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Not committed to either ascendency. I haven't reevaluated Necro since the nerf to spirit offering, which I was depending on for sustain.
Maybe trickster Ed contagion soulrend spellslinger, reroll into CoC vd assassin.
What didn't you like about Necro?
Warmuth
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Absolutely starting with a glad block build. Would’ve been a toss up with ground slam zerk but that’s going to be far too popular. Didn’t see smite mentioned but I wish they’d do something with it. Love the skill but I can’t figure out how to get any damage out of it.
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Caeden
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It just felt squishy and very inconsistent on the crits, even with spirit offering for defense. It would go splat way more often than assassin. I forgot that got nerfed since I did that build, so it'll be even worse. Plus IIRC, you gave up a damage link for that in the 6L right?
Elusive is just better.
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do you have a POB for the trickster? I started mocking that up because I've wanted to find a way to make soulrend work better and that sounds fun.
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You do give up a damage link. IIRC, the sacrifice was supposed to be balanced around VD capping out corpses consumed so it couldn't abuse Spirit Offering as well as DD. I agree, the spin into a pack and not crit for just a bit was annoying, but I imagine more gear would fix mitigate that.It just felt squishy and very inconsistent on the crits, even with spirit offering for defense. It would go splat way more often than assassin. I forgot that got nerfed since I did that build, so it'll be even worse. Plus IIRC, you gave up a damage link for that in the 6L right?
Elusive is just better.
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But, with Vulcan and +2 corpse limit to Desecrate, I'm going to give VD another try.
That is just a leveling build, I'm not going to spec anything out until PoB is updated, too much passive tree shit is going to change. At least, not spec out anything worth sharing. Tyty says if you want to stick with the build into red maps, you'll have to drop the spellslinging setup.
EDIT: I'm not totally sold on the build above. I think by the time you get maps and cheap 5 or 6 links, it's time to drop SR. I don't see the point in continuing to invest in both.
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Kythik
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Well, they nerfed HH self cursing somwith the hexproof change. I'm sure people are/will be crying.
I am planning on starting with a chaos spellslinger--of course, Tytykiller had to make a run video this week using it. VD didn't feel as good for leveling but it's fine.
I am planning on starting with a chaos spellslinger--of course, Tytykiller had to make a run video this week using it. VD didn't feel as good for leveling but it's fine.
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Although a lot make perfect sense, that's a lot of nerfs. Like cyclone losing stun immunity was obvious as fuck(not sure why it had stun immunity in the first place when they reworked it to not be like D2 cyclone) but it's still just a nerf with no buffs. Same for DW nerf, the bonuses for DW were probably too good but it kinda hurts. Shit like the Herald of Purity change also hurts unarmed builds a ton so the fact they can now use more skills I'm not sure if it's gonna be better(also most skills lost their flat phys in favor of % more phys, which hurts unarmed a lot more).
Interestingly in that flurry of nerfs, they still haven't nerfed EE, apparently. Would have been the perfect time to, especially with the new minion unique basically providing EE anyway(at the obvious cost of having to use the unique).
Their cluster fix is also interesting because it relies on them making sure they nerfed all the "problematic" choices, which isn't guaranteed since a lot of overpowered shit might have been hidden by herald stacking just being stronger so no one bothered. I think it probably wouldn't have hurt to add a cap to every cluster jewel, like max 3 or whatever, which would be plenty to do fancy shit with and not enough to do broken shit with.
Anyway will see the patch notes.
Interestingly in that flurry of nerfs, they still haven't nerfed EE, apparently. Would have been the perfect time to, especially with the new minion unique basically providing EE anyway(at the obvious cost of having to use the unique).
Their cluster fix is also interesting because it relies on them making sure they nerfed all the "problematic" choices, which isn't guaranteed since a lot of overpowered shit might have been hidden by herald stacking just being stronger so no one bothered. I think it probably wouldn't have hurt to add a cap to every cluster jewel, like max 3 or whatever, which would be plenty to do fancy shit with and not enough to do broken shit with.
Anyway will see the patch notes.
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Caeden
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I just don’t see how any of that actually helps melee. We’ll see if the leech changes. I’ve found with 2h that your sustain is just so bad unless you use a naturally fast hitting skill like perforate.
and the clear will still be shit unless its “melee” like lacerate, tectonic, etc. Even cyclone is meh now it’s so small.
and the clear will still be shit unless its “melee” like lacerate, tectonic, etc. Even cyclone is meh now it’s so small.
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I think the stun change is going to be great. As someone who played a 2H stunlock build the last few seasons it either made bosses super trivial if you could chain stun or super difficult if you could not break their stun cap. Easier stunning but with brief immunity means that you can count on it to happen but not just walk through baddies. Stun duration stacking is going to be interesting.
EDIT: I just saw where end game bosses will have 4 fucking second stun immunity instead of 2. That is a lifetime in this game. Fuck GGG and their abhorrence to melee. They should just make it a ranged game with no melee skills.
EDIT: I just saw where end game bosses will have 4 fucking second stun immunity instead of 2. That is a lifetime in this game. Fuck GGG and their abhorrence to melee. They should just make it a ranged game with no melee skills.
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Having no idea wtf you're doing as you flail around the game also works pretty good.
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To me this makes sense though, Higher tier bosses for example have more curse effectiveness reduction. Stun is a binary system, so the only way to lessen its effects are to give it immunities. It makes sense that tougher bosses would have better/longer immunities. Stun duration increase will be similar to curse effectiveness increase.
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Patch Notes - Content Update 3.11.0 -- Path of Exile: Harvest - Forum - Path of Exile
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This seems objectively worse. Was really hoping for something for this skill, it had great potential and was almost there. The annoying part about the soon-to-be-previous-incarnation was beams killing monster that you were trying to hit to keep your buffs up. This new one seems to do nothing for that, maybe even makes it worse with the short duration.