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PoE 3.27 Starters — Beginner Build Picks
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PoE 3.27 Starters — Beginner Build Picks

Pick a forgiving, well‑tested starter with clear upgrades. Each card links to a detailed page and a POB for quick planning.

ArchetypesMelee · Ranged · Caster · Summoner
AttributesStr · Dex · Int · Hybrid
Detail pagesOne page per starter
Last updated: Nov 2025 — refreshed summaries and links
PoE 3.27

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Boneshatter Juggernaut League Starter role art
MeleeStrengthJuggernaut

Boneshatter Juggernaut League Starter

The Boneshatter Juggernaut is a very tanky, cheap and hardcore-viable league starter. It uses the Boneshatter of Complex Trauma transfigured gem to apply strong bleeds to enemies. The Juggernaut ascendancy provides you with immunity to slows, good endurance charge uptime and tons of regeneration. This build brings you from the campaign all the way to the endgame bosses.

Updated October 31, 2025

Chaos Minion Army Necromancer League Starter role art
SummonerIntelligenceNecromancer

Chaos Minion Army Necromancer League Starter

The Chaos Poison Zoomancer & Minion Army Necromancer is one of the strongest minion builds around.With its multiple defensive layers, life recovery and strong defenses from an early stage of the game, very few other minion builds can compete with it defensively.Even with all these defensive layers it still packs a large punch with high chaos damage and poison damage that you scale all the way into the end game.The Early game poison setup with The Covenant is more than capable of killing some of the easier Uber bosses such as Eater, Exarch and Sirus.When you want to control an army of minions this is the build for you.

Updated October 25, 2025

Cyclone Elementalist League Starter role art
MeleeIntelligenceElementalist

Cyclone Elementalist League Starter

The Cyclone Elementalist League Starter is a powerful and fast melee build, leaning into the beloved Spin2Win playstyle while clearing maps with explosive results.

Updated November 2, 2025

Earthquake Gladiator League Starter role art
MeleeHybridGladiator

Earthquake Gladiator League Starter

Are you looking for a very tanky build that deals enough damage to defeat any boss and clears maps using one of the most fun mechanics in the game: Bleed Explosions? Then the Earthquake Gladiator is perfect for you!

Updated October 31, 2025

Earthshatter Slayer League Starter role art
MeleeHybridSlayer

Earthshatter Slayer League Starter

The Earthshatter Slayer is a very tanky, cheap and hardcore-viable league starter. Earthshatter is a very well rounded Slam skill that has good coverage and high damage on a low budget. The Slayer ascendancy provides drastically improved AoE, excellent recovery through overleech, and a high-threshold execute. This build is very strong as soon as you enter maps all the way into the endgame.

Updated October 31, 2025

Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator League Starter role art
MeleeHybridGladiator

Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator League Starter

If you're looking for a tanky Bleed Gladiator, the Eviscerate League Starter is the build for you! On top of excellent defenses it has great clear due to the bleed explosions from Gratuitous Violence.While it excels as a mapper, bosses are a bit more difficult as an Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator. The build has a very unique playstyle that can be very satisfying to play. However, it is not for everybody as it requires you to get hit to trigger your Retaliate skill and deal damage!

Updated October 31, 2025

Explosive Arrow Ballista Champion League Starter role art
RangedHybridChampion

Explosive Arrow Ballista Champion League Starter

If you're looking for a tanky build that can still deal enough damage to deal with any boss in the game Explosive Arrow Champion is one of the best league starters.

Updated October 31, 2025

Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist League Starter role art
SummonerIntelligenceElementalist

Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist League Starter

The Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist is a great Allrounder Leaguestarter. It kills bosses with huge Ignites and clears whole screens of monsters with the Ignite Proliferation Support. This is supported by 4 Golems providing you passive buffs.

Updated October 30, 2025

Exsanguinate Miner Trickster League Starter role art
CasterHybridTrickster

Exsanguinate Miner Trickster League Starter

Exsanguinate Reap Miner Trickster fulfills your clearspeed fantasy while still remaining versatile enough to tackle a wide variety of content. Combined Reaps ability to do very good single target damage, this build blends extremely good clear speed with strong single target capabilities.

Updated October 31, 2025

Forged Frostbearer Spectre Necromancer League Starter role art
SummonerIntelligenceNecromancer

Forged Frostbearer Spectre Necromancer League Starter

The Forged Frostbearer Spectre Necromancer League Starter is a powerful all-rounder Minion build with few buttons to press. The Forged Frostbearers cast Cold mortar projectiles that scale very well when supported by Greater Volley Support, since the projectiles overlap (an effect known as shotgunning). This interaction makes it so that these Spectres deal a lot of single target damage against enemies while also having decent clear speed from the AoE splash damage.

Updated October 31, 2025

Frost Blades Slayer League Starter role art
MeleeHybridSlayer

Frost Blades Slayer League Starter

The Frost Blades Slayer is a fast, fun and all around powerful League Starter. It uses Frost Blades with extra strikes to blow up huge packs of enemies and freeze all but the toughest enemies with ease. Use Frost Blades from the very start to end game as your main damage dealing skill.

Updated October 31, 2025

Glacial Cascade Elementalist League Starter role art
SummonerIntelligenceElementalist

Glacial Cascade Elementalist League Starter

The Glacial Cascade Elementalist makes use of the strength of Golems and combines that with the power of Physical damage scaling. With its multiple defensive layers, life recovery and strong defenses from an early stage of the game, you are blasting the endgame in no time.

Updated October 29, 2025

Ground Slam of Earthshaking Slayer League Starter role art
MeleeHybridSlayer

Ground Slam of Earthshaking Slayer League Starter

Welcome to the Ground Slam of Earthshaking Slayer league starter guide.

Updated October 30, 2025

Ice Shot of Penetration Miner Deadeye League Starter role art
RangedDexterityDeadeye

Ice Shot of Penetration Miner Deadeye League Starter

The Ice Shot of Penetration Miner Deadeye League Starter makes use of the recently added Ice Shot of Penetration skill to add massive screen clear and single target overlaps with the Fury Valve amulet.

Updated October 29, 2025

Ice Trap Trickster League Starter role art
CasterHybridTrickster

Ice Trap Trickster League Starter

The Ice Trap of Hollowness Trickster provides a great balance of offense, defence and fun to take on league start challenges. Tricksters innate defensive layers keep you safe while you shatter the whole screen with massive Ice Trap explosions!

Updated October 31, 2025

Kinetic Blast Deadeye League Starter role art
RangedDexterityDeadeye

Kinetic Blast Deadeye League Starter

This Kinetic Blast Deadeye League Starter Build Guide teaches you the most efficient way to level your character, acquire your first 4 Voidstones, and scale into Endgame.

Updated October 31, 2025

Lightning Arrow Deadeye League Starter role art
RangedDexterityDeadeye

Lightning Arrow Deadeye League Starter

If you're looking for a great ranged bow build, the Lightning Arrow Deadeye League Starter stacks flat Elemental Damage to achieve high DPS while speeding through the campaign and maps.

Updated October 30, 2025

Lightning Trap of Sparking Elementalist League Starter role art
SummonerIntelligenceElementalist

Lightning Trap of Sparking Elementalist League Starter

The Elementalist harnesses the power of elemental Ailments, Heralds, and Golems to provide a smooth and powerful league starter. Shock enemies with Cold or Chill them with Fire, while gaining damage and defense passively through Golems that self-revive. This build can comfortably go from Campaign to Endgame before taking down Pinnacle Bosses in the Atlas of Worlds.

Updated October 31, 2025

Poison Ranged Animate Weapons League Starter role art
SummonerIntelligenceNecromancer

Poison Ranged Animate Weapons League Starter

The Chaos & Poison Ranged Animate Weapons is an extremely powerful minion build If you don't mind the required gem swapping between mapping and pinnacle bosses. Previously this build has suffered from QoL issues since you needed to self cast Bladefall and then summon your Animate Weapon of Ranged Arms. But now with the introduction of Bladefall of Trarthus, the gameplay of this build has become much smoother since this new skill continuously spawns new blades when you activate the skill.The boss damage and the map clear speeds are better than both the Minion army and Poison SRS, at the cost of having to swap supports between the two. The Early game poison setup with The Covenant is more than capable of killing all of the Uber bosses.

Updated October 27, 2025

Poison SRS Necromancer League Starter role art
SummonerIntelligenceNecromancer

Poison SRS Necromancer League Starter

The Poison SRS Necromancer is a well-rounded beast that excels at bossing and here you can find the best guide for the build that possess both high damage and excellent defenses.With its multiple defensive layers, high life recovery and a high max hit pool from an early stage of the game, very few other minion builds can compete with it defensively.The Early setup with a 6-link The Covenant is capable of killing all Uber bosses.There are two ways to scale this build, the Trigger Wand Setup provides better early defenses, higher overall quality of life and superior Minion survivability. On the other hand, using United in Dream with Arcanist Brand provides better damage at low investment.

Updated October 31, 2025

Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing Pathfinder League Starter role art
RangedDexterityPathfinder

Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing Pathfinder League Starter

This Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing Pathfinder League Starter Build Guide teaches you the most efficient way to level your character, acquire your first 4 Voidstones, and scale into Endgame.

Updated October 31, 2025

Rolling Magma Mines Saboteur League Starter role art
CasterHybridSaboteur

Rolling Magma Mines Saboteur League Starter

If you're looking for a build that is easy to set up and play, while having great scaling, look no further than the Rolling Magma Mines Saboteur! This build uses the newly added Shrapnel Specialist node to cause an extreme amount of overlapping Rolling Magma balls.

Updated October 28, 2025

Storm Rain Deadeye League Starter role art
RangedDexterityDeadeye

Storm Rain Deadeye League Starter

This Storm Rain Deadeye League Starter Build Guide teaches you the most efficient way to level your character and acquire your first 4 Voidstones.

Updated October 31, 2025

Tornado of Elemental Turbulence Inquisitor League Starter role art
CasterHybridInquisitor

Tornado of Elemental Turbulence Inquisitor League Starter

This Tornado of Elemental Turbulence Inquisitor is fantastic for leaguestart! Multiple defensive layers and a powerful ascendancy make it feel good through the campaign all the way to pinnacle bosses. The Tornado of Elemental Turbulence seeks out enemies with no targeting required, but is limited to 3 onscreen at the same time. This makes mapping feel relaxed and not button-heavy at all. Designed for a fresh league, it uses only one optional unique item during the campaign, but becomes viable for the majority of pinnacle content once geared.

Updated October 31, 2025

Viper strike of Mamba Pathfinder League Starter role art
MeleeDexterityPathfinder

Viper strike of Mamba Pathfinder League Starter

The Viper Strike of the Mamba Pathfinder offers a powerful and adaptable League Start Poison build, characterized by strong clear speed and robust defenses. The Viper Strike of the Mamba skill sums up the main-hand and off-hand damage of equipped weapons, maximizing potential strike damage. This benefit is counterbalanced by a limitation to a single poison application per enemy.

Updated November 2, 2025

Wave of Conviction Elementalist League Starter role art
CasterIntelligenceElementalist

Wave of Conviction Elementalist League Starter

If you're looking for a build that's easy to gear, can complete the Atlas at league start and has options to transition to some of the strongest builds available after you got some currency, Wave of Conviction Elementalist is the build for you!

Updated October 31, 2025