Path of Exile: Check out Maxroll’s New PoEPlanner Tool, New & Updated League Starters, and 3.26 Content Update Overview

On June 13th, the caller Mercenaries of Trarthus league launches alongside the Secrets of the Atlas Expansion. To assistance you tackle the caller content, Maxroll has released a large update including their caller PoEPlanner tool, caller and updated league starters, PoB import/export, and overmuch more!

Mercenaries of Trarthus

In the Mercenaries of Trathus Challenge League, players brushwood 1 peculiar Mercenary per zone, each with their ain personalities, antithetic skills, items, and builds. You whitethorn besides find "Infamous" Mercenaries, which are acold little communal but transportation acold amended items. Mercenaries person a batch of absorbing buildcraft implications that we look guardant to exploring much aft the league launches.

Defeat Mercenaries to summation antithetic rewards based connected which enactment you picked earlier the duel:

• Hire
  • Players wage an upfront golden outgo earlier the duel begins
  • Upon defeat, the Mercenary joins the subordinate successful combat
  • Freely alteration their items erstwhile they articulation your squad oregon disregard them
  • Only 1 Mercenary tin travel you astatine a time, with up to 2 much waiting successful Town to swap betwixt them
  • Their level is locked to the country level you find them successful truthful often upgrading them is recommended
  • Revive fallen Mercenaries successful Town for a Gold fee
    • They bash not suffer items upon death
• Take Item
  • Select 1 of the Mercenary’s items to driblet connected death, including currency items they're holding
  • Mercenaries tin spawn with peculiar "Of Trathus" versions of Skill Gems, which are akin to Transfigured Gems
    • These tin beryllium selected arsenic a reward
  • "Infamous" Mercenaries whitethorn deterioration peculiar Rares with the "Infamous" point modifier, granting marque caller exclusive effects
• Exile
  • An exiled Mercenaries archetype is blocked from appearing for the adjacent 10 encounters
  • Up to 2 Mercenary property types (STR/INT/DEX) tin beryllium exiled astatine once

Learn much astir Mercenaries of Trarthus and Secrets of the Atlas with Maxroll’s uncover overview post! Or instrumentality a deeper dive by speechmaking the PoE 3.26 spot notes.

Build Guides

Here are each of the caller and updated league starters for the 3.26 Mercenaries of Trarthus and Secrets of the Atlas update, consecutive from the experts astatine Maxroll.

New League Starters

Volcanic Fissure of Snaking is shaping up to beryllium 1 of the astir fashionable league starter picks for Mercenaries of Trarthus. Maxroll has 2 guides for this: a Berserker setup from Crouching_Tuna which is focused connected velocity and damage, positive the Slayer mentation from Carn that has continuous leech effects.

Zizaran’s caller Earthquake Gladiator is simply a large bonk bleed build. Earthquake’s Aftershocks deed hard, making them cleanable for inflicting a ample bleed connected tankier enemies. Gladiator provides explosions acknowledgment to Gratuitous Violence, and casual defenses done Block scaling nodes similar More than Skill.

The caller Rolling Magma Mine Saboteur from Goratha is simply a blistery league starter that unleashes bouncing balls of fiery destruction. This physique takes vantage of the caller Shrapnel Specialist node from Saboteur to propulsion Rolling Magma and your GPU to the max!

The Glacial Cascade Elementalist from Aer0 takes vantage of each the golemancer buffs to bring a idiosyncratic enactment squad to immoderate fight. When you presumption correctly, Glacial Cascade deals immense harm with its last burst.

The Tornado of Elemental Turbulence Inquisitor from Velyna fills the surface with deadly vortexes that expanse crossed the battlefield. Thanks to the Inquisitor ascendancy, this physique leverages some beingness and vigor shield for a comfy mapping experience.

Updated League Starters

Explosive Arrow Ballista Ignite has agelong been a league commencement staple successful Path of Exile. You tin play it arsenic a tanky Champion from Zizaran, which excels successful some Hardcore and Solo Self Found, oregon instrumentality vantage of the Elementalist buffs to play a higher harm mentation of the physique from Palsteron.

Another ignite setup (more focused connected the SSF experience) that benefits from the Elementalist buffs is Zizaran’s Wave of Conviction Ignite Elementalist.

Next up, Goratha’s Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator turns the full surface into explosions of humor and monster guts. This mapping-focused physique is each astir going accelerated and clearing screens.

Maxroll’s Necromancer-in-Chief HelmBreaker has updated each 3 of his minion guides. The classical Poison Summon Raging Spirits is inactive a large prime successful 3.26. Alternatively, if you privation to spell each successful connected the minion fantasy, usage the Chaos Minion Army Necromancer to roleplay arsenic a battlefield commandant portion your mindless dormant termination everything for you. Last up, if you’re feeling a spot much experimental, cheque retired the Poison Ranged Animate Weapons Necromancer build.

Lightning Arrow Deadeye is an incredibly accordant league commencement prime for players who bask bow builds. This setup from Crouching_Tuna gets you disconnected to a beardown commencement and tin aboriginal beryllium converted into Elemental Hit of the Spectrum.

If melee is much of your style, cheque retired Carn’s Ground Slam of Earthshaking Slayer, a titanic physique designed to shatter foes with ease.

Aer0’s Ice Trap Trickster creates icy doughnuts of destruction, trapping monsters wrong an icy grave. While a spot little tanky than immoderate of the supra builds, Ice Trap is casual to get disconnected the crushed and frozen enemies can’t combat back.

If you similar mines to Traps Aer0’s Ice Shot of Penetration Deadeye is simply a solid cannon screen-clearing machine. Fire a barrage of icy arrows that detonate into smaller projectiles, covering your surface successful icy explosions.

Another miner connected connection is the Exsanguinate Miner Trickster from CptnGarbage. This physique leverages each of Trickster's “don’t get hit” vigor and combines it with Exsanguinate, a spell that chains done the full surface successful an instant.

Maxroll's PoE Leveling Builds

Breeze done the run with leveling guides acceptable up by the Path of Exile racing legend, Havoc616, to get you to maps rapidly and easily.

• Templar
• Ranger
• Witch
• Shadow
• Marauder
• Duelist
• Scion

Maxroll Currency Guide Revamp

In summation to the physique usher updates, Maxroll is revamping their currency strategies to chopped retired the fluff and contiguous much of the meta farming options. Check retired the Maxroll Currency section, and support an oculus retired for much updates to the currency guides successful the future.

For example, Crop Rotation Harvest is simply a strategy for the Harvest League Mechanic wherever you play a mini-game of buffing your crops to get the astir foodstuff retired of a azygous plot!

Maxroll's PoEPlanner

Maxroll’s caller PoEPlanner instrumentality is caller disconnected the presses for 3.26. This instrumentality works precise likewise to their fashionable PoE2Planner tool, allowing Path of Exile players to theorycraft and stock builds with easiness portion besides providing a nationalist physique database to browse different people's creations.

Getting started is straightforward; you tin either prime your ascendancy connected the near to statesman making a planner from scratch oregon nexus your Path of Exile relationship to import a quality straight utilizing the ample bluish fastener connected the right. The cogwheel connected the close broadside is besides wherever you spell to prevention a profile.

The Maxroll PoEPlanner supports a batch of modules, but you don't request to usage each of them. If you permission a conception blank, it won't beryllium disposable erstwhile radical browse the build. The objection present is required sections similar passives, skills, oregon gear; don't permission these blank!

1. This is your passive tree; you tin acceptable your ascendancy nodes and adjacent make variants. Add Jewels to your histrion by left-clicking connected the socket.
   • Click the container successful the apical close to expand.
2. Give the physique a rating: reddish = bad, greenish = good.
3. Write notes astir your build. You tin usage this conception to springiness radical tips oregon explicate the nuances of gearing and playing the build.
4. What is the physique bully at? Where does it struggle?
5. Include each of the skills and supports you are using. If you privation to amusement physique progression, you tin bash truthful by creating further steps.
6. Explain the bid successful which radical should usage their skills for optimal DPS.
7. Select a large and insignificant Pantheon.
8. Select instrumentality set(s) here. The PoEPlanner supports aggregate instrumentality sets (created via the edit fastener connected the apical right) and stat weights for each set.
9. What bandit should players use, oregon is the program to termination them all?
10. Link a Lootfilter, oregon if you privation to spell supra and beyond, nexus aggregate Loot Filters.
11. Like with the Passive Tree, the Atlas Passive Tree supports aggregate variants,
12. The build's writer (hey, that's you!)
13. Link a physique Showcase connected Youtube, champion practices see wide explanations of the mechanics and showing gameplay.
14. If there's a related build, nexus the applicable planner here.
15. Changed the build? Update everyone with a changelog entry.

Want adjacent much builds? Then cheque retired much builds from the Maxroll Path of Exile team, oregon browse the Community Builds conception to spot what different Exiles are cooking up.

Example Builds

Here are a fewer planners from the Maxroll Path of Exile Team:

• Rolling Mines Saboteur and Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator by Goratha
• Dual Strike of Ambidexterity Berserker by Zen_M
• Exsanguinate / Reap Mine Trickster by CptnGarbage
• Volcanic Fissure of Snaking Berserker and Lightning Arrow Deadeye by Crouching_Tuna
• Glacial Cascade Golementalist by Aer0
• Poison SRS Necromancer, Chaos & Poison Ranged Animate Weapons, and Chaos Poison Zoomancer by HelmBreaker

More Path of Exile News

PoB Import / Export

In summation to the caller tool, Maxroll partnered with the Path of Building squad to enactment importing and exporting straight from this fashionable assemblage tool. You tin spot physique information, including configuration settings astatine a glance. You tin find this connected Maxroll’s PoB page.

PoExchange

C3ntrax has updated the PoExchange tool. The astir salient diagnostic is nonstop integration to the Maxroll website. This means getting notifications for income adjacent erstwhile you’re browsing physique guides oregon utilizing the planner and seamless switching betwixt PoExchange and the remainder of Maxroll.

Written by IGN Staff with the assistance of the Maxroll Path of Exile Team.