It’s mid-season in Path of Exile, you’re grinding maps, but T1x bosses are pissing you off. Every upgrade costs and exalt+, or you are just burning out. You need a break, so what do you do? Start a new toon, of course!
But what? Do you look at a guide? Watch some vids? Check what’s meta? Consign yourself to analysis paralysis of the options and end up just going back to your primary?
No! Join the QT3 POE SSC HC RIP league and have the choice made for you. Randomly. Can any skill really be viable? Are all the Ascendancies equal? Can you really build a Summoning Duelist or a Face-tanking Witch? Who knows. Let’s find out.
Rules:
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No Build Guides - DIY is the name of the game
Incursion League, Hard-core - Solo Self Found
No Trading (SSF)
Twinking allowed
Push 'till you RIP!
League Length - 4 weeks or so, or until everyone RIPs
League winner get a random microtransaction!
General info:
Primary skill and Ascendant class is determined randomly. Primary skill must be your main levelling skill, but it’s ok to switch to an alternate for single target boss killing. Go nuts on secondary and support skills. No following a build guide, challenge yourself to roll your own. Obviously, do as much other research as you desire (gems, combos, uniques, etc), without hitting a build specific guide, and I’d encourage a quick tooling around with something like Path of Building to get you on the right track.
Twinking is A.O.K. HC Toons should share stash, so gear will carry over to new leagues.
Winner will be the highest tier map completed, or highest act completed, or highest character level. I want to encourage pushing towards a RIP over raw grinding. If that’s not enough delineation, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.
Open to other suggestions, this is something I have been thinking of for a while, as I always spend hours looking at builds instead of playing when I want a diversion from my main toons. I always like to start a league with a build guide to make sure it is end-game viable, but I get caught in the same trap when starting alts, rather than just try new things.
Next post will have the first combo!
