put in your 6-Link and a Anomalous Kinetic Blast giving you an additional 2 Pierce. Your Auras change to include a Vitality and Tempest Shield at the cost of your Herald of Purity. This is because you obtain such a valuable amount of Life recovery and Spell Block, and your gear is good enough to give a bit of damage up for that.

Skill Tree

Mapper Two:

Poison Blade Vortex Occultist offers one of the smoothest mapping experiences of any league starter build thanks to Profane Bloom explosion chains and Plague Bearer. Combining these skills allows fast map clearing with a low investment, however it can be min maxed to be fantastic for late endgame as well.

The Occultist is the best choice for Poison Blade Vortex as it provides explosions for great clear, and an additional curse. It also gives an easy way to cap your Chaos Resistance whilst reducing enemies resistances and additional free applications of Wither stacks for even more damage.

*Profane Bloom causes your curses to have a chance to consume the corpse of your enemies, triggering an explosions dealing a quarter of their Maximum Life to nearby enemies.

*Void Beacon gives nearby enemies -20% to Chaos Resistance and prevents them from regenerating Life.

*Withering Presence applies a Wither stack to nearby enemies for every second you are near them, gives you +60% to Chaos Resistance, and makes you deal 15% more Chaos Damage.

*Malediction allows you to inflict an additional Curse on enemies.

Mapping
Activate your Blade Vortex and repeat casting until you've reached 10 blades. Charge through packs until you're at Maximum Plague Value. Activate your Plague Bearer and Shield Charge through packs of monsters, letting your Profane Bloom explode packs whilst maintaining 10 Blade Vortex stacks.

Bossing
Save your Plague Bearer to use on the Map Boss if you know you are nearing it. Apply your Curses and activate Plague Bearer to inflict additional damage. If you have the Vaal version of Blade Vortex; Vaal Blade Vortex this is the best time to use it to best make use of the additional poisons it can inflict.

Skill Gems
Gems are an fundamental part of your build, getting the correct link setups before entering Maps and leveling those Gems as you progress through the Atlas is one of your main goals.

*Armour: VAAL BLADE VORTEX - AWAKENED UNBOUND AILMENTS SUPPORT - AWAKENED UNLEASH SUPPORT - AWAKENED DEADLY AILMENTS SUPPORT - EFFICACY SUPPORT - AWAKENED VOID MANIPULATION SUPPORT

*DIVINE BLESSING SUPPORT - MALEVOLENCE - INCREASED DURATION SUPPORT

*Shield: AWAKENED BLASPHEMY SUPPORT - TEMPORAL CHAINS - PUNISHMENT

*Helmet: RACE - DETERMINATION - DIVERGENT HERALD OF AGONY - ENLIGHTEN SUPPORT

*CAST WHEN DAMAGE TAKEN SUPPORT - MOLTEN SHELL, SHIELD CHARGE - FASTER ATTACKs SUPPORT

*PLAGUE BEARER - AWAKENED INCREASED AREA OF EFFECT SUPPORT - EMPOWER SUPPORT - EMPOWER SUPPORT

*Ring: DESPAIR

Skill Tree:

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So as for the beginners or some players missed POE for a while, what is the priority for a new league start? A proper Build, so today I would like to intro some of my favourite build that may be powerful in POE 3.20 Expansion beginning, without further ado, let's get it.

Bone Shatter Slayer:
The First one is Bone Shatter Slayer, Bone Sheddar is a melee strike skill that whenever you hit an enemy, it also hits you back for a certain amount of physical damage, but in response to that you also get trauma stacks. The more trauma Stacks you have, the more damage your next hit will deal. This build actually has great clear for melee build, and it's probably the only melee build that I'm comfortable putting onto this list.

This build has incredible defenses, you get a ton of armor and a ton of regeneration, with slayer's over leech recovering you thousands of Life per second.

A little bit of a downside here is that with most melee builds you need a little bit of crafting knowledge to get your weapons going, or at least know how to trade for them with different POE Currency Orbs.

This build is not the greatest boss killers ever, and that's mostly because it's just so melee, and quite a few of the very end game bosses are not that forgiving when you're just standing in front of it. if you're a good player and you know boss mechanics, that is no problem whatsoever. For a lot of people, this will be not the best choice, however if you want to be a beefy melee boy, this is the way to go.

Caustic Arrow Poison Ballista Trickster:
If you do not like melee gameplay, we have the Caustic Arrow Poison Ballista Trickster here, Ballista Trickste is a bow projectile that spreads caustic ground whenever it hits an enemy. What a lot of people don't know is that this actually has a hit portion, which deals decent damage. But the big upside is it can actually overlap, meaning you can times 7 to times 9 your damage on something, absolutely insane when you farming bosses.

Meanwhile it still having great area of effect against everything else, and this makes it so you have a lot better damage potential, you can even actually use Caustic Arrow as a main skill. Now the advantage of this build is, the Ballista build it's actually one of the fastest ones, you don't really have any delayed damage.

This build also has incredible single target, especially once you get some of your endgame gear. This is definitely one of those League start builds that you can push all the way into Uber bosses. Another big thing is the trickster ascendancy solves one of the biggest problems that ballista builds usually have, which is life recovery. Trickster polymath node basically takes away all your worries, Caustic Arrow Poison Ballista Trickster is probably the closest league start build to perfect.

Minion builds:
When it comes to that, and at the end, I want to quickly mention Minion builds, now it seems like Minion builds are not in the best state currently, I'm not really sure which build I would link to, and I'm also not very knowledgeable about them. However I suggest that you guys can keep focus on POE Ninja to keep reading and learning, for the latest updates.

That's all predictiones for the top builds list you can use in league start now, there's a lot of builds I didn't mention here, and obviously more of them are viable. If your build is not out here, it doesn't matter, because the main things in POE 3.20 is just have fun. We will keep updating in the future, do not foget following us, see you guys next time.