A plethora of new options has been added for the players in Path of Exile Phrecia expansion. In this article, we examines the top four S-tier builds for PoE Phrecia. There are builds designed for every aspect of gameplay, from fast map clearing to high single-target damage. In the section below, we discuss breifly their strengths, weaknesses, core mechanics, and gearing reccomendations, which will make your choice easier.

• Scion Power Scion Scavanger Build (Power Siphon Wand Build)
• - Skills, Core Mechanics, and Gameplay
• - Pros & Cons
• - Early Levelling (Rolling Magma utill 31)
• - Power Siphon Swap (31)
• - Purchase the following gems
• - Optional
• - Ascendancy order
• - Summary
• Volcanic Fisher Marauder Build (Ancestral Commander Melee Build)
• - Main Mechanics and Gameplay
• - Lab Points
• - Quick Notes
• - AXE vs MACE
• - Pros & Cons
• - Summary
• Storm Rain Ranger Build (Lightning Bow Build)
• - Pillars of the Game and Its Core Mechanics
• - Pros & Cons
• Summary
• Ancestral Maduader Shatter Slams ( Earth Sthering Maduader Build)
• - Core Mechanics and Gameplay
• - Bandits
• - Pantheon
• - Ascendancy order
• - Pros & Cons
• - Summary
• Conclusion

↖ Scion Power Scion Scavanger Build (Power Siphon Wand Build)

Power Siphon skill generates power charges on kill, boosting critical strike chance significantly and working well with a crit based build. Power Scion Scavenger is a high damage and fast attack speed build that clears maps efficiently while doing decent single target damage.

↖ - Skills, Core Mechanics, and Gameplay

Skills & Support Gems: Power Siphon is linked with Greater Multiple Projectiles, Inspiration, Added Lightning Damage, Critical Damage, etc to Sniper's Mark for maximum Powerful Siphon use. Mark amplifies damage dealt to enemies with weapons. Hydrosphere allows for smoother chaining of projectiles, covering a greater area.

Weapons & Gear: This build relies on dual-wielding capped wands. In order to improve map-clearing speed, key gear items such as Asenath's Gentle Touch gloves for corpse explosions are vital to this build.

Defensive Layers: Survivability and agility comes in the form of evasion rating, spell suppression, and life leech.

↖ - Pros & Cons

Pros: Great gearing options have encouraged many players due to the exceptional clearing speed, high mobility, and high critical damage that it brings.

Cons: While this can be incredibly helpful, proper gear and flasks are crucial to sustainably tank heavy physical and chaos damage, as this build is relatively squishy.

↖ - Early Levelling (Rolling Magma utill 31)

• Start as Templar 
• Kill Hillock pick up everything and choose as reward FRolling magma
• Start Scion
• Rolling Magma-Elemental Proliferation + Flame Wall until level 31
• Buy Sniper's Mark at 4
• Goat's Horns you can maybe find in Ledge. Buy from Nessa if colours are good.
• Take FAdded Lightning as Prison Reward and level somewhere. You can use Set 2 weapon set and put there your gems that you want to level
• Combustion at 8 would be great but sadly Scion doesn't have access to that. You can ask someone in the town maybe and trade it.
• Flame Dash at Level 10
• Start level up Precision later you will need it
• Clarity level up to 5
• Take Summon Skitterbots as level 16 quest reward

↖ - Power Siphon Swap (31)

- Complete Library Quest (Important!)

- Bench Craft Recipe for Flat Lightning Damage from Lunaris Temple Level 2 (craft this on 2 rings you need open prefix, and you can do that on your weapon as well)

↖ - Purchase the following gems

1. Power Siphon - Locus Mines - Charged Mines - Swift Assembly OR Added Lightning Damage

2. Automation - Detonate Mines

↖ - Optional

Shield Charge - Faster Attacks - Momentum

Proceed to the normal gems that you will find under skills tab!

↖ - Ascendancy order

1. Cloak of Flame (tonkiness) OR Foxshade (speed). Early on speed very great you can respec later.

2. Voidbattery

3. Fury Valve

↖ - Summary

For fast paced cavalry mapping and crit scion scavenger builds, The Power Scion Scavenger's usability of power charges on top of high mobility makes it efficient during endgame content.

PoB Link: https://pobb.in/7RcEGDdXSpKk

↖ Volcanic Fisher Marauder Build (Ancestral Commander Melee Build)

The Volcanic Fisher skill combined with the Volcanic Fisher Marauder build allows the user to easily surpass area damage and single target DPS, making this build perfect for blast fire damage while building towards extraordinary survivability.

↖ - Main Mechanics and Gameplay

Skills & Support Gems: Volcanic Fisher uses Increased Critical Strikes, Elemental Damage with Attacks, Fire Penetration, Inspiration, and Multistrike as supports. Leap Slam makes positioning effortless and Molten Shell defends against damage. Berserk is utilized during challenging fights in carefully planned phases for maximum damage output.

Weapons & Gear: A two handed mace or staff with good Firing Attack Rate, Fire Damage, and very high Critical Strike Chance is required. Kaom's Heart offers useful life boosts, while enhancing durability.

Defensive Layers: Life leech, fire resistance, and gear focusing on armor helps to stay alive.

↖ - Lab Points

- Call of the Ancestors (warcry recovery)

- Ancestral Endurance (3 endurance)

- Ancestral Defiance (defiance node)

- Toughened Skin (action speed can't be slowed + double body armour)

↖ - Quick Notes

- Only use Trinity when you have gloves with conversion. (this will be 5th or 6th link and you drop the fire convert node then)

- Momentum feels nice for campaign for attack speed, but melee physical or pulverise would be more damage.

- Make sure to target behind bosses for Volcanic Fissure of Snaking, you can hit 3 times (with quality) - auto targeting is less consistent.

- Normal Lab farming for Volcanic Fissure is about 1 in 11 runs, it might be easier to buy it if in trade league, however you can also just level as Sunder until Merc lab if you want.

- Before you get clusters, leech is a problem for Volcanic Fissure, there is no easy to access attack leech nearby on the tree. Clever Thief is a cheap annoint that grants attack and mana leech.

- Dealing with mana early is mostly mana potion + cannibalistic rite and mastery, life mastery for "15% skills mana cost as life instead" is also nice early. If you really don't want to deal with mana at all, consider using Lifetap until you get leech.

↖ - AXE vs MACE

- Most of the game this build uses Axes, they have a lot more attack speed and passives are generally better than maces.

- The rune enchant Gain 50% of weapon physical as extra damage of each element is a game changer however, it adds a TON of damage endgame, though this costs 4 power runes.

- Once you get the enchant Maces become quite a bit better, but it's more of a minmax endgame build option.

↖ - Pros & Cons

Pros: Strong area damage, strong single-target DPS, and strong defensive layers.

Cons: Crit reliant, there is insufficient positioning freedom due to melee range.

↖ - Summary

The Volcanic Fisher Marauder is perfect for players who want to deal big slams in visceral melee combat. It is powerful on both offense and defense which makes it great for mapping or bossing.

POB Link: https://pobb.in/xNkQ8nA8s97_

↖ Storm Rain Ranger Build (Lightning Bow Build)

Learns to rain massive lightning damage with a flurry of electric arrows, that cage the enemy in a maw of gold. This bow-oriented build specializes in managing large spaces and deals constant damage over time.

↖ - Pillars of the Game and Its Core Mechanics

Skills & Support Gems: The Storm Rain skill is bolstered by Elemental Damage with Attacks, Inspiration, Added Lightning Damage, Lightning Penetration, and Greater Multiple Projectiles. Sniper's Mark grants greater single target damage while Tornado duplicates projectiles in capacity for additional lightning damage.

Weapons & Gear: There is a unique bow Storm Cloud as well as crafted rare ones that have lightning penetration and increased crit chance. These bows are superb choices A high attack speed bow with bonuses to lightning damage and critical strike chance is a must.

Defensive Layers: Spell suppression, life leech, and evasion rating guarantee distance mobility while simultaneously keeping the player safe.

↖ - Pros & Cons

Pros: Mobility, average area control, and high lightning damage output.

Cons: Doing so reduces threat from enemies, and while it makes the user more agile, they are more susceptible to being attacked while in a chaotic state. Positioning still remains vital for inflicting dominant damage per second with the user’s limited life pool.

↖ Summary

The Storm Rain Ranger is perhaps the most action-heavy bow build that depends on where the user is positioned at lightning based dominator per second. It’s a very fitting set up for the players whose putting strength lies in intense action blended with highly controlled circumstances.

POB LINK: https://pobb.in/6tLKIL9N9AkW

↖ Ancestral Maduader Shatter Slams ( Earth Sthering Maduader Build)

The Earth Shatter Marauder's build allows for the most powerful area-of-effect (AoE) burst damage potential by combining totem support and powerful slam attacks. This melee build excels at creating war cries which trigger exploding seismic fissures, which Shatter Slam assists.

↖ - Core Mechanics and Gameplay

Weapons & Gear: Ancestral War Chief and Protector totem increases attack damage spiked by the Seismic Cry AOE. Earth Shatter and the three totem skills can be paired with Pulverize, Fist, Critical Breaks, Melee.

Skills & Support Gems: Armor-based constructs increase physical damage mitigation and Sustainability Leech guarantees life. A high physical damage and critical strike potential two-handed mace or axe is a must.

Defensive Layers: Fist of War's best and Enduring Cry has life esganger, and Seismic Cry amplifies AoE fingernail spikes demolishing the world.

↖ - Bandits

Help Alira -> respec for extra skill point late

↖ - Pantheon

Major Pantheon: Brine King, then swap to Lunaris when you pick up Ancestral Defiance ascendancy node + Unwavering Stance

Minor Pantheon: Garukhan until shock effect implicits, then swap to Ralakesh for mapping / Ryslatha for bossing

↖ - Ascendancy order

1- Call of the Ancestors

2- Toughened Skin

3- Ancestral Endurance

4- Ancestral Defiance

↖ - Pros & Cons

Pros: Requires high burst damage, everything geared towards outstanding area coverage, and if survivability needs to be strong go for life leech.

Cons: Best suited for melee range, lack mobility makes positioning extremely difficult and targeting powerful bosses can prove challenging.

↖ - Summary

A focused Earth Shatter Marauder can slash enemies apart with his slam attacks. Strong impacts of the melee build is reliable due to carefully planned placement of its explosive slams. The Earth Shatter Marauder is perfect for players who enjoy powerful abilities with a cost.

POB Link: https://pobb.in/xsjCInDbMSUx

↖ Conclusion

Choosing any of these four builds will guarantee some stunned looks from those you play with in Path of Exile: Phrecia. Do you like zooming in a using ranged weapons to obliterate your enemies? The Power Scion Scavenger will help you do that. The Earth Shatter Marauder will deal with visceral melee slams and will also aid in endgame content. Whatever your style is when playing Wraeclast, these S-tier builds have got you covered. Choose whichever one you want and enjoy yourself!