Crucible League Guides, Updates, and More!
What's New?
Path of Exile's 3.21 Crucible Expansion is releasing on April 7th! Are you Ready?
We are happy to announce updates to our existing build guides, new League Starters for Crucible, our thoughts about the mechanic and a completely revamped currency section for all your Atlas strategy needs!
Build Guides
Disclaimer: We are currently still waiting for the patch to update our Passive Skill Tree Masteries to 3.21. Make sure to refresh once the patch is live as all the content creators will be working on getting those done as soon as possible. The Passive Skill Tree is all up do date but keep in mind that there may be some minor changes to the Masteries once 3.21 is live!
Crucible Starters
- *NEW* Impending Doom
- *NEW* Cold DoT Elementalist
- *NEW* Toxic Rain
- Maw of Mischief
- Poison Blade Vortex Occultist
- Caustic Arrow Poison Ballista
- Explosive Arrow Ballista
- Boneshatter Slayer
- Corrupting Fever Champion
Midgame & Endgame

League Starters
Picking a build can be one of the hardest parts of a new league in Path of Exile, it can be overwhelming, so our guides walk you through the leveling process and gearing using Milestones! For Crucible we've updated our existing League Starters and added several new options including some of the hot new meta starters!
Disclaimer: We are currently still waiting for the patch to update our Passive Skill Tree Masteries to 3.21. Make sure to refresh once the patch is live as all the content creators will be working on getting those done as soon as possible. The Passive Skill Tree is all up do date but keep in mind that there may be some minor changes to the Masteries once 3.21 is live!
New League Start Guides
Impending Doom Poison Occultist
This build is designed to start a fresh league with, meaning you can start from having no currency and clear most if not all the content. It is great at mapping with enough damage to take down all of the end game bosses in the game. If you are looking for a build that causes the entire screen to explode, look no further!
Build Guide

Cold DoT Elementalist
The Cold DoT Elementalist is a league start all-rounder that is proficient in all content within POE. You're a Spell casting Damage over Time specialist with a focus on Chilling enemies and spreading your Chilling Ground through every arena.
Build Guide

Toxic Rain Ballista Pathfinder
This build was designed to start a fresh league with, meaning you can start from having no currency and clear most if not all the content. If you want a build that fires countless arrows that cover the whole screen in Chaos pods using their mechanical contraptions, look no further.
Build Guide

Updated League Starters
Corrupting Fever Champion
A jack of all trades that will annihilate enemies with Damage over Time. This build has both a Leaguestart and a Midgame Build, making it perfect for a smooth transition once you have the required Currency!
Boneshatter Slayer
Welcome to the Bone Zone! The Boneshatter Slayer is a league start Melee blaster that excels at clearing Maps on a low budget and stunning non-Uber bosses with a high budget.
Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist
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.
Poison Blade Vortex Occultist
The Poison Blade Vortex Occultist offers one of the smoothest mapping experiences of any league starter build thanks to Profane Bloom explosion chains and Plague Bearer. Combining these skills allows fast map clearing with a low investment, however it can be min maxed to be fantastic for late endgame as well.
Maw of Mischief Elementalist
The Maw of Mischief Elementalist is a top league start bosser with large Ignites and a focus on single target Damage over Time (DOT) hitting the DOT cap of 35 Million DPS. Channel Death Wish to sacrifice your Minions to an explosion, using their Life to scale your explosions Ignite damage.
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Mid & Endgame Builds
We expanded our pool of endgame guides drastically over the last few weeks. When it comes to endgame guides, we want to ensure that quality always comes first and we make content we can be proud of. This has the annoying side-effect that we won't always have builds for everyone right away, but over time it will result in a more solid foundation. We're going to be working on new Midgame and endgame builds at the start of the new league, so check back for updates!
Disclaimer: We are currently still waiting for the patch to update our Passive Skill Tree Masteries to 3.21. Make sure to refresh once the patch is live as all the content creators will be working on getting those done as soon as possible. The Passive Skill Tree is all up do date but keep in mind that there may be some minor changes to the Masteries once 3.21 is live!
Ethereal Knives Ignite Elementalist
The Ethereal Knives Ignite Elementalist is a well-rounded beast, capable of farming all content, while having a very comfortable one button play style. This build excels at clearing maps very fast, thanks to explosions, Herald of Ash and Ignite Proliferation.
Tornado Shot Deadeye
The Crystallised Omniscience Tornado Shot