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Is there still a viable Iron Commander build? It looks like all the popular ones gave up after 2.6
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Aug 8, 2017 04:54
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Hauki posted:This goes out to anyone, I know a bunch of the 3rd party ladder scraping poo poo is down right now, but look at the ladder to see what other dudes are doing successfully. There's dw sunder gladiators (and slayers) in the top 20 of like every harb ladder right now. Ok thanks
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Aug 8, 2017 04:54
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Hur hur these MTXs are ridiculous. No way anyone goes for them. ...the goon thinks as he browses the MTX store in town, full of people with glowy weapons, tentacle wings, and flaming skulls. Jokes aside, I have a question: Should I go ahead and use Vaal orbs for leveling, or keep them for trade?
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Aug 8, 2017 04:57
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You'll probably want them for filling out your Atlas. Red (tier >=11) maps require rare and corrupted for the bonus. You can also use them on Armourer's Strongboxes to increase the odds of getting a 6L.
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Aug 8, 2017 05:00
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Too much? Just got to Oriath & I'm digging it
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Aug 8, 2017 05:00
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Unlucky7 posted:Hur hur these MTXs are ridiculous. No way anyone goes for them. don't use vaals while leveling, use them end game and serioustalk, don't listen to every goon who tells you to vaal random poo poo, myself included (always be vaalin')
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Aug 8, 2017 05:00
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So I've been farting along with my 2h sword duellist who does bleed and lifeleech and now in Act 4 i'm suddenly dying a lot when before i was cleaving everything to death instantly. Is this a) a hump b) maybe put more points in +hp or c) lol noob needs to reroll and look up a build next time?
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Aug 8, 2017 05:06
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Merrill Grinch posted:So I've been farting along with my 2h sword duellist who does bleed and lifeleech and now in Act 4 i'm suddenly dying a lot when before i was cleaving everything to death instantly. Is this a) a hump b) maybe put more points in +hp or c) lol noob needs to reroll and look up a build next time? What do your defenses look like? I just finished Act 4 with a duelist e: Try Enfeeble+Blasphemy if mobs are killing you, hp% nodes never hurt as well, Stone Golem can be a nice crutch e2: Dunno about your build, but pick up the Leech nodes near the bottom if you can. Can always respec out of them later (that's my plan) myDad fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Aug 8, 2017 05:11
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When do you start getting Jewels for the passive tree? I am one node away from a jewel slot right now (Two if I need to activate it with a skill point) and I am wondering if I should go ahead and take it or wait till I actually have something to use.
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Aug 8, 2017 05:33
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The last 44MB patch keeps erroring out. Any idea why this is happening? http://imgur.com/a/TyRgo
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Aug 8, 2017 05:51
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you do need to spend a point to unlock the actual socket they start dropping pretty early and you will get one from a quest in a2.
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Aug 8, 2017 05:51
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Grammaton posted:The last 44MB patch keeps erroring out. Any idea why this is happening? Can't write the .exe file. Laziest way to see around it is to restart computer I guess, unless they hosed up on their end.
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Aug 8, 2017 05:53
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Unlucky7 posted:When do you start getting Jewels for the passive tree? I am one node away from a jewel slot right now (Two if I need to activate it with a skill point) and I am wondering if I should go ahead and take it or wait till I actually have something to use. Several quests give jewels as rewards. I think they're mostly optional quests. They also drop and you can buy them off poe.trade. Some builds rely heavily on jewels and others they can just be used to buff things like damage, life and resists.
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Aug 8, 2017 05:53
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Unlucky7 posted:When do you start getting Jewels for the passive tree? I am one node away from a jewel slot right now (Two if I need to activate it with a skill point) and I am wondering if I should go ahead and take it or wait till I actually have something to use. It's two, but jewel nodes can be huge increases to damage and survivability. A well rolled jewel can be like 20%+ added damage, some crit% and 6% life, totally crazy. When you get them or IF you get them all depends on how far you need to travel for the stuff that makes your build work. Note that the good ones are also expensive as all hell so maaaaybe don't get too many for your first character. I don't usually get any jewel nodes until I'm really invested in the character and in the 90+ level range. It's there that you need to make the biggest impact with as few skill points as possible.
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Aug 8, 2017 05:54
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Can't write the .exe file. Laziest way to see around it is to restart computer I guess, unless they hosed up on their end. Haha omg I'm dumb. I should have tried restart. Thanks, that fixed it.
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Aug 8, 2017 05:55
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Merrill Grinch posted:So I've been farting along with my 2h sword duellist who does bleed and lifeleech and now in Act 4 i'm suddenly dying a lot when before i was cleaving everything to death instantly. Is this a) a hump b) maybe put more points in +hp or c) lol noob needs to reroll and look up a build next time? It's always b and c  At that point you should have 1800-2000 hp and elemental resistances as close to 75 as you can get. Might be worth throwing some alch and binding orbs at white gear to fish for upgrades or pick up something cheap off poe.trade.
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Aug 8, 2017 06:04
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i usually aim for like 1k hp in a4
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Aug 8, 2017 06:05
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Awesome! posted:i usually aim for like 1k hp in a4 2k is probably overly optimistic, but how are you not getting at least 1.4k
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Aug 8, 2017 06:22
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1k has just always been my "feeling ok about malachai" number for normal sometimes i do have a good bit more of course.
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Aug 8, 2017 06:26
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If you've played this game enough you can certainly be more lax on getting HP and resists. Knowing what the gently caress you're doing is a requirement though.
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Aug 8, 2017 06:26
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My rough guideline is 300 additional hp by the end of each act
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Aug 8, 2017 06:29
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I once fought Brutus with 500 hp.  Anyways, looks like Neversink has pushed a nice update to filter.
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Aug 8, 2017 06:47
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So one of the things that pushed me away from PoE when I first started playing it way back when is the fact that it seems a bit merciless in class progression. God forbid you gently caress up with your passive skills because you're really not going to get a chance to undo everything. I think I hit that point with my brand new level 50 marauder who drat near instantly dies on the beach in act 6. So gently caress. Honestly this is the one thing where D3 beats this game. PoE kicks its rear end in the lore department, the customization of classes, the maps, crafting, loving everything. But the whole shtick of "well you wouldn't respect your character if you could just respec hurr duurrr" is absolutely asinine.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:02
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Rookersh posted:so. uh Naw, your new Tempest unique will be set at level 32 (it doesn't alter item-to-item). It's still a great weapon though, it's one of those weapons that can scale all the way from progression up into red tier maps if built around correctly. The idea around Tempest is that you stack +flat lightning damage everywhere, from socketing support gems like added lightning and innervate into your attack, getting flat added lightning on rings and amulets and gloves, and even a static electricity jewel for added measure. And because you stack all your damage in a single element, you use a lightning penetration gem to punch through the high lightning resistances from enemies at high levels. I was discussing some theorycrafting around this item back in beta (and it was a candidate starter of mine), and I was thinking of something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6RZwcQIg2k If you're going to build around this, make sure that the storm cloud you upgrade has a high attack speed roll (48-50%), and an itemlevel of at least 50, so it can get 6 sockets total. That means you should seal that prophecy and save it for later, or buy a storm cloud with the requisite properties later. You want to fate up uniques that have the best pre-existing stats as possible.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:05
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I think a lot of people (me) like that.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:06
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Pastry Mistakes posted:So one of the things that pushed me away from PoE when I first started playing it way back when is the fact that it seems a bit merciless in class progression. God forbid you gently caress up with your passive skills because you're really not going to get a chance to undo everything.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:11
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You can't really gently caress up your tree irrevocably. All you can do is take inefficient paths to things or not take enough life. Part of the game is planning your pathing to make both leveling and endgame playing comfortable.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:13
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Pastry Mistakes posted:my brand new level 50 marauder who drat near instantly dies on the beach in act 6. This is by design. A reminder to cap your resistances after taking the hit to them at the end of a5.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:16
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myDad posted:Anyone with Gladiator experience know how good Violent Retaliation is? Seems much better than Blood in the Eyes for damage, but the uptime on its buffs might make it a trap The moment you get a 20+ stack on the buff and go zooming across the map is when you fall in love with it. More seriously, recently is 4s which is decent length, but if you're max block (which, you're a Gladiator), you're going to have stacks up constantly since you're going to be blocking frequently.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:17
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Pastry Mistakes posted:So one of the things that pushed me away from PoE when I first started playing it way back when is the fact that it seems a bit merciless in class progression. God forbid you gently caress up with your passive skills because you're really not going to get a chance to undo everything. I understand your frustration and felt similarly at first. But I think the way POE's skill tree works, the amount of specificity in some of the nodes, keystones that drastically change your character, etc. it'd be rather cheesy if you could respec at will to better suit whatever challenge you were about to face. You get a decent amount of refund points from quests, and there's a currency that isn't outrageously expensive (Orb of Regret) to get limitless more refunds, so no character is ever unsalvagable. I think it's pretty fair. It might help new players if the tutorial stressed the importance of life and resists, because ignoring those for offense is the number one way to screw up your character in a costly way. Flasks and passive regen are inherently very strong, but you have to keep yourself out of range of being one-shot to take advantage of them.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:21
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Pastry Mistakes posted:So one of the things that pushed me away from PoE when I first started playing it way back when is the fact that it seems a bit merciless in class progression. God forbid you gently caress up with your passive skills because you're really not going to get a chance to undo everything. You get around 20 respec points from quests, how bad can you gently caress up your character that you can't fix it with that?
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Aug 8, 2017 07:31
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coming from d3 where you can change everything on a whim i can see why someone would feel really restricted by the poe system
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Aug 8, 2017 07:39
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d3 is also about gear checks rather than build checks (where as poe is about build checks first and gear checks second) poe gives you little outside of the choices you make and emphasizing those choices means that bad choices are a possiblity. anyway. Just get more % life on the tree and prioritize life then resists on your gear this isn't hard.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:47
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Is there still a viable Iron Commander build? It looks like all the popular ones gave up after 2.6 My Doomfletcher has 3 Siege Ballista totems and does shitloads of damage, do you really need 8?
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Aug 8, 2017 08:24
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NecroMonster posted:d3 is also about gear checks rather than build checks (where as poe is about build checks first and gear checks second) I did get a few elemental resist nodes and am heading towards a keystone. Sort of considering specimen out of those nodes when I can so I can work my way towards more life. Does that seem sound? EDIT: Maybe I should keep the elemental resist nodes for now but refund the one node I got to make my way towards the keystone, then spec out of them once I got the respec points (Still only have 2 at the moment) and I can cover those elemental resistances. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Aug 8, 2017 |
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Aug 8, 2017 08:29
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Pastry Mistakes posted:So one of the things that pushed me away from PoE when I first started playing it way back when is the fact that it seems a bit merciless in class progression. God forbid you gently caress up with your passive skills because you're really not going to get a chance to undo everything. If you die instantly in Act6 go back to Act5 and farm the temple till you get some points to get more life. If you hosed up your build go back do the respec points quests or drop some chaos on regrets. Your issue is probably a gear issue more then anything though. After act5 you get cursed for less resistance and act6 beach drops a ton of scorching ray totems that will destroy you if not at least 50% fire resist.
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Aug 8, 2017 08:56
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Unlucky7 posted:I did get a few elemental resist nodes and am heading towards a keystone. Sort of considering specimen out of those nodes when I can so I can work my way towards more life. Does that seem sound? What's your HP at?
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Aug 8, 2017 09:15
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Unlucky7 posted:I did get a few elemental resist nodes and am heading towards a keystone. Sort of considering specimen out of those nodes when I can so I can work my way towards more life. Does that seem sound? Picking up nearby resistance and 30 stat nodes and removing them once you have the gear to fill those gaps is a common thing to do. Probably not worth reseting them until maps, unless you're really hurting for more life.
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Aug 8, 2017 09:17
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Unlucky7 posted:I did get a few elemental resist nodes and am heading towards a keystone. Sort of considering specimen out of those nodes when I can so I can work my way towards more life. Does that seem sound? Generally speaking I'd focus on life passives over resist passives. Resists are really easy to cap with gear unless your build runs tons of uniques. Meanwhile life has no cap and you want as much as you can get from both passives and gear.
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Aug 8, 2017 09:20
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I decided to take a stab at a trickster SR+RF build since I've been getting a lot of good leveling uniques for it. Path of Building says I'm at +167 life per second and 15k off SR stage 1 + another 24k off RF without actually putting in any gear, which seems pretty good.
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