New 0.4 Fate Of the Vaal league! Time to find a league starter. New Druid class with Oracle and Shaman ascendancies, new shapeshifting with bear, wolf and wyvern, we got to try this! Pretty much try it all and what I enjoyed the most was to embrace the meme and water my plants…

So I first start with the Bear which was pretty good with a simple and effective combo. Half way through the act 1, I swtiched to the Wolf. I liked the Wolf better as it felt more snappy even if the DPS felt a bit less.

Around the end of the Act 2, I was having issues finding a better weapon so my DPS was falling off. Also, I got remember why I don’t often play melee, I just don’t enjoy it as much, so I tried to water my plants.

I saw that Goratha had some success with the Entangle, Thrashing Vines, and Thunderstorm combo on his Disciple of Varashta ascendancy so I loosely followed his gem supports as per his Maxroll guide.

I enjoyed this playstyle way more as it’s not melee. DPS felt great, clear better! I completed the campaign in 17 hours with 17 deaths and level 65. Could have been faster if I didn’t have some much graphic issues and loose so much time trying everyting single settings to make it work.

I continued mapping with the same combo. It’s a 3 buttons combo so it’s a bit annoying but manageable. I tried to put Thunderstorm on Cast on Crit but I didn’t like the lack of control and sacrificing 100 spirit, so I reverted back.

For the 3rd ascendancy, I tried the Fateful Vision for 3rd ascendancy witht he Align Fate buff but it didn’t feel like it was adding anything so I just spec 2 small nodes.

I progressed my way toward T15 with really rare deaths on my way to the end game thanks to Enfeeble, a good life pool and some recovery.

However, as soon as I tried harder T15 maps, I started to feel squishy: not enough life, not enough recovery, not enough armour. Well, I should have not ignore my ES pool.

And when you have to play more carefully, you realise more the screen clutter these 3 skills provide and how hard it is to avoid enemies with an active playstyle. I died trying to get my 4th ascendancy and rage quit! Later, I tried again to clean a nexus map, died on the gorilla boss, went back, killed him which cleansed the map but didn’t give me the atlas point or quest validation and rage quit again!

To be honest, the end game of POE 2 is quite frustrating to me. Mixed with how messy everything is visually (especially with the shitty graphic settings I need to set up to make the game playable) and the attrocious way to ascend (I hate equally Chaos and Sekhema), I didn’t feel like playing again. I might try Spell totem or force myself to play to see Atziri‘s 4 boobies but that might be it for this league…

Builds Comparaison

Impossible to be fair but I’m trying my best. I’m trying to get all characters to lvl 90-ish, 3-4 ascendancies, 6L, gem level 18-19

Would I play it again?

No, maybe for levelling as the skills are powerful

Path Of Building and stats

https://poe2db.tw/pob/U02L39o6Ha

POB dps feels wrong, probably closer to what I measure IG, around 100K

Please visit this Google Sheet to see the main information and POB data I kept track of. You can more easily compare with other builds.

My experience in video