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Traitorous Leopard posted:Gosh dangit The damage doesn't seem super impressive for Archmage unless I'm missing something. 160% added is decent but Fireball is 240% and Frostbolt is 220% if you just want to slap it on a big number. It casts pretty fast for the added% it gives (.5s vs .75s) but that may not help you very much with Archmage draining your mana dry. Given that you'll have to invest a good bit to make it actually pop quickly it mostly seems useful because it has the built-in corpse explosion elements rather than anything else.
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Jul 16, 2021 04:34
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Sister Cassia posted:The league mechanic looks like customizable Blights, which is just fantastic. I hope the merchant NPCs have as much dialogue as the ones from Heist. I will be spending all of Expedition credits at Gheed of course gambling Leather Belts I think it is more Legion, but replace the timer with a limit on the number of things you can unlock. It seems clearly designed to slow players down and make them interact with the game. I am looking forward to trying it out, but I understand if for some people it is not their cup of tea.
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Jul 16, 2021 04:48
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shimmy shimmy posted:The damage doesn't seem super impressive for Archmage unless I'm missing something. 160% added is decent but Fireball is 240% and Frostbolt is 220% if you just want to slap it on a big number. It casts pretty fast for the added% it gives (.5s vs .75s) but that may not help you very much with Archmage draining your mana dry. Given that you'll have to invest a good bit to make it actually pop quickly it mostly seems useful because it has the built-in corpse explosion elements rather than anything else. I was mentally comparing it to the likes of Storm Brand and Blade Blast which both have sub-100% damage effectiveness, but I suppose they both also hit way faster than this thing will. It’ll at least be easy to PoB I guess so I can disappoint myself with a lot less time commitment
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Jul 16, 2021 04:58
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FZeroRacer posted:Plus loot has evolved to require you to speed through maps and bosses in order to get anything done in a reasonable timeframe. Then at the same time they keep really silly stuff in the game like not fully stacking currency / shards because they view QoL changes as devaluing your loot time or something. yeah dude, stash affinities, stash folders, free league tab... GGG definitely just hates QOL
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Jul 16, 2021 05:12
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Wow you don't even consider hideout music picker QOL, I am wounded.
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Jul 16, 2021 05:22
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Jinnigan posted:yeah dude, stash affinities, stash folders, free league tab... GGG definitely just hates QOL And yet we're still clicking all of these stacks of currencies for ~immersion~ and that's just not qol I guess.
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Jul 16, 2021 05:24
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:And yet we're still clicking all of these stacks of currencies for ~immersion~ and that's just not qol I guess. simply don't pick up the currencies
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Jul 16, 2021 05:26
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if it's not exciting for you to pick up then filter it out. same reason my bottom tier sale tab slowly rising from 1alc to 1c to 5c etc through the league
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Jul 16, 2021 05:27
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The one time an ARPG got a loot vacuum with auto-currency-converter, the game got shut down by Disney. That game was called Marvel Heroes. 
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Jul 16, 2021 05:42
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RIP Marvel Heroes a fun crazy game too pure for this world Not sure what to think of all the changes other than frozen orb totems will probably be pretty good - if not you can swap back to Freeze Pulse totems. However I have a sneaking suspicion that Viridi's Veil is going to be nerfed since curse immunity is really incredibly strong. For a pretty common Maven drop it spikes totem power like crazy, has wonderful QoL and makes gearing really easy since you don't need to worry about overcapped resistances. The downside of a magic ring isn't really so bad since you don't need resist on it and can have a solid + life/% life ring in that slot. Plus with the changes to flasks, curse immunity isn't just a button click away otherwise (or so it seems). Chieftain slam totems look pretty good too so I predict totem classes will find the 3.15 changes pretty smooth!
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Jul 16, 2021 06:00
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I have been looking at Forbidden Rite and I think it will either double tap with the explosion and the homing projectile and do bonkers dps, or it will only single hit and suck. Scaling it could be difficult though, because life is on one side of the tree and spell crit on the other.
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Jul 16, 2021 06:12
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Gay Rumsfeld posted:Will this league finally see the death of hardcore? lol
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Jul 16, 2021 06:15
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Fenris13 posted:I have been looking at Forbidden Rite and I think it will either double tap with the explosion and the homing projectile and do bonkers dps, or it will only single hit and suck. Scaling it could be difficult though, because life is on one side of the tree and spell crit on the other. I'm hoping we get a lot more "why did I die instantly" posts, Vaal Righteous Fire is way too dominant in "die instantly" numbers.
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Jul 16, 2021 06:15
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Jinnigan posted:yeah dude, stash affinities, stash folders, free league tab... GGG definitely just hates QOL we get like one of these a year defending GGG over this is huge lol
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Jul 16, 2021 06:28
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Expedition, more like eh, be skipin'
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Jul 16, 2021 06:53
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Oof, flask rework? I really hope they didn't mess around too much with Quicksilver Flasks and Rumi's Concoction.
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Jul 16, 2021 07:43
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Use a VPN to play the Chinese version for auto currency pickup
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Jul 16, 2021 07:54
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Flask change sounds like a big buff to me personally ,but at the same time there's absolutely no loving chance I'm going to get "activates when you're afflicted with Bleed" on a "removes bleed" flask, it's just never going to happen, and it's certainly not going to happen five times or whatever. But in a less RNG complainy way, I convinced myself I was gonna do popcorn SRS this upcoming league, and the new summon looks like it might make that build more fun. But man, Forbidden Rite looks like a ton of fun even if there's virtually no way it will be good. Do I commit to the New, or stick with Old???
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Jul 16, 2021 09:48
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i've decided that with the announced changes i'm going to abandon humanity and just go fully improv on an explosive concoction claw pathfinder.
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Jul 16, 2021 10:02
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The battle royal feels a lot less fun this time around. I can't find any gems most of the time.
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Jul 16, 2021 10:33
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Remove blight. Fix your game GGG!
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Jul 16, 2021 10:36
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Explosive Arrow is easily the most busted skill in royale.
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Jul 16, 2021 10:52
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The last league I actually played long was Metamorph when the conquerors/Sirus were introduced. I also played a little bit of Harvest but I basically quit when reaching maps for a variety of reasons including not finding Harvest mechanics very fun. I think if I was grinding every league like I did prior to Metamorph I wouldn't be as interested in this league. When I evaluate the main things that keep me from coming back to PoE it's basically 1. too much clicking (I quit playing Starcraft 2 back in the day for this reason too) 2. takes too much of my time (hence why I want to play this league when I have time off) 3. making a build just gets harder and harder between the new systems and gems they add in and how skipping leagues means I also miss a ton of buffs/nerfs to the point where I don't feel like I know how PoE works any more at this point after being out for 3 leagues. I basically felt that way before when only skipping one league even.
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Jul 16, 2021 11:04
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Ghostlight posted:i've decided that with the announced changes i'm going to abandon humanity and just go fully improv on an explosive concoction claw pathfinder. They explicitly say Explosive Concoction requires you to be unarmed
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Jul 16, 2021 11:37
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whypick1 posted:They explicitly say Explosive Concoction requires you to be unarmed Rigwald's I suppose
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Jul 16, 2021 12:17
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I guess the new chieftain slam totem can’t be exerted so … totems should be able to be exerted by you
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Jul 16, 2021 12:32
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Oh god what did they do to the official wiki
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Jul 16, 2021 12:35
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Vincent Valentine posted:But in a less RNG complainy way, I convinced myself I was gonna do popcorn SRS this upcoming league, and the new summon looks like it might make that build more fun. But man, Forbidden Rite looks like a ton of fun even if there's virtually no way it will be good. Do I commit to the New, or stick with Old??? I'm feeling this pull as well. I'm gonna be a Witch, but I have to choose between Necromancer and Occultist, Reaper vs Forbidden Rite. I think that Reaper is going to be the way to go. Even if it sucks you can still pivot to another minion type von Braun posted:Remove blight. Fix your game GGG! How dare you
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Jul 16, 2021 13:12
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Frozen Orb totems, with Freezing Pulse totems as backup if it's hosed.
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Jul 16, 2021 13:20
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Devor posted:Frozen Orb totems, with Freezing Pulse totems as backup if it's hosed. I had so much fun with FP last league I think I’m going to go with it again if it isn’t nerfed to hell.
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Jul 16, 2021 13:38
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everyone is going to be buying the anti curse helm and rings, it'll be like trying to buy the blood magic shield last league
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Jul 16, 2021 13:41
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I could see the helm getting nerfed, but the rings are a fair trade off imo
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Jul 16, 2021 13:50
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I'll at least hold off on doomsaying until I see actual patchnotes, but some of the new skills look neat and I definitely want to see how far you can push Storm Rain in ssf, maybe try out the new slam totem thing with Ice Crash just to really not see poo poo.
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Jul 16, 2021 14:15
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I feel like instead of focusing on making act one harder, the focus should be on making act 1 interesting Act 1 and 2 are nearing 10 years old at this point and it REALLY shows both in graphics and the early sluggish gameplay and old quest design.
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Jul 16, 2021 14:35
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Well, it can be both. A lot of the stuff they referenced touched on mechanical changes instead of purely numeric damage buffs for monsters. Although based on recent experience in the gauntlet, act 1 being stupidly deadly on pure numbers is interesting in its own way.
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Jul 16, 2021 14:44
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I can't help but think that lot of this is in preparation for the 12(?) six links everyone is going to have. I continue to like the idea of skills that incentivize using other skills to maximize your damage. More exciting gameplay loops, I say!!
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Jul 16, 2021 15:00
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hawowanlawow posted:everyone is going to be buying the anti curse helm and rings, it'll be like trying to buy the blood magic shield last league might be cheaper to get atziris reflection rather than viridis veil at this point.
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Jul 16, 2021 15:03
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External Organs posted:I can't help but think that lot of this is in preparation for the 12(?) six links everyone is going to have. I continue to like the idea of skills that incentivize using other skills to maximize your damage. More exciting gameplay loops, I say!! Yeah it definitely feels that way. They've slowly leaned more into archetypes and skills that support combos of 6links, but it's held back somewhat by the socket system right now.
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Jul 16, 2021 15:28
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They arent just making act 1 harder. They are going to make all the acts harder they are just starting with 1. Also the buffs to the act bosses they do will carry over to the Map versions (and therefore the Maven versions) which could be good i guess.
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Jul 16, 2021 15:31
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I hope they get rid of plain "more damage" supports.
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Jul 16, 2021 15:33
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