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I still don't know how to build a character on PoB even after using it for almost a year. Specifically, I never seem to do any damage unless I'm using some well-known overtuned skill or working from a basic build. The Occultist BV I'm making is the exception but A: I just stumbled into a well-known strong build by accident anyway and B: it's definitely not optimized. Usually I'll make something like a glass-cannon Ranger with Mathil levels of HP and mediocre damage to show for it, or get the idea to do a maxblock Gladiator and sit there with all of 40k Sunder dps in PoB. E: To be fair my 40k dps Gladiator is level 85 on Hardcore and did double-Beyond+Breach T8 rare maps in the Legacy Race without breaking a sweat but god drat is it slow
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May 24, 2018 12:49
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I copied my first character from a forums build that was probably outdated. It was a viper strike shadow. It sucked and I stopped at 26.
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May 24, 2018 13:48
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Wuxi posted:After years I finally managed to unlock the Scion and the new leagues next week are kinda calling to me, since D3 isn't giving us anything new for next season. Doesn't Scion unlock just for getting most of the way through a3?
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May 24, 2018 13:50
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With how power creep has been in the last year and a half or so, I've reversed my build strategy. Previously I would get my damage to a level I wanted and fill in health/defenses. Now I do health and defenses first, damage second; there's so many sources of penetration or extra damage now that it's not necessary to focus on it.
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May 24, 2018 13:55
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Mr. Despair posted:Doesn't Scion unlock just for getting most of the way through a3? She's unlocked when you let her out of her cage in the centre of the the top room in the Sceptre of God
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May 24, 2018 14:08
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Mr. Despair posted:Doesn't Scion unlock just for getting most of the way through a3? Yes 
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May 24, 2018 15:10
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TheRat posted:She's unlocked when you let her out of her cage in the centre of the the top room in the Sceptre of God AND SHE'S DOING JUST FINE IT STARTED OUT WITH A KISS, HOW DID IT END UP LIKE THIS IT WAS ONLY A KISS IT WAS ONLY A KISS
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May 24, 2018 15:16
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Goa Tse-tung posted:Bloodseeker - Berserker, to me, is a perfect starting build for a league. This is the build fyndel goes. The guy who kills atziri and uber atziri by day 1 and then sells runs.
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May 24, 2018 16:21
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Maybe Glacial Hammer would be fun this league, get to create Thunderdome with the same gem now.pokchu posted:AND SHE'S DOING JUST FINE I love you.
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May 24, 2018 18:20
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Holyshoot posted:This is the build fyndel goes. The guy who kills atziri and uber atziri by day 1 and then sells runs. And buys stuff with real money from you know who
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May 24, 2018 18:54
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Hello friends, I am considering playing a support character at some point this league, please give tips as to how to find a good build for a cool and fun support character. Necro or Guardian or Ascendant, IDGAF as long as I can run 500 auras!!! e: I play softcore bc i'm a babby
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May 24, 2018 19:00
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How do people farm Atziri/Uber Atziri early in the league anyway without a poe.trade bitch buying fragments all the time? Every time I consider doing it that poo poo gets tedious as gently caress and wastes mucho time even being able to buy full sets, and I can't imagine there are many of those around in the first few days.
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May 24, 2018 19:41
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Mo_Steel posted:Maybe Glacial Hammer would be fun this league, get to create Thunderdome with the same gem now. I must be forgetting something. What do you mean by this?
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May 24, 2018 20:05
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Vaal glacial hammer (lol)
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May 24, 2018 20:09
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Insurrectionist posted:How do people farm Atziri/Uber Atziri early in the league anyway without a poe.trade bitch buying fragments all the time? Every time I consider doing it that poo poo gets tedious as gently caress and wastes mucho time even being able to buy full sets, and I can't imagine there are many of those around in the first few days. If you run uberlab you'll drown in fragments. I did like 40 uberlab runs the first week or two of this league and ended up with over 30 full sets of fragments. If you dont want to do that then I guess loot Her Mask and vaal a bunch of maps?
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May 24, 2018 20:15
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Insurrectionist posted:How do people farm Atziri/Uber Atziri early in the league anyway without a poe.trade bitch buying fragments all the time? Every time I consider doing it that poo poo gets tedious as gently caress and wastes mucho time even being able to buy full sets, and I can't imagine there are many of those around in the first few days. This is mostly a guess, but Uber Lab rewards tons of sacrifice fragments as well as being generally lucrative. So unlocking that and getting your runs consistent early in the league would set you up for a bunch of Atziri as well.
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May 24, 2018 20:16
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Think hes talking day 1-2 maybe? If so you need a bitch boy and/or use d2jsp
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May 24, 2018 20:47
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Lab makes sense, it's too mind-numbing for me so I've never made a Lab-runner myself even though the rewards always seem bananas when I do my customary couple runs a League
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May 24, 2018 20:48
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Yeah lab is really really consistent and profitable if you can deal with the tedium
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May 24, 2018 20:49
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I really hope they rework the uber lab trials system at some point, it can be absolutely mind-numbing work to get all six trials if you're unlucky in SSF.
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May 24, 2018 21:02
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Goa Tse-tung posted:Bloodseeker - Berserker, to me, is a perfect starting build for a league. For what it's worth I was finding that Haemophilia is dirt cheap and seriously upped the clearspeed with Bloodseeker. Is it my imagination or is Blade Flurry way more DPS than anything else I could use with Bloodseeker? It feels better than reave for both mapping and bossing. Could Lacerate maybe be better single-target if I'm hitting with both waves? So few good skills that work with a claw. I think the only other option is that Dual Strike while offhanding Bloodseeker will cause the main hand weapon to instantly leech as well. You could use Soul Taker as your main-hand and have 100% mana reservation.
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May 24, 2018 21:23
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bf is pretty much the top tier melee single target skill that said, it feels like rear end for mapping and saying it feels better than reave makes me 
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May 24, 2018 21:39
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Yeah BF has been S-tier since it was introduced. It's broken good. I hate it.
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May 24, 2018 21:41
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Awesome! posted:bf is pretty much the top tier melee single target skill Reave is really loving tedious. It would be good if they made the stacks last 2-3 seconds longer and if vaal reave was just the default. I did reave to lvl90 in the flashback league and having to manage stacks and souls got really loving old really fast. Blade flurry is much better because its straight forward, has much higher dps and your aoe gets carried fairly well by stuff like bleed explosions/inpulsa/shaper scepter explosion/herald of ice
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May 24, 2018 21:47
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Keru posted:I really hope they rework the uber lab trials system at some point, it can be absolutely mind-numbing work to get all six trials if you're unlucky in SSF. Seriously, I tried doing it SSF-style in flashback and I think I unlocked uber lab partway through red maps. I gather that this still makes me extremely lucky, which is loving dumb. On the other hand, uber lab is crazy good money. I finally made a dedicated uber lab sunder slayer in Bestiary just to see if using a purpose-built character for it was better and it was night and day compared to just trying to drag myself through it with whatever character I was using that was technically 'capable' of it. I don't even think it had a whole exalt's worth of gear and it was the smoothest uber lab experience I've had yet; I actually spent a bunch of the offerings I had saved up, which is unusual; I typically just forget about them and let them rot until the league ends. I followed this guide. I'm sure there are way better builds for it, but I really enjoyed this one.
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May 24, 2018 21:49
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TheRat posted:Reave is really loving tedious. It would be good if they made the stacks last 2-3 seconds longer and if vaal reave was just the default. I did reave to lvl90 in the flashback league and having to manage stacks and souls got really loving old really fast. Blade flurry is much better because its straight forward, has much higher dps and your aoe gets carried fairly well by stuff like bleed explosions/inpulsa/shaper scepter explosion/herald of ice im playing it on a 90 almost 91 champion right now. its really not that bad. sometimes your stacks drop off and you have baby area for a second but its not that big of a deal. you always have baby area with bf unless you rely on the explosion stuff you mentioned, which i have none of in my build. just ash. i am never needing more reave damage in normal maps honestly.
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May 24, 2018 22:09
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poe.ninja has the majority of 90+ Bloodseeker Berserkers using Reave apparently, it's like 40% reave, 30% blade flurry, 10% molten strike, 10% wild strike? Wild Strike looks really fun actually, and the Cloaked in Savagery 100% leech works with any damage type. Maybe Reave could be even better when you can main Vaal Reave next league. I feel like there should be a Vaal version of every attack skill, I get that it takes a lot of work but honestly they could have added more Vaal skills instead of all these drat traps. Where's my Vaal Explosive Arrow?
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May 24, 2018 22:24
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lots of builds use reave for map clear and then switch to bf for t16 bossing so it might just depend what people are logging out wearing when you look at poeninja
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May 24, 2018 22:28
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Zero VGS posted:
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May 24, 2018 22:35
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He means how you get normal skills from the vaal gems, rodent He misunderstood what you hate about it I think
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May 24, 2018 22:51
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TheRat posted:What? you can use vaal reave for both now
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May 24, 2018 22:51
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I randomly selected a guide for my first char. It was an energy shield build that required Shavronne's among other expensive paraphernalia. I ended up being lvl 78 or something and never had the money for that item, I died every single time a chaos source appeared (rogue exile, pool in the ground, some bosses). Great game.
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May 24, 2018 22:54
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are you actually blaming the game for that? is that from reddit or something?
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May 24, 2018 23:09
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Could've been one of those many many many many guides on the forums we make fun of that say "Beginner Friendly" in the title but require 10+ ex worth of gear for mapping.
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May 24, 2018 23:14
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turboraton posted:I randomly selected a guide for my first char. It was an energy shield build that required Shavronne's among other expensive paraphernalia. I ended up being lvl 78 or something and never had the money for that item, I died every single time a chaos source appeared (rogue exile, pool in the ground, some bosses). Great game. lol epic
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May 24, 2018 23:20
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turboraton posted:I randomly selected a guide for my first char. It was an energy shield build that required Shavronne's among other expensive paraphernalia. I ended up being lvl 78 or something and never had the money for that item, I died every single time a chaos source appeared (rogue exile, pool in the ground, some bosses). Great game. Clearly this unique mod could only ever be found on an unreasonably expensive chase unique, GGG fix your game
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May 24, 2018 23:42
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Insurrectionist posted:Clearly this unique mod could only ever be found on an unreasonably expensive chase unique, GGG fix your game For real though, Shavronne's for keeping a low life ES character alive is so much nicer than having to robotically hit those loving flasks every 8'ish seconds. I tried a Victario's Influence aura bot in Bestiary and eventually I just said gently caress it and ground out the currency for a 6 link Shavronne's because I'm just not that attentive. I went from dying 1+ times per map with any source of chaos damage to dying one time that I can remember for the rest of the time I played the character. Like, it was so goddamned tanky against anything else we went up against, but  120 max HP against patches of corrupted ground.
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May 24, 2018 23:58
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Rocketpriest posted:For real though, Shavronne's for keeping a low life ES character alive is so much nicer than having to robotically hit those loving flasks every 8'ish seconds. I tried a Victario's Influence aura bot in Bestiary and eventually I just said gently caress it and ground out the currency for a 6 link Shavronne's because I'm just not that attentive. I went from dying 1+ times per map with any source of chaos damage to dying one time that I can remember for the rest of the time I played the character. Like, it was so goddamned tanky against anything else we went up against, but Solaris Lorica.
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May 25, 2018 00:00
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Fortunately since ES is "dead" the price of a Shavs has dropped considerably lately. I got one around week uh...6? or so for roughly two exalts. I mean, I paid 8 but it was already 6L and the 6ex was the premium at the time. 99% rolls too.
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May 25, 2018 00:02
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The nice thing about ES nerfs is Solaris Lorica isn't quite as big a downgrade from Shavs as it used to be. Now it's just a huge downgrade. I ran one in Legacy for a while in white/yellow maps before I could save up for a Shavs (nice vanilla 250% version) and it was honestly fine, sucks losing the armor slot just for that mod but the chaos reduction ones combine to make you really tanky against Chaos together with any kind of resist on gear at least. Helped that I was running as Guardian so I got a bunch of flat ES from ascendancy though.
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May 25, 2018 00:25
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