Today's selection is for builders who love the thrill of quickly taking down bosses. I’ll be introducing 3 formidable boss killer builds in Path of Exile 3.23 Affliction League. So, without wasting time, let’s embark on a detailed exploration of each.
Vaal Ice Shot Deadeye
Firstly, we have the strongest Vaal skill for bosses, The Vaal Ice Shot Deadeye with the Ranger class. Ice Shot is an awesome Archer skill that freezes the whole screen of enemies, granting many explosions. Just as I did with the Lightning Arrow and the Tornado Shot build, the complete guide of this one will also count with 2 versions of this build, a budget and a complete one. You can start this build even on a low budget and upgrade it later.
Budget: About the budget, you can get by destroying early endgame maps with only around 80 chaos. To comfortably advance to yellow maps, I recommend investing around 150 chaos, and for easily completing Atziri, I recommend investing around 4 Divine Orbs. But if you go for the complete version, you need to invest at least 4 more divines.
On the budget version, you only need 1 mandatory unique item for this build, the Yoke of Suffering amulet that causes all of your elemental damage to shock. This way, our enemies take a lot more damage. On the complete version, on the other hand, besides the Yoke of Suffering, you also need the Lioneye's Fall and the Thread of Hope unique jewels. They are expensive but grant a huge boost to your damage.
Pros & Cons: To the pros of this build, I would start with how strong Vaal Ice Shot is. When you use it on bosses, you won't even need your ballistas to obliterate them in less than a second. The clear speed is also outstanding, killing many monsters with only one shot. To the cons, I would say that this build is not very tanky. Even though you have some defensive layers, it's important to take advantage of your ranged attacks and stay far from danger.
Clear Speed: For clear speed, I'll give it 10 out of 10. You fire many projectiles with high attack speed, and those projectiles chain on enemies, bounce off walls, and go everywhere, freezing and exploding them. It's just amazing.
Boss Damage: The boss damage is also great and deserves 10 out of 10. As I said, Vaal Ice Shot is probably the strongest Vaal skill and can destroy bosses easily. You can also count on our ballistas for a lot more damage.
Survivability: I'll give this build 8 out of 10 for Survivability. Even though you have armor, evasion, spell suppression, and can kill enemies from a good distance, this build isn't very tanky. If you don't mind your position, you might die.
Venom Gyre Deadeye
Next, we have this OP build that is the master of the shotgun effect, the Venom Gyre Deadeye with the Ranger class. Venom Gyre is a very interesting skill which fires a projectile that hits enemies and returns to you, piercing and dealing damage to everything on its path. When the projectile successfully returns to you, you can keep and stack them up to 30 times, and they will all be released at once when you use the Whirling Blades movement skill.
Budget: This build is cheap. You can get by destroying early endgame maps with only around 90 Chaos Orbs. To comfortably advance to yellow maps, you need to invest around 120 chaos, and for easily completing Atziri, I recommend investing around 4 divines.
Pros & Cons: To the pros of this build, I wouldn't even know where to start. It comes with amazing clear speed, boss damage, and a big effective HP. Above all, it's cheap and easy to put together. It doesn't require any mandatory unique item. To the cons, I would say that, as most builds, this one is also vulnerable to chaos damage, unless of course, you invest in chaos resistance gear.
Clear Speed: I'll give this build 10 out of 10. The Venom Gyre projectile already has an expensive nature for the amount of time it stays dealing damage. With a Deadeye that grants a lot of speed and many buffs to projectiles, the result is what you're seeing in this tier 16 gameplay.
Boss Damage: The boss damage is also a 10 out of 10. You can use Vaal Venom Gyre to instantly have 50 stack projectiles and delete bosses with an amazing shotgun effect using Whirling Blades on them.
Survivability: For survivability, I'll give it 9 out of 10. This build counts with over 880,000 effective HP because of high armor, high evasion, spell suppression, and block chance.
Archer Skeletons Guardian
The last build of our boss killer selection is the amazing Archer Skeletons Guardian with the Templar class. I'm sure that at this point you all know the very popular Mage Skeletons build. With the new transfigure gems, we now also have the Archer Skeletons.
Budget: This build is pretty cheap. You can get it to destroy early game maps with only around 80 chaos to comfort with advent yellow maps. I recommend investing around 150 chaos, and for easily completing Atziri, I recommend investing around 4 divines. But you can totally do it with less. You only need 1 mandatory unique POE Item for this build, the Lioneye's Vision armor, that already grants the pure support and allows us to have 1 more support gem for our Skeletons.
Pros & Cons: To get the pros of this build, I would start with how balanced it is. Unlike the mage Skeletons, this build has a much smoother clear speed and can do even more damage to bosses. This build also is not complicated to put together. We only need 1 mandatory unique item that is pretty cheap. Above all, as a Guardian, we still have 3 damage auras for free and a minion that takes 20% of the damage for us. To the cons, I'll start by saying that even though this build is still very tanky and safe, it's not as tanky as the mage skeleton version because it has less block chance. But if you mind your position, it will be hard for you to die.
Clear Speed: For clear speed, I'll give it 9 out of 10. We have many Archer Skeletons firing many arrows with high attack speed. Unlike the mage Skeletons version that uses the Spell Echo, we can easily cast 4 Skeletons at a time in different locations and increase a lot their angle of destruction.
Boss Damage: The boss damage is amazing, deserves 10 out of 10. The gameplay is destroying those endgame bosses in a few seconds, and it's only using the determination aura. But if you're playing on the Affliction League, you can use the spectre of the Guardian Turtle for a free determination aura and use Pride for a lot more damage.
Survivability: I'll give it 9 out of 10. As a minion build, you stay far from the action while they tank and kill everything for you. It's a very safe playstyle. But this build also comes with over 990,000 effective HP because of high armor, block chance, and a minion that takes 20% of the damage for you.
