Hiya cute exiles!
I think it’d be interesting to know what builds people have tried out so far and how it’s gone!
I started out with the comfy EA ballista totems and after that moved on to poison penance brand pathfinder. It’s kinda cool but you’re definitely fighting against the ramping, both the brand’s ramping and poison’s natural ramping so even though PoB says its hitting DoT cap it doesn’t quite feel that way.
Still, it’s super fun to open a giga juiced essence where the monster gets duplicated, attach a brand to both, and watch the explosions overlap to melt them both almost instantly.
For solo play I decided to try out Hexblast mines and it’s been a blast (pun intended)! There’s a bunch of tech into it, but the Ralalesh boots and sandstorm visage alone go a very long way into buffing the damage. Lots of stuff just instantly dies at this point lol
I was able to farm my first Mageblood this league! I ran Destructive Play Shaper Guardian maps and Formed Invitations for most of the grind. Needless to say, it’s been a very successful league!
Also recently started dipping my toes in group play with an aurabot. I don’t know the extent of what’s gone into it but it was an absolute money sink on behalf of my guildies trying to get the build to not die doing wildwood-juiced 8-mod maps.