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>playing a game that the programmers admittedly designed wrong and said even though they know now, and how to fix, won't

>>15362256

What's the gimmick this season. I'll probably skip it unless it's something really interesting.

>>15362256

DomBlow melee/minion hybrid. Maybe Baron, need to see the patch notes and ascendancy changes first. If that fails then back to vaal skeletons probably, though I'm gonna miss my 21/20 gem.

>>15362364

I'm curious what that's about.

Haven't played it in years.

>>15362403

an endless dungeon

When the new thing is separated from the base game, in this case the dungeon being instanced in a separate zone, the density feels like shit. Maps will feel like playing standard, and if they don't tweak the density in the dungeon isn't gonna be an empty abyss you can't even explore freely.

So far it doesn't look that good but i hope i'm wrong.

Nothing. I paid $200 over the years to them, then they go and sell out to Chinese. Dropped.

>>15362256

>What are you going to start 3.4 as in Path of Tencent?

I'm not i'm waiting for the next expansion for Grim Dawn, I gave up on this game a long time ago.

>>15362256

P A T H

O F

L I F E

N O D E

>>15363935

>I paid $200 over the years to them

I resent you more than I do them

What a retard

>>15364060

I have a very irrational distaste for Grim Dawn and all other ARPGs besides Path of Exile because they're "dead". I can't really explain it.

>>15364781

>I have a very irrational distaste for Grim Dawn and all other ARPGs besides Path of Exile because they're "dead".

Sounds like a classic case of Zoomer syndrome combined with terminal shit taste.

>>15362523

That actually might be interesting. But then the endgame maps already are an endless dungeon.

>>15365154

Except the maurader is the barbarian and the templar is the paladin

>>15364254

P A T H

O F

O N E

S H O T S

keep your alt f4 macro ready fam

>>15365181

>Playing HC

>>15362256

>Path of Tencent

Et tu, PoE?

>>15365287

Tornado shot or lightning arrow, maybe the 2 new skills will be decent but all bow skills play pretty much the same. Barrage is always king for single target. Don't fall for "50 million shaper DPS!" builds, they're noob traps.

Class go ranger>pathfinder/deadeye

I never played an ARPG before so I tried Path of Exile.I was fine for the first few sections but then the game got too hard.

I almost never got any worthwhile drops, in fact item drops seemed incredibly rare. By the time the game required me to raise my elemental resists even higher but nothing was dropping, I was about done. Then I found out about the atrocious trading system and was done.

>>15365181

lol I made a Facebreaker build that got broke like 2 or 3 updates ago, whenever Arc got a cooldown nerf.

I do miss this game honestly, it is just a piece of shit

>>15365287

Elemental hit with 2 combat focus gems

Literal 0 effort build with the way conversion works

Video related of T16 with no gear

>>15362256

Waiting for the new skill gems to decide what to roll

>>15362403

https://www.pathofexile.com/delve

Wait, they made a whole league based around those annoying stick close to the moving object puzzles they made for the lab? Holy shit, that's amazingly bad even by GGG standards.

>>15366389

It slows down if you are too far behind and speeds up when you are ahead. From what we know so far it should be fine.

>>15366556

Also you die if you're too far away

https://youtu.be/Dt-RGWofGQs

Well I have something to do for the rest of the week.

I'm going to make Exalted orbs sound big ben.avi

Man, reading through their latest designs you can really get a feel how they went from making leagues and content to provide challenge and character building opportunities towards the common f2p 'how can we build a better treadmill to increase player engagement'. Completely soulless.

>>15366841

Question; Who gives a fuck about shaper orbs?

>>15366865

I'm not. It was a bad change. Could you answer my question?

>>15366872

It isn't though. I'm confused as to why a bad change to a completely irrelevant mechanic (giving you the chance to have maps drop that are 5 tiers higher than usual) would make you decide the game is shit and not stuff like constantly adding useless currencies to sell stash tabs or increasing the grind to level 100 significantly for literally no reason or bestiary league in general.

>>15362451

Same here, I haven't really paid attention since around release.

>>15363935

>sell out to Chinesesell out to Chinese

Shit, what? Damn.

>>15366926

Tencent owns like 60% of GGG now.

>>15366938

80%, actually.

I really only wanna play to see what old areas look like with the new grafix options since they added global illumination and AO.

>>15366879

Shaped maps are the meta, primarily because sextanting them is generally cheaper. If something's meta and you're not following it, you're gimping yourself. At least that's what some tryhards say, like Cutedog for example.

Personally I do not feel compelled to compete in mapgrinding contest so I'm free to enjoy the content at my own will. The metaslaves are not, so the game will be shit to them if something meta doesn't suit their tastes.

>>15367472

I just don't understand how people do it in 5 hours or less

>>15367481

Racing experience and twink gear out of the ass. Aberrath's Hooves is one unique that will just carry you if you have it.

Still, though. The worst part is finally reaching maps and noticing that my build starts chugging at tier 7-9, so I try another build which has the same problem. I wasted so much time that way last league before it dawned upon me that tier 7-9 is what can be reached relatively quickly, and anything above will require a lot of grinding and trading, which instantly kills the fun for me.

I really don't like how your best bet in the game is never to craft, always to grind and sell for currency to buy the shit you need. It feels so unrewarding to me.

>>15367472

>that D tunnel in A8 that was made specifically to bamboozle

>>15367481

Just by playing long enough I guess.

>>15367493

Interestingly enough, I've played 1k hours now (rookie numbers, I know), but the whole time crafting was almost always rewarding if you do it carefully and don't blow all of your currency in a gambling feat.

The only time I failed at crafting something was when I tried to link Reach of the Council back in Prophecy. It had almost top rolls and I just made an Assassin to use it, but after throwing around 3k fuses into it I realized my mistake. This bow still lies in my standard stash as a reminder to avoid unnecessary gambling in this game.

>>15367512

Crafting is actually a lot of fun, it's just a shame that it is so RNG based.

In 3.0 I made a lot of currency by crafting +2 ice/fire skill staves with one or two complimentary rolls on white 6L staves I bought. 10~ chaos for the white staff, 30~ sell value, nothing but alts and a whatever it is that upgrades a magic to a rare, so single digit chaos there. Regal?

Their attitude on not having a real trade system is fucking retarded. Yeah, Diablo 2 didn't have one but it also didn't scrape everyone's stashes to create market values. 90% of POE's trading is jews manipulating prices. Either go all the way and have a convenient trade system or force people to advertise buying/selling in channels. This in between horse shit is terrible. I'd say play SSF but the drop rates are completely fucked for people that do.

>>15367521

Yes, regal.

I've been selfcrafting most of my ES gear with regular chaos spamming. It's actually pretty cheap to get a decent ES chestpiece with just buying a 6-linked base and throwing some Woe essences on it. But the cooler versions with %int for example from Shaper bases are much harder to get, that's for sure.

>selling staves

Do people really buy these? I thought staves were the shittiest weapon you could invest your currency in.

>>15367512

Yeah, basic shit like throwing a few alchs on a six linked chest works fine, but I always get bored way before I grind anywhere close to enough to fully link anything. 1200 hours in, and I've never produced a 6L, and quite honestly, I don't even want to try anymore. My personal downfall is always chaos recipe, because I cannot handle the grind.

>>15367546

I think if you have a good amount of stash tabs and manage them properly, unid chaos recipe is an amazing passive income early on. Even if you're a Burial Chamber QOTF TC Windripper scrub. Just don't chase every rare and don't spend 5 minutes in your hideout to count how many gloves you have to collect in your next run.

>>15367541

Can't stand the trading, either. Way too many steps to buy those shitty items I can afford, and way too much price fixing. But I guess that's how shit worked back in Diablo 2, so that's what we get. I'm surprised there are no spambots in the microtransaction store, D2 had those, too.

>>15367545

As I said this was in 3.0. They did then (I made maybe 3-4 ex doing that) but I have no idea if anyone would in 3.4. I can't even remember what I was running, but I got the idea because I was using a +2 staff myself.

>>15367557

Last league I played a Dancing Duo physical skeleton negromancer and a Ngamanuabbq Cyclone Gayslayer. They worked great, but as I said, as soon as the grind gets serious, I get bored.

>>15367573

I have the same issue really. In Incursion I only killed Shaper and completed like 80% of the Atlas and dropped the league. I don't want to sperg with the map influence to proc Uber Elder. Let us hope that Delve would bring some motivation to the table.

>>15362451

>>15366926

He's just (intentionally) taking stuff out of context.

The original vision played much slower than the game currently does and the rest is his imagination.

>>15366053

pleb

Probably just a god tier defensive support to leach of people that have no life and spend a few mirrors on their gear. supports are always in high demand and all out defense will probably be very valueable to push the mine as deep as possible. Last league i had a guardian with 14k ES, 12k mana, 50k armor, 8 auras & 83 maxres. Being borderline immortal is fun and theres always high end players with retarded gear and clearspeed that are happy to have you around.

Let me tell you something.

If you dont have essential stash tabs such as map, essence, premium and currency tab you will never EVER reach endgame content which is anything with Uber. Uber Atziri, elder or sharper. Last league i managed to kill elder, atziri and t 16 bosses but anything past that my stash tab was so full i had to make 6 characters just to store items and still i had not enought space.

Seriously if you are looking for good times in this game you have to spend money.

>>15368173

>essential stash tabs such as map, essence, premium and currency tab

>Essential

Really the only essential tab is currency and premium tabs for trading

>>15362256

For me, it's "Path of Shoah This Guy's Account For His Holocaust Jokes"

>>15364781

Oh fuck off. I bought skins and shit because they were an independent developer that I supported. This was long before the UI change and long before they started going to Sanfran game conventions. Them cucking out and selling to Tencent was an inevitability

>>15362451

>>15366926

>>15367684

GGG designed the server wrong such that desyncs with the client happen, and often. This completely ruined the game once players figured it out about 2-3mo into beta.

You lose your HC race enough times because your build literally breaks the server and you move on to a game that wasn't built on a flawed foundation.

>inb4 lockstep faggots talk shit they know nothing about

I'm starting to believe Chris Wilson designed the game economy and awkward trading system in order to encourage backchannel RMT sites, dude has a finance degree and was very familiar with the D2 scene. You can keep your game alive a long time when people in poor countries are making money off of it and providing value to the wealthier userbase.

Of course GGG fans will argue that you can easily play several hours a day and not RMT at all through smart trading, but at that point you are yourself an unpaid currency farmer, as it gets filtered back through RMT to those with more money and not as much time and addictive personalities. Game is unethical and psychologically manipulative by its nature.

>>15369543

>exploiting wealthier people with mental weaknesses to keep a game I like alive and free

Sounds good.

>>15369593

>If you are good at something, never do it for free.

You are lining Tencent's and Chris Wilson's nepotistic employment center's pockets while wasting your time in a vapid content treadmill. You are the one with mental weaknesses being exploited exile, not the wealthy guy who throws his change at the currency market.

>>15369663

>pretending an addictive personality isn't a mental weakness

I'm not lining anyone's pockets. I'm playing a game for free as dumb rich kids keep it afloat with their need to play le "optimal build."

>>15369596

I'm not too surprised honestly, Blizzard also secretly owns all the WOW trading sites.

Since Chris Wilson is familiar with D2's item trading scene, I can only conclude that Blizzard similarly owns the D2 item trading sites as well.

>>15366133

My facebreaker build was based on melee splash Frenzy, a different natural AOE skill, phase run, and LOTS of those jewels that increase unarmed based on dex in radius, gathering sweetums along the way to the jewel slots.

>>15369693

You provide value as a part of the active userbase, which keeps the people with jobs interested. If you are fine with the illusion of a real game though, that's fine, I just can't help but see it in every design decision they make as it takes the game to a place I have no interest in following.

>>15369596

>rare items avaible at 1st week

SSF players got them on second day. GGG has no reason to sell items because they sell stash tabs, and if you believe screenshots soon we will have a fucking backpack expansions sold after chinese got them. Its piss easy to get items in poe, but some people dont understand how you can have over 100 red maps if you are not cheating, even if they can see streamers do it in front of their eyes. Some of this date says "3 weeks into the league we got a shitload of items, who could have though!". Three fucking weeks is "no one should have this item".

>>15368390

Game is unplayable without maps tab. If you dont buy it you can just but 10 regular tabs for same functionality. Save money, goy, but maps tab instead. Even fragments tab saves a fucking lot of time. And currency tab is just a must have. Its impossible to be rich if all you have is currency filled in 4 default tabs. And its impossible to farm without a lot of tabs. Sure you can have leveling to 100 in a week if you only pick up maps and currency for maps in SSF. But its not fucking enjoyable at fucking all, even for turboautists.

And how fucking convenient trade tabs. You can sell okay items for few chaos which you would otherwise vendor in one fucking click.

>>15369593

Its never this simple. Basically all good at the game players are gathered in hc league and prices are good and fair.

>>15368774

As GGG said its impossible to fix desync. Until they hired real coder who fixed it. Poe has a shitload of fucking problems like random damage spikes for example. Or design team working separate from other teams. Like how physical damage spells had same damage as elemental and could wreck anyone because they dealt 100% damage instead of 25% of usual spells(because of resists). And "lol you get killed by white rats because they decided to crit you at once because of some bullshit". And some shit just always oneshots you no matter what. Like volatile faggots which killed a shitload of melee players because the only way to deal with them is to read every rare mob all the time, and just run away if he is volatile. Good fucking design, to have random mobs oneshot you at random moments only because you was unlucky. My rf juggernaut was killed at 95+ by one pack of mobs in less than a fucking second.

cont in next...

>>15370318

>SSF players got them on second day. GGG has no reason to sell items because they sell stash tabs, and if you believe screenshots soon we will have a fucking backpack expansions sold after chinese got them. Its piss easy to get items in poe, but some people dont understand how you can have over 100 red maps if you are not cheating, even if they can see streamers do it in front of their eyes. Some of this date says "3 weeks into the league we got a shitload of items, who could have though!". Three fucking weeks is "no one should have this item".

This is the attitude I'm talking about, grinding 12+ hours a day, whether mapping or trading, only to burn yourself out in the first few weeks of a league in order to create a bar that the majority of players with lives and money will strive to catch up to. It's about designing your game in way that creates an unhealthy playstyle in order to encourage people to take shortcuts and profit from both ends. Using NEETs and thirdworldia as unpaid labor, brilliant if unethical, no wonder the Chinese underworld invested heavily.

>good at the game players are gathered in hc league

>Poe has a shitload of fucking problems like random damage spikes for example

Why would you play HC in these conditions? Dopamine response is the reason, you know it's a badly designed game but the danger makes you feel good.

>>15366956

>The darkness can't kill you if all your abilities constantly torch the area

So fire build is even more powerful huh?

>>15370318

Also i remember that Vaal oversoul was a fucking dangerous boss even if you could walk away slowly from his slam because game could decide to teleport you back. Also Atziri was released before they fixed desync, so bulethell fight when you never knew where you was. Or fucking boxes. with load time.

>Open box

>wait 3 seconds, nothing happens

>you are dead, go back to standard

They could not even fucking implement delay before opening the box so you will load box before they kill you. Too much fucking work, just move closer to server and purchase ssd, its impossible to fix. They never put enough effort so solve any problem until they hired a coder. Because designing online game with fucking delay in mind is fucking impossible idea to them. Better design cool and fun teleporting mobs which will desink after 1st jump and after 5th one they are just phantomly deal damage to player from somewhere while invisible.

They never design anything with "how players will play around that" in mind. Designed cool mechanic? Cool. Lets make players work around that mechanic by forcing them to read every single fucking mob, because it can oneshot them. Game still has fucking CE totems which can oneshot you offscreen, even with small delay because they dont make any special sounds and its fucking impossible to see what is going on in many situations. It takes them YEARS for obvious fix. And they dont consider random mobs dealing more damage than final bosses of the game as a problem. Or how they say something like "there is no way this could happen, its bullshit" while this happened to most players in the game. We even was promised trading overhaul because trading was fucked. When they mentioned that they understand that stash tabs are important and that they are selling them and that trading relies a lot on these tabs I knew that they will fix this problem and this p2w hole. We got poetrade clone. Amazing fucking work, just what we wanted. We even were lucky they acknowledged it as a problem. Usually Cris Wilson goes "what? this can happen? really? Nah, you probably lying to me, next question" when presented with questions about problems they prefer to ignore.

Also there was a problem with item generation because you can stack a lot of shit so map drops 20 times more loot than average. How they solved it? Be reducing ability to stack loot modifiers instead of changing how loot works. They cant fucking implement system which works in tandem with loot filters, so you only get loot which you want and rest of shitty items never generate. But no, that would be too much work. No one would even want a fucking compensation for removed loot because no one cares about loot they dont want to see in 1st place. Not seeing whole screens of loot will upset chinese players, probably.

They even tried to justify it as "poor players will pick shit items, like scrolls to sell to rich players, removing shit items will make poor players gameplay worse." No, it fucking not. Picking shit is waste of time, the less you waste, the better you will be. They even had expansion where they chipped all of the currency into shards, so some players spend their time picking up shards which cost less than a fucking ID scroll. Its not utter shit idea for rarest currency, just like divination card system, but shattering currency which was worth fucking nothing is utter insanity. As usual, not that bad of idea, but they never though how players will interact with it.

>>15368033

Which build does this? Sounds fun as fuck and I've not gotten into path of exile at all.

>>15370487

Mana guardian probably, I would not recommend any ES build to a new players, especially with minmaxing and one of the kind items. You can do hierophant instead, its good and basically free. Builds devide between shit builds, good cheap builds with a ceiling, tier one builds without ceiling. All hierophant builds are cheap, all guardian builds are expensive.

You might think that shavs is expensive part of the build, but its not at least in HC. Mose expensive item will be one of the kind rares, they even might cost more than good watchers eye with clarity. And ES builds go from "utter unplayable shit" to "okay, like average life build" to "i can facetank uber elder afk". And even mediocre gear has cost. I dont know how good are antistun/antifreeze pantheon, but I dont think you can actually rely on it. ES has a plenty of problems you have to solve, so hybrid hierophant is good for new players.

How having 5+ totems which fill the screen with iceballs sound?

You will have at least around 10k effective hp effortlessly. Nothing amazing but still good. Its perfect for new players, you just need 2 jewels asap, they cost nothing. This build is effortless 10k ehp, guardian build is hard as fuck 20k ehp. Unless you plan on doing endgame content you dont need more than 10k. And doing endgame content is not that hard, with right build, but its fucking expensive as fuck. You think item for 100c is expensive? Well, doing shaper will cost around 100c and it can give you 10c item. And even red elder might be more expensive but price includes maps so its okay. Doing endgame is stupid expensive for what it returns unless you sell completions and its a lot of fucking talking with people in trade chat and all that social bullshit.

Its not like its mandatory if you are good player. Its just you will need to know a lot to be a good player and it only comes from experience. So as a new player, doing endgame will not be pleasant for you. So hierophant will carry you to red maps, even if you will not be able to sustain them, but its okay.

>>15370471

It works differently, only "crawler" provides light. I also was expecting that "increase light radius" would actually work against darkness and would be somewhat useful. But nope.

>>15370469

>Why would you play HC in these conditions

A really good reason to quit playing is death of your character. Random deaths is half of all deaths I think, other half is your own fault, so its only 50% fucked up. I dont like a game where you cant fucking lose, you just play and play and no victory conditions, no lose conditions, unless its pure sandbox.

>burn yourself out in the first few weeks of a league

Death comes handy with that. Leagues are 12 weeks, if you burn out in 4 weeks, its perfectly fine to quit. In many cases players skip expansions because they are really fucking tired of playing poe.

Also trading is fucked in SC. Hyperinflation is a bitch. Even if you lose all of your gear you just make a new character and purchase new set(may be for something completely different) which is often cheap/affordable. If you die late you will be able to afford anything you want, if you die early you dont lose anything anyway.

Patch notes today

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2201188

Patch notes

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2201187

Actual patch notes and not a link to a link of patch notes

>>15375113

Oh man, almost every one of the first half of the clusters I planned to take were buffed.

>>15375113

>Combat Focus now causes Elemental Hit to deal 50% less damage of the prevented element, including damage that gets converted from the prevented element to a new element. This affects all existing versions of the jewel.

Thank fuck for that, elemental hit was EZ mode for the longest time

>>15376622

Did you have a specific issue to bring up? Do they have a spyware clause?

>>15366252

>look up how much are the combat focus jewels are worth

>40 chaos each

this is why i hate the kikes on standard league so much

>>15366252

It's completely nerfed brah

>>15377376

>completely nerfed

From 300% of damage, you can now use 200%. All of this while just one element without conversion is still is still than Oro's Sacrifice flat damage.

It has been hit with -30% damage but it is still viable. If you want to make attack speed or Piscator's Vigil build, you can still do it and it should be viable.

>>15374867

Is there a viable end game necromancer build I can use?

>>15377987

spectres. go solar guards. even zombies are decent, or skeletons, or raging spirits. the only ones i'd recommend to avoid are animated weapons and skeleton mages because they're just shittier solar guards.

no idea about the new ones, haven't played them yet.

>>15378465

Can I revive bosses I defeat and molest them?

There's faggots who play digital games on consoles

Then there's the delusional who think they own their library on steam

Further down is the cucks who accept denuvo to waste their machine

And finally at the rock bottom is people who play online-only games that ony exist on a ricenigger server

>>15370318

> My rf juggernaut was killed at 95+ by one pack of mobs in less than a fucking second.

HORSE COCK HARD AS A ROCK, SEND YOUR ANUS INTO SHOCK!

So it looks like Herald of Purity is fucking garbage as far as the aura boost goes for Blade Vortex. Guess I'll stick with Hatred and Blasphemy.

>>15379651

That depends on how well it scales with brutality on a pure physical build. Does the herald activate on ancestral warchief totems?

>>15379684

I'm doing a full conversion BV with as many extra affixes as I can afford from shaper weapons/amulets, maybe brutality would make it less shit.

>>15378465

>all builds will be minion builds.

<Minions get distracted and wander away from the cart into the darkness leaving you behind to die.

>>15379724

That's not what I said, I said that brutality would make herald of purity less shit for blade vortex.

I don't want to do another cyclone build, but it seems it would be ideal for keeping up with the moving minecart while also killing at the same time. With herald of purity, I could go starforge pure physical slayer and focus on crit to shock more. I might even double curse vulnerability + assassin's mark.

>>15370318

>PAY TO WIN

yea, nah

I can't help but miss when games weren't built around poopsockers and streamers. I don't care if you are an autistic NEET or not, playing one game for 8 or more hours a day is completely degenerate behaviour and bad for your mental and physical health.

>>15375113

Ha, they are still pretending to care about PvP.

I wanna make a build before the league starts using some of the new skills but PoB only updated for the tree, not the fucking gems. of course

>>15379736

Convocation.

>>15380519

Well you can sort of plan it out since they gave the level 20 gem stats. I guess getting the closest statwise alternative is another way.

>>15380519

>tfw wanna make a Smite/Hearld of Purity build but PoB isn't updated

I know your pain brother.

>>15383010

benis

>>15381078

Cup in muh hand imma drinkin muh mimossa, read keep calm carry on poster. La cucaracha spanyard picasso murder.

>>15385201

Nassa goggles thicc boi pucci

what the fuck am i reading

>>15385235

yes i see u

>>15384513

Pizza sticks is extremely visually satisfying to me. Seeing the cascading circles and enemies dying in droves. Not very efficient but damn easy.

>>15384684

Ele hit got a 33% nerf

>>15385452

Abysmal nerf, you're still doing millions of damage.

>>15378465

I don't see how this is remotely true.

With raging spirits maybe, but every time I've fallen for this gyp, my gameplay has involved me ramping up my summons and curses and so on for a good 3-4 seconds at the start of a fight and trying to coerce them into actually attacking what I want them to by doing a little jig in front the enemy while my crit build buddy just blazes through the level slaughtering everything.

God I hate the wait. I'm bored out of my mind.

What's the slowest comfiest build that I can play while listening to music banging your mom?

>>15386505

Staff caster. No mobility whatsoever.

Is Blade flurry still good after all the nerfs? I'm probably going to use it on my Gladiator build with the new heralds.

>>15386590

Still was top tier in incursion. Nothing with infinite scaling can be bad.

>>15386612

Good to know

Anything I should add to my build then? It's a 78% block build which relies on Varunastra for damage.

>>15386628

Abyss uniqs with 2 sockets and flat damage jewels in them. Gloves should be perfect, unless you will have free intimidate anyway. Not sure how good is block these days, but I doubt it can be bad.

>Varunastra

its good and you can use any jewels you want, but fast jeweled foil might be better, especially with DW, so if you have a lot of exalts it might be better. But with abyss jewels you can use brightbeak to clear red tier anyway. Its important only when you start doing guardians+.

>>15386676

Brightbeak is nerfed. Attack speed on weapons no longer affects movement skills.

>>15387546

Its really too bad, was a perfect weapon for many things. ASPD give it viability, resists made it really good. Basically a good trade off weapon from low lvl to high. They should really make more good not-niche items. But they even made goldrim rare drop instead of common for some reason. I guess "a lot of people using it, better nerf droprate!"

>Downloading 3.4

>get a phone call

>I got the job I've been wanting

>They want me to come in and work THAT NIGHT because of understaffing

Time to sleep and spend all day tomorrow playing PoE

>>15383010

>Which ascendancy has the highest innate movespeed?

Raider. Pick Avatar of Slaughter and Avatar of the Chase. With 7 frenzy charges you have +54% movespeed. Scion Raider works too, as long as you use Blood Rage to stay topped on Frenzy charges, but you only get +30% movespeed out of her.

Other than that Pathfinder gets +15% movespeed while on flasks and her flask effect stunts let you take more advantage of Quicksilver Flasks of Adrenaline. Even Deadeye has a Tailwind movespeed bonus. Champion can get +12% movespeed aura from Inspirational. Juggernaut can get +14% movespeed from Indomitable. Berserker can get +20% but only at 50 rage.

>What is the most OP as shit build for it that can also kill bosses without massive investments in gear? (<5ex)

Necro probably does the trick. So does Avatar of Fire Elemental Hit with 2x Combat Focus, 1x Pyre (Skip if using Frostferno Hood or Cold to Fire support gem), and 1x Call of the Brotherhood. Apparently it got nerfed heavily but it can still put out millions of DPS. Ashcaller (socket additional accuracy + added cold/lightning/chaos) or Storm Cloud are probably your best early weapons.

I think you can also abuse Dark Pact with skeletons for triple hit AoE chaos damage. With Roth's Reach you can make it 4x hit. 5x if you also go Deadeye for another +1 chain and +50% aoe.

Perhaps didn't think things through too well; going to be doing an Inquisitor for a Smite build, still levelling, but the skill doesn't feel too great yet even with ancestral call. Would another ascendancy be better?

>>15391066

>>15393755

yeah I thought nyanners was done with chan culture after it "raped her childhood"

So far I really like a lot about the mines but fuck having to go get sulphite every 10 minutes.

>>15398781

>CUSSES IN THIS BREAD

>benis

O I AM LAFFIN

>>15398781

>>15398783

These stats are always a treat.

Consecrated Path, to use, feels like how I thought Smite would, this is such a conflicting sensation. Would it be stupid to try and build around this? It's like a more controlled Flicker Strike.

>>15399539

I'm only on act 7, but so far Consecrated Path works great for clearing. It's a bit slow for single target though.

So at endgame I've been neglecting maps since I prefer delves. How are you grinding sulphite? I use flame dash and Quarry in act 9 since it always has a deposit close to the waypoint so you just run to it and make a new instance.

I really hate this mechanic, delve would be better without it.

>>15403261

> I've been neglecting maps

In poe you cant really neglect maps. Even if you dont care about them, you need to unlock red maps so they will drop for you (to sell or whatever). If sulfite is guaranteed in each map than run a shitload of beach maps.

>>15403755

I think that delve doesn't require unlocking to drop in the mines, but I'm not certain.

Running beach is inefficient and would be a total waste of time except for getting lab trials done I guess. Horrible advice.

I last played during bestiary, did they scrap both it and the pyramid after?

>>15416940

>>15416940

I think so. They were shit anyways

>>15362364

Got a quote for that stuff? I want to read up on their ideas of fixing PoE. I agree the game is designed wrong, and I really want to know what their idea of fixing it is. I also think the writing and concept took a nosedive ever since they started introducing blackguards and turned the exile into a generic hero adventurer.

>>15416940

bestiary is only coming back in form of uniques, incursion is going core in 3.5, sometime around christmas

>>15422762

You can listen to interviews with Chris Wilson, he often lets it slip. Like mentioning that they need to fix trading and the fact that trading works via premium stash tabs and they sell them, but their solution was poetrade clone. They also dont include a lot of temporary leagues into core mechanics so every time they skip league from including it into core, they fucked up.

But they are mostly anal about trading and they admit that they sell stash tabs. They also talked how its impossible to fix desync until they hired real coder who fixed it for them.

>writing

Lol.

But all of that pales in comparison with diablo 1/2 stuff. Brevic was also really stubborn for anything, he refused a deal which would made him hundreds of millions, he wanted turn based combat, he told their composer who made all the music in diablio(and poe) to fuck off because they didnt need awesome sountrack, but he stayed.

>>15422762

>turned the exile into a generic hero adventurer.

The exile's actions basically fuck everything up for everyone in 3.0

>>15422919

The Oriathan nobility were complicit and got a long overdue reprisal, with the added benefit of actually removing the gods from the world entirely. Question now is, what the hell is Innocence planning on going off to do?

>>15423001

"lovecraftian" themed expansion probably. Everyone loves these. Just name things like "shug`niggerag" add a coat of gray rain on it and you got yourself a deep psychological horror.

>>15423001

>removing the gods from the world entirely

Unless its golden Roman God of nazism and his emo brother.

>>15423056

To be fair their existent "lovecraftian" monsters do look very nice. I can't really expect a league to have a good story.

>>15364881

Speaking of that, anyone have the otter picture?

>>15366252

>>15391059

>Elemental hit

Fun fact btw: if you want to go Melee Elemental Hit, Trypanons (half speed weapon that always auto-crits) with Marylene's Fallacy (fuckhuge crit multi amulet, but 30% less crit chance, which doesn't matter with tryp's autocrit) are pretty damn cheap. Add Inquisitor to ignore elemental resistances with your crits. Poof.

>>15377256

Price plummeted post-nerf.

I just thought I'd mention: There's a new Wormblaster build in town.

>>15435838

doesn't even crash the game 3/10

>>15435838

At what point do monster clickers become one hit wonders like in that video? I've been playing Grim Dawn for 300 hours, with different characters and I've never been able to reach the level cap because it becomes so damn boring to replay the same areas and fight the same monsters over and over for the 12th time.

>>15435994

Depends on the build, really. But that isn't a onehit wonder. That build does something like 15hits simultaneously while depleting flasks. Wormblaster builds are infamous for using the Writhing Jar item (which spawns 1hp worm enemies) as some kind of damage multiplier to suddenly explode for ludicrously high damage. Every time that guy has made a Wormblaster build, GGG unleashes a new slew of nerfs (even if his build isn't crazier than the meta's top builds) because they really hate wormblaster builds. But he keeps cranking out new variations to skate around every nerf. This is his 5th Wormblaster build. GGG balancers must be pissed.

If you just want big swings I'm inclined to suggest Elemental Hit with Point Blank + Chin Sol.

>>15376622

>>15376637

this game does not respect your freedoms

I once made a build where glacial hammer was good.