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You're prepping for stability. In a high threat environment like that you're going to want extra cash on hand for booze and hot bitches.

Frostblink of Wintery Blast is a pretty good clear skill once you reach massive investment.

We'll see if we get any bitching down the road. If the gems are just good in the aggregate than who cares. If it appears to be the deleting of raw power in exchange for niche or transformative options whose benefit is not reflected on a PoB I'd expect some loud complaints about nerfed character...

If you're accustomed to always buying, let's say, Awakemed Minion Damage and Awakened Cold Penetration, you might want to know the state of those two otherwise not hard to acquire gems.

I'm not a fan. They announced 40+ or something and we've seen I think six. You can throw a condom on my league starter it's so safe but there is going to be some salt flowing over what's missing (I'd have started something else if you told me X was gone with no replacement) and then again over...

I'd like to see exactly how much it scales on gem level. A corruption of +2 level of socketed minion gems takes it from 3 or 4 to 5 or 6 with other options including Diallas or Squire stuff.

I did a quick run to the start of act four to check out Penance Brand of Conduction. It's getting a big buff. I remember not liking it at all but phys spell with baked in convert to lightning is a nice bit of text to have for a possible Guardian. It's still bad. After the patch if it's got the...

I think that's how it was described on the content reveal.

Given the cost of chaos resistance it seems pretty handy as an extra layer.

I've league started Absolution maybe six times. SRS at level 4, quest reward Absolution before fighting Mervail and it takes a big ol' dump on the campaign. This is I'm sure a skill issue but around yellow maps it always fell off for me. I know it scales in to crazy damage and it just got...

He's a cartoon. He's functionally immortal. (it's not that bad a game)

It'll still be fine

If anyone gets seduced by Guardian you can socket Automation with Convocation and not have to worry about where your big ass minion is. It even heals him a little.

This is what really did it Again, two percent representation with everyone stat stacking for flat ele.

This is why people were saying it was deleted. If you used it as a generic strike you didn't have the less attack speed penalty and you didn't have the less damage while dual wielding penalty on a strike skill with perfectly fine effectiveness of added damage. This is also why it got nerfed. It...

Bret Hart would then go on to have a hardcore match with Terry Funk after his match with Goldberg. When he eventually took time off he would fall while riding his bicycle and give himself a stroke. It's a fucking mess top to bottom is what it is. If we're assigning blame don't forget to ladle...

Deleting a skill with like 2% representation didn't seem necessary. I get wanting to make some changes after people started using it as a generic skill due to it's raw mechanics.

All his books are good!

I went right back to Spectral Throw but I might be a little bitch.

Ascendant also is nothing fancy for your first lab. Little stat bump, one passive point.

Socketing it in immediately at level 12 felt pretty bad but my melee striker experience is tiny.

It's an easy fix, yeah. I'm hoping Octavian was thinking about how many a normie would get and not at all about how many a big juicer would be looking at. If the top end is two a day that's going to be ass. They're going to get granular with it I think and carefully weigh both the mods...

Listening to Ziz's interview and it's sounding like the coins are rare. One or two a day rare.

I think this is the only one of Buelman's books I haven't read. Those Across the River, The Necromancer's House, The Suicide Motor Club, The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters War were all varying degrees of good to great.

That's my reading of them https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3913568

The coins don't read that way

One in eight for Arrogance or a specific Blessing sounds pretty reasonable.

With the changes to Raise Spectre the target number is gem level thirty for level 85 spectres. That's a tall order. If you were running Wretched Defilers and you hit Returning Projectiles (66% reduced damage at 20, 70% reduced damage at 1) that would allow you to run a big Empower in that slot...

Don't forget that you can merchant recipe GCPs. One 20% quality gem can be sold for one GCP. A combination of gems totaling 40% is also one GCP. I typically have one tab designated to hold all the random quality gems that drop and then the actual proper gem tab holds a more curated pile. When...

I was initially excited at the prospect of getting spell totem support as an imbue so I could wear a real chest instead of Soul Mantle but I had forgotten that totem life is based not on the skill gem but on spell totem support itself.

To the Kinetic Blast of Clustering bros hunting for Returning Projectiles may the odds ever be in your favor. Meta skill, transmuted gem. Returning projectiles do 66% less damage at level 20 and 70% less damage at level one. Odds look around one in forty to hit but there are some other green...

I've been going over the builds I want to play and supports they would want along with how much it changes their PoBs. For spells and minions losing one gem level in exchange for one level one support, assuming the support is fine but not optimal, ranges from 10 to 15% more damage. That's fine...

I just don't want to see an actual minion meta ever again. Being meta is a good way of getting shat on whether you deserve it or not. Not being meta is a good way of getting buffs whether you deserve them or not. I think Guardian, Absolution and Raise Spectre are going to push it over the line...

I feel the same way. The zero percent representation is completely divorced from the strength of the ascendancy. It's the kind of situation where you see something get buffed and just know it's going to get nerfed down the road. I get stomping on some of the meta stuff. What they've chosen to...

Maybe time for a remake

The stuff with Joe Miller in book four is the only time in the series I felt like I was reading something special. Something about it really seized my interest. I kinda had a similar experience with the Expeditionary Forces series where they were good enough to keep going but the stories rarely...

I was giving the imbued gems some thought People are going to wreck themselves chasing specific skill/support combinations. I had to scale back my own plans (bolt Feeding Frenzy on to minion skill) when I saw that would be something like a one in forty-five. If it's a transfigured gem and you...

No one gives a shit because it's Gerald's Game but Gerald's Game is 100% over and then keeps going for another 30 pages. The Stand is definitely worse because it sets up a major armed conflict between Boulder and Vegas to never pay that off to then do the "story is over here's fifty more pages...

It's fine. The dude being asthmatic and coughing through act one made me want to shut it off but it's fine.