Path of Exile is a widely popular action MMORPG similar to the Diablo and Torchlight franchises; the game is praised for its range of freedom and for allowing players to build craft truly powerful ways of play. However, Path of Exile is no stranger to incredibly overpowered abilities and, when utilized the right way with other attributes in the games, makes for truly devastating builds that can cut through waves upon waves of enemies with nearly no effort at all.

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Each class in Path of Exile is able to unlock their full potential with the right gear and abilities in a particular order; while players have limitless potential inside the game, here are just a few overpowered builds in Path Of Exile.

10 Slayer Super Cyclone Build

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The Super Cyclone Slayer build utilizes the ascendant class for the Duelist known as the Slayer focusing on the Cyclone skill. Weapons with high damage and that boost health are good fits for this build. The super cyclone slayer build focuses on physical damage, area damage, and critical multipliers to dish out massive DPS to enemies; this allows players to cut through hordes of enemies with ease with a fair amount of momentum.

Pieces of gear that serve as good support for this build are Belly of the Beast: Full Wyrmscale, Dread band coral ring, and Kondos pride.

9 Berserker One Punch Build

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The marauder's Berserker ascendancy class is the focus of this build; when geared appropriately, this build has top marks in survivability and clear speed. One Punch Berserker is a melee build that keeps players close to enemies, but the risk is worth the reward.

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Players should prioritize physical damage, fire damage, and elemental damage for offense and armor and evasion for defensive traits. The One Punch build focuses on the infernal blow ability and capitalizing on as much damage as possible; this build is enjoyable to play and viable inside high-level content.

8 Necromancer Carrion Golem Build

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The Necromancer is an ascendancy class for the witch; this build focuses on the summoning of carrion golems' ability, maximizing minion damage, and utterly overwhelming enemies with numbers. While this build is incredibly fun, it is not beginner-friendly and very costly to the player.

Players should focus on gear that raises minion damage, strength, and energy shield for protections. This build allows players to walk through even the mightiest of enemies and progress while they are turned to piles of goo behind them.

7 Raider Toxic Rain Build

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The Toxic Rain build is perhaps the most joyous build on the list as nothing is better than raining death from above down on unsuspecting enemies and watching them wither into nothing. This build utilizes the Raider ascendancy class for the Ranger; the Toxic Rain skill is a bow ability that shoots projectiles into the air that fall and inflicts Chaos damage among enemies in an area of effect and hindering movement.

The Toxic Rain build is relatively easy for all players to craft into and is not too expensive to obtain the gear needed. The one drawback of the class is that it is mana heavy, so players need strict consumption to use correctly.

6 Assassin Freezing Pulse

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Freezing Pulse is a class ability belonging to the assassin ascendancy class of the shadow; focusing around this ability allows the player to fire off a wide spread of projectiles that deal heavy cold damage and has a slight chance to freeze enemies on impact.

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Players should focus on spell cast speed, ice damage, spell damage, and critical multiplier to ensure maximum damage output for clearing enemies. This is a very low-budget build for new players and immensely satisfying to play, so even veteran players should give the build a chance at least once.

5 Slayer Turbo Flicker Strike Build

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Turbo Flicker Strike is an incredibly strong build pulled from the Slayer ascendancy class of Duelist; this build will send players zapping around the map, clearing dozens of enemies at a time with insta-kill proficiency. Flicker Strike has an incredibly fun style of play and is easy to build into for new players, with high survivability for endgame content.

Aside from physical and melee damage, players should prioritize attack speed, critical multiplier, intelligence, and life. With the right components, the Turbo flicker strike build will have players clearing dungeons in no time at all.

4 Saboteur Blazing Salvo Mines Build

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The Saboteur ascendancy class from the Slayer has a fun-to-play build focusing on using mines stacked with strong elemental damage. Players will sling fiery balls of explosive death around a small area and watch everything turn to ash; Fire damage, elemental damage, mine damage, and spell damage are all must when looking for gear for this mine build.

At the same time, the Blazing Salvo build does above-average amounts of damage, it does lack in the survivability department and may feel a bit frail. However, it doesn't cost much to acquire the suitable materials for this build, so new and veteran players can try it out without breaking the bank.

3 Gladiator Double Strike Build

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Players will crush all foes in their path with this Double Strike build as a fun setup using the Gladiator ascendancy class from Duelist. This build excels in single target damage and survivability but can also perform well in dungeon crawls, even if it's not the fastest in clearing out enemies compared to other builds.

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Players should focus on physical and melee damage and search for gear that increases critical, intelligence, and life. Getting over the hurdle, being able to dish out some impressive damage and take some at the same time is a focal point of this build which is great for beginning players.

2 Elementalist Cold Ethereal Knives Build

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The Elementalist ascendancy class from the With class has a powerful build utilizing the Ethereal Knives ability, which is excellent for clearing a room filled with enemies.

A vital piece of this build is the Ring of Blades; this trait modifies the arc at which Ethereal Blades fire, changing it to a complete circle instead of straight ahead, making it essential for maximizing damage. This style of build is straightforward, and while it may not be for every type of player, it is a fun build to try out that isn't overly costly to the player.

1 Juggernaut Marauder Tectonic Slam Build

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For players looking to cause extreme havoc on the battlefield, leaving droves of defeated enemies behind, the tectonic slam build is worth a look. This build is based on the Juggernaut ascendancy class for marauders.

The Tectonic Slam skill in combination with other abilities like added fire damage, Multistrike, and Ruthless, will forge an unstoppable mauler that can take on almost any content without issue. The gear for this build is easily acquired, so players should focus on melee damage and critical multiplier, as well as armor and life.

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