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TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

dangerdoom volvo posted:

Can i get reinvited to the guild? Skipped the last league. Name is rockefellercenter

sent

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uhhhhahhhhohahhh
Oct 9, 2012

pokchu posted:

I'm sad that the flat damage on hyaons got reverted

oh well, i'll still probably do the hyaon's lightning strike deadeye i was planning to do at some point


that new trap armour has solved the problem of what armour i'll be using on the fire trap & lightning trap build i was planning anyway. hopefully not everyone is doing it & its not super rare

Duck and Cover
Apr 6, 2007

I think I've decided. Charged dash, lightning ethereal knives. If it doesn't work I'll complain about the game being made for whiny losers who play too much. Ethereal knives has better aoe than skills that use increased aoe, which is pretty sad.

Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jul 26, 2017

Soothing Vapors
Mar 26, 2006

Associate Justice Lena "Kegels" Dunham: An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.

Duck and Cover posted:

If it doesn't work I'll complain about the game being made for whiny losers who play too much. \
please don't steal my build without permission

Duck and Cover
Apr 6, 2007

Soothing Vapors posted:

please don't steal my build without permission

I think the most annoying part is that these assholes bitch and moan that their meta broken build isn't "challenging" enough. By challenging I mean it took too little time (12 hours a day for a couple weeks, or whatever) to trivialize it with gear and their broken build.

Deki
May 12, 2008

It's Hammer Time!

queeb posted:

im gonna go baron srs, even though its gonna be fotm to start I think.

I'm wondering how good baron skeletons will be with the new skele aoe skill. Makes you and your minions beefy, and boosts the hell out of the aoe pulses.

Jinnigan
Feb 12, 2007

We shall pay him a visit. There will be a picnic. Tea shall be served.

whypick1
Dec 18, 2009

Just another jackass on the Internet
An actual manual from GGG? :monocle:

Voxx posted:

Chapter 1. Socialising

"Don't"

Voxx
Jul 28, 2009

I'll give 'em a hold
and a break to breathe
And if they can't play nice
I won't play with 'em at all
Chapter 1. Socialising

Jinnigan
Feb 12, 2007

We shall pay him a visit. There will be a picnic. Tea shall be served.
Okay, where the gently caress do I kill these unique invaders Blood Morpher/Blood Stasis? Is there any way to force them to spawn or do I have to just keep farming maps until RNG smiles on me?

dyzzy
Dec 22, 2009

argh
I had a hell of a time finding the pair but I think if you farm invasions in jungle areas they tend to show up there. At least, when I got them via trade chat the zone they were in was northern forest.

McFrugal
Oct 11, 2003

Voxx posted:

Chapter 1. Socialising

As funny as that would be, it's scrolled down. Can't tell what chapter 1 is from that image.

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

Jinnigan posted:

Okay, where the gently caress do I kill these unique invaders Blood Morpher/Blood Stasis? Is there any way to force them to spawn or do I have to just keep farming maps until RNG smiles on me?

is 820 dead? just buy it

MannersPlease
Aug 13, 2014
I'm going to start necro support (or maybe some other kind idk I haven't thought too hard about it) because I can't be bothered to play and I want people to want me in their party so I can leech my atlas and achievement grinds and all that poo poo.

and ofc, flameblast totem until then.

And then I will make my QotF pathfinder of some variant, possibly a raider or ascendant if flasks get hit too hard, but I'm assuming at this point they won't really nerf quicksilver, jade, and stibnite, and that's all I mostly care about anyway.

MannersPlease fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jul 26, 2017

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

MannersPlease posted:

I'm going to start necro support

I feel like they have to nerf necro support after the ladder in Turmoil.

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whypick1
Dec 18, 2009

Just another jackass on the Internet
I dunno, looks like most of the Ascendancies are fairly well balanced if they can all hit 100 in a 2 week race :v:

whypick1 fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jul 26, 2017

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
What is the deal with Necro Support?

Orange DeviI
Nov 9, 2011

by Hand Knit

Elentor posted:

What is the deal with Necro Support?

120% inc damage and 60% a/cspd is pretty good

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Elentor posted:

What is the deal with Necro Support?

Commander of Darkness applies a stacking buff to damage and attack/cast speed on nearby allies based on the number of auras you have up. On top of making you even better at being a support the more support you're built for, it also counts a lot of random item effects and such that you wouldn't think of as auras so you get to give your allies entire passive trees worth of damage and speed while also carrying every aura known to man and some previously unknown.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Katasi posted:

I feel like they have to nerf necro support after the ladder in Turmoil.



aren't you reliant upon playing with other people and don't do anything but run around and loot? That alone should keep not that many people playing it as it's not very interactive and takes a special kind of person to enjoy playing it.

J
Jun 10, 2001

Also the commander of darkness effect itself is considered an aura, and scales with aura effect.

MMF Freeway
Sep 15, 2010

Later!

Holyshoot posted:

aren't you reliant upon playing with other people and don't do anything but run around and loot? That alone should keep not that many people playing it as it's not very interactive and takes a special kind of person to enjoy playing it.

That's probably what the guys that party with those tryhards do, but the build will kill poo poo fine with srs.

whypick1
Dec 18, 2009

Just another jackass on the Internet

Holyshoot posted:

aren't you reliant upon playing with other people and don't do anything but run around and loot? That alone should keep not that many people playing it as it's not very interactive and takes a special kind of person to enjoy playing it.

Yes, but:

please knock Mom! posted:

120% inc damage and 60% a/cspd is pretty good

Won't be hard to find party members if you can give them that.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
I see. Well don't nerf it before i get to try it please GGG!

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



All the top players already have a cadre of people who do nothing but funnell currency and items at them for the first few weeks anyways so what does it matter :v:

Eezee
Apr 3, 2011

My double chin turned out to be a huge cyst
https://www.twitch.tv/dansgaming

Dansgaming is trying out PoE and it's hilarious seeing people in chat getting really mad that he's not using a lootfilter/ a guide.

Ultima66
Sep 2, 2008

There's minimal difference between Necro Support and Necro SRS anyways. It's mainly in your gem links.

Basically the difference is dedicated Necro Support has like 5 different nodes on the tree and also applies 4 curses to every enemy while triggering elemental equilibrium. Both builds will quadruple the dps of anyone standing near them.

Ornedan
Nov 4, 2009


Cybernetic Crumb

Eezee posted:

https://www.twitch.tv/dansgaming

Dansgaming is trying out PoE and it's hilarious seeing people in chat getting really mad that he's not using a lootfilter/ a guide.

Tuned in and first thing "Ngamakanui? hur hur non-english name how silly".

Bugsy
Jul 15, 2004

I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.


Slippery Tilde
Oh god why did click that to watch a barely sentient potato try to play poe.

whypick1
Dec 18, 2009

Just another jackass on the Internet
Officially the beginning of the end of PoE:

https://twitter.com/pathofexile/status/890320021326516224

/s

Bloodly
Nov 3, 2008

Not as strong as you'd expect.

dis astranagant posted:

Commander of Darkness applies a stacking buff to damage and attack/cast speed on nearby allies based on the number of auras you have up. On top of making you even better at being a support the more support you're built for, it also counts a lot of random item effects and such that you wouldn't think of as auras so you get to give your allies entire passive trees worth of damage and speed while also carrying every aura known to man and some previously unknown.

I'm left with the question 'how are you supporting the auras'? There's only so much reservation reduction in the tree. But I'm dumb, so I'm probably missing something obvious.

Dr. Despair
Nov 4, 2009


39 perfect posts with each roll.

You get a few auras via Mana, the rest with blood magic. Shavs or the lovely budget option so chaos doesn't kill you through your es.

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Bloodly posted:

I'm left with the question 'how are you supporting the auras'? There's only so much reservation reduction in the tree. But I'm dumb, so I'm probably missing something obvious.

You go low life and reserve all your life and mana when you're ready to really snap the game over your team's knee.

Ultima66
Sep 2, 2008

Actually you take the Blood Magic keystone. No one does dedicated LL Necro support reserving both mana and life when Blood Magic keystone is way more efficient.

My Necromancer in Legacy ran Hatred, Envy, Anger, Wrath, Discipline, Haste, Vitality, Purity of Elements, and lvl 1 Clarity (just for the extra Commander of Darkness buff). Naturally, Hatred, Envy, Anger, and Wrath were all supported with Generosity and I had 66% aura effect on the tree.

E: For the record if you want to replicate it in 3.0, Getting all 9 of those auras requires either a special -reservation unique (Skyforth, Alpha's Howl, not entire sure if the Conqueror jewel gets you there) on top of all the standard -reservation nodes you take as a Necro support, or a helmet with IIRC the 4% or higher reduced mana reserved Essence craft. And I think you need some lvl 3 Enlightens. If you're pure support and want to optimize further, you can push it even more by using Prism Guardian, a -mana reserved enchant, and dropping Envy, which should let you run some combination of the single element purities and maybe fit in Grace. Skyforth doesn't work cause it disables your life regen so you can't use skills (you obviously sustain skills off life regen + blood magic), and Alpha's Howl is also an option for helmet, might be better than Prism Guardian but I'm not exactly sure. Using both is of course a bad idea because then you'll have no ES.

Ultima66 fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jul 26, 2017

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Ultima66 posted:

No one does LL reserving both mana and life

What?

Ultima66
Sep 2, 2008


Sorry I meant for the dedicated Necro supports.

E: Oh you're right it's about a 50/50 split between Keystone and just LL with BM gems. I think you do lose 1 aura if you stick 3 50%s in Prism Guardian as non-keystone, and like 2-3 auras if you use a rare shield, but it's fine.

Ultima66 fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Jul 26, 2017

Orange DeviI
Nov 9, 2011

by Hand Knit

Bloodly posted:

I'm left with the question 'how are you supporting the auras'? There's only so much reservation reduction in the tree. But I'm dumb, so I'm probably missing something obvious.

You get it all because the single asc node makes up for some wonky pathing

Jinnigan
Feb 12, 2007

We shall pay him a visit. There will be a picnic. Tea shall be served.
Man, I'm concerned about Frost Blades in 3.0. You'll have to go life, and life as a melee-ish character at ~170% hp is real frustrating already. Plus you'll be down one melee multiplier, as well as having to deal with beefy rear end map bosses, on a skill that already has mediocre single target dps. I'm worried that it might actually end up feeling like poo poo...

e: i forgot about ruthless. and you can get 189% hp on tree.

Jinnigan fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Jul 27, 2017

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan
anything Life is fine as long as you Zerk (and use a 6L weapon with Kaoms obv)


as my second character for pushing endgame im planning a Frostblade Champion running a Perseverance

less dps than a Raider but just as fast and way more tanky

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Duskfiend
Apr 5, 2011

Awwwk! Awwwk!
What are some hardcore viable options for caster defense? I'm so bad I just want to play a witch in maps and I can't reach maps. I've been stacking ES but I feel like there is more to do

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