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  1. James

    Path of Exile

    I think this is just something that comes with experience, eventually leveling gets to the point where you hit level 60 or 70 on your first character for the league and you're like "huh, I'm still wearing white level 12 gloves" or something equally ridiculous because it doesn't make sense to...
  2. James

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months!
  3. James

    Path of Exile

    I feel like they're rare enough that if I have the currency, I'll do it. Waaaay better shot at getting a Fiend/Doctor than mapping, and the one time I've encountered it I rerolled it from sets of 9 to sets of 11 and got a Fiend.
  4. James

    Path of Exile

    You can use the divine font at least once per lab run. Glove/Boot enchants in Normal/Cruel lab are throwaways, don't worry too much about "properly" enchanting something, but be aware that if you enchant an item with no level requirement (e.g. Lochtonial's Caress), it will add one. Merciless...
  5. James

    Path of Exile

    Normal/Cruel/Merciless labs are horrible for generating currency. No matter what you have, you shouldn't be too undergeared in A4, and if you are I'm sure there are several 1alch/1chaos items you can afford on PoE Goods to push you over the hump.
  6. James

    Path of Exile

    Is it just interacting or do you actually have to kill a guardian for the counter to reset?
  7. James

    Path of Exile

    There is a sextant mod that will add an additional breach to maps. When Incursion comes back, there's a breach room in the temple that can spawn breaches depending on how far you upgrade it. Zana also has league-specific options you can apply to maps, and in the past one of those has been...
  8. James

    Path of Exile

    Running vs vendor upgrading is a choice you have to make in the moment. For instance, I'm pretty sure Elder only sticks around for 10 map runs without beating him, so in that situation choosing to vendor upgrade if you have the three requisite maps to get the map Elder is on is probably the...
  9. James

    Path of Exile

    Too many other ways to generate currency to waste time on strongboxes now, if I identify a Jeweler's Box with extra items + mirrored in a high ilvl map, I'll throw a vaal orb on it, but otherwise I don't bother. Carto boxes in T12 are worth spending some money on if you don't have any T15s, but...
  10. James

    Path of Exile

    By the way, everyone needs to vote for GGG as developer of the year at the bare minimum. The Steam Awards
  11. James

    Path of Exile

    Well yeah, but after years and only because server performance was taking a hard nosedive. The real problem is that they've reduced the rarity of chase items quite a bit, to the point that they've actually stated they regret doing it. The Shimmeron nerf does seem out of place...
  12. James

    Path of Exile

    Nah, there's several items he uses for that build that should be rarer, but in general Poet's Pens are too common. Dual wielding them should be seen as a luxury akin to dual wielding Mjolners back in the day, and no one should think about having two sitting on a weapon swap.
  13. James

    Path of Exile

    Yeah, the total cost of the build should be somewhere around 150 ex, not 25 ex, and then it's fine.
  14. James

    Path of Exile

    Only thing Poet's Pen needs is to be rarer.
  15. James

    Path of Exile

    Is it better to find new lands - or to create them? : pathofexile Chris is the best, truly.
  16. James

    The Netflix Thread

    Totally agree, I almost don't want them to do another season, the open endedness of it is great for thinking about.
  17. James

    Path of Exile

    Yeah, I don't really chisel until I hit T14s with T16s unlocked, usually have around a hundred chisels when I get to that point just from picking them up throughout the game. You really need to spend a buttload of cash to sustain T16s, so if that's a goal you need to prepare accordingly by not...
  18. James

    Path of Exile

    Noob.
  19. James

    Path of Exile

    If you like the game, you'll end up spending as much time in Path of Building as you do in Path of Exile.
  20. James

    Civilization VI

    Yeah I've definitely played less VI than V, and less V than IV. The one unit per tile limit is bonkers design, and they just keep digging into it. At this point I'm skipping Civ VII unless some serious changes come through.
  21. James

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    If RPers were complaining about being repeatedly ganked, my question is why weren't they holding funerals between each gank?
  22. James

    Civilization VI

    Probably the first Civ game/expansion I've ever skipped, this does not seem fun at all.
  23. James

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    They'd be like "This makes no sense to have Uber Elder be available to 1% of the playerbase. Let's replace Hillock with him!"
  24. James

    Path of Exile

    Yeah but the only 60% Phys to Light skill is Static Strike, so unless you're using that the best you can do is 90% Phys to Light conversion. Then the cold->fire step will lock you into using a Pyre, which is also 90% conversion at best, unless you pick up Avatar of Fire, in which case you...
  25. James

    Path of Exile

    You can also check the "Always Attack Without Moving" checkbox on the skill, which is like holding shift + skill button. Yeah but Atziri's is 20/15 now for perfect rolls, so you get 20%+15%+15%, which is not double even if you factor in resists. Even legacy would only be 25%+20%+20%.
  26. James

    Path of Exile

    There's not really a good way to convert phys->lightning->cold->fire without losing something in the conversion tho.
  27. James

    The Netflix Thread

    Maniac is a great piece of sci-fi if you get a chance to watch it, we finished it last night and argued about it for like an hour.
  28. James

    Health Problems

    Your testosterone levels are highest in the morning when you wake up, which is why your morning wood feels fantastic compared to other woods like oak or pine.
  29. James

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    That's what happened the first time? Shit, Nebuchadnezzer camped his level 50 mage in Tarren Mill in beta and killed me at least three hundred times from invisibility + pyroblast.
  30. James

    F is for Family

    No you should watch season 1 to better understand season 2. It's worth it, the first season ends up pretty OK, but yeah nowhere near as good as season 2. Season 3 drops on the 30th!
  31. James

    Path of Exile

    Left click is either for Summon Golem or Walk, nothing else!
  32. James

    Health Problems

    Nothing "feel like" about it, it's a proven normal male function, but we have no idea why. One theory suggests that it's the bladder's fullness stimulating the correct spinal cord nerves to produce a boner, which is why it goes away after you take a piss. But, it's just a theory.
  33. James

    Weight Loss Thread

    To further clarify, you usually reduce your sodium intake when reducing calorie consumption, and sodium affects how your body retains water. When sodium intake is normalized, water retention becomes normalized absent some other compounding medical issue.
  34. James

    Health Problems

    Nothing to be embarrassed about, imo. I don't have ED, but my friend does and he gets viagra/cialis prescribed to him and he gives me freebies every once in awhile. Wife says it's like being fucked by a 2 liter coke bottle, I love it and would buy my own if it wasn't so expensive.
  35. James

    Path of Exile

    Yeah the Scion seems great for damage, but it's going to die a shitload. Not taking champion for the overleech, no regen, no phys reduction, no MoM, no life gain on hit, and 10% chance for Fortify on hit is pretty unreliable. Might go Acro/Phase Acro, but you'll need a bunch more evasion to...
  36. James

    Path of Exile

    Lancing Steel's animation seems pretty baller, like a pre-nerf Blade Fury without having to channel it.
  37. James

    The Netflix Thread

    Wife and I loved Outlaw King. She told me if we ever had an accident and it was a boy, the name would be DOUGLAAAAAAS.
  38. James

    Path of Exile

    Cleave is just harder to build around and typically slower is all. Alkazier takes a Cleave Gladiator to 100 like every league, it's certainly viable.
  39. James

    Path of Exile

    Right, and stat sticks themselves are OP right now. The fact that Cleave needs both weapon slots to deal its damage, while Reave only needs one, is a huge point in favor of Reave.
  40. James

    Path of Exile

    This is misleading, it will alternate the weapon if the weapon can be used by Reave. But if the other weapon is a mace or an axe, Reave will only use one weapon.