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Mr. Despair posted:It specifically says you can't have more than one thing active. It's no different than say, the harbingers you could summon with all the harbinger items. Ghostlight posted:In the sense that, yes, equipping an item that buffs your crab barriers lets you avoid having crabs better, but not in the sense that there's a checklist that goes "oh, you have two crab barrier items equipped so now you also get +15 Strength on top of the items".
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 01:08 |
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theshim posted:what is this nonsense At long last I can play a Feral Druid again.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 01:09 |
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lurksion posted:OK, that new jewel is really loving good for Scions if I'm not blind. Basically all the (originally kinda of poo poo) starting nodes are within range of 3x jewels + the 2x life rectangle (or 2x ES wheel) Apparently jewel sockets are notables so it's never going to be used by anyone.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 01:31 |
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Mr. Despair posted:The important question we should be asking is whether these items have 3d art or not. With Abyss they seem to have fixed their 3d art pipeline, so that the league uniques have 3d art during the league, unlike poor lightning coil that finally got 3d art 3 leagues after anyone used it.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 04:30 |
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George posted:Apparently jewel sockets are notables so it's never going to be used by anyone. Oops, I guess you can only put one of them by the scion life wheel then. I know there are a bunch of builds that take one of those jewel slots and not the others.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 04:51 |
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Pathfinder may be a decent league starter as you can apparently get permanent uptime on a bismuth flask with that changed node and can probably skip that whole gearing phase where you have to spend half your chaos to fix your resists after act 10. Might do that and respec to deadeye if they put anything halfway interesting in there. Jean Eric Burn fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 24, 2018 |
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Mr. Despair posted:It specifically says you can't have more than one thing active. It's no different than say, the harbingers you could summon with all the harbinger items. Dunno why everyone's yelling SET ITEMS now but not then. besides the fact that people like to bitch about every little change, real change or not There is a pretty important difference between these two crab items, namely that the boots don't actually give you crab and do nothing without the chest. You can use one of the pieces by itself, and you can just wear a couple crab items instead of all 4? of them, but you still have 3 items that just have a lot of flavor text without the first. It seems way more flexible than most set implementations, but I would definitely call it more of a set than harbinger or abyss items. These set items are probably a fun and good thing though, as long as the items that grant the skills are the most common ones.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 05:16 |
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ArkhamPraetor posted:
One of the preview items is a rare with aspect of the cat so it seems likely that all the aspects can be beastcrafted.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 05:32 |
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MMF Freeway posted:One of the preview items is a rare with aspect of the cat so it seems likely that all the aspects can be beastcrafted. that is interesting. build your own set (although probably just the chest i guess?)
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 05:55 |
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The cat chest doesn't have aspect, so I bet one unique per set does but otherwise you have to craft
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 05:58 |
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I also have a feeling they've been testing some of this for a while... I know some of the crafting options they showed were things like "give an item a white socket", and it'd explain why the abyss preview had a bunch of rares and poo poo with white sockets but no corruption. Hopefully this means the crafting poo poo will be sweet if nothing else.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 06:04 |
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George posted:Apparently jewel sockets are notables so it's never going to be used by anyone. McFrugal posted:Oops, I guess you can only put one of them by the scion life wheel then. I know there are a bunch of builds that take one of those jewel slots and not the others.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 07:12 |
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My new years resolution is that this league I'll make my own build. I hope these new uniques aren't super rare because I want them.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 07:45 |
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Making your own build is a lot easier now than it used to be, that's for sure. There's a lot more things that are viable, and stuff is overall easier to correct. Pick your clearing skill Pick your single target (sometimes optional) Pick your ascendancy Pick your key unique items Pick life, CI, or hybrid Pick your notables Fill in life or ES to taste (I do 180% life for ranged, 200% for melee) Fill in damage Don't build out past level 85 or 90.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 13:57 |
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And then plug it all in to path of building with an average set of gear and look at the life/dps.
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 17:49 |
J posted:And then plug it all in to path of building with an average set of gear and look at the life/dps. Then click all of your flasks and "yes i have charges and all these buffs" and go into the game confident you will do 2.5 million dps
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 18:07 |
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Then click all of your flasks and "yes i have charges and all these buffs" and go into the game confident you will do 2.5 million dps At least your not the guy who put 100ex+ gear into every slot, tagged every buff in POB, and then claimed to get 17+ million dps on shaper on a "budget" build. It was so bad someone else put out a whole video series roasting it. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1931981
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 20:17 |
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MOTHER COMES
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 21:51 |
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https://twitter.com/pathofexile/status/967533021824864256
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# ? Feb 24, 2018 23:57 |
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I'm really not digging all these aspect things. But who knows, maybe it'll be good. GGG's been on a kick lately of making uniques give those rotating buffs. Sorry GGG, I'm not going to janitor my auras.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 00:10 |
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I don't plan to pay any attention to the durations on these things, just 'sometimes I punch harder, it'll even out' and just keep swinging.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 00:46 |
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spiders and birds are WAY more boring than crabs and cats, dissapointing
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:23 |
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Vasudus posted:I'm really not digging all these aspect things. But who knows, maybe it'll be good. GGG's been on a kick lately of making uniques give those rotating buffs. Sorry GGG, I'm not going to janitor my auras. I think it's pretty cool that they're trying a bunch of different mechanics and seeing what sticks. I've been playing the new Diablo season and absolutely nothing has changed about the game at all and it makes you feel like the game isn't evolving in any way and there's no reason to keep coming back. I'm not as interested in this league as Abyss, but it still sounds interesting and different.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 01:38 |
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As long as it isn't mandatory to wear a full set of items I'm fine with the new uniques. I just wouldn't want the game to go the direction diablo 3 has.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 02:03 |
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from what we've seen so far it's not even mandatory to wear a single piece
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 02:20 |
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Speaking of Diablo, let's see if they can make these intermittent buffs feel more engaging and relevant than Convention of Elements.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 03:49 |
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Newbie question: So is the Abyss stuff now part of the main game in some way, or is it gone forever?
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 06:58 |
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It's going to work the same way as Breach currently does where there's a small chance they will appear on your maps. Possibly available as a Zana mod.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 07:03 |
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Here's the full rundown on how it will get integrated
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 07:17 |
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Terrific Accident posted:I think it's pretty cool that they're trying a bunch of different mechanics and seeing what sticks. I've been playing the new Diablo season and absolutely nothing has changed about the game at all and it makes you feel like the game isn't evolving in any way and there's no reason to keep coming back. I'm not as interested in this league as Abyss, but it still sounds interesting and different. I actually just tried D3 again, for no real reason. It's been quite a few seasons and everything is still the same, isn't it? I'm bored at level 54 "levelling" on hardcore seasonal and at 70 there's maybe 3 choices? It's a drat shame, because I like the look and feel, there's just nothing behind it sadly.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 16:16 |
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Acht posted:I actually just tried D3 again, for no real reason.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 17:36 |
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It's almost as if one of the two games being compared here is a F2P that has to push new content to generate interest and retain/gain playerbase.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 17:41 |
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I really wish that totems didn't apply EE, I would be really tempted to roll a Hierophant otherwise. I hate totem builds but the ability to have 3 or 4 with the vastly increased placement speed is really tempting. Maybe I'll do one anyway.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 17:41 |
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Infected posted:It's almost as if one of the two games being compared here is a F2P that has to push new content to generate interest and retain/gain playerbase. D3 still bothers to have seasons and it has additional content to sell. I know they’re very different games but it’s kind of crazy to me how much of a better model PoE has created in terms of maintaining a long-term player base.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 18:04 |
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well from what I understand Diablo 3 has basically a skeleton crew on it acting as life support, while PoE has a full team dedicated to it 100%
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 18:08 |
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D3 would absolutely be a contender if they wanted it to be, but they made their apologies for vanilla and closed the book.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 18:21 |
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They already got your money and they don't feel it's worthwhile to switch their development/business model. They're Blizzard, the gently caress do they care.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 18:27 |
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I totally think there's room for the classic expansion model; they just had to keep making them.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 18:30 |
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George posted:I totally think there's room for the classic expansion model; they just had to keep making them. im just mad they removed any ability to mod the game, buy and forget is perfect for modding but noooo
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 18:38 |
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George posted:I totally think there's room for the classic expansion model; they just had to keep making them. Of course there is, they've just deemed it not worth their effort. The level of work necessary to produce ~a Blizzard expansion pack~ is extreme. You're talking hundreds of staff for months to a year or longer, and for what, 40 bucks a head? Drop it to 20 after a year? Chances are the bean counters said gently caress it.
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