Top 10 LEGENDARY Path of Exile Builds of ALL TIME

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[@juliosecundaria8010]

Crazy to think they were all made by captain lance

[@frostyiv1509]

OmegaLul

[@doomeduser4048]

I think the matrix is broken then since these builds aren't running Coruscating and Balbala.

[@dslily]

I would pin this if I could

[@zaggedout]

CuteDog_ copied all of them :(

[@curlybloke101]

LMAO

[@avant79]

Whole screen Cyclone in Legion has to be one of the most played builds of all time, like 30% of the player base was doing it

[@cyanogen7582]

I think I was doing ED Contagion trickster for legion instead of Cyclone funnily enough.

[@pathofmelee6746]

discharge mjolner build is the most memorable for me

[@chaosky5785]

trueeeeeee

[@MrTopbobtop]

Enki’s Arc Witch feels like a legendary build to me, not necessarily because of how OP it was but because of how many people it got into the game because of how detailed it was for new players. Everyone I know who plays, including myself, started with that build.

[@Ceen328]

Enki's Arc Withc and Pohx's RF guide are just so good at holding hand and had an easy gameplay. When you include the guides, maybe the best beginner builds in POE1 history. Also, Enki and Pohx are just really chill and helpful dudes.

[@Devinski77]

Arc witch got me started in Incursion! Made my own builds after that but that guide was amazing.

[@HowdyOaks]

can confirm, this was my first build years and years ago

[@xMTTx1]

Oldschool Discharge with Voll's Protector Kripparrian has some videos on it

[@dezgames5976]

without that build, there's no top 10 LOL

[@most-average-athelete]

"fakener" build, at its inception "mjolner" builds were so expensive voll's version was created by mathil as a "fake mjolner"

[@Yacobusgames]

I came to say this I feel like that build was the precursor to all of PoE's blaster builds

[@waelepips3751]

Shadow coc discharge volls.

[@AmericaFirst-1]

Was so broken that they were forced to forever change the keystone Vaal Pact.

[@AmericaFirst-1]

Kipps first Discharge build was the most legendary moments in PoE's history. It was so broken that GGG had to permantly change how a keystone passive functions due to being an unkillable screen blaster.

[@panda93247]

Adding a simple clip of someone doing Delve and flickering into darkness would have been so good.

[@Rook986]

Ele buzzsaw was the first posted Atziri kill, in the seasonal league before anyone in standard did it. It raised the price of Alphas Howl from 1c to 7ex

[@TheuberClips]

immortal delver during delve league with perma gluttony of elements, originally a build that used negative resistance to always outheal any phys damage taken with lightning coil, before eventually becoming a 1 hp 6 es build to be immune to chaos and played by Dan that died to Congealed Blood from Bloodlines - basically the only thing that could have killed him and it happened because we all collectively as a community forgot it existed with a phys degen. A build with 1 HP and 6 ES in hardcore reaching 1500+ depth, should explain itself I personally played this build on Pathfinder in HC as well to past 600 depth before making a mistake by letting Gluttony of Elements drop in the middle of the path, instantly dying since I had over -110% resistance and 2k life so basically anything that hit me was going to kill me

[@divinityai]

No poet's pen zerphi's (possible indigon) build? It was broken AF. People used VD for bossing and arc + lightning warp for instant mapping. 1 button build whole screen coverage, instant regen, ridiculous damage. RIP instant zerphi flask and dual-wielding poet's pen. Imo was stronger than prime aurastacker.

[@BatrickPateman430]

You missed the legendary self curser with shackles of the wretched, solstice vigil and kaoms roots.

[@dslily]

yeah tbh this should've been on my list, I had like 30 builds written down so hard to choose just 10

[@iSammax]

yes this takes #1 legendary spot in softcore no doubt

[@randomfeg4141]

This one is up there for sure, also a variation of flicker strike could have been there aswell its iconic, even if flicker is in poe 2 aswell it probably wont be yhe same.

[@90Rush]

I was going to comment on the golden days of self curse headhunter where you become as big as the screen and the Occultist version survived for so long.

[@nicholasfigueiredo3171]

@@dslily Now make part 2 and 3. Problem solved.

[@centuriobumer420]

The Aura/Herald stacker build was so broken that it was close to being hard nerfed like 1 week after release of Delirum League and the marked paniced and flipped .The whole community went crazy, absolutely wild times back then in delirium I never made more divines during 1 day ever again lol

[@ArborusVitae]

Some more that come to mind for me: Scold’s Breath CWDT, Indigon Poet VD with Zerphi’s, Poison Bladefall/Ice Trapper, Cospri Ice Nova, Glacial Cascade Miner, Fire Explode BV, Vaal RF ignite, Legion Cyclone Slayer, Self Curse HH, Pre-nerf Winter Orb, Mjolner Discharge, CoC Discharge, Poet’s Pen Arc Warp, Tri-herald BV, EQ Jugg

[@JohnDoe_69]

You're just citing the most popular builds for each league

[@matsberg1568]

Aah tri-herald bv, good times

[@ArborusVitae]

@@JohnDoe_69idk about most popular in every case, but yeah, stuff I remember because it was popular or particularly cool/fun to me.

[@zyxyx6754]

What, no mention of CoC builds? People made builds so powerful, they had to nerf the skill, crit, power charge generation, etc. multiple times throughout the years. I remember a time when CoC didn't have a cooldown.

[@BradSamuelsPro]

who's league starting menstrual blast in poe2?

[@dslily]

me

[@slendeaway7730]

There's even a whole ascendency for it!

[@Mishimatic]

The theorycrafting says that the build's only good 1 week out of every 4 though

[@devildante9]

Let's start collectively calling the best bloodmage build menstrual blast, so it stays forever on the history of POE2

[@OneOfFail]

@@dslily If you know you know

[@Zombenjamin]

The build that i loved the most was old BV/Vaal Pact Berserker. The 100% leech from old Berserker with old Vaal Pact and the 50 blades out felt so good.

[@satibel]

rory's "this character is very capable of playing high level content, I wanted to demonstrate it in a rare version of a level 61 map" low life ignite proliferation fireball witch (build of the week S01E05) is pretty iconic too. mostly because it is a snapshot in time, it's what was a clever use of game mechanics build at the time, and also showcases what was considered high level play.

[@jimjones9631]

I'd love to see this become a series, just reminiscing over past builds and such

[@c0refreAk.]

no flicker strike on the list? thats crazy. Love to see the old iconic builds tho, nostalgia kicks in.

[@jamesjohnson1094]

Your commercials are too good. Marketing genius right there. They need to hire you to promote every product

[@JayM928]

Wish I could download an offline hacked sandbox version to try all the builds I missed or couldn’t afford or make work over the years.

[@athraxis]

Pre nerf Winter Orb was the GOAT. I miss that build

[@demystake]

Not sure if this was the GOAT but I also wondered if it would make it to the list.

[@GE_Photon_Lord]

​@@demystakeit is the goat. Also ed contagion

[@JayM928]

I loved winter orb. I would absolutely play it today if I could figure out how to make it tanky instead of a glass cannon.

[@ac-im4zj]

Akane mana miner, shield charge coc-discharge, smite aurastacker

[@SpecShadow]

that build got me hooked to mines

[@obscurside3652]

Oh, Gorge map, i forgot about that one. Having played poe since 2012, lots of this bring back really good memories.

[@ce2341]

the fact that flicker strike was an honorable mention hurts my soul. Theres so many cool variations of flicker out there too

[@Xmenjade]

vaal molten shell being in here gave me insane nostalgia, amazing list

[@madhatten5123]

Self Curse Cold BV staring at your characters ankles the entire map occultist is a big one for me, also Rue’s self chil lightning strike Zerker was pretty sick.

[@Linguistchick]

So much nostalgia here. Would love to see this become a series. Definitely think screen-wide cyclone deserves to be in the sequel(s). Cats on crit would be a fun easter egg to show.

[@Noctasia]

Hello :D ! You miss the legendary Sunder build for leveling every melee character with 1 scepter for good atk speed and damage boost ! Nostalgy

[@dslily]

that was almost put in

[@lm7_gio]

Very good video. If i had to poinnt out a missing one, it would be the Mjolner/Voll's Devotion/Kingsguard Discharge. Before the BIG trigger nerf (and simultaneous Mjolner nerf), Mjolner was the most expensive unique item in the game, even above HH if it was a good roll (the cast on hit was %). Immortal and crazy damage, its peak was when ascendancies entered the game and Jugg was the way to go with this build.

[@TheRedRedKroovy]

OG Mjolner and Shatterchuck both deserve to be mentioned, and you have to talk about the original meta build: flameblast ignite.

[@FREDhater19]

Nice video, two builds I’m thinking of that were iconic were cyclone (legion era when its aoe was absurd) and some version of discharge before it was changed.

[@Zekparsh]

Nice to see some of these classics still around. Wish Jousis got an honorable mention. For some reason Ghudda always stuck out from the Beta days for me too for his exploration of how slow can a character go builds.

[@gobikokuo9364]

Pizza sticks was my first build in 3.0 back when i played console. Good times definitely deserves to be on the list.

[@drotch]

There was more to ele buzzsaw for me, snapshotting auras and crown of eyes worked with more spelldamage from pain attunement

[@Gosh0]

I always admired people coming up with these builds. Good job.

[@talmian4269]

Small correction for the aura/herald stacker build: They stacking purposeful harbinger and endbringer, heraldry was only used if you couldn't get enough reservation, empys build as an example had zero heraldry notables.

[@2upk321]

This is a great video. Would love pt2

[@TimEllis]

Bladefall Miner with scaling Temp Chains effect is an all timer for me. Bosses moved at like 1% speed, or sometimes just not at all. Oh! And aura stacking golems back in Heist. It was way too much tankiness and damage on not a whole lot of budget.

[@IlFeanorIl]

Wow, this is by far the best list of iconic builds in poe i have seen! I was playing poe sporadically since early beta, but the vaal molten shell build made me absolutely fall in love with the game back then, thank you for the dose of nostalgia. Also, bakedchicken return when?

[@MaxMustermann-si4kj]

There are actually a ton of builds that deserve a spot like this, would be fun to see some more. I fondly remember Akane Mines, Vaal Ice Nova in Legion, ED Contagion, HH Cyclone in Legion, Immune builds with blood of corruption in delve league. The earthshatter build that dominated the racing scene for like 3 leagues. So yeah another video would be great :)

[@youduntknowmyname]

Builds that come to mind: CoC discharge with cospris (Fakener discharge) Lightning BV with pre-nerf vinktars Foxtactics Arc builds EQ JUGG The immortal builds from delve (molten strike) Those are all I can think about right now

[@tuxedo7315]

Played a HoA Mjölner Guardian build which slapped hard in Delve League. Played the League the most thanks to that nasty build.

[@NovemberX]

The graphic has improved so much esp. the lighting effects.

[@IsAMank]

great video, the vms nostalgia hit different

[@calebadamson5052]

one that stuck out to me was the eternity shroud, triple convert winter orb build. that build was insane haha

[@LaNSa90]

Two builds that should be in this list are blender and spork. Both builds were most likely best build you could play back then.

[@poipoi9816]

i've only been playing poe for like a year, so this list is super cool imo. love to see all the stuff you can do in poe

[@cookiethebear1672]

i would say you should have put herald stacker since that was the first aura stacker before the aura stacker you where talking about if i remember right where it was the one in delirium league

[@TheDSasterX]

Wooooh barely got that honorable mention. My FS build never did quite stack up to the meta one, but it was simultaneously brain-dead and amusing to watch the game play itself as long as I held down the mouse button 😅😅

[@exdunn]

Kripp's burning discharge

[@therocklau]

Kripp made like 60% of the top build back then, many got nerfed, his poison bear and ground slam perma stunner all gone really quick, I remember nugi has a signature build but I just can't remember which skill

[@davormickoski4238]

I remember playing Infernal Blow, the true melee explode build back then. Was having a blast in the docks

[@Smoothcarries]

Ones that aren’t on here that are some of my favorites of all time: Self curse shackles, Poets pen volatile dead, double dipping ED Contagion, and for the solo delvers…..HOWA Molten Strike

[@karmickoala101]

I feel old, even when I'm only 20+ at those time. To be there when CoC, Totem and Aurastacker build at peak were an honor

[@stevenpang0423]

I still remember the tri bv back in the day, you have a fast stacking bv then just tap the main damage bv and your damage bv will take all the stacks it was great fun

[@stevebergman34]

Cool video! Self poison was another good one. I'm sure someone has mentioned it by now. Oh! and cast on death discharge. That one was pretty crazy. Aura stacker in Delirium was my first blaster build, I think. It was neat to see some of the older ones. I'm glad you included them.

[@Ceen328]

Wardloop will forever be my favourite farming build. Quite easy to get +5mil dps, which sounds low, but this damage has a 100% uptime to everything in range. 90% min/maxed damage was really bonkers. As for your list, you had Aura-Stacker, but not Herald-Stacker, which was one of the most crazy builds of all time IMO. Slightly behind Exploding Totem.

[@AustinMerfeld]

Winter Orb definitely needs a shout out. If we are talking about super op builds that only lasted a league the totem explode build would be a good one to mention, and the perma uptime vaal Lightning strike with hateforge.

[@CilantroGamer]

I think in the very early days - and there might even be one of the original build of the week episodes on it - there was a build that used facebreakers, had an empty mainhand, and then a quiver in the offhand. GGG hadn't considered using a quiver without a bow, and I think they ended up patching the ability out specifically because of that build. One of the earliest cases of a build directly causing not just its own nerf, but a change to the mechanics of the game.

[@Frankenstein_]

That Nerf was way later than you think that Quiver in the Offhand without a Bow thing was patched in 2021 8 years or so after release Facebreakers were hella fun in the beginning before builds went off the rails crazy. xD

[@user-ve9qo8on3z]

One of the most memorable builds for me was Pathfinder VD DD with double poet's pens and zerphi's flask during delve league

[@ardeof]

I remember one of the earlier leagues when I began playing consistently (around Breach league), HotshotGG was playing Kitava's Feast flicker strike in Hardcore. I think he hit like 94/95 before dying due to a concoction of reasons. One I think was running out of mana, which he was working on at the time. Still I hadn't really watched too many builds until then, and it was impressive enough to get me to grind poe like I hadn't before. It didn't help that I enjoy breaches a lot, they're convenient and usually not a hindrance to run.

[@hectords164]

really cool video, i didnt start until delirium league so this was a nice history lesson for me :)

[@thierrylacroix2517]

Great vid! the sponsor bit is so funny! Anyway, every league i always Do a searing bond/ bodyswap. Thats my go to build

[@LittleRedRubberDuck]

I really enjoyed this, thanks for putting it together.

[@txflood2519]

This is a great topic for a video. My fav was reave with shaper +%phys added as ele statsticking. Going way back cybils paw RF incinerate was dumb fun too.

[@PathOfMathias]

What about the Goat that is Enkis Arc mage build and guide as well as Liftingnerdbros oldschool Spark totems or UberElites Srs builds? :D (Have done all the builds in the video myself, great times, tho did the Vaal Gem spam as an Vaal Fireball elementalist, felt it was faster strand farming, since the fireballs AoE explosions on the wallside of the strand)

[@abigwreck]

Remember during perandus league when #2 snd 3 were combined in one build with the voltaxic rift? The dmg was outrageous.

[@ErinEllaNathan]

Man pizza sticks brings back memories, the sound effect for flameblast is even more satisfying than shatters IMO.

[@JohniPT]

i remember when i would always league start essence drain the good ol times

[@NuberaGaming]

I will always miss the self curse blade vortex. It was really fun to walk around exploding everything, watching your character become giant with 100k life.

[@spaceburger80]

Wry-thing, jar. WRY-thing. Jar.

[@NickRigas-rd3zv]

As someone who has only played since ToTA, I would totally watch more of these

[@SerHaunted]

My best build ever was a strength stacking KB wander in Affliction. Insta-clearing entire screens on enemies was incredible. Hoping there are some wand attack builds in PoE2.

[@GamerBinu]

After I was discharged from the military and returned to Poe, there was 5 herald. So, I still can't forget 5 herald aurastacker

[@freshmaker0088]

Lily's minion army build was my first and favourite build

[@taylorgravely2004]

Really nice outro on this one!

[@Sammysapphira]

This game is beautiful. Playing it is a form of artwork that no other game contains.

[@doodlele582]

Keen to see a video about builds you can make in standard using legacy gear

[@manuakasam]

So many builds deserved to be here. But you've got a great selection. Flicker and RF come to mind as all time favourites for all sorts of players as well. But in the end, most "popular" builds could be mentioned one way or another. Focusing on the "weirder" builds, like wormblaster, like arakaalis fang and the likes, seems more appropriate to me as well : )

[@justarandname633]

one build that I loved was triple herald elementalist with inpulsa

[@korassssssss]

I've been playing this every league for few leagues now but only as HoT in Crest of Desire autobomber, it's easily the comfiest build I've played and with addition of svaalin and thus 90/90 block it got insanely tanky. Save your wrists, play autobombers!

[@TornikeJS]

@@korassssssss weak

[@soulpoetry1]

Maybe legendary for a different reason that longevity, but my favourite build in all of PoE1 was Low Life Minion Instability BAMA. The base life values of the minions were so high that with ignite and prolif, the instant pop would melt everything on the screen and it was quickly nerfed iirc a day or two (or three) after knowledge of it spread. Even after the nerf I enjoyed the playstyle until they removed dot double dipping which killed the ignite portion of the damage.

[@AGR_13]

love it. what comes to my mind as another old but gold build type was self curse temp chains with HH for knee POV

[@esvban]

wormblaster cast on melee kill version was the coolest build

[@DUBSkyLinEx3]

oh man when I saw the pizza sticks I remembered so much from back in the day, I loved that build

[@Deadl007]

Ah, good times with aurastacker. In necro there was probably syndicate operative spectres who shotguned everything till ggg notice this and "fixed", but it's probably not worth mentioning in video. Maybe Ghazzy could make one dedicated for minions...

[@Straggler8]

Speaking of legendary builds - definitely missing Kripp's Discharge build, that literally put this game on a radar for many arpg fans :D Other than than - awesome nostalgia trip!

[@george_denbrough]

Man, I still remember Breach league and that poison storm berserker build that was basically immortal unless you were one shot. That old berserker leech was so broken

[@y4wnd3r3]

the only big things that I dont think made the cut were stuff like abberaths autobombers, poets pen/spellslinger builds, and various CoC builds whether true linked to cast on crit CoC or stuff like mj and cospri’s malice. other than that banger list

[@LegendKev9719]

I just remember back in the day Cyclone Nagahamus, was the funniest and also the best build or stuff like coc cyclone when it came out during legion maybe it was there before but saw this the most in legion league. Both made my PoE experience to smth special and hostaged me till today cause i still play CoC builds

[@jontancool9181]

Cold dot occultist league starter is a honorable mention, i league started that probably 6 times back when it functioned

[@cashianw5377]

You missed cast on death discharge, infinite trauma stacker with Shroud of the Lightless( it was REALLY clunky especially with a 16 ex budget) and forbidden sun builds.

[@existenceghost9701]

General's Cry Blade Flurry pre nerf was my fav of all time, may not be legendary but it sure was good. That and Carrion golem. Arc was the first build I ever played and then strength stacking Zombies, man to think there was a time that zombies were good lol.

[@nicholasfigueiredo3171]

Crazy to think most of those builds are still viable today. I also didn't know the first build LMAO I will try that NOW that looks like it could work as an autobomber

[@RockSmithGG69]

Old school build many,but I pick some of my favourite maybe zombie build snapshooting,blender build,ice nova ice wall,hagemony era sweep build and lastly maybe guardian tank quad or triple curse setup teamplay

[@panamera0607]

Thats a great video idea☝🏼

[@goblingon7859]

do part 2, this hits hard

[@xRx39]

Damn rainbow nuke mjolner was the build for a while

[@Pterrordactyle]

nothing quite like it

[@Cheezer3089]

Where's self curse HH ?

[@MrDeothor]

i hoped you'd also showcase screen-sized cyclones and recent OP beast being "anything trickster"

[@dslily]

I almost put legion cyclone

[@soundtorial4567]

There was the OG face breaker build in like 2013(?) that one shot everything and was the first build to get nerfed between patches