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My guess is a fundamental difference in our playstyle preferences. For example, I can't stand any build that uses minefield support, it's too slow. I find Tremor Rod and managing detonation sequences to be similar.

What's unique about traps in terms of tankiness that miners can't do? Why would trappers want slavedrivers after the change to the cooldown traps? If you want blood magic, I bet Lifetap is better. Is there a specific trap wand you're referring to? Tremor Rod is garbage. They broke something...

Pretty sure I'm going to use Lifetap support once I get the Sabo's regen nodes.

Start as traps, switch to mines when you get enough gear that one toss of traps or mines kills a pack. I was practicing starting as mines yesterday and it didn't feel great with how spammy it was. I wish there was a "start as totems, switch to mines" option, but no ascendancy covers that well.

I'm assuming you're also picking up Chain Reaction? Doesn't that fuck with charge generation since enemies won't be triggering traps?

Trap throwing speed needs a bit of a boost. It feels too slow starting out. Also, not a huge fan of having to aim them at least somewhat close to the enemy as opposed to mines you can just toss where ever the fuck you want.

I don't understand this. Some people were getting fortify who weren't supposed to get fortify so we've nerfed investment into fortify, not the ease of baseline acquisition. ????? They really shouldn't have mentioned "Fortify is for melees" if they weren't going to do anything about it. The...

Was planning on speccing out a couple builds tonight. So far, my pick for starter is either Holy Flame Totems Heiro into Forbidden Rite Inquisitor or Life-based Exsanguinate(or Storm Rain) Mines Sabo. Looked at your PoB briefly. Your cast speed seems way low. Not sure about the cluster, they...

1.4 * 3^0.5 is greater than 4^0.5, but it is concerning to see someone forgot area = pi*r^2 Bodyswap on a 40+ radius might actually be playable! I was tinkering around with it and it just leaves too many stragglers and jumps you around to places you don't want to go. Further details on...

Finishing your flask rework with a still-garbage Coruscating Elixir is just perfect. On purpose?

loldontevenplaytheirowngame There was some nice utility to consecrated ground. Sometimes sticking purifying flame on a trigger for some sustain and INCREASED crit chance. Sounds like Bottled Faith, which is what provide ADDITIONAL BASE crit chance, got fucked over. And honestly deserved to...

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Crit is usually better for elemental skills too! Who knows what diamond flasks are going to look like though. I wouldn't do Divine Flesh and LL since Divine Flesh makes all damage bypass ES. That said, even just Divine Flesh + Life, you're taking 4% of your life per cast. At a cast speed I...

Forgot totems have activation time that you can't do anything about, so definitely not going to start Forbidden Rite Totems. Is there another sane way to build around Forbidden Rite? Inquisitor with Corrupted Soul and Shav's. Some other class with 90% Chaos Res via Divine Flesh and Born to Chaos.

It's just you.

Heard a suggestion for using mines with Storm Rain. Sounds very similar to using mines with Exsanguinate to bypass the 0.8s cast time. I really liked Exsanguinate and it was even better with mines. Only thing I couldn't solve was the life cost since it seems every spell mine build goes LL...

Why subject yourself to such prolonged amount of pain and disappointment when you can just tag @Ossoi and be done with it?

Mines have no HP or ES, so you'd be skipping that facet of the skill. Still, might be good idea for starting. Totems could work too, they'll clear packs before they kill themselves, just don't like how slow they are.

Is it possible to league start with Forbidden Rite? I really want to play it with Necro/Corpse Pact/Kitava's Thirst, but that Life and ES cost seems insurmountable early.

So, did you fuck her sister?

I'd suggest as a baseline, you shouldn't be rocking 0 phys reduction anyway. For an ES character, that usually means using a basalt and/or granite flask, but lol, nevermind! It would be interesting to do some rip clip analysis to see if they are actually one shots you can't mitigate. There...

Tencent approach would be grindier, which nerfing player power implicitly does, but then also break up the progression in artificially small chunks to keep the illusion of progression but not really. Dailies, I believe they are called. Then lump in a whole ton of P2W. Nirgon mad cuz not Brad.

Inconvenience I think is a bit mild. I guess Heat flasks become triggered and you reroll all curse maps?

Wouldn't continuing to play the game while not buying packs signal them the strongest? You could stop playing for a variety of valid reasons that have nothing to do with the game or GGG.

If they want to retain a certain type of player with these changes, yes, I would agree. Overall amount of players retained, I'm not so sure these are geared towards that.

With the feedback in this thread and reddit, I don't see how these changes are geared towards retention.

So don't buy the supporter pack. Sounds like you agree with me.

I'm not sure heavy defense helps that much on Sirus. The DIE and NONEXISTENCE beams and meteor are all binary. Rain of Stars pretty close to it. Long time between fights is definitely an issue. Not really sure I can recommend anything there. I still die on the fight. A deathless A8 Sirus...

I know there's a ton of factors involved, so it's more than just microtransactions vs box cost. I guess if you enjoy the game as a service, I would prefer PoE's microtransaction model. They've had some serious fuckups lately and being owned by tencent has made it really hard to justify buying...

More damage certainly helps since a shorter encounter means fewer chances to fuck up. But there is no DPS check to the Sirus fight. I'd suggest learning the fight on something like Ignite or Storm Brand, which lets you stay at range and focus on the mechanics while maintaining full dps.

I'll play SSF if I could feel like I'm making meaningful progression and no content(i.e.: builds) are out of my reach in 3 months. That GGG can't make that happen is an indictment on them. Players want easier trade because that's the only way they can think to solve that equation. It is not...

Reacting to ailments is going to be a bitch if that's what actually ends up happening. Which means everyone just slots in ailment immunity instead. The UI and combat speed do not allow for that level of decision making. This is why steel builds will never be meta. That said, I DO react to...

Right, I was considering making that joke.

A tad ironic as she seemed indestructible in this movie.

Bodyswap, Necromancer for Corpse Pact, Desecrate and Volatile Dead in Kitava's Thirst. Meme build or srs bsns?

Are you play a skill? It will be nerfed.

Does that shit kill moss that likes grow in cracks in your driveway? I tried pressure washing them out and they just come right back.

Go back to pirating?

I'm not saying he's wrong, but he's painting a one-sided argument with rose-colored glasses. From what I gather, he's a college professor? If he wants his arguments to be more definitive, I think he should be less feels with the past. Also, he's turned off comments. I don't know the...

What exactly is change management? To me it sounds like someone dedicated to reviewing and approving commits.