While we wait for POE 2, GGG will not let us down and we’ll keep releasing a lot of new contents.

Now, on August 18th, we’re going to face the challenge of the Trial of the Ancestors. Here, I’m going to share with you 3 starter builds that I believe that are going to be great. But since we don’t have the patch notes yet, those are just expectations. 

1. Venom Gyre

I’m going to start this guide with one of the most powerful starter builds out there. Even though I believe it might be nerfed on this patch notes, it is so strong that it would still be great. I’m talking about a Venom Gyre Deadeye with the Ranger class.

Venom Gyre is a very interesting skill, which fires a projectile that hits enemies and returns to you, piercing and dealing damage to everything on its path. When the projectile successfully returns to you, you can keep and stack them up to 30 times and they will be released at once when you use the Whirling Blades movement skill.

Pros 

To list the pros of this build, I would not even know where to start. 

It counts with an amazing clear speed, boss damage, and over 100,000 effective HP. Above all of that, it’s cheap and easy to put together. It doesn’t require any mandatory unique item.

Cons

Now, to list the cons is the real challenge here. It’s hard to find something not to like on this build.

However, I would say that as most builds, this one is also vulnerable to Chaos Damage unless, of course, you invest in Chaos Resistance gear.

Budget

As for budget, based on previous leagues, this build is very cheap. 

You can get it destroying early endgame maps with only around 90 Chaos Orbs.

To comfortably advance to yellow maps, you need to invest around 120 Chaos Orbs.

And for easily completing your atlas, I recommend investing around 4 Divine Orbs. 

Clear Speed

For clear speed, I’ll give this build 10 out of 10. 

The Venom Gyre projectile already has an expansive nature for their amount of time it stays dealing damage on screen. Now, with a Deadeye that grants a lot of speed and many buffs to projectiles, the result is what you’re seeing on this Tier 16 gameplay.

Boss Damage 

The boss damage is also a 10 out of 10. 

You can use Vaal Venom Gyre to instantly have 50 stacked projectiles and delete bosses with an amazing shotgun effect using Whirling Blades on them. It’s just unreal.

Survivability

For the survivability, I give it 9 out of 10. 

This build counts with over 100,000 effective HP because of high armor, high evasion, spell suppression, and block chance.

2. Poisonous Concoction

Following, we have the Poisonous Concoction Pathfinder with the Ranger class. 

I left this build out on Crucible because since it doesn’t use weapons, players wouldn’t be able to take advantage of weapon passive trees. But now that Crucible won’t be added to the core game, this awesome starter build is back.

As I just mentioned, poisonous Concoction uses no weapons. Instead, it uses your Life Flask to inflict massive poisons on your enemies.

Pros

To list the pros of this build, I would start with how simple it is to level up. It gets really strong fast and safe with low investment, making it a perfect build for beginners.

Cons

Now, to list the cons, I would point that even though this is a cheap build, it can get expensive to activate all the auras. 

This is because you need an Enlightened Gem to do so. But don’t worry, this is not mandatory at all.

Budget

As for a budget, you can get it destroying early endgame maps with only around 85 Chaos Orbs.

To comfortably advance to yellow maps, you need to invest around 120 Chaos Orbs.

And for easily completing your atlas, I recommend investing around 4 Divine Orbs. But you can totally do it with less.

Clear Speed

For clear speed, I’ll give it 9 out of 10.

You are fast and throw many flasks that poison enemies and cause nearby ones to also get poisoned. It’s a great clear speed and very satisfying to watch.

Boss Damage

The boss damage is great and deserves 9 out of 10. 

The projectiles can shotgun bosses for a lot of poison damage.

Survivability

For the survivability, I’ll give it 9 out of 10. 

This build counts with many defensive layers, such as high armor, high evasion, spell suppression, and a 50% chance to block attacks and spells. All of that grant this build over 100,000 effective HP. 

3. Boneshatter

Finally, we have a starter build for the tanky boys. I'm talking about the Boneshatter Juggernaut with the Marauder class.

This build is perfect for the melee enthusiasts out there. Boneshatter hits enemies so hard that it hurts your own character accumulating trauma stats. For each trauma, you're going to deal and take more damage. That's why it's important to gather both attack speed and armor to stack many traumas and sustain their damage.

Pros

To list the pros of this build, I would start with its survivability. 

Even though you deal damage to yourself, this build has so much armor that it won't feel a thing. 

Now, because of that, you might think that this build had to a sacrifice speed or boss damage. But no, it is still super fast and can kill Guardians in just a few seconds.

Cons

Now, to list the cons, the first thing that comes to my mind is that you need to keep an eye on your accuracy.

This is because we use the Keystone precise technique that grants 40% more damage if your accuracy is bigger than your life.

As for budget, this build is cheap. You can get it destroying early endgame maps with only around 60 Chaos Orbs.

To comfortably advance to yellow maps, I recommend investing around 120 Chaos Orbs.

And for easily completing your atlas, I recommend investing around 4 Divine Orbs.

Clear Speed

For clear speed, I'll give it 9 out of 10. 

Boneshatter also creates a big pulse of damage when stunning enemies. That means that a single blow can kill an entire pack of monsters.

Other than that, you stack a lot of attack speed that causes your Leap Slam to almost teleport you through the map.

Boss Damage

The boss damage is also great and deserves 9 out of 10. 

Using Berserk on bosses cause you to accumulate a lot of trauma stacks and do huge amounts of damage.

Survivability

For this survivability, this build is surely a 10 out of 10. And I would even like to say 20 out of 10 if I could.

This build achieves almost 200,000 armor and over 83% of all Elemental Resistances. All of that combine with the Juggernaut Ascendancy grant this character almost 500,000 effective HP. It's crazy!