vOv posted:

How strict is your filter, like do you generally have more than one full inventory's worth of stuff (assuming you only carry portal scrolls and maybe a few bits of other random currency into the map)? I'm mostly running high-level stuff because I'm focused more on getting my character to 90, so if I do run low-level stuff for fast clears then I won't wind up getting any XP out of it.

10bux posted:

I think what's always drawn me to wanders, is that there isn't a "perfect" way to build them. That's because your gear is pretty much guaranteed to be different then the next. Way more so then any other build in my opinion.


So like Eezee said, the move speed and extra life/res is certainly great. The only reason I've stuck with a lyco for so long is because for one I'm a dps slut, and two, because of vaal pact. If you miss a barrage or two and the wrong moment against say Minotaur, it could mean death. It's also nice to completely ignore a stat like accuracy. That said, I am switching to an evasion shield after a long long time. Although I only wanted one that was 1k+ eva, attack speed, 90+ life, accuracy and a res, which can be quite expensive.


As I said before, it's totally up to you how you build it, but I have to say I feel this is incorrect. The main thing you want from those wand nodes is the crit and crit multi. It's been nerfed so hard it just doesn't feel right playing a wander without those nodes. Even with them, I still am dreaming of more crit. Also, even for a lyco user, those 5% attack speed nodes are insanely efficient. Also, you're build sounds totally different. Mine is strictly for QOTF.

You are totally right about the guys POB and his legacy standard gear, but even his DPS is passable.




This is what my deeps look like using a rare lion pelt. My new tempest setup is even more but not finalized just yet. I tried dumping the wand nodes and picked up proj + proj jewel socket and put my best 4 stat jewel in there. Ended up losing 4k dps, but it was better than I anticipated. Also, none of my gems are 21, and my wrath is not empowered.

J posted:

There are tons of posts on reddit about "hey I just ran 100 maps here's what I got" and there is always a good chunk of currency there, even without any "big" sellable drops. Case in point, some guy ran 1000 t2 beach maps with bisco's and goldwyrm, look what he got. You can steamroll beach on a poo poo load of builds that can still function with those 2 items. He didn't pick up anything aside from raw currency drops and uniques worth 5c or more.

NachtSieger posted:

I've been doing this for a while and I dunno if it's a good habit or not. Should I pick up all superior flasks I find so I can turn them into glassblower prisms?

Ratios and Tendency posted:

My rare vaaled chateau map rolled the demon mod thing and this guy that spawned immediately fills the screen with infinite skeletons and fire rings that kill my lvl88 SR dude near instantly

Ratios and Tendency posted:

My rare vaaled chateau map rolled the demon mod thing and this guy that spawned immediately fills the screen with infinite skeletons and fire rings that kill my lvl88 SR dude near instantly

Ratios and Tendency posted:

He's a dick. I lost like 40% xp and had to abandon the map.

Ultima66 posted:

I tried dropping the flask nodes for a few hours and determined that the extra mana pool those nodes give is really important. I don't know what your stats look like but the maximum leech rate is 20% of your max mana, which without those nodes is around 700, or 140 per second. Your mana regen without those nodes is like 14 or 15, so you regain about 155 mana per second at leech cap. My barrage costs 51 mana per use and fully buffed with the wand wheel I have 4.8 APS, which means Barraging burns 245 mana per second, a lot more than the max mana recovery rate. With the two Flask Charge Recovery/Mana clusters, I have 1100 max mana and 27 mana regen, giving me 247 max mana recovery, a bit more than enough to sustain the slightly slower Barrage. Regardless of whether or not bosses will survive for that long, it's drastically cutting down on the real Shaper DPS, which is what matters the most. Also it's just way more annoying to play like that in general even when not mashing Barrage on a single target, and feels just awful for QoL in general.

TBH I'm not sure how other people manage it because I see people skip those nodes, but I'm welcome to see a suggested tree that takes wand wheel and also the flask nodes, but at this point I don't think they're skippable. If it's just a matter of sacrificing like 25-30% life worth of jewel sockets and life nodes, I really don't think the wand wheel is worth it.

deep dish peat moss posted:

to be fair I think the real lesson here is that Bisco's should be everyone's first purchase when they start mapping. Yeah it's expensive and yeah it doesn't make you any stronger but it is literally the switch that needs to be flipped to start rolling in cash. I started using it on my golemancer last league and I can't imagine playing any character without it now.

10bux posted:

DemonMage posted:

Correct. Rarity is near useless.

Goo P-Nut Sack posted:

Are you the same dbk from the D3 goon guild years back?

Devor posted:

To briefly expand, item drops work by selecting a base item, then applying your 'rarity' to the roll - so a white item is more likely to be magic or rare (maybe unique?) with higher rarity, but it's still a Glorious Plate or Coral Ring.

For Currency drops, the Alteration Orb or Chaos Orb or whatever is the 'base item'. And there's no magic or rare version of an Alteration Orb. The game does not select a generic 'currency' roll and apply rarity to make it have a chance at a Mirror.

Ineptitude posted:

What are good starter builds for HC? .

10bux posted:

Yes, I took a few leagues off poe to play d3. The fact that I played d3, and enough to make top 25 barb one season will remain my dirty dark secret.

Ineptitude posted:

Playing PoE for the "first" time (i played a bit right when it released) and my HC Harbinger League ranger got squished by the act 3 end boss.

The game is surprisingly fun, i have always thought it was a spergier D2 for people that couldn't quite manage to get over their D2 addiction but it doesn't really have much in common with D2 except being a loot centric isometric hack-n-slash. The passive tree is brilliant, so are the skill gem stuff.

Im going to make a new character and take things a little bit more careful for my next character. What are good starter builds for HC? Preferably not something minion/totem based as i really hated D2 necromancer (mostly because the pets always hung out in the back)

I found this page listing a bunch of builds but that webpage is fairly dependent on an already broad knowledge of PoE to know what is what. PoE builds sounds like M:TG or Hearthstone decks, really silly names that are not very descriptive.

My favorite D3 builds are Barbarian with the whirlwind build that spits out a bunch of tornadoes as you go and frozen orb wizard.

Ineptitude posted:

My favorite D3 builds are Barbarian with the whirlwind build that spits out a bunch of tornadoes as you go and frozen orb wizard.

the bitcoin of weed posted:

it sounds like you should be playing an Ngamahu's Flame Cyclone Slayer, friend

NecroMonster posted:

lmao, so I buy a bisco's put it on, go and run a couple of maps, and a far far far better bisco's drops for me this drat game

nerox posted:

This is a very cheap build to do at this point as well, took me about 50C to fully equip my guy yesterday (plus some chroms/jewelers/fuses).

Next step is to figure out how to get my cyclone guy into a bisco's.