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I’m trying shield crush and SST bleed They both work really well with bleed. With SST I didn’t like aiming and also worrying about moving and keeping fortify up with shield charge. My Brain can’t handle that much. So I’m sticking with Crush for the moment This is the first time I’ve used cruelty in a bleed build . I think it’s working ? They little icon says “40%”
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Aug 1, 2021 22:53
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FZeroRacer posted:one of the things i did to solve my mana issues was to use devouring diadem. not only is it a really good help in its own right (cwdt + desecrate is really good sustain), but eldritch battery + the ES on it means you can reserve all of your mana and sustain through ES alone. plus it also makes the es/health clusters actually worthwhile. i have like 250 unreserved mana and clarity, I meant as a good thing. I have infinite mana with a loving six link lol They're so kneecapping Sab.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:05
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Steam numbers
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Aug 1, 2021 23:06
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Hey we're still beating legacy's peak numbers!
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Aug 1, 2021 23:07
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Worse than synthesis and harvest . Rip
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Aug 1, 2021 23:10
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domination the best league ever, numbers prove it I guess I'll finally roll a character for the league tomorrow. spectral helix looks too fun to not play
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Aug 1, 2021 23:13
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I don't recall blight being that bad at retention lol.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:16
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One thing I find interesting is how little dropoff older leagues had, and I honestly can't fully place what that reason is. I remember playing back then I rarely quit a league before the 4 week mark, and some of the leagues I really enjoyed like Legacy or Breach I played a solid two months of. Since sometime around Betrayal I can't remember a league I played more than 3 weeks of, and weaker leagues were only two. Even leagues I loved like Harvest or Delirium were still only about 3 weeks. Maybe it's just that PoE is feeling more stale as time goes on, and there's not really much that can solve that, I've been playing the game for 10 years. But some part of it is that leagues have been feeling more unfinished, so often the first week of a league is tuned horribly in either rewards or difficulty, or both. With the obvious extreme cases like Heist which didn't even have a lot of the content available at launch.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:16
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Ferrinus posted:I've been having an okay time with an Absolution Guardian (and can finally afford Soulwrest to slide the final chess piece into place) Update on this one: Absolution is either bugged or misleadingly written, because it consumes corpses to make minions but not to refresh those minions. I'm only getting good phantasm numbers when my CWDT spirit offering goes off repeatedly.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:22
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I think, ultimately (and this is part of why I've stuck with it in spite of the frustrations) my enjoyment of this game is almost entirely in putting together builds I haven't really tried before and seeing how far they can get, and being more or less okay (even if there's frustration at the time) with that answer being "not far" or "okay now you have to spend lots of currency to make progress" (which is functionally the same as "not far") or most often "okay but I'm bored of this build now". I've only ever killed Sirus once (though I've fought him several times). I've never killed Uber Elder. I've never even seen any of the newer endgame/end league mechanic bosses. And I'm pretty much okay with this. It's not going to change, and I don't particularly need it to. So in some ways the top-end game getting harder to build for sucks for me and in some ways it doesn't, but I'd very much like to see them not stomp quite as hard on the more unusual mechanics like cast-while-whatever, because new and weird mechanical combos, particularly ill-advised ones, are pretty much all I'm here for.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:30
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Cinara posted:One thing I find interesting is how little dropoff older leagues had, and I honestly can't fully place what that reason is. I remember playing back then I rarely quit a league before the 4 week mark, and some of the leagues I really enjoyed like Legacy or Breach I played a solid two months of. a big part of it is that, normally, if you don't like your main build, you can just throw on some twink gear and blitz the story and be playing something new. Or buy some of the regret orbs that the league shits at you. This league rerolling feels like a far bigger slog than normal and regrets have been 1.5c or more basically the entire time and the league is very sparing with them. if i had to guess harvest was turning a lot of people off with having to set up an ~optimized garden~ to meaningfully keep up with everyone else who had set up the generic optimized reddit garden
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Aug 1, 2021 23:31
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How is rerolling more of a slog? You lost a bit of speed from movement skills and flasks but in the grand scheme of things it's not a significant difference. You're still gonna just roll everything with a 6link and capped resists. For me at least that is not an issue at all, I made a 2nd character on Friday because I was bored and it felt exactly the same as any other league. Sadly I still don't really enjoy this league so even a new build can't really save that.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:35
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the good news is next league will now probably be a circus with how rewarding it is to compensate for the player drop, and they'll add some new layer of power creep that totally invalidates all of the changes they just made lol
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Aug 1, 2021 23:36
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Canine Blues is absolutely right and I hope everyone stops fighting about it.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:44
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Tenzarin posted:I don't recall blight being that bad at retention lol.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:51
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Cinara posted:How is rerolling more of a slog? You lost a bit of speed from movement skills and flasks but in the grand scheme of things it's not a significant difference. You're still gonna just roll everything with a 6link and capped resists.
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Aug 1, 2021 23:58
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Adding 30 minutes onto the campaign doesn't suddenly make it a slog if you didn't consider it one before.
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Aug 2, 2021 00:06
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George posted:Canine Blues is absolutely right and I hope everyone stops fighting about it. being right isn't a good reason to treat people poorly
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Aug 2, 2021 00:07
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I think a lot of the hardcore fans moved to the stand alone client Not making excuses for anything . The numbers are bad
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Aug 2, 2021 00:11
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I'm doing a few maps a day but I'm being very careful to only play during off hours so it doesn't contribute to the peak.
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Aug 2, 2021 00:15
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Cinara posted:Adding 30 minutes onto the campaign doesn't suddenly make it a slog if you didn't consider it one before. it was a slog before and now it's more of a slog. First 2 times through the story each season? sure whatever. After your 5th or 10th or 15th? like one of the cool things about poe is how many cool builds the game generates. having to put up with the entire story just to try out one of them is probably the biggest thing limiting most players from trying more builds per season. and yeah it's now just slower than it already was.
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Aug 2, 2021 00:23
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Cinara posted:Adding 30 minutes onto the campaign doesn't suddenly make it a slog if you didn't consider it one before.
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Aug 2, 2021 00:29
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euphronius posted:I think a lot of the hardcore fans moved to the stand alone client Yeah, I don't think (hope?) anyone treats the raw numbers as super useful. It's a large enough size though to get a rough idea of trends. Similar trends you can find on historical twitch charts too.
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Aug 2, 2021 00:34
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George posted:Canine Blues is absolutely right and I hope everyone stops fighting about it. alternatively, 
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Aug 2, 2021 00:36
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Reiterpallasch posted:being right isn't a good reason to treat people poorly I agree, and was really discouraged to see them doing it!
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Aug 2, 2021 00:38
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Herstory Begins Now posted:it was a slog before and now it's more of a slog. First 2 times through the story each season? sure whatever. After your 5th or 10th or 15th? I'm the type who only makes 1-2 characters a season. And it's only two if the first one gets to maps and I'm not looking it for whatever reasons. I think a lot of people are like you, where they don't mind doing it once, but I don't even like playing Door Hunter Simulator once a season at this point.
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Aug 2, 2021 00:41
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If you thought the game was too easy, the power to make it harder was within you all along. Don't ascend. Use a worse skill. Run it in a 4link. Don't equip flasks. Run reflect maps while not immune. Why did christoph, son of wil have to drag me into this poo poo?
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Aug 2, 2021 00:44
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Zhulik posted:If you thought the game was too easy, the power to make it harder was within you all along. Don't ascend. Use a worse skill. Run it in a 4link. Don't equip flasks. Run reflect maps while not immune. rank 2 lvl100 in ssfhc played unascended marauder. pretty pog
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Aug 2, 2021 01:01
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SynthesisAlpha posted:
So uh... are those by chance on HC trade league, because I would pay you $Texas for those right now. My most recent Rog hit of the day  The base is tragic, and I'm REALLY tempted to vaal that thing. Canine Blues Arooo fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Aug 2, 2021 01:06
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Cinara posted:Adding 30 minutes onto the campaign doesn't suddenly make it a slog if you didn't consider it one before. I’d say they’ve only updated Act 1 so far, but who knows what they do now.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:14
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Sure the game is alittle bit harder now but give it two more seasons and well be right back to do millions of dps insta gibbing endgame bosses and entire maps again.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:14
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Iverron posted:I’d say they’ve only updated Act 1 so far, but who knows what they do now. The act 1 changes had little to no effect on the amount of time act 1 took, outside of the molten shell goatmen and the rhoas in mud flats I honestly didn't even notice any difference.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:34
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Yeah I've complained a *lot* about the changes this league, both before and after the patch, but of all of them, the Act 1 changes I had no problem with. It actually felt better because of the improved sounds? Or whatever overhauls they did, it felt real *thick*. Act 1 is also where the move speed and support damage nerfs were less noticeable since I was used to plodding along in that part anyway.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:37
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Whatever they did to mana costs is the only real change I noticed apart from Brutus finally coming out of lockdown.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:39
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act 1 felt good. maybe a little overtuned considering you're weak as hell and don't really have "a build" at that point.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:41
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HopperUK posted:Whatever they did to mana costs is the only real change I noticed apart from Brutus finally coming out of lockdown. You should not have noticed any significant mana cost changes in act 1, the only thing changed was support gems and most of the time you're still running a two link so at most you should have been spending 10-20% more mana.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:45
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Cinara posted:You should not have noticed any significant mana cost changes in act 1, the only thing changed was support gems and most of the time you're still running a two link so at most you should have been spending 10-20% more mana. I'm usually running a three-link as soon as I can so I noticed. 
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Aug 2, 2021 01:46
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The first time I really noticed mana being worse was when I hit maps and tried to use an enduring flask and it wasn't even close to being enough to cover my mana costs. Prior to that I am always running a standard mana flask during the campaign so it wasn't really any different than normal, maybe you hit the flask a bit more but I never had mana issues. But the increased costs plus the large hit to the recovery on enduring it really didn't cut it at all.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:51
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mana definitely felt bad pre-clarity on a 3L. haven't had any trouble since, actually i'd like to figure out a way to burn more mana so i can level my sigil of power a bit higher. but i'm a sab so this has absolutely no relevance to the builds that were actually nerfed
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Aug 2, 2021 02:00
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The biggest impact the act 1 changes had for me was in the very first area, since now those little shooty bug bastards are a real threat (not a major one but you kind of have to pay attention now) and not just an annoyance.
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Aug 2, 2021 02:01
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