Path of Exile

Currency Stash Tabs are on sale, 60points. Bought one, seems pretty useful so you don't have to move all your stupid alts and shit into other tabs every few days.

Btw there's a teaser about news coming later today. Time's a bit weird for NZ, but around 11PM EU, so ~5PM east/~2PM west, if my conversion skills aren't too rusty.

Think it's just the new league info and patch info probably. They revealed a bunch of new skills coming(2 frost spells that work together and also with Ice Nova, a new melee skills that actually works with dual wielding and it some sort of reave/cleave/double strike hybrid) and uniques, cards and what not already, but there might be more, especially in regards to Ascendencies. And obviously, balance. Expect chaos damage to be nerfed, again.

Krassus_sl said:

Damn thats awesome, I know their expansion is on target for early September as well. I don't think Chaos will ever be nerfed unless youre specifically talking about the double dipping interactions with certain gem types.

Down to rank 13 also on the 2 week flashback ladder, had some wild ass deaths last weekend with Beyond + Invasion + Onslaught + Anarchy mods.

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I think they will have to nerf chaos somehow. Double dipping probably sure but they need to reassess chaos unique features. Making chaos not shit was great for build viability, but by making chaos as good as other damage types, they pushed it too far, because they didn't remove the advantages chaos had over other damage types, like the fact it gives fuck all about resists(most of the time) and reflects. Mathil made a pretty good video yesterday or something about why chaos is stupid atm. Basically, if you play a build and convert your damage to chaos, you can ignore all map mods. If you play elem or phys, you have to reroll reflect in most cases and definitely have to reroll if it also rolls min max or vuln at the same time. When you don't lose any damage to use chaos and building chaos is fairly easy via conversion, it leads to a situation where there's no real reason to NOT play chaos, and that's pretty dumb. It's not even chaos abilities you're using, it's just whatever the best ability at the time is then converted to chaos.

It's a weird situation when basically every elemental build is better if you just convert your damage to chaos.


On summoner builds, summoners are pretty weak all around atm, and skelebuilds are even shittier. They do ok damage, but they're like retarded SRS/Animate Weapons really, shit's not worth building for other than gimmicky stuff, clear speed is atrocious since you have to resummon skeles constantly since they move slow as fuck and you can't call them to you/they don't teleport to you when you move too far and shit.

They did add a new summon option last patch, which was the mace unique that lets you get 1 more golem, so if you DW you can have 3 golems at the same time. It's not something you can use as your main source of damage though, but it was new in making golems a bit more part of the summoner toolkit. I think summoner need some QoL changes, hopefully next expansion. They really need to rework spectres, and if we finally get more hotkey slots that'd help summoners a decent bit. They should also remove the cooldown on Convocation and improve pet movement speed or give them charges or whatever. I think making minion instability not shit would be great too. Make the aoe bigger, make the damage more or make minions only explode on death, so it's actually a good option to pick and can maybe make builds around it. Mostly biggest issue though in terms of how the build compares to normal builds is clear speed is just a lot lower with the current scaling of damage. If they rescale monster health/player damage in the expansion though, it'd probably not matter as much. Minion builds were relatively competitive back in the days but now that everyone one shots everything on the entire screen, having to wait for your shit to reach the mobs, then hit them a few times for them to die then run to next mob and so on with no aoe potential makes it a lot slower.

Definitely not, however it means you can spend currency to increase a specific master if you only want one(although if there's a level zana to 8 challenge, those are gonna be overpriced as fuck), and it's something on top of the rotations so you can be done faster.

There's a lot of cool changes, like upgrading uniques. That Brambleshit actually looks fairly interesting upgraded(with 2000 armor, it's an ok chest and the reflect 40% physical sounds maybe nice, although I'm not too sure if it's gonna be more than a gimicky shit since it seems much safer to scale block%/dodge% and not get hit if you want to be a tank). Death's Harp with 2 projectiles sounds pretty strong, especially for something like EA potentially where you could replace LMP with something else, although not sure it'd be better than Quill Rain. It's not like great, but it's interesting.

Endgame Labyrinth sounds like a good way to rip your HC char. At the same time, it is 2ascendency point, which is a massive buff for a lot of builds, since the structure of ascendency tends to be chains of 4 nodes in a row with the 4th being the big one, so most builds go for a 4/2 build, but with 2more points you can get 2 of the juicy 4nodes. Sounds a bit shit on Scion though, I guess you get a "free" starting location jump and a skill point, but that's about it.

Chaos conversion nerfs as I kinda expected, and Ascendency balancing. Hope they do some nice stuff.