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Almost done with act 3, been using the same bow since level 22. Actually, only my quiver requires above level 32. Been putting a ton of effort, picking up any dex or hybrid dex bases, transmuting them, auging them, desperation regaling weapons with only one good affix, checking vendors, gambling when I have the gold, fucking nothing.

But, I'm still making progress just fine. Most bosses are 1 shots, if not 2. 8 deaths. So, does the loot matter or not?

I think Last Epoch's drop-identified, loot filter, and plethora of crafting mats is the only real solution. Their loot filter is a bit of detriment to rerolling, but nowhere near PoE2's campaign again.



Fuck whoever made a chaos damage bow in a game where almost every skill converts some or all phys damage.
 
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Yeah T2 and T3 maps havent been bad at all now that I upgraded, though my attack pattern of throwing lava / boneshatter for the most part is getting old, along with occasional Sunder totems. I do have Infernal Cry / Hammer of the Gods / and supercharged slam, but rarely ever even need to use them.

They need to release Lightning Strike for me so I can go back to my OG skill, lol.

Beat the first tower and it gave me a quest to talk to Doryani, is that something I can finish now, or is that Pinnacle boss related?
 
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OK so I just came across this boss for the second time in Cruel Act 3.

I was looking for it but even so it opened with the one shot move where it hits you with the pillar and it took me by surprise.

I respawn at the checkpoint and yes the boss is right there. I decided to test it, remembering this comment.

If you don't move it doesn't aggro. If you walk for 10 seconds away from the ruins it leashes and you can just leave.

This is what 90% of the negative comments are, decripit old gamers using mouse and keyboard with no reaction times.
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If it hasn't been posted yet, you can kite Mighty Silverfist around some of the ruins since his ground slam does not go through the walls. I think its fairly easy to dodge either way, but you can chip away at him without fear of dying if you use the ruins close to where he spawns.

To clarify, it's the broken small ones that work. I did this and didn't get hit once, nor had to dodge roll at all, except to get him in place.

If you time it right when he does his 3-hit combo, you can be behind him for some hits, too.

Worth the tussle for the 2 passive points.
 
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Just bought this for 70 ex and it only had 4 mods at first and it didn't even have quality and was still 1850 total evasion. Slammed it and got 32% cold res and 171 threshold. Pretty nice. Similar ones seem to be around 150 ex

edit : hmm apparently the trade site shows items as if they were max quality even if they aren't, didn't know that
 
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Any recommendations on a melee class to try that does not suck? Going to finish the Map Quest on Witch but kinda want to try something else now for a bit. I did start a monk but got owned by Devourer so rage quit. :p
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Monk is incredibly satisfying and fun to play but is rough until teens. My favorite class so far. Really good on a controller.
 
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Deathwing said:
Almost done with act 3, been using the same bow since level 22. Actually, only my quiver requires above level 32. Been putting a ton of effort, picking up any dex or hybrid dex bases, transmuting them, auging them, desperation regaling weapons with only one good affix, checking vendors, gambling when I have the gold, fucking nothing.

But, I'm still making progress just fine. Most bosses are 1 shots, if not 2. 8 deaths. So, does the loot matter or not?

I think Last Epoch's drop-identified, loot filter, and plethora of crafting mats is the only real solution. Their loot filter is a bit of detriment to rerolling, but nowhere near PoE2's campaign again.



Fuck whoever made a chaos damage bow in a game where almost every skill converts some or all phys damage.
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Check the guild bank it was great for leveling I constantly found upgrades and always replaced my shit back into it when I was done or upgraded, I figured if I used it someone else would to.
 
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Burnem Wizfyre said:
Check the guild bank it was great for leveling I constantly found upgrades and always replaced my shit back into it when I was done or upgraded, I figured if I used it someone else would to.
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Yeah, I don't know shit about selling shit, so I've been dumping rares in there constantly. Seems like others are too.
 
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I did snag a 2hander and then actually got one to drop so I put it back. Anything I upgrade Ill throw my old one in the stash in case it helps anyone else, though I'm still in early maps so may not be too great.

Edit: also not sure there are many Warriors currently, but gonna rock this guy through maps a bit before switching to Monk or Sorc.
 
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Check the guild bank it was great for leveling I constantly found upgrades and always replaced my shit back into it when I was done or upgraded, I figured if I used it someone else would to.
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I'm trying to play SSF. At least through the campaign. I'm not even sure why...to test that GGG's design is properly done at its core?

The irony being I made that post right before Utzual and oh boy has my death count sky rocketed. I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to do, everything in the Black Chambers has been fucking up my shit. I could use more dps, ehp, and recovery(lol), but if I have only gotten one upgrade in 20 levels, why should I be encouraged to go farm a zone?
 
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Man that tunic I got and switching my build around a little bit made me so much tankier it's insane. Like 5x tankier than I was with only about a 120 ex investment and the game is so much more enjoyable now without random shit 1 shotting me out of nowhere.
 
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Deathwing said:
I'm trying to play SSF. At least through the campaign. I'm not even sure why...to test that GGG's design is properly done at its core?

The irony being I made that post right before Utzual and oh boy has my death count sky rocketed. I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to do, everything in the Black Chambers has been fucking up my shit. I could use more dps, ehp, and recovery(lol), but if I have only gotten one upgrade in 20 levels, why should I be encouraged to go farm a zone?
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I understand wanting players during the campaign to check merchants and go the transmutation -> augmentation -> regal path on bases they find and then slam the good ones but in practice even if you hit three good mods those exalts are better used on the trade site. I was carefully salvaging rares for regals and anything with sockets, checking merchants in multiple chapters each level up and during the entire campaign I had a single worthwhile payout from all that busywork. It lasted me for fifteen levels before I absolutely couldn't wait any longer. The crossbow I bought for 5ex doubled my dps. I was playing on a harder difficulty for zero reason.
 
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I understand wanting players during the campaign to check merchants and go the transmutation -> augmentation -> regal path on bases they find and then slam the good ones but in practice even if you hit three good mods those exalts are better used on the trade site. I was carefully salvaging rares for regals and anything with sockets, checking merchants in multiple chapters each level up and during the entire campaign I had a single worthwhile payout from all that busywork. It lasted me for fifteen levels before I absolutely couldn't wait any longer. The crossbow I bought for 5ex doubled my dps. I was playing on a harder difficulty for zero reason.
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I've played through act 1 a few times, refining my item farming strategy each time. I thought I had it figured out when I noticed I didn't have that many artificer's orb and runes, so now I'm always picking those up and checking vendors for them. Act 2, item base damage relative to rune damage increases, so now blacksmith whetstones are the the bottleneck, hence check vendors for quality items.

Late act 2, and into act 3, I believe bases themselves become the bottleneck. Rather, just the sheer amount of attempts. The affix pool becomes so bloated at that point, it's really hard to get an upgraded base with even just the same mods as the weapon you were using.
 
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secret trade tech once in maps, quickly ID everything and dump it into quad tap set at 1ex, don't even look at it. If you get spammed research and price accordingly in an 'expensive' tab.

clean out quad tab once in a while, done

obveriuosly do what you need to do if you need to disenchant for regals, but this is the speed/efficiency way to do it
 
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Deathwing said:
I'm trying to play SSF. At least through the campaign. I'm not even sure why...to test that GGG's design is properly done at its core?

The irony being I made that post right before Utzual and oh boy has my death count sky rocketed. I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to do, everything in the Black Chambers has been fucking up my shit. I could use more dps, ehp, and recovery(lol), but if I have only gotten one upgrade in 20 levels, why should I be encouraged to go farm a zone?
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Not sure about 2 but 1 is not designed around ssf. I doubt 2 is either, so may not be the best way to test if the game is good.
 
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Just bought this for 70 ex and it only had 4 mods at first and it didn't even have quality and was still 1850 total evasion. Slammed it and got 32% cold res and 171 threshold. Pretty nice. Similar ones seem to be around 150 ex

edit : hmm apparently the trade site shows items as if they were max quality even if they aren't, didn't know that
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Crazy hits, this gotta be like 200-300 ex now? Not sure
 
Burnem Wizfyre

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Yaamean said:
I did snag a 2hander and then actually got one to drop so I put it back. Anything I upgrade Ill throw my old one in the stash in case it helps anyone else, though I'm still in early maps so may not be too great.

Edit: also not sure there are many Warriors currently, but gonna rock this guy through maps a bit before switching to Monk or Sorc.
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lol I get tons of str shit that I don’t know to sell I’ll keep putting it in the guild bank
 
Deathwing

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Not sure about 2 but 1 is not designed around ssf. I doubt 2 is either, so may not be the best way to test if the game is good.
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1 is definitely not designed around SSF and at this point, 2 does not seem like it will be either. I've tried SSF multiple times on 1, even have "WhyAmIPlayingSSF" reserved, the game mode never stuck. Too much build creativity is locked behind impractical time gates.

But, I think my impetus for insisting on SSF for 2 is that Rogers(and Wilson back when he did podcasts) have gone on about how they have such trouble convincing players to use currency while leveling. Rogers made a point about wanting players to slam gear with exalts while leveling because it will be common enough(they aren't). Regals aren't common enough either to use semi carefreely. But, if I played trade, or even guild selffound, I wouldn't really be testing that.
 
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