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elidib

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Finished campaign, did a map just to test it out.

My damage (cast on freeze comet stormweaver) is amazing, but survivability could use some work. I need to stack energy shield and then swap to CI.

How could Ziz possibly have found 40 chaos by tier 4 maps? I've gotten like 5 total, 4 of those being on cruel difficulty. I wouldn't even know what to sell at this point that people would want.
 
Chimney

Chimney

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Maybe currency trading or is he SSF? I think I've gotten roughly 10 of regal/exalt/chaos and 1 alch, but rng gonna rng.
 
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Droigan

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Chimney said:
Maybe currency trading or is he SSF? I think I've gotten roughly 10 of regal/exalt/chaos and 1 alch, but rng gonna rng.
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he is currency trading. But he might have ment 40 total between the currencies. Then again i was watching for only 10 or so minutes as he was talking about it and got at least 2 or 3 chaos as drops (saw the last 4 rooms of an ultimatum run and one map) so not sure if drop rate increases substantially later on?

personally only seen one chaos. Dropped from hyena boss at start of act 2. saw it on ground, but adds that spawn after boss died killed me and i lost it
 
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Tide27

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The loot system is terrible. Fix that and you fix most of the problems people are having.

There were some boss fights that were impossible due to having no upgrades. The " git mOaR bETterZ " crowd was either rolling a sorc, which seems to be in the most playable spot right now, or had upgrades that dropped.

After joining the guild and learning that I had access to other people's hand me downs, the game opened right up as my dps doubled instantly. The idea that your loot is not bound is fantastic, so you can share among friends.

To the crowd that would tell you to just farm up better items....that won't keep anyone interested with thr asstastic loot that seems to drop. After slamming my nuts in a car door for 20+ attempts, I managed to kill multiple bosses that would drop 3x pile of gold, scroll of wisdom, maybe some orb of augmentation...and a blue. That will not keep anyone engaged at all. Even finding gold shining chests usually leads to the chest being completely empty and having nothing at all in it.

The loot grind in an arpg should not be searching the vendors, yet that seems to be where most people get their upgrades.
 
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Droigan said:
personally only seen one chaos. Dropped from hyena boss at start of act 2. saw it on ground, but adds that spawn after boss died killed me and i lost it
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That hyena boss bugged out on me. He went to his spot and had infinite health but the adds kept coming. I had to log out until the area reset and I could start over.

Is there a way to manually reset it?
 
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jdfording

Trakanon Raider
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Hit level 50 on witch hunter merc. Finished the campaign and started cruelty. Really liking this game. Never could get into PoE but this is fun. Playing with a controller is definitely the way to go. I just wish you could still use the mouse when in menus like D4. Only boss that really gave me any trouble was the 2nd phase of the last boss.
 
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Tide27

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TJT said:
That hyena boss bugged out on me. He went to his spot and had infinite health but the adds kept coming. I had to log out until the area reset and I could start over.

Is there a way to manually reset it?
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I think you can control click the way point and select new instance. Onna controller you hold X or square I think.
 
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Aazrael

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I think Jonathan mentioned they were careful with tuning drops etc, better to boost something rather than lower, he said players would never accept making things worse.

So I think they started with a low number and it seems it might be too low right now.

Reading reddit etc makes me pissed off. It is an Open Beta, I don't care if they call it Early Access. They said stuff will be broken and stuff have to be tuned. Just fucking wait until release if you can't understand that.

Also: Minion gameplay hard. Get fucked Minion haters!

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Yaamean

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Actually did go back on and finished Act 2 last night before bed....the last boss took a good amount of attempts but I think overall it was a pretty well done fight. Fuck that portal bullshit at the very last part of P2 though.

I agree with everyone else about loot.....there's no reason to be wearing the same rare gear for 10+ levels due to nothing dropping that I can use. I think the game would be a million times better if they would tweak the drops a bit. Not even asking for a huge change, but maybe something that skews drops more in favor of the class you're playing, at least in solo parties.

I will check when I get home but I really dont even think I have enough crafting mats to try and make any upgrades, but I did get 2 chaos orbs so far.
 
Pasteton

Pasteton

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Yea fuckin last boss of act2 is breaking me. Spent nearly 15k gold now respeccing around trying to find something that works, failing like 2 hours now. Made the mistake of getting blood mage before hand and the added life cost is miserable in that fight. I can get him to the portals part of the last phase and it’s just such a garbage fiesta of nonsense on the screen I end up exploding quick.
 
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jdfording said:
Hit level 50 on witch hunter merc. Finished the campaign and started cruelty. Really liking this game. Never could get into PoE but this is fun. Playing with a controller is definitely the way to go. I just wish you could still use the mouse when in menus like D4. Only boss that really gave me any trouble was the 2nd phase of the last boss.
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Mind posting some build overview? I’m only 16 but was heading towards this direction.
 
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Yaamean

Trakanon Raider
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Pasteton said:
Yea fuckin last boss of act2 is breaking me. Spent nearly 15k gold now respeccing around trying to find something that works, failing like 2 hours now. Made the mistake of getting blood mage before hand and the added life cost is miserable in that fight. I can get him to the portals part of the last phase and it’s just such a garbage fiesta of nonsense on the screen I end up exploding quick.
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Yep that last portal section is a bitch, everything else felt pretty avoidable. Just have to get lucky with positioning and hope you burn him down before you get killed.
 
Chris

Chris

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Pasteton said:
Yea fuckin last boss of act2 is breaking me. Spent nearly 15k gold now respeccing around trying to find something that works, failing like 2 hours now. Made the mistake of getting blood mage before hand and the added life cost is miserable in that fight. I can get him to the portals part of the last phase and it’s just such a garbage fiesta of nonsense on the screen I end up exploding quick.
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Can't you spec out of the added life cost ascendancy node into one of the others?
 
Argarth

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So... Sorcerers, Totems and Minions are the way to go, as per fucking usual. /yawn
Warriors using totems is gayer than a busload of poofters, just like dust-devils were in D4. /gay yawn
Haven't found mention of a DW or S&B setup that isn't just pseudo ranged, or depends on the /gay.
Maybe in another 10 years GGG will figure out how to make melee fun, then again most likely not.
Glad I waited.
 
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Palum

Palum

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Argarth said:
So... Sorcerers, Totems and Minions are the way to go, as per fucking usual. /yawn
Warriors using totems is gayer than a busload of poofters, just like dust-devils were in D4. /gay yawn
Haven't found mention of a DW or S&B setup that isn't just pseudo ranged, or depends on the /gay.
Maybe in another 10 years GGG will figure out how to make melee fun, then again most likely not.
Glad I waited.
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Well 4 of the melee classes aren't in yet, it launched with 4 ranged 2 melee.
 
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Caliane

Caliane

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Topher said:
Can't you spec out of the added life cost ascendancy node into one of the others?
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can spec out... however, blood mage is the oddity in that the first node is required. there is only one choice.
 
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Kirun

Kirun

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Droigan said:
Was watching ziz just now. He is in tier 4 maps. Really poweful build (warrior totems) in terms of damage. But his conserns towards end game

- it takes him 4ish hours to reach maps in PoE. He expects it to take him 13-15 hours in PoE2 in an optimized route.

- itemization and drop rate needs tuning. You can be very gear starved. Best way to get loot is to look for it at vendors or you have to buy it from people. Ssf builds will struggle more than in PoE1.

- resist cap is a massive hurdle. He had just spent 40+ chaos, regal, exalts and 400k gold to try to get resists up. He is at 9% lightning. And this is someone who knows crafting and itemization in PoE inside out.

Some other things too, but conclusion was basically things are fixable, but they do need fixing.

Problem now is casuals/new players risk being curb stomped at end game, and old players will not like the long path to maps. Especially the hardcore crowd with so many oneshot mechanics (which are multiplied with difficulty to raise res cap)
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Hopefully this game FINALLY gets GGG to drop their bullshit stance about needing to complete the acts over and over on every fucking character. In BOTH games.

Doing it once each season is understandable, but each character is something they've needed to kill off in PoE1 for a long, long time.
 
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just realized the game has itty bitty jiggle physics. it truly is a visionary game
 
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Chris

Chris

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Kirun said:
Hopefully this game FINALLY gets GGG to drop their bullshit stance about needing to complete the acts over and over on every fucking character. In BOTH games.

Doing it once each season is understandable, but each character is something they've needed to kill off in PoE1 for a long, long time.
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Yeah but this is how you get level scaling slop where you stand in one spot killing Blood Maidens for hours in Helltide.

When we know the routes, boss tactics and good builds, it won't be this slow.
 
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