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Ok quite a few things not so good with this build. First off, why avoid the witch mana regen area? I mean, you're going to be eating through a lot of mana once you have supports and fast cast speed, those nodes are some of the best in the game for a mana heavy char. There's even a 3 health node...

Lightning Strike is really good and yeah that's what I use on my witch melee. Quality Lightning Strike with Pierce(it's at like 90% chance to pierce atm, higher quality would make it 100% but it's expensive), I use pierce instead of fork or chain cause it doesn't reduce the dmg and has a very...

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...9RRzB8fyvWig== Oh it's far from a perfect build or a build I'd recommend, I wanted to try the concept and it works out fine but it's unnecessarily hard, especially the witch part I think, shadow would be better. I also respeced a large amount of...

Don't necessarily agree, IR/US is good but evasion IF you stack health is very very strong too. Armor alone is shit, armor+health is ok but still not great against the real threat in this game, heavy hitters. You need armor with several armor% nodes and granites with +99%armor to even tank the...

Yeah there's a few skills you can't evade and that makes evasion a stat you have to stack health with. In that regard though, it's the same as armor. The only mechanic that can kinda let you bypass that is ES, but chaos can take care of it if you're not massively stacking the stat, chugging...

Well sure it sucks but it's a bit like saying getting one shot is a shitty mechanic because you ran into vaal's slam with no health item or passives or into a frost mob with negative cold resists. It does happen more frequently though so I guess it does suck a 1sec stun immunity after a stun...

There's 2 other mechanics to prevent/reduce stuns. First the obvious one, there's a stat for it(as well as passives that gives you a chance to avoid that are not Unwavering, most of them in the ranger area). Second, you get stunned when the hit does too much damage compared to your health. If...

No you don't need to do anything for the support but zone in cavern of wrath, which you can do from a direct TP once you've killed Brutus. I do it multiboxing 3 accounts and I explained exactly how I do it but I guess I should have been clearer, you need a higher lvl to make this quick Make...

It's kinda the same situation D3 was in, the servers are really shitty during euro primetime and early US EST, but the rest of the time it's fine. I currently play like euro day time and I never have an issue. Khane on the grinding spots, generally people grind The Ledge in act1, Western...

Don't really like alt F4 either, but never had to use it anyway, other than to escape a bug, the one where you can't move/attack anymore but you can still open portals, chat or get killed by mobs. Weird bug, just alt F4d out cause I couldn't even enter the portal I opened. Out of all my...

Well good ones can obviously be sold to players, but most of the rest you just vendor. Matching items is stupidly annoying unless you use the chrome addon to do it for you, but the issue you run into is the lack of space and shit, not worth it imo when a lot of rares even give you alch shards...

Well I've been grouping with EK people in Felshrine merciless to farm and they don't seem to run out of mana ever, but all of them have leveled clarity and possibly other stuff I don't really know. What I know is Mana Leech is shit until you get a solid DPS. I'd recommend lvling Clarity and...

Most of my chars still use pots, rarely see a point in not using pots but sacrificing passives/sockets/auras(by lvling clarity) to achieve that. I mean, prepatch on softcore stacking 4-5diamonds sure, but since diamonds were removed what are you gonna stack anyway, nerfed granites? Seems...

It's been locked cause there's like a 150pages mega thread about matchmaking already, where a ton of people complain about team stacking, uneven matches and whatever the fuck not. Fact is, you play any matchmaking game solo in a team based game, you'll lose half your games or close to. It...

Alchemist increases flask efficiency, not their charge recovery rate. Only Warlord's Mark, belt mods and the Perpetual flask mod increases how much you get from killing mobs I believe, maybe something else I forgot. Passives for flasks increase the amount healed or how fast they heal. Anyway...

My issue with portals isn't the refilling flask. To be honest, that's pretty much necessary to even beat the bosses, there's no fancy health globes like in D3 or you can't buy 6stacks of health pots like in D2, your flasks only refill when you kill stuff so unless they add adds to every fight...

The loot system is harsh in pubs, but I don't really play pubs for loot, I play pubs for safety on progression content. I grouped for Vaal and grouped for Piety because being in a group is like 200%safer than trying to solo those, what with all the targets and shit. Piety was a joke in a group...

Well eventually, with the maximum ES nodes and the ES% stacking, even though it was nerfed, you should be able to reach 8-10k ES I think. Going CI at that point, dropping health nodes and investing into ES% nodes, you'd net a decent benefit from it plus the chaos immunity. However that's...

All the CI builds are prepatch CI, I wouldn't recommend doing anything CI with the current version until like 80 when you have very very good gear. Even then I think current CI isn't really worth it when you're so close to chaos resist nodes if you're going that way anyway. Since you drop all...

Yeah in a few levels you'll hit act3, you'll see ^^. On auras, when you log in, switch a skill to an aura, cast it, switch to another aura, cast it, etc, then switch back to your skills. You can level without auras on your bars. You might have to swap to the aura every now and then to recast...

Well the way to use EE imo is to use a totem of the opposite element and simply spam whatever. If you are set on using 2 elements, I'd do Infernal Blow on one side, Lightning Strike on the other. Mostly LS to clear trash mobs, maybe you get Molten Shell too so you can LS the mobs once with like...

For the content missing, they talked about it in the Gamespot interview, they said it was Act3 Ex(tended I guess?). They decided to cut a part of act3 to make the deadlines and shit and it's fine since Act3 is already pretty fucking big anyway, but they're going to add this soon, within a couple...

2092, Diamond 99%. Wasn't this stuff supposed to be hidden after the patch though? Or did Dotabuff use the info from prepatch to rank people? Haven't played in over a month so don't care either way I literally heard about the "DBR drama" from the patch notes.

Damn, Piety killed me on cruel, lvl 50 dead Piety is complete bullshit as a summoner, like most of act3 really. Was taking some risks so I didn't have to fight for 30mins and she somehow bursted me down with an iceshot crit or something. Not a big deal but I had just bought a 17%quality...

Don't think so, you can look up their items on the website but not their specs iirc. They'd probably add that eventually, if at least being able to parse the calculator links ingame directly and shit like that.

You never look like the result of a pinball machine having sex with a neon light, but the endgame armor does look pretty cool, in a Dark Souls kind of way. Issue being, with ilvl and stuff, you can end up wearing much lower lvl armor than the high stuff because it has good stats/link and a high...

Na doesn't work that way cause if you could get 100%, it'd be 0secs in your system, when it's actually 3secs if you have 100%, Chris or someone explained it. Basically the % is a % of the speed of recovery, so 6/(1+x%). In your case, 3.75secs before it kicks in. Or at least I believe it's...

Well drops and stuff, you fill your HC stash with items so even if you die, next char has a bunch of stuff. Since chars aren't deleted anyway there's little reasons to start in softcore imo, at least if you have any plans of playing HC later.

Should have started it HC though, if you die it's fine you go SC, chars aren't deleted in this game but you can start amassing HC currency. And yeah you can do a melee variant of the summoner, I've thought about it for a while but the problem is you're more reliant on gear and you're also...

Well the great thing about how bullshit OP the mobs are in Act3, is that they make good spectres. Those LMP+Fork Fireball curtains mobs are fucking insane as spectres. Really like Act3 so far, it looks gorgeous, the story is actually pretty nice unlike the first act(2nd was getting a bit...

That looks pretty good, standard really. Lightning Strike was nerfed a bit though, you'll want to use another attack for single target, like Heavy Blow or Double Strike or something like that. But LS is still great for everything else, which is most of the game. Started clearing act3, god...

I understand that the opposite side of templar/marauder/duellist should get chaos resist since they have less health, but that doesn't explain why shadow has jackshit. Witch has better health nodes, you get a 3x8% node in the starting area, a few levels later that way you unlock a fitness node...

Ah seems like server meltdown now. The new chaos resist nodes are so fucking weird. First off, 3/4 of them are in the witch area, which is already weird. Including a 16% one that's very easy to get. I guess they thought of putting them there for "lower health" classes and that makes sense...

Guide is on page 7 near the end, lots of spoiler tags to make it less scary. I made a new thread but Draegan is probably sleeping, when he wakes up he'll try to merge this thread into the new one so nothing is lost but I get first post, I'll post the guide and I'll also try to keep a name list...

Yeah this seems standard cold build tbh. I'd take the Arcane Potency node over the one on the top, it has more crit multi and only slightly less crit%. Would take both eventually though. Also, drop these 6% cold in the templar, go through the bottom, costs only 1 str node vs 3 cold nodes, saves...

Discharge doesn't give charges. If you want power charges you need to use Power Siphon(the wand attack) or you need to wear the Unique chest Voll's Protector(which has shit ES and eats 50% of your max mana). So it's unlikely you'll have power charges unless you build for it. Technically you...

Meh sounds like a lot of wasted points to get conduit but I guess it could kinda work. Discharge with only one type of charges doesn't do that insane dmg though iirc. Stuff I'd consider is simply coordinating auras and curses to have good stuff, for example enfeeble+temporal to really make...

There's a few areas in the game that absolutely suck dicks as a summoner, even at higher levels. Firedogs that leave burning ground on death, goatmen leapslamming shit especially with added damage mods(blues or within a rare aura), suicide bomb mobs in the cave before merveil or in western...

Test thread for draegan to work his magic, etc. edit by draegan: next time don't title it the same exact name! edit 2 by draegan: Sorry Pyros it didn't work.

Melees tend to hit a hurdle in merciless, when mobs actually do good dmg. It's like super easy all the time, then you run into a haste aura rare with a large amount of stupid ability mobs like flicker mobs or charging rhoas or whatever. And then splat. Summoner can be boring. It's...