Path of Exile: every single mob was a 20 ft tall goatman. The loot was "good"

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How do you feel about Archnemesis mods on rares?
	Incredibly fun, I love them!
	They're alright
	Needs more work
	Almost as much fun as shoving a red hot nail under my fingernail
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Stangg: Mar 17, 2009

Which part of primordial might gives more value, I just dropped a 27/44 and I'm trying to figure out how to price it compared to the 30/40 ones on poe.trade.

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Fixit: Mar 27, 2010

Jazerus posted:

you should use zombies instead of the flameblast totem is the biggest point i was trying to make. you already have a lot of zombie-related nodes because they are also good ones for srs, so it's the most natural replacement for the flameblast totem, and you are within three points of +2 additional max zombies nodes too. minion life is also a buff to srs damage once you have your beacon of corruption ascendancy, so those won't be wasted points in terms of srs either. if you are building toward a baron then your passive tree is fine and you shouldn't go for death attunement/grave intentions, that was just a hypothetical since you didn't mention the baron as a desired upgrade for you. since you do eventually want a baron, it's worth mentioning that if you don't use zombies you're also wasting part of the baron's mods.

it's up to you, but it's the most straightforward path toward making your character a lot stronger. zombies are very, very good in combination with srs. they are powered up by exactly the same modifiers so your focus is never split.

also i see a distinct lack of cast speed, well, anywhere. it must be taking you a while to rev up to 20 skulls at the moment which hinders how fast you can go and how much time you spend with 20 skulls. that would be another easy fix.

Ah ok. Well I will definitely be putting in Zombie skills in for the totem! I imagine it will help keep mobs and bosses off me too.

Yes....it takes me forever to get 20 stack. I can't get it without flesh offering and even then I have to keep spamming it in order to keep 20 stacks going. This is another issue I have because if each head does 7k dps, that should be 140k dps on a boss. Instead I can hold 3-5 heads on a boss because I am avoiding skills shots since agro is on me. Where can I add cast speed?

J posted:

Lightning damage on spells is fine, you're already using ball lightning to apply EE, so extra lightning damage isn't changing anything. SRS deal physical, fire, and cold, so you want to lower the fire and cold resists via EE by applying lightning. But you don't care about the lightning resist of the target at all.

Kaom's roots are sort of a preference in terms of how safe you want to be. They have a shitload of life and make you immune to stuns/freeze/temporal chains. But personally I find the only times I have difficulty with SRS are situations where I don't have any time to create any distance to get the skulls out, so I'm really not a fan of any boots without movespeed. I've got the soul of the brine king pantheon node fully upgraded and I find that works well enough for combatting stuns, freezes, and chill.

Oh! Maybe Kaom's would be something to look at then if the change to adding zombies doesn't help. I get frozen all the time, hence all the immune freeze flasks. I've been told to get an Alchemist's quicksilver flask of adrenaline and then I won't have to worry about speed at all.

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whypick1: Dec 18, 2009; Just another jackass on the Internet

Spell Echo is a quick solution ( :v:

), but it does mean trading out a damage support.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 21:20

mbt: Aug 13, 2012

damnfan posted:

I think any build works really. I'm SRS necrobot and for low tiers I switch to double ventors, wonder boots and bisco's. Fill in everything else with iir/uniques as desired.

oh I know that, I mean what's the fastest / most magic-find-y one

i've got $ to burn

# ? Aug 16, 2017 21:21

Jazerus: May 24, 2011

Fixit posted:

Ah ok. Well I will definitely be putting in Zombie skills in for the totem! I imagine it will help keep mobs and bosses off me too.

Yes....it takes me forever to get 20 stack. I can't get it without flesh offering and even then I have to keep spamming it in order to keep 20 stacks going. This is another issue I have because if each head does 7k dps, that should be 140k dps on a boss. Instead I can hold 3-5 heads on a boss because I am avoiding skills shots since agro is on me. Where can I add cast speed?

you'd want to look for cast speed on your staff and rings. the commander of darkness ascendancy also helps a little, and so will haste. you are also close to a few jewel sockets which could have cast speed jewels put in them if you feel you still need more.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 21:27

J: Jun 10, 2001

Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:

what's the "run through low level maps with mf gear" build of choice now

is it something with wands

This might not be exactly what you're looking for with the MF gear stacking, but check this guy's videos. He's been running a cospri's build that is basically the 2nd coming of cospri's discharge but the only MF piece he uses is biscos. The build clears low maps insanely fast, probably way faster than a build that really stacked MF gear. The single target damage is pretty bad too.

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Pastry Mistakes: Apr 6, 2009

I desperately wish this game had a built in auction house.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 21:38

Fixit: Mar 27, 2010