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I've been too busy these past few months to have played lootsplosion league 
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Having played around with The trick will be to contagion packs, and aim your ED at the weakest mob in the pack. Hit a rare, and you need to keep shooting until you get the contagion cascade. God help you if you meet a vaal aura rare, that poo poo hard counters you. I've decided to spec my ED for damage using Void Manipulation, Controlled Destruction, and Rapid Decay. Not sure what my 5th link will be. I don't have enough strength for Iron Will. I'm not rich enough for Empower. Perhaps Increased Duration to counteract the Rapid decay?
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Dec 12, 2015 15:14
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Also, if you want to automate contagion, you might want to get a Scold's Bridle and spam essence drains, and automate Cwdt-Contagion from that. You don't really care about damage from Contagion, and instead want to spread out as much ED as possible.
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Dec 12, 2015 15:24
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Hauki posted:someone was asking about ED/Cont, so here's my current planned tree: http://poeurl.com/t9l How are you finding contagion spreading with no AoE nodes? I took them, and I'm wondering if I should respec out of them for more spell/chaos/projectile damage.
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Dec 14, 2015 00:09
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I never took advantage of the post-2.0 eldritch battery/mind over matter/zealot's oath mechanics, but how do you build around it these days? Do you effectively use it to reserve ~100% of your mana these days, and use a combination of ES gear, eldritch battery, and zealot's oath to sustain your energy shield (which acts as both your mana source and extended health). In that case, what do you typically use to sustain your life? Potions or life gained on hit? EB/MoM/ZO might be really strong with essence drain, because it lets you split your sustain. Your essence drain goes into your life, and your life regen goes into your energy shield, which lets you sustain both pools at once. I'm thinking to reserve my mana with blasphemy-vulnerability, temporal chains, and arctic armour.
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Dec 14, 2015 06:04
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Hauki posted:Real quick, ED doesn't sustain life with ZO specced. They changed it to regen prelaunch instead of whatever it was termed previously. That's part of the reason I specced back out of it. Ugh, the wording is "Regenerate 0.50% of Debuff Damage as Life", which goes into the same recovery pool as if you have or don't have Zealot's Oath. I see now. No split pool sustaining here. Now I'm considering reserving with Temp Chains, Arctic Armour and Clarity, and manual-casting Vulnerability
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Dec 14, 2015 15:17
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Ultima66 posted:Wow holy poo poo apparently you can use Bino's Kitchen Knife + Consuming Dark + Infernal Mantle with the poison support gem to get a very big poison DoT on a fire spell, then Bino's will proliferate that poison stack when the monster dies. It looks like it kills things extremely fast with Flameblast but the radius on Bino's spreading poison is low. The coolest thing is you don't need to Chance to Ignite. Just 1-stack on a single mob, and the proliferate will melt the trash. Considering the magnitude of the chaos/dot/poison nodes around Shadow, this could be legitimately viable. I wonder how this would look on a more sanely-geared character.
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Dec 16, 2015 08:25
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Wait, Crit IB Facebreaker? Is he hoping for the IB explosion to crit?
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Dec 17, 2015 03:27
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Does anyone have a good build for a voltaxic archer? I ask, because right now, I think voltaxic + poison has a shitload of untapped potential. Also, who remembers what the price of Voltaxics stabilised at during Awakening/1month? I ask because I'm wondering whether or not to buy voltaxics at 1exalt now, or later. Because later, I suspect some jerk is going to come out with a poison Voltaxic guide, and make the price skyrocket.
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Dec 19, 2015 15:53
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People throw around the term crit, but there are several defintions you need to wrap your head around. There is base crit chance, local crit chance, and global crit chance. Finally there is your actual crit chance, which is a function of all of the above. This is why base crit (and local crit) is the most important stat for any crit build. A well-rolled harbinger bow has up to 9.35% base crit. This is multiplied by your global crit chance modifiers. In order to reach the crit chance cap of 95%, you need at least +916% increased global crit chance from tree and gear. This is quite hard, most non-GG geared crit bow builds reach the ballpark of 60-70% crit chance, and this is more than enough to clear high level maps. On the note of bow crit, is it worth taking all of the bow crit notables (King of the Hill, Lethality, Assassination, Heartseeker), even if the bow you are planning on using doesn't have very much local crit, and you don't intend on investing in much crit on gear? I'm planning out a Voltaxic, with a base crit of 6%. I've heard that it's always worth taking these nodes as a bow character no matter what, or is it better to focus on scaling my damage with "increased damage" nodes?
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Dec 21, 2015 00:07
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On the note of staves, alot of people like to craft +3 fire gems and supported by L1 blood magic, which also lets them 7-link their summon raging spirits.
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Dec 22, 2015 05:30
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ronya posted:Was wondering when this bug crept in. Yeah that was incredibly annoying, I was wondering why it kept doing that.
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Dec 23, 2015 06:11
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quote:Fixed a bug where skills (from both players and monsters) which dealt chaos damage over time were doing far too much damage when supported by Poison. Hang on, this is a pretty big deal. Rip supporting essence drain with poison, it seems to have been scaling the poison DoT from ED's secondary DoT.
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Dec 23, 2015 06:46
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JTDistortion posted:If I were to link Cast on Damage Taken, a spell, Curse on Hit, and a curse, will the CoDT trigger a spell that curses on hit, or will it trigger the spell and the curse separately and ignore the CoH? Yes, this works quite well. Keep the CwDT and the spell at a low level, and the spell with go off repeatedly (for little damage, but that's not the aim). Keep the CoH and curse at high level, and the tagged enemies will be heavily debuffed.
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Dec 27, 2015 04:16
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lmao mathil just chanced a skyforths in the middle of the atziri fight during shield phase like it was no dang thang i believe he can make something happen
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Dec 27, 2015 04:51
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nightwisher posted:So I made a video of my poison trapper build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSzQgumDobg The choice of Alpha's howl seems a bit weird and not worth it. Looking at the video, you hadn't specced into the Charisma notable yet. Charisma cluster + notable gives the same amount of remaining mana as no notable + Alpha's howl, I'd have specced into that node earlier and worn a helmet with life and resists and evasion. And good god, 3k life as an evasion build. Well, with good jade flask usage and positioning, you should be safe.
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Dec 28, 2015 00:07
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Lioneye's isn't bad even when playing crit, because it lets you completely forgo accuracy.
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Dec 28, 2015 04:01
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dangerdoom volvo posted:If they open the door to negative feedback they also let in dickholes starting poo poo over nothing, people feeling like they got ripped off, every idiot who doesnt get things the way they want Yeah, like that guy who freaked about a mastercrafter who screwed up his +2 chaos gems staff, when apparently the staff wasn't able to be mastercrafted in the first place. Of course, the mastercrafter also hosed up, and wasn't aware that it was uncraftable as well. Maybe a solution is to only allow negative feedback within the shop thread, and come down like the fist of god on anyone who tries to export drama.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:09
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AegisP posted:I love my evasion characters to death, but man, there definitely is something satisfying of playing a 20k Armour, 63% block, Cybil's Blade Vortex character now and again where you can see just how much poo poo it takes to make your hp pool move any significant degree below full. link tree and gear please
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Dec 31, 2015 09:00
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Acht posted:I'm trying to transition my ED/Contagion build to include Righteous Fire on HC. RF doesn't work with CI, as it automatically shuts off when your life is 1. And your life is always 1. If you want RF, you want pure life.
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Dec 31, 2015 13:04
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Conclusion: keeping up frenzy stacks so your snakebites poison is an ungodly bitch, I'm no longer bothering with this. I've slotted poison in my blast rain instead. Also, this opens up a new set of slots for CwDT, which is nice defensively. Besides, poison on voltaxic lightning arrow isn't very effective. It's way too inconsistent: you either deal no damage and hence no DoT, or you deal so much damage that the mob evaporates.
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Dec 31, 2015 14:34
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headspace posted:That is what this is for: gently caress no i invested in these 7 frenzy charges for a reason and i only get 2-3 jewel nodes
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Dec 31, 2015 23:54
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I'm watching Nugi's stream, and it's the hipsterest goddamn thing. Self-cast chaos spark, using Voltaxic and Rigwald's Quills. Edit: you can probably push it towards damage by dropping blood magic keystone, replacing the poison support with snakebites, and reserving mana with wrath and HoT. Phobophilia fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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Jan 3, 2016 12:50
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Rigwald's curses aren't that expensive, heck, they're cheaper than the actual facebreakers themselves. http://poe.trade/search/ihaimanikunata I dropped a pair of 790% facebreakers last week, I might keep it and roll a crit facebreaker myself. Not sure on Ice Crash, Cyclone, or Infernal blow.
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Jan 4, 2016 00:44
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I've seen people use Soul Mantle triple totem builds with no mana reservation or regeneration, and recovering their mana with long duration curse immunity mana flasks.
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Jan 7, 2016 07:53
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Serious question, has anyone tried swapping to storm call on Mjolner against bosses or tough rares? Surely having a spare L19+ Storm call on a spare slot, or a Mjolner on weapon swap, is faster than waiting for the boss to pick up the deadhand talisman.
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Jan 8, 2016 01:04
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I still can't work out how to not stumble onto malachai's landmines
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Jan 8, 2016 12:03
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Touch of God is tankable with capped lightning res and lots of hp, but it's also very avoidable (even as melee). Just keep on your toes while attacking: as soon as you get the audio cue, leap slam/whirling blade/quicksilver away. I find the lightning ghost projectiles trickier to dodge, because there is less windup, and you are more likely to get hit by some of them. I love the Dominus voice actor, the guy sounds like he's having a blast shouting some of those lines.
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Jan 18, 2016 07:53
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Ultima66 posted:Very late since I didn't look at SA over the long weekend, but for those of you who were asking about tanking Dominus's Touch of God, I've generally been able to tank the A3 Merciless one with a tanky character and take around 3500-4000 damage, but I've never not gotten oneshot by the Residence (lvl 76 map) one. Take from that what you will, from my experience it feels like the map versions of bosses are all significantly faster than their normal versions on top of their oneshot attacks actually oneshotting you, so learning to dodge them will be very important once you get to higher levels anyways. My first and only attempt at Conservatory Vaal in a party of 6 ended with me not reacting fast enough to get out of the way of a second laser after the first one hit me, which was never at all a concern in normal progression, and it was not a turbo or boss turbo map. Super mechanical fights are a pain to fight in groups, because particle effects fly everywhere and you are often playing on someone else's server. Hope the boss mob AI didn't roll an attack decision on you! Kolonnade also scares the poo poo out of me, because my computer always lags in rainy maps, while Lunaris Kole is fought indoors. Just bring a curse removal flask and some AoE to get rid of his buddies.
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Jan 20, 2016 06:58
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dis astranagant posted:gatdamn Embezzlers are great. Whiffed embezzlers with no rates nearby are a disappointment.
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Jan 22, 2016 08:30
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My best box gave me a 6L steelwood bow
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Jan 22, 2016 10:34
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Rashomon posted:Your mileage may vary, but I'm going to totally disagree with this. This is the correct way to gear yourself on a budget, though it's worth considering that these values change over the course of a league. Alching random jewelry is useful early in a league (like first week) because the market is yet to be saturated by good cheap items. Now, just buy. It's probably still worth alching good 75+ bases like diamond rings.
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Jan 25, 2016 06:27
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If someone has a level 7 master and doesn't read "scour the belt" as "scour the mastermod using the workbench", I don't think they would understand anything.
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Jan 27, 2016 00:51
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CI Icestorm going to Unwavering Stance is not a waste, you can convert quite alot of those str nodes to int using those jewels.
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Jan 28, 2016 01:06
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Bugsy posted:Best rip I've seen in a while. high tier decision making skills here
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Jan 29, 2016 05:19
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I've gotten a shitload of double ghosts, I'd been giving them out for free on global 820! Maybe I should have given them to goons, or sold them.
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Feb 3, 2016 01:10
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Safari Disco Lion posted:It does say hit by, and the RF degen is a DoT which specifically isn't a hit. It's still useful if you can wrangle up a redblade helmet, because that way every single physical hit you receive will proc fire damage on you, and buff your regen. Also, the increased damage you deal looks like a global mod, so it should affect the RF burn on enemies.
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Feb 5, 2016 10:19
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Budgie posted:You forgot about these which appeared around the start of the ascendancy announcements: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Letters_from_Chitus Sweet, I'd always loved Act 3 and Sarn, way more than any of the other acts. I'd love more of that, we barely know anything of Chitus besides "Monkey King", I want to see him act as a total rear end in a top hat.
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Feb 23, 2016 00:00
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lmao i hope that flask is usable in hideouts, it would be a hilarious source of afk pk deaths
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Feb 23, 2016 00:28
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The Varanustra sword might be an okay starter endgame weapon, but it pales in comparison to a proper 300pdps 1-hander that you really want. Stacking a ton of linear return multiplier won't be as effective as boosting your more multiplier with more base damage.
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Feb 23, 2016 04:45
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