|
Dreggon posted:what curses boost chaos damage if any? i need like, 3 curses depends on method of application
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 06:24
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 14, 2024 00:45 |
|
|
i wonder if exploding enemies can crit
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 06:25
|
|
|
Temp Chains will increase the duration of chaos dots also, not a direct damage increase but can be of some use on bosses.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 06:25
|
|
|
oh blasphemy is 35%? so i can only have two as auras. that's alright, i guess
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 06:30
|
|
|
The chaos "curse" is Wither, which isn't actually a curse, but inflicts a debuff that increases chaos damage taken and stacks with itself (and also reduces movement speed, but that doesn't stack). I think the general best practice is to link it with Spell Totem and throw it down whenever you need more damage.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 06:42
|
|
|
On a scale from 1 - hosed, where would I be at the start of ascendancy if I haven't followed the game since masters? Are most of the additions things I can pick up along the way? Or, have they added a lot of game-breaking poo poo that would save me hours if I was caught up? I'm pretty excited to pick up the game again. I ran through act 1 on a fresh character and it seems like there's a million distractions now. Hopefully won't take long figuring out what I should just skip until later. No idea what build I should play, but I'm leaning towards some kind of ranged attack. Like, elemental ST or any bow skill really.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 06:51
|
|
|
10bux posted:No idea what build I should play, but I'm leaning towards some kind of ranged attack. Like, elemental ST or any bow skill really. If you like shooting things, I thoroughly recommend neversinks TS ranger build.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 06:58
|
|
|
10bux posted:On a scale from 1 - hosed, where would I be at the start of ascendancy if I haven't followed the game since masters? I just came back a couple weeks ago after a 3 (?) year break and I didn't find it very hard to get back into things.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 07:24
|
|
|
10bux posted:On a scale from 1 - hosed, where would I be at the start of ascendancy if I haven't followed the game since masters? You should be fine. Jewels and ghosts were the biggest things I can think of but those aren't that hard. 2.2 is a major shakeup. Grizlor posted:Ugh I'm gonna need a doedre's crown with 3 blue 1 white for sockets Ekster posted:Could I get a guild re-invite? Tagging these for when I get home. Did I miss anyone else looking for an invite?
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 07:30
|
|
|
10bux posted:On a scale from 1 - hosed, where would I be at the start of ascendancy if I haven't followed the game since masters? poison arrow is now caustic arrow and is a legit viable build. tshot still good. lightning arrow w/ voltaxic is fotm again. blast rain is some sweet single target. there are some other new bow skills that are mostly good for leveling, but are still viable and/or provide decent utility later on if you want something different. bladefall is sort of EK meets rain of arrows, and is pretty great. Ele ST still works, and I think ST is getting a buff (maybe just at lower skill levels?) again with the next patch. all in all I think you'll pick up anything new quick enough. probably the biggest QoL change if you haven't played since masters, vendors sell leveled skill gems now based on class, difficulty and quests completed.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 07:33
|
|
|
10bux posted:On a scale from 1 - hosed, where would I be at the start of ascendancy if I haven't followed the game since masters? ST was subpar but usable for a long time, and it's most likely returning to its glory days with the Ascendancy update  There's a decent amount of new stuff but as long as you read up on the Ascendancy classes before starting everything will be decently intuitive. Also play on SC even if you're regularly a HC player because act 4 is pretty much guaranteed to kill you your first time through. Probably biggest change aside from a new act (and upcoming ascendancy stuff) is that desync is now non-existent if you have below 120 ping or so. Other big change is jewels, which you can socket into slots on your passive tree, which are currently kinda wasted potential and a currency sink unless you have certain builds that require unique jewels.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 07:34
|
|
|
Bugsy posted:
A couple other people pmed me or whispered me today, so I got these as well
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 07:38
|
|
|
Hauki posted:A couple other people pmed me or whispered me today, so I got these as well Cool. Are these are legit? I assume its people selling the codes from the bundle thing for last week. https://www.g2a.com/path-of-exile-arctic-crown-cobra-pet-cd-key-global.html
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 07:48
|
|
|
Bugsy posted:Cool. They match up with that, yeah.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 07:49
|
|
|
They are already changing the ascendancy nodes, deadly infusion is no longer the broken Best In Node like before. It's just really really good, which is ok by me.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 09:19
|
|
|
Kild posted:It's ~310 ES with quality and I'm assuming this is a low roll. With 300 str its another 60 ES (its global so the local modifier won't apply). 400 ES/500 armor 70 life 15 all res ZO chest seems decent.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 13:47
|
|
|
What's the status of that Witch offering self node? Because because that's also brokenly powerful. Looking at that thing, it would go well with a blade vortex selfcast. I might do that this league.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 14:05
|
|
|
Pohx is streaming alpha right now and his stream is quite fun to watch. Also, unrelated: if you ever wondered if reflected secondary damage from Explosive Arrow is enough to kill your hardcore character: yes, it is.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 14:57
|
|
|
Ekster posted:Yeah mathil is the best but this is better than Kripp trying to catch up to 5 leagues worth of updates. Watching him play self cast discharge is kinda adorable. Still better than any build I've made, but I wouldn't have noticed if ggg made Discharge impossible to self cast.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 15:35
|
|
|
Kild posted:It's ~310 ES with quality and I'm assuming this is a low roll. With 300 str its another 60 ES (its global so the local modifier won't apply). 400 ES/500 armor 70 life 15 all res ZO chest seems decent. How do you know that the +ES per 5str is global and not local?
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 17:07
|
|
|
Katasi posted:How do you know that the +ES per 5str is global and not local? Mark_GGG, on Pillar of the Caged God: "They are global bonuses, like passives. They can't be local to the weapon because they rely on your stats, which aren't part of the weapon."'
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 17:27
|
|
|
I think I will do a shockwave totem build for ascendancy. Templar Inquisitor seems like it could work well. I've not played a templar since 1.3.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 17:28
|
|
|
Phobophilia posted:What's the status of that Witch offering self node? Because because that's also brokenly powerful. Yeah giving yourself a constant 30% attack/cast speed and 29%movement speed (+40% increased damage for 4 seconds with Spirit Eater) and the ability to instantly switch it up to 35% block/34%spell block while gain 600 life per block is insane. Unless SRS gets changed drastically I've decided to go necro SRS. Mistress of Sacrifice, Spirit Eater, then Commander of Darkness.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 18:35
|
|
|
With how easy it is to get high crit now (tree/ascendancy/new increased crits gem) maybe a crit spellcaster would work for MFing. With dual daggers for damage and WB you might not need any other crit on gear.
Infinite Monkeys fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Feb 26, 2016 |
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 19:02
|
|
|
Does anyone have any idea how the Scion/Trickster ascendancy node will work if you have no energy shield at all? Do you not get either bonus or do you just get the damage one all the time? It also seems really easy to exploit in a life build, just have no ES at all except for the first +14 node in the Shadow area, that combined with a +3 energy shield gained per enemy hit on a jewel will mean the evade bonus is basically always up. Or if you just want the damage, do the same but don't socket that gem.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 20:27
|
|
|
I would expect neither to work if you have no ES whatsoever.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 20:45
|
|
|
Latest batch of Ascendancy tweaks:quote:Pathfinder: 10% chance to gain a charge on crit (wasn't this 20% before?) And boy is GGG support fast and good. Sent them a message about a missing mtx (the arctic crown never got added to my mtx tabs but the cobra did) and they fixed it in 10 minutes.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 20:59
|
|
|
Bugsy posted:Latest batch of Ascendancy tweaks: Being a small company with not as many players helps CS.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 21:13
|
|
|
I've never played a Voltaxic Ranger, and I'd really like to during the next league. How feasible is it to play without Voltaxic/play it as a first league character? I know there are other unique bows people use for levelling the build (like Storm Cloud), but I'm not sure about using rare ones.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 21:15
|
|
|
Consecrated ground is on hit now. Wow. That will be my first.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 21:17
|
|
|
The one thing about the offerings that will be annoying is the constant recasting. With L20 increased duration, built-in 30% duration, you can get 6-13 seconds depending on corpses; with heavy investment into the duration nodes, you can get around 9-19 seconds. I kinda of want to just say screw it, forgo the high levels of health recovery that L20+ bone offering provides and keep it lowish level and put it in CWDT, because pathing to the skill duration nodes by Scion will be annoying as heck. Thinking L7 CWDT (~1000 damage) + L12 offering (31/30 block) seems like an OK tradeoff. This way also lets you get the 40% increased damage after offering bonus from the other ascendancy node up frequently as well. Also I suspect those life recovery values at high levels might get themselves nerfed. lurksion fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 26, 2016 |
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 21:31
|
|
|
They gave a lot of streamers alpha access/permission to stream including mathil who's streaming alpha right now.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 21:32
|
|
|
ImsaKidd posted:I've never played a Voltaxic Ranger, and I'd really like to during the next league. It's viable with storm cloud until the start of maps. Then you probably want to nab a voltaxic.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 21:40
|
|
|
I was planning on going Shadow CA/Puncture, so this buff to Noxious Strike is much appreciated.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 21:42
|
|
|
Why does everyone spoil nest their posts on the official forum. It is incredibly annoying.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 22:02
|
|
|
The official forum is terrible. Don't go there.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 22:12
|
|
|
baby puzzle posted:The official forum is terrible. Don't go there. Is there a good place where people post about builds online and discuss strategy? The official forums are indeed hard to read.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 22:26
|
|
|
How severe was the nerf to Blade Vortex? I was going to do a Blade Vortex/RF build because the Scion/Trickster seems to synergize so well with that. It seems really stupidly broken. You can exit out of Scion via the life regen nodes and get all the life regen/life/armor from the Templar/Marauder/Duelist area, then grab Path of the Shadow and literally grab +120% elemental damage in ten nodes going right into the Growth and Decay wheel for more DoT damage and life regen. I can get >200% life, >200% armor, >200% fire/spell/elemental damage from the tree with 7 endurance charges and 16.5% life regenerated per second. Since Righteous Fire is damage over time, it triggers the Trickster ascendancy which boosts that up to 21.5% of your life regenerated per second. With a Shaper's Seed it would be 25.3% life regenerated per second. You can run Blasphemy/Warlord's Mark which alongside Blade Vortex not only provides you all your endurance charges but also provides life leech as well as all the mana leech you need to keep spamming Vortex. Finally, you're exiting out of the Scion tree on the left side, and Elemental Equilibrium is right there. Since Righteous Fire does not hit, a single "adds X cold/lightning damage to spells" on any piece of gear will let Blade Vortex set Equilibrium off and give everything -50% fire resist for Righteous Fire. Find a Doon Cuebiyari to turn all that Strength into more spell power and it gets really stupid really fast. Even in curse immune maps, you could just socket Life Leech into Blade Vortex in place of something and the +100% mana regen from the Trickster ascendancy will easily let you sustain spamming it. Normally you'd need that +8% max fire resist shield to make an RF build work, but the life regen here is so high you can sustain RF indefinitely even at 80% fire resist from purity of fire/barbarism with like 5% life/second left over. So you don't actually need any uniques at all to make the build work, you can go straight into it from level 1 when the new league starts.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 22:35
|
|
|
It wasn't nerfed at all, the damage was slightly less than doubled and the number of hits was halved. It should do pretty much exactly the same damage after accounting for armor.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 22:40
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 14, 2024 00:45 |
|
|
euphronius posted:Why does everyone spoil nest their posts on the official forum. It is incredibly annoying. It's to get around the character limit isn't it?
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2016 22:50
|
|
