~[1.0.6] Top 5 Tier-One Builds (Standard and Domination)~

Such modesty by the wand build creator ^^

That build is certainly amonst the most impressive things I have seen in POE so far. Definitely belongs far up that top 5 list (or maybe the new version with aegis?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U44M29z-nEY

Just look at double map Dominus melt.

ZiggyD's Etheral Knives Mana Shield Scion Build deserves an honorable mention.
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/619533/page/1

- Extremely tanky
- Nemesis league very viable
- Low yet solid damage (low risk against reflect)

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sharpnickelz wrote:

ZiggyD's Etheral Knives Mana Shield Scion Build deserves an honorable mention.
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/619533/page/1

- Extremely tanky
- Nemesis league very viable
- Low yet solid damage (low risk against reflect)

Alright, will take a good look at it.

Still waiting for the Build of the Week!

i think my built is in top ones....

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/704528

top MF built, wich is important....

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Wishinan wrote:

my definition of a top-tier build is one that has very good balance between DPS and damage mitigation.

Flicker builds are among the worst in terms of survivability, all it has is the fast paced aspect of gameplay and extremly high DPS, heck even Poutsos himself said that the build's basically a suicide against reflect mobs and has no approach towards 'survivability' at all.

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sharpnickelz wrote:

ZiggyD's Etheral Knives Mana Shield Scion Build deserves an honorable mention.
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/619533/page/1

- Extremely tanky
- Nemesis league very viable
- Low yet solid damage (low risk against reflect)

ZiggyD does what ZiggyD always do, he got an idea, make a quick build, test it for a few weeks, then abandon it and let his popularity do the rest. Don't get me wrong, he has some pretty awesome newbie guides and I respect him for that, but the rest is just basically what streamer builds are. CantripN's EK Scion is way better than his, it's the same concept, with better and more refined passive tree, gearing guide, endgame dps and tanking capabilities. Just because one's far more popular than the other, doesn't mean it's better. If an EK MoM AA build deserves to be on the list, it should be CantripN's not Ziggs.

also,

No summoner builds? a snapshot based summoner build outperforms three out of the five listed in OP in terms of damage output. A snapshot CoD summoner outperforms four out of five listed excluding the Poutsos's build; not to mention that it's also have roughly the same survivability as some of the best defensive builds out there due to the existence of minions. Why? another discrimination towards necro builds? :/

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sarahschneider wrote:

No summoner builds? a snapshot based summoner build outperforms three out of the five listed in OP in terms of damage output. A snapshot CoD summoner outperforms four out of five listed excluding the Poutsos's build; not to mention that it's also have roughly the same survivability as some of the best defensive builds out there due to the existence of minions. Why? another discrimination towards necro builds? :/

No one cares about your little bug abusing screen clutter build.

Relying out snapshotting can hardly be called a tier 1 build.

Worse than the builds that broke after they fixed alpha and RM aura snap shotting.

To be fair you don't need to snapshot for that build to be strong.

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Nephalim wrote:

Relying out snapshotting can hardly be called a tier 1 build.

Worse than the builds that broke after they fixed alpha and RM aura snap shotting.

I didn't say that a snapshot build should be included in the list, I said that a summoner with snapshotting has roughly the same (even better) than some of those listed. The point was why no summoner build even mentioned, you don't need snapshotting to deal the same dps, people do snapshots because they want to push the same stats to all their minions.

oops