Path of Exile

Slaanesh69 said:

Welp, my old starter go-to used to be Ancestral totems, and of late it has been EA totems...and looks like that remains constant. Once I sold a mirror last league I was able to buy my way to a high-end build but I still burned out relatively quick and didn't even have the incentive to finish all the pinnacle bosses.

All that being said, with the shit on a cracker that was D4 I am looking forward to at least a couple of weeks in a new PoE league.

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I've been playing EA totems, it's a bit janky imo but I can't deny it's getting the job done.

Can't remember where I saw the tip but PoE Ninja's Hardcore Self Found leaderboard is all solid league starter builds and that's where I found it.

I'm going into yellow maps and honestly no idea what I'm doing with the atlas, I need to get some currency but I'm getting less Chaos Orbs than usual...

Chieftain went from a 0.2% picked class to worse now. Until, that is, people figure out some shenanigans with the conversion stuff down the line. The thing they stealth buffed about that jewel node is +3str per allocated node within range which can be huge in the Scion area and decent in a few others. Makes the 10% strength it used to have (and now Ascendant only has ???) not as big a deal for strength stackers.

I'm not sure what they were thinking with the changes outside of assuming that a lot of builds get big damage from gear/links moreso anymore than ascendancy. This actually may be true because you have some builds like RF which give 0 shits about damage (Juggs) and still do great while purely stacking defense. Same can be said for some of the newer ascendancy changes to stuff like Sab/Trickster which got a lot of defense/utility and some of the raw damage removed.

Honestly they should've tuned up a lot of the new Chieftain shit. The 5% chance at 500% explode is nice, but no one will take that outside of super clearerers who have AE stacked and maybe levelers. Tawhoa's is still big shit unless they lowered the cooldown or let supports work on the ability. A 0.5 cooldown for strikes and 1.0 cooldown for slams would've been nice. The Ancestral call thing basically equates to 10% more damage and a free link which could net you somewhere between 10-30% more total damage together, but the Fist of War thing is fairly nich as slammers are very en vogue right now and it doesn't work on slam totems at all iirc.

Pretty much a downgrade except for flesh/flames stealing the max rez shit or maybe explode for cheap. The jewel thing might be worth it as a 5th node with flame/flesh except the irony of having to use two jewel slots to do it. That said I'm still planning on starting Chieftain and it'll probably be mediocre as hell until I get gear then it'll be tanky but lack the oomph of a well balanced or powerful ascendancy like Trickster/Jugg/Inq types.

Chief is gonna live or die on whether Tawhoa was improved or not. The caster variant is 100% bait.

If Tawhoa has a better cooldown for strikes I'll probably go molten strike chief and fail to have enough dps to beat pinnacles

Gems are up. 61% less damage on return support. Splitting steel probably 'only' do 20-25m dps now instead of 60m but should be a very easy leaguestart.

Dunno if I'd do something like lightning arrow tho

Kinda liking the look of spellblade. Could take the old inquis vulconus battlemage setup to double dip on huge flat base damage for something like firestorm or EK

Has anyone done boneshatter? Thoughts on the skill? I know its really only the only 'true' melee skill eft in the top meta.

I'm pretty novice. How is it looking for summon raging spirits or skeletal mage builds with the changes?

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I'm pretty novice. How is it looking for summon raging spirits or skeletal mage builds with the changes?

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SRS runs through the campaign no matter what you do with it. I've never liked it for actually mapping but it's a lot of fucking damage for fuck all investment.

edit - I'm a big dumb but I think minion Guardian stuff is going to be totally out of control

Vanderhoof said:

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Grassyass.

yea i'm by no means a try hard or skilled player, but i played ruthless in crucible because a friend asked me. it was pretty fun ,and i was SRS...partially because ruthless you can't be picky heh. i got to tier....shit i dunno, toward the top, but only a few maven kills. i got busy with RL, but i thought i may check it out again. not sure if i'm going to ruthless or regular league this go.

New Guardian relic is absolutely omega busted. Guardian Absolution/Skelly Mages will fuck butts non stop on a budget.

Im kinda getting the itch to play this league, even though im 40 hours into BG3 and just starting act 2.

Really dont know what to start as. Maybe ill just rip off one of ya'lls builds.

The more I sit here and look at chieftan the worse it gets.

A single +1 curse from an item/tree puts pinnacle bosses at -16% fire res with 0 curse scaling. So with any kind of curse effectiveness, exposure, combustion, scorch, etc, setting enemy fire rest to 0 is actually just straight up fucking you. And you have to stand still for the privilege of doing so.

So flamewood looks cool, but how do I play it on chieftan? I take my res nodes and the totem node, and uhh, 2 small passives? I can't use 0 fire res cause it's not a dot (also that node is bad), it's not strikes or slams, and I'm totems so I have ancestral bond and the explode node no longer functions. Real nice fuckin FIRE TOTEM ASCENDANCY WE GOT HERE GUYS

Maybe we'll get lucky and Tawhoa is giga buffed and actually does something. If Tawhoa still can't benefit from fist of war though despite being immediately followed by free fist of war support I'm gonna die laughing.

Xevy said:

New Guardian relic is absolutely omega busted. Guardian Absolution/Skelly Mages will fuck butts non stop on a budget.

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My short list of shit to try has Returning Projectiles Support on Skele Mages.

Arbitrary said:

My short list of shit to try has Returning Projectiles Support on Skele Mages.

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Guildmate had the same thought. Should be really good, but again it's something like 39% more damage so MIGHT be some QoL gems that are ~20% more damage that are more worth. Maybe. Still think it'll be tits on bosses for sure. That with the new Fresh Meat is insane for skelly mages.