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Jack Trades posted:Last Epoch protip: Nice I'm playing Bard's Tale I between transitions but I really should check out poker cheating simulator
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Speaking of finally joining the COF, I need to "Gain a prophecy from an Observatory telescope" but no matter which direction I pan any of these in, I don't see poo poo? Do I need more Favor first?
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You get access to all the CoF stuff even if you are hard offline, right
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Sab669 posted:Speaking of finally joining the COF, I need to "Gain a prophecy from an Observatory telescope" but no matter which direction I pan any of these in, I don't see poo poo? Do I need more Favor first? I'm only level 10ish and know very little so far, but this sounds like you're playing a completely different game 
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zoux posted:You get access to all the CoF stuff even if you are hard offline, right Yes. Sab669 posted:Speaking of finally joining the COF, I need to "Gain a prophecy from an Observatory telescope" but no matter which direction I pan any of these in, I don't see poo poo? Do I need more Favor first? I had to relog before anything would show up in the telescopes.
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zoux posted:You get access to all the CoF stuff even if you are hard offline, right yeah, according to the devs all cycle content like CoF is offline available from day one apart from a handful of bosses that get added eventually once they've been killed enough times online
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Sab669 posted:I haven't been able to find a Vial of Volatile Ice Poteential mana issues is why I am thinking going towards Smoke Bomb, with the upgrades to consume shadows to regenerate mana and health. Now that actually working, I'll know when I get there.
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queeb posted:My prediction, 10k peak players This aged well...  191,496 - playing 17 min ago 191,496 - 24-hour peak 191,496 - all-time peak
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Sweetgrass posted:yeah, according to the devs all cycle content like CoF is offline available from day one apart from a handful of bosses that get added eventually once they've been killed enough times online Well poo poo... I never play multi-player and the only reason I was thinking of doing an online SSF character was because of the CoF thing. Sorry barely born Acolyte online... you are dead to me now.
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Sab669 posted:Speaking of finally joining the COF, I need to "Gain a prophecy from an Observatory telescope" but no matter which direction I pan any of these in, I don't see poo poo? Do I need more Favor first? this has happened to me with every character I tried to join with, both on and offline - I thought it might have something to do with the fact that all the chars were created before 1.0 restarting the game once I got there has always fixed it
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qnqnx posted:Poteential mana issues is why I am thinking going towards Smoke Bomb, with the upgrades to consume shadows to regenerate mana and health. Now that actually working, I'll know when I get there. With 2 rings with Throwing Skills cost -3 Mana, Net becomes free, which combined with one of the passives in the rogue tree turns it into a mana generator. That said, that's not very useful if you're not spamming it between other cooldowns. I mostly use it to generate an infinite pile of caltrops (which apparently have 3000 dps for me, whatever that means for a caltrop). You can also make Net spam Smoke Bomb for free with no cooldown, but I guess that's not very useful without points in Smoke Bomb anyway. Clarste fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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I thought i wouldn't have access to COF when i was fully offline, nice bonus if that's available then. 
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Clarste posted:With 2 rings with Throwing Skills cost -3 Mana, Net becomes free, which combined with one of the passives in the rogue tree turns it into a mana generator. That said, that's not very useful if you're not spamming it between other cooldowns. I mostly use it to generate an infinite pile of caltrops (which apparently have 3000 dps for me, whatever that means for a caltrop). Now that's my kinda gear interaction. I'll have that in mind, if I find these rings.
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Sab669 posted:I haven't been able to find a Vial of Volatile Ice You’re getting the base type pictured. If you want to gamble higher tier bases, run Soulfire Bastion. I think Vial is common, so you could probably spam runes of ascendance to get one if you care enough. Or just look for COF prophecies for unique off-hands. Could also farm unique Catalyst monolith nodes in Stolen Lance. Sab669 posted:Speaking of finally joining the COF, I need to "Gain a prophecy from an Observatory telescope" but no matter which direction I pan any of these in, I don't see poo poo? Do I need more Favor first? You probably want a good chunk of favor first, I don’t think I bothered to pick up prophecies until I was like rank 2 or 3? The early ranks come pretty quickly, you’ll probably hit r3 after a handful of mono nodes. There does seem to be some kind of display bug with the telescope, so try relogging if you’re not seeing anything through the lens. You should see constellations in the telescope with 3-6? nodes you can choose from per item type. Each prophecy costs favor (from what I’ve seen so far, cost ranges from 450-4500 per node, roughly according to how good/rare the results are) and will roll a new constellation with different nodes once you’ve chosen a prophecy. Some have multiple charges, others are one and done. The telescope interface is also a little misleading imo - panning around is functionally the same as just walking to the other telescopes. The regional lenses affect the item types that show up within the constellation, unsure if they affect drop rates as a whole. You unlock more lens slots as you reach higher tiers, haven’t gotten far enough to look into greater lenses yet. COF bonuses are kinda wild so far, I’ve had bosses drop like 14+ exalteds at a time, idol shrines pop out like 30 idols at once and I’m on my 3rd lp3 unique already.
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How I feel every time I activate Falcon Strikes:
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Little pro-tip: buy all the runes of shattering you can from every merchant as you go along. You'll be swimming in gold even by like level 30, or at least enough gold that buying them all is trivial. You need shattering runes to try to get specific shards to feed into crafting, and you can never have too many of them. I remember on my two previous playthroughs always emptying the vendor after every monolith run, but no reason to not start in the campaign even.
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They increased the amount that vendors can stock at a time, so it's less important to buy it out every single time, imo. But still not a bad habit.
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I keep a buffer of however much gold the next stash tab costs and then spend the rest on shatters On the topic of spending gold, I'm so happy that EHG decided to make vendoring drops basically worthless. It's so nice to just be able to shatter stuff I need from wherever and throw the rest on the ground where it belongs Tarnop fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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The load screens being endless is one thing, but then actually getting into the zone with party members going into their own perosnal instance is really dumb lmao
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It's incredible how much they talked about "we're working really hard to make coop actually playable, pinky promise" and not a thing thing has been fixed on that front.
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Tarnop posted:I keep a buffer of however much gold the next stash tab costs and then spend the rest on shatters It’s great, but it still doesn’t stop me from compulsively picking up everything to sell even for pennies. I’m getting better, usually now I only do it when specifically heading to town for quests.
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xZAOx posted:Little pro-tip: buy all the runes of shattering you can from every merchant as you go along. what should I shatter? do I want to shatter stuff that has multiple affixes I care about? does it matter what tier those affixes are? I'm only like level 30 if it matters
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:what should I shatter? do I want to shatter stuff that has multiple affixes I care about? does it matter what tier those affixes are? I'm only like level 30 if it matters Higher tier can shatter into more shards, so yes. Basically just add up the total tiers of the Affixes You Care About and the higher that is the more you should shatter it (if you're not gonna use it, of course)
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:what should I shatter? do I want to shatter stuff that has multiple affixes I care about? does it matter what tier those affixes are? I'm only like level 30 if it matters Early on you’ll want to pick up some ailment cleanse on potion use (belt only). These are great candidates for sealing as a 5th affix. Generically useful affixes like: Hybrid Health (boots, belt, gloves) %Health Added Health Any Penetration affix Frailty and Armor Shred on hit are also great to have (amulets, gloves, I think frailty rolls on relics too) Any class-specifics that you care about (chest, helm) Lastly, class-specifics you don’t care about for the purposes of rolling those affixes away when you need to. E: %all resistance rolls on shields and is less common too. Obviously you’ll likely also want a bunch of shards of whatever your primary damage type is on the slots it can roll on - weapon, rings, belt, gloves, amulet, relic offhand? As I get deeper into a char and accumulate shards, I start filtering for only t4/t5 of affixes I care about. I shatter most things, but if you want to maximize your shard return for a given affix and have potential to spare, use runes of removal instead. Hauki fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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I'm having a great time playing a warlock! Still not a fan of having to redo the campaign over and over later on though. It's what causes me to skip every other league (if not more) in PoE to not burn out anymore. These things are fun for the first time but end up being a very, very, multiple-hours-long dragged out tutorial every time past the first couple.
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Clocks posted:I'm having a great time playing a warlock! you can use dungeons to skip past it on later characters why isn't it just a button? :animateddiscordemojishrug:
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victrix posted:you can use dungeons to skip past it on later characters Can you do that on a new character in a cycle or is that for characters after the first only? Because if it's the latter, it's like using twink gear as arguments. Nice, but doesn't alleviate needing to do something kind of boring for the first 5h of each league/cycle.
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victrix posted:you can use dungeons to skip past it on later characters You still have to do all the side quests, so it's barely even a skip.
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Clocks posted:Can you do that on a new character in a cycle or is that for characters after the first only? Because if it's the latter, it's like using twink gear as arguments. Nice, but doesn't alleviate needing to do something kind of boring for the first 5h of each league/cycle.
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I'm playing a lot of act 1 right now (haven't made it any further because of zone transitions), and I love sacred blooms so much, it's like they took spires, my favourite feature from monoliths, and put them in the campaign so I didn't have to feel like I was missing out on constant aoes spawning from ~somewhere~ off screen while I'm trying to look at loot or get a glass of water or change the youtube video on the other monitor.
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Jack Trades posted:You still have to do all the side quests, so it's barely even a skip. Not completely true Someone correct me on this but; I think theres more side quests in the game than there are rewards (of the idol slot / passive point types), so if u skip areas you can get the same rewards in later side quests
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The one thing people who like the "skip leveling" never answer - what tier of maps are they comfortable to be dropped at with freshly created lvl1 character that is twink this "league"? Or which size the "Win" button on twink character creation screen should be
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Erulisse posted:The one thing people who like the "skip leveling" never answer - what tier of maps are they comfortable to be dropped at with freshly created lvl1 character that is twink this "league"? I can't parse what you're trying to ask but Diablo 3 didn't make you do any of the campaign. Do that.
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I think he's saying the monos would just one shot you at level 1. They'd have to widen the scaling for those so you can do them starting from level 1.
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bamhand posted:I think he's saying the monos would just one shot you at level 1. They'd have to widen the scaling for those so you can do them starting from level 1. Sounds fine? Dunno what there is to discuss about that
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Jack Trades posted:I can't parse what you're trying to ask but Diablo 3 didn't make you do any of the campaign. Do that.
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I don't really mind the campaign here since it doesn't feel that different from the monoliths anyway. Almost all of the objectives are just "kill your way to the next zone" or "kill your way to the boss." It's not like it has you out there collecting 20 bear pelts.
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The main problem is it has a lot of loading screens and loading screens are a pain point with the server issues. Monoliths magically have no loading screens and are perfect forever.
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