Path of Exile

Mathil looks like a cross dresser hanging around the bad part of the french quarter. Just saying.

Cost me a third of my resolve bar to clear the first sanctum using a strike

I regret my decision immediately

One of the bandits dropped me a tabula.

Got reward for clearning floor on first one. I thought that wasn't bad since I knew zero about sanctum and just went by the pop ups in game.

My second Sanctum room was a ranged boss that immediately ate my Resolve.

I wasn't even aware of the Resolve mechanic and I was all - what the eff, how did I fail?

God damn marauder has fuck all for damage to start chieftain on ruthless

Was a wew not a bitch

Come on down sunshine

Marauder start is indeed mega butt cancer, doesn't even have to be ruthless

My replacement account needs an invite. My original account can be booted or trashed.

Knippley character name.

I've been speeding through one Twilight Strand after another in Act 6, storing up eight rooms and then running a bunch of Temple at once to get some reps in. I found it very frustrating during the first couple of acts and set it aside.

So far during the campaign it does not feel worth it given the time investment (just doing the rooms, not my storing up eight of them) nor am I particularly enjoying it. A league mechanic being one way early and being different in maps is nothing new but for now I'd say skip it once you'll done a little sightseeing

Deathwing said:

Just getting into Act 2, obviously early, but this league mechanic seems super unrewarding and punishing. I'd complain that passive damage builds have a huge advantage but this doesn't seem worth the time so far.

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That's the case in every mechanic basically so nothing new there.

I think what's rustling me about this is that is just absolutely shits on you for having a character invested in defenses. My fortify/max res/armor/evasion wheels, determination, banners, all of it means jack shit in sanctums. None of it reduces my resolve damage at all, and thus far in act9 the actual HP damage in them is so low as to be basically 0.

So i've got multiple auras and 30ish passive points just doing absolutely nothing for me in sanctum content. I've stopped even trying for now, maybe give it another go on a 2nd character that's a 2k life ice shot deadeye or something retarded that is more suited for it.

I gotta say, going through the acts so far, the game has felt so much easier. Does this continue into maps as well?

Nirgon said:

God damn marauder has fuck all for damage to start chieftain on ruthless

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You just need to get good.

First day of HC Ruthless down. Was top 10 for getting through the story after playing way too much. Could have probably done top 5 but I had to do some muling to get required gems at the start. It's next to impossible to keep up with the cold DoTers. I should outlive them though on the Jugg.

Oh and funniest moment of the day. In a league where they removed all the movement skills, they didn't remove Bronn's Lithe. That's Ruthless.

ArchNonemesis is hilarious. Somethings borked and some of these fucks are absolutely worse than last league. It's great. And now trying to read 4 lines of all white text to see wtf is going on is more complciated than the HUGE, COLOR-COATED name they had during ArchNem. Way to go Reddit, you fucked yourself again!

Sanctum is not for lower levels. You need high mobility and/or omega damage to do it well. Mobility moreso, including dps on the move so long cast times and wind-up attacks like slams are a pain the dick. Minions/totems own these things. I'm thinking some weird Raider Totem build might be the best later on or something else zoomy that can drop accessory dps while they just dodge mechanics. Is it worth it? It's RNG. I had floors where I had no loot because I didn't push anything to the end and I got mostly fountains/merchants. But I DID have a floor at level 57 which yielded 9 raw chaos which let me buy my BLS and more than double my dps. It's a weird mechanic because it rewards slow, careful play but you have to be fast to execute it properly. Real weird.

Volcanic Fissure is pretty decent. Haven't stuck it in totems yet as I just have a 4 link so I'm manually doing it and it fucks butt pretty well. When I end up with 50% more attack speed and 3 totems blasting the balls it should be a boss annihilator. People honestly may stick with Conc Totems for maps and maybe Sanctum as well, but I think Fissure will be the superior totem for bosses outside of highly moba PITAs like Maven.