Path of Exile

bigmark268 said:

Man when ever I read what you guys are doing in this game all I think is. Wtf am I doing wrong lol. I'm 88 and I've made maybe 450c so far which includes my 1ex drop.

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Yeah as Korrupt said, 88 isn't that far, you start getting a lot more money in higher tiers of maps and there's quite a bit of time to get there still, nowadays 85 is pretty quick and easy. It's the first time I'm playing much, I'm only 92.5 and it still moves at a decent pace, but like past 95 it becomes stupid I think. I've made like, 800c I think? That and a couple of exalts, one from fusings and one from some jewel. Not that much but I don't sell much, nor do I flip or anything, I only care about having enough to buy my stuff, doesn't even have to be the best stuff. I made it to 92 with less than 50c worth of gear without much of an issue.

Glad I jumped the gun and bought "overpriced" exalts yesterday at 135-138 instead of 130 to buy my Vis Mortis, considering how quickly that jumped. Even got lucky and as I refreshed the page to start messaging people selling at 6ex, some guy logged in with a 5.5 ex one. Granted they're now at around that too, but in chaos it's not quite the same.

By far the most expensive thing I've ever owned. Didn't get fucked by RNG and rolled my 4R2B in 2 rolls too, so that saved me a lot of chroms.

Brikker said:

Reading this thread makes me think I can't play this game effectively as a few-hours-a-week casual...

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I think it depends on your goals? I've been playing the past leagues really only a few hours. I do stack them over a few days instead of weeks, but still I was fine doing that. It's the first league in forever I'm actually playing a lot, largely because 1) I found a build I really like that's also fun to play(I really liked AW a few leagues ago, but it wears you down, all the fucking clicking and carrying weapons ugh) 2) I set a specific goal, killing shaper(and possibly uber elder we'll see). Last time I played that much was during on of the challenge leagues, the one that rewarded that gear set they kept giving away back in the old days with the spikes and wings and shit, and they had a red one for the HC race. Had to reach 85 or 90 in HC for it, and that was back when you farmed to 70 in docks or whatever. I even died half a level before it and had to reroll, that was fucking great.

You can fairly easily get the 24 challenges rewards for example playing pretty casually over several weeks. But if you want to see the endgame, it is definitely a substantial investment, especially when you're not super efficient like the top tier players are. Like you watch the people who race for 100 and they're on a while another planet, they're farming maps by the first day. I checked Raiz' stream to see how he did maps at the start of the league when I reached maps myself since I hadn't done maps since the atlas shit basically, and like 5hours in(from the start of the league) he was complaining he couldn't get his Humility cards to drop, that he was too high lvl for acqueducts and not getting good xp(he was like 80+) and that he was so behind everyone else cause he wasn't mapping already. Meanwhile 5hours in I'm generally killing Kitava the first time. And I still kinda speed along, just not nearly as much.

That said if you play the whole 3months of a league, I'd assume you could still reach endgame even with very casual play. Alternatively you could keep going once you're moved to standard.

Kirun said:

Is VP even worth it? A lot of builds seem to recommend it, but I specced out of it when I ran Uber Lab and I honestly haven't missed it.

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I think it depends on how much leech you have and how much defenses you have and things like that? If you're tanky and have increased leech rate via uniques/passives/ascendency, it might not make much of a difference, but if you're squishy you want to regen instantly because if you get hit again you're dead or whatever.

I run everything with my summoner so that's a plus. The only annoying one is no regen, because I'm using a Divine Distillate as my "mana" flask and shit gives like 170mana over 5secs, so I have to go slower, I guess I could switch to a real mana flask and not have the issue though. Everything else is pretty much a non factor, other than damage mods(minus max, crit and the actual damage) like any other build.

Oh VP doesn't give instant leech anymore, yeah nvm I don't pay enough attention to these changes.