Best builds for console play (3.12 Heist League Update)

My favorite lowish-lag builds are Occultist Cold Vortex, ES ED Contagion Trickster and Assassin Poison BV

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Sagruf wrote:

Hierophant Freezing Pulse Totems

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2685450

I tried this build in 3.9, Im now lvl 95 doing all content nicely. Not a lot of not a lot of buttons needed as well.

You can looks at my profile too for gear idea's char is call FurgasFPT

I'm running this build as well on PS4. Soul Mantle and the Kikazaru rings aren't crazy expensive in trade. Probably spend a bit more for the jewels but nothing too crazy. I have turned off sound effects, reverb and turned off enable HDPC. Crash every so often but it seems to be random instead of actively mapping or delving.

I would suggest taking a look at any of wrecker_of_days Stress Free builds. He plays on both pc and console so his build work just as well on whatever you play on.

He does his builds is a particular way to suit his own personal circumstances. However they offer a good way to learn some basic concepts about Path of Exile builds and also serve as a platform to try your own thing too.

The other thing I like about his build ideas is that non of them require any specific uniques to work and can be run on rare items. As you get further into maps you will have to pay attention to prefixes and suffixes but he does tell you what to look for.

Finally he is very active in his build threads and tries to answer any questions that are asked. An all round good poe community member in my opinion.

Poison BV is a winner this league.

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RiverGenie wrote:

I would suggest taking a look at any of wrecker_of_days Stress Free builds. He plays on both pc and console so his build work just as well on whatever you play on.

He does his builds is a particular way to suit his own personal circumstances. However they offer a good way to learn some basic concepts about Path of Exile builds and also serve as a platform to try your own thing too.

The other thing I like about his build ideas is that non of them require any specific uniques to work and can be run on rare items. As you get further into maps you will have to pay attention to prefixes and suffixes but he does tell you what to look for.

Finally he is very active in his build threads and tries to answer any questions that are asked. An all round good poe community member in my opinion.

Agree on all counts. I'm running his Trigger Happy Bladestorm Gladiator. Currently level 89 with 12 watchstones and moving counting. Most fun I've had in a long time. I used to play PC and I find the potions much easier on the console. That said, I do get rubber banding at times, which makes a max-block Gladiator a nice choice with retaliation skills.

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AstroMatix wrote:

I'm a relatively new player and started on console. I watch a lot of the streamers and read tons of build guides for POE but haven't found much content for console players.

Based on the many performance issues we face as console players, and some of the limitations of button access etc, what are some of the best builds this console player community has played that translate well to console?

I would have posted this in the builds forum but that seems dominated by PC and I'm only interested in console play. If there is a thread like this already posted somewhere please point me in that direction. Thanks.

2 other folks have already said this and I will be the 3rd to say it.

Look at Wrecker_of_Days Stress Free builds.
Just do not do his Stress Free Elemental Hit build, it got nerfed this league

Here is the link to his builds and why the way they are.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2606288

They are easy to play, easy to gear and designed in a way where you learn the game. I have played 3 of his builds.

I am currently playing his stress free Slo-mo zombies build. I have changed his build as well to suite my play style more, and so have other players of his Zombie build have changed it as well. But we all help each other on the forum it does not matter if you are using his build or not.

He is also active very active in his threads about giving advise and so have other folks that play his builds.

He has also gone to great lengths to give us Loot filters to use for his builds.

you can add me on Xbox if you want and I can help you out there if you have any questions at all. GT: X Peleus X

Dont ever try to build flicker
Its a non playable skill on console and the devs couldnt care less about it, hundreds of people have made hundreds of post since poe launched on console about flicker strike and havent addressed the main issue which is the networking mode for consoles due to the controller input delay, even if thats the case plenty of people still want the option to choose lockstep so they dont desync and cant regen mana or frenzy charges and cant exit desync until they have used a movement skill to get oyt of it, but randomly flicking into a huge pack and not being able to regen mana and so u dont deal damage tends to get you one shot so you wont have time to react. Another work around to the controller delay is implement keyboard and mouse function. Devs have other stuff to worry about i guess, but its been an issue since day 1

Thanks for the tips. I ended up going Assassin Poison BV and it's been a blast and pretty console friendly outside of some of the massive monster maps where you really start to feel the lag.

Any thoughts on next leagues good console builds?

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Damn_the_Mann wrote:

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Sagruf wrote:

Hierophant Freezing Pulse Totems

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2685450

I tried this build in 3.9, Im now lvl 95 doing all content nicely. Not a lot of not a lot of buttons needed as well.

You can looks at my profile too for gear idea's char is call FurgasFPT

I'm running this build as well on PS4. Soul Mantle and the Kikazaru rings aren't crazy expensive in trade. Probably spend a bit more for the jewels but nothing too crazy. I have turned off sound effects, reverb and turned off enable HDPC. Crash every so often but it seems to be random instead of actively mapping or delving.

Im running it too with atziri reflection. Crashes a lot.

I guess the faster and more projectiles every build crash. On phat ps4.

Best info and advice I’ve seen on here for consoles! Thanks to the contributors. Keep this thread going.