[POE] The Best Skills in Path of Exile - Skill Functionality Vs DPS Numbers

While I believe these skills to be the best functioning skills in the game and thus are being rated by on an unlimited budget, if you are a new player, I would suggest staying with the "meta" skills that are still decent at killing bosses. This is because as a new player, you won't have as much access to currency and there will be more guides for these "meta" skills if you have a question about gear, skills, and passives.

Excellent vid dude! Appreciate the DPS breakpoints.

Thank you for the video! As someone who's not played POE in a while and preparing for next week this is packed with value. Cheers! Now I just have to figure out which skills are fun to use...

Thanks for the list, I started following your builds last leauge and made 3 of them and had a blast, any chance you would make a Volitile dead build or recommend one depended on upcoming patch and nerfs, awesome content and always look forward to more.

i mean some skills like lightning strike is still fine if you reach 10m dps, the clear is decent since you have some projectile although not as good as before. But i think some build use some technique to solve their clearing problem such as some totems build or CWDT build. Those skills are usually easier to scale their damage which you have room and budget for you to scale clearing. or maybe some explosion like herald of ice and ascendancy nodes from occultist and gladiator solve the clearing problem as well. Example like tornado shot and blade vortex obviously need more invest to play comfortable than some league start skills. but this is a little bit off topic. but i think a complete build is a more proper way to show if a skill is decent or not. I think you can try to consider like the build in a low budget (1 to 10 div), clearing with proper set up, survivability (maybe since it is softcore), budget to scale to 10M dps and playstyle to determine if it is a decent skill in softcore.

Nice video. The only adjustment I would do to the list is bumping flicker up to 6 or even 7 because of how it removes ms from the equation and makes both your damage and mobility scale off attack speed. On an unrelated note, I'd like to try going for a wander trickster next league, what's a good league start for it? My plan in maps is to swap over to kb/ps with a piscator's or something and then farm up for a transition to int stacking but I don't know if it's better to just arma crema and have a bunch more respeccing to do or if there's some other option with a more similar tree.

i'm a newish player been meaning to try CA but i haven't seen much gameplay. what's the best ascendancy to run it on in your opinion, given that i dont care much about bossing, i solely want to map, don't need to be extremely tanky, and want fast move speed?

Nice video! A little off topic, but how would you make a Ethernity Shroud Spectral Throw? 😊

Hi ,thanks for your content. I am new here and want to start playing poe, which charecter u prefere for farming currency?

With CA, is it arrow nova or volley version (or other)? And do you mean in a CA only or mixed with TR or deaths oath etc.? Haven't really seen any CA-centered builds as far as i remember :D

I am really curious on some of the rankings. I have not played every skill in this list and I don't know the context. Are you basing this on any amount of investment on the properties of the base skill or investment outside the skill? Why is soulrend and volatile dead so high up? Is it CoC cyclone? Another one I am curious about is split arrow? Isn't EK just a better projectile skill? As I have not played Kinetic Bolt I can't say how Bolt is better clear than Blast that seems crazy to me. (Ignoring transfigured gems) Winter Orb seems to be placed really low too for some reason. Can you make a follow up video to go more in depth in this topic, I am just curious.

About 2:08 into the video there is a build with what looks like green butterflys to me. What skill/build is that? youtu.be/AUEH3auG6rY?si=PuaSjwOC8WDDQT5H&t=128

Fantastic! Now we need a new one for all the transfigured skill gems which might've improved a few of the already strong ones, or made some of the others worthy of your selection.

Hi, do you by any chance have a spectral throw build that I could use for 3.22?

Some of these really make sense but i think at least flicker and BV should be rated higher. Flicker strike builds are probably the best mapping builds in the game given the movement speed and multistrike + splash damage for clear. BV if built right can also be super fast with tailwind onslaught boots + elusive and badge of the brotherhood as well as some nice explosions.

moi j'ai test le ARC TOTEM (builde youtube , i have kikazu , soule mantle ; skullhead , and gem for kikazu tree-skill , i have probleme haste is maxx exp and dont have resist because lvl 10/11 map boss one shoot me

An update + separation into attack and spell would be great

Someone please tell me what the f is going on at 2:30? I’m a new player to Poe and this build looks sooo cool

How does having explosions affect your ranking?

What about a list of skills that scale damage hard with minimum investment for SSF players