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I bought a bunch of maps on layaway from someone (kyth_witch) last night, sorry I don't know your forum name. I think it was 11-13s. First, thank you, I really appreciate it, as my maps were pretty non-existent in that tier. If you don't mind extending the credit a bit more, and have them, I could use a double set of 10s also. I could go buy them from a random with alchs I'm sure, because I'm totally out of chaos, but I don't have many alchs left either (and need to save some for the maps themselves), and I figured I'd rather pay you (eventually) than someone else, so let me know. Thanks.
Kythik
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TBH, you're good--no worries on what you owe. But, I can get you the 10s as well if Korrupt hasn't yet.
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Not to be a downer, but you should reconsider your looting and mapping strategy if you're running dry on currency. Early into pushing maps, yeah, you'll be short on alchs usually. But I bought no maps this league, traded a few with guildies, and my alch reserves were never in jeopardy.
This can be caused by various things. Maybe you're
and like spending every alch, regal, chaos, and exalt the instant you get it. Or maybe you're not picking up enough uniques early on.- 1
Void
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Thanks guys. In-game name is ShatteringVoid. I really appreciate it.
I'm not really "low" on alchs, I have maybe 50'ish. But if I buy two copies of tier 10 maps like I wanted, each of those is probably at least an alch, so that's half of them. The other half I would have to use to run the maps for completion. That's all I'm saying, I don't wanna run low if I can help it.
That being said, since I could only give a few chaos to kythik last night, I know what a good portion of my currency problem is. This is my first time ever playing PoE, and this is my third character. The first two I stopped at 87 and 85, so I spent a decent amount gearing each of them, thinking that gearing was my problem with not advancing further, when it was really just inherent in the build, and I never really made it into what I would consider "profitable" play. I had no idea how to do Syndicate stuff, and when I did finally figure it out my character was getting annihilated by them. Then I made a jugg that was really only designed to farm Uber Lab, which I didn't do because fuck that. I don't know any of the ways people make good, early money, or I didn't know them early enough to take advantage of them.
I'm not making excuses, just saying that I can see where my lack of knowledge about various things kept me from capitalizing on some of the things I maybe could have. And I've actually kept every unique I've ever looted (minus "sell 5 to get a new 1" etc.), but except for one that I found in the first week that I sold for 100c, and thought I was a comparative millionaire due to that, literally every single one of them except for my Belly of the Beast don't sell for more than a couple c. Since then, I've sold a few rares here and there, but mostly sub-5c. I've found 2 exalts, both of which I spent gearing my previous characters. Granted, I might be able to sell that stuff for the same amount back, but so far no takers. Maybe I overpaid and didn't realize it.
I'm looking at this entire league as more of a learning experience than anything else. I would really like to get as far into mapping as I can, just so I am not still clueless next league. Because right now, I still have no fucking clue how to "shape" my atlas etc., so hopefully I can get further into it and figure that shit out for next go around. Same with picking up and/or exploiting early league market fluctuations.
Basically, so many things I still want to try/learn, but only now do I feel I have a good build to do it with. I want to get deeper into Delve and maps, and get those juicy drops that I can actually start selling and making good income from. You guys have been an invaluable resource and help via info and straight up donations, and I appreciate that. That's also why I try my best to help out with things like selling whomever asks my rift shards that I know I'll never use this league, selling other currencies you guys need, etc. I don't want to only leech, I want to give back what little I can.
EDIT: Re-reading your comment, I totally agree that my looting strategy early on was bad. I literally picked up every single rare for way, way too long. I probably spent more time selling to vendors than killing for the first several days. Now I have a little better handle on it, although the urge to click a chest is strong still.
I'm not really "low" on alchs, I have maybe 50'ish. But if I buy two copies of tier 10 maps like I wanted, each of those is probably at least an alch, so that's half of them. The other half I would have to use to run the maps for completion. That's all I'm saying, I don't wanna run low if I can help it.
That being said, since I could only give a few chaos to kythik last night, I know what a good portion of my currency problem is. This is my first time ever playing PoE, and this is my third character. The first two I stopped at 87 and 85, so I spent a decent amount gearing each of them, thinking that gearing was my problem with not advancing further, when it was really just inherent in the build, and I never really made it into what I would consider "profitable" play. I had no idea how to do Syndicate stuff, and when I did finally figure it out my character was getting annihilated by them. Then I made a jugg that was really only designed to farm Uber Lab, which I didn't do because fuck that. I don't know any of the ways people make good, early money, or I didn't know them early enough to take advantage of them.
I'm not making excuses, just saying that I can see where my lack of knowledge about various things kept me from capitalizing on some of the things I maybe could have. And I've actually kept every unique I've ever looted (minus "sell 5 to get a new 1" etc.), but except for one that I found in the first week that I sold for 100c, and thought I was a comparative millionaire due to that, literally every single one of them except for my Belly of the Beast don't sell for more than a couple c. Since then, I've sold a few rares here and there, but mostly sub-5c. I've found 2 exalts, both of which I spent gearing my previous characters. Granted, I might be able to sell that stuff for the same amount back, but so far no takers. Maybe I overpaid and didn't realize it.
I'm looking at this entire league as more of a learning experience than anything else. I would really like to get as far into mapping as I can, just so I am not still clueless next league. Because right now, I still have no fucking clue how to "shape" my atlas etc., so hopefully I can get further into it and figure that shit out for next go around. Same with picking up and/or exploiting early league market fluctuations.
Basically, so many things I still want to try/learn, but only now do I feel I have a good build to do it with. I want to get deeper into Delve and maps, and get those juicy drops that I can actually start selling and making good income from. You guys have been an invaluable resource and help via info and straight up donations, and I appreciate that. That's also why I try my best to help out with things like selling whomever asks my rift shards that I know I'll never use this league, selling other currencies you guys need, etc. I don't want to only leech, I want to give back what little I can.
EDIT: Re-reading your comment, I totally agree that my looting strategy early on was bad. I literally picked up every single rare for way, way too long. I probably spent more time selling to vendors than killing for the first several days. Now I have a little better handle on it, although the urge to click a chest is strong still.
Korrupt
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The support I run with almost every league clicks every single chest for us and the loot difference is fucking huge. I used to be an anti-chest clicking person until I started playing with him.
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AladainAF
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Dude tons of us would sell you maps for basically a couple chisels, or just give them for freee. Personally, I'm flooded in currency and maps with absolutely nothing to spend it on. You want some free shit, hit me up.
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Jugg looks like about 25% more dps while occultist has much higher max es and sustain. Clincher for me is that occultist can get Vaal pact with no downside.
I agree attack speed might be an issue. I might dual wield to start.
AladainAF
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hit me up in game tonight on boom bunny, I should be farming as normal and can just pass them to you and you can give me the number of chisels its worth to you. Only stipulation is that I want to give only 1 of the t16s. You dont have to pay market price, just what its worth to ya.
