Path of Exile

Croetec said:

Yeah just did some googling about it and item conversion doesn't effect unless specified for minions, which seems completely stupid on GGG's part but whatever they are generally terrible at wording anyway and I highly doubt half their staff could explain conversion to someone without using a wiki and youtube video.

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This is how everything works for minions, it's very consistent. If it doesn't say minions get it, then they don't. Anything else is just for you, minions are separate entities. There are some weird shit with minions, but not wether or not they get x when you equip y.

Uh Dom Blows rework seems kinda close to what I thought it'd be. Need to see exact mechanics on these "sentinels" but that seems like I'll be trying a meleemancer next league.

Also golem amulet seems weird. Not good, but if it's common it'd enable golem leveling pretty easily. Curious about the primordial tag, I assume it just counts as primordial for anima stone like jewels, but I wonder if it'll be available on other items. It's bad once you start stacking golems though, the 40% less damage is too much of a negative once you have many golems, and movespeed is kinda whatever. I guess with reduced size it would let you use melee golems maybe, but that's not gonna help how bad they are at clearing trash mobs.

And damn those packs are sick. I wanted to buy a pack to buy a few more things cause I wasted all my money on boxes a while ago and was waiting, but after Incursion I wasn't expecting much since those packs looked like garbage. Shit looks cool though.

Yeah was about to say, he has a video with a bunch more details. He mentions the Guardian ascendency is getting reworked, apparently to a more combat oriented paladin-like ascendency to go with the new skills. I guess they'll kill the "stand around near people and pick up loot only" support spec shit and instead work on an active support using skills to buff other people like the new lightning aura shit.

He also seems to imply there will be a reinforced focus on minions supporting within the ascendency and the new items to go with dom blow rework. Might end up making my first templar since beta if that's the case. He shows a weapon too crafted with the new shit, a 1H sword with 90%+ minion damage, a 5% damage aura and some proc on hit. The interesting part for me is the fact the 90-100% minion damage weapon mod isn't gone after incursion ends(although they might still add incursion to the game we'll see). The fact you can craft it is even better because you can put it on a fast dagger instead of a slow ass scepter, also meaning I can use whirling blades instead of this stupid shield charge shit.

Overall, pretty excited about this league, although I feel this might turn out as a miss for people who like to grind xp only, as I doubt it'll be time efficient at all to do the delving garbage, but it seems something nice to do after you're done leveling and just want to play the game on that char still. And it looked like unlike other leagues, you can kinda "skip" it, as long as you collect the things on the maps, and then just spend say an hour or two just delving with the ressources you got. It might be capped and force you to delve regularily though, we'll see. And the whole ladder ranking thing seems like it'd be a good way to add some side endgame activity for people in the base game later on.

Holy hell, every time they do a simple minor update or a massive patch it takes me forever to get through the launcher. It will sit on checking resources for 15+ minutes no matter how small or big, for fuck sakes.