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Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
Strong box pictures are only worth posting if they contain a mirror. TIA

Ranzear posted:

I'm just a scrublet who has never seen an Exalted Orb.

But one level can make all the difference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLAC0p4xVmc

awesome video

Holyshoot fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jan 23, 2016

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Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

vOv posted:

:catstare:

You should be at 75% in all resistances if you're at the point where you're farming Dried Lake. How much life do you have?

Depends on how fast your killing :colbert: I was doing merciless a3/4 with the voltaxic build and all my resists were negative 30

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Longbike posted:

Jesus, -30 resistances in merciless must be an entirely different game. I can't think of a single character I've played that hasn't had close to capped elemental resists by the end of act 3.

Wasn't any different. I was just killing way faster

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

ronya posted:

they're going to hit Discharge or Voll's Protector or Voll's Devotion or Blade Vortex with the nerfhammer, hard. maybe all four.

I just wish I knew what's going to happen before investing in a build. if they crimp just Blade Vortex alone, then discharge mjolner is still going to be safe. But I could see them nerfing Discharge into the ground and then some, seeing that it's a skill designed for an age when you had to generate every charge one by one.

Do you play standard? If not who cares. Go hogwild on whatever is over powered and do it again next league. poo poo I'm using my exalts now to finish off getting the last 2 challenges to have 32 because I don't play standard and my voltaxic dude is more or less built.

Doubt they will nerf volls neck. It's hard to get and not common. Blade vortex will probably be toned down though.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
The hardest part is starting out right? After you get some gear I imagine it's smooth sailing.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

TipsyMcStagger posted:

I actually find the level 80 plateau to be the hard part for me.. where you start doing maps but can't keep map drops/progress going so it just turns into this awful grind if you aren't geared enough.

It actually plateaus around 90 if you put the tiniest amount of effort into making some currency as you play via trading and such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5peoSsljNRY&list=PL4aZrsY9M5qA3-seudJZlG4I1NsUHDGxg&index=52

RIP bladefall and CO you were fun while you lasted.

time stamps if you want to listen to specific stuff.

quote:

0:00 Epic Intro by Rory

1:36 Name Locking Melee Skills

5:36 AoE nodes and AoE scaling

9:00 Vaal Reave and Cyclone

9:56 Frost Bomb, Orb of Storms (new skills) and the "One Button Meta"

17:30 Herald of Anarchy and Herald of Stone, Lightning Golem

19:40 Adding damage to support gems and support gem meta in general

23:18 Earthquake and the "gotta go fast" meta

30:45 Controlled Destruction and crit builds

34:47 Ascemdamcy Classes: class identity over class flexibility

37:25 highlighting subclasses for new players

38:25 Build diversity in Ascendancy

39:25 Pathfinder class balance

41:15 You can respec ascendancy classes and points

42:00 Rory's favourite ascendancy class

45:20 Powercreep and balancing around it

49:40 More build diversity discussion

50:45 The insane power level of unique flasks

56:25 Reduced mana changes, auras and mana

1:01:33 Outro

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

kaaj posted:

When you guys are participating in races, what builds do you usually try to do? I'm only asking as I'm poo poo as hell when racing and I just feel amazed when I'm i.e. lv 8 while the guy in first spot is usually almost double that. I'm presuming that he's skipping a lot of content, just running forward?

Immensely. Stop for blue packs only and stay 3 levels under the zone you're in. As for specs I have no idea. I think duelist is a strong race class.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Vilgan posted:

So... 20 exalts seemed like a fortune, but now that I'm looking into trying to buy my way to the remaining challenges (the harder/expensive ones), it looks like its less than I expected. Chains that bind go for 30c?!? Ugh.

Debating if I even want to try for 28 or just hit 21 and call it a day.

How hard is the 2 ghosts challenge to get? Haven't had it happen randomly, figured there might be ways to line it up to happen but would love hints from anyone that's pulled it off.

I got 32/32 on tsc about a week and a half ago. It wasn't too hard and I spent maybe 10ex if that and not counting that I was able to sell some stuff back. If you got 20ex you should be able to finish the challenges pretty easily. Only a few of the unid items are in the 1-2ex range the rest are super cheap. The rigwalds assuming you can't make your own ilv75 sets are 1-2ex as well except for the ring. And then the t1 uniques are also 1-4ex and you can sell a few of them back for near the same price especially if you get good rolls. Definitely worth going for if you don't play standard/hardcore perm leagues and have no reason to end the league with extra currency and your current character is built out enough.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
So whats the best spec to go to do that malachai without dying unless something goes horribly wrong? Something marauder?

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

megalodong posted:

Really depends on exactly what the icy areas turn out to be, but totems/firestorm trap are almost always a safe bet. Anything ranged will probably be safe as well, especially if the icy stuff moves around.

Dual totems or just the one totem and firestorm? And you just go up through the fire spec area north of witch starting area?

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Safari Disco Lion posted:

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive...lorXz-j8ho-8i8=

My skill tree plan for the 24h race as a dual totem Templar, if anyone wants some ideas. Uses 49 skill points; I'll get 7 from quests (flat life from bandits), The Harvest is level 40, so roughly 48-49 points is a good estimate for what I can get. I took lots of life and armor and resistances where I could get it (including Chaos res), 4.3% life regen, and the good nearby damage nodes so it doesn't take too long to kill things.

Might be overkill in the planning department considering the tons of strongboxes but I'm not a hardcore player at all and die all the time in act 4 when levelling up new characters, so I wanna play it safe.

No idea on your spec so if someone else can comment that would be cool. But usually people die in hardcore because they are skipping everything and their mom and under leveled for the zone. I'm just gonna take my time and be safe. But as I say this I will probably die.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
Died on the way to a4 piety. W/e got my staff cause I have been doing other races. Might try for belt. I probably should have farmed dried lakes some as I was like level 37 with 900 hp and 300 energy shield dual flame totem but I did have capped resists!

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

ZyrKx posted:

so i got a thing it seems ok?



Life regen. I'll give you a chaos for it.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

captainhowdy posted:

That moment when you corrupted a strongbox and a 6L Staff with a crappy roll drops from it.. :shepicide:

Could be worse. Saw a bricked shavs screenshot pop out of a box.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Frogmanv2 posted:

poe.trade makes trading easy.

I used to think trading sucked rear end, because it meant sitting in trade chat waiting for something good or hoping someone saw my ad. Thats for suckers.

Along with a acquition it is soo soo easy.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Ultima66 posted:

I got the twinned T14 clear and the map Vaal Oversoul kill achievements:



How do you sell crafting bases?

If you mean whites or what not I think you list the chaos amount and then do .083 for ilv 83 084 for ilv 84 etc etc.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Ultima66 posted:

Do they actually "sell?" Like how do I price them and how many people actually actively buy them?

Also, 3 deaths, 1 crash on load, was very scared I would run out of portals:



gently caress this fight.

Rodent says they do but he plays hardcore. I've sold an ilv 78 vaal regalia for a few chaos. And as for price I just undercut whoever was the lowest.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Hauki posted:

Any goons have a spare t13 on sc tali? The only twinned I'm still missing, happy to roll it up & run it myself or whatever.
Trying to use poe.tr at this point is an exercise in futility.

I think I do. I'll try to remember to log in tonight after work.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Hauki posted:

Awesome, that would be great. I can throw some stuff your way if you care. I should be done with work by 4pm est.

Also on crit chat, word on nugi'so stream yesterday was that crit multi is potentially being made additive instead of multiplicative and they may also be reducing base crit multi (?). So expect it to still be great, but probably less effective per %.

Should be on around 8 est or so.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

The Real Foogla posted:

http://www.pathofexile.com/signature-races/ladder/season/Winterheart

I like looking at the ladders when a season closes, and I think this is the first time ever a player got top 3 in every single class. So if you want to learn racing, just watch what Goratha is doing. Also of note: Helmans Duelist record must have been once in a lifetime rng, that xp difference is unprecedented.

Pretty sure goratha doesn't stream.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
Is it March 4th yet!?

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Infinite Monkeys posted:

Not sure whether to go ES or life with my caustic arrow MFer, I'm thinking ES will be pretty popular so I should go life? Think I'd go with raider+trickster scion for life, or occultist/trickster for ES. It's actually pretty hard to choose between them which is cool
e: Does "two handed damage" work on caustic arrow's cloud?

life. cheaper to gear which is the point of a mfer

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Bugsy posted:

Latest batch of Ascendancy tweaks:


And boy is GGG support fast and good. Sent them a message about a missing mtx (the arctic crown never got added to my mtx tabs but the cobra did) and they fixed it in 10 minutes.

Being a small company with not as many players helps CS.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

ImsaKidd posted:

I've never played a Voltaxic Ranger, and I'd really like to during the next league.

How feasible is it to play without Voltaxic/play it as a first league character? I know there are other unique bows people use for levelling the build (like Storm Cloud), but I'm not sure about using rare ones.

It's viable with storm cloud until the start of maps. Then you probably want to nab a voltaxic.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Lungboy posted:

It's to get around the character limit isn't it?

I think that. But I prefer it because I don't need to have a giant scroll bar and can easily close and open what I need and don't need to see.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Vorenus posted:

Ele spec throw is supposed to be good again? and I'd kind of like to do the one listed in Bugsy's link.

Uniques are Maligaro's, Rat's nest, and Belly of the Beast. Having never mad eit beyond A3M in Standard, is this a bad idea/unaffordable?

On standard right now those three things are like an ex or so total. In a new league you're looking at 5-6 ex total for all of that on softcore.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

NecroMonster posted:

lack of interesting or meaningful player choice, dearth of game mechanics

Yea lets also ignore all the people running flipping scripts/bots to buy low priced good items to sell for more. poo poo goons were bragging in the d3 thread about how much money they were making flipping items instead of playing the game. But yes the ah wasn't the problem. :rolleyes:

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Duck and Cover posted:

So bots aren't a problem without an auction house?

Bot's aren't a problem when there's no trading system unless you're some poop socker who cares about leader boards. The problem was the bots and flippers would buy gear that normal people could buy and then use. Yet the flippers would just relist them. And having it in an ah system makes it that much easier which means more people are doing it which is worse.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

NecroMonster posted:

oh no people are selling things for what they are actually worth the horror

Flippers were also people moving items over to costing cash. My bad for thinking that having to pull out your CC to get gear because a bot got it for gold first is ok. :shrug:

Anyways this derail is dumb but not surprising that it came from the guy who has been known to shill path of exile in the diablo thread. lmao.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

NecroMonster posted:

the rmah was a bad idea yeah

i mean i did end up using to to get my money back for that dreadful game, but it was bad

but the RMah was also a very different deal from a simple ah and something no game should ever touch again

That we can agree on :).

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

funmanguy posted:

There are two things you can never do in the poe thread.

1. Don't start a pros/cons discussion about large changes to the trading system, it ends in a crazy derail.
2. Don't ever ever ever engage Duck and Cover.

You did both in one post. Admirable.

give me some of that loot you got earlier. TIA :glomp:

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

funmanguy posted:

I have no idea who you(or anyone) is in game.

tonic317(dontplayfromyourtablet) meanie head!

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
Having to use premium tabs is fine. Sorry but gently caress you if you think this game and the amount of fun it provides isn't worth at least the cost of one set of premium tabs. Or the even cheaper upgrade one tabs option.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
Why do you expect from bottom feeding scum that would pirate all their video games if it wasn't for them being always online.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Infinite Monkeys posted:

When you're too young to be allowed a debit card or paypal account, buying things online is hard

Ya gotta say. Being a kid without a job and parents who don't like giving you money randomly has to suck in a free to play world. Yea you get a game but you miss out on some nice poo poo. Where as when I was a kid mommy and daddy spent 40-60 bucks on my game and I got all of the features or anything else In it and that was it.

And being someone who has 60 premium tabs on their new account and had 50 on the banned one. I would be fine with giving f2p cheapskates a taste and convert one of their 4 tabs to premium.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Safari Disco Lion posted:

Dude also says "shop tools are dead" and "these tools no longer server any purpose". You and he are both whiny pissbabies going all nuclear pants-making GBS threads mode over nothing.

tools will die when they are not worth keeping updated because the other system is better. Which will happen eventually but probably take a while and require more features done by GGG.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

The Real Foogla posted:

how much does an Aziri kill cost in TSC? I'm at 20 and that is the only reasonable challenge left

I have two sets of fragments and I don't think I can kill her with these:

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/JustinCray/characters

The Shadow is my best bet I think, and I already wasted three sets with him (Duo and Trio deathless, and then Aziri herself just beats me down). In hindsight character ADHD is real, but I just kept on finding such great stuff for other characters... that second 6L is like cocaine for levelling :negative:

People will do my it for free. Sit in global 820. Or maybe ask funman. He's a nice guy who likes aztari

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010

Ezekeel posted:

You are definitely right and I wish I could take that laid back approach to this game. However when I play this type of game I need that slim chance that the next boss run might drop the best item in the game. Might be some form of a gambling addiction. All I can say without that chance for the jackpot the Skinner box does not work for me. And considering that PoE needs some heavy time investment when it comes to gear progression it unfortunately does not seem worth my time.

And having essentially my progress reset on each new temp league also is not satisfying.

Ok bye. Go play diablo 3. Or go to a real casino you weirdo.

The next boss could drop the div card that gives you a chance at any item even legacy so farm that if you're so inclined. And that's my bite from this troll.

Holyshoot
May 6, 2010
Cyclone duelist my way to 40 challenges.

Holyshoot fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Mar 2, 2016

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May 6, 2010

panda clue posted:

you seem awfully knowledgeable on texas drug offender law

Am I being detained? Am I being detained? Am I being detained?

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