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Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008



lol welp, today is the day I get all of the good loot I guess. Shame headhunter kinda blows now

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QR Code Geass
Oct 25, 2023

Found out a belt I'd been wearing was worth ~20-40 div. :feelsgood:

Also most of my amazon gear is worth divs now even though what I paid was a lot less. Don't feel great about that, lol.

Anyway my lich/scorpion queen is rolling okay mostly held up by essence drain jacked way up. Multiplying spell level+/chaos spell level+/chaos damage/speed etc really does a number on DPS.

New Zealand can eat me
Aug 29, 2008

:matters:


Control Volume posted:



lol welp, today is the day I get all of the good loot I guess. Shame headhunter kinda blows now

Honestly headhunter would be fine if the mod pool for rares wasn't so shallow. With even the smallest amount of packsize/extra rares you're basically guaranteed to pick up shroud walker and have to quick swap belts to stop yourself from uselessly teleporting into slams and DOTs

Looking forward to the "loot buff", a friend of mine is 150 hours deep, way further along than me into pinnacle/etc and still hasn't seen a raw div

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

Tambaloneus posted:

Which brings me to my noob question, with spearfield I noticed it was filling my health bar - and I only have leech on the spear not the gem, so does this mean the spears it's using are copies of my spear with whatever modifiers on it?

This was answered but-- If you zoom in you'll see they actually copy your spear's model and look different depending on which one you have equipped, so doubly yes.

Quaint Quail Quilt
Jun 19, 2006


Ask me about that time I told people mixing bleach and vinegar is okay

Tambaloneus posted:

I tried stacking strength for the stomp/rake combo and after going back go get a bit more dex so I could even equip the drat skill gem I still find whirlwinds with lacerate are doing 99% of the murdering for me. Bosses included and though rake/stomp is certainly powerful the whirlwinds just "will it blend" anything I throw them at. I'm in act 2 cruel with those still murdering everything in my way with the only downside being the time to setup but spearfield gives me those few seconds anyway.
My last post I posted some speedrun campaign leveling with rake vid.

I finally tried it and I have never killed collosus faster.

I don't have any +str uniques really except a low % helmet I think. One shots everything but major bosses.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003

thank god ggg leaves in obviously busted skills that literally trivialize the entire campaign, truly an expression of the vision

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.

Herstory Begins Now posted:

thank god ggg leaves in obviously busted skills that literally trivialize the entire campaign, truly an expression of the vision

They'll notice eventually and nerf the underlying mechanic instead of the skill gem, per usual

Ersatz
Sep 17, 2005

Herstory Begins Now posted:

thank god ggg leaves in obviously busted skills that literally trivialize the entire campaign, truly an expression of the vision
Yeah, switching to an actual build after hitting maps with this alt was an interesting transition.

Meanwhile, really wish they’d look for some other solution to pathfinder concoctions having been busted last league. Kind of weird for them to have nerfed an ascension’s keystone skill all the way down to uselessness. You can’t even throw the concoctions from the rhoa since attacking while mounted requires a bow or spear skill.

There’s simply no point to using it compared against poisonburst or lightning arrow with the rift unique.

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
Is stomping ground broken with anything besides rake? Why wouldnt it be correct to only nerf the interaction?

Ersatz posted:

Yeah, switching to an actual build after hitting maps with this alt was an interesting transition.

Meanwhile, really wish they’d look for some other solution to pathfinder concoctions having been busted last league. Kind of weird for them to have nerfed an ascension’s keystone skill all the way down to uselessness. You can’t even throw the concoctions from the rhoa since attacking while mounted requires a bow or spear skill.

There’s simply no point to using it compared against poisonburst or lightning arrow with the rift unique.
This was imo the most slapdash of a lot of sloppy nerfs. Hopefully they'll revisit it when they have the bandwidth in five years.

No Wave fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Apr 29, 2025

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

No Wave posted:

Is stomping ground broken with anything besides rake? Why wouldnt it be correct to only nerf the interaction?

Nah it's because the Rake animation does 3 "steps" in less than a second and has very little recovery time. Try it on Shield Charge or something and it won't even tickle

edit: If they were to nerf it, which probably isn't necessary IMO because it may as well be nonexistent if not for the Rake interaction, I'd say make it require a minimum distance travelled before going off. That way it would require you to actually "travel" and not just hug a boss while spamming it

QR Code Geass
Oct 25, 2023

Lately I’m more into shopping/pricing/selling than playing the game. I’m buying stuff I don’t need when it looks like a good deal and have more inventory than currency :ohdear:

Ersatz
Sep 17, 2005

QR Code Geass posted:

Lately I’m more into shopping/pricing/selling than playing the game. I’m buying stuff I don’t need when it looks like a good deal and have more inventory than currency :ohdear:
My divs/hour is magnitudes higher from trading than from actually playing the game.

Apparently my real ascension class is “Merchant.”

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!

QR Code Geass posted:

Lately I’m more into shopping/pricing/selling than playing the game. I’m buying stuff I don’t need when it looks like a good deal and have more inventory than currency :ohdear:
I got a little obsessed with it back in .1. Ended the season with five 50+ div geared characters and 250 more divs in my currency tab in standard. And I dont care about any of that currency now, after a point it doesn't do much for you unless you're the kind of player who wants to overgear meta builds.

Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 2, 2011
I don't understand why they just didn't untag "bow" from the concoction skills so people couldn't do widowhail silliness and +10 the skill level and balance it for the level range.

I'm not sure what anyone would build around for the current concoctions with having to go unarmed, making it awkward to even use it to apply a ailment.

victrix
Oct 30, 2007


Ersatz posted:

My divs/hour is magnitudes higher from trading than from actually playing the game.

Apparently my real ascension class is “Merchant.”

true in every game to offer trade ever

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003

it's a gold rush, sell shovels

Orange Devil
Sep 30, 2010

Physically he was a miserable weakling, shattered by disease, seldom free from bodily pain, and foredoomed from his youth by an exhausting and incurable malady.
Bastaird Oráiste

Control Volume posted:



lol welp, today is the day I get all of the good loot I guess. Shame headhunter kinda blows now

So does ingenuity

No Wave posted:

I got a little obsessed with it back in .1. Ended the season with five 50+ div geared characters and 250 more divs in my currency tab in standard. And I dont care about any of that currency now, after a point it doesn't do much for you unless you're the kind of player who wants to overgear meta builds.

I feel like a lot of people playing the game don't understand the value of currency velocity. Like sure you can put that good gear up for 5 div which is what its worth and end up waiting a week before you sell it, or you can sell it for 4 div or even 3 div within the hour and now you can spend 3 div to immediately buy better equipment to play (and farm) with for the next entire week that you otherwise would not have had. I go for the latter option every time and who gives a poo poo that I could've had a bunch of extra divs sitting in my stash by the time I lose interest in playing?

Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Apr 29, 2025

victrix
Oct 30, 2007


the trick is the "could've" is a mirage

all the items priced near each other are, by definition, the ones that haven't sold

I always, always sold stuff cheap (but not so cheap getting out of maps was a waste of time)

here I skip all that crap cuz lol I'm not trading on controller

using currex is nice though

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
I don't expect my stuff to ever appreciate I generally buy mediocre off meta rares and uniques I like to keep which generally go down in price over time excepting the rarest of the rare which I cant afford. My best money making strategy has been doing high EV Vaals but it's only something I do when an item jumps out at me. (It's also really fun.)

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

Control Volume posted:



lol welp, today is the day I get all of the good loot I guess. Shame headhunter kinda blows now

:staredog:


Orange Devil posted:

So does ingenuity

I feel like a lot of people playing the game don't understand the value of currency velocity. Like sure you can put that good gear up for 5 div which is what its worth and end up waiting a week before you sell it, or you can sell it for 4 div or even 3 div within the hour and now you can spend 3 div to immediately buy better equipment to play (and farm) with for the next entire week that you otherwise would not have had. I go for the latter option every time and who gives a poo poo that I could've had a bunch of extra divs sitting in my stash by the time I lose interest in playing?

ill put it up for what i want for it, if it doesnt sell it doesnt sell, if its sitting there a month later and someone makes a comical lowball offer ill delete the item

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003

No Wave posted:

I don't expect my stuff to ever appreciate I generally buy mediocre off meta rares and uniques I like to keep which generally go down in price over time excepting the rarest of the rare which I cant afford. My best money making strategy has been doing high EV Vaals but it's only something I do when an item jumps out at me. (It's also really fun.)

if you're buying useful uniques, spend a bit more to buy good rolls because well rolled ones always hold their value way, way better

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Orange Devil posted:

So does ingenuity

Not with these rings :whatup:


Stux
Nov 17, 2006

5 dex hype

victrix
Oct 30, 2007


behold, true mastery of time

https://youtu.be/g52h43VsiJs?si=wF2M21cI0N3LCz4x

Ersatz
Sep 17, 2005

Are there good resources for determining the odds of specific outcomes for Vaal orbs?

I’m tempted to start buying and modifying cheap versions of the unique bow that I’m using, but if the odds of rolling the specific enchant I want are like sub 2% I probably won’t bother.

Ego Trip
Aug 28, 2012

A tenacious little mouse!


Why can't you use crossbows on the bird? I just want to ride around with my shotgun.

Traitorous Leopard
Jul 20, 2009

Traitorous Leopard posted:

https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn/character/weedGOKU666-2204/BooBeanis_Slammin?i=5&search=skills%3DThunderous%2BLeap%26class%3DTitan

Just started breaking into T15s while still filling out atlas points on my spear slam guy. Been a lot of fun figuring it out, some thoughts thus far:

- Build is solid, damage carried almost entirely by Tangletongue. It's not as good as the LS builds this league, but then again what is. If I get bored/frustrated enough I may try and swap over to that just to get a taste before it gets nuked.
- The defensive setup I landed on that felt best (so far) actually ended up being hybrid Armor/EV plus block. By no means super tanky, but it gets by. This level of bulk would prob feel fine with LS, but since I have to dive into packs, the health bar gets popped pretty hard occasionally
- Speaking of defenses, building into two separate avoidance layers to a reasonable degree really highlights how much random poo poo can't be evaded or blocked. Some kind of Acro effect from the keystone/Hyrri's/Wailing Wall would probably go a long way towards feeling even better. Any one of those would require some big sacrifices, though
- Damage feels really good so far, although I'm not sure if it can scale reasonably all the way to T4s. Would need some insane rings I think.
- Titan may be my new favorite ascendancy. The 50% small nodes buff opens up so much stuff that would otherwise be hard to get. I get so much AoE and crit from this thing.

Well I tried the LS swap and it's unequivocally better for mapping. Mostly due to the safety aspect of nuking screens from the periphery rather than having to dive into packs. Maybe the biggest weakness of the slam build is that it has an unfortunate recovery time at the end of the animation where you're a sitting duck for stuff outta range.

That said, Storm Lance alone is way worse for bossing. It's workable for t15 atlas bosses, but I have no desire to try pinnacles with this, so I may just swap back to the slam cause it was already chunking for ~1M per lance/slam combo (and that was pre-Beacon, so I guess it'll be 4x that now?). The updated build is in the ninja link above - am I doing anything obviously wrong for single target? For reference, I turn off herald/frenzy and turn on CoC for bosses. Frenzy charges don't seem to be a limiting factor with that setup, but the lance detonations just aren't beefy enough. I guess that might be why everyone swapped their LS builds to Deadeye once the serpent skill got popular.

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005

:powercatte:

Ego Trip posted:

Why can't you use crossbows on the bird? I just want to ride around with my shotgun.

It’d be like mounting a 50 cal on a Vespa. Which would be awesome

whypick1
Dec 18, 2009

Just another jackass on the Internet

Ersatz posted:

Are there good resources for determining the odds of specific outcomes for Vaal orbs?

I’m tempted to start buying and modifying cheap versions of the unique bow that I’m using, but if the odds of rolling the specific enchant I want are like sub 2% I probably won’t bother.

Item weights aren't in the GGPK, hence they haven't been datamined. Assuming they're all equal (there's evidence that they aren't) it's 1 / <number of Vaal enchantments possible> / 4 (1 in 4 chance to get an Enchantment result from corrupting the item, unless you can use an Omen of Corruption to knock it down to a 1 in 3 chance). Assuming the list on the Wiki is accurate, for example, the chance to hit a specific Enchantment on a Bow (11 possible mods) would be ~2.27%, ~3.03% with the Omen.

Good luck!

whypick1 fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Apr 30, 2025

Ego Trip
Aug 28, 2012

A tenacious little mouse!


Wii Spawn Camper posted:

It’d be like mounting a 50 cal on a Vespa. Which would be awesome

If they give me gunbird, I might try to make triherald rapid shot work. Just bolts and explosions everywhere.

Ratios and Tendency
Apr 23, 2010

OH YEAHHHHHH


Ego Trip posted:

Why can't you use crossbows on the bird? I just want to ride around with my shotgun.

You can't reload a crossbow on a bird, get real.

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

https://x.com/pathofexile/status/1917388343089979619

patch by the end of the week

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

Stux posted:


ill put it up for what i want for it, if it doesnt sell it doesnt sell, if its sitting there a month later and someone makes a comical lowball offer ill delete the item

Power move is to invite them to hideout and put the alch shards you disenchanted it for in the trade window IMO

PaybackJack
May 21, 2003

You'll hit your head and say: 'Boy, how stupid could I have been. A moron could've figured this out. I must be a real dimwit. A pathetic nimnal. A wretched idiotic excuse for a human being for not having figured these simple puzzles out in the first place...As usual, you've been a real pantload!

That's a shame. I just hit the wall.

Threw my EXs into a breachstones and got the Breach Lord down on the first try. Then threw all my chaos orbs to get a Simulacrum Orb and did worse than I did in the previous league; wiped on round 8 I think. I just take so much damage that stuns eventually kill my block and I die, sometimes right when I respawned lol.

Still much more progress than I made last league in that I got two end game bosses killed this time around.

See you all in 3-4 months for .3!

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

PaybackJack posted:

Threw my EXs into a breachstones and got the Breach Lord down on the first try. Then threw all my chaos orbs to get a Simulacrum Orb and did worse than I did in the previous league; wiped on round 8 I think. I just take so much damage that stuns eventually kill my block and I die, sometimes right when I respawned lol.

I managed to get through T0 simulacrum by swapping in a Kitokos and having double the DPS of my first attempt, and it still killed me 3 times before I was able to complete it. Crossbow gets hosed when it dies since the first action has to be reloading the bolts so Im not sure how I got out of the death spiral, but Ill take what I can get

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
If you've been very online you'll see people posting their "Exile's Pilfering Ring" stats to show much stuff they picked up. I bought it thinking I could do the same and I hate it. You need to manually equip it as a cosmetic on a character for it to start tracking pickups and it can only be equipped on one character at a time, meaning any time you swap characters you will have to re equip it. I was hoping it would just be /deaths for orbs but no it sucks. Just warning anyone else who might not know how this thing works.

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.



No Wave posted:

If you've been very online you'll see people posting their "Exile's Pilfering Ring" stats to show much stuff they picked up. I bought it thinking I could do the same and I hate it. You need to manually equip it as a cosmetic on a character for it to start tracking pickups and it can only be equipped on one character at a time, meaning any time you swap characters you will have to re equip it. I was hoping it would just be /deaths for orbs but no it sucks. Just warning anyone else who might not know how this thing works.

paying real money for a thing to post screenshots to complain about loot drop rates is loving hilarious GGG Rules so hard.

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

I use it to say how the loot is actually fine

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

There's an outlaw camp right here with some shady folks eatin' beans. yeehaw chucklefuck.

Slotducks posted:

paying real money for a thing to post screenshots to complain about loot drop rates is loving hilarious GGG Rules so hard.

now that’s voting with your wallet

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Fallom
Sep 6, 2008

I'm generally confused about the fake cosmetic scarcity thing where you're only allowed to use them on one character at a time

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