This league should be a BANGER! My thoughts and plans for POE 3.25 Melee League 

Best part of the patch is being able to hire Shitstained Steve as miner

New: Lightning Strike: No longer has Added Lightning Damage at all gem levels. It now has 198% Effectiveness of Base and Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 135%), scaling up to 456% at gem level 20 (previously 225%). Now has a Mana cost of 6 at gem level 1, scaling up to 10 at gem level 20 (previously 6 at all gem levels)

Based on the amazing Builds you did in the past I trust your League Starter blindly, no matter what. Your Guides are what allows me to casually come back to poe every few months. Thanks, looking forward to everything you gift us

I had been waiting to see how excited you were for this league. It looks so good! I'm super pumped to get into the town building/managing. It finally feels like a league where casual play is going to be great. And gladiator! I can finally play one of my favourite themed builds, bleed lacerate. So pumped, and happy to hear you're excited for the league!

the tincture node on a pathfinder would be insane i think... they give a bunch of flask effect.. and you can put them in 2 and 4 and boost the middle flask to insanity. Also Champion got changed petty significantly before you decide to go that direction

Welcome Back Mr Duckzy

They updated lightning strike, feel free to check the patch notes!

This all looks super fun! Will play a bit more casually too this league, since i have to work on the release weekend, but i am really looking forward to it. Mabye i am even sitting12 - 20 hours in the campaign because i build my town :D Anyway, I am starting as Glad playing either Helix or Sunder until i get my Transfigured Ice Crash and start Dual Wielding from there on. I was enjoing Melee even before the buffs, so i think this league will be very fun to test all sort of melee skills.

I actually don't have problems with real time mechanics, like, this league has been inspired in RTSs right? REAL TIME strategy games, so, is kinda okay if dont have an money gate on it.

RIP raider, but Warden looks pretty cool

that's the content creator that I was looking for.... looking to our loved LS

Apparently you can get the times down a lot with upgrading your town so i dont think its going to be as bad as people think

Login, numbers for ls are up, gem lv20 has 456

I may be crazy, but I've played both your Raider/Champ L.S Rain of Arrows and now im trying to cook together ROA Warden, just trying to work out what points to take and am curious if the Buff can be scaled with Skill Effect duration, I imagine not, but I can have copium. Thanks for the update! :)

Going to jump the boat and go warden wild strikes. Hopefully the taming stacks with the ascendancy 😂

Sounds like a good decision to not stream. I really enjoy your videos and the more value you provide from those the better (for me anyway). I'm pumped for 3.25 as well. I'm going to LS Warden so we'll see how that goes. Like you, I don't care about going fast. I just want to immerse myself in all the changes and have fun without the FOMO.

sad about lightning strike cause I love the skill so much. Seems like crouching tuna is assuming the patch notes was wrong. He is building a deadeye ls right now on steam

Wish they didn't nuke Determination, Grace and Rage for the sake of balancing the buffs..qhen the buffs are inky needed cuz of the deletion of melee totems..like whats the point if u even double their mana cost 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Path Of Farmville.

the only downside of the exchange market is the gold fee : Hideout Warriors don't run maps = no gold = no exchange market :x

I'm surprised you're still sticking with Champion. I was expecting a pivot to Slayer or even Berserker with the rage changes.

sucks the currency trader is for this league only, it would be a great addition to the game baseline and actually makes the game less website of exile and more path of exile

Hi Fuzzy ! I was waiting for your videos!

Hey Fuzzy, came to check out if you were gonna go lightning strike right away after seeing melee is going to be in a sweet spot! Hope they fix LS since it's clearly just an oversight. Regarding damage lost from flat damage on gems (a la frost blades) and the 41.6% more damage from totems I have a few points and wanna see if I'm just flat out wrong. The flat damage from frost blades contributes 12% to my total DPS and totems provide 41.6% more damage as well (total more damage = 58.2% from these 2 things). Comparing the new level 20 gem value of 409% effectiveness of added base/flat damage to the current 225% effectiveness we get 112% more damage from this change. This doesn't include the fact that every gem level after level 20 will add a ton more effectiveness as well (60.74% more damage per 100% effectiveness) compared to the 6% it grants per 1 gem level currently. This does mean frost blades in particular is gaining 53.4% more damage unconditionally at all times. You can then add to this with rage, banners and gem levels. Smite will be a huge beneficiary since its upper-end effectiveness is getting such a huge buff as well as it being quite easy to apply many + gem levels to it. Frost blades also benefits massively from consistent damage for more consistent freezes = more consistent damage :D Was also thinking of Champion LS but the left-field Champ nerfs and glossed-over LS numbers put a bit of a dampener on it. Rambly comment I know with some potential numerical issues but this should paint a picture at least roughly. Cheers!

well hopefully we get some revives of older builds and second

they said they're looking at LS numbers already

should look into LS of arcing and Slayer with frenzy stacking and the new free endurance charges through ascendency

No RoA Warden? 😢

I need a full explanation of this game I don’t get all the mechanics it’s a bunch of way to augment your weapon and get stats but what’s the end game like I’ve never reached the end bc I’m always having to play the campaign is that part of every season?

pretty waiting for warden ls build since champion is gone

Wild Strike Warden looks like it could be really fun.

What about SST Bleed Glad or Zerker ? SST got buff so as Bleed.

Really sold me on the smite league start also with the mtx you can cosplay as lightning strike, are you gonna like share some mock up build guide or just taking the same template from the lightning strike build and applying smite ?

Love your content keep it up! what the chance for cyclone :) ?

have you considered streaming your theory crafting before the league? I really love watching that content and I am sure other people do as well

Smite champion? I feel like the skill gets boring pretty quickly, and some mechanics like Sanctum are not great with melee. My plan is to nolife the game for 6 days, because I'm going away for like 2 months probably, which means 6 days is all I'm gonna have this league. Should be enough to play 100 hours, and if the league lasts for 4 months I'll still get to play when I'm back anyway. My plan is very different than usual, going Hexblast for Sanctum/Invitations. I stay away from mapping since last league because I think it was sh*t. I was bad at Sanctum but I practiced and now I can finish every time so it's good money. Not starting Warden is a very wise decision imho. People are hyped but we have no idea whether it's gonna be strong or weak so wait & see.

Bummer. I wanted to play LS doryani champ and they gutted both

thoughts on doryani/mahuxotl LS (arcing) slayer? with changes to vaal pact it seems like it could be cool, and we have kalandra back to hit -200 lightning res

Toxic rain warden with 100% chance to shock

What melee skills do you think would be good on a jugg to league start extreme archaeology? Or is that a terrible idea? 😂 I was thinking infernal blow or volcanic fissure of snaking

Nice :)

So what creator would you recomend when choosing a starter?

What do u Think about leaguestart spliting steel trickster whole league ?

how do you get through the campaign and maps so fast at league start?

you surely don't know how to scale champion if you think you need to take the fortify note on the ascendancy.... you can get fortify on melee hit like so easy and you gain 20 stacks.