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influx.
Dec 16, 2007

Nice pants!
nvm me, I got fast and slow confused.

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Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer
Another evening of NOT getting Junith or Treasury, im kinda getting fed up with the league.
Missing 3 achievements for the portal effect out of

Chests
Guardians
Enchantments
Trinkets
ID T1 uniques
Vaal Temple
Zana level 8

Those two plus trinkets seemed like the most reasonable ones.
I have never gotten zana to 8, and will not get to this in this league either, 4 T1 uniques challenge means 8 ex minimum, cant afford at this time.
Enchantment-challenge is retarded lottery, so thats out of question too.
Vaal Temple is 2 Ex, thats ok. Still leaves 2 though, one of which will likely be trinkets if the last one i need spawns.
Leaves one more, so im still stuck with getting lucky on Treasury or Junith in the end.

Ultima66
Sep 2, 2008

I recorded a thing before I switched gems back to something reasonable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_ATsD77V4

My only regret is not being a Champion and finding some way to fit that in somehow.

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?

Yolomon Wayne posted:

Another evening of NOT getting Junith or Treasury, im kinda getting fed up with the league.
Missing 3 achievements for the portal effect out of

Chests
Guardians
Enchantments
Trinkets
ID T1 uniques
Vaal Temple
Zana level 8

Those two plus trinkets seemed like the most reasonable ones.
I have never gotten zana to 8, and will not get to this in this league either, 4 T1 uniques challenge means 8 ex minimum, cant afford at this time.
Enchantment-challenge is retarded lottery, so thats out of question too.
Vaal Temple is 2 Ex, thats ok. Still leaves 2 though, one of which will likely be trinkets if the last one i need spawns.
Leaves one more, so im still stuck with getting lucky on Treasury or Junith in the end.

Perandus manor for your rare chest needs.

Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer

funmanguy posted:

Perandus manor for your rare chest needs.

Reminds me to contact support for the one i clicked that didnt count.
How long back can they check, or do they even do that anyways?

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
I would like to CoC discharge poison. Is Voltaxic and the poison gem my best bet? What skill would I use instead of cyclone?

Failing that, is a pure fire CoC discharge build viable? How would you generate endurance charges without generating power charges (or at least enough to kill myself on reflect) ? This would be with double consuming dark.

e: the best ways to generate lots of endurance charges that I can see are either Juggernaut with Scolds Bridle or Heirophant with Volls and a low number of max power charges.

gonadic io fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Apr 13, 2016

Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer

Pooncha posted:

Nope, lab deaths only have the "res at town" option.

Goondolences for dying at Final Phase Izaro. I've been there. :smith:

my best was getting killed, and then half a second later watching my blast rain finish him off, and listening to him talk about how worthy my corpse was.

Tai
Mar 8, 2006
So I keep hearing that an ice trapper is the way to roll.

I had a look the builds on poe (a lot) and was wondering if they have a build they recommend. Nothing expensive needed please. 8 Chaos to my name.

Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer

Tai posted:

So I keep hearing that an ice trapper is the way to roll.

I had a look the builds on poe (a lot) and was wondering if they have a build they recommend. Nothing expensive needed please. 8 Chaos to my name.

You can run an icetrapper without a unique on you and still be facerolling.
In fact, my only unique is a corrupted perandus blazon with +1 trap on it.

The ONLY thing an icetrapper needs is cruel ascension. Everything else is optional.

Start shadow (obv.) and go elemental path with trickery, assassination, coldhearted, up to written in blood to reach hasty construction.
You can from here go down to grab Blood drinker and maybe power and frenzy charge, dodge/spelldodge, down to Master Sapper.
Pick up Munitions and Herbalist in any case, might wanna go for crit node on your way.

North you go from hasty to Blast Cascade and into the witch area for life/mana, more crit, area damage and power charge.
Now you can either go templar for spelldamage/life/aoe or up to double curse.
I tried elemental overload but it doesnt trigger from spells, so youd need something selfcast like Lightning orb with increased crit to get it to proc and then you have no multiplier. I tried and i decided to take my 300% multiplier over 40% more damage. Id not recommend, but its up to you.

Try to match your "can have X active traps" with the number of traps actually thrown to be a multiple of it, otherwise you waste casts.

Have fun 1shotting blue packs, 2shotting rares and 3shotting bosses.

Pro-Tip: set up icebomb - trap - less duration - clustertraps for increased retardation. Icebomb-traps, once triggered, stay as spell, but the "trap counter" is free.
Like i have 12 active traps.
I throw 3 packs of 4 bombtraps, they trigger, leaving 12 icebombs on the field but i now have 0 traps on the field which means i can immediatly throw 3 packs of 4 icetraps directly behind where the icebombs just doing -cold resist, then traps explode, then bombs explode.

Use loot filter.

Edit: you can go a step further if you want, take the ring that converts 100% ice to fire, then dual wield the 50% fire to chaos daggers.

Yolomon Wayne fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Apr 13, 2016

ImsaKidd
Jul 20, 2008
Someone liked my stash tab/character name enough to post it to reddit, I must be a cool dude!

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

ImsaKidd posted:

Someone liked my stash tab/character name enough to post it to reddit, I must be a cool dude!

Truly LordPooFart and his Homosexual Dildo Emporium will live forever

theshim
May 1, 2012

You think you can defeat ME, Ephraimcopter?!?

You couldn't even beat Assassincopter!!!

Tai posted:

So I keep hearing that an ice trapper is the way to roll.

I had a look the builds on poe (a lot) and was wondering if they have a build they recommend. Nothing expensive needed please. 8 Chaos to my name.
Vanilla ice trap requires absolutely no special gear.

Right now a lot of people like to run it with Pyre and two Consuming Darks for cold to fire to chaos conversion. Consuming Darks are still around 35c last I checked, so you may not want to go for that.

Safari Disco Lion
Jul 21, 2011

Boss, if they make us find seven lost crystals, I'm quitting.

Are mines still super important for trapper builds? I hate using them but when Ascendancy first came out everybody was doing it for the damage bonus.

Safari Disco Lion fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Apr 13, 2016

Ultima66
Sep 2, 2008

gonadic io posted:

I would like to CoC discharge poison. Is Voltaxic and the poison gem my best bet? What skill would I use instead of cyclone?

Failing that, is a pure fire CoC discharge build viable? How would you generate endurance charges without generating power charges (or at least enough to kill myself on reflect) ? This would be with double consuming dark.

e: the best ways to generate lots of endurance charges that I can see are either Juggernaut with Scolds Bridle or Heirophant with Volls and a low number of max power charges.

Pyre, double Consuming Dark, Voll's Protector. Cyclone - CoC - Ice Nova - Cold Snap - Life Leech - Increased Crits. Trickster ascendancy.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Safari Disco Lion posted:

Are mines still super important for trapper builds? I hate using them but when Ascendancy first came out everybody was doing it for the damage bonus.

It's not a damage bonus, it's an aoe bonus you don't really need. Too slow imo.

Safari Disco Lion
Jul 21, 2011

Boss, if they make us find seven lost crystals, I'm quitting.

dis astranagant posted:

It's not a damage bonus, it's an aoe bonus you don't really need. Too slow imo.

Does the "20% increased Damage if you Detonated Mines Recently" from Demolitions Specialist not work?

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?
Someone asked for me to post my spark build in the thread.

Go here and find funmanknifeandspork.

I have a lot of different gear that I switch to for doing poo poo like uber atziri. I also respec a bit to go get phase acro.

whypick1
Dec 18, 2009

Just another jackass on the Internet
Build idea, want critiques.

Tree at level 70

Skills: Shrapnel Shot Trap primarily. Point Blank + Trap gives a nice damage bonus (plus Far Shot helps offset Point Blank's damage penalty for distant foes), Powerful Precision doubles my crit chance since Shrapnel Shot has 100% chance to Pierce. Probably go Phys-to-Light for 90% lightning damage. Probably go HoT/CoH/Assassin's Mark with Haste for auras.
Gear: Have a Rearguard and a Lightning Coil (Cells is officially my favorite map now), hence why I picked up Iron Reflexes (plus I'm tired of playing EV/ES characters). Can steal my main character's 6S/5L Lioneye's Glare once he hits 90. If I felt like going more offensive instead of defensive would drop Rearguard for Drillneck.

Anything I'm missing that would make this a stupid idea?

Katasi
Nov 22, 2005
White water rafting down the river styx

whypick1 posted:

Build idea, want critiques.

Tree at level 70

Skills: Shrapnel Shot Trap primarily. Point Blank + Trap gives a nice damage bonus (plus Far Shot helps offset Point Blank's damage penalty for distant foes), Powerful Precision doubles my crit chance since Shrapnel Shot has 100% chance to Pierce. Probably go Phys-to-Light for 90% lightning damage. Probably go HoT/CoH/Assassin's Mark with Haste for auras.
Gear: Have a Rearguard and a Lightning Coil (Cells is officially my favorite map now), hence why I picked up Iron Reflexes (plus I'm tired of playing EV/ES characters). Can steal my main character's 6S/5L Lioneye's Glare once he hits 90. If I felt like going more offensive instead of defensive would drop Rearguard for Drillneck.

Anything I'm missing that would make this a stupid idea?

I don't think point blank will affect the aoe portion of shrapnel shot, but I'm not sure on that, the wording is kinda weird on point blank. The long cooldown on Trap will probably also be an issue. If you're doing cluster trap, you might consider going Sunblast and doing a grenadier build so that they all explode and aren't wasted, but that's more of a style preference.

Also, 2 ascendancy points for 110% crit chance and 10% projectile damage seems quite underwhelming.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Safari Disco Lion posted:

Are mines still super important for trapper builds? I hate using them but when Ascendancy first came out everybody was doing it for the damage bonus.

I've rolled two trappers up to 75ish, one crit/elemental (frost bomb, shock nova) and one noncrit (bladefall+poison) and planting mines was totally superfluous. Many builds of trapper are just ridiculous, my bladefall trapper basically one-shotted merciless Izaro (precast a handful of traps, he activated and died from just those).

Safari Disco Lion posted:

Does the "20% increased Damage if you Detonated Mines Recently" from Demolitions Specialist not work?

It's just not really relevant, whether or works or not :shrug:

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Safari Disco Lion posted:

Does the "20% increased Damage if you Detonated Mines Recently" from Demolitions Specialist not work?

That's a pittance. The reason people used mines was the % aoe per active mine.

Mince Pieface
Feb 1, 2006

funmanguy posted:

Someone asked for me to post my spark build in the thread.

Go here and find funmanknifeandspork.

I have a lot of different gear that I switch to for doing poo poo like uber atziri. I also respec a bit to go get phase acro.

Wouldn't Elemental Focus be a strong support? Void Manipulation double dips with poison but it also lowers your pre-conversion damage. It'd be interesting to math out which is better

Cinara
Jul 15, 2007

Mince Pieface posted:

Wouldn't Elemental Focus be a strong support? Void Manipulation double dips with poison but it also lowers your pre-conversion damage. It'd be interesting to math out which is better

Void Manip is reduced ele damage, so it subtracts from your total increased modifiers, but is a more modifier to chaos damage. The double dip is incredibly strong and ends up being far stronger overall than Ele Focus, especially since you'd lose any potential chance to shock.

I use Controlled Destruction as my 6th link on my Voltaxic Sparker instead of the Item Rarity he has.

I am doing an Occultist version though as lowlife, the damage is just bonkers high.

Cinara fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Apr 14, 2016

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

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theshim posted:

Vanilla ice trap requires absolutely no special gear.

Right now a lot of people like to run it with Pyre and two Consuming Darks for cold to fire to chaos conversion. Consuming Darks are still around 35c last I checked, so you may not want to go for that.

Why would you convert to chaos on a trap build?

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Hey, I remember someone posting a site which collated a giant list of builds all organised on active skill. I forgot to bookmark it, does anyone remember it?

whypick1
Dec 18, 2009

Just another jackass on the Internet

Count Uvula posted:

Why would you convert to chaos on a trap build?

Because just like most players, most monsters have gently caress all for chaos res.

climboutonalimb
Sep 4, 2004

I get knocked down but I get up again You are never going to keep me down

Phobophilia posted:

Hey, I remember someone posting a site which collated a giant list of builds all organised on active skill. I forgot to bookmark it, does anyone remember it?

This one? http://www.timtips.com/buildbrowser/#/list

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

That's the one!

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
So I'm running a Blade Vortex Scion, and I was wondering - what's the best way to increase her survivability (besides more life)? Armor? Evasion? Energy Shield? Something else?

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

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ES won't work well on Blade Vortex unless you have Zealot's Oath or Ghost Reaver, and it will require a larger investment than the other two options. You could use a Cybil's Paw for easy healing. Evasion will help with bosses and elemental attacks more, armor will help with large groups of dangerous physical attack mooks more.

Easiest ways to increase survivability, though: Get a source of blind, use Enduring Cry (it takes like 0.25 seconds to cast).

Bob NewSCART
Feb 1, 2012

Outstanding afternoon. "I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."

So I'm rolling up a new character with the intentions of killing everything around me and being a walking tank. My other intention is that I want to eventually use atziris axe, so should I go 2h cyclone or EQ for this goal?

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
EQ, it's in for a drat good reason.

In other news, my Ambush Earthquaker is being scrapped, crit sceptre with 77% accuracy is simply not good enough. Maybe I'll go crit hegemony's with Juggernaut, or Gladiator Bleedquake.

Bob NewSCART
Feb 1, 2012

Outstanding afternoon. "I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."

Can I get a ginvite on Dewalt?

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

Bob NewSCART posted:

So I'm rolling up a new character with the intentions of killing everything around me and being a walking tank. My other intention is that I want to eventually use atziris axe, so should I go 2h cyclone or EQ for this goal?

Juggernaut and EQ, it's been posted here already and you can go to 10 charges pretty easily, which should be enough to get to red maps (8 Tree and Bandit, 2x Kaoms Sign).

Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer

The Real Foogla posted:

Juggernaut and EQ, it's been posted here already and you can go to 10 charges pretty easily, which should be enough to get to red maps (8 Tree and Bandit, 2x Kaoms Sign).

Spam vaals on decent belts to get another +1 for either 11 charges or 10 and a ring that doesnt cripple your resists.

Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer
Can someone make sure I understand high-level crafting correctly?

Like, I have this bow:



If I scour off the fire damage that was there when I bought it, and craft on crit multiplier(A suffix) with tora, will an exalt then be guaranteed to give it another prefix, where 6-7 out of 9 available options are good, and prevent it from getting another suffix, where almost all available options are bad?

Hauki
May 11, 2010


Bushiz posted:

Can someone make sure I understand high-level crafting correctly?

Like, I have this bow:



If I scour off the fire damage that was there when I bought it, and craft on crit multiplier(A suffix) with tora, will an exalt then be guaranteed to give it another prefix, where 6-7 out of 9 available options are good, and prevent it from getting another suffix, where almost all available options are bad?

Crit chance, attack speed and crit multi are all suffixes in this case, and an item can only have 3 prefixes and 3 suffixes, so yes, an exalt would be guaranteed to give you a prefix.

soscannonballs
Dec 6, 2007

Yolomon Wayne posted:

Spam vaals on decent belts to get another +1 for either 11 charges or 10 and a ring that doesnt cripple your resists.

I'm the guy running 11 endurance charges and I am resist capped for elemental weakness in red maps. I have temporarily switched one ring out though for Doedre's ring to get my dual curse until I can get a good +1 curse amulet, which allows me to use boots with more movespeed to clear maps faster.

papanugget
Aug 8, 2000

DaveWoo posted:

So I'm running a Blade Vortex Scion, and I was wondering - what's the best way to increase her survivability (besides more life)? Armor? Evasion? Energy Shield? Something else?

Max block with Rathpith, Stone of Lazwhar, and jewels.

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Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

soscannonballs posted:

I'm the guy running 11 endurance charges and I am resist capped for elemental weakness in red maps. I have temporarily switched one ring out though for Doedre's ring to get my dual curse until I can get a good +1 curse amulet, which allows me to use boots with more movespeed to clear maps faster.

I know you posted a video of facetanking Atziri, but that looked like you barely survived with pots. Besides, Atziri is more elemental damage. Are you better on the T15 trio, those bosses tend to be more physical.

Also, I'd like to see what Atziri axe with Earthquake-Melee Physical-Less Duration-Rapid Decay-Increased Area-Poison looks like.

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