PATH of EXILE: Trial of the Ancestors - A Beginner's Guide to PoE Sportsball for Confused Exiles

Great video! Lot's of really helpful info! I think one thing was updated in the recent patch; when you lose a match you get 500 instead of 250. Since you can lose one match per tournament, you can chose a round where the rewards aren't as good to lose on purpose. Obviously this is only a good play once you've grasped a winning strategy and have less risk of getting knocked out.

I watched this video because I was getting wrecked at level 10, thanks ZiggyD!
Edit: I just won the first Trial after watching the video! I was level 16, right after Merveil. :D

The information I am after is, what level should I even attempt to start? I think the opponents scaled with your successes, so should one just jump right in at after killing Hillock or wait until all geared up after act 10?

Literally wasted a day playing this. Then spent the next day playing the campaign. Got bored. Played this for a couple hours. Then finished campaign....

I'm actually treating it like an almost separate game. Its... its becoming fantastic to have around. Like having arena for LoL or something.

The guy that sell the fieldmasters and the biggest turtle. Eliminate him early, as the big turtle is such a bad unity to deal. Other than that, I love to get a thunderbird at the start. Such a good unity and sometimes hard to get at first.

Want to get in to this game but these league mechanics are honestly quite annoying. I've cleared the campaign multiple times and want to just enjoy cool ways of getting new gear but this is just too much

when you are playing an hack and slay which means kill massive waves asap and you end up in an arena...

Can y'all just say it and quit rambling fuck

I hate this league mechanic, as all the leagues based on other game styles (Blight, etc). It could be ok, but there's always the GGG's touch (awful mobs that are unkillable, invisible, immune, unstunnable, etc) that ruined all the fun

Sorry man but given mechanic could be so much better, its just wayy to imbalanced and frustrating.

Do we know if the stealth mechanic from Phase Run and Aspect of the Cat works for preventing aggro in ToTA?

hmm, i notice 2 of my characters i bought disappeared, any reason? O_o
they can die and leave?

A poe video from ziggyD OMG its a miracle

Its laughable that you said all builds can do this league mechanic...Thered zero chance a melee player can do this consistently just like Sanctum

A great explanation, ZiggyD. Thank you very much!

I feel like this mechanic was made for the totem builds, I'm just imagining a consecrated path totem build having the bois running around smacking enemies

Was very confused by this as a new player. It came up as part of the campaign for me. I got stomped immediately. Can you actually play while still leveling?

In tradition PoE leagues keep going downhill. I don't know why they can't stick to the basics of "Here's some more interesting ways to kill enemies" cause that's all people really want from an ARPG.

Tried frost wall - did nothing here

One of the best combinations I found and I win every time with are Tidecallers with 4 projectiles.
4 of them on defense heavily counter any attackers and they can still help with attack, because of their range

so what escorts do?

When is the PvP version coming? :)

I've been struggling with the trials, always out of the tournament after round 1 or round 2. After watching this video, I've won my tournaments :) Thank you so much.

POE peaked 3 years ago but thanks for the video!

I did one last night not having any idea what was happning. of ourse I also picked the hardest fight i think so yea that didn't end well. It makes a lot more sense now

worst league ever

I would also like to add that it is wise to consider good recovery, be it leech, L/MPS and especially Flasks.

It is a good thing I am doing Poisonous Concoction Pathfinder this run, I was able to get to the finals on my 2nd try on my 2nd character thanks to my bullshit Flask recovery

I'm struggling with even winning a match and I'm a Necro build. I wish they gave us more minions at the start

Brain tumors are more enjoyable than this shit. They get double the people each time and you've got no damn favour to spend and get new warriors; not to mention the few you manage to get are brain dead and just get fucked by the opponents who actually defend flanks and flank themselves. Complete dogshit.

Since you love the unexplained, I think you should try a little language called erlang. Have fun.

EA build here. Just buy units, trying to get expensive ones. Put weak units as flankers, ranged units as defenders, combat/specialty as escorts rest as attackers. Deep dive into the enemy and drop the totems. They pretty much always want to fight you and rarely invade. Keep totems up and opportunistically take down their Ancestral totems. Its a lot more simple than it looks

Aren't minion builds VERY good in here?

Worst league in poe 1's history

so you don't keep the currencies that buys units from tournament to tournament? you can't farm up?

this mechanic needs a ''surrender'' option nothin more annoying, then when u die, then the enemies rush down ur totem and u have to sit and wait for 5-10 mins while they slowly kill all your ''allies''

I was lucky enough to figure out early in leveling to just put the lizards on flanks while I acted as the entire frontline. Scored some super-early tournament wins that way despite my damage being terrible and the female-Maui stealing all my flask charges.

Ahh so my problem is thinking flankers are terrible positions. This video is amazing!

This mode has been more frustrating then the time I've stumbled into Hall of Grandmasters. I haven't touched it since act 1.

Link builds.....🤔🤷‍♂️

finally a decent explanation

omg thank you so much for explaining a strat on the beginning and unit placement.

it's bs that one of the totem minion is 3x stronger than their captain

When the league mechanic itself is more entertaining than Diablo 4 as a whole. I've haven't got past Act 7 because I'm so addicted to the tournaments, haha

thanks foe detailed guide, made a big difference

Thanks, now I have to try the league

The annoying part is the start: having to play 3 totems against round 5-6 enemies with 7-8 totems is impossible it starts to get fun when you have 4-5 totems where you can finally create strategy & all

This league sucks and is way to over tuned I mean come on ggg

It's boring AF....

Thank you for this vid. Not at all a gaming style I want to do. I started doing this, but couldn't get the hang of it.

i like arpg killing mindlessly hordes of enemies. can't stand slow boring arena strategy type game. Am skipping this.