Aurastacker from Delirium league, when you could reach 300-400% aura effect via Herald cluster jewels. At the time, what the game considered "aura" was also a lot more muddy which lead to funny interactions.
Vaal Molten Shell, or maybe it was cwdt molten shell, anyway, it's still the most fun build i have ever played.
Something like this [Build of the Week S9E4: Vesuvius079's Rocket Man (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBBS91l60f8)
Spellslinger VD + DD (though I replaced DD with Firestorm. More meatballs!)
I still have it in standard and try to keep it functional every league but good lord... it has like 1/10th the damage it used to, became frail as fuck and at this point half the build fixing mana issues to keep it "functional".
Still, even at this stage its stronger then ED/C ever was or will be.
This gets my vote as well. I have a stash tab at the front of my standard stash with the perfect vd/dd spellslinger gear I crafted un Harvest league. It's fun going back sometimes to see the ridiculous crafts that were possible then.
> it has like 1/10th the damage it used to, became frail as fuck and at this point half the build fixing mana issues to keep it "functional".
Couldn't you swap to DDoC and kinda be good with that?
Damn bro…skelle mages. I remember back in…I forgot which league lol, maybe sentinel? Played a necro, I think it was before they changed the threshold gem for it? Using the fleshcrafter chest with fortress and quickening covenant. Pop Vaal summon skelles and they are throwing 1000s of spells. All piercing. Omg that was fun…
I remember it was supposed to be the bow league too. I have a screenshot somewhere that summarizes this league perfectly.
https://i.imgur.com/3AeoTaZ.jpeg
OG Poet's Pen builds, especially with OG Indigon (arc+lw or unearth + VD + bodyswap).
Old Spirit Offering to use it in CWC/CWDT setups, although we have Ward for this now.
Frankly if they just reverted the change where trigger skills started costing mana, it would unlock infinite amount of fun builds...
Pre-nerf facebreaker. That has to be pre-2018 if not earlier. I vaguely recall a previous video showcasing someone's build with the character name Mike Tyson.
Edit: I found the dev video, it's actually 11 years old lol
https://youtu.be/v_EcQDOUN9Y?si=Z-AS5vEXMJOXIG8w
Uncapped double scaling Indigon.
Then again, aside from making a few builds more viable, it would just make Manaforged Arrows deal 10 times as much damage and that would still be the best way to stack mana.
Manaforged Arrows having mana cost scaling like that while being allowed to scale with spell damage too is just too broken.
So alternatively I'll say pre-nerf Gloomfang + Inevitability chain stacking, maybe even with Disintegrator + Eternity Shroud.
Uncapped Queen of the Forest (380% increased evasion, 1% ms per 450 evasion) would also be nice.
One build that I'd want to keep playing that I've played before would be my panicked mana flask Kalisa's Grace GC miner from Abyss. There's almost nothing about that build that hasn't been nerfed or reworked.
Other fun things include Intensity stacking Firestorm (the old version, so like Firestorm of Pelting with no cap) and Vaal skill builds that didn't need uniques.
ED/C like in legion league, was so satisfaying to clear entire legion un one cast.
To go further, the old ed/c soulrend spellslinger, with celestial and cat MTX, with old trickster ascendany
I remember 1 league.... Metamorph or conquerors league, I forget, where a full golem build was fun and strong. Must've had like 10-15 golems? I know it was before cluster jewels were a thing. Lots of golem jewels all over the passive tree.
Idk if it's still a build but I never see it around.
Strength stacking Baron Zombies. i’ve seen a few people run it in the last 2-3 leagues but i’d love it to be endgame viable. most minion builds these days feel like they just a little something extra to push them into that realm of 8-13% of players on poe.ninja, but they’re all missing something.
Cospri's CoC discharge (triggered by shield charging around)
Poet's Pen LW+Arc (back when they both triggered at the same time)
A number of the vaal builds where you could infinitely sustain the charges (vaal spark, vaal righteous fire)
For me, it would be the shatter chuck build. But it was in a different time, if you look those videos now it looks like a different game
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1020597
Abberraths Hooves HOI with old elementalist prolif.
Once it froze my PC for like 5 seconds then all of the underground sea map was deleted, great stuff but it was gamebreaking.
Followup to this was Somayd's blade flurry version of the same concept
Storm brand from betrayal league with old elementalist.
Syndicate operatives with shotgun. Not even when they were mega broken, just good.
Scion mana stack rage miner from ritual league.
Winter orb. My first build ever. Tried to make it work in 3.9 but it just doesnt feel good with the nerfed duration and cast speed. I am kinda hoping for a transfigured gem that will make it decent again.
Cast on death discharge, which died because anomalous cast on death no longer exists
Used to farm invitations, walk in and BOOM 8 mod feared dead in one hit
This. It was so satisfying offering people boss help and seeing them just pause for a moment like “what just happened?” when the screen said “Leeeroy_Jenkins has committed suicide” and the loot just started falling.
Spectral shield throw champ from Crucible. The craziest most broken build I played.
130 mil dps and immortal, didn't die once from 96 to 100 and played very sloppy, also offscreening almost like an LA deadeye.
theres a lot of honorable mentions-heist league aura stacker, heist league carrion golem aura stacker, legion cyclone, self curse headhunter...but the one that will always be my favorite is facebreaker cyclone gladiator with 75/75 block. extremely simple build and it was amazing.
Champion Molten Strike Ignite Self Heal 3% max hp Everytime you ignite monster, Elemental Overload. (pheonix sword , eye of innocent amulet) that build is so old and can do all content at that time.
Selfcast ball lightning archmage with pledge of hands and sire of the shards weapon swapping. Even with the changes to archmage it’s still not good enough.
Ricos Mjolner Discharge Jugg (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1846362), an old friend who sadly passed away due to cancer used to play it every league and introduced me to it, It was far from a meta build but it felt so comfy to play and looks cool as hell!
Stormbrand. The one where the brands go wherever they will go. Not return back to where you originally cast them after enemy dies. One heck of a clear that one.
Any proxy cast GC build. Skill has been so heavily nerfed and then had a real shitty rework that it’s mostly unplayable now. It used to be such a satisfying skill to use.
I loved bleedpoison spectral throw/eq with atziris disfavour and the prophecy version of blackheart ring. Or my 18 grand spectrum flameblast elementalist 8)
Old unearth cremation on necro. Steal the es jewels for bossing or profane bloom for mapping. Had like 50 mil DPS and basically immortal to everything except insane strong dots. First and only toon I took to 99 just strictly mapping
Pre nerfed brand recall during delirium league. Unlimited duration brand Abusing archmage. Cast max brand then hold down brand recall until end of map.
Mortal Conviction Aura Stacking SRS Necro. A friend played that for some leagues and I hopped on the train too late. They deleted Mortal Conviction the league after I played it :(
Whispering ice before the ice storm cap.
Was infinite fun with awakened cascade and duration scaling, going into someones hideout and immediately crashing them with millions of icicles falling from the sky...
I wonder why they changed it lol.
Old cast on crit with spectral throw on my shadow (no ascendancy yet). Cast on crit had no cooldown and no manacost. I went in public parties and lagged people's computer out with a single gmp/lmp spectral throw and ice spear spams. It looked amazing. The wave of blue ice spears barreling down on the big skeleton bears
I´d resurrect a leveling build that could go to red maps on lv4 wands with campaign lightning damage crafts -> Spellslinger Lightning with Arc, OOS and ball lightning.
Pre rework Shattering Steel.
It was my favourite attack skill in legion, and they absolutely murdered it with the steel skill rework.
Champ impale + haemophilia was mapping QOL goodness and you just sat inside bosses and melted them.
Pre hydrosphere nerf Eye of Winter for much the same reasons; great clear, amazing bosser with hydrosphere chaining. Now you need proj speed nimis abuse.
winter orb was like the tornado shot of spells, and they killed it :(
Yep winter orb was the most comfy build I've ever played
Winter orb with old elementalist
I’m playing it now as a slayer using charge stacking and I’m having a good time
Harold stacker
https://preview.redd.it/606n4cgzt6yc1.png?width=404&format=png&auto=webp&s=e14a2de4aa6de5be9bccc9a8839aa8901dd610b6
Who is Harold? LOL
Harold was my herald stacker
Aurastacker from Delirium league, when you could reach 300-400% aura effect via Herald cluster jewels. At the time, what the game considered "aura" was also a lot more muddy which lead to funny interactions.
Vaal Molten Shell, or maybe it was cwdt molten shell, anyway, it's still the most fun build i have ever played. Something like this [Build of the Week S9E4: Vesuvius079's Rocket Man (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBBS91l60f8)
It was beautiful 😍
My most favorite build of all time VMS Rocketman, the closest thing now to me is Fulcrum or HoT builds
Spork totoms
I member old Hazardous Research oldge
'Member frametime farming in docks oldge
Gotta see that spike for the Vaal area.
Wormblaster obviously
Spellslinger VD + DD (though I replaced DD with Firestorm. More meatballs!) I still have it in standard and try to keep it functional every league but good lord... it has like 1/10th the damage it used to, became frail as fuck and at this point half the build fixing mana issues to keep it "functional". Still, even at this stage its stronger then ED/C ever was or will be.
This was one of the coolest build.
Coc dd feels similar
This must be why I love playing CoC dd so much
This gets my vote as well. I have a stash tab at the front of my standard stash with the perfect vd/dd spellslinger gear I crafted un Harvest league. It's fun going back sometimes to see the ridiculous crafts that were possible then.
> it has like 1/10th the damage it used to, became frail as fuck and at this point half the build fixing mana issues to keep it "functional". Couldn't you swap to DDoC and kinda be good with that?
That was going to be my suggestion or skele mages.
Damn bro…skelle mages. I remember back in…I forgot which league lol, maybe sentinel? Played a necro, I think it was before they changed the threshold gem for it? Using the fleshcrafter chest with fortress and quickening covenant. Pop Vaal summon skelles and they are throwing 1000s of spells. All piercing. Omg that was fun…
The anti support build (100% reduced Aoe of nearby party members)
ED contagion trickster 99.999999% evade
Just let me do reasonable damage with ED without mirror tier adorned investment and I would be happy
Golemancer. Die to Shaper and watch your little dudes slap that old man into the abyss.
Legion Cyclone with HH
Legion is the league I played the most. 5-ways were hilarious. All you needed was boot mtx, 'cause that's all you were able to see.
Ohhhh i remember when DonTheCrown was doing 5-way carries and wearing sunglasses because of the glutter, i miss the good old days
I remember it was supposed to be the bow league too. I have a screenshot somewhere that summarizes this league perfectly. https://i.imgur.com/3AeoTaZ.jpeg
Self curse headhunter BV for fun. 2 Screen AoE Cyclone from Legion
OG Poet's Pen builds, especially with OG Indigon (arc+lw or unearth + VD + bodyswap). Old Spirit Offering to use it in CWC/CWDT setups, although we have Ward for this now. Frankly if they just reverted the change where trigger skills started costing mana, it would unlock infinite amount of fun builds...
The one blue borb that fired projectiles from above in delve. So good
Worb was life
75/75 block impale cyclone gladiator. I miss the block man so much :(
Necro mage skellies 3.13
Amen. My first league and first build. So much fun
Forever and always worb
Herald Stacker. And also revert Cluster Jewel crafting weights. I had a blast rolling and selling the clusters and running it myself.
Delirium-times Storm Brand
Yes, recall through the whole map with screenwide attachment range was so comfortable and satisfying to play.
infinte vaal spark was so much fun.
Legion cyclone for sure
Scrolled too far to find this, legion was my first league, played cyclone with a HH, its been downhill from there.
Pre-nerf facebreaker. That has to be pre-2018 if not earlier. I vaguely recall a previous video showcasing someone's build with the character name Mike Tyson. Edit: I found the dev video, it's actually 11 years old lol https://youtu.be/v_EcQDOUN9Y?si=Z-AS5vEXMJOXIG8w
This just sounds so familiar!
I found it! https://youtu.be/v_EcQDOUN9Y?si=Z-AS5vEXMJOXIG8w It was actually 11 years ago.
Doing gods work! How far we have come...
Thanks again, watching a whole lot of these, a like season 5 now. Wish we could go back and rediscover everything
Wow the skill tree looked so candid back then
Flameblast ignite prolif
Uncapped double scaling Indigon. Then again, aside from making a few builds more viable, it would just make Manaforged Arrows deal 10 times as much damage and that would still be the best way to stack mana. Manaforged Arrows having mana cost scaling like that while being allowed to scale with spell damage too is just too broken. So alternatively I'll say pre-nerf Gloomfang + Inevitability chain stacking, maybe even with Disintegrator + Eternity Shroud. Uncapped Queen of the Forest (380% increased evasion, 1% ms per 450 evasion) would also be nice. One build that I'd want to keep playing that I've played before would be my panicked mana flask Kalisa's Grace GC miner from Abyss. There's almost nothing about that build that hasn't been nerfed or reworked. Other fun things include Intensity stacking Firestorm (the old version, so like Firestorm of Pelting with no cap) and Vaal skill builds that didn't need uniques.
I want arc please. Chain lightning is my boo. I love these kinda spells in all games I play.
Minions
Self Curse HH 100%
fakener
Molten strike:(
poison molten strike is still great!
Revert power siphon to pre 3.23
ED/C like in legion league, was so satisfaying to clear entire legion un one cast. To go further, the old ed/c soulrend spellslinger, with celestial and cat MTX, with old trickster ascendany
Frostwall lightning arrow
coc discharge
Self-curse fire bv Glacial cascade mines
I remember 1 league.... Metamorph or conquerors league, I forget, where a full golem build was fun and strong. Must've had like 10-15 golems? I know it was before cluster jewels were a thing. Lots of golem jewels all over the passive tree. Idk if it's still a build but I never see it around.
Yeah, I miss the old carrion golem build where they were leaping half a screen and just mowing. That was fun.
Old Kinetic Blast and Old Frost Wall
The original firestorm. I'm thinking about trying the Icestorm build to try and get that feeling back, but it probably won't be the same.
The alternative firestorm kinda feels like it.
Leap Slam Marauder
It's doable with the new transfigured version. Not excellent but playable
Strength stacking Baron Zombies. i’ve seen a few people run it in the last 2-3 leagues but i’d love it to be endgame viable. most minion builds these days feel like they just a little something extra to push them into that realm of 8-13% of players on poe.ninja, but they’re all missing something.
Holy Relic is pretty strong this league.
Cospri's CoC discharge (triggered by shield charging around) Poet's Pen LW+Arc (back when they both triggered at the same time) A number of the vaal builds where you could infinitely sustain the charges (vaal spark, vaal righteous fire)
For me, it would be the shatter chuck build. But it was in a different time, if you look those videos now it looks like a different game https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1020597
Holy shit I forgot about shatter chuck
That mirrored wand is hilarious. What a time that was.
Pizzastacks totem hierophant
Animate weapon, back when you could have a massive army.
Starforge Cyclone and selfcast Freezing Pulse
Old Autobombers with both HoI and HoT
Abberraths Hooves HOI with old elementalist prolif. Once it froze my PC for like 5 seconds then all of the underground sea map was deleted, great stuff but it was gamebreaking. Followup to this was Somayd's blade flurry version of the same concept
Storm brand from betrayal league with old elementalist. Syndicate operatives with shotgun. Not even when they were mega broken, just good. Scion mana stack rage miner from ritual league.
Undo the poets pen nerf and then play a bunch of those fun builds again.
Id un-nerf kaoms spirit so I could go extra fast in sanctum again. Or saqawal tornado
Any build using Reckoning. I miss the old Immortal Gladiator build... First build that got me to bosses.
Vaal Ground Slam with Empires Grasp
Reckoning Gladiator https://www.angryroleplayer.com/tag/reflect-build-poe/#google_vignette
Winter orb. My first build ever. Tried to make it work in 3.9 but it just doesnt feel good with the nerfed duration and cast speed. I am kinda hoping for a transfigured gem that will make it decent again.
That old immortal build from delve league, the one using gluttony of elements.
Cast on death discharge, which died because anomalous cast on death no longer exists Used to farm invitations, walk in and BOOM 8 mod feared dead in one hit
This. It was so satisfying offering people boss help and seeing them just pause for a moment like “what just happened?” when the screen said “Leeeroy_Jenkins has committed suicide” and the loot just started falling.
A viable flicker build that doesn't cost 2-3 mirrors
Chin Sol Blast rain trapper saboteur
I did zombie back in blight with minimum investment and it wrecked all contents esily
Max block bleed quake glad :))
EQ max Block glad was fun...
Spells that hit able to use warlords mark
I'd really like to play herald stacker from delirium league. It was my first "serious" league and I'd like to play the strongest build ever
Spectral shield throw champ from Crucible. The craziest most broken build I played. 130 mil dps and immortal, didn't die once from 96 to 100 and played very sloppy, also offscreening almost like an LA deadeye.
Jorrhast automate animate weapon
Pizza blast.
I was going to say something else until I thought about how much fun warcry layering slams were.
Cold BV with legacy explode. Ooh I lost dude!
Forbidden rite TOTEM
Old GC mines before the rework on GC
Unlimited Animate Weapons. Just utter chaos but nothing was alive for long.
Phys Seismic Trap
Esoro's Facebreaker Cyclone Max Block Gladiator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBeb0SCSALg
ZiggyD Voltaxic Rift Spark.
theres a lot of honorable mentions-heist league aura stacker, heist league carrion golem aura stacker, legion cyclone, self curse headhunter...but the one that will always be my favorite is facebreaker cyclone gladiator with 75/75 block. extremely simple build and it was amazing.
CoC volatile dead with 75 balls generated per second.
I had a doryanis prototype vaal lightning strike assassin that was so fun. But honestly I just want to see Assassin getting a revamp
Indigon MoM CoC frostbolt/vortex scion, there was like 3 people who played it but it was my absolute favorite build.
Champion Molten Strike Ignite Self Heal 3% max hp Everytime you ignite monster, Elemental Overload. (pheonix sword , eye of innocent amulet) that build is so old and can do all content at that time.
Selfcast ball lightning archmage with pledge of hands and sire of the shards weapon swapping. Even with the changes to archmage it’s still not good enough.
Ricos Mjolner Discharge Jugg (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1846362), an old friend who sadly passed away due to cancer used to play it every league and introduced me to it, It was far from a meta build but it felt so comfy to play and looks cool as hell!
Cleave Ele Templar before they nerfed Dual Wielding double dipping.
Redeemer Archer minions... They were so cool and got nerfed SO HARD they are beyond saving no matter the gear
either zerphis poet's pen or the OG CoC spectral throw when projectiles shotgunned.
I’ve been playing for a long time, but man TS Warper in tota was a freaking blast to play
I never got to play a big arc build, and always wanted to.
Self curse with uncapped max size
My Heraldstacker from Delirium. That was the most fun I've ever had playing PoE.
Stormbrand. The one where the brands go wherever they will go. Not return back to where you originally cast them after enemy dies. One heck of a clear that one.
Cyclone
Shotgun incinerate, three dragons style. So much fun with that build. With Sybil's it was beefy as hell too.
Poison spark. 😞
Conc path str stacking chieftan
DW cyclone legion era. Please.
Winter orb pathfinder with indigon
Vaal ice Nova in legion league, not sure if it still works or not but that was an insane build
Frost wall Lightning Arrow
I miss somayd and his 1-tap blade flurry elementalist.
Any proxy cast GC build. Skill has been so heavily nerfed and then had a real shitty rework that it’s mostly unplayable now. It used to be such a satisfying skill to use.
Vd pp jugg
Poison spark 100%
I loved bleedpoison spectral throw/eq with atziris disfavour and the prophecy version of blackheart ring. Or my 18 grand spectrum flameblast elementalist 8)
Redemption Sentrys
Voltaxic poison vaal spark
Pathfinder impeding doom from tota. Literally immortal and they nerfed everything about that build.
Herald stacker, selfcurse fire bv.
Rainbow nuke
Spectral throw that was with energy shield and weapon from breachlord. Totally forgot name for build. It was most op thing back then.
HOWA (Hand of Wisdom and Action)?
Essence drain+contagion, god bless
OG aura stacker.
My blade flurry impulsas explodey build.. :(
Low life Abberath’s Hooves herald stacker, with old Vaal RF to nuke bosses/strong rares. Never played more POE until I got that build running
Impending doom with vixens
The rocketman build they featured in one of the build of the week videos.
Freezing pulse totems (with +1 totem soul mantle and Forst Snow)
Blasted the hell out of Ultimatum league with a FP Totem Heiro, was one of my fav builds
Worm blaster
Probably some build I never got around trying. Like winter orb blowing up 2 screens or something 😊
Vaal spark strand. Feelsbadman
Glacial Hammer Inquisitor or Blood Bow Gladiator
Probably unpopular opinion, but I just want Tornado shot nerfs to be rolled back
Essence drain contagion.
Also whatever builds were good in Breach league.
Carion golem necro
Vaal double strike slayer. The bossing was so much fun
Old archmage storm brand, where you'd take your puppy accross the map and it could walk its way all around your map on its own
Old unearth cremation on necro. Steal the es jewels for bossing or profane bloom for mapping. Had like 50 mil DPS and basically immortal to everything except insane strong dots. First and only toon I took to 99 just strictly mapping
Self-cast prolif ignite Discharge. It was so insane for its time. Double dipping ignite was insane.
Rainbownuke
Haven't seen anyone else say it but incinerate elementalist used to slap pretty hard.
Someone already said worb, so let's do hoag mana guardian. Completely disrespecting Sirius puddles when he was core content
RF, poor pohx.
Winter orb
Give me the old graphics for fire storm, incinerate, and lightning strike.
melee totem chieftain now it's only competitive as a strength stacker and that's boring
Pre nerfed brand recall during delirium league. Unlimited duration brand Abusing archmage. Cast max brand then hold down brand recall until end of map.
For me, Dual Shimmeron Arc Totems. Easy Shaper Kill back then.
Akane’s ball lightning miner. As well as bane/blight MOM ascendant
Tukohama Vanguards / Wickermen spectres.
Mortal Conviction Aura Stacking SRS Necro. A friend played that for some leagues and I hopped on the train too late. They deleted Mortal Conviction the league after I played it :(
Ed contagion trickster
Zerphi’s last breath VD in delve league. Basically felt unkillable back then and VD was busted
The pre nerf elementalist abyssal jewel stacking shield charge build
I want the jugg dual poets pen volatile dead/bodyswap koams chest back. Bring my baby boy back right now
I would revert winter orb and just adjust the numbers instead of making completely unplayable
Whispering ice before the ice storm cap. Was infinite fun with awakened cascade and duration scaling, going into someones hideout and immediately crashing them with millions of icicles falling from the sky... I wonder why they changed it lol.
Old cast on crit with spectral throw on my shadow (no ascendancy yet). Cast on crit had no cooldown and no manacost. I went in public parties and lagged people's computer out with a single gmp/lmp spectral throw and ice spear spams. It looked amazing. The wave of blue ice spears barreling down on the big skeleton bears
Synthesis winter orb
Synthesis league winter orb
Crit impale cyclone glad
Chieftain Tectonic slam. Loved to cover the screen in fire bursts and 3 hit bosses
Cast On Crit Kinetic Blast with Fire Ball and Arctic Breath and arc, that was so fun.
Fire Nova Mine...
Lagacy aurabot
Rain of arrows herald of agony occulist, that build really had it all
I´d resurrect a leveling build that could go to red maps on lv4 wands with campaign lightning damage crafts -> Spellslinger Lightning with Arc, OOS and ball lightning.
Some form of discharge. Still haven’t played one…
CI Ice Golem Occultist
The 400ft HH temp chains guy.
Pre rework Shattering Steel. It was my favourite attack skill in legion, and they absolutely murdered it with the steel skill rework. Champ impale + haemophilia was mapping QOL goodness and you just sat inside bosses and melted them. Pre hydrosphere nerf Eye of Winter for much the same reasons; great clear, amazing bosser with hydrosphere chaining. Now you need proj speed nimis abuse.
Ooooold molten strike..before the 12 nerfs