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Path of Exile New League Thread - The Forbidden Sanctum

Hi all,

Path of Exile's new League, The Forbidden Sanctum, launches today at 2 PM Eastern time, so I thought it'd be good to have a thread about it. Who else is leaguestarting today/this weekend? Does anyone want to team up for playing through the acts?

For those who missed it: Hexbear has its own Path of Exile guild, named Path of Hexile (guild page is here, though non-members won't be able to see anything there). Anyone who would like to join is welcome, please either DM me here or message @Atrociraptor in-game to do so.

Also, for anyone who is leaguestarting: what build do you plan to run?

I'm going to do hit EA Raider again, since it was so easy to level last league, then stop in the mid-60s (just before killing Kitava) to do some endless Heist for a while, and try to trade my way up to early riches.

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  • I can't guarantee I'll be around too much in the near-term because I'm also elbows deep in the Elder Kings II mod for CKIII and will be moving at the start of the year; but I'd love to join the guild and at some point jump back into PoE.

    Also does anyone have any fun Witch builds? last meta I kept up with was uhhhhh like 3 years ago.

    • I enjoyed this build a lot.

      The premise is you're a minion build but once you get the Maw of Mischief helmet you get a unique skill that causes your minions to explode which becomes your main source of damage. The only issue is you play Wintertide Brand until you get the helmet. It's quite expensive the first few days, I think I paid 75c for it on day 2 but day 5 it was 1c.

  • pleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegood

    I'm going Sab Poison Seismic Trap because I haven't played it yet. Also because I'm still highly skeptical after everything that happened last league, and if its bad again I want to get in-and-out as quickly as possible.

    Also, is it possible to be in more than one guild? I'm in one with a bunch of IRL friends and I don't want to leave them.

    • I'm afraid you can only be in one guild at a time, unfortunately. Feel free to message me if you want to party up for leaguestart, though! (It's just me for the moment, however)

  • I'm starting Poisonous Conction Pathfinder. Did a practice run yesterday, got to act 8 with 4:40 played so I think this should be pretty smooth. I really am looking forward to this league mechanic, the account bound rewards they've shown so far look really good, and since they're account bound hopefully they aren't hard to grind for. All in all, looking like a banger league if all goes well.

    • I was going to do this again this league, last league I did PF Conc and cleared in about 4-5 hours and slowly transitioned into full time heist after that. Just had someone send me a pob for self chill raider into full time heist and I think thats where I'm going this league.

      Don't think I can play all weekend though so I'm not gonna stress about clearing fast (can't really abuse early economy if you're going to be busy). I think this league I want to start bossing for vouches on tft and learn how to do Lab running properly. Maybe more crafting for profit. I'm moving into my final PoE player phase 😈

  • I started a summoner build I really liked in the last couple weeks of the previous league so I might try that for real this time. Just started play Medieval Dynasty yesterday though so not sure when I'll feel like jumping back into poe.

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