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NecroMonster posted:big idiot subsidizes my gameplay And this is totally fine, but letting these people run rampant on the forums is a disaster.
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"A long while back Cybrix was banned from PoE for botting. He made a new account and continued playing normally. Fast forward to yesterday Kripp gave him a key for the PoE closed beta. Many people were mad about this because why is someone who was formerly banned for breaking the rules in the beta ahead of them. Then some guy who has spent 30k on PoE gets involved and starts crying to GGG and threatening to stop buying supporter packs. So Cybrix ended up getting banned. I've seen a variety of excuses such as "banned players aren't allowed to return with new accounts" to "he was harassing GGG devs" but most people realize that they just caved to a crybaby that helps pay their bills."
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Mar 16, 2016 20:13
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Ada posted:Someone from the goon guild might be kind enough to donate some decent leveling items if you ask. As a caster a good wand can carry you really far, so maybe buying one for an alch or something might be enough. Like, here's a "+1 lightning, +60% spell" damage for an alch Thanks, I did the trade and got the wand. It was surprisingly easy and I think I'll look for more items once I find some more good currency.
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Mar 16, 2016 20:15
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I used a vaal on a unique jewel, and got a different unique jewel! ...at least I got the achievement for it! In other news, I downloaded the standalone client to see if it would have any effect on the frame time spikes that happen a lot. You know, like when Izaro attacks and the screen freezes for 1-2 seconds and then you're dead? Well, somehow it does work! I still get a lot of it in town when players with those custom effects run around, but there's a lot less stutter out among mobs, and that's where it really matters.
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Mar 16, 2016 20:21
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scissorman posted:Thanks, I did the trade and got the wand. How I looked for it was I set the base type to Wand, set the maximum item level to around your level, and price exactly 1 alch. Then when the results came up I clicked on the Spell Damage and it sorted by that mod. If you want the +gem you can add it but you don't need to set up a lot of criteria to find a decent item for cheap. Unfortunately you can only search by item level and not by useable level so maybe there's a better one out there, but that's some advice for searching for items, anyway.
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Mar 16, 2016 20:29
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Bugsy posted:Diamond = $1,000 (he has made multiple uniques so at least 3,000 but I think its closer to 5k) ZenVulgarity posted:holy poo poo
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Mar 16, 2016 20:39
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Ada posted:How I looked for it was I set the base type to Wand, set the maximum item level to around your level, and price exactly 1 alch. Then when the results came up I clicked on the Spell Damage and it sorted by that mod. If you want the +gem you can add it but you don't need to set up a lot of criteria to find a decent item for cheap. Unfortunately you can only search by item level and not by useable level so maybe there's a better one out there, but that's some advice for searching for items, anyway. This is really great advice and an awesome way to do budget shopping while levelling a dude. You can grab some surprisingly good deals from people that just dump stuff in to their 1 alch or 1 chaos stash tab and move on. Also, you can set a maximum level requirement with the min/max Level inputs under Requirements (just above the mod inputs). Just fill in the max and off you go. While levelling I will usually set it to current level +3 or something like that so I don't accidentally buy something I can't use until I hit 75 or whatever.
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Mar 16, 2016 20:42
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Ah I didn't see that there. Yeah you should use that instead of sorting by iLevel.
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Mar 16, 2016 20:45
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I'm quite glad that poe trade will autocomplete item names now, just wish I could set it so buyout only is always on as well.
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Mar 16, 2016 21:04
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At least now 'online only' defaults to 'yes'. Buyout only defaulting to 'no' I don't mind so much because I tend to sort by price anyways, which throws all the non-priced items to the end.
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Mar 16, 2016 21:09
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There's this handy chrome extension I found a while back that sets online only to on, buyout only to yes and auto sorts by price: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/poe-trade-options/bndegecdahepjfkeolfopacjjojafjie?hl=en
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Mar 16, 2016 21:12
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I went and bought a high roll, 5 link Marohi Erqi for 1.5ex. I'm still not decided on what skill to use with it. Earthquake is the obvious one but maybe something exotic. Leap Slam? Sweep  ?
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Mar 16, 2016 21:12
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scissorman posted:Thanks, I did the trade and got the wand. You don't even need "good" currency- I see people listing items for 2-5 alteration orbs all the time. The currency trading on poe.trade is useful as well, you can convert jewelers/chance/etc orbs into Chaos for buying items.
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Mar 16, 2016 21:17
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Let's not forget the guy who the giant 10 thousand dollar jewel dog pet that only he and a few friends have. And there's also the big spender that gets any negative post about him deleted by ggg. I never understood the whole surprise that someone would spend a boat load of money on this game. I'd only be surprised if they were going into debt spending that kind of money which I'm sure most aren't. If I was rich or making closer to 6 figures I'd spend that kind of money on this game. But I'm also a single dude with no kids so I would have the spare cash to spend it on what I like doing.
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Mar 16, 2016 21:26
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Mar 16, 2016 21:29
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you dont understand when people are surprised that a dude spent 20k on a videogame? lol
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Mar 16, 2016 21:35
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Holyshoot posted:Let's not forget the guy who the giant 10 thousand dollar jewel dog pet that only he and a few friends have. And there's also the big spender that gets any negative post about him deleted by ggg. I can't help but wonder if GGG takes something like this and just splits it among employees as a sort of Windfall bonus payout instead of dumping it back into the company well. About how many people work at GGG now?
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Mar 16, 2016 21:40
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Awesome! posted:you dont understand when people are surprised that a dude spent 20k on a videogame? lol So are you surprised when someone spends lots of money on some other hobby that isn't virtual? The fact he doesn't play a lot confirms even more him spending 30k is like you buying a video game for 60 bucks you play once. He's got so much money it doesn't matter.
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no, its not like that at all. you might be crazy if you think like this
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Mar 16, 2016 21:45
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Holyshoot posted:So are you surprised when someone spends lots of money on some other hobby that isn't virtual? The fact he doesn't play a lot confirms even more him spending 30k is like you buying a video game for 60 bucks you play once. He's got so much money it doesn't matter. your mistake is assuming that because someone spends $20k on a video game that they are wealthy. coming from the mobile industry, i know for a fact this is false. it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he spent $20k on the game and only made $30k a year. also, the guy doesn't even play the loving game, so yeah, it's pretty shocking. he literally spent that much money just so he could spend 12+ hours a day waving his dick around on the official poe forums. charan also tried to get GGG to make him an actual business partner over his '$20,000 investment', which to me screams that the dude has no loving clue how much money actually goes into an endeavor like this. panda clue fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Mar 16, 2016 21:46
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$20k even in just the three years since PoE's open beta comes out to about $600 a month. If you consider someone making like $3k a month but without kids or big house payments or something, that's not a completely monstrous amount. Silly to spend on one video game, sure, but not in the realm of real craziness. Safari Disco Lion fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Mar 16, 2016 21:51
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Safari Disco Lion posted:$20k even in just the three years since PoE's open beta comes out to about $600 a month. If you consider someone making like $3k a month but without kids or big house payments or something, that's not a completely monstrous amount. Silly to spend on one video game, sure, but not in the realm of real craziness. he paid at least $13,000 of it in one lump sum before the game was even released.
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panda clue posted:he paid at least $13,000 of it in one lump sum before the game was even released. I know, I'm just saying it's not THAT insane if you think of it in terms of saving up each month to buy the big packs at some point. But obviously the most likely case for the sperg in question is massive credit card debt, since this guy does not seem like any sort of responsible adult capable of budgeting and saving.
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Safari Disco Lion posted:I know, I'm just saying it's not THAT insane if you think of it in terms of saving up each month to buy the big packs at some point. I mean, yea on the super far end of the spectrum of wealth, spending $13,000 on a video game that hasn't been released isn't that shocking, sure. I'm not sure why you're trying to pretend that a normal human adult wouldn't find that completely unreasonable, though. Most people's cars aren't even worth that much money, assuming they own a car at all. Safari Disco Lion posted:But obviously the most likely case for the sperg in question is massive credit card debt, since this guy does not seem like any sort of responsible adult capable of budgeting and saving. There is a 99% chance this is the case.
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panda clue posted:your mistake is assuming that because someone spends $20k on a video game that they are wealthy. coming from the mobile industry, i know for a fact this is false. Ya i will sit with the surprised/wow why would you do that crowd if he's 20k in debt making 30k/yr. But if not then the surprise goes away.
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Regardless of if Charan is loaded or not, he's still an insane weirdo who threw a giant bitchfit about trollnir and has the dumbest game "design" ideas you'll ever see, not that that will likely surprise anyone at all.
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climboutonalimb posted:Yikes. as a mostly HC player, that build scares the crap out of me... talk about glass cannon. I guess the best way to play that is to pre-spam spark and you basically rely on spark proj speed and pierce to off screen nearly everything. yeah. thats where i'm falling short as well. as a previously exclusive HC player I'm really glad I didn't try this on HC. I've died so many times, it's gross. Like If I maxed out life on everything I have, I could get another ~700 life after nodes, maybe. That's probably really generous actually and incredibly expensive in order to preserve my resists/current damage. Additionally I could get another ~1.2k ES, maybe more. Getting significantly more than that would require getting a ~650+ ES chest and a 350+ es helm. so with an unreasonable amount of life and spending a poo poo ton of money on an amazing chest I could maybe hit ~5.6-6k Ehp. Still seems squishy. MerrMan posted:This is really great advice and an awesome way to do budget shopping while levelling a dude. You can grab some surprisingly good deals from people that just dump stuff in to their 1 alch or 1 chaos stash tab and move on. I would add to this to not limit by buyouts only, as you're excluding non-buyout options which you can easily get for similar prices or even cheaper. People will often take any reasonable offer given. in which case, when you search, just sort it by currency amount (click on one of the chaos orbs or other currency for something that pops up on search). it will automatically sort the cheapest first, and you can scroll down to look at the ones with no buyout. Tabletops fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Right now I'm following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_oHM8jzts guide and almost finished cruel (lvl 57 right now) completely self found. Using spark orb of storms still. Trash dies insanely fast, but bosses and resistant mobs take a bit longer. I think it's time to start buying a few upgrades though. This is my first character by the way. Is there a way to link characters? I had an account I forgot about but now I just log in through steam.
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scissorman posted:How soon should I start looking at buying stuff via trading? Play self found to A4 normal and farm dried lake until I'm ready to move on. Buy gear to bring my resists to 95% (cruel maxed) Finish act 4 normal and play to act 4 cruel, farm dried lake until I'm ready to move on. Buy gear to bring my resists to 135% (merciless maxed) Finish act 4 cruel (OK, I generally buy a carry) and play to act 4 merciless, farm dried lake until ready for maps. Buy gear to fill any gaps before mapping
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whypick1 posted:You can log on to the PoE site with your Steam credentials. But my steam email is the same as I used in my first account. e: there is literally sign in with steam on the same screen e2: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Jamiefox/characters roast me West007 fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Mar 16, 2016 22:55
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West007 posted:Right now I'm following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_oHM8jzts guide and almost finished cruel (lvl 57 right now) completely self found. Using spark orb of storms still. Trash dies insanely fast, but bosses and resistant mobs take a bit longer. I think it's time to start buying a few upgrades though. This is my first character by the way. On the POE website, log in then in you profile/account page there will be a tab named characters and you can get inventory + full skilltree with gems there.
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Mar 16, 2016 22:58
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Mar 16, 2016 23:03
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whypick1 posted:"This profile tab has been set to private" Should be visible now.
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Tabletops posted:yeah. thats where i'm falling short as well. as a previously exclusive HC player I'm really glad I didn't try this on HC. I've died so many times, it's gross. I toyed with making the build more defensively focused but by the end of it was drastically different. I feel like this guy is aiming for max dps and ignoring everything else. The easiest thing would be to drop the heralds for two defensive curses with a +1 curse item, add pcoc to spark in place of FC, maybe. Also I'm super confused on all the mana nodes, is spark that expensive? Maybe drop some of that and get some extra life... Idk hybrid builds are weird and now I'm completely changing the build intent. E: gently caress it, here's a proj spd pierce life based spark build I would run on hc. I would probably run a similar gem setup but run warlords and assassins mark on blasphy with a +1 curse item climboutonalimb fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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NecroMonster posted:play until the game stuffs you into a hole in the ground and then shits on your exposed head This sounds like a joke but is not.
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Mar 16, 2016 23:10
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Guys it's totally normal if someone spends money that could pay for an entire house, on a single video game I don't see what the big deal is 
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Flesh Forge posted:Guys it's totally normal if someone spends money that could pay for an entire house, on a single video game I don't see what the big deal is I sincerely hope when I am in my eighties I am doing exactly this, whilst sending screenshots of my random in game products to my kids along with the caption "Haha, you aren't inheriting poo poo". Pensioners are going to be the games industries turbo whales in twenty years!
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RossCo posted:I sincerely hope when I am in my eighties I am doing exactly this, whilst sending screenshots of my random in game products to my kids along with the caption "Haha, you aren't inheriting poo poo". Like anyone doing that will have kids let alone grandkids.
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Flesh Forge posted:Guys it's totally normal if someone spends money that could pay for an entire house, on a single video game I don't see what the big deal is Money is relative. It may or may not be a lot of money to him. It's ultimately irrelevant if 30k is a major investment to him or if he can spend that every day and not notice a dent in his investment portfolio. The only thing that nobody can dispute is that his attitude and personality are toxic. The POE community would do better without him.
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