Path of Exile
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Joeboo
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Everything is viable in nemesis/hardcore as long as you put almost all your skil points into survivability (HP, ES, Evasion, +all resists). And if you can't cap all your resists, at the very least cap lightning, lightning tends to wreck your shit faster than either of the other spell types, plus you need it for most of the major bosses (Vaal, Piety, Dominus)
Also, the best offensive skills to build around tend to be the ones that also offer some defensive benefit as well (Ice based stuff to slow/freeze enemies, lightning to stun, certain melee skills have a stun component, etc). Traps are also very useful (I always tend to go bear trap, but the other traps have their uses too)
Also, the best offensive skills to build around tend to be the ones that also offer some defensive benefit as well (Ice based stuff to slow/freeze enemies, lightning to stun, certain melee skills have a stun component, etc). Traps are also very useful (I always tend to go bear trap, but the other traps have their uses too)
Eidal
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Really great post. I too have never died to desync and couldn't really understand why other people had such issues with it. You concisely summed up things that just seemed like common sense.
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I had the same problem. I was making up some shit that I knew couldn't possibly be taken. I think it's just an algorithm rejecting the names but still saying it's "taken" instead of "rejected."
Gilgamel
A Man Chooses....
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So are there massive loot increases on hardcore? I've gotten 5 chaos(0 in normal) and 2 uniques(0 in normal) and I'm not even through act 3 yet. Playing a spectral throw char and gettign a wideswing poleaxe at level 19 has been pretty fun I'll tell yuo that.
Joeboo
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Wel, spoke too soon, just died to desync at lvl 45 going through the Vaal ruins with a lightning-strike Scion. I should have kept my mouth shut, lol.
No loot drop differences at all, unfortunately.
Gilgamel
A Man Chooses....
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Yeah I dunno, I am almost to the end of act 1 hard or whatever it's called and I've gotten 4 uniques and like 6 chaos. Wide swing, two pairs of light boots, and some dagger.
Spectral throw seems completely broken. I nearly died on Dominus but other than that it's been pretty easy. Trying to resist the urge to grab more damage nodes because I know it's going to get rougher.
Game really is better than D3 once you get past the desyncs and a little bit of a fluidity gap in the combat. I hope it's been hugely successful so they can keep churning out content. The stuff in the store seems really expensive for what it is.
Spectral throw seems completely broken. I nearly died on Dominus but other than that it's been pretty easy. Trying to resist the urge to grab more damage nodes because I know it's going to get rougher.
Game really is better than D3 once you get past the desyncs and a little bit of a fluidity gap in the combat. I hope it's been hugely successful so they can keep churning out content. The stuff in the store seems really expensive for what it is.
Chillz
Bronze Knight of the Realm
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Ok what is it with this game? My short PoE story this far:
For a first char i rolled a generic 2h marauder, skilling defensive and + melee dmg and some lifetap + life to hit stuff, facerolling through normal up to the last boss.
That last boss...
Maybe it didn't help that not a single upgrade dropped for me since middle of act 2. The whole thing was easy up to that point using swipe for mass inc and heavy strike for single bosses while literally never using a flask.
Then Dominus? Said fuck it and zerged him down after using like 10 portals, fine!
Then i am back to the coast at next difficulty setting again plowing through mobs like nobody business as level 38 in level 15 gear.
At this point i don't see why i should continue? Well, besides mindless clickfests can be fun to some people, i don't see the lasting appeal?
For a first char i rolled a generic 2h marauder, skilling defensive and + melee dmg and some lifetap + life to hit stuff, facerolling through normal up to the last boss.
That last boss...
Maybe it didn't help that not a single upgrade dropped for me since middle of act 2. The whole thing was easy up to that point using swipe for mass inc and heavy strike for single bosses while literally never using a flask.
Then Dominus? Said fuck it and zerged him down after using like 10 portals, fine!
Then i am back to the coast at next difficulty setting again plowing through mobs like nobody business as level 38 in level 15 gear.
At this point i don't see why i should continue? Well, besides mindless clickfests can be fun to some people, i don't see the lasting appeal?
The last half of Act III was tacked on recently after about a year of the game ending at Piety. The difficulty leap is ridiculous and they don't really seem to care. I think you have to get into Act III Cruel before you find something as difficult as Normal Dominus. As you noted, the problem is only exacerbated by the fact that this game has the worst, most stingy and unrewarding loot system ever to exist in the history of video gaming.
Selix
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Fun fact - if you're a leap slammer and you keep desyncing - hold down Shift when you use your leap slam and it will stop the desync hell. Works like a dream, I have fastcast on leap now and fly around the map with no problem.
Balroc
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Can anyone give me a rundown on what mobs to look out for that can tear me up quickly/deadly mob affixes? Only on normal atm and the only thing I worry about is Vaal.
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On normal not that much, but the fire dogs on the docks and also in the scepter of god on a certain floor(both in act3) can easily kill people without decent fire resist especially ones with multiple projectiles. The flicker strike mobs in general can be dangerous, you see them in act1(pirates in the optional ghost cove cave thing where you get the alflame), act2(spiders in the spider lair) and act3(undying guys in the sewers/zone before market). Lightning trap miniboss in scepter of god level 3 can be very dangerous depending on spec and resists. Devourers in general can be dangerous(they spawn in dark forest in act2 and in the hedge garden in act3). Kole in Lunaris 2 is extremely dangerous if not using a tanky build. Other than that, Vaal, Piety and Dominus all have decent risks involved if you misplay or are not geared defensive enough.
As you ramp up in difficulty, there's more and more mob types that become dangerous, for example anything chaos based in merciless tends to be fairly dangerous due to the resist penalty, chargers become dangerous due to the increased potential burst if you get stun locked, anything with high elemental damage is risky if you don't have capped resist, especially lightning(arc spamming bitches in barracks for example). Also anything with vuln can lead to dangerous situations(sirens in the ghost cove area, long range melee demons in lunaris).
If you're very geared, not that much is scary especially pre merciless, but in shit gear even cruel can be a challenge. Normal tends to be fairly easy regardless unless building a complete glass canon, but act3 has some difficulty spikes.
Cobras (chaos damage) and turkeys (the ones that eat bodies and fire blood bombs) in act 3 merc are mean as hell. Even worse on temperal chains maps.
I made a character named WomenAreObjects so no, I don't think there is any algorithm. That name lasted about 15 minutes.
Its just that names are shared across all servers, so there literally has to be no one else using the name in the entire game