Path of Exile

Well I've been grouping with EK people in Felshrine merciless to farm and they don't seem to run out of mana ever, but all of them have leveled clarity and possibly other stuff I don't really know.

What I know is Mana Leech is shit until you get a solid DPS. I'd recommend lvling Clarity and getting EB at least for a while(can always refund the 2points it cost to remove it and the int before). Maybe you'll grab a decent ES item, but even 100 Mana is a pretty big deal, that's probably what like 20% of your mana? That's pretty big for 2points and it'll increase if you ever find a good ES piece with like 150. Also do grab the mana stuff in the witch start once you get there. The 60%mana regen especially, it's a really big buff since it also increases the amount gained by Clarity.

I think it's a good group build, but you might want to cut on the supports you have for a while, especially fork or chain if you use that, basic EK is good enough in terms of aoe really, just have added fire dmg until you have more mana. Add them back when you're soloing.

bytes_sl said:

My bank situation is getting out of hand with all these crappy rares. So before i try to make some room; if i can't match two items who're exactly the same by name, or sell a set of "one for each slot", then there's not point in keeping them?

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Well good ones can obviously be sold to players, but most of the rest you just vendor. Matching items is stupidly annoying unless you use the chrome addon to do it for you, but the issue you run into is the lack of space and shit, not worth it imo when a lot of rares even give you alch shards and a bunch of alterations shards which you can buy alchs with at some point. As for the set recipe, I guess that's kinda worth it(it's a chaos right?) but also annoying.

I haven't bothered to be honest, when I need alchs/chaos, I reduce my graphics, launch 3 additional clients with trash gmail accounts I had from lol IP farming, makes 3 shadows(or sometimes 2shadows and 1witch), run them to town, then group everyone, do mudflats glyph wall on my high lvl then loot the glyphs/click wall on newbs, run to brutus, TP everyone outside brutus room, then TP everyone to cavern of wrath. Run takes 5-10mins depending on my luck with brutus, gives 3 clarity 1fork 1cold dmg 1critical strike dmg(or 1lightning dmg if I run the witch). I sell them all for an alch each, the clarities usually sell within 5mins, rest kinda depends but sells eventually.

Only rares I keep are stuff I plan on using on alts, like really good low lvl health items, good weapons of each type every 10levels and so on. Everything else I vendor.

Don't really like alt F4 either, but never had to use it anyway, other than to escape a bug, the one where you can't move/attack anymore but you can still open portals, chat or get killed by mobs. Weird bug, just alt F4d out cause I couldn't even enter the portal I opened.

Out of all my Hardcore deaths in closed and open though, alt F4 would have saved me in exactly 0. If I die, it's because I die way too fast and I didn't react fast enough to what killed me, so I wouldn't have alt F4d fast enough anyway. I don't think it's a big problem, I don't use it but don't care about people who do, if you have time to alt F4 you would have had time to leapslam/whirling/quicksilver away.


Oh and on trading, that currency site is from closed beta values, it's useful but some stuff isn't accurate due to the current beta being new so prices haven't stabilized and some stuff is worth more than it should(for example alch orbs tend to be valued a lot more than they used to since atm people can still pump alch orbs on like corals/onyx to get better shit than you can trade for at higher levels or even lower levels). For buying/selling yeah I use the trade chat, I turned off global but keep trade one, every now and then I check what people are selling. When I want to sell some of my stuff quickly I sell it for an alch only(even if it might sell for a bit more) and specify that in the ad, so newer players don't feel intimidated or ask me "how much". I don't really sell a whole lot though, but I buy a lot. For buying, base price is an alch, if it's really good I'll consider multiple alchs(or equivalent in chaos, at chaos 2:1 alch). For quality gems, a decent rule is 1alch for the gem then 1more for under 10%, 2more for under 15% and 3 or 4 more for over 15%. I don't buy qual gems of stuff that's not really worth it though, only qual gems I bought were Vulnerability and Zombie on my summoner, Lightning Strike on my melee witch(use pierce support+qual LS for almost 100% pierce).