One of the most iconic things about Mathil - aside from his builds - is his measured and level-headed interpretation of every league. He doesn't bandwagon whatever people are complaining about, and always has reasonable takes on the state of the game and new leagues. His stream is literally a bastion of good sense in a sea of reactionaries. On to new adventures mate.
Yes!! I remember specifically about Expedition, 3.15, where everyone was bashing the league for removing power creep, but Mathil knew we needed to take away player power to allow future leagues to grow, and it was awesome for the game in the long run.
people don't give Mathil enough credit for how many times he has redefined the meta and taken what's was perceived as a bad build or ascendancy and shown it's potential. thank you for being the GOAT and never letting the haters get to you.
Literally the entire community credits Mathil for the work he has done with shifting the meta throughout POE 1. WDYAM people don't give him enough credit?
What do you mean people don't? Everyone who has touched the game knows the market pricing is based Mathil. Half the builds everyone plays, if you ask them for a guide, they'll say "look up X and Y Mathil". The entire shift to SC trade leagues is due to him, while being an extremely hardcore player he made the game more accessible for new people. If anything, half of the success of PoE is due to this guy. And right now I'm impressed that a single MTX has made almost 1M dollars. With him most definitely having a hand on over 50% of that. Imagining saying the guy that gets blamed every time the meta shifts or the market changes isn't given enough credit by the players.
I haven't seen this mentioned, but what's really impressive with some of these older builds is that Path of Building didn't exist back then. No third-party apps, almost zero websites to figure out mods, market trends, etc. This madman was just cooking the coolest shit raw.
I've been playing POE for nearly 13 years now, and all I can say is thank you for just being you. There's tons of great content creators out there for POE, back then and now, but there's still only one Mathil.
I don't know why but this particular video made me feel way more like, emotional about the fact that PoE2 is coming out. It really represents the "end of an era" and the start of a new one. Especially for those of us who have been playing PoE for over a decade. The nostalgia in this one was crazy strong. I am so hyped for next week. So hyped.
The Boys is what got me to start following build guides and trying to be better at the game. Then your Celestial Janitor was the build that jumpstarted my drive to create my own builds, and that's truly when I fell in love with the game. I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this content, and I'm excited for all the new builds to come with PoE2!
Mathil mate, you also popularized stat stick melee to the point they had make a change to it. I'll never forget the champion build with vaal reave for clear and blade flurry for single target that got me my first Uber elder kill
Man you've had such a heavy hand in forming so many different Poe 1 metas over the years... can't wait to see what you come up with in poe2! Thanks for all the content over the years mate
Thank you Mathil! Wonderful compilation of some very fond memories, both of ingame builds and also your evolution of streaming/videos/setup etc., glad you stuck with PoE all this time, best content there is :)
I remember a fakener that you did like what? Almost a decade ago? Good times! Edit: raider ngamahu on breach was prob the most fun i had on poe Edit2: FAKENER ON VID LETS GOOOOOOOO loved it
mathil is the best build maker poe has ever seen. ofc ben and the hc dudes have credit in taking things to the next level of tankyness and efficiency, but mathil has used so many different systems and items that no one ever even looked at before. definitely made a big impact in my enjoyment of the game over the years. cant wait to see what you come up with in PoE 2 :)
having seen all these builds live made me realize ive been playing PoE for far longer than I thought... Mathil, you are the absolute GOAT of the community. I cannot wait for whats to come in PoE 2. HYPE
You're responsible for my love of glass canon builds. When you find that just right balance between damage, speed and defenses where you start flying. Just feels good.
@@elpadre__ It was 2k Mathil builds when I started in Essence, upgraded to 3k in about a year or so, and hit 4k eventually (and by the time the meme was 4k he had a bunch of 5k and 6k builds regularly)
That build was so good they had to patch it out lol Patch notes: 2.4.0 Frost Walls created by you or your allies are now no longer considered enemies for the purposes of projectile collision detection (your projectiles will not collide with your own Frost Wall). This intentionally fixes the exploit case where a player stacks many Frost Walls around a boss and uses a skill like Piercing Lightning Arrow to trigger an excessive amount of hits.
with the ranger ascendacies you could run a full crit build lightning arrow with top tier map clear and amazing single target with frost wall, old times
Mathil, no matter what happened. To me, you're the best, i know a lot of new stars have risen, but you're always there in my heart as the guy i look for to play poe.
Thank you for highlighting ele buzzsaw. It was so long ago, I was afraid people would have forgotten. We were younger then. I remember your world first Atziri kill. I specced into scion ele buzzsaw after that and downed the queen a week later. Good times. Easier times. Rest up Mathil. It's an end of an era but a beginning of a new one. See you on the other side, exile.
Simply The GOAT of poe and the smartest Mathil embraced the most fun aspect of the game which is creating builds and trying different mechanics together and he shifted the meta so many times single handedly
I’m blown away the Rain of Arrows CoC VD DD wasn’t shown off using the Asenaths helmet for Lightning Warp. You literally said that was one of the best builds you’ve ever made at the time. 50m Uber DPS on Siering or Exarch, for sure thought it would be in
The younger Poe players probably don't even realise how hard old Poe was. Atziri was literally if you enraged the Vaals incorrectly the run was bricked and it was a massive investment to even run it in the first place. I hope Poe goes back to those challenges
I still remember my first build that was good enough to just delete those encounters, Facebreaker Warchiefs Berzerker. I can't remember if that was back when FB could roll 1000%, but it was early at least.
Bro farming vaal side areas and getting that juicy midnight frag is the best farming strat i had that time. It sold like hotcakes. Then i got acuity once then built mjol discharge scion. Had so much fun at that time when your name actually mattered because you gain fame in the trading chat hahaha and arena was also a thing that time.
@@Seproc I know, I first played the game in Invasion league. Anyway the Facebreaker nerf was a 1.0 thing so that was after I started. Still so long ago the idea of Facebreaker totems being an endgame boss deleter is just madness.
First build was a ranger, with a 2hsword, playing cyclone, stacking the whole maps in term of mobs, then pressing the VAAL CYCLONE button, siphoning and slicing them all at the same time They called me, The blender. *insert blending noise*
Glad to say i was there in the community in every build. Thanks Mathil for your enormous support to the comunity, for sharing to us your knowledge. You and your build were and are, for me, part of my motivation to play this great game PoE
I usually dislike the overall vibe of the streams, but respect the creativity and the ability to follow through with the build ideas. Way to go Mathil, here's for more builds to come in PoE and PoE 2!
As someone who started following more recently (last couple years), this was a fun retro to watch. Impressive that you were responsible for popularizing so much of this tech. Also nearly did a double take at 29:16, we have almost exactly the same YT recommendations right now 😂
It's a wild thought that I stopped playing around the time Ice Spear came out, and even though I still watch PoE content, I can't imagine how much difference there is in the game today compared to back then.The way you talk about "back then" makes me feel nostalgic af. Thanks for putting this out man, I think it's likely the reason I'll actually get back into PoE with II coming.
Wild to look back at builds from TEN YEARS ago. Mathil builds were the first ones i followed, and really represented me getting into endgame and serious PoE action. Thanks for all the years of sick builds and content, here's to many more!
I don't watch your stream, but I've watched every RUclips video you've posted since the very first one. I got married and had four kids along the way. I remember thinking Ele Buzzsaw was the coolest gigabrain build anyone would ever make lol.
God... I've been watching you for years and years, this video really reminded us veterans how long it's been. The office used to have nothing in it!! Seeing the Dsync happen in the fakner/ buzz saw videos.... It's been so long since that was fixed. Insane being a 10 year viewer.
Feeling so nostalgic now thinking about all the hours of fun I had playing fakenir back in the day. I still remember the clip of you playing a cast on crit EK build in like the zone before Piety.. Was one of the reasons I decided to check out PoE back then. Thanks Mathil.
All great builds I remember…most iconic one for me however was the magma balls build you did with the gloomfang amulet. I just remember that build becoming so popular afterward and all the items for it became stupidly expensive for a long time. Great video, amazing to be reminded how far poe has come
I've never been more hyped for a game! I can't wait. Huge thanks for everything you've done for the community. I always come back for your builds because you're the best at what you do.
Amazing video, thank you Mathil ! Excited for the future. You made more iconic builds, for example dual strike of ambidexterity tanking Uber Shaper beam.
My first ever build was yours, during harbinger/legacy league (dont remember now) i played yours assassin wasp nest spectral throw and it made me fell in love with the game (which by now is my favorite game of all time). Love your content, love your videos even today i always play at least one mathil build every league, cheers mate lets hope in poe 2 you can also create some bangers!!
The Spectral Throw build was the build that made me fall in love with the game. 1st build that i could consider a full build that I followed and finished. 1st build that I started to understand the mechanics of the game. Then there was the ice nova frost bolt transitioned to CoC Assassin. So smooth. So quick. Man! Those were the days! Most of your builds weren't illegal. They are still kinda balanced but they are good fun.
When people talk about build makers, people nowadays usually think about the ruetoos, sushis, jung, fubgun and nobody really talks about mathil probably because he plays casual softcore but a lot of his builds has made it to meta and stayed there.
personally for me it's your Iceshot/Barrage Raider back in Harbinger league. I didn't know how to make builds and as i followed it i learnt how they work and nowadays i can comfortably do builds on my own. It was also my way of discovering your stream.
Since way back in the dark ages your ele buzzsaw is the best build i have ever seen, that looked so cool back then, thats what got me into poe, thanks a lot!
Personally think your Voltaxic Rift Lightning Conduit builds were my favorite as everyone else was just playing Elementalist at the time with hydrosphere and lightning ball then you come out swinging with this crazy screen exploding build that blew my mind lol
Legit refreshing content! Much appreciated amidst all the regurgitated PoE2 stuff. I started back when Cyclone Chieftain insane, it did indeed resonate with me :D
An extremely iconic build for me was your bow cast on crit flicker inquisitor. I tried it out a few leagues later and it was so goddamn fun. Fast as hell, good damage, very cool mechanics. My first introduction to cast on crit and I was able to find enough resources on your videos and with several dozen questions to pathofexilebuilds that I was able to put together decent gear. It was the first league I ever played where mapping was fun enough that I played long enough that I could afford to craft an item worth hundreds of exalts.
I will always remember the Discharge MTX flashbang build. Mathil with sunnies on playing the game and the whole room lighting up whenever he pressed discharge
When I was in high school and first found POE, I followed a mathil video guide and played Ele buzzsaw as my first ever build. I’m a long time veteran now and I just gotta say, forever grateful you introduced me to the mechanics of this game, here’s to more to come in POE2🥂
I remember one league I started as your two handed phys cyclone build and it was probably one of the smoothest league starts I've ever had. Looking forward to what you come up with in POE2!
Been playing for 10 years and some of these builds are just nostalgia as weird as that might sound to say. Seeing ele buzzsaw and fakener brings me back. Seeing that ambush atziri kill reminds me how much I struggled to kill it when I was new on my flame totem witch. Good ol times. Great video.
I remember when I started playing, the first build guide I followed was one of yours for the ranger I belive. Mathil1's budget builds are the GOAT to have fun in this game man. POE2 I will try and start making some of my own builds but I really hope the budget-friendly builds keep coming : ) Edit: oh yeah one of the elemental discharge builds that I followed was THE MOST FUN I had in this game and where I got the farthest too
chief cyclone staff shockwave was the first build I truly popped off in PoE, T16s, bosses etc. NOSTALGIAPLZ. Thanks for everything through the years Mathil (and chat KEKW)
Some of my favorite Mathil builds were using Divine Ire. Both through totems and self cast. The build up and blast were so satisfying. Particular mention to the Call of the Brotherhood conversion with the maces with the phys as extra mods when they were super broken.
Now for the most iconic cosplays you've done since you also started the cosplay meta or at least made it popular. Honorable mentions of your builds for me would be Ngamahu's Flame cyclone. I thought the axe was so cool it was the belly of the beast, and it was the first 6 link i had ever had and linked together myself and it was the first time I'd ever gone really far into the game and it's just all around good memories.
There are meta builds, and there are Mathil's builds. Been watching and following you since 2014 when I was at Garena PoE, and your Fakener build is the most memorable one for me. Looking forward to another Mathil's build in PoE 2.
Some people may not know how really popular Fakener was back in the day. From the words of oldschool Tiwanese player/streamer Voegelin, about everyone in Taiwan played CI coc discharge shadow.
For me it's your Shock Nova Inquisitor from Legion League (my second league playing). First build I ever bought an item for >1ex, first build I killed Uber Elder on, first build for most things :) Then some time later the Spectral Helix Raider for league start multiple leagues in a row.
I remember discussing Ele buzzsaw with you on the PoE forums along time ago. It's been a long time, I'm so glad you mentioned it in your video I agree its your most iconic build although there have been so many greats over the years. Here's hoping they bring Spectral Throw to PoE2 with decent scaling
I missed a ton of stuff with PoE 1, both things streamers have done and my own experiences. I could never stick with it long enough (a problem that PoE 2 looks certain to fix). But Mathil streams are awesome, and I didn't even know he was an actual legend of the game. With the sequel, I'll have a chance to be there at the start of a new COOK journey. Looking forward to that!
I wasn‘t around to see most of these pop off but it’s just insane how much impact Mathil had on the game without even being part of GGG. He may be an honorary employee at this point ) The build that inspired me the most was a Dex-Stacking Spectral Throw right before Sentinel League. The archetype wasn’t on my mind back then so I definitely have to thank Mathil for making me try it. With Recombulators it really made me take off in spite off the Archnemesis that was ruining everyone‘s fun back then.
I remember playing your blade flurry assassin, first build to really push me into the endgame and enjoy building out a character. The days of stat sticks, double dipping poison and pre nerf blade flurry were so fun, i still remember the mathil effect on binos that happened for that build.
This is why mathil is my favorite poe content creator. He just sees a skill or a build and just tries to make it work instead of just playing the ''meta'' skill of the week. Some builds were amazing some were kinda meh. But even the meh build could do tier 16 maps which not everyone could get into. I am gonna look forward to path of exile 2 :)
Been following your Builds since the Ele Buzzsaw came to my attention. Used at least one of your Builds every league i played. Cant wait to see what cool Builds you can cook up in PoE 2 😁
I think, I can say two things for sure: My first real build was a mathil build (DS champion from incursion league) Without this build finally catapulting me into my first maps ever, which ultimately was the endgame that got me addicted, I simply would have dropped PoE back then after that 3rd unsuccesful blind attempt at the game. Thank you for the great times and all the best wishes for PoE2!
Your blade flurry binos build was the first guide I tried to follow. I only played to around level 60 but dropped 2 binos in the campaign 😂 felt so rich and lucky lol. Now I'm still following some of your builds and gotten my first 100 this league after a 3 year hiatus between around 3.0-3.18
5:30 Holy crap. I remember that time with winter orb. I was always considering myself just a bad to average player at best. Then I tried winter orb and suddenly I was able to do stuff that I never was able to clear (like at that time shaper and Elder. Yes, I was THAT bad). And with winterorb it just felt trivial. The build that made PoE "click" for me was Vortex Occultist. That build at that time was so incredibly tanky, broken and trivialized all of the game. With that build I was able to learn the mechanics for all of the bosses without dying to everything in one shot and after that I would say I was able to do most bosses without any problem. Crazy times and thank you Mathil for that travel through the ages of PoE :D
Only after watching this i realized that i have played so many ''iconic Mathil builds''... in fact almost all of those mentioned in this video (and many more not in video). Thank you Mathil and keep them coming in POE2, so we can complain about "Mathil effect'' on ingame economy while playing your fun builds.... :)
for me the best poe streamers are you for originality & character, empy & crew for the nonsense they are into and alkaizer for hc pushing / memes. really looking forward to what you'll be cooking in poe2, enjoy the journey.
The dreamfeather spectral throw build brought a smile to my face for sure. I had been very casual before that but i think that was the first super gg build that i played.
The mathil effect is and always will be the term used for builds that turn the market on its head, legendary build creator that immortalized himself in the community
My favorite that really launched me into doing true endgame content like sustained t16s was back in the days of 6 man vault parties for div cards has to have been Machine Gun Glacial Hammer, that is the build I followed that finally let me click on how damage scaling works especially when converting phys to elemental.
I'm more of a recent viewer, the most iconic for me was dex stacking spectral throw. When everyone thought spectral helix outclassed spectral throw everywhere, you showed that it worked still. I think it also became quite popular the league after
honestly probably the poison spectral throw is my biggest favourite. It was probably the first build where i could actually reliably do endgame. i think you used older footage because it used QOTF and grace and you would swap to slower proj because at the time all that shit double dipped. I tried the fakener build but i was so new into the game i was pretty much just farming docks at that point. I have since been making my own builds but i think a lot of your gear/tree choices has influenced me. Thanks for all the great shit. I love how you use unused item and cook really hard. it's good stuff.
I actually got a lot of inspiration from the Elementalist Golem CoC VD/DD Bow build. I built it as an inquisitor and later did some builds as a golemancer after you showed off how that can work. Was a lot of fun and I still think about wanting to recreate something similar.
Thanks for the kind words everyone. Think I'll just come back to this vid's comments anytime I need a pick-me-up.
One of the most iconic things about Mathil - aside from his builds - is his measured and level-headed interpretation of every league. He doesn't bandwagon whatever people are complaining about, and always has reasonable takes on the state of the game and new leagues. His stream is literally a bastion of good sense in a sea of reactionaries. On to new adventures mate.
Yes!! I remember specifically about Expedition, 3.15, where everyone was bashing the league for removing power creep, but Mathil knew we needed to take away player power to allow future leagues to grow, and it was awesome for the game in the long run.
people don't give Mathil enough credit for how many times he has redefined the meta and taken what's was perceived as a bad build or ascendancy and shown it's potential. thank you for being the GOAT and never letting the haters get to you.
The fact that before him softcore wasn't a thing either. People who posted softcore builds were kinda looked down and bullied by the community!
Who tf hatin on mathil
@@Le77eTouriste Ohhhh. I didn't actually know Mathil is to blame for shifting the meta to SC Trade. I really miss that time.
Literally the entire community credits Mathil for the work he has done with shifting the meta throughout POE 1. WDYAM people don't give him enough credit?
What do you mean people don't? Everyone who has touched the game knows the market pricing is based Mathil. Half the builds everyone plays, if you ask them for a guide, they'll say "look up X and Y Mathil". The entire shift to SC trade leagues is due to him, while being an extremely hardcore player he made the game more accessible for new people. If anything, half of the success of PoE is due to this guy.
And right now I'm impressed that a single MTX has made almost 1M dollars. With him most definitely having a hand on over 50% of that. Imagining saying the guy that gets blamed every time the meta shifts or the market changes isn't given enough credit by the players.
I haven't seen this mentioned, but what's really impressive with some of these older builds is that Path of Building didn't exist back then. No third-party apps, almost zero websites to figure out mods, market trends, etc.
This madman was just cooking the coolest shit raw.
So playing on console? Without youtube guides
I've been playing POE for nearly 13 years now, and all I can say is thank you for just being you. There's tons of great content creators out there for POE, back then and now, but there's still only one Mathil.
I don't know why but this particular video made me feel way more like, emotional about the fact that PoE2 is coming out. It really represents the "end of an era" and the start of a new one. Especially for those of us who have been playing PoE for over a decade. The nostalgia in this one was crazy strong. I am so hyped for next week. So hyped.
All the old ele buzzsaw builds were so fun. Gorge map footage is a trip down memory lane.
i remember around that time i was playing whirling blade ice crash or somthing
Facts, such good times :)
Miss the Gorge 😢
Oro’s sacrifice spectral throw was probably one of the first actual builds I followed
1:25 - Cyclone Chieftain
3:52 - Ice Nova Assassin
6:54 - Double Strike Champion - "The Boys"
8:54 - Viper Strike of Mamba Trickster
10:42 - Poison Assassin Wander
13:25 - Shockwave Totem Hiero
15:50 - Dreamfeather Spectral Throw Pathfinder
18:56 - CoC DD VD Necro
21:32 - Poison Blade Flurry Assassin
24:01 - Ice Spear Totem Deadeye
26:28 - CoC Discharge Shadow "Fakener"
30:41 - Spectral Throw Scion "Elemental Buzzsaw"
36:59 - Ignite Elementalist "The Shaper"
38:00 - Burning Arrow Trickster
39:13 - Facebreaker Ice Crash Inquisitor
40:16 - CwC Exsanguinate "Cumstorm"
doing the lords work
Do you know the PoE versions to add to the timestamps lol? Viper Strike obv 3.25
Sounds like some newfangled weed strains
The Boys is what got me to start following build guides and trying to be better at the game. Then your Celestial Janitor was the build that jumpstarted my drive to create my own builds, and that's truly when I fell in love with the game. I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this content, and I'm excited for all the new builds to come with PoE2!
Mathil mate, you also popularized stat stick melee to the point they had make a change to it. I'll never forget the champion build with vaal reave for clear and blade flurry for single target that got me my first Uber elder kill
reave/bflurry scion with abyss jewel stacking was my first shaper kill back in abyss league! ofc inspired by mr. matt hill as well
same here this build was my first uber elder kill ever.
juggernaut was good too, high atk speed zooming trought maps shattering everything
death's "off"-hand you mean?
Man you've had such a heavy hand in forming so many different Poe 1 metas over the years... can't wait to see what you come up with in poe2! Thanks for all the content over the years mate
Looking back at your old setups in the room was pretty fun too haha watching the desk in the background go through so many evolutions!
Thank you Mathil!
Wonderful compilation of some very fond memories, both of ingame builds and also your evolution of streaming/videos/setup etc., glad you stuck with PoE all this time, best content there is :)
I remember a fakener that you did like what? Almost a decade ago? Good times!
Edit: raider ngamahu on breach was prob the most fun i had on poe
Edit2: FAKENER ON VID LETS GOOOOOOOO loved it
there HAD to be fakener and ele buzzsaw. They're THE historical builds.
Raider ngamahu was my first ever real character in my first league!!! Fun times.
hey mathil, guys here once again
mathil is the best build maker poe has ever seen. ofc ben and the hc dudes have credit in taking things to the next level of tankyness and efficiency, but mathil has used so many different systems and items that no one ever even looked at before. definitely made a big impact in my enjoyment of the game over the years. cant wait to see what you come up with in PoE 2 :)
having seen all these builds live made me realize ive been playing PoE for far longer than I thought...
Mathil, you are the absolute GOAT of the community. I cannot wait for whats to come in PoE 2. HYPE
You're responsible for my love of glass canon builds. When you find that just right balance between damage, speed and defenses where you start flying. Just feels good.
The classic 3k hp, glass cannon mathil build
it was 4k. and you had to mention rats nest.
@@elpadre__ It was 2k Mathil builds when I started in Essence, upgraded to 3k in about a year or so, and hit 4k eventually (and by the time the meme was 4k he had a bunch of 5k and 6k builds regularly)
"just another 2k life rats nest mathil build"
i still remember the voltaxic rift lightning arrow build with the broken frost wall interaaction back in the day
Came to say this.
That build was so good they had to patch it out lol
Patch notes:
2.4.0
Frost Walls created by you or your allies are now no longer considered enemies for the purposes of projectile collision detection (your projectiles will not collide with your own Frost Wall). This intentionally fixes the exploit case where a player stacks many Frost Walls around a boss and uses a skill like Piercing Lightning Arrow to trigger an excessive amount of hits.
Kinetic Blast as well
with the ranger ascendacies you could run a full crit build lightning arrow with top tier map clear and amazing single target with frost wall, old times
Voltaxic Rift barrage with the barrage threshhold jewel which added the extra arrows left and right. He created that one too i think
Mathil, no matter what happened. To me, you're the best, i know a lot of new stars have risen, but you're always there in my heart as the guy i look for to play poe.
Thank you for highlighting ele buzzsaw. It was so long ago, I was afraid people would have forgotten. We were younger then. I remember your world first Atziri kill. I specced into scion ele buzzsaw after that and downed the queen a week later. Good times. Easier times. Rest up Mathil. It's an end of an era but a beginning of a new one. See you on the other side, exile.
Simply The GOAT of poe and the smartest
Mathil embraced the most fun aspect of the game which is creating builds and trying different mechanics together and he shifted the meta so many times single handedly
actual goat of poe1, always grinding and against the grain with original ideas. gg wp
Your Vaal double strike during incursion is literally the reason i started playing POE. Thank you Mathil.
I’m blown away the Rain of Arrows CoC VD DD wasn’t shown off using the Asenaths helmet for Lightning Warp. You literally said that was one of the best builds you’ve ever made at the time. 50m Uber DPS on Siering or Exarch, for sure thought it would be in
That one got mentioned implicitly at the end of his explanation of his Necro Sword CoC VD/DD build.
The younger Poe players probably don't even realise how hard old Poe was. Atziri was literally if you enraged the Vaals incorrectly the run was bricked and it was a massive investment to even run it in the first place.
I hope Poe goes back to those challenges
I still remember my first build that was good enough to just delete those encounters, Facebreaker Warchiefs Berzerker. I can't remember if that was back when FB could roll 1000%, but it was early at least.
Bro farming vaal side areas and getting that juicy midnight frag is the best farming strat i had that time. It sold like hotcakes. Then i got acuity once then built mjol discharge scion. Had so much fun at that time when your name actually mattered because you gain fame in the trading chat hahaha and arena was also a thing that time.
@@wolvie90there is no ascendency at that time. Just base class. Thats how old he was talking about.
@@Seproc I know, I first played the game in Invasion league. Anyway the Facebreaker nerf was a 1.0 thing so that was after I started. Still so long ago the idea of Facebreaker totems being an endgame boss deleter is just madness.
First build was a ranger, with a 2hsword, playing cyclone, stacking the whole maps in term of mobs, then pressing the VAAL CYCLONE button, siphoning and slicing them all at the same time
They called me,
The blender.
*insert blending noise*
Glad to say i was there in the community in every build. Thanks Mathil for your enormous support to the comunity, for sharing to us your knowledge. You and your build were and are, for me, part of my motivation to play this great game PoE
I usually dislike the overall vibe of the streams, but respect the creativity and the ability to follow through with the build ideas.
Way to go Mathil, here's for more builds to come in PoE and PoE 2!
For me, one of the most iconic moments was the crackling lightning inquisitor with very HIHG cast speed with Fanaticism
As someone who started following more recently (last couple years), this was a fun retro to watch. Impressive that you were responsible for popularizing so much of this tech.
Also nearly did a double take at 29:16, we have almost exactly the same YT recommendations right now 😂
10:30 "VS of the Mamba is still very strong, nothing's changed since then..."
My brother in Christ, it is still then
It's a wild thought that I stopped playing around the time Ice Spear came out, and even though I still watch PoE content, I can't imagine how much difference there is in the game today compared to back then.The way you talk about "back then" makes me feel nostalgic af. Thanks for putting this out man, I think it's likely the reason I'll actually get back into PoE with II coming.
Surprising amount of builds i remember playing with out realising that it was so long ago..
Wild to look back at builds from TEN YEARS ago. Mathil builds were the first ones i followed, and really represented me getting into endgame and serious PoE action. Thanks for all the years of sick builds and content, here's to many more!
I don't watch your stream, but I've watched every RUclips video you've posted since the very first one. I got married and had four kids along the way. I remember thinking Ele Buzzsaw was the coolest gigabrain build anyone would ever make lol.
feels good seeing some of these again after so many years, hears to a new era of mat hill builds
God... I've been watching you for years and years, this video really reminded us veterans how long it's been. The office used to have nothing in it!!
Seeing the Dsync happen in the fakner/ buzz saw videos.... It's been so long since that was fixed. Insane being a 10 year viewer.
Feeling so nostalgic now thinking about all the hours of fun I had playing fakenir back in the day. I still remember the clip of you playing a cast on crit EK build in like the zone before Piety.. Was one of the reasons I decided to check out PoE back then. Thanks Mathil.
All great builds I remember…most iconic one for me however was the magma balls build you did with the gloomfang amulet. I just remember that build becoming so popular afterward and all the items for it became stupidly expensive for a long time. Great video, amazing to be reminded how far poe has come
I've never been more hyped for a game! I can't wait. Huge thanks for everything you've done for the community. I always come back for your builds because you're the best at what you do.
Amazing video, thank you Mathil ! Excited for the future. You made more iconic builds, for example dual strike of ambidexterity tanking Uber Shaper beam.
My first ever build was yours, during harbinger/legacy league (dont remember now) i played yours assassin wasp nest spectral throw and it made me fell in love with the game (which by now is my favorite game of all time). Love your content, love your videos even today i always play at least one mathil build every league, cheers mate lets hope in poe 2 you can also create some bangers!!
The Spectral Throw build was the build that made me fall in love with the game. 1st build that i could consider a full build that I followed and finished. 1st build that I started to understand the mechanics of the game. Then there was the ice nova frost bolt transitioned to CoC Assassin. So smooth. So quick. Man! Those were the days! Most of your builds weren't illegal. They are still kinda balanced but they are good fun.
When people talk about build makers, people nowadays usually think about the ruetoos, sushis, jung, fubgun and nobody really talks about mathil probably because he plays casual softcore but a lot of his builds has made it to meta and stayed there.
these kinds of videos where you are looking back are actually my absolute favorites
personally for me it's your Iceshot/Barrage Raider back in Harbinger league. I didn't know how to make builds and as i followed it i learnt how they work and nowadays i can comfortably do builds on my own. It was also my way of discovering your stream.
Since way back in the dark ages your ele buzzsaw is the best build i have ever seen, that looked so cool back then, thats what got me into poe, thanks a lot!
Personally think your Voltaxic Rift Lightning Conduit builds were my favorite as everyone else was just playing Elementalist at the time with hydrosphere and lightning ball then you come out swinging with this crazy screen exploding build that blew my mind lol
Legit refreshing content! Much appreciated amidst all the regurgitated PoE2 stuff.
I started back when Cyclone Chieftain insane, it did indeed resonate with me :D
Elemental buzzsaw the first build I ever saw from you that really got me into your content and part of what kept me playing poe for all these years
An extremely iconic build for me was your bow cast on crit flicker inquisitor. I tried it out a few leagues later and it was so goddamn fun. Fast as hell, good damage, very cool mechanics. My first introduction to cast on crit and I was able to find enough resources on your videos and with several dozen questions to pathofexilebuilds that I was able to put together decent gear. It was the first league I ever played where mapping was fun enough that I played long enough that I could afford to craft an item worth hundreds of exalts.
I will always remember the Discharge MTX flashbang build. Mathil with sunnies on playing the game and the whole room lighting up whenever he pressed discharge
This was very entertaining to watch. Quite a trip down memory lane I imagine. Thanks for the video!
The shockwave totem build is my favourite you've ever done and gave me the inspiration to start my channel, so thank you
Great vid! I can't wait for the PoE2 build retrospective in 15 years. Cheers, Mathil.
When I was in high school and first found POE, I followed a mathil video guide and played Ele buzzsaw as my first ever build. I’m a long time veteran now and I just gotta say, forever grateful you introduced me to the mechanics of this game, here’s to more to come in POE2🥂
I remember one league I started as your two handed phys cyclone build and it was probably one of the smoothest league starts I've ever had. Looking forward to what you come up with in POE2!
Been playing for 10 years and some of these builds are just nostalgia as weird as that might sound to say. Seeing ele buzzsaw and fakener brings me back. Seeing that ambush atziri kill reminds me how much I struggled to kill it when I was new on my flame totem witch. Good ol times. Great video.
I remember when I started playing, the first build guide I followed was one of yours for the ranger I belive. Mathil1's budget builds are the GOAT to have fun in this game man. POE2 I will try and start making some of my own builds but I really hope the budget-friendly builds keep coming : )
Edit: oh yeah one of the elemental discharge builds that I followed was THE MOST FUN I had in this game and where I got the farthest too
Very memorable. Been a long journey, looking forward to the future journeys too. :D
Maaaaan the shaper build was one of the first builds I followed from you. Had so much fun on that
chief cyclone staff shockwave was the first build I truly popped off in PoE, T16s, bosses etc. NOSTALGIAPLZ. Thanks for everything through the years Mathil (and chat KEKW)
Some of my favorite Mathil builds were using Divine Ire. Both through totems and self cast. The build up and blast were so satisfying. Particular mention to the Call of the Brotherhood conversion with the maces with the phys as extra mods when they were super broken.
Now for the most iconic cosplays you've done since you also started the cosplay meta or at least made it popular.
Honorable mentions of your builds for me would be Ngamahu's Flame cyclone. I thought the axe was so cool it was the belly of the beast, and it was the first 6 link i had ever had and linked together myself and it was the first time I'd ever gone really far into the game and it's just all around good memories.
Man what a nostalgia trip, thanks for everything mathil, can't wait to see your poe2 builds.
There are meta builds, and there are Mathil's builds. Been watching and following you since 2014 when I was at Garena PoE, and your Fakener build is the most memorable one for me. Looking forward to another Mathil's build in PoE 2.
Some people may not know how really popular Fakener was back in the day. From the words of oldschool Tiwanese player/streamer Voegelin, about everyone in Taiwan played CI coc discharge shadow.
For me it's your Shock Nova Inquisitor from Legion League (my second league playing). First build I ever bought an item for >1ex, first build I killed Uber Elder on, first build for most things :)
Then some time later the Spectral Helix Raider for league start multiple leagues in a row.
I remember discussing Ele buzzsaw with you on the PoE forums along time ago. It's been a long time, I'm so glad you mentioned it in your video I agree its your most iconic build although there have been so many greats over the years. Here's hoping they bring Spectral Throw to PoE2 with decent scaling
all the inquisitor builds you have made over the years were so much fun. especially the 'bow flicker strike'
Amazing idea for a video. Nice little trip down memory lane. Love it!
I missed a ton of stuff with PoE 1, both things streamers have done and my own experiences. I could never stick with it long enough (a problem that PoE 2 looks certain to fix). But Mathil streams are awesome, and I didn't even know he was an actual legend of the game. With the sequel, I'll have a chance to be there at the start of a new COOK journey. Looking forward to that!
I wasn‘t around to see most of these pop off but it’s just insane how much impact Mathil had on the game without even being part of GGG. He may be an honorary employee at this point )
The build that inspired me the most was a Dex-Stacking Spectral Throw right before Sentinel League. The archetype wasn’t on my mind back then so I definitely have to thank Mathil for making me try it. With Recombulators it really made me take off in spite off the Archnemesis that was ruining everyone‘s fun back then.
Dreamfeather spectral throw really takes me back to watching you years ago, great to see it on the list!
I remember playing your blade flurry assassin, first build to really push me into the endgame and enjoy building out a character. The days of stat sticks, double dipping poison and pre nerf blade flurry were so fun, i still remember the mathil effect on binos that happened for that build.
The commitment of build diversity for such a long period of time is true impressive. Can't wait what you cook up in PoE2
Keep it up man!
your ele hit wander was one of the must funs builds I ever played, ggs mathil. poe 2 will be a lot of fun.
This is why mathil is my favorite poe content creator. He just sees a skill or a build and just tries to make it work instead of just playing the ''meta'' skill of the week. Some builds were amazing some were kinda meh. But even the meh build could do tier 16 maps which not everyone could get into. I am gonna look forward to path of exile 2 :)
Been following your Builds since the Ele Buzzsaw came to my attention. Used at least one of your Builds every league i played. Cant wait to see what cool Builds you can cook up in PoE 2 😁
I think, I can say two things for sure:
My first real build was a mathil build (DS champion from incursion league)
Without this build finally catapulting me into my first maps ever, which ultimately was the endgame that got me addicted, I simply would have dropped PoE back then after that 3rd unsuccesful blind attempt at the game.
Thank you for the great times and all the best wishes for PoE2!
Your blade flurry binos build was the first guide I tried to follow. I only played to around level 60 but dropped 2 binos in the campaign 😂 felt so rich and lucky lol. Now I'm still following some of your builds and gotten my first 100 this league after a 3 year hiatus between around 3.0-3.18
5:30 Holy crap. I remember that time with winter orb. I was always considering myself just a bad to average player at best. Then I tried winter orb and suddenly I was able to do stuff that I never was able to clear (like at that time shaper and Elder. Yes, I was THAT bad). And with winterorb it just felt trivial.
The build that made PoE "click" for me was Vortex Occultist. That build at that time was so incredibly tanky, broken and trivialized all of the game. With that build I was able to learn the mechanics for all of the bosses without dying to everything in one shot and after that I would say I was able to do most bosses without any problem.
Crazy times and thank you Mathil for that travel through the ages of PoE :D
keep cooking, you are one of the most delicate chefs that brings POE cuisine onto the plates of many of us
You're a bloody legend in the PoE community mate. Keep it up and see you in the sequel!
The Scourge arrow builds were always a trip. You had a really nice bleedsplosion build a few years back as well
Only after watching this i realized that i have played so many ''iconic Mathil builds''... in fact almost all of those mentioned in this video (and many more not in video). Thank you Mathil and keep them coming in POE2, so we can complain about "Mathil effect'' on ingame economy while playing your fun builds.... :)
for me the best poe streamers are you for originality & character, empy & crew for the nonsense they are into and alkaizer for hc pushing / memes. really looking forward to what you'll be cooking in poe2, enjoy the journey.
The dreamfeather spectral throw build brought a smile to my face for sure. I had been very casual before that but i think that was the first super gg build that i played.
I love you mathil. Bottom of my heart buddy. I been with you a long time. you've helped me so much.
The mathil effect is and always will be the term used for builds that turn the market on its head, legendary build creator that immortalized himself in the community
My most iconic build from yours was the first build I ever "min-maxed" (for me). And it was the Poison Spark Occu. It was SO much fun
Great Video, your a legend man! Cant wait for all the poe 2 builds!
Worlds first atziri buzzsaws rules. Hope to see more innovation in PoE2, thanks for the builds so far!
My favorite that really launched me into doing true endgame content like sustained t16s was back in the days of 6 man vault parties for div cards has to have been Machine Gun Glacial Hammer, that is the build I followed that finally let me click on how damage scaling works especially when converting phys to elemental.
I'm more of a recent viewer, the most iconic for me was dex stacking spectral throw. When everyone thought spectral helix outclassed spectral throw everywhere, you showed that it worked still. I think it also became quite popular the league after
honestly probably the poison spectral throw is my biggest favourite. It was probably the first build where i could actually reliably do endgame. i think you used older footage because it used QOTF and grace and you would swap to slower proj because at the time all that shit double dipped. I tried the fakener build but i was so new into the game i was pretty much just farming docks at that point. I have since been making my own builds but i think a lot of your gear/tree choices has influenced me. Thanks for all the great shit. I love how you use unused item and cook really hard. it's good stuff.
I actually got a lot of inspiration from the Elementalist Golem CoC VD/DD Bow build. I built it as an inquisitor and later did some builds as a golemancer after you showed off how that can work. Was a lot of fun and I still think about wanting to recreate something similar.
Damn. My first ever shaper kill was with binos flurry. I would have lost motivation to play PoE long time before if not for your builds. Cheers mate.
Love this videos Mathil, the build showcase ones :)