Path of Exile

Yaamean said:

Am I able to fracture myself to go for either the attack speed or lightning? I'll go back to the craft site when I get off work and see if I can figure it out better.

I tried the emulation / simulation sections earlier but didn't really know what I was doing....sounds like it has everything I'd need but I am sure I'm not using it correctly

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On that particular claw you showed earlier? No, it's already fractured, you can't apply a fracturing orb to a fractured item.

Much easier to buy a fractured claw from trade.

Yaamean said:

I meant in general, like if I buy or find a white imperial claw can I just fracture myself?

Edit: sorry mixing up my currency.

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You cannot.


Fracturing Orbs are ridiculously expensive and require 4 affixes. I've never done a craft that requires one, I have no interest in crafting something that starts with an item the market doesn't supply.

Yaamean said:

Gotcha, yeah sounds like they are even more rare on standard, thanks will look for a base to buy tonight and see how it goes. Have a decent amount of divs / chaos I'd think just for a learning experience and hopefully slight upgrade anyway.

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If you want a learning experience, the large majority of crafts are done like so:

Buy fractured base. Usually the harder to roll affixes are the one you shoot for fractures.
Spam essences. Again, if a hard to roll affix is covered by an essence, use that one.
Keep spamming until prefixes or suffixes are where you want them. It's easier for your fractured affix and essence affix to be both prefixes or both suffixes.
Meta mod to lock said affixes. An affix on the other side must be free. These locking crafts are 2 div, this is where most of the expense comes from.
You have some choices here. Harvest reforge, veiled chaos, and eldritch chaos are all valid ways to fill out the remaining affixes. If you are depending on any of these methods producing needed affixes instead of just "nice to have" affixes, you might have to go back to spamming essences.
If you veiled chaos, bench craft a blocking affix before unveiling. And if you have room.
If you got really lucky, bench craft a different blocking affix and exalt slam.
Finally, bench craft the last affix.

2 socket tax to mine builds is going to be rough. It was very rare miners would use the detonate skill gem, so now you have to use it and one of these new supports?

Khane said:

Well no, you can just use the detonate skill yourself on a hotkey. So just AHK it like so many people (and you!!) Already do.

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I never actually macro'd detonate. I will if this goes through and a mine build winds up looking interesting. I played Hexblast Mines in 3.20 I think, got my fill then, hasn't been much churn in that area since. LMB was fine for 99% of playthrough. And Hexblast actually covered that 1%, stacking a bunch for a boss, because Hexblast mines can't detonate without a target.

They should be making design changes to eliminate macros, not encourage it.

Withering Step + Increased Duration(and a bit of skill effect duration or cdr) was a cheap way to stack 14-15 wither on a target. I don't know how reliable it was, you do have to get kinda close to the target. But, as I said, cheap. The negative cdr on the automation support kills that. Fuck applying wither with totems.

Yaamean said:

Unrelated to the QoL change, but I hit 98 on my first real char, feelsgoodman. Bought a nice amount of essences so the next Imperial Claw I find I'm gonna waste my currency and try my luck at an elemental claw, lol. Didn't see any fractured claws on the trade site, and generic level 83+ claws were 1 div apiece, Ill take my chances once I figure out how to make sure they show in my filter.

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Learning how to use the trade website is a minigame unto itself. An incredibly unfun and sometime frustrating minigame. I wish I could specify tier of affix instead of explicit values.

3.24: Tech Debt.



Tech Debt is the wrong word. Feature Debt? Lots of gimmies and easy wins no matter what they are. Left click fiasco makes more sense if someone was just blindly knocking down bugs without consideration for the consequences.

Reddit is still, understandably, mad about the left click stuff. I'm still hopeful it gets reversed.

People do that in league too. Maybe less since they can't sit on sales indefinitely, but it does happen. Just one of the many reasons people ask for an AH.