The New Best Ascendancy in Path of Exile + Leaguestart Plans | 3.21 Crucible

Pathfinder will make some waves in 3.21 Crucible, that's for sure. My full build guide will be out on Monday!
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0:00 Intro
1:30 Master Surgeon
3:00 Life Flask Recovery Explained
4:36 Lets Talk Numbers (Low Budget)
6:59 Petrified Blood
9:25 Recovery is King
10:44 Hardened Scars
11:52 Other Nodes
12:50 TL;DW
13:23 Leaguestart Plans
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[@Palsteron]

YES THE 50% LESS LIFE RECOVERY IS FACTORED IN. WHITE TEXT ON POB MEANS IT WORKS, RED MEANS IT DOESN'T. Forgot to mention: Bloodgrip is pretty insane as well

[@perkocetts]

Not sure if it's in your plans but the new attack mastery that grants adrenaline adds even more advantage over Champion. Basically, dropping corrupting fever in exchange for a 10% reservation Blood and Sand on left click. Really high uptime for adrenaline just based on natural CDR of Blood and Sand.

[@DeasterGamer]

@@perkocetts iirc, blood and sand change stance when you click to move, but it wont keep changing stances if u hold the button

[@zikjegaming6652]

Small question though: will the leveling guide include the Adrenaline trick? Is it worth it?

[@silenf519]

was all that math after the "50% less Life Recovery from Flasks"?? cuz all that gets cut in half if not

[@phasmatics]

@@silenf519 50% less is included, so the numbers are valid

[@AllBor]

Soy Jugg vs Gigachad Flaskfinder

[@38180hanok]

Insane work dude Specially with all the planing and stuff at the end, awesome thanks a lot !

[@sheeshkabob4981]

Thank you for the update! Super excited to see pob and league start this with you!

[@jeremyjakob9721]

Yah, pretty surprised more people aren't talking about how absurd that node is. Also really insane with petrified blood like you pointed out.

[@gkaskavelis]

Beautiful video and breakdown! Thank you pals! 😊

[@princedatskiy5901]

Thank you for fun, its so nice, when starting league with cool build and guides!

[@stonedprox1645]

If you use bloodgrip amulet, you can double the life recovery rate from your flasks too. Basically 8k regen for 1 amulet slot

[@borasumer]

Great information mate, I will be starting the league with this build as well, so hyped, and waiting for the guide as well. Cheers.

[@madao92]

Looks awesome, can't wait for your guide.

[@bulwix3181]

idk how I never heard of you.. this league you just opped up on my rec and I consumed every video so far you made for 3.21 cuz it is just great work... keep it up dude!

[@henrikalexandersson860]

Was actually thinking about going TR before i even saw your video and now im just hooked. Looking forward to your guides etc! Great work Pal ❤

[@LittleRedRubberDuck]

PF looking really good, looking forward to your guide! 🙂

[@xJokerRenegadex]

looking forward to the build guide and twitch practice. see you on stream thanks for all the great build guides.

[@Pharmacopium]

I love to see the plans you have at the end of the video!

[@nedlavelle]

I like the weekly schedule heads up. Looking forward to the build

[@juseis]

Thanks for the video papaPalsteron

[@gunsm0k3d69]

Was going to run your TR champ build but after seeing the notes was hoping you would go this route! Excited to league start this a long with you!!

[@spoon4515]

Cool beans! Ty for vid bossman

[@Daccura]

This is like perfect, I wanted to try out ranger and especially path finder after for so long, thought about going poison conc. but wasnt so sure what after and so on - pathfinder toxic rain it is then. Looking forward for your content thanks!

[@handsomejohnjohn]

I am looking forward to seeing your full guide and pob. Thank you Palsteron

[@grumblefish5932]

Looking forward to this one.

[@randjietsingh]

Nice planning! Cant wait for monday

[@sofiekazumi7490]

Palsteron: "Since I still don't have a slogan, see you next time!" . Me: I was like, yeah that's a good slogan already! : )

[@rhye_guy7717]

For those who've never played TR, life regen and dot's was it's biggest weaknesses so these changes are uber strong.

[@jakemartin5553]

TR pathfinder was already immortal last league.. Master surgeon gave 6% recovery on flask use.. pair with auto flasks with "gain charges when hit" and a bunch of charge recovery etc, the class essentially had a built in Mageblood with some of the highest recovery in the game... now, old master surgeon was simply moved to a flask mastery, and they're giving us another 2-4k life per second for the cost of running a life flask.

[@vinchinzo594]

@@jakemartin5553 Which is irrelevant if it was "already immortal" which it definitively was not.

[@Hooga89]

@@vinchinzo594 Talk about being pedantic, the guy is telling you that Pathfinder was already really good, and now it's going to be completely busted OP.

[@jakemartin5553]

@@vinchinzo594 if you played Master surgeon PF with correctly rolled flasks and had issues with survivability last league, that's a you problem.

[@inkumario]

hes right, u had too many charges passivly + from kills that u could spam in maps while killing mobs 10+ times per second to get that 6% hp regen instantly ur hp always full u spam as fast u can life flask in fights and sitll didnt get empty flask while killing ofc wich is exactly when u need it most in fights with density so immortal as in always full hp cause of it, but not immortal u was still squishy geting 1 shot by lots of things and if no density or on bosses u wont have max hp all the time no more :))

[@LocalTennisPro]

Yup, we doin this

[@heqitao]

Now I am rethinking my league start. Haven't played TR in a number of leagues and it can certainly be fun, but brother, the recovery and potential power that a PF can have with bow builds now, woah, hard to turn away from. Thx for all the work (my catch phrase). See you in the next one. Catch phrase for you? "I play with a big D!#%, watch my videos and so can you". j/k.

[@gosudango]

Another banger video

[@gmoddude12]

i cant wait for a proper before league pob of this build XD i normally run one button builds so these bow totem combos people seem to love normally did not seem that fun to me but i seriously wanna start off with new pathfinder and think i need a proper build to do so

[@bernardopimentel808]

this will be my league starter, you are amazing good job.

[@c0nnstance]

Hello. Thank you!

[@rpgambit]

I usually play a mana miner and love the flask effect playstyle. Absolutely stoked for this change. Now i just need to figure out what offensive path i want to take

[@AndersonBLUE1]

Was gonna go RF jugg but will go with this I think thanks for all the poe content been watching your stuff for a while now

[@mattiasandersson8693]

Will still go rf jugg at league start just because I love that skill and class so much. Got my first Uber boss kill ever with it. Will definitely play pathfinder with this setup though

[@EAZUP]

Oh man my poison Con build is going to be crazy this league start

[@Synchiechan]

Hey Palsteron, this looks amazing and will definitely be my league starter, so thank you very much for the awesome idea and I'm looking forward to all your content you're about to put out! Fortuitous timing as well because Havoc just put out a pathfinder toxic rain leveling vid with a time of 3:34. Looks like toxic rain leveling itself is very viable, which is good because of the pconc butchering. I'd like to make a suggestion for the end-game option, if we're struggling to find more damage to approach dot cap ubers. I'm looking into and suggest a pivot into poison scourge arrow ballistas with darkscorn/wilma/the covenant. Seems to be the most giga setup for this archetype. Also has insane map clear. Defenses lost from lightning coil I believe can be shored up with progenesis.

[@Palsteron]

Havoc is a god yeah, will take notes. As for poison ballistas, look into my updated Caustic Arrow Ballista once it's out!

[@jonathanlebakken]

Great video! I was contemplating running the Champ version, do you think the tree will change much?

[@Sherudons]

I'll likely do one as my second character (maybe) since getting super health flasks... and a dreaming MB, would be amusing for a bit.

[@Cardb33]

I can't lie at first I was upset that Pathfinder got changed, I was really hoping the Impending Doom Poison Pathfinder that I played last league was going to be untouched. With that being said after watching this video I'm ecstatic to try this out!

[@TheTobiasandersen95]

I'd love to try and start this build, I hope we'll get a shared PoB b4 league start, now that they got it updated with new masteries :)

[@wojciechjabonski8675]

nice breakdown, how much does the new PF suit bow builds? Is not going Deadeye too big loss?

[@MrMokey24]

Was thinking about going tornado shot this league, but seems like this is going to be way better without any expensive gear

[@Lorec03]

Great vide,Palsteron! why is your pob updated already? you edited it yourself?

[@Palsteron]

there's a ghetto version around rn, it kinda bricks your pob sometimes though lol

[@user-rb7np4oo7p]

Would probably work with Corrupted Soul and a normal Sorrow of the Divine to effectively double that regen. Would be kinda nuts.

[@jettymoon]

Ty Palsteron, watched the livestream reveal and the stream building this build & am PUMPED! I'll be watching the streams. I've always wanted to use petrified blood, and now's the time! After we get progenesis flask do we drop petrified blood, or use both?

[@gunsm0k3d69]

both would seem nice and tanky :)

[@Palsteron]

both!

[@jettymoon]

​@@gunsm0k3d69 ty!

[@jettymoon]

@@Palsteron ty!

[@darrellsongy309]

Coolness

[@claudiahelmer4706]

Awesome, now you are a god before you even start the game :D

[@play.through]

Ashes + alt qual Petrified Blood is literally insane.

[@van_doogle6642]

I am pretty new to poe and I started with your poisonous concoction build and loving it but will it will be good next league ?

[@monoweed]

nice

[@almightymoe4310]

what about the attack mastery for adrenaline on your way to balista nods bot-mid tree - Dance of Blades onslaught . wouldnt that be bonkers for the build ?

[@skabbmensnabb9086]

Man I was hooked on starting rf for once, but this might be what I'm going with instead. I LOVE regen, and like u said, max hit doesn't matter if u won't go back up to 100% hp before getting hit again. Looking forward to the PoB!

[@chemicals8582]

Actually looks like you can start an RF pathfinder, with that level of regen. Hell you could probably sustain RF with one lab done

[@RAIKOVITCH]

the -25% reduced dmg from damage over time and the insane regen makes pathfiner a perfect RF char tbh, you can definitely still go rf with this

[@jesusflores7323]

@@chemicals8582 jugg could sustain rf in act 2 next league once you get arsonist if you have 1 or 2 pieces with regen.

[@darkscarlet4600]

Looks like jugg will sustain at level 16 with the new mastery changes. Just gotta get through act 1 without wands.

[@shanehodges6980]

@@darkscarlet4600 mobs still drop wands :D

[@Sayurovoid]

Hey Pal👋, I really want to play your Static Strike Slayer this season, did something from the patchnotes hurt the build? I saw some STR Stacking buffs and thought it might be even better this league. Thx for your content 👀🤝

[@Palsteron]

didn't see anything so far!

[@ignacionicolasmurua7393]

Good vid sir, that node alone is just enought to make a new build theories. Also idk if Hardened Scars will work on petri blood, its weird how the degen of it works with another mechanics. Also, have you see instant leech? Its just absurd how it works.

[@arekwork]

I wanted to start toxic ran and if Steel skills are really good transition to different build. Do you think Champion i still ok ? amazing video !

[@christophercalhoun6481]

Saw your stream just fyi from the wiki under wilma's: Mirage Archer Support 's Mirage Archers can still deal damage with this keystone while benefitting from the attack speed modifiers.

[@user-lc9sf7mm5v]

Hey pal, what you think about poison impending doom pf as leaguestarter?

[@L4szcZ]

Avesome!

[@1Caja]

Thought about Admiral, Eye of Malice, Elemental Equilibrium Iceshot for the 25% invert lottery but this Tech really makes me want to go some poison meme build.

[@guydevilish5748]

Firetrap Ele or frostblades trickster for me this time. Went pathfinder last league and it was invincible lol Ascendant had the "sameish" tech and felt super good as well

[@zikjegaming6652]

Good sh** dude.

[@bleachberad2744]

Since its pathfinder it would be possible to transition into vaal ice or lightning arrow ? Cause they look great. And are you loocking into the Adrenalin stance swapping thing, cause its accessible for pathfinder. Ty for yout work

[@dailybs555]

Poggies, let's see now.

[@lukebeauregard6580]

Was wondering if you had seen the new perma adrenaline mechanic with the new attack mastery. Fitting in an anomalous blood and sand and the new Dance of Blade on passive tree would give permanent Adrenaline and Onslaught. Its a bit out of the way I think, but an early game budget anoint(purple red red)?

[@GalaxyJonez]

also synergizes well with stuff like the pantheon which gives increased life recovered from flasks on low life. Will make you regen above the petrified blood quickly :)

[@jimbe4mxl410]

When you posted the champion tr build, i reaaly wanted a Pathfinder guide for it :) I even copied your build and switched it to PF in PoB and planned to leaguestart it. And here we are, great. Now if only we could automate life flasks with instilling orbs, or some other way, this would be perfect.

[@thomasvarli5914]

Seen all your latest videos, somehow im stil wondering about pantheons (might have missed it)? atm using soul of shakari to not get poisoned to much

[@FreshDougie236]

Nice write up. Debating Champ vs Raider vs Path TR atm

[@carlo8140]

Do you think an ice shot pathfinder will work for leaguestart? ranger is close to the new extra proj nodes, and with the tankiness of pathfinder i feel it could be really good.

[@Jason11111113]

I didn’t see it mentioned but you also have the flask mastery that has recover 4% life when use a flask

[@mattiasandersson8693]

Thats not even gonna be noticeable my guy. You’ll be recovering 100% of your life every second. No point spending any more on life recovery

[@noxustds]

​@@mattiasandersson8693 for 1 point it is. You'll still need it to be able to tank things like simulacrum. That node recovers far more than 3k hp per second if you're standing surrounded by mobs.

[@mattiasandersson8693]

@@noxustds I see your point. I don’t run simulacrum so I didn’t consider that.

[@g.waits4gainz205]

ohh shit yes the petrified blood stuff sounds so cool too hahahaha lets goooooooooooooo. I KNOW IT MIGHT NOT BE META, but not having to go low life nad enjoying all of that will be sooooooo cooooooooooooool

[@satibel]

You can also get 9-10% flask duration jewels for decently cheap

[@Ryan_but_the_name_was_taken]

Messing with POB looks like I can get a nice 10k regen with belly and blood grip. Oh boy this is going to be sick lol. The zealots oath flask does in fact give you 20k regen.

[@SnarkyLesbian]

I remember saying about Patch Notes that Pathfinder was crazy, now I see this video to find out that the areas I didn't think were insane are actually also insane. Is there anything about current Pathfinder not insane? Lightning Strike, return to me beautiful!

[@ThaGamingMisfit]

Hey guys, Boston here. Love KZbin subs !

[@SamzerSamz]

i might try death oath pathfinder this league :P

[@fourtabsgod64]

Lol you can do some crazy blood magic stuff on PF aswell now with eye of innocence for Deli farming

[@mayyhem3267]

Cool stuff. Curious to see the build guide as theres no doubt the defences will be cracked but want to see how the damage is looking. Losing 20 dot multi is significant for TR

[@TheRealPapaZero]

I knew RF pathfinder as a league starter was viable! ;D

[@Kai-jb6pl]

Toxic rain even more OP

[@LittleRikey]

@Palsteron, just wondering if you're certain you can use life flasks every 8 seconds or so and get the benefits of master surgeon even if you're already at full life. It says "flask effects are not removed when unreserved life is filled" and I can potentially see this wording explained later to mean it only works when you have flask effects. But if you're already at full life they could say you don't get flask effects because you're already at full life. I suppose it could be tested with an enduring mana flask. Also, was the change that allows withering step to now be supported by spell totem somehow important? It seemed pretty random, but does that mean your totem will be phasing and have elusive? If that's why they added it, it might be better than the traditional setup because the totems won't die nearly as much.

[@karlloger3302]

I don't know if it was mentioned but Hybrid Flasks count both as Mana and Life flasks and it is 5 seconds base duration. I remember making a PoB build thinking Hybrid Flask with Enduring mod is a secret build no one had discovered or haven't shared publicly. Well, it didn't work. It will now!!!

[@Ceen328]

It kinda worked some time ago for 'Hardened Scars' annoint.

[@DRUBIN1986]

maybe that will Double dip if you have eldritch battery as well?

[@speedygunyke1]

As far as some basic testing goed Hybrid flasks seem to count as life flasks since life flask gain charge on pasive tree affect it and also pconc works with it could this be used to also fixed all mana issues you could ever have also it up to 5 sec duration afaik

[@botao4456]

Bloodgrip gonna skyrocket

[@KohleJ]

What other builds are nice on pathfinder? Not a fan of TR unfortunately, but I like the QoL of PF

[@SyntheticaYT]

@@pr4zaVIDZ pconc is dead

[@criticalmass8328]

50% flask effect from the ascendancy is insane, if we somehow also get infinite flasks

[@JesusOfEvil]

Do you think adding Ryslatha as the minor god would be the go to then for +60% recovery when on low life to boost it again when corrupted blood kicks in?

[@Rakutsi]

once i was playing pathfinder RF , that was the first thing i was thinking about when i saw the new master surgeon. But dont know how i will specc that.

[@MrrrrMime]

Will you add a guide to maxroll for it?

[@SyntheticaYT]

Maybe I missed it but are you accounting for the 50% reduced Flask regen on that node?

[@achgehzu2125]

Watchers Eye :-) 5:05

[@Palsteron]

yes

[@Metalgearpro2007]

Hey Palsteron thanks for the information and the hype! I'm not sure about the numbers though. Don't know how you end up at 502 life/s for divine. Divine with 20% quality is 2880 over 3.5s. With max roll saturated it is 4896 over 5.2s. So this would be 941 life/s. Taking the 50% less recovery from master surgeon into account, I end up at 470 life/s. Pls someone let me know if I made a mistake in my calculations. By the way, how is your POB the same version as mine but already updated? Keep up the great work!

[@renediffie]

I haven't done any of the math. But you can get more than 20% quality on a flask from Betrayal.

[@DuffyHimself]

@@renediffie you can get 30% from loot conversion drops now

[@lainothefirst]

Im not much of a theory crafter. Im more of a "grab a guide I like and play the game" sorta guy, but I have a question. Would the new mastery that makes your "low life" be a higher percentage work with Petrified Blood and is it potentially worth it? It seems interesting at least

[@Casevil669]

Yes it could work with PB but the question is do you actually need or want it. It basically comes down to two things: 1. Whether or not your PB reservation fits into the increased low life threshold and if so then could be a consideration 2. Do you actually gain something from being low life specifically (as he mentioned in examples, using Pain Attunement etc)

[@WardenDios]

How do you get the PoB for all the new changes already?

[@RenkoQC]

Do you plan to do a build with toxic rain balista and pathfinder?

[@KingNS7474]

You can press the Flask more than 1 time, if i understand it right. You can spam life flasks then it stacks up the effect, without Queue time it says?

[@user-xo1gd9xw3o]

Hello Palsteron can you make video explanation of EA Ballista Champion in Crucible. How create this build with league changes?

[@Jauertussen1]

how about linking your current POB, well knowing its not perfected before tuesday?

[@christophercalhoun6481]

Hi Palestron, Have you seen the "[PoE 3.21] Most Overpowered Tech in Crucible - Permanent Adrenaline and Onslaught???" video? If so, is that something that would be worth adding to this build?

[@tuananhngo6636]

feel like PF MoM with mana enduring flask XD but life flask version

[@g.waits4gainz205]

6:36 there is only 1 situation where this new ascendency node will either make pathfinder a 3 good nodes build or be its 4 insane node and that is for poison concotion................ to my understanding, the life recover from your explicit roll on the flask is all that amtters........... when getting bonusd damage, and any scaling to that from things like the current life masterys on the tree, both positive and negetive, whatever, will NOT AFFECT THE DAMAGE UR GET FOR POISON CONC......... IF THAT REMAINS TRUE AND THE 50% LESS DOWNSIDE DOES NOT AFFECT POISON CONCS DAMAGE, BUT MAKES IT SO THAT USING YOUR LIFE FLASK WHEN YOU NEED TO , which is already perfectly rolled for extreemly high healing over longer durations, IS TRUE THEN IM GOING TO HAVE SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH A FUN ELAGUE START HAHAHAH. who cares about nerfs or if it goes slower, if it EXISTS then im HAPPY so lets goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! i must say that im suuuuuuuuuuuuper crossing my fingers and hopefully, and maybe ill get some SICK early leveling uniques, but overall this is HILAARIOUS, and will lead to some SERIOUS endgame pathfinder build options to consider EVEN IF half of that tree feels like its mageblood friendly idk hahahahaah cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers. i genuinly will be kinda blind and have no idea whasts gonna be good next leageu but the new weapon skill tree farming and awsome mapping for abyss nad breach which i love as just monster juicing will be SO DAMN HAPPY, and ATLAS TREE GATEWAYS make me so thrilled to finally have more theory crafting~~~~~~ evne though i made some INSANE builds this league with metas like venom gyre and poison SRS, i dont even care if im SCRAPPING BY powerwise in t16s by end of month 1 cause my irl will be busy, but i can still farm some super fun ways to make money AAND ALSO JUST GET TO ENGAGE WITH THE LEAGUE UNLIKE SANTUM SO LETS GO AND PRAY FOR NOT TOO MANY DEATHS AND NOT TOO MANY NERFS AND NO TOO MANY BUGS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH LOVE ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[@Evistinable]

Does wilma double dip still works? The bug fix section in patch notes said it was fixed no?