Path of Exile

Arbitrary said:

I'm rocking all your damage can freeze on splitting steel and it's a nice defensive layer at the moment.

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Yea frost blades was one of the build i died the last with because of that. I think I'm just disappointed you can't have 2 tinctures.

Still maybe 2 empty slots, Traitors and a tincture in between dying sun and taste of hate would be worth it, add in distillery belt and you might have something approaching the return off missing out on 3 flask slots. Still don't see it.

Deathwing said:

How are you getting freeze chance?

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I went crit.

Deathwing said:

Can you link your character? I couldn't find a cheap starter weapon for going crit. Didn't seem worth it until Saviour. I'm using two Dreamfeathers.

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I'm just swinging a pair of Ichimonji's through yellow maps at the moment, nothing interesting.

Apparently Act 3 is where the game ended last time I played, because that was all familiar.

Anyway, ended up going with an SRS guardian build. I'm about halfway through Act 8 and having a blast, even though I have no clue what the fuck I'm doing or should be doing.

Like, they say to run a "league starter" build, but does that mean you scrap that character at some point for another one? Am I maxing out this build so I can farm for another one? Because the guide says this one only takes you so far and most people don't play it past "mid game."

Gravel said:

Apparently Act 3 is where the game ended last time I played, because that was all familiar.

Anyway, ended up going with an SRS guardian build. I'm about halfway through Act 8 and having a blast, even though I have no clue what the fuck I'm doing or should be doing.

Like, they say to run a "league starter" build, but does that mean you scrap that character at some point for another one? Am I maxing out this build so I can farm for another one? Because the guide says this one only takes you so far and most people don't play it past "mid game."

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League starter can mean the thing you play initially to get some currency going and fill out your atlas before rolling something else but it doesn't have to. If you want to do the uberest uber bosses maybe your starter isn't going to scale well enough in to the super late game so you'd make something else but that isn't a problem you're going to run in to on SRS guardian.

fuck I am getting raped on ultimatums, did they buff them or is this a me problem? For reference I don’t have any issue on expeditions or most other content other than harvest which is rippy as usual.
For reference this is in white maps lol and i have only self found gear other than 25c in cold iron points and another 5c for an essence. So it may just be a gear issue

Sigh, typical GGG league mechanic where the rewards and "stuff" from the league are great, but interacting with the mechanic itself is terrible.

2 days trying to kill King of the Mists in his stronghold. I found him once, early yesterday, didn't know what I was doing.... got randomly ported somewhere and then... just died. Guess you have to follow wisps back otherwise just "hahaha go fuck yourself, figure it out?". Haven't found him since.

Pasteton said:

fuck I am getting raped on ultimatums, did they buff them or is this a me problem? For reference I don’t have any issue on expeditions or most other content other than harvest which is rippy as usual.
For reference this is in white maps lol and i have only self found gear other than 25c in cold iron points and another 5c for an essence. So it may just be a gear issue

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Ultimatums are and were pretty tough compared to something like expedition, blight, harvest, etc.

For ultimums I would want really high dps and ailment immunity, the little I ran seemed pretty painful otherwise.

Gravel said:

Apparently Act 3 is where the game ended last time I played, because that was all familiar.

Anyway, ended up going with an SRS guardian build. I'm about halfway through Act 8 and having a blast, even though I have no clue what the fuck I'm doing or should be doing.

Like, they say to run a "league starter" build, but does that mean you scrap that character at some point for another one? Am I maxing out this build so I can farm for another one? Because the guide says this one only takes you so far and most people don't play it past "mid game."

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Also, should I be stopping and farming for gear or something (and if so, how)? All these guides talk about having 3k life by act 10, or getting your resistances up. But I don't even have gear to run all my skill gems, much less that plus stats and shit. Feel like I'm really missing something here. I'm in Act 9 now and dying constantly. Like, if I'm not shield dashing or blinking around, I'm dead 100% of the time.

Gravel said:

Also, should I be stopping and farming for gear or something (and if so, how)? All these guides talk about having 3k life by act 10, or getting your resistances up. But I don't even have gear to run all my skill gems, much less that plus stats and shit. Feel like I'm really missing something here. I'm in Act 9 now and dying constantly. Like, if I'm not shield dashing or blinking around, I'm dead 100% of the time.

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If you're dying a ton it's probably your resists. You're going to want to start capping those now and definitely for when you get to maps. If you're having a tough time doing that the go-to crutch is Purity of Elements. You can rock one of those until you get your gear sorted. You don't really need to worry about farming gear during the campaign but once you get to maps and start filling out your atlas passive tree the simplest direction to go is Expedition. That league mechanic has a dude, Rog, that rolls gear for you. You do his expeditions, run his logbooks when they show up and then go sit by him and roll up a bunch of gear. He offers the highest item level bases he can offer once you're 90 but you can get shit off him before that.

Farming essences in white maps is normally good but you can't force a map this league to have three of them for 2c with the Kirac map device thing.

Gravel said:

Also, should I be stopping and farming for gear or something (and if so, how)? All these guides talk about having 3k life by act 10, or getting your resistances up. But I don't even have gear to run all my skill gems, much less that plus stats and shit. Feel like I'm really missing something here. I'm in Act 9 now and dying constantly. Like, if I'm not shield dashing or blinking around, I'm dead 100% of the time.

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Couldn't hurt to farm some rares with HP/Res on them. Dont worry about evasion/armor. If you get a good HP + Dual/Triple resistances then 4-5 link it with some currency, that should get you decently far into maps. Or if you wanna be quick about it find something for a couple chaos to trade.

What's the best way to farm shit so I can survive? I'm on the maps portion now and it's fucking rough.

I'm really flying blind here. Do I do any crafting? Just run random maps? This game is too complicated.

Presumably at this point you've found some raw chaos/alchemy drops, search for some gear on poe trade and just look for some cheap low chaos gear to fit those slots that you have garbage in. You can indeed "Farm some rares" but with all the loot you drown in its easy to get bogged down.

Alternatively, grab path of building as it has a built in "Best upgrade" search function that auto-plugs in PoE Trade and you can set the cap at 1c, 5c, 10 chaos whatever.

Edit: and no, the games not complicated. You can go to the last place you clear comfortably (act 7, 8 etc) without dying if you want to. If you are one shotting monsters but equally getting one shot, drop some of the damage and slot in some defensives (elemental resist definitely what you need lots more of).

Edit 2: League mechanic, one of the 3 people you can find in the forest has a second talent tree you chose from, farthest right node (which you can get immediately upon speccing to that specialty) has a +50% resist all helmet if you don't put any gems in your equipped one. Easy pile o' defensive there.