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AegisP posted:Blade Vortex is a spell, so no, it never hits. Spells hit. They aren't attacks though, so physical attack damage leeched as life doesn't count. The only things that don't count as hits are DOTs, of which the only one that's self-cast I can think of is Righteous Fire. That said, Blade Vortex definitely won't be consistently leeching enough to make up for a lack of Rise of the Phoenix.
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Dec 8, 2015 05:17
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funmanguy posted:Also, you a brave man rat, going melee acro. I wouldn't do that in sc. It's really not bad, the hard part is only that you'll have less HP/HP regen. It was really good back when acro didn't gently caress with your block chance.
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Dec 8, 2015 19:47
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quote:Spark damage has been increased in damage by 10%, and starts at 4 projectiles, increasing by an additional one at levels 9, 17 and 25.  So many tempting build choices...
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Dec 9, 2015 06:34
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Bugsy posted:I don't know if this is good enough. Spork is probably still dead though. It's literally more than double the damage potential compared to pre-patch. It's gonna clear packs like a motherfucker, not so much bosses though.
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Dec 9, 2015 06:57
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Larry Parrish posted:I don't think a lot of people realize that if you face-cast Spark, all of the projectiles hit the target directly in front of you. So it's a really good melee-range single-target spell too. Obviously not good if you skimped on ES or +life/armor or whatever. But it's not the worst AoE spell ever if you try to use it single target. Not to mention it's a character level one spell so if you're like me and prefer to level with your actual build instead of respecing into a new one once you get enough XP, that's an option. When was the last time you used Spark? I don't believe it's been that way since before the shotgunning changes.
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Dec 9, 2015 17:20
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funmanguy posted:Nah, it went from being the best item/build in the game(without mirrored gear). To being a really good build that could clear uber and all tier 15 maps. Nice. Wish there was a modified DPS column for ones that can be reliably modified though, a lot of them you have to do more math to get the right figure. Fire Nova Mine's true DPS is 976 for example. Flame Surge's is 1926. e: Oops my flame surge math was at one cast per second. Fixed. LordAdakos posted:As someone who picked this up when it first came out but hasn't touched it since then (and only had a character up to level 15 or so) what do you guys recommend for some relatively easy, reasonably powerful builds that I can level up with and play around and have fun without having to Summoners actually require a lot more of a spergy balancing act than most other builds. Kinda the price they pay for automatically killing things. Funman's right that Shockwave Totem and Searing Bond are both incredibly simple, but they're also kinda boring which you can alleviate a bit by putting fire trap as a secondary attack. Count Uvula fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 19:14
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Mince Pieface posted:Man, now I can't decide what to do! I'd like to try something new, but I'm worried Chaos Dot or my crit heavy strike will end up terrible and I'll lose interest Contagion is almost guaranteed to be ridiculously good and versatile, so you don't have to worry too much about that. Crit heavy strike is a bit harder to figure, especially since it won't reach its potential until you're like level 70.
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Dec 10, 2015 00:04
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Ultima66 posted:Trapper clear speed was actually extremely good before the prolif nerfs. Fire Trap was up there as probably the 3rd best skill to spread ignite prolif after Flameblast and Detonate Dead, and was the one that was immune to reflect. It also was quite strong against bosses as you could just run in circles throwing down Multitrap - Flame Surge - Trap - Conc Effect for really good single target damage. I haven't heard anything about traps since prolif was nerfed though, as that was the primary trap build that was actually very strong. Lightning Trap clear speed is wonderful and traps are getting huge buffs on the passive grid, but it sucked hard at killing bosses and ele resist rares, which will probably remain. My solution was a vaal spark trap and hope I place it just right, since vs traps shotgun but only if the source of the projectiles isn't actually underneath the enemy. funmanguy posted:Oh, they are. It's terrible. Warlord's Mark and the leech gems themselves would both work.
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Dec 10, 2015 00:56
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regulargonzalez posted:Any ideas how Melee Splash works with projectile melee attack skills like Frost Blades? Splash is centered on the targeted enemy (meaning the one that's technically getting melee hit). Shift clicking to attack nothing will not proc the splash.
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Dec 10, 2015 04:49
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Gibbo posted:That is a shame. Why did they make them stop dropping? Too unbalanced? Did they make farming x thing too easy? Gotta keep in mind IIR/IIQ have opportunity costs; having both IIR/IIQ slottable meant skills that require fewer links to get to good levels of damage had an unfair advantage in the long term. They've pared down the ways to get IIR/IIQ a lot since the early days and each time it's been an improvement (in closed beta you could roll increased item rarity/increased item quantity on weapons, and there were a couple increased item rarity passives on the passive tree.)
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Dec 11, 2015 21:00
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funmanguy posted:New melee splash gem has More Splash Radius. That's a thing. Is someone datamining poo poo?
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Dec 11, 2015 21:26
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Dec 12, 2015 03:52
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NecroMonster posted:not visually, no, but the only amulets that drop normally are tier 1. higher tiers only come from using talismans on the alter and will always be one tier higher than the five amulets you used to summon it. You can tell them apart by the item picture actually. Tier 1 talismen has white strings, tier 2 have little black beads on their string, dunno about tier 3 yet.
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Dec 12, 2015 07:30
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The growing decay jewel looks pretty weak at first but doing some theorycrafting I think it might actually be ridiculous for a super tanky build. Without changing my build at all (it's not even dual wield), 3 of the gem build up to dealing 700% increased attack damage  I think the difficult part will be finding a middleground between good clearing speed and ridiculous boss damage though, because of course I don't want to be opening combat with like 40% increased damage.
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Dec 12, 2015 12:25
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From Reddit, the t4 unique amulet: Also they're undoing the curse changes. Replacing by capping action speed reduction to 75% (so you can still get 100% reduced move speed I guess). Apparently they're changing curses more extensively (and the hotfix was just them implementing one of their future plans immediately) for 2.2. Count Uvula fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Dec 15, 2015 23:53
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NecroMonster posted:corrupting chest armors has some sort of flat chance to 6link them. Vaaling armorer's boxes is actually a pretty good way to spend Vaal orbs. To be specific, corrupting an item has 4 possible results: Nothing, changing the implicit, turning a socket white, or rerolling the item as a rare. When it rerolls the item as a rare, it has a much much higher chance of being a 5 or 6 link item than normal.
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Dec 17, 2015 23:00
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http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1519496quote:The spawn chances of Stone Circles have been increased. They have a 100% chance to spawn in the Western Forest, the Hedge Maze, and the Dried Lake. The Ledge has a 100% chance to spawn one in Cruel and Merciless. The Imperial Gardens have a 60% chance, the Hedge Maze has a 100% chance, Kaom's Dream and Stronghold have a 35% chance. The Belly of the Beast areas now have a 20% chance in Normal, up to 30% in Merciless. The Dread Thicket is now always 50%. All non-unique maps now have a 35% chance to spawn a Stone Circle as well. quote:Fixed a bug where the Volley Fire Jewel would incorrectly add extra projectiles when it chained or forked. Short lived, but probably still really good, just not bugged to be insane.
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Dec 18, 2015 02:53
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jjac posted:More talisman mixing stations are good though? Yeah just surprising they added a way to do it on demand whenever you want, in the highest volume farming areas in act 1 and 4.
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Dec 18, 2015 03:11
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Vulpes posted:I hope the 35% stone circle spawn in maps doesn't affect monster density. I haven't played enough this league yet to see whether circles spawn more mobs in the vicinity (like shrines), less (like masters), or whether it doesn't affect it at all. Doesn't seem to affect it at all, monsters are often on top of the circles but definitely aren't spawned to 'guard' it.
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Dec 18, 2015 03:45
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devoir posted:You can craft a mace with level 1 blood magic baked in, giving you an effective 7 link. http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vagan,_Weaponmaster Wouldn't this work with axes as well?
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deftest posted:Is there a race season currently going on? The soulthirst race reason already happened, so that's old info.
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Dec 26, 2015 23:39
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WastedJoker posted:Is the OP guide still relevant? Yes, the OP is from the last major patch, just under 3 weeks ago.
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kaaj posted:So I'm totally new to PoE (but not to other hack'n'slashes) and I'm playing hardcore. I'm wondering - I'm playing ranger trapper (want to see if this build will work - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1543845 ) and was thinking about going for evasion as my "defence". Would you say that this is a bad idea? Or what would be i.e. "safe" amount of +life % / total life which I should be aiming to get from the passive tre? It's fine. Depends on your build but try to get 150-180% life on your passive tree + acrobatics (the passive tree in the guide you linked has 187% increased life when complete). You could have a little less as a trapper instead of a miner, but miners are more vulnerable.
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Winged Orpheus posted:So did the patch break any of the "recommended" builds in the OP? I'm just starting out and dont want to start putting together something that doesnt work anymore. They're all still strong. The current best cheap builds are essence drain + contagion or one of like 10 different Bladefall builds.
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euphronius posted:I just read up on the expansion. Are Those class specific spheres making nerds angry? Seems like a large departure by ggg. They're not in until March or April or whatever. There's probably a decent amount of stupid posts about 'em but not enough that they're visible enough for me to find 'em. I'm very curious how GGG will balance the game once Ascendancy rolls in, since there's already people complaining about how easy it is to level to 100 now and Ascendancy is gonna make characters goddamn ridiculously powerful compared to how they are now.
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The Real Foogla posted:warning not seizure safe It used to move your screen instantly with every flicker  It was horrible.
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dis astranagant posted:lol are there seriously only 3 gems that work with dualwielding? There's only three simultaneous attack ones yeah, but the reason you dual wield is the 10% more attack speed and 20% more damage, so pretty much every melee skill works with that in mind. The base damage of Dual Strike for example is 170%, which is alright but nothing special.
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JTDistortion posted:How do traps interact with temporary buffs? Do I want to have the buff up when I throw the trap, or when it gets triggered? When it's triggered. What form of temporary buff do you have that that's relevant to trapping and has that degree of control over it though?
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dis astranagant posted:I just realized that I've been using Molten Strike as my single target attack for 2 whole difficulties and don't really know why. What are the pros and cons of the various single target melee attacks? Molten Strike with conc effect in a five/six link is actually one of the best. Heavy Strike/Double Strike are about on par with eachother. Infernal Blow is weaker, both due to lower damage effectiveness and the conversion to fire damage.
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NecroMonster posted:there is a statue in act three who's had his penor painted red hehe Marceus the Red! I killed myself on his tempest shield in Merciless once 
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Kea posted:While im asking silly questions is there any point to keeping random uniques like this I assume you got it from a strange barrel strong box? There's no point in keeping it unless you're gonna use it on this or a future character, but I personally hoard unique items because I'm an idiot.
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Jan 20, 2016 23:06
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Bugsy posted:Guild reinvites should be all caught up. Let me know if someone got missed. I didn't ask for one yet but could you throw one to ViperWorm?
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RosaParksOfDip posted:Do people just leave items in their standard stash and never touch them again? Is it bad form to ask to borrow/steal them? Will give a loving home in standard. It's terrible but I just don't have enough free time to deal with starting over in seasons. The whole guild pretty much does not give a poo poo at all about the standard stash, as long as you don't do something dickish like take poo poo just to vendor/sell it.
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The Real Foogla posted:I personally skip the last 4 nodes to phase acrobatics, you should be zipping around with +50 movespeed or so to avoid any spells and tank the rest with capped resists  This sounds like an incredibly bad idea.
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Wafflecopper posted:what are APIs? The API in question makes it much easier for poe.trade and similar sites to get data from the game. Don't think there will be any visible changes in game.
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Two new skills revealed, both are auxiliary damage spells that aren't intended to be used as primary attacks: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1576685
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ronya posted:wonder whether you have to manually cast spells in order to trigger the Orb of Storm benefit It says using lightning skills, so even if triggered gems don't work it might make for a ridiculous Hyaon's Fury build if 'skills' includes static strike and lightning strike.
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:also: anyone who ever done a Queen of the Forest build; how much evasion % you need to get from the tree with average to poo poo gear to not be slow as balls? This depends really heavily on whether you're using a shield.
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