Recently i've been working on modular routine + ranged builds (aka kiting routine).
I've leveled about 7-8 builds this week with this bot, i'll list a few of them feel free to take this with a grain of salt because i have bias against pure melee build.
My main : Crit tornado ranger,
Forum - Ranger - [ 1.3 ] Neversink's ? INDEPTH Tornado Guide ? Beginner friendly ? Rapid clear ? Uber Atziri - Path of Exile, adjustment needed in routine to not make it face tank, can bot 78 maps with it, probably the strongest build with some currency. Mobility is good, damage is insane, survivability is insane with kiting mechanic and good gem setup. My bow is a 310pdps 9% harbinger bow. i'd rate it 9.5/10 with EB in term of efficiency with a good routine.
Rest are "experiments"
1) Static strike, dual claw, adaptation of
Forum - Shadow - [ 1.3.0 ] Vaal Pact Dual Claw Build Level 92 ( Atziri Viable + BOTW S: 2 EP: 9 ) - Path of Exile, the mass dps/aspd version. The fastest farmer but can't do high end maps. My whirling blade cooldown is 0.2s with this build. My DPS is around 30k. Adjustment in plugins: CustomPlayerMover to use whirling blade, Routine can be used as is. Efficient for : Dominus farming (2-3min per run), Trash map farming. Pretty squishy as it is melee and focus on raw dps. 7/10
2) AA+EB+MoM+CoD Arc witches.
[1.3] Arc is so insanly strong with this tree! : pathofexile. Mobility with lightning warp makes it the fast. Really fast. Damage is decent (12k tooltip dps at lvl80), relatively safe, can't do high end maps, not efficient for dominus farming. Good for low tier maps or midnight farming due to mobility. Routine need: default one with modification to do kiting. 6/10
3) Crit ST shadow, find mathil's guide. Mobility is whirling blade although cd on it is around 0.9s. It's ranged so safer than the dual claw build. Routine is default one with modification to do kiting. Good for dominus farm, low tier-medium map (high only if you can find BiS items),midnight. 11k ST tooltip dps before abyssus nerf to st, now it's 8k. 8/10
4) Firetrapper + burn prolif. 10000 guides aobut that. Mobility is meh, lightning warp isn't that fast unless you have quality gems (no cast speed at all on gear/tree), Kiting routine needed, it's pretty fast clearing trash mobs but struggles on every bosses ever, probably my build. I'll use this to farm low level map but it's not efficient for dominus nor midnight farming. Probably more of a currency farmer through maps. 5/10
5) THE HOLY GRAIL :
Forum - Scion - [1.3.0]PewPewPews official Starter-Friendly Incinerate Build | Stronger than ever! - Path of Exile , cheap and bot friendly due to the way the cwdt gems are setup. Tanky, HIGH MOBILITY, fast clear. Capable of high end maps, REALLY BUDGET (count 3ex of investment TOTAL to have end game viable build that's including a 5L). A whole new routine was needed for this to make sure it doesn't break the incinerate chain. 9/10
tl;dr: every build can work, pick your focus on what you want your bot to do.
If you want the fastest alt farmer pick something that can chain run dominus and has really high mobility. If you wanna level to 100 pick TS or Incinerate they're safe, tanky, stompy. If you want to farm midnight you need something MOBILE and fast clear. If you wanna farm currency on maps pick good mobility/high aoe damage.
The key to success is to OPTIMIZE the routine for your build because the generic one is as its name implies : generic. It doesn't make best use of your skill.
My next experiment will be a build of my OWN. Made for the BOT only. As in it would be hard to play it efficiently without a AI logic to drive it. I'm thinking of a summoner/animate guardian/animate weapon build.
When the bot comes back up i'll share with you guys some of my "private" routine + plugins i've been working on.
Consider the dynamic chaos plugin + Passive points allocation to finally be here