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In this guide, we are going to be presenting top 3 best builds for Gauntlet in POE 3.18 Sentinel League. We explain how this gauntlet is different from the last one.
Top 3 Best Builds For Gauntlet In POE 3.18 Sentinel League
The gauntlet is an event hosted by Zizaran in every league, it usually at the start of the second month of the league and it is based on SSF hardcore, so it is hardcore, so if you do die you end up having to restart. And it challenges players to defeat all the bosses as fast as possible and it adds in the new bosses this time around with the uber bosses with uber Syrian, exarch uber eater of worlds, uber awakener and then there's also the beard. So there's a bunch of different bosses that are added. Now the main difference in this gauntlet is that the difficulty scales based off of what zone you are in.
There's different modifiers for acts 1-5, acts 6-10, white maps, yellow maps and red maps with the mods scaling to 35% less damage taken at monster level 85+, 20% increased attack cast and move speed, 40% increased damage, 30% increased aoe and two additional projectiles. For people wondering how this compares to last gauntlet, it is markedly easier, 35% less damage taken is like 54% more monster life compared to 100% more monster life or unique monster life last gauntlet. 20% increased attack cast and move speed is 20% less last time around was 40% haste, and 40% increased damage and this is the biggest thing is that 40% increased damage is miles less than 100% increased damage. So it will make builds not need to be as tanky to kill the bosses and 30% increased aoe compared to 100 there's a huge difference and two additional projectiles instead of four additional projectiles is also a massive difference. That means the campaign is a lot easier for a lot of new players, you don't have to deal with absurd amounts of haste or absurds amounts of damage or die into lmp weaver because right now it's only one additional projectile, so weaver should probably be the easiest it has ever been and a lot of people enjoy the campaign a lot more and it won't feel like such a torture fest while you're doing it. Mapping will be a little bit more annoying in terms of monster life, because in the past or the last gauntlet, there is no monster hp, so right now on yellow red and white maps you'll actually be doing 30%less damage to white mobs and rare mobs and blue mobs.
Now let's go straight into the top builds for the gauntlet in Path of Exile 3.18.
# Top 3: Spectral Helix/LS Champ Build
RNG build due to how entire build revolves around omniscience and perseverance.
Extremely Tanky because of fortify, 70-100K armour/evasion, 90 res, elusive effect.
Recovery w/life gain on hit and banner placing.
Requires playing spectral helix (impale or trinity claw) for leveling and gearing.
Map clear is incredibly fast when swap to LS is completed.
Strongest build when fully geared but gearing will take too long to complete for 1st place, barring a miracle.
The big thing about this build is this is probably the best build once you farm up all the gear. However, this gauntlet is way too easy to allow anyone to time to farm all the gear. The only hope you have if you do decide to play this build is you're only going to be focusing on winning the champion or duelist class, and even if you farm the entire duration of the gauntlet, it is very likely still that you do not get at omni and perseverance. If you did invitations at a rate of 30 minutes per invitation and farming it, there's still like a 20% chance that you don't get it or something like that. But if you're able to farm it, the build is extremely tanky because you get fortified, you have 70 to 100k armor and evasion. If you do somehow a miracle also farm melting and you have 90% resist and it's easy to get 90 res because you do have omni giving you a bunch of allrez. And then you also have elusive effect which is just a chance to avoid all damage at 30 to 40% effect, you have a lot of life get on hit with the claws and you can also place down your banner or the fine spanner for 5-6% life regen.
Now the problem with this build is it does require you to play spectral helix for leveling and gearing and a lot of people do not like that. Spectral helix is super annoying to play during the campaign to level up. But it is the best option if you're gonna play a duelist and it's also the easiest way to level up still even if spectral helix is not the best mechanically for map clearing. Now the map clearing if you do swap the lightning strike is really fast and this is because you have strike additional enemies. This is the strongest build when fully geared up, but that geary will take too long, so barring a miracle where all the top players are playing sample dies. This is not going to be a build to get first place or super high placement.
# Top 2: DD Necro Build In POE 3.18
Fastest build to progress through maps due to how DD scales.
Takes advantages of bugged specters for dps scaling.
Tanky due to max block/spell block, 20-30k armour/evasion, 90 max res, and high hybrid hp/es pool.
Gearing process is straightforward unless you want to farm for melding.
Prioritizes ailment effect to scale shock, chill, and scorch.
Good damage uptime due to ignite
Boss damage is underwhelming and may run into problems on uber boss fights where arena is messed up.
This is a build that has very good consistent damage, it is one of the tankiest options you have against a lot of hits. So if you're doing a fight like uber shaper and there's a lot of projectiles, you have to dodge in the bullet help phase having max block and spell block helps out a lot, it also helps out during the searing xr fall phase. The reason why this build does so well is because it takes advantage of a bug specter called auric colossus and the spectre has 60% more monster life compared to other specters, and this is huge for dps scaling, the build is very tanky, you have max block of spell block if you want to.
The difference between this build and the other builds is that instead of having 70+k armor and evasion, you have 20 to 30k armor and evasion with this setup, but 30k armor and evasion is fine without the 100% increased monster damage like last time. You have the option to get 90 max reds with melding purely because you can take a commander of darkness or resist and you do have the option to get a high hybrid hp and es pool if you do decide to get glorious vanity and goriani's. The gearing process is relatively straightforward, it's not as easy as seismic, you do want to prioritize getting ailment effects.
Note: This build’s tankiness does come from some rng aspects in that unique block and spell block, so it's not exactly bullproof and it is another build that you can't really farm melting, really deterministically is a 5% chance to drop, but this is probably something that's copium and that most people will not be able to pull off. One last thing dd necro is not exactly the easiest build in the world to play in maps and also to play on boss fights, it does require you to desecrate the ground and then cast detonate dead and fish for corpses and it also requires you to save your ball detonate dead and focus. So it's not exactly the easiest build to play in the world and it could allow you to mess up a lot on bossing.
# Top 1: Seismic Sabo Build For Gauntlet In POE 3.18
The build that will win gauntlet.
Played as poison to take advantage of low gear requirements and absurd base damage.
Tanky with ghost shrouds, sabo blind node (15%dr), 30K armour/evasion.
No RNG aspects for gearing besides deerstalker and coated shrapnel.
Great damage uptime due to how poison functions.
Seismic is just plain OP due to overlaps, duration scaling,a nd malevolence lifetap tech.
Better boss damage than DD Necro, allowing you to rush bosses faster.
This build going to be the guarantee winner, both because it is the best build and it's also being played by the best player. Now seismic is a build that will be played as poison, you could technically go crit if you could farm up enough gear, but poison is extremely good, there have been some new tech for seismicN in that people use blade trap now to apply watering touch which allows you to get 15 stacks of winter and that makes a pretty big difference in the amount of damage. A lot of people do use malevolence life tap tech now, so pretty much the build has even more damage than before and it's going to be absolutely insane in terms of starting out. The build is actually pretty tanky against one hit, it has ghost shrouds and node is very strong and that gives you 15% reduced damage taken from blinded enemies. So it's like 75% of the effect of champion 45 for enemies that are blinded and nearby. And you do have 30K clay plus armor and evasion, so this build does have the ability to get 30k plus armor. And evasion is not as much as the champion but it's pretty much the same as the necro, and it has 15% dr. And there's not very many rng aspects for gearing and you don't really need to get a bunch of ailment effect everywhere, so gearing is pretty much just life and suppression, there is some rng for getting gear stalkers which is annoying but you probably will get it by the time you have the boss. Coated Shrapnel is something that is not required but will help out the skill tree a little bit. And if you do decide to go clusters for damage that might be some rng aspect in terms of farming, but it has great damage up time because of how poison functions and because of how seismic scales.
Seismic trap is one of these skills that have incredible scaling because the scales of duration and skills of aoe, so it allows you to scale your skill in multiple ways and duration scaling also scales your poison duration allowing you to put your traps down and run around and focus on dodging and malevolence, further increases the duration and gives you ailment damage in terms of how much the poison damage will deal. This damage is a lot better than dd necro, it allows you to rush bosses faster. That dd necro progresses the fastest through the campaign but seismic will allow you to kill the bosses the fastest because your damage will be high enough and you don't need to farm as much gear as a necro or the champion lightning strike build requires. So Seismic Sabo is by far the best build and it will be the winner for gauntlet.
