Path of Exile 2

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RobXIII said:
I was finally able to buy some decent gear on the market place, so many items for sale. Made things actually killable in a cast or two. But, this game makes some retarded decisions. As I progress in the story my character gets...weaker? -10% resists across the board because fuck you that's why? Admittedly I'm still early on , lvl 40 in Act 3, but it's taking the wind out of my sails lol.
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Wait until you do your ascendancies, that's easily the shittiest part of the game. I still have to do my fourth one after trying to get a handful of times. I'm just trying to over level it as much as possible.

Once you hit end game, the resistance shit stops and that's nice, but it a pain through leveling.
 
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RobXIII said:
I was finally able to buy some decent gear on the market place, so many items for sale. Made things actually killable in a cast or two. But, this game makes some retarded decisions. As I progress in the story my character gets...weaker? -10% resists across the board because fuck you that's why? Admittedly I'm still early on , lvl 40 in Act 3, but it's taking the wind out of my sails lol.
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Your character gets weaker as you progress through the campaign much like almost every arpg when you jump difficulties (normal/nightmare/hell, or whatever system the game uses). It's countered by the fact that you get better gear, more abilities, etc.
 
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TheBeagle said:
Actually how important is corrupted blood immunity in POE2? I've had it on some boots, but really need to lose it to fix some resistances and still be able to wear a Ventors. Is it just ultimatum or is it pretty common?
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Update: the stabby stabby rares in breaches will hit you with corrupted blood. Probably worth getting immunity if you plan on running unstable +rares strat.

Also look out of for the CB runes in Expeditions, don't want that transferring if you don't have immunity.
 
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There's a rune that makes enemies turn into an exploding glob that chases you when it dies. Blow open crag in expedition that spawns literally 50 ants. Hilarity and death ensues.
 
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zombiewizardhawk said:
Your character gets weaker as you progress through the campaign much like almost every arpg when you jump difficulties (normal/nightmare/hell, or whatever system the game uses). It's countered by the fact that you get better gear, more abilities, etc.
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Yes but at least in games like Diablo, they leave it as an option to jump difficulties. And warn you "hey you can increase rewards, but you lose all this armor and resistances".

Now I just have to waste time with resistances, just not fun to me and in my opinion a retarded thing to have in game that gets worse each act. I guess my brain has an aversion to negative progress.
 
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Because having the resistances stay the same through the whole game using end game values, they would be either way too fucking high to raise in act 1-2-3 or if they lowered them to act1 values through the whole game, they would be too trivial to cap by end game where a single item could cap your resistances. So they chose to raise them bit by bit act by act.

Besides, aside act 1, and having a bit of cold and fire res, resistances mean fuck all. I mean they do but many of us level with shit resistances and do well until end game where we fix them item by item.

Here is my act 3 merc, I have not died yet and the only twinky shit hes got on is a xbow that I got lucky crafting 200DPS.

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BTW, I dont care who you roll, you should always level with armor instead of the other defense types. Its the only defense with values that actually do something during campaign. The others like ES and Evasion do come online, but way later when you can stack mega numbers. Mitigating 50%-70% of the phys dmg coming in is way fucking better defense then evading 20% or whatever value you can get on evasion. And ES you will just not have enough to do fuck all until end game where you can use multipliers on tree and gear to mega juice your ES rating.
 
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Resistances during leveling don't matter. It might get you like 1-2 deaths max. You need to learn to dodge anyways. At 11k ES, max resistance and lich damage reduction there is still shit that one shots me. Learning mechanics is way more important than resistance during the campaign.
 
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A low end Atziri's Splendour with no life cost passive and plenty of Resist Soul Cores quickly fixes up resists without much cost at 65. By level 80, you'll want to replace it with one that has max crit and 700+ ES - but again, a low roll one is still pretty powerful.

My Abyssal Lich has a pretty good chunk of damage bypass her shield for life damage, but her passive stating that life cannot change while there is an Energy Shield means that all of that damage never gets applied. Its stupid powerful and I wish I would have specced into that a lot earlier than I did. Cause I can basically walk into and around shit without a care now. (Except, as was said - when a boss lands a one shot on you.)
 
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Burnem Wizfyre

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The only time you ever maybe need resist is Jamanra on league start, look for the lightning rings. When you finish the campaign then you just take a moment and buy cheap resist shit to start your maps.
 
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Made this the other day. The fire and cold are only T4 and T5. The all ele res being T1 made it still worth spending the sovereign alloy and catalysts on. You can use any elemental catalysts and they will also raise the all ele res. Going to keep feeding the genesis tree until I can get that T1 ele res paired with a couple T2/T3 cold/fire/lightning.
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For most builds, you're losing a lot of power if your amulet doesn't have +3 skills. Resistances can be gotten else where.
 
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Been trying to farm the raven boss to get the shard since that seems like the best dps upgrade for me, but damn is that shit rare. I am around 40% rarity which I know is low, but I swear I did like 80+ fights and haven't seen one.
 
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Yaamean said:
Been trying to farm the raven boss to get the shard since that seems like the best dps upgrade for me, but damn is that shit rare. I am around 40% rarity which I know is low, but I swear I did like 80+ fights and haven't seen one.
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Everything prints money these days I’m not going to tell you what to do but unless your SSF, pick what you like and farm that and you can have enough to just buy what I’m assuming is the Raven touched shard.

Me I love putting 2 abyss one deli map and farming that and propagating grand mirrors on to cities and other areas of interest and when I’m in an already deli area I throw in a map boss tab, if it’s city I then try to put that Raven helm ritual thing on those maps and do 200% deli with3 ritual (1 unique ritual) tabs with a 4th abyss and use Doriany for the free irradiated.

Seems like a lot but it’s not, just running around abyss farming with deli until you propagate free deli and then buy the helm thingy to propagate the ritual in the city maps you propagated with deli and if shit doesn’t line up just keep 2 abyss deli farming making probably 30-60 div an hour depending on luck and build.
 
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Vorph said:
Abyss would be great if they just got rid of the retarded black cloud bullshit.
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Pick a different boss then Amanamu and don't farm omens, farm the desecrated stuff. It won't hit as well because Omen of Light still sells well but it will hit some craniums and stuff
 
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Burnem Wizfyre said:
Everything prints money these days I’m not going to tell you what to do but unless your SSF, pick what you like and farm that and you can have enough to just buy what I’m assuming is the Raven touched shard.

Me I love putting 2 abyss one deli map and farming that and propagating grand mirrors on to cities and other areas of interest and when I’m in an already deli area I throw in a map boss tab, if it’s city I then try to put that Raven helm ritual thing on those maps and do 200% deli with3 ritual (1 unique ritual) tabs with a 4th abyss and use Doriany for the free irradiated.

Seems like a lot but it’s not, just running around abyss farming with deli until you propagate free deli and then buy the helm thingy to propagate the ritual in the city maps you propagated with deli and if shit doesn’t line up just keep 2 abyss deli farming making probably 30-60 div an hour depending on luck and build.
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You're not wrong but at this point I am deternined to see the damned thing drop 😁
 
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Yaamean said:
You're not wrong but at this point I am deternined to see the damned thing drop 😁
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Thankfully I’ve never had that mindset in this game lol, was thinking of maybe doing that with Voices but doing as described above I had like 30 or so free simulcrams that propagated and for a change of pace ran them and got one on the 3rd simulacrum. Went to the hide out and like a tard identified all, but god watches out for the retards apparently and it was a 3 sold it and finished out the gear on the Spirit Walker Twister and geared a Shatter Gemling equally.

I can buy one and do the fight with you and as it dies drop it on the ground to help free you lol.
 
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Expedition is nuts but also frustrating. Swear it feels like the remnant quality is tied to how juiced my map is ? Whenever I get a buncha 7-9 rune remnants I feel like it’s some 6-8 mod map and then I end up eating some stupid death and don’t get to half the loot. Shit gets so rippy sometimes, I’m sure it’s due to some rune carrying over or whatever but who has time to analyze that garbage
 
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Also did they nerf the moor map, I’ve gotten two so far and it’s only been 8 rune. It’s enuf to guarantee an aldurs saga so still worth it but I thought these were the way to get a 10 rune remnant, but those still evade me
 
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