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Maximizing armor on gear is good, but less important than the rest. Focus on having a big main link, capped resists, life, imo. Armor helps but it's more of a thing you fix after taking care of the rest afaik.
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Also keep in mind that armor has diminishing returns of effectiveness. It's great at absorbing tiny hits but less effective on big ones, so you'll want some other way to deal with those (large life pool so you're less likely to get one shot, high leech/regen to get back up to full health quickly, fast movespeed to avoid hits in the first place).
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Ultima66 posted:I had an Acton's Nightmare drop for me in Quay yesterday. I've never done Acton's Nightmare before and it didn't drop from a Strongbox/Rogue Exile/Nemesis rare/whatever the gently caress. Just a random pack of white mobs dropped Acton's Nightmare. There were no interesting mods on the map and I didn't Zana craft it in any way. No breaches or beyond mobs were involved. They partially reverted that: Content Update 2.5.0 Patch Notes posted:Unique Maps can now drop if you have completed their equivalent base type on the Atlas.
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please knock Mom! posted:The 30 stat nodes on the tree are actually pretty darn good sometimes. They are while leveling and if you are using a weird radius jewel to get other stats. But if you are using it strictly to get +30 main stat then you should regret that passive if you are at end game and get the main stat you need from gear. At least, that's what I think.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:They are while leveling and if you are using a weird radius jewel to get other stats. But if you are using it strictly to get +30 main stat then you should regret that passive if you are at end game and get the main stat you need from gear. At least, that's what I think. It's all about what you can get on gear. Sometimes it's impossible to get the items you need (either because of price or availability), so you end up having to chose between stats or another thing you want/need on that piece of gear. In that case, it might be better to just skill a 30stat node, even endgame. A thing I often do is take some less-than-great nodes that have stats on them, like Versatility. They're mediocre at best for a melee dude, but the 20 int/dex is oh so needed.
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Half the builds I make don't intend to take the 30 point attribute nodes, but if getting the stats on gear proves to be too expensive/restrictive I'll sacrifice damage nodes for stats.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:They are while leveling and if you are using a weird radius jewel to get other stats. +30 nodes are terrible for jewels. There's only 3 jewel slots are within range of any of those nodes (Dodge, Chaos Innoculation and Minion Instability areas) and they're only in range for Large radius jewels. Those ones all convert one stat to another, which makes those areas terrible for them since that +30 node is all you're going to get of that stat in that area.
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Anyone here building whispering ice? One of my friends suggested I do that since I already have a few of the uniques for the build.
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TheRat posted:It's all about what you can get on gear. Sometimes it's impossible to get the items you need (either because of price or availability), so you end up having to chose between stats or another thing you want/need on that piece of gear. In that case, it might be better to just skill a 30stat node, even endgame. A thing I often do is take some less-than-great nodes that have stats on them, like Versatility. They're mediocre at best for a melee dude, but the 20 int/dex is oh so needed. Versatility is so good when you start out as a marauder, its always the first big node I get on the way to RT. Once I get enough int I almost always respec out of it to Precision (which I think is under rated) instead. Seems like almost all of my builds are starved for dex.
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https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Leninvs/characters I just beat the act4 boss in merc. Having a great time as a cyclone juggernaut marauder. Wondering what I should focus on now? I guess start mapping? I keep seeing people posting dps numbers above 60k. Seems like impossible for me. I don't see how I can bump it that much higher than my current 16k cyclone
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Is anyone running a self cast scorching ray build? My one has been struggling and I've sort of been ignoring it in favour of my blade flurry guy dunking on everything. Before I bother wasting currency on SR, can it be good with lowish investment or should I give up/try to convert it to something else fire based?
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damnfan posted:Anyone here building whispering ice? One of my friends suggested I do that since I already have a few of the uniques for the build. RosaParksOfDip posted:Is anyone running a self cast scorching ray build? My one has been struggling and I've sort of been ignoring it in favour of my blade flurry guy dunking on everything. Before I bother wasting currency on SR, can it be good with lowish investment or should I give up/try to convert it to something else fire based? Scorching Ray CWC slotted into WI is the new hotness, and my next alt https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1788023 Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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LeninVS posted:https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Leninvs/characters Set to private. Most people dont even beat malachi in merciless except for the league challenges. Time to start mapping. Run your white tier maps as blue with 2 mods, use alts to roll over ones that are bad for your build. Then start unlocking the atlas and building a map pool. Once you get Zana up to level 2 invite to your hideout and she will give you a map device so you dont have to futz about with the eternal laboratory.
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DPS via the tooltip is an incredibly deceptive thing. It's mostly good for comparing one skill to itself - as in "boy, changing that weapon (and nothing else) made my DPS go from x to y" you shouldn't think much about it beyond that.
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Soothing Vapors posted:Scorching Ray CWC slotted into WI is the new hotness, and my next alt Sounds interesting. Might have to see if I can club it into workability as an Inquisitor. I'll probably end up with a poo poo version but if it's fun I'm semi okay with that. I've been rolling with mathil's Inquisitor SR beginner build.
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Thanks to everyone in here and guild chat who helped unfuck my build. Took some life nodes, switched over to pure physical tornado shot with a decent harbinger bow, moved from frenzy to bloodrage for stack generation, and went with the herald of ice + curse on hit combination. I have maybe 3900 life and completely maxed resists now, which is making life easier. With my flask running and full frenzy/power stacks, my TS tooltip dps is maybe 26k? So far, the highest map I've run is tier 9 and that one really wasn't very hard. That said, I've noticed that a couple of map mod combinations are completely vicious even if they spawn on a tier 6 or whatever, to the point where walking into the map is just a really quick way to lose a ton of experience. So far, I've had trouble with: - physical reflect (i can kind of do these by switching back to ptl if there's nothing else bad on the map) - vulnerability / -max resists (if it pushes the map boss into oneshot territory--i had a really bad racecourse with vulnerability meaning the dog's jump attack could instantly kill me) - monsters from beyond (sometimes they're pretty easy, sometimes i get some giant fucker who stuns me and then vaporizes me by dropping huge red circle explosions) - temporal chains (really annoying, sometimes workable) - players cannot leech (NOPE NOPE NOPE) Is it normal to be unable to do some map combinations, or should i aim for more defenses/better flasks? If so, Is it normal to just scour and reroll a map if it gets a bad combo?
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also thanks to whoever carried me into some ridiculous high tier map to help with the atlas, even though i did nothing useful except die repeatedly
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My eq build had like 10 ex in gear and I'd still not do phys reflect There's very few builds that can effectively do all map mods
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Reiterpallasch posted:Is it normal to be unable to do some map combinations, or should i aim for more defenses/better flasks? If so, Is it normal to just scour and reroll a map if it gets a bad combo? It's pretty normal in my opinion. Last league I couldn't do ele reflect maps. This league I can't do ele reflect OR no regen maps (lesser regen is still fine). Instead of re-rolling, just sell the maps, OR find a friend who can do them and trade for maps that they can't do. I currently have a system where a friend gives me his physical reflect maps and I give him my ele reflect. If you have the currency to waste though, sure, re-roll.
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Reiterpallasch posted:Is it normal to be unable to do some map combinations Yes, it's competely normal. Very few builds can do all, or close to all combinations, and even then you usually reroll at least a few for convenience's sake. Reiterpallasch posted:- vulnerability Beware that vulnerability makes you take a lot more damage from bloodrage
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Reiterpallasch posted:also thanks to whoever carried me into some ridiculous high tier map to help with the atlas, even though i did nothing useful except die repeatedly Pro-tip: if you die and don't click respawn you'll still credit for completing maps/master missions/etc. Assuming everyone else is cool with you just chilling there. Vasudus posted:DPS via the tooltip is an incredibly deceptive thing. It's mostly good for comparing one skill to itself - as in "boy, changing that weapon (and nothing else) made my DPS go from x to y" you shouldn't think much about it beyond that. Another pro-tip: trying out your new weapon that ups your tooltip DPS by 20% by going into a map with Enfeeble and 20% phys reduction is a good way to wonder what the hell is wrong with your "upgrade" until you realize it 
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Is the OP still accurate in regards to getting a guild invite? I jumped in a Reddit global chat that was supposedly "non toxic, non elitist" and watched about twenty manbabies scream at each other for an hour about "THE RIGHT WAY TO PLAY". Learned my lesson there, will stick to goons like I did with Diablo 3.
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Playing as Blade Vortex Assassin, is there a gerneral consensus if rare daggers or wands are better? I know that you get to use whirling blades with a dagger, but apart from that?
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I'm in a3 merc with my shadow with blade flurry and I just realized that I haven't done any labs yet on him. psy.Che posted:Playing as Blade Vortex Assassin, is there a gerneral consensus if rare daggers or wands are better? I know that you get to use whirling blades with a dagger, but apart from that? Daggers so you can use binos/some top tier rare dagger
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CautionaryOstrich posted:Is the OP still accurate in regards to getting a guild invite? I jumped in a Reddit global chat that was supposedly "non toxic, non elitist" and watched about twenty manbabies scream at each other for an hour about "THE RIGHT WAY TO PLAY". Learned my lesson there, will stick to goons like I did with Diablo 3. Still correct + can also use Discord channel.
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psy.Che posted:Playing as Blade Vortex Assassin, is there a gerneral consensus if rare daggers or wands are better? I know that you get to use whirling blades with a dagger, but apart from that? Aside from whirling blades, daggers have better implicit mods for crit builds Obliteration can be pretty good, because 20% more damage can outperform crit if you don't have a lot of multiplier yet. You'd still be giving up WB though which is honestly a huge deal. Honestly the reason for daggers is probably like 99% whirling blades
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TheRat posted:Yes, it's competely normal. Very few builds can do all, or close to all combinations, and even then you usually reroll at least a few for convenience's sake. Rat, out of those builds I think you listed: quote:Inquisitor flameblast totems, chieftain warchief totems, assassin blade flurry, occultist essence drain, juggernaut earthquake Which one is the best mix of tanky and cheap or the bunch? After playing with a Freezing Pulse CI Templar and deeply regretting it, I want something bulky again.
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How is the new league compared to the prophecy league?
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Breaches are like one of those cash grab booths that will either net you a bunch of extra items or instantly kill you. It's great.
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Breaches are great, considering they're fun loot-pinatas with fantastic density, that are 100% controlled by the player if they want to participate in the mechanic or not. Except Tul. gently caress Tul. Why do your breaches always spawn 2-3 Rare Vortex-spawning assholes immediately?
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Soothing Vapors posted:Scorching Ray CWC slotted into WI is the new hotness, and my next alt This looks way amusing At first I thought I could bash my pyre vortex witch into submission but the skill trees don't line up well enough, I'd be spending over 50 Regret and converting from life to CI to boot Guess I'll try this as a third character if I get rich enough to run ES
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hey if you're hard crashing upon doing, like, any action including relaunching the game like many other people right now, switch to dx9 client
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People are also crashing on dx9, so it might just be hosed for a while. RIP the map I was running, anyway.
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Elentor posted:Rat, out of those builds I think you listed: Juggernaut EQ and Chieftain Warchief are both very tanky and very cheap to start out with.
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Thanks for the tips on gem vaaling last page boys. Looks like we have a 300 mb update, guess I won't be playing for a few hours so I'll read up on it!  I got to play for like 30 minutes after work though. Got like 6 uniques on the vaaled T11 I ran. Used my last portal to check for anything I missed. 38% FR Kaom's Heart  AegisP posted:Breaches are great, considering they're fun loot-pinatas with fantastic density, that are 100% controlled by the player if they want to participate in the mechanic or not. I am convinced Tul rare mobs have cold penetration. If you get stunned or lagged out in a bad spot you're basically hosed. fennesz fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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Game is just too popular y'all quote:Sorry for not commenting in every thread about this, but we're actively ordering more servers as needed whenever there are issues induced by player numbers. As this release was surprisingly large and Breaches certainly increase server load, we've had to add more servers many times so far.
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