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Fenris13 posted:With Rain of Arrows, point blank and Chin Sol count the distance from where you target it to the target hit, so against a boss if you target right on him, you should get almost all your bonuses, obviously trash gets melted no problem, even if you target at your feet. Unless the rework for RoA changed what the game considers the origin, no. https://dd.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/3xsvb7/rory_just_confirmed_that_point_blank_does_not/ Also, having played RoA exclusively with Chin Sol for a couple of days now ( bought mine when they were 10c+ )the damage bonus from it only applies when you get in their face. Hamburger Test fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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Jun 6, 2018 12:10
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Deki posted:I didn't see anything posted about the purge/invites, so I'd still like an invite on TG_Big_Vaaler_Brand. Good name
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Jun 6, 2018 14:02
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Hamburger Test posted:Unless the rework for RoA changed what the game considers the origin, no. Wait...what this changes everything. I always thought the entire skill gets the bonus based on where you click the arrow. Well it doesn't really change that much. I can start clicking on enemies and moving closer for bosses I guess.
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Jun 6, 2018 14:21
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So I haven't played since 2.2 but I was thinking yesterday, how am I so loving poor? Then a goon earlier posted about forming a team to farm unid rares for chaos. I'd completely forgotten about that and had been dumping my rares randomly at vendors or on the floor instead of making a suit of it for chaos. Go me....
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Jun 6, 2018 15:28
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ugh, is losing access to brutal fervor worth taking impact and dropping melee splash on a flicker slayer
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Jun 6, 2018 15:34
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Tai posted:So I haven't played since 2.2 but I was thinking yesterday, how am I so loving poor? Then a goon earlier posted about forming a team to farm unid rares for chaos. I'd completely forgotten about that and had been dumping my rares randomly at vendors or on the floor instead of making a suit of it for chaos. Go me.... The goon was being sarcastic. Having 5-6 people farming rares nonstop and shoving them through the chaos recipe as a super secret way of making money is ridiculous, and is not how rich people make their money. The rate of return and inventory management of that is kind of like picking up nickels as a job. Yeah, technically it might have a little higher rate of return than just picking up valuable stuff, but it's annoying and time consuming to spend your time on inventory management instead of killing dudes. Just kill lots of things, try to have a build that can push into yellow/red maps, collect currency and valuable uniques and sell them.
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Jun 6, 2018 15:38
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So it's finally time to start planning a second character, though I won't roll it until I'm done with Shaper in a few days. I'm doing Elemental Hit, wander style. Probably two sets of it, one for single and one for multi, with the single being in a Frostferno and the multi in something else. I'm going Avatar of Fire with the blocking jewels. My options are: Elementalist w/ Yoke for the shocks and absurd prolif, Deadeye for all around greatness, or Scion (Inquisitor/Assassin + Deadeye) for sicknasty crits via Might of the Meek. If I do Scion or Deadeye I'll be using a Xophs. I cannot for the life of me decide past this point. Ugh.
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Jun 6, 2018 15:42
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Just want to make sure everyone knows about this: http://poe.ninja/challenge/builds Select the main skill, the skill mode (trap, mine, totem, normal), then pick any keystones to find high level builds actually doing that. Then click passive tree heat map and the red lines are pretty much the required nodes. It makes coming up with your own builds easier seeing what others are doing. I am using it to do my CI Arc Trapper. http://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?skill=Vaal-Arc&keystone=Chaos-Inoculation&skillmode=Trap&heatmap
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Jun 6, 2018 15:47
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So I've been messing around with my self-made BV build for a while and I'm starting to feel a bit down on it now that I'm nearing red maps. So I figure it's time to bring it to the pros, but I don't know how to contact them so goons will have to do! Here's the paste: https://pastebin.com/YctkCL6y General criticism appreciated, besides on flasks because I know what's wrong with those I'm just lazy as gently caress. Especially the tree, I started with one idea and had to change a lot through leveling clusters, my amulet, not having any good jewels, etc. I'm quite happy with damage given where I am with my build (severely unoptimized). A bit low for real bosses once I'm getting up in levels but still fine. Playstyle and sustain are what's tripping me up. The former can't really be helped and I hope an Enlighten in the helm will help there because the low unreserved mana is a real bottleneck for fun at the moment. Survivability, I dunno what to do. I mean it's amazing for mapping and shorter bossfights, between flasks and Vile Bastion regen. But this character just crumples against real bosses. And it's not so much I don't get why (generic leech and actually mechanically dodging poo poo until recharge starts is all I have going for me) but rather that I don't know what I'm supposed to do about it. Flasks go a long way but my damage definitely isn't killing tough bosses like the temple boss anywhere near fast enough they can last through a whole fight. Should I just give up on bossing for this character entirely? Do I just need to get better gear before going near double-digit tiers?
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Jun 6, 2018 15:47
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nerox posted:Just want to make sure everyone knows about this: I've been doing the same thing lately, it's good getting a guideline of what you'd want a build to look like and see what other people have made functional.
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Jun 6, 2018 16:19
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Velveteen posted:Ok so I'm really liking Rain of Arrows and if anyone is wondering if its good, its very good. The AoE is big enough to cover the entire screen when shooting at your feet so you can take advantage of Chin Sol and Point Blank for huge multipliers. Because of the "half of the arrows will directly land on targets if they are within range" on the skill, it melts bosses in single target too. It puts barrage's single target damage to shame. I haven't had this much fun with a bow build before. Currently using crappy self found rares along with a Starkonja's Hood I found. Spent 1c getting a Chin Sol and another 1c getting a hrimsorrow for 90% cold conversion. Atziri's flask was a donation from a kind goon. I've always wanted to do rain of arrows but everything I read always says it's inferior to TS or wahtever.. do you have a PoB pastebin I can check out 
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Jun 6, 2018 17:16
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Hamburger Test posted:Unless the rework for RoA changed what the game considers the origin, no. My Mistake, I took the meaning of "where the skill was fired" to be fired at, not fired from. This actually makes Rain of Faps even more desirable, as you can move the origin around via traps without getting into pb range.
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Jun 6, 2018 17:17
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You know I think I'm a bit totem-sick because of how many variants I played over the past few years. How's self-cast Arc doing?
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Jun 6, 2018 17:39
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One of these days I'll get a Siege Ballista build fleshed out, I'm just not sure what's be most effective: Hyrri and go for elemental damage or pure phys bleed. Either that or a Warcry build.
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Jun 6, 2018 18:10
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whalestory posted:I've always wanted to do rain of arrows but everything I read always says it's inferior to TS or wahtever.. do you have a PoB pastebin I can check out I actually don't use path of building. I just pick my skill points off poeskilltree and then change around as I play the character. I'll tell you what I have and you can calculate the dps yourself with pathofbuilding. Current tree is: https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscr..._GK8rj8xf1u_94= Chin Sol for weapon, Hrimsorrow for conversion. If you have lioneye's fall replace the leech circle with the claw half circle for leech. 5L using vaal rain of arrows, physical projectile damage, weapon elemental damage, cold penetration, slower projectiles. Since rain of arrows isn't a projectile it doesn't get slowed down but still gains the damage from projectile attacks. Not sure what I want for the last link, probably faster attacks.
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Jun 6, 2018 18:26
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whalestory posted:I've always wanted to do rain of arrows but everything I read always says it's inferior to TS or wahtever.. do you have a PoB pastebin I can check out It is of you're going wind ripper mf with gg gear in the non unique slots. Because you can make ts more powerful through helm enchant and quiver and shaper flask. Roa has.....
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Jun 6, 2018 18:29
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If someone told me a month ago that Elemental Hit Traps would be the next UltimaBuild (TM) I would not have been able to take them in good faith. But here we are. On a 5L at like lvl 72 and missing huge parts of my tree: 
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Jun 6, 2018 18:43
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Ultima66 posted:If someone told me a month ago that Elemental Hit Traps would be the next UltimaBuild (TM) I would not have been able to take them in good faith. Yellow Elder dropped a Shimmeron for me last night so now I have an Inpulsa's with 3ex left over. On the whole I still think a Shroud of the Lightless would be better short of a 6L inpulsa's which I'll never get, but it's still a fun item to have. It's particularly noticeable in Incursions, easily full clear them again (was starting to cut the timer pretty close before). Probably will actually hit 90 with this one, which is a rarity for me.
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Jun 6, 2018 18:56
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Mo_Steel posted:One of these days I'll get a Siege Ballista build fleshed out, I'm just not sure what's be most effective: Hyrri and go for elemental damage or pure phys bleed. Ive been thinking about as well. Got prophecies for Hyri's Demise and Wildwrap just chilling in my stash for once I get tired of blade vortex. I'm guessing hierophant is the best option and then full on Iron commander, cyclopean coil, shaper gloves, etc for all the dex bonuses.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:01
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Ultima66 posted:If someone told me a month ago that Elemental Hit Traps would be the next UltimaBuild (TM) I would not have been able to take them in good faith. Yeah... Chin Sol is really effective with bow-based traps since they're basically always going to get the double damage. Also I only now found out that the Combat Focus jewels don't need to be in hybrid slots. They need 40 total of one stat or the other or a mix, not 40 of each. This means you can put the str/int one in a str slot or an int slot or one of the str/int slots. This could potentially make pathing easier.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:08
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McFrugal posted:Also I only now found out that the Combat Focus jewels don't need to be in hybrid slots.  This changes things.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:35
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Ultima66 posted:If someone told me a month ago that Elemental Hit Traps would be the next UltimaBuild (TM) I would not have been able to take them in good faith. What's your build?
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Jun 6, 2018 19:42
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Velveteen posted:I actually don't use path of building. I just pick my skill points off poeskilltree and then change around as I play the character. I'll tell you what I have and you can calculate the dps yourself with pathofbuilding. If you give your account profile link he can just import the character into PoB
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Jun 6, 2018 19:49
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Bugsy posted:Ive been thinking about as well. Got prophecies for Hyri's Demise and Wildwrap just chilling in my stash for once I get tired of blade vortex. I'm guessing hierophant is the best option and then full on Iron commander, cyclopean coil, shaper gloves, etc for all the dex bonuses. I am thinking Heiro too but then keeping 9 of them up and running seems silly. Maybe not going Iron Commander is better then?
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Jun 6, 2018 19:51
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So I got a Taste of Hate. I know they are expensive, but I've never had one to play with. Is there a particular build that having one enables?
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Jun 6, 2018 19:59
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Its not really a build defining item, but its good on a bunch of different ones. Anything that uses phys damage with get some benefit, doubly so if you use phys damage but scale ele damage via conversion. Its especially good because its a damage flask and a defensive flask in one.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:01
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Did The Purge happen? This isn't half as compelling without Goonchat  Still ZapNoodles
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Jun 6, 2018 20:12
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Insurrectionist posted:What's your build? Ele (s)Hit traps. Was going to go RoA/Blast Rain but then looking at template builds from the HC ladder I wasn't happy with trying to get a decent amount of flat damage to use with Chin Sol. So I tried out Lightning Arrow while leveling to simulate Ele Hit and didn't really have a problem with pack clear so I remade the tree for Ele Hit. Tree is very much still a WIP. I might end up cutting 3 points on Pierce nodes and either use a Penetrating Arrow Quiver, Rigwald's Quills, or Chain/Fork/Pierce instead of one of the supports in my AoE setup. Here is the latest planned lvl 94 tree: https://www.poeurl.com/bXud Protip for Bow Saboteurs by the way: The Effigon is a like the entire Champion 4 point Taunt branch on a single amulet, as long as you can reliably blind enemies. Saboteur can reliably blind now, it's quite a bit harder with any other ascendancy.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:22
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Mo_Steel posted:I am thinking Heiro too but then keeping 9 of them up and running seems silly. Maybe not going Iron Commander is better then? Keeping a bunch of totems up is easy with Heirophant's super fast placement speed. When I was playing around with IC last league, 7-8 seemed like the sweet spot. If you focus too much on dex on the tree for max totems you lose out on damage per totem which can result on less damage overall. You could probably build around some other bow while staying heirophant but in that case some other ranged attack totem is probably better than siege ballista. I'm no pro at PoB but it seemed like Iron Commander was the best option for siege ballista, and I could get around 500k dps total with them with a 5L and relatively cheap gear(Astramentis being the most expensive base item). I got frustrated with it though since last league was bestiary and totems suuuuuucked for capturing beasts. ESPECIALLY siege ballista since the damage is so chunky.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:24
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Gentlemen, I present to you my Fire Arc build - https://pastebin.com/zxW9QbAc Why did I make a fire arc build? Because I can, that's why. Also, I wanted better sustain than I could get with an elementalist, and I am burned out on inquisitor. the general Idea is to use iron will and Doon. Then just stack strength, life, and regen.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:30
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Are there any viable ranged attack totem builds? I was thinking about trying something with Scion and taking Heiro/deadeye ascendancies and having 3 totems all shooting out Burning Arrows (or something. Doesn't matter to me what skill.) I love the idea of turrets. I'm currently doing an arc totem heiro and it is really fun, but something about totems firing arrows is very appealing to me.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:41
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Scags posted:Are there any viable ranged attack totem builds? I was thinking about trying something with Scion and taking Heiro/deadeye ascendancies and having 3 totems all shooting out Burning Arrows (or something. Doesn't matter to me what skill.) I love the idea of turrets. I'm currently doing an arc totem heiro and it is really fun, but something about totems firing arrows is very appealing to me. Siege Ballista is probably a better choice
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Jun 6, 2018 21:00
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Scags posted:Are there any viable ranged attack totem builds? I was thinking about trying something with Scion and taking Heiro/deadeye ascendancies and having 3 totems all shooting out Burning Arrows (or something. Doesn't matter to me what skill.) I love the idea of turrets. I'm currently doing an arc totem heiro and it is really fun, but something about totems firing arrows is very appealing to me. Tornado shot probably works. But for totems you should probably go full hiero. The more totems you get, the more damage after all.
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Jun 6, 2018 21:01
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When did the thread title change? Subtle and well played.
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Jun 6, 2018 21:27
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Any room in the guild? WegeneValere could use an invite if so
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Jun 6, 2018 22:03
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do any of you use the official trade site instead of poe.trade? any idea why the live search gong sound would be going off when i dont have a live search active?
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Jun 6, 2018 22:34
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Awesome! posted:do any of you use the official trade site instead of poe.trade? any idea why the live search gong sound would be going off when i dont have a live search active? Maybe you're the millionth visitor? Congratulations! *GONG* Try Ctrl+F5 to force the page to reload all it's assets, maybe there's something stuck on the page. After that try clearing cookies.
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Jun 6, 2018 22:47
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I really don't like the official search page, it feels really claustrophobic. Poe.trade on the other hand, even with an ad blocker, occasionally slows to a crawl when trying to run searches. I find it a lot more readable though and I stick to that unless I run into issues with results being outdated.
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Jun 6, 2018 23:00
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Mo_Steel posted:Try Ctrl+F5 to force the page to reload all it's assets Zero VGS posted:I really don't like the official search page, it feels really claustrophobic. Poe.trade on the other hand, even with an ad blocker, occasionally slows to a crawl when trying to run searches. I find it a lot more readable though and I stick to that unless I run into issues with results being outdated. also i just noticed that it has a button to copy an item so you can easily put it into pob which is really cool and i dont think poe.trade has?
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Jun 6, 2018 23:07
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OK, so im doing my first ever arc totem build and i finally hit maps as a hierophant. Whats a good mapping wand to use until i can farm up enough c for shimmeron?
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