Path of Exile
- Thread starter Jim Russel
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Didn't one of the cosmetics for EK enlarge its hitbox or something?Exactly, its all cosmetic or stash basically. Nothing ever for an advantage in the game itself, there is a old meme the skill cosmetic effects power the skills up though
Kiroy
Marine Biologist
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Vanderhoof
Trakanon Raider
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I am afraid to start a BV build because Im worried Impulsa will be expensive af, but i am intrigued.
Vorph
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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I still have no goddamn idea what I want to play. I'm hesitant to do traps because there's so many different ways to do it and no telling yet which will be great and which will be lackluster. I thought about trying Whispering Ice since I haven't played that in ages (before the switch to SR-CoC) but I remember getting the jewels being a colossal pain in the ass, and an Astramentis on day 2 isn't much fun either but without it the build is essentially dead in the water. Also, Icestorm is a fps destroyer and extremely annoying for anyone who groups with you.
Looked at a bunch of melee skills like Reave, Lacerate, Cyclone, <anything not Sunder or BF>, etc. but nothing really grabbed me. Kind of sick of chasing the exact same gear almost every league lately, especially enchanted Starkonja and 6L Belly.
Mathil's video this morning hit three of the things I've been considering (traps, Double Strike, and BV) so that's a bit annoying too.
Now I'm back to thinking about finally trying a RF (or SR/RF) build, but not sure what the best way to go about it is. AilaTW's Occultist seemed like a good idea given the fact that it has pretty extreme chaos damage mitigation, but then I read that something about the build did get nerfed in 3.3. Haven't figured out what since AFAIK RF itself wasn't messed with and VRF is a huge buff.
Looked at a bunch of melee skills like Reave, Lacerate, Cyclone, <anything not Sunder or BF>, etc. but nothing really grabbed me. Kind of sick of chasing the exact same gear almost every league lately, especially enchanted Starkonja and 6L Belly.
Mathil's video this morning hit three of the things I've been considering (traps, Double Strike, and BV) so that's a bit annoying too.
Now I'm back to thinking about finally trying a RF (or SR/RF) build, but not sure what the best way to go about it is. AilaTW's Occultist seemed like a good idea given the fact that it has pretty extreme chaos damage mitigation, but then I read that something about the build did get nerfed in 3.3. Haven't figured out what since AFAIK RF itself wasn't messed with and VRF is a huge buff.
Croetec
Lord Nagafen Raider
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Think I'm going to run BV for leveling then swap into Fireball once I get the two threshold jewels, the trees for elementalist are extremely similar when going crit so shouldn't be to bad to swap back if FB doesn't feel good but haven't played it before and with the buff it could be enjoyable for speedy mapping. Traps are to all over the place and will wait to see how it plays out and will need to wait for the market to gouging on Tinkers and shimmerons for anything lightning based.
Zaphid
Trakanon Raider
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SR/RF Hiero was my bestiary starter, once you get Balefire you can waltz into t10 maps, but beyond that it scales only with a lot of investment, but I think it's a great starter.
Borzak
Bronze Baron of the Realm
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Dumb question time. You do incursions and kill one or the other architect (rather kill engineers but that's another story) and open doors to build the pyramid to get to the apex with certain variables and such. What happens if you kill the boss, start a new building deal entirely, kind of fuzzy on what happens like are you stuck with that layout forever till another character or ??
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Inpulsa will be expensive as fuck but that's not really a big concern, it's not a build enabling unique.
It isn't different than when Kaom or Belly or QotF or Lightning Coil were the big meta chests. Shavronne a bit less since it did enable you to use ES while still being LL so that was a bit different, but for the most part a lot of the chest uniques which have been meta in the past and expensive as fuck were just that because they were good solid option with side benefits(kaom, belly and lightning coil due to their great defensive abilities, qotf for the massive speed it provided).
Inpulsa is the same, the whole point of it is it increases trash killspeed a lot, but ultimately it doesn't make or break a build, only defines how fast you can clear stuff with said build. I have no doubts you'll be able to clear map with BV without Inpulsa just fine, you just might have to not run with 120%speed through shit and never stop with like 2blades and instead have to summon a few more blades to make sure stuff dies.
Everything resets once you've cleared the temple for real, wether or not you kill the last boss(if you didn't open the way to it for example it'll still reset). You get new random rooms and you restart to make your temple. Not every temple will have all types of rooms and not every temple will let you upgrade rooms to 3, so it's kinda RNG stuff, although you have some control over aspects of it.
Kiroy
Marine Biologist
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one saving grace is I believe impulsa droprates are along the lines of belly, vs kaom or shavs.
i'm super curious to how much it will be in a week. i'm guessing like 20ex, hope i'm wrong
Byr
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Obvious uniques like Inpulsa usually get their drop rates nerfed hard. Just remember Baron from a few leagues ago. Its going to be on a Shavs/Kaoms level of expensive unless you grab it very early, before the hoard realize it.
