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Awesome! posted:mathil posted his league starter video After he butchered the word hierophant for the sixth time I had to stop watching.
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Dec 6, 2018 23:30
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Had shortlisted arc totems heiro, ED trickster (or whatever ed/contagion variant is best now) and lightning traps Sabo as my league starter Gonna go lightning trap Sabo - give it a practice run after work today seeing as league doesn't start until early tomorrow morning local time which sucks Can I design a custom neversink filter now or do I have to wait until the league actually starts
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Dec 6, 2018 23:31
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Brittle cocs
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Dec 6, 2018 23:31
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aejix posted:
You'll need a clear skill in there. LS does a great damage but not a great clear skill and fast bosses will be a pain.
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Dec 6, 2018 23:34
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McFrugal posted:I'm gonna do triple herald BV elementalist with Purity instead of Ash. Never tried BV before. You can cram in all four with a bit of mana reservation. I'm starting BV Chieftan
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Dec 6, 2018 23:38
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Tai posted:You'll need a clear skill in there. LS does a great damage but not a great clear skill and fast bosses will be a pain. I figured this was the clear skill (the shitload of lightning balls that keep appearing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M8TTEre7QQ Was going to follow this guide https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2187283
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Dec 6, 2018 23:40
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Looking at starter builds and I have choice paralysis. I know I definitely don't want to play arc. Is tri herald BV ele league starter viable?
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Dec 6, 2018 23:40
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Devor posted:Just the three I think Only Arctic Breath specifically says it creates Chilling Area. I am hoping GGG will update the tooltips of spells like Vortex to say that they create Chilling Area, but my assumption right now is that only AB does it.
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Dec 6, 2018 23:42
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aejix posted:I figured this was the clear skill (the shitload of lightning balls that keep appearing) Yeah lightning ball will work.
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Dec 6, 2018 23:42
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Matazat posted:Looking at starter builds and I have choice paralysis. I know I definitely don't want to play arc. Is tri herald BV ele league starter viable? Yes but a little clunky. Keeping up more stacks that you need to if you have poo poo gear as a league starter can get boring (for some people). It's a popular second character once you can dump money into it so you can keep 2-4 stacks up for clearing with good gear and then then 10 stack and rape bosses.
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Dec 6, 2018 23:44
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Tai posted:Yeah lightning ball will work. Sweet. Although I am still tempted by soulwrest summoner. I think I started my first 3 leagues with SRS and now with the bat MTX for SRS I think I could handle using it until level 70 or whenever soulwrest comes online
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Dec 6, 2018 23:44
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please knock Mom! posted:I think I'm going champion with loreweave and a big two hander text me
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Dec 7, 2018 00:00
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Benson Cunningham posted:After he butchered the word hierophant for the sixth time I had to stop watching. It's such a normal everyday word.
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Dec 7, 2018 00:05
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Tai posted:Yes but a little clunky. Keeping up more stacks that you need to if you have poo poo gear as a league starter can get boring (for some people). It's a popular second character once you can dump money into it so you can keep 2-4 stacks up for clearing with good gear and then then 10 stack and c'mon
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Dec 7, 2018 00:11
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I can't believe I'm so hyped over this dumb game
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Dec 7, 2018 00:12
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Mentat Radnor posted:BV elementalist is a totally fine starter build even for newer players IMO. Inpulsa's is just icing on the cake. I was basically considering the same exact choices. I think Champion is going to be annoying in lab without the sheer damage reduction and regen of Jugg or the Slayer overleach. Slayer with a worm flask seems like it should be plenty tanky enough to do full key runs and be able to transition to mapping and bosses much easier than Jugg as far as clearspeed goes. I'm going to start by going Cyclone with a Starforge and maybe respec to Lacerate if I decide I actually hate Cyclone. I tend to play kind of squishy characters though and I really hate bad clear speed so keep that in mind.
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Dec 7, 2018 00:15
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Zephro posted:Sweet, none of those are a build I want to play so at least I won't have to pay 100 chaos for some low-tier unique just because it got Mathil-ified this league While this is certainly a thing if Mathil uses a cheap but rare unique in his early builds, all of these builds (and most of his starter builds for the last few leagues tbh) have a great deal of gear flexibility to make this not much of an issue. Nothing Mathil says is going to make spell-totem or melee-champion more or less expensive to start because they are already such good and universal starters, with low specific gear requirements. Tai posted:Yes but a little clunky. Keeping up more stacks that you need to if you have poo poo gear as a league starter can get boring (for some people). It's a popular second character once you can dump money into it so you can keep 2-4 stacks up for clearing with good gear and then then 10 stack and rape bosses. It's a seriously good league starter - your gear ramps to clear trash in white maps with 1 stack very quickly, and if you prioritize duration (I used Efficacy and got both clusters, which felt like enough), you can keep 3 stacks up with very little effort which takes you into yellows. The last time I started this was before Herald of Purity, too, which gives you a lot of damage early in build progression. I would say that it's a build that rewards some early trading, and buying a level 20 BV when yours is naturally at like 15 is a huge upgrade, and well worth doing. If I didn't have such a hard-on for Impale, I'd be starting it again. On that note, can I get a backup guild invite on ElegantGazelle?
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Dec 7, 2018 00:17
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Does everyone know poebuddy? I think it deserves a link in the OP. seems like POB for a browser, good for console players with a tablet maybe? And I nominate http://poe-roadmap.com
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Dec 7, 2018 00:18
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Saying BV is a strange skill that may or may not be to your liking is very much right. Saying Ele BV is not an extremely strong league starter, with or without Inpulsa is straight up wrong Saying Ele BV is clunky to play and then suggesting MS, which clears maps roughly at the speed of continental drifts, is 
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Dec 7, 2018 00:27
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I did say that BV is a good league starter just a little clunky for some people!
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Dec 7, 2018 00:27
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Zenithe posted:It's such a normal everyday word. I've been saying he-arrow-fint but apparently its actualy high-row-fint
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Dec 7, 2018 00:28
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Flavahbeast posted:I've been saying he-arrow-fint but apparently its actualy high-row-fint I'm calling my congressman right now I suggest you all do the same.
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Dec 7, 2018 00:29
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http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2255988 This build sounds fun, and SkeleMancer was my favorite build of D2 (Except for Maggot Lair)
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Dec 7, 2018 00:30
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pokchu posted:You can cram in all four with a bit of mana reservation. Well it's elementalist so you've already got 25% reduced reservation. The build I'm looking at keeps 700 mana unreserved with MoM for a bit more ehp. I figure that's okay since you don't have to constantly cast BV and can deal with an occasional empty mana pool. I'd rather have the extra 700 ehp than the extra 10-15% more damage from Ash.
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Dec 7, 2018 00:31
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Zephro posted:also someone talk to me about Reave I've literally never tried it Reave is very solid overall, I played a reave dual wield slayer/jugg ascendant for all of delve and did uber elder and got down to delve depth 450ish with it. Coulda went farther, but  I had a mediocre stat stick, so now after the dual wield nerf the build would need a real offhand to work and would deal less damage afterwards, but it would still work fine. I killed uber elder wearing ventor's gambles because I couldn't be bothered to buy steel rings for just 1 fight. Having real rings would probably make up for the damage lost by the mediocre stat stick I had. Reave is very good for map clearing. Once you get up to 8 stacks with vaal reave, if you go fast enough you can maintain those 8 stacks with normal reave, meaning your reave will be hitting most of the screen for most of the map. If you lose the 8 stacks you'll generally have another vaal reave up to get them back anyways. However, for bosses the damage is going to feel bad unless you have extremely good gear. Fortunately, for bosses you can just swap in blade flurry and maybe 1-2 other support gems and boom you're a blade flurry build now. Don't level with reave, it feels like crap while leveling. Use sunder or some other actual good leveling skill. Scaevas make fine starter swords until you can afford good high DPS rares. Go crit, not RT. Champion is going to be way easier to gear and start with than scion, and his skill tree will be generic enough that if you don't like reave you can swap to any other melee skill without needing to blow many respec points. J fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Dec 7, 2018 |
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Dec 7, 2018 00:34
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I really can't help myself but laugh at everyone (not necessarily in this thread, I mean in general) absolutely losing their goddamn minds about stat sticks, like the game is somehow unplayable without them.
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Dec 7, 2018 00:46
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Kind of thinking of starting with a herald of agony build using either toxic rain or blade vortex to generate stacks. Probably eventually transitioning into cwdt+bv with innocence/ngamahu to turn it into a poison walking simulator. Or I'll just rebuild my arc trapper, maybe go life instead of CI this time. But CI was really nice for the incursion poison guys.
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Dec 7, 2018 00:47
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Awesome! posted:mathil posted his league starter video It does look pretty good but I don't get the EE interaction. Totems will trigger it after the first hit right increasing the cold res. Even a quick hitting trap like lighting spire wouldn't keep up with 4 or 5 totems shooting 9 projectiles.
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Dec 7, 2018 00:55
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https://twitter.com/pathofexile/status/1070829635888246784
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Dec 7, 2018 00:58
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Boo, multiple totems. I kind of expected that though. I reckon war banner that early will be great for pretty much everything that can fit it though.
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Dec 7, 2018 01:02
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lamentable dustman posted:It does look pretty good but I don't get the EE interaction. Totems will trigger it after the first hit right increasing the cold res. Even a quick hitting trap like lighting spire wouldn't keep up with 4 or 5 totems shooting 9 projectiles. EE specifices that "you" have to hit, in PoE terminology that means things that do things for you by proxy don't count. e: VVV gonadic io posted:Because EE is in Artifice, the totems don't reset the EE buff which just remains. Only the trap/golems hits cause the debug to exist or change. also this. dyzzy fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Dec 7, 2018 |
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Dec 7, 2018 01:03
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aejix posted:Can I design a custom neversink filter now or do I have to wait until the league actually starts
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Dec 7, 2018 01:03
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lamentable dustman posted:It does look pretty good but I don't get the EE interaction. Totems will trigger it after the first hit right increasing the cold res. Even a quick hitting trap like lighting spire wouldn't keep up with 4 or 5 totems shooting 9 projectiles. Because EE is in Artifice, the totems don't reset the EE buff which just remains. Only the trap/golems hits cause the debug to exist or change.
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Dec 7, 2018 01:03
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Vasudus posted:I really can't help myself but laugh at everyone (not necessarily in this thread, I mean in general) absolutely losing their goddamn minds about stat sticks, like the game is somehow unplayable without them. It's funny to me because until I read the dev post on the nerf I didn't really know what a stat stick actually was I'm so bad at this game lol
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Dec 7, 2018 01:03
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dyzzy posted:EE specifices that "you" have to hit, in PoE terminology that means things that do things for you by proxy don't count.
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Dec 7, 2018 01:04
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dyzzy posted:EE specifices that "you" have to hit, in PoE terminology that means things that do things for you by proxy don't count.
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Dec 7, 2018 01:05
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Oh wow I've been thinking like that forever. Welp thanks guys
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Dec 7, 2018 01:07
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gonadic io posted:Because EE is in Artifice, the totems don't reset the EE buff which just remains. Only the trap/golems hits cause the debug to exist or change. Oh neat, never noticed that wording before in Malachai's Artifice. Always that it was global EE.
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Dec 7, 2018 01:10
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So I changed up a Quill Rain in PoB to have the new nerf, and my Toxic Rain PF still had slightly more/equal dps with it than a Tempest. I don't entirely understand.
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Dec 7, 2018 01:11
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I'll probably regret it, but I'm considering starting with a Frost Blades Assassin so I can respec into an autobomber once I have the currency.
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Dec 7, 2018 01:15
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