Path of Exile

I got that bitch!! Only change I did was swapping Quicksilver flask for a cold res one, but I think last night's practice attempts helped a ton. One death on the last brain phase, and then only one other in the last Maven phase! Actually successfully passed 3 last phase memory games and even touched the beam once and lasted through the cooldown on the no heal debuff.

Felt way better than paying for it, though it would have been a decent amount cheaper, lol.

I don't think Ele Hit builds scale too well without an insane amount of currency, but Uber Maven is going down at some point just so I can check her off my list. Still hate the fight but it has to be done!

Xevy said:

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No complaints about some QoL and bug fixes. It doesn't look like the juicers are going to get the loot buff they want this league which is fine I guess. Having a content cycle with a lower ceiling and higher floor isn't the end of the world. Even as someone that liked the tree handing out piles of well-rolled rares and six links I wouldn't want it two leagues in a row though.

I would. I love being able to target decent upgrades early in a league without having to rely entirely on RNG and playtime.

Its perfect because it doesn't replace high end crafting. Its just really good early.

They'd have to neuter it for sure. Fracturing would have to go. Six links being shit out is fine, most people in my guild had multiple 6 link armors to choose from before they even hit yellow maps. The tiering is a bit insane, but imo it's either keep high tiering and tier cutoff gear (basically super Tier Gear from Poe2) OR remove the tiering and let fracturing stay in at a somewhat similiar level. Fractures + essesnces or harvest are a great way to make gear for yourself and I'd rather the tree shit some decent bases with a good chance at a decent fracture then having 15 fractures drop on 12 bad bases and the other 3 bases have t9 fractures.

The "there's no loot this league" is literally a user error. We had a dude got to SSF and get like 28 divines within 2 days of starting a new character after he was done with trade. There's plenty of strats, but the Fubguns are throwing hissy fits instead of innovating (Empyrian group bitch-boi breakdown v 2.0) so all the loot sheeple think things are worse than they are.

That pilferer's with nearly 40 divine/exalts witha 92/97 is fucking insane. I've got a 97 and 95 and 75 and I've gotten 5 divines and 9 exalts. Also the exp from this league has been giga because breaches and fortresses give huge exp bonus which means you're leveling faster with less mobs. Nearly every league I've played I hit 100 at exactly 1 million mobs. My 97.8 guy I think was at 350k or something, which isn't too far off, but that's still pretty quick.

I'm numerically "poor" but so much shit doesn't cost anything.

Invig blight 16.5s are pretty cool. Averaging about 3 t17s a map. If anyone needs dunes I'm about to fill up guild stashes of them lol.

Deathwing said:

That's on my list things to fix for next league. I was disappointed with this skill as a league starter. It wasn't until I slotted in Paradoxica and crit scaling did the dps really take off.

Think of it this way, EE will ruin multistrike's damage repeats, which are supposed to be the majority of that gem's damage. For simplicity, assume the target has 0 resistance. Mulistrike + EE averages out to (1.25+0.75*1.22+0.75*1.44)/3*0.8*1.44=1.25. If your target has lower resistance before EE is applied, that number improves.

I haven't felt the need for multistrike's speed(already at ~5 APS) nor autotargeting since picking up Sione's Ambition. I prefer to quickly 1-tap a pack, not attack until they're dead, so that would mean interrupting multstrike's high value repeats a lot.

Lastly, I'm playing a version of the build that depends a lot of per-hit damage for ailment application. For the most part, those hurdles are cleared just fine. But I have noticed that I can 100% -> 0% special Maven Invitations with the target never receiving a full shock even though my PoB says it's abundantly possible. Multistrike would exacerbate the already inherent streakiness to Elemental Hit's element choice and lightning damage range.

Determ might work. I might see if melding of the flesh can be forced into the build.

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First thing I noticed was inconsistent ailment effect as well. It's got to just be some rng issue of which element it picks combined with low rolls on the lightning damage resulting in poor shock application. Some of amount of ailment effect someplace would help tremendously, but it's a bit awkward to get without spending a zillion inefficient points.

I assume you're using expeditions just to ensure big AEs on the first hit? I haven't really felt the need for too much more AE and rare chests get so damn juicy these days.

Quick and dirty level 91 conversion off 2h zenith I did today. My oppressor obviously has the suppress downside still, but for the price of 50c it's tough to beat and takes a ton of pressure off block/spellblock wheels to allow a thread of hope to save a bunch of points for picking up a suppress wheel.

The UI has always been bugged in regards to ailment status effect numbers. You can see this by just playing an elementalist with Shaper of Storms and still sometimes seeing shock values below 25% (which should not be possible). I believe its just a UI issue though, the backend is registering it correctly, its something there are a lot of posts and information about on reddit.

Playing on console is complete fucking AIDS because no cross play, playing on Xbox sucks because there’s like 20 guys playing on it, things you can buy for 1 chaos on pc go for a div or more on Xbox unless you’re trying to sale it then it never sales.

Deathwing said:

Expedition's End was initially for chill and consistent freeze when I was playing non-crit Frostbreath. With Paradoxica and crit, the freeze duration can get pretty stupid, so perhaps not needed. It is nice to consistently freeze and shatter everything on the first hit, no matter what.

I had thought it would be needed for big AoE, but nah. You propagate ailments as you swing through a pack, by the time your swing hits the last enemies in the pack, they already have that ailment on them and will splash with the big AoE.

What are you ideally looking for in a chest? Fortify and some armor and evasion? I was hoping corrupted Expedition's End would be available, but there's little market.

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I ended up with a ~4k armor/evasion with t1 suppress chest because the stuff the tree puts out this league is stupid, but I don't know how realistic a chest like this is in a normal league. Using no defense auras I run around at ~13k armor/eva based off just gear values alone which is enough to actually be impactful for general mapping.

So far the fortify on hit implicit has been enough for fortify to be reliable during mapping so I don't have to use the gem and can swap to awakened ele damage or something similar.

Given how crazy elemental hit scales with gem levels though the actual correct choice may be a corrupted +3 of some kind, or perhaps even a delve chest with +dex gems if we wanna get real crazy.

Biggest problem right now is frenzy ramp on actual pinnacle boss fights. I'm using a thread of hope to get the frenzy/endurance charge notables, so my charge duration is pretty low and I find I'm losing frenzy charges during invuln phases which gets pretty annoying having to rebuild them all at ~10% on hit chance or whatever it is.

Penance said:

Its been a few leagues but I think it's all about inspiration. TBH I forget why (maybe it refreshes every floor? or it interacts with boons better). I just remember once I had a solid amount of inspiration sanctum became much easier. Where as in POE2 its all about resolve mitigation.

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I ended up just brute forcing it the same as I would in PoE2. Bought about 50c worth of max resolve relics, did an ilvl 81 tome just to be safe, and swapped to using gamepad for it (this was probably the biggest factor). Rolled into Lycia's room with 1000/1000 resolve and even a Sanctum hating noob couldn't screw it up at that point.

I guess I don't get inspiration still. I had 200 at one point from the rainbow fountain and then 100 per floor from a boon, but once it's gone it's gone. I was running with % increased max resolve, +% resolve gained, and flat +max resolve every time I used a fountain or killed a boss.

Deathwing said:

Yep, I really want 20s charge duration, which undercuts the value of thread. Or you could use a shit chest like restless ward.

Thoughts on using arkhons tools for scorch instead of boot slot? I want another slot that can roll suppress, but 35% reservation seems silly.

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I can't decide on what do with scorch either. The boots kind of suck, but so does running skitters just to apply scorch, and both options cost you another large flat life roll which is really hard to come by as-is.

It's part of why I went with the foulborn oppressor, as having 30%+ suppress on shield allows me to hit the needed 61% total to cap out with the inveterate wheel from just shield+chest+helm and be flexible with the boot slot.. From here I just need to try a couple of different setups for scorch, as I'm currently not even applying it all. It's possible swapping out the sap ring for the scorch version is the way to go cause it's softcore an that strikes a bit of a balance between damage but not having to run around at 3k life.

The actual answer is probably to spend money and use the foulborn ancestral vision that has 10% suppress on it.

Vorph said:

I ended up just brute forcing it the same as I would in PoE2. Bought about 50c worth of max resolve relics, did an ilvl 81 tome just to be safe, and swapped to using gamepad for it (this was probably the biggest factor). Rolled into Lycia's room with 1000/1000 resolve and even a Sanctum hating noob couldn't screw it up at that point.

I guess I don't get inspiration still. I had 200 at one point from the rainbow fountain and then 100 per floor from a boon, but once it's gone it's gone. I was running with % increased max resolve, +% resolve gained, and flat +max resolve every time I used a fountain or killed a boss.

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The relic in thinking of is gain x inspiration on getting an affliction. You pretty much end up with 1000 inspiration at the end of the run with a couple of those.