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I briefly felt pretty pleased with myself when I popped the unique gamble challenge until I realised it was challenge progress and that challenge completion wanted me to spend currency not just gambling on items, but gambling for items I didn't even want the base of. Way too difficult for me.
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Aug 2, 2021 08:09
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To everyone who is complaining about this season and quitting, I just have one thing to say: Give me your stuff. I finally convinced my roommate to play and we're in yellow maps and having poo poo luck with drops and this was a terrible season for him to start but it's what's happening so I have to make sure he has a good time because I am hopelessly addicted and must pull others into my hell.
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Aug 2, 2021 08:16
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CubeTheory posted:To everyone who is complaining about this season and quitting, I just have one thing to say: I have like 20c and 4 awakened gems you might not want. Everything else is like 1c items in every slot. You’re waaaay ahead of me.
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Aug 2, 2021 08:37
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poemdexter posted:I have like 20c and 4 awakened gems you might not want. Everything else is like 1c items in every slot. You’re waaaay ahead of me. I'm in game as AuraSignora, give me your everything, I am the Path of Exile vampire. I also only have like 20c, I cannot stress how unlucky this season has been for me lol. I've played many, many seasons and I've never seen it this dry.
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Aug 2, 2021 08:48
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My league review after a week of play and a really nice weekend: Its really not that bad. All in all, its not at all. The "slowdown" of the game is, in all honesty, not there. I dont notice *a thing* about slower gameplay. Ok, this might have something to do with being a deadeye archer, but it doesnt feel less zippy zoomy than before. The campaign was a slog, but it always is, and i havent started a second character yet but since im stocked on levelling uniques i cant imagine it being significantly worse than before. Flask changes... what of it? I mean seriously, all doom and gloom aside, what of it? I see a threat on the screen i piano everything except life, which i reserve for the scarce moments betwenn 0 and 100% hp which are far and inbetween anyways, and should i get frozen i piano again cause i never remember which one is my freeze flask. One day i will roll "use when frozen" on my quartz (those are 30c on SCT currently) and then this is a non-issue too. Since i never gave 2 shits about 100% ailment immunity (a concept that feels quite novel to me, when did this become a greater must-have than maxed resists even?) that nerf also didnt impact my gameplay in any way and i dont get what all the fuzz is about. So whats new then? Bosses are as unrewarding as ever, atlas is a chore as always, league mechanic is best skipped in leveling until maps when it gets good, as always. Everything seems and feels exactly the same. Some builds have been gutted, some others now get some screentime, what gives? If youre angry that you cant copy/paste the same CoC-build for the 8th year in a row will probably break some people, but for the casual player it really didnt have half the impact reddit makes it sound like. Im actually enjoying the league and its content since logbooks magically started dropping after the 53% patch, and the actual expedition is more fun than heist, ritual and ultimatum combined. Whatever happened to player retention is 95% reddits fault for throwing autistic tantrums for the sake of herd mentality and streamers magnify that by a lot, since their viewership cannot communicate beyond the levels of "omegalulz" and "pog" and will blindly follow their deity to damnation. Im enjoying the league and will continue to push my character although i still think more than half the content could either be removed or made only available on demand as to not produce fomo, but expedition is good and delve is still fun and despite all odds, Legion is loving nice with Lightning Arrow (and a build thats kinda tailored towards it). That said, Sirus dominated rares can go eat a few dicks with Baran mobs, and immunities on mobs still have no place in this game, and i will die on that hill (cause i have 3400 hp). Stay sane.
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Aug 2, 2021 08:54
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Also i Rog´d this belt: Too bad the random quality was for stat improvement, of which is has zero.
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Aug 2, 2021 08:56
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I bought a really nice resist ring earlier with no ES but 15% tempering quality on it. "this guy is a moron and wastes his catalysts," I thought
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Aug 2, 2021 09:08
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Ripped the Rage Vortex to Harvest. I think more than half my characters since 3.11 have died in harvest. One would think I'd learn to not touch to plants but... This entire evening has been trying to get Eye of Winter to work and man, I'm so scared about the damage. The current plan is to leverage Snakepit and Hydrosphere to unleash an auto-shotgunned Eye of Winter. In the an optimistic scenario, it's about 40ish shards to whatever happens. The plan is to play it Necro with life on block, but finding damage is hard as Necro. Could play it Elementalist, but then finding block is hard. Could play it Glancing Blows, but then I'm sad. There is the nuclear option which is to play it Mines, but you forgo the Hyrdosphere high roll. This is all further complicated in that I have no idea how this will play in reality. I really want to make Eye of Winter work though.
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Aug 2, 2021 09:15
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How much damage you need for endgame btw? My minions currently do 180k each, pure cold dmg. With dominating blow that is in theory times 9 regular guys, 3 magic guys and 2 rare guys.. so 1,6M-2.5M dps. I bought a forbidden taste yesterday, just need to get chaos res up there too. It is the only auto healing life flask I think.
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Aug 2, 2021 09:42
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Ripped the Rage Vortex to Harvest. I think more than half my characters since 3.11 have died in harvest. One would think I'd learn to not touch to plants but... Ranger Deadeye? Chain, +proj, point blank, evasion/dodge/spelldodge, spell damage from witch, projectile damage from ranger, crit from shadow, no idea if this could work.
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Aug 2, 2021 10:00
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Ranger Deadeye? I went down this road a bit and the issue that arose was recovery, or at least snap recovery. You could run a cold damage leech solution, but because Eye is finnicky, and leech definitely won't always be available, you are super vulnerable to a double tap of some kind. However, with Forbidden Taste, this might not be that big of a deal. Saboteur runs into the same problem, but has 10% regen and just a ton of a different kind of DR in the mining kit. Some testing suggests that you can still setup the hydrosphere machine gun with mines with some practice. Mines right now might win the day on this, or I might just shelve Eye for the moment. We'll see how I feel in the morning. There is always a CI route somewhere here...
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Aug 2, 2021 11:45
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Just put in my map for the day.
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Aug 2, 2021 11:50
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The gambling for uniques challenge is a lot easier than most people think. You’re swimming in currency after like yellow maps, just gamble bases you know have uniques. I got mine done on Friday and I’ve hardly engaged with it.
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Aug 2, 2021 12:46
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Infernal legion is what i was thinking of but yeah it’s probably not with that reservation for the 40 crit multi
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Aug 2, 2021 13:14
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where the gently caress are my map drops
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Aug 2, 2021 13:35
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Vasudus posted:The gambling for uniques challenge is a lot easier than most people think. You’re swimming in currency after like yellow maps, just gamble bases you know have uniques. I got mine done on Friday and I’ve hardly engaged with it. on the other hand I'm up to spending ten astragali buying every base that can roll unique and not getting a single one lol
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Aug 2, 2021 16:16
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Larry Parrish posted:on the other hand I'm up to spending ten astragali buying every base that can roll unique and not getting a single one lol Yeah they seem super hit-or-miss. Someone told me to save all my Rog currency and wheel and deal with him when i got to maps. I burned all my currency with him and didn't end up using a single piece of it. I ended up getting better rolled gear for a minor fistful of chaos. Wasted a few hours rerolling for a shot at a tabula and came up with nothing. Bought one for a couple chaos instead. These guys just don't like me.
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Aug 2, 2021 16:28
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People said the large map machine is ugly. I found about this arch idea from youtube vid so I tried to make a large map machine with arches:   I think it looks quite fine! I wish the game had a top down view for placement. Or a visible floor grid.
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Aug 2, 2021 16:42
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Lib and let die posted:Yeah they seem super hit-or-miss. Someone told me to save all my Rog currency and wheel and deal with him when i got to maps. I burned all my currency with him and didn't end up using a single piece of it. I ended up getting better rolled gear for a minor fistful of chaos. In contrast the Rog gear I've gotten has been completely insane. Like I got a shield without added quality that has 2.6k armor, 40% block stun recovery, extra block, 96 life on block and resistances. Seriously thinking of making a shield based character later just because of that thing.
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Aug 2, 2021 16:47
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Ihmemies posted:People said the large map machine is ugly. I found about this arch idea from youtube vid so I tried to make a large map machine with arches: I don't have 3-4 minutes to run around my map machine to reach the portals on the far side
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Aug 2, 2021 16:51
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Do y'all just pick bases with no regard for what's on them when you Rog craft? Most of what he shows me is poo poo, and on the rare occasion something has a good mod or two, it immediately gets hosed over.
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Aug 2, 2021 16:51
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Devor posted:I don't have 3-4 minutes to run around my map machine to reach the portals on the far side Just use only one portal? I also have whirling blades so movement isn't that bad.
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Aug 2, 2021 16:52
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Cao Ni Ma posted:In contrast the Rog gear I've gotten has been completely insane. Like I got a shield without added quality that has 2.6k armor, 40% block stun recovery, extra block, 96 life on block and resistances. Seriously thinking of making a shield based character later just because of that thing. that's an endgame sst shield on armor alone, lioneye shield will take you to redmaps but you want more armor at higher tiers Anyway let me hold that 👀
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Aug 2, 2021 16:54
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Yeah that’s a good shield god drat Post a screen shot
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Aug 2, 2021 16:56
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Cao Ni Ma posted:In contrast the Rog gear I've gotten has been completely insane. Like I got a shield without added quality that has 2.6k armor, 40% block stun recovery, extra block, 96 life on block and resistances. Seriously thinking of making a shield based character later just because of that thing. Yeah the best I can tell there's just no middleground. It's either a font of gear from heaven, or an absolute dump. If the reroll currency would drop more often, I could see some sort of flattening of the disparity, but so far my luck with reroll currency is only matched by my luck with (not getting) expedition maps.
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Aug 2, 2021 17:00
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poemdexter posted:I’m done with the league I thinks. I leveled a necro to act 8 until I got to see how much reaper sucked. I then leveled a poison blade trap sab to white maps before I did some theory crafting and couldn’t find a way to boost my damage to the point it would be viable in red maps. I can’t even muster the courage to do a third build to attempt 36 challenges because gambling for uniques shouldn’t be a challenge as well as the 4 other boss specific conditionals sound like hell after last season (I skipped boss conditional to get 36). you can just respec your sab into spell traps and have an extremely good character for this league y'know. ice trap is the obvious one but traps scale spells really well so you have a lot of alternatives like eye of winter+trap support, lightning spire trap, etc
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Aug 2, 2021 17:04
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im regular lightning traps and have been annihilating everything in my path with no signs of stopping.
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Aug 2, 2021 17:08
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Jazerus posted:you can just respec your sab into spell traps and have an extremely good character for this league y'know. ice trap is the obvious one but traps scale spells really well so you have a lot of alternatives like eye of winter+trap support, lightning spire trap, etc I’m playing exsanguinate/ seismic trap
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Aug 2, 2021 17:09
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So I've started to hit a wall with Spectral Helix in the yellow/red region. With more investment, I think I could get the DPS to feeling better so that some tankier mobs/bosses aren't a total slog, but eh. Helix is pretty fun, but I think it's mechanically flawed - you basically have to dive into the middle of packs (fun!) to have acceptable clear, but there's a wind-up time (not fun!) in which every single thing around you gets one or two hits in. This wasn't a problem in white maps on my Raider, but now I'm starting to pop a little too frequently for my liking. There's no way I'm playing through the acts again this league, so I'm looking for ideas on what to respec into. Here's what I'm thinking so far: - Archmage/MoM/Agnostic Storm Brand. This is what I really wanna do, but the top DPS guy on ninja only has like 2M DPS which is a bit low for the level of investment required. - Cold SST. This seems to be one of the top builds of the league, but eh, the videos I've seen don't really appeal to me. It does look effective! - Ele Hit. Looks to be a fantastic mapper and a fun play style, but I don't think I have enough currency to get the bossing to an acceptable point. Anyone that's played these have any input? SC Trade fwiw
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Aug 2, 2021 17:20
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Ihmemies posted:How much damage you need for endgame btw? My minions currently do 180k each, pure cold dmg. With dominating blow that is in theory times 9 regular guys, 3 magic guys and 2 rare guys.. so 1,6M-2.5M dps. If your doing 1.6m-2.5m you should be doing enough dps to get into red maps and start the endgame. Obv you will get more dmg over time, but its a good start with the nerfs.
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Aug 2, 2021 17:22
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Traitorous Leopard posted:So I've started to hit a wall with Spectral Helix in the yellow/red region. With more investment, I think I could get the DPS to feeling better so that some tankier mobs/bosses aren't a total slog, but eh. Helix is pretty fun, but I think it's mechanically flawed - you basically have to dive into the middle of packs (fun!) to have acceptable clear, but there's a wind-up time (not fun!) in which every single thing around you gets one or two hits in. This wasn't a problem in white maps on my Raider, but now I'm starting to pop a little too frequently for my liking. frost blades, but it'll have the same expense problem as elehit for bosses
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Aug 2, 2021 17:26
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I'm playing this game for the first time and getting blasted. Level 60 but the maps are a few levels behind me which is not ideal apparently. Struggling to balance dps and survivability, especially elemental resistances. Running a bladestorm berserker build, just four links so far. I probably could invest in a six link at this point but I have no idea how much more effective that will make me. Still having fun even if I feel completely lost and have no idea what mechanics I should engage in. I have a loot filter so I just pick up the shinies and leave 90 percent of the gear if it isn't good for me personally.
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Aug 2, 2021 17:35
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You're level 60, but the zones you're in are lower? ("Maps" are the post-campaign zones and I'd be really impressed if you made it to maps at level 60 for your first time playing) Don't worry about a 6L. Those are expensive (especially for someone who doesn't know how to make money in this game) and totally unnecessary for beating the campaign. Post your character here so we can critique it (make sure to set your profile to public first). I'm going to go ahead and guess that you don't have enough %life on the tree, some inefficient pathing and a slot of two of gear that's totally worthless, since that seems to be a recurring theme with new people who post their characters here. Speaking of gear, you can join the goon guild to get access to the guild stash, which will probably have quite a few upgrades in there.
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Aug 2, 2021 17:45
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I'm still doing the campaign (just finished the lunar temple) and don't think I've looted any maps other than a single expedition logbook. I'll link my character when I get home and would really appreciate any tips. I only just realized last night that I didn't need to have both my vaal and regular ancestral warrior gems slotted at the same time. . .
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Aug 2, 2021 17:55
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Bright Future posted:I'm still doing the campaign (just finished the lunar temple) and don't think I've looted any maps other than a single expedition logbook. I'll link my character when I get home and would really appreciate any tips. I only just realized last night that I didn't need to have both my vaal and regular ancestral warrior gems slotted at the same time. . . One very basic thing I didn't realize the first time through is how much you should lean on the crafting bench in your hideout for early survival. Any of your rare gear that has an open suffix on it (hold alt to see what mods on an item are prefixes or suffixes, you can have three of each), craft resistances. Anything with an open prefix, add life.
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Aug 2, 2021 18:23
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idk if anyone is as dumb as me but make sure you’re spending dannigs currency and buying tujen and rogs refresh currency and logbooks. got like 8 logbooks from him yesterday
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Aug 2, 2021 18:26
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I'm on act 9 now and I'm ready for the campaign to end. There's certainly no dearth of content in this game but I want to get to all the cool post game stuff.
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Aug 2, 2021 18:27
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crafting bench is also good for keeping gems leveled up that you plan to use later by boosting the required attributes, then you can just spend two hours untangling that mess laterShlapintogan posted:I'm on act 9 now and I'm ready for the campaign to end. There's certainly no dearth of content in this game but I want to get to all the cool post game stuff. act 10 is pretty short
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Aug 2, 2021 18:27
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nexous posted:idk if anyone is as dumb as me but make sure you’re spending dannigs currency and buying tujen and rogs refresh currency and logbooks. got like 8 logbooks from him yesterday If I could get one of dannigs' reroll currency....
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Aug 2, 2021 18:36
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nexous posted:idk if anyone is as dumb as me but make sure you’re spending dannigs currency and buying tujen and rogs refresh currency and logbooks. got like 8 logbooks from him yesterday I've never seen Dannig's reroll currency and I don't believe it's real. Like logbooks.
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