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  1. Arbitrary

    Path of Exile

    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.
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    Path of Exile

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

    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...
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    Sports Entertainment

    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...
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    Path of Exile

    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.
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    What did you just read?

    All his books are good!
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    Path of Exile

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

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

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

    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...
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    Path of Exile

    Listening to Ziz's interview and it's sounding like the coins are rare. One or two a day rare.
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    What did you just read?

    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.
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    Path of Exile

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

    The coins don't read that way
  15. Arbitrary

    Path of Exile

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

    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...
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    Path of Exile

    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...
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    Path of Exile

    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.
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    Path of Exile

    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...
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    Path of Exile

    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...
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    Path of Exile

    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...
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    Path of Exile

    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...
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    The Video Thread

    Maybe time for a remake
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    What did you just read?

    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...
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    Path of Exile

    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...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    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...
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    Exit 8 (2025)

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

    Path of Exile

    None of my shit got nerfed Going to be a good league
  29. Arbitrary

    Path of Exile

    Put me down for "this is still going to be too good"
  30. Arbitrary

    Path of Exile

    You convince poor tards that the reason they're poor is GGG's fault and then when the underlying loot gets boosted it has a expontential effect on big investment group play juicer gameplay. I watched two videos of super juicers complaining about ground loot and then a third juicer doing a...
  31. Arbitrary

    Path of Exile

    Being able to better run the maps you want to run right away is going to really help smooth out league starts. If you hit a plateau or your starter needs more work than you expected you can put everything on hold and grind through a block of maps of the layout and tier you are comfortable with...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    I never went and checked a synopsis so I don't know if my concerns ever manifested but I definitely ruined my own enjoyment just the same. I'm just going to assume that at least some main characters exploded. Related to the time skip we get (it's been a while bear with me) Clarissa Mao joining...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    I gave up partway through book seven. Doing a 28 year time skip for the concluding trilogy means you can kill anyone off while still leaving yourself a huge block of time to write more stories in later if you feel so inclined. I don't know what happened, I never looked at a synopsis but it...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    That he was still introducing new point of view characters and expanding the narrative in book 5 rather than condensing things down to wolf versus lion is a big part of why I've got no real expectation he'll ever finish things up before dying.
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I thought it was the dumbest piece of shit I'd ever seen the first time and gold the second. Of all the movies I've disliked and turned around on The Quick and the Dead has the biggest swing.
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    Ryan Coogler's The X-Files

    The parts of Sinners that I liked I liked enough to look the other way on some things. There's just no way there's going to be a kickass folk singing Irish vampire to carry me through this show. X-Files is a honky show with a lot of honky actors and a honky fanbase. It's really likely we're...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    I've been waiting over twenty years to see what happens next with Sam in Oldtown, Ser Jaime, Brienne and the other storylines that were advanced in a Feast for Crows but saw little to no space on the page allocated for them in A Dance with Dragons. Tell me all about what would made LotR better...
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    Ryan Coogler's The X-Files

    Not so much, no.
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    What did you just read?

    I did one Hunger Games and one Mortal Engines and they were...fine? Got a look around but didn't see any reason to continue.