Path of Exile 2

Calling it now, Gemling swords is going to be OP as fuck with a surrounded build (viper helm) because they have the same starting spot as the Merc, lots of reduced movement speed penalty from using skills while moving and movement in general could make for a great cyclone build.

Agreed. You just have to solve for mana, and as a bonus, figure up some way to reliably get blood/sand enhanced & ideally elemental ground without adding too much clunk to it.

Elemental ground seems pretty easy, since cyclone counts as a wind skill The Taming will work.

Damnit, now you have me rethinking my choice of Shadow.

elidib said:

Agreed. You just have to solve for mana, and as a bonus, figure up some way to reliably get blood/sand enhanced & ideally elemental ground without adding too much clunk to it.

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Easy, put defy support gem in and now you have no mana concerns and all your damage is lucky since you’re already playing a surrounded build.

jooka said:

doubt gemling stays even remotely close to what it is now for 1.0 when it come to non crossbow skills

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They didn’t change any of the alternate qualities at exilecon, just reduced them by around 25% give or take, the true power in Gemling isn’t the weapon skills imo it’s Gem studded and virtuous barrier the quality stuff is amazing and just cutting the % isn’t going to make them less OP. I can explain how you can make one chest item on a Gemling so fucking insanely powerful, you just have to stack spirit (which the chest will give you lots of spirit as well) and the only way to fix it would be to change the alternate qualities ok the abilities and they didn’t do that, they just reduced them.

My goal this league is to figure out how to keep blade vortex up non stop without having to manually apply impale as much. Will be interesting to see if its quality bonus is for gemling.

Those stats don’t include any passive from being surrounded (i have nearly all of them) or scavenged plating, I can face tank anything in the game and everything I’m doing can be changed for a different weapon. I’m telling you swords having the same start as Merc and will include extra shit for swords that isn’t there now will make sword surrounded build stupid fucking OP as Gemling and tanky as fuck and if they don’t touch gem studded you’re going to fucking zoom around with cyclone tearing shit up like your playing a d4 spin to win barb.

While in combat the armour goes up to 92% and evasion close to 73% and 90% of it comes from the moiror invictus, spirit gems and essence of virtue.