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Jinnigan posted:ugh how do i scale glacial cascade into the lategame as an elementalist? so far i've been using added fire damage and phys to lightning (to proc herald of thunder - coh - assassin's mark) but it's starting to hit a plateau, and i'm not even in yellow maps yet Go all-in on one element and link the applicable Penetration support, or go crit and stack crit multi, or do both. If you don't want to go crit, make sure you're using Elemental Overload. Those are pretty much your only options for big damage scaling I think. As for Occultist, either Essence Drain + Contagion, or Blight + Abyssal Cry should work well with lots of ES and Zealot's Oath since those builds can't leech anyway and you get that sweet -20% enemy chaos resist from your ascendancy. Blight really sucks for single-target though.
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Blight really really really needs cast speed and skill effect duration to be effective but it does acceptable single target.
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Jul 9, 2017 22:07
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I think anything that doesn't have spectacular single target in 2.6 is gonna feel like utter poo poo in 3.0, where map bosses have, just, way too much HP
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Jul 10, 2017 04:35
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Jinnigan posted:I think anything that doesn't have spectacular single target in 2.6 is gonna feel like utter poo poo in 3.0, where map bosses have, just, way too much HP This is a big part of why I'm leaning towards srs as a league starter. Gonna play with it in the next 2 week because not much should change.
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Jul 10, 2017 21:33
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Katasi posted:This is a big part of why I'm leaning towards srs as a league starter. Gonna play with it in the next 2 week because not much should change. Can you link a guide? SRS sounds pretty neat, and I've never actually played any sort of summoner.
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Jul 10, 2017 21:41
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silvergoose posted:Can you link a guide? SRS sounds pretty neat, and I've never actually played any sort of summoner. I haven't decided yet what exactly I'm going to do. I'll give a trip report after turmoil. All I've really decided so far is that I want to use the baron, and have zombies as a meat shield and leech source.
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Jul 10, 2017 22:14
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Here's a baron SRS guide the #2 guy in SSF HC mayhem used. He doesn't use zombies though, says they are too slow and the leech isn't relevant.
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Jul 10, 2017 22:55
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I'm running SRS right now in the beta, I'm liking it so far and it's certainly far better than the wand Gladiator that was my other character. I plan on transitioning into a poison/added chaos Animate Ranged Weapon build so I can try out all of the new poison gems.
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Jul 10, 2017 23:02
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What's likely to be the least used Ascendancy in this coming turmoil 2 week thing? Ascendant? Hierophant? Saboteur? Champion? Deadeye? My strategy for a shot at winning a thing is to just choose the least competitive option and then build the highest survivability I can and then try to slow and steady my way to the top. Not likely that I'll beat out the dozens of highly skilled pathfinders or berserkers or whatever, so this way is my best chance.
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zxqv8 posted:What's likely to be the least used Ascendancy in this coming turmoil 2 week thing? Probably ascendant. The highest one from last race was only 96.
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J posted:Here's a baron SRS guide the #2 guy in SSF HC mayhem used. He doesn't use zombies though, says they are too slow and the leech isn't relevant. didn't zombies get better in 3.0? I'm using them right now with my beta witch srs baron build, and I really very much enjoy them e: although I guess thinking about it, they probably aren't fast enough to get the real good clear speeds other builds would give you in maps, so that's probably still true... but i love my zombros and I'm heavily considering just sticking with this build for the league start boxcarhobo fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Mr. Whale posted:Probably ascendant. The highest one from last race was only 96. The not-SSF HC race actually had an ascendant at 99 when I was playing. That was my initial idea but this guy wrecked poo poo with an elementalist/assassin LL frostbolt miner, of all things
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boxcarhobo posted:didn't zombies get better in 3.0? I'm using them right now with my beta witch srs baron build, and I really very much enjoy them Zombies have real poo poo aggro range / AI compared to something like SRS or Spectres.
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Jul 11, 2017 03:13
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Well, I seem to have resolved my connection issues by switching from the 5 ghz wifi in my house to the 2.4 ghz.  Anyway... are invasion bosses soloable? Wondering if I should use this leaguestone I found a while back.
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enraged_camel posted:Well, I seem to have resolved my connection issues by switching from the 5 ghz wifi in my house to the 2.4 ghz. Absolutely soloable. They are comparable to any other Orange text zone boss which exists, generally. The difficulty comes from the fact that most people are unaware of their abilities, because a lot of them haven't been around in years.
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Jul 11, 2017 03:43
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"Oh, this is just a dumb crab that keeps spawning adds. Shouldn't be prob-" *EXPLOSIONS* https://twitter.com/pathofexile/status/884613011272380420 So....basically Mayhem again?
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whypick1 posted:"Oh, this is just a dumb crab that keeps spawning adds. Shouldn't be prob-" Sounds like Mayhem but with: Perandus, and Beyond, and Nemesis, and Bloodlines, and no Bladeback Guardians Bex_GGG[S] [score hidden] a minute ago There's a 33% chance of Cadiro per zone with the Perandus mod. Bex_GGG[S] [score hidden] 9 minutes ago It's five of each thing. (Excluding Beyond where it's a percentage chance) Jinnigan fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Jul 11, 2017 04:37
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Oh yeah hmm did they release the rewards for the previous race already?
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frajaq posted:Oh yeah hmm did they release the rewards for the previous race already? yes
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Jul 11, 2017 06:54
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Eh, that's pretty darn boring. The wait for 3.0 continues.
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Am I missing something, or does a Scorching Ray + Cast While Channeling + Firestorm build do absolutely stupid damage when you pick up all the skill effect duration nodes by Scion? I'm using a calculator that gives a 23% chance of any given firestorm impact hitting a target in the effect's area.
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You're not wrong. Increased duration buffs both SR (debuff lasts longer) and FS (each cast sticks around longer), so good synergy there.
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New race is disappointing. Here I was hoping for uber-mayhem and we get a lovely legacy instead? Hopefully Reddit whining comes through and they void it and make it crazy.
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Vanguard Warden posted:Am I missing something, or does a Scorching Ray + Cast While Channeling + Firestorm build do absolutely stupid damage when you pick up all the skill effect duration nodes by Scion? I'm using a calculator that gives a 23% chance of any given firestorm impact hitting a target in the effect's area. this build screams for a 6L btw, unless you're getting a staff this might be too pricey for the 2w
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loving around in path of building right now for self-cast scorching ray. Which ascendancy is the best way to go between Trickster, Inquisitor and Slayer? I think the tree can be made to work with any of the three. Trickster has that frenzy charge generation along with a dot node. Slayer has that huge 40% more node, and maybe some sustain from the warcry node? Inquisitor has a couple of elemental damage nodes.
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Why is GGG still so incredibly clumsy at balancing this game? I love it to bits, but they seem to be mostly unable to nerf anything without destroying it. I mean it's not even that hard - just don't push multiple nerfs impacting the same issue at the same time (eg. ES). Before 3.0, CI builds were too strong and now there's 0 reason to ever use CI.Filthy Monkey posted:loving around in path of building right now for self-cast scorching ray. Which ascendancy is the best way to go between Trickster, Inquisitor and Slayer? I think the tree can be made to work with any of the three. Trickster has that frenzy charge generation along with a dot node. Slayer has that huge 40% more node, and maybe some sustain from the warcry node? Inquisitor has a couple of elemental damage nodes. New Ascendant might be worth a look, you get most of the interesting parts of Trickster and Inquisitor in regards to SR.
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psy.Che posted:Why is GGG still so incredibly clumsy at balancing this game? I love it to bits, but they seem to be mostly unable to nerf anything without destroying it. I mean it's not even that hard - just don't push multiple nerfs impacting the same issue at the same time (eg. ES). Before 3.0, CI builds were too strong and now there's 0 reason to ever use CI They have said that they intentionally over-nerf dominant stuff to switch up the meta. Although personally I think that might work with individual skills but isn't such a great idea for something so unavoidable for many characters as ES.
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gonadic io posted:They have said that they intentionally over-nerf dominant stuff to switch up the meta. Although personally I think that might work with individual skills but isn't such a great idea for something so unavoidable for many characters as ES. You're right. That makes it more consistent but not less stupid I guess. Why not just level the playing field as far as possible? Same with double dipping nerfs/map boss HP increase - more build diversity by forcing everybody to run a single target skill or skip map bosses?
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Tabletops posted:New race is disappointing. Here I was hoping for uber-mayhem and we get a lovely legacy instead? Hopefully Reddit whining comes through and they void it and make it crazy. Reddit whining is what made it non-void
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psy.Che posted:Before 3.0, CI builds were too strong and now there's 0 reason to ever use CI. People have killed shaper on beta as CI
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Tabletops posted:New race is disappointing. Here I was hoping for uber-mayhem and we get a lovely legacy instead? Hopefully Reddit whining comes through and they void it and make it crazy. Pretty sure it was Reddit whining that made ggg tone it down and make it safe and low loot for all the lame rear end standard players. Not even bladeback guardians, smh
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TheRat posted:People have killed shaper on beta as CI Your point being?
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psy.Che posted:Your point being? That ci is still plenty strong?
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MMF Freeway posted:That ci is still plenty strong? Their build seems to have been strong. I guess they could have just saved that passive point?
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I mean I'm not saying that I totally agree with removing the nodes behind it, but chaos damage immunity is a pretty good perk.
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psy.Che posted:Their build seems to have been strong. I guess they could have just saved that passive point? wat
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Of course, chaos damage immunity is nice to have, on the other hand there's a reason why most life builds max elemental resistances but ignore chaos resistance.
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CI is supposed to be a weird niche but this game is so lousy with one-shot mechanics that it became mandatory. Now I get the impression that they want to see hybrid builds work, but as long as life leech is in the game we'll be playing around lovely instakill mechanics that are poorly communicated to the player.
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psy.Che posted:Of course, chaos damage immunity is nice to have, on the other hand there's a reason why most life builds max elemental resistances but ignore chaos resistance. Yeah but if you have like ~1100 hp behind your fully specced shield why not just take the immunity? If something with chaos damage even sneezes on you, you're gonna die. Every time I'm about to make the switch in that weird 4k/2k hybrid stage I feel paper-like until I actually take CI and spec out of life.
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