Reviewing All My Builds For Trial of the Ancestors (Best ever league & had my best ever build)

[@killerkoalazz]

Right there with you, Tattoos made so many things achievable that would otherwise require expensive rolls on expensive items. Inadvertently lowering the price on some of the items thats held value due to those rolls/mods.

[@jonfox4022]

20$ USD and the chinese will hook you up with whatever you need brother.

[@cadaadas285]

And most of these would still exist if ggg didnt just blank nerf all skill damage by 40~60% in 3.14. Funny isnt?

[@jthiel0711]

Tattoos carried the league so hard. Probably the best thing GGG has added since cluster jewels. Game defining. Hope they come back at some point.

[@kerfuritogonzales]

I hope they don't nerf them too hard copium

[@chicomanara]

I would imagine that they would return without some outliers, +1 proj for exemple.

[@LapahnYT]

I only used 2 or 3 the whole league, doing TOTA itself was just too boring to me.

[@Lumaflare]

Tattoos kept me from rerolling and playing the game for longer. They should have been limited to a maximum of 5. Tattooing your whole tree was a fucking horrible min-max chore that made builds less unique, not more.

[@mooman9087]

As long as you're having fun, that's what it's all about man. Squeeze in as much efficiency as you can but don't sacrifice all of your enjoyment, PoE has a lot to offer and I love to see Mathil (and many others) doing their thing and having a good time with one of my favourite games.

[@connormagee2360]

Note on EK Trickster: Affliction has EK of Lingering Blades (revealed in Transfigured Gems Part 4), so you should still be able to play that build depending on how hard it is to get that transfigure.

[@MrAw3sum]

I think they made a transfigured EK with lingering blades in the latest blog post(pt4) . Idk how the stats were changed for it though, I hate the stats on some of these transfigured gems.

[@Masao_ours]

yeap and it's just a lot better than before : 12 proj => 4 blades, but now 10 proj => 10 blades

[@anaalvensleben789]

'Doesn't matter, you're a champ and you can take some pretty big -' * dies on screen * Never mind about that! lol

[@MrVvulf]

33:12 That timing was

[@TonyJ93]

excellent video, looking forward to the league league

[@Kazyek]

The CoC Blazing Salvo build sounds like it would work well with the new transfigured Blade Flurry as a trigger :O

[@chicomanara]

I did use int stack in my Blade trap trickster. Ended up messing some rolls to have 1k int (could have gone to 1,2k had I not lost the int roll on the hat). The build was tank as shit. I felt like nothing could really kill me outside of long duration degens. Deffinettly will try int stack again, just not on a trapper (nothing wrong with blade trap, just don't want the repeat).

[@rellify3]

I think it was my favorite league too. Certified banger

[@GrimChu69]

It was quite a potent league indeed.

[@sefmode]

What do you think of swapping kinetic bolt of fragmentation instead of power siphon now that it cant barrage?

[@yogiho3485]

Love those new ai thumblines very good

[@lolersthe4th880]

Yea, the Ancestor mechanic needs some work just in terms of constantly needing to climb. I think if it comes back it needs a bit of a delve style ability to stay around more manageable rounds, instead of HAVING to keep climbing and hitting a wall. Other than that, tattoos were great. Build enabling honestly. Made lots of things viable, enhanced some things bare minimum and made things that you couldn't do before possible. Tattoos need to come back for sure.

[@weaknessipray4706]

Just a quick question, what do you think about new Transfigured Wild Strike of Extremes?? Is it worth to try build it around Int. Stacking and somehow manage the build so it can use it?? Every cast of a skill uses HP/ES/MP as a source, for every hit to treat enemy res. As inverted. Just curious about your take on it. Do you think Its it worth it?? Or just stick to a normal gem ?? Also, It is my favorite build of all time, thanks alot for putting it together.

[@dirtydard4870]

It's definitely worth it if you're willing to figure out the costs. Extreme damage for real. I'm sure someone will come up with a good plan to support it in the next couple days if you look around

[@Mooo105]

@@dirtydard4870 Not to be too pedantic, but figuring out if the costs are manageable will determine if it's worth it. If you have to invest too much into sustaining life mana and ES, then that's less you can scale the dps. Res inversion is of course a very powerful bonus though. It's going to be a balancing act as always

[@dirtydard4870]

@Mooo105 You're stating the obvious. It will be worth it with the right set up. Simple as that.

[@larsj.jensen5993]

Thanks for these inspiring builds :) Newbie here... Would this still work with just the normal Spectral Throw - now Divergent is gone? Or would it mean damage is halved due to half as many procs?

[@ElSighxD]

13:57 true. asides from spark (which is completely dead now) melee builds have always been the most fun ive had playing poe.

[@KingJerbear]

How is spark dead now..?

[@ElSighxD]

@@KingJerbear its lost a lot of proj in the past couple leagues. the balls are super slow now so you gotta invest a lot. luckily in tota you could abuse the tats but without the tats it feels pretty bad, to me at least.

[@Adam-qz9ec]

can the chieftan divine ire build do well now even after righteous fire got nerfed?

[@elliotgraham7518]

Hi @mathilification The energy blade CoC build looks great. I've seen others run cyclone but using spectral throw looks a lot more fun and safe to play. Wanted to ask why you use returning projectiles in your 6 link. Seems redundant when spectral throw already returns to you?

[@MrTreefrog98]

He uses return proj because of its interaction with blazing salvo. from the wiki: "the projectiles you cast will land at the targeted location. Upon impact, they will deal area fire damage, after which the projectiles will then travel back to the location from where they were cast, exploding again".

[@simonslavov5482]

Is the ice spear deadeye good build for ultimatum or it lacks defense ?

[@fakeigniz13]

There's got to be a better way to do charged dash, sure eb trickster could do it

[@sha_256]

great video

[@gubzs]

The league mechanic was a complete mess. I absolutely hated it. But tattoos were amazing and the game itself is in a good state. Super excited for the upcoming league, I haven't really engaged with the league mechanic since Sanctum and that was a _year_ ago.

[@Bovineicide]

What is with all the AI art lol

[@mjdeluxe]

gigachad

[@Ziptyification]

PepeLa

[@drazendadic6666]

Yay

[@SuperRayW]

False: Perandus was the best league because it didn't add more power creep, it added a mechanic that allowed more casual players a path to items that would otherwise be outside their reach.

[@Ashtarte3D]

Personally I find it weird calling it the best league when you barely engaged with the mechanic. To me the best leagues are the ones I couldn't get enough of the league mechanic like Heist, Sanctum and Expedition. I did everything I could to forego mapping to do more of those mechanics.

[@DesertWooder]

eh, its just what the designated time chunks are named in PoE. Leagues, seasons, wipes, etc. Best league != best "league mechanic"

[@NessNT]

It was the best league, outside of the mechanic. How dense are you?

[@saitamaxc1084]

Always the anime avatar guys@@NessNT

[@iSlowhands]

THE BEST league mechanic we ever had? What? Are you serious?

[@fatstacksmax]

Why watch the video if you don't even bother listening?

[@Mooo105]

@@fatstacksmax People inserting words into his sentences just to get angry

[@Intestine_Ballin-ism]

Mathil they had just dropped the transfigured EK that gives you lingering blades back

[@Reshapable]

Hmmm that DI chief with the upcoming affliction ascendancy curse that lets you spawn enemies...