Is Group Play Dead?

Just looking into maybe running a trio for .4 and yet there are hardly any builds that have been made for group play and one of the best builds is currently bricked because of the unique shield being essentially gone from the game afyer it was removed due to a big that has since been fixed. Do we have to wait a few leagues before we can see some actual group builds or are there builds im not finding that are great for 2 to 3 players that wanna run some hyper juiced content?

PoE2 has no META system. Game is designed for single player system.

I like how the community is complaining that group play is breaking the game, and at the same time complaining that group play is dead.

And on the same forum page at the same time.

Anyway rarity bot witch hunter with two screen wide presence helps both with clear and with drops.

Takes 15 minutes to setup with practically no investment.

Im just a new player that wants to attempt doing some group play for the next league and in my research finding that there is very little content for poe 2 thats up to date or even good for being a guide.

Its a little weird people dont like a way to play that encourages playing with friends tho.

Playing with friends is encouraged.

They give you better drops in groups.

300 rarity, gravebind gloves, alpha howl helmet, good "attack speed/crit/dmg" scepter, and you just run around them and collect.

No deep guide needed, because it is very stupid simple system.

Keep an eye for the party block shield in 0.4.