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Path of Exile 3.27, Keepers of the Flame League, will be released on October 31st. The new patch brings many changes, including new endgame content and adjustments and reworks to various classes.

So, what build should you use for the new league? A comfortable leveling build can shorten your early leveling time. If you want to switch to a different build, your leveling build's farming ability will also affect your ability to switch builds. Below, we recommend some starting league builds based on PoE 3.27 patch.

1. Cyclone Gladiator

Cyclone Gladiator is a classic build that can handle maps of all difficulty levels, but it depends on PoE currency you invest.

It gets a recommendation because Cyclone skill has received a 20% buff at all levels. If you already use this build, you'll find it performs even better in 3.27. Its core mechanic uses Dancing Dervish Reaver Sword. It triggers Rampage, allowing the sword to automatically clear monsters.

Pros And Cons

Cyclone Gladiator build can defeat all Ubers when well-equipped, though it's not designed for hard bosses. Its high tankiness allows you to fight virtually unhindered from the start to T7 maps.

However, it's not unkillable and can still die in T17 maps or if you're unfamiliar with the final boss mechanics. If you're willing to invest enough PoE Divine Orbs in this build, you can even use it to handle all endgame content.

• Hundreds of Divine Orbs: It can handle everything in the game, including Uber bosses, T17 maps, Scarab of Risk, and Delirium maps. While it may occasionally die, it's still very powerful overall.
• Around 20 Divine Orbs: The most cost-effective level. It can clear Simulacrum Wave 15 and most Tier 17 maps, but it struggles on really juiced maps with very difficult affixes.
• A few Chaos Orbs: Most gear is worth only one Chaos Orb or less, but it's enough for the campaign.

2. Siege Ballista Hierophant

Siege Ballista Hierophant has been a very strong build for the past few seasons. Not only has it survived patch nerfs, but its Siege Ballista variant, Siege Ballista of Trarthus, even received a 35% damage buff. Siege Ballista Hierophant is perfect for the new League's Breach playstyle.

Siege Ballista is a Totem build, or one-button build. Its operation is simple: simply place a totem, and it automatically attacks, making it easy for even new players to figure out how to use it.

Its early game requirements are low, and all you need is a Divine Orb to get all the gear you need (by trade). Its survivability is quite good, and once you meet the required gear and skills, it boasts high dodge, spell suppression, and life regeneration, so it is not a glass cannon.

League Start Progression:

• Early Game: Use Holy Flame Totem.
• After Chapter 3: Switch to Explosive Arrow.
• Mid-Level 70s: Finally, transition to the core build Siege Ballista.

3. Reap And Exsanguinate Hierophant

Reap & Exsanguinate Hierophant is a tried-and-true build in multiple leagues, but it's relatively not very popular compared to other builds. But Reap and Exsanguinate have been continuously buffed, and the new Bloodline Ascendancy added in patch 3.27 provides stronger talent nodes, eliminating the need for a useless fourth talent point.

You can directly equip Reap at level 28, but this requires you to take Recovery Mastery (which provides 50 health regeneration per second) on the talent board to maintain the skill consumption. Or, you can use standard Templar levelings like Rolling Magma and Armageddon Brand, and then re-level later.

The two core skills of this build, Reap (Single Target) and Exsanguinate (Clear Skill), are both physical damage. Therefore, the core idea of Passive Tree is to find nodes for Life, Physical Damage Over Time, and Spell Suppression. Focus on health and damage early on, then head to the right path point to reach the Spell Suppression Cap and gain Elusive effect (via the Lethe Shade cluster).

4. Kinetic Wander Elementalist

Kinetic Wander Elementalist benefits from a host of new wand abilities (such as Wind Blast, Kinetic Rain, Wall of Force, Kinetic Fusillade) and the new wand base types Blasting Wand and Kinetic Wand.

Combined with Assassin class rework, Kinetic Wander Elementalist build has the potential to be very powerful, becoming a meta build for new leagues, but it's probably not suitable for pure new players.

It has advantages in the early game, such as smooth leveling, fast farming, good survivability, and low PoE currency required for item crafting. However, its drawbacks, such as lack of defense and damage, only become apparent in the endgame.

Also Read: Path Of Exile 3.27 Keepers of The Flame Predictions: 5 Expected Unique Items And Trarthus Gem Changes

5. Earthshatter Zerker

Earthshatter was not nerfed in PoE 3.27, and its overlapping spikes mechanic can deal significant damage.

Pros

• Easily handles early maps (Tier 5 and below) even with minimal gear.
• Large AOE range and fast clearing.
• With increased investment, damage and tankiness can be increased to extremely high levels.

Cons

• During Acts 4-6, you may feel vulnerable if gear (especially resistances and weapons) isn't updated regularly.
• It relies heavily on a high-damage Two-Handed Axe, which requires constant upgrades.
• While it's not a high-frequency build, you need to adapt to the rhythm of alternating attacks and Warcry.
• Not recommended for new Hardcore players, as the early stages require a precise balance of defense and damage.

Also, this build can be used with Slayer, Juggernaut, or Chieftain classes, depending on whether you prefer more damage or defense.

The above builds aren't necessarily optimal for the endgame, but most of them can easily clear Tier 17 maps if you're willing to invest heavily in Divine Orbs.

After Mercenaries of Trarthus league went online, Path of Exile combat mechanism has also undergone a series of changes, so you need to adjust your builds or craft new builds to better adapt to the new expansion.

Based on this, this time we will recommend Exsanguinate Ignite Build for you. By introducing its skills, weapons and other components, we will help you utilize it to complete more content.

The Most Suitable Class

The applicable class of Exsanguinate Ignite Build is Witch’s Ascendancy class Elementalist. Although the acquisition and utilization of skills in POE series of games are based on skill gems, each class still has more suitable skills and related builds.

As the name shows, Elementalist is proficient in all element-related abilities, such as fighting bosses by enhancing the power of elemental abnormal states. Other common skills include:

• Mastermind of Discord: Enhance the power of elemental exposure.
• Heart of Destruction: Provides a powerful conditional attack bonus.
• Bastion of Elements: Protects against elemental damage.
• Enhances the survivability and buffs of heralds or golems.

Which Skills Should You Choose?

Of all the skills that Elementalist excels in, the most important ability for Exsanguinate Ignite Build is the one related to golems. Combined with other skills, including Exsanguinate, this build will be incredibly powerful.

Exsanguinate

Exsanguinate is a physical skill that shoots blood tendrils in a cone range to cause physical damage to the enemy during combat. But it should be noted that the release of this skill consumes your life instead of mana.

If this skill hits the enemy, it will further cause continuous physical damage, which can be stacked up to three times. In addition, the blood tendrils can be strengthened through this chain effect to attack more enemies.

Related: POE 3.26 Mercenaries of Trarthus Currency Giveaways

Golem

As a servant-type skill, Golem actually contains multiple different Golems (corresponding to different skill gems). With the exception of Summon Carrion Golem, all other Golems only buff the character that summoned them, and you can only have one Golem active at a time.

Shaper Of Flames

To ensure that you can Ignite enemies with this build, you must add Elementalist-only passive ability Shaper of Flames. It causes your attacks to always Ignite and causes Ignited enemies to convert some of their physical damage into fire damage.

Essential Items

To further improve your character’s attack and defense capabilities, you also need to equip the appropriate gear. Although some of this requires repeated farming to obtain, it is a must.

Nycta’s Lantern

This item is a unique crystal sceptre that grants you additional spell damage equal to your main-hand weapon damage. If you have POE Divine Orbs, you can also provide more reliable value for the modifiers of this gear.

If possible, you’d better use Nycta’s Lantern with the support gem Spellblade, because it can make the supported spell output additional spell damage. The damage value is equal to a certain percentage of your one-handed melee weapon damage.

The Taming

This is a unique prismatic ring that increases the hit rate and Elemental Ailment damage of each Elemental Ailment on the enemy by 30-40%, and has a chance to increase Ignite effect.

Voidstone

In order to get the required weapons and skills/support gems as soon as possible, you need to farm repeatedly in the game. The best place to farm is Atlas of Worlds, and Voidstone can upgrade the map and increase the drop rate and rarity of items.

Depending on the number of Voidstones you insert, the efficiency of the map level improvement is also different. But in any case, you must ensure that the difficulty of the map you get in the end is within your ability.

Mercenary Selection

As one of the core mechanisms of the 3.26 league, the help provided by mercenaries cannot be missed! In this expansion, each area you explore will have a Trarthan Mercenary NPC, who will show you everything in his backpack after interacting with you.

He will then provide you with a window where you can choose to hire or exile the mercenary, or just take the items he provides. But no matter which one you choose, you need to fight and win the mercenary before you can get the choice.

In order to get reliable combat benefits, it is recommended that you give priority to hiring them, and for this you need to consume a certain amount of gold. The game allows you to hire up to three mercenaries, but you can only bring one into the field in each battle.

As the game progresses, you will encounter mercenaries. If you find that the new mercenary is more suitable for the build, you can discard the previous one and replace it to ensure the continuous enhancement of Exsanguinate Ignite Build.

The above is the introduction to the matching and utilization plan of Exsanguinate Ignite Build, I hope it will be helpful to you!

As Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas’s release date draws closer, players are increasingly looking forward to some new content that this new league will bring to the game, such as new items and mechanisms. Among them, Mercenaries of Trarthus League Mechanic is the one that players pay the most attention to.

In this league mechanism, you will be able to challenge, recruit and create mercenaries who can help you kill enemies and provide additional loot with new exclusive enhancement affixes during the exploration process. If you effectively match it with your skill gems or passive skills, you will have a super high advantage in the campaign in POE 3.26.

However, it is worth noting that since this mercenary mechanism has not yet been officially launched, this guide will give you an introduction to the operation of Mercenaries of Trarthus League Mechanic and what new game experience it may bring to you based on some information currently released by the developer and player comments.

Who Are Mercenaries?

According to the developer, each area you explore will have a Trarthan Mercenary NPC, who will show you everything in his backpack after interacting with you, such as the items equipped, skill gems, and the contents of his pockets.

Not only that, it will also provide you with a window with three options: Hire, Take Item, or Exile. No matter which one you choose, you need to fight this mercenary first, because only if you win can you gain the right to dominate it.

If you are unfortunately defeated by it, the mercenary will be teleported away, and you will not encounter this mercenary with the same gear and skill gems again in this league. So it is highly recommended that you consider your exploration needs while also considering whether your build has the ability to complete this battle.

For example, when you find that its skills are mainly based on fire elemental damage, you need to buy POE Divine Orbs to make your build’s fire resistance affix better, thereby improving your survivability in this battle and keeping the power of choice firmly in your hands. After that, you can choose from the following options.

Hire

First of all, you hiring this mercenary as a permanent combat assistant need to spend some Gold, which is one of the most important currencies for settlers in Settlers of Kalguur League.

You will encounter a variety of mercenaries while exploring POE 3.26, and once you find one with stronger combat abilities or one with skills and equipment that suit your build, you can discard the previous one and hire the next one.

This way, the mercenary will be counted as half a player, so you have a team of 1.5 players, which will make your subsequent battles more difficult, but also provide you with more loot. If you find a way to make their abilities and difficulties offset each other, you will have a helper who can help you get extra loot!

By the way, you can only hire up to three mercenaries, but you can only choose one to fight by your side, which means that you need to choose a more suitable mercenary as your most capable assistant according to different combat needs or exploration needs.

Take Item

If you find a more effective item among the items shown to you by this mercenary, then you can choose this option. After the battle, you can choose an item from its equipment, a Trarthan Gem, which is new variants of existing skills, similar to Transfigured gems, or all the items in its pockets.

On top of that, if you encounter Infamous Mercenaries, they can even provide you with rare items with exclusive attributes, which are very difficult to farm in the early stages of your POE 3.26 exploration.

Exile

Of course, not all mercenaries are worth using, so you can choose to exile them and prevent any mercenaries with the two attribute types you choose from appearing in the next 10 areas.

Although the current developers have always praised players for getting more high-quality loot from this mechanism, the appearance of this option always makes people feel very strange, and it always indicates that players are likely to encounter enemies like Rogue Exiles in POE 2.

Please note that the mercenaries you defeated but did not hire or exile will not disappear permanently, they will return to your town and be ready to challenge you again. However, if you want to fight the same mercenary again, you will need to resurrect him by paying a certain amount of gold.

About Mercenary More

As I just said, the specific information of each Mercenary will be displayed in the interface that appears when you interact with it, which may include level, attributes, all items carried, and skills, etc. You can use this to determine whether it can be used by you.

Level & Attributes

What needs to be paid attention to here is that the level of the mercenary will not change, and it will always be fixed at the level you have when you hire them. So when recruiting, try to choose stronger mercenaries instead of higher-level mercenaries.

As for attributes, since the developer has too little description of them, but based on Rogue Exiles with similar mechanisms in POE 2 and the previous league mechanism, it can be inferred that they are likely to affect its combat capabilities and the gear and gems you have captured in it.

Items

After you hire a mercenary, you can give it the gear you have invested a lot of POE currency to upgrade it to replace its original weak gear, just like you equip another self.

However, once you discard or replace a mercenary’s original gear, it will no longer be usable by this mercenary or other mercenaries, so please think carefully before making these operations.

Skill Gems

Like your character, a mercenary can have up to 6 skill gems that can be linked to support gems, and they cannot be changed after you hire them. You can only obtain more effective skill gems by recruiting stronger mercenaries.

It is worth mentioning here that a small number of mercenaries will have Gilded Supports, which is one of the most powerful support gems in the current Path of Exile 3.26 league, which can bring extremely high bonuses for you and the mercenary.

The above is a part of the specific operation method and contents of Mercenaries of Trarthus League Mechanic that appeared in the new league of POE 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas. Although this is not the first time that the developer has introduced a mercenary mechanism in the game, its addition may allow players to have a better gaming experience and create more builds possibilities. I wish you a happy game!