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So Accuracy Stacking is really easy in this game, even without widowhail + quiver shenanigans. Random garbage I had sitting in my stash + some tree nodes and hte Falcon Dive on the tree. No jewels



I havent put any effort at all into making it into a real build because I have no currency because I hate mapping and also dont feel like solving the mana problems it would have unless using auto attacks.

I'd guess 75k accuracy is pretty easy to hit, and 100k should be very doable with some currency.
 
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So I killed the Breach pinnacle boss on first try. No problem. Farm up another 300 shards and add +2 to pinnacle zone difficulty, and I die when the boss does that fucking big pimp slap coming out of the ground over and over again. So we just lose the breach stone and eat experience loss when you fail? One f'ing shot?! Ok, that kind of sucked, but at least I found a Citadel finally. Died to the boss and now the Citadel is a failed map. One fucking try?!? Ok, this shit is starting to lose the fun-factor for me...

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Deathwing

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This is why EA numbers are misleading. Hope GGG already recognizes this and reestablishes full support of PoE1.
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The steam charts are still sustaining well. But I wonder what percentage of them are people that still haven't experienced unforced errors like 1 portal.
 
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Khane said:
So Accuracy Stacking is really easy in this game, even without widowhail + quiver shenanigans. Random garbage I had sitting in my stash + some tree nodes and hte Falcon Dive on the tree. No jewels



I havent put any effort at all into making it into a real build because I have no currency because I hate mapping and also dont feel like solving the mana problems it would have unless using auto attacks.

I'd guess 75k accuracy is pretty easy to hit, and 100k should be very doable with some currency.
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You want some divs to see how far you go with it? I'm sitting on some stacks and probably not playing again for a long time with no new classes on the horizon and MH:Wilds coming soon.
 
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Soygen said:
So I killed the Breach pinnacle boss on first try. No problem. Farm up another 300 shards and add +2 to pinnacle zone difficulty, and I die when the boss does that fucking big pimp slap coming out of the ground over and over again. So we just lose the breach stone and eat experience loss when you fail? One f'ing shot?! Ok, that kind of sucked, but at least I found a Citadel finally. Died to the boss and now the Citadel is a failed map. One fucking try?!? Ok, this shit is starting to lose the fun-factor for me...

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Yeah they need to reevaluate the punishment after failing, especially for pinnacle content. Sure, take the xp, but making you have to re-farm materials and/or find another citadel is terrible.....they seem pretty intent on keeping it that way, though.
 
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People get better at things through practice and they've decided to harshly limit how much practice you can get through much of the end game. It's a terrible design to set as a baseline and encourages all manner of not playing the game. Meta build guides, fight walkthrough videos, paying for achievements/kills, endless Path of Building optimization and the like. Make no attempt until you are certain your character is powerful enough to skip as much of any encounter as can be skipped.

If I would have had to learn a fight like Sirus when each attempt took 30+ maps all with one portal I'd have quit Path of Exile and never, ever returned.
 
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Deathwing

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Khane said:
So Accuracy Stacking is really easy in this game, even without widowhail + quiver shenanigans. Random garbage I had sitting in my stash + some tree nodes and hte Falcon Dive on the tree. No jewels



I havent put any effort at all into making it into a real build because I have no currency because I hate mapping and also dont feel like solving the mana problems it would have unless using auto attacks.

I'd guess 75k accuracy is pretty easy to hit, and 100k should be very doable with some currency.
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Interesting idea but I couldn't make a promising start in pob. It feels like the build needs another axis to go with the absurd attack speed.

Definitely would have to use mace strike for single target. Mana on kill should be enough for mapping.
 
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Is there a workaround to importing your char in POB since the api isnt enabled yet? Or do I have to manually add every piece of gear and passive points?

Am just lazy but I do want to start playing around with it.
 
Khane

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Interesting idea but I couldn't make a promising start in pob. It feels like the build needs another axis to go with the absurd attack speed.

Definitely would have to use mace strike for single target. Mana on kill should be enough for mapping.
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I wouldn't trust PoB2 about anything at the moment. Most of it is bugged/modeled incorrectly.

You'd probably go with giants blood, a 2 hander with %weapon ele damage and 2 sources of good ele flat, -req and +skills, then get 2 breach rings with all attr, dex, accuracy and again, good sources of flat and a high rolled ingenuity. Fill in res/defenses on other slots, pick up jewel slots on the tree. Precision in an aura and bullseye in the main skill. I don't know why but Bullseye is 50% more instead of increased.

Or you could use a warpick and go crit instead of a 2 hander with giants blood. You dont need to take a ton of accuracy wheels on the tree to hit 50k. Lycosidae is a "true doubling", as in it applies at the end of all calcs. Volcanic Fissure works as well and its really satisfying hitting the fissures with another slam and watching them light up. Its just an annoying style of gameplay even with high attack speed, which GGG will eventually figure out.

This is honestly more of a "back pocket" idea anyway for when other weapon types are released that don't have forced +seconds to attack time and shit animations/interactions.

Did you guys know that you still get poisoned in this game with CI? It applies but just doesn't do any damage. That's something to keep in mind if they ever add things from PoE1 like Golden Rule/Icefang Orbit.
 
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Aazrael

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Ended up at 26 Divs after running Ultimatum Saturday and Sunday. Its easy mode but gets kinda boring as everything else after a while. It was a steady income though throughout the day so it made it worth doing.

Invested it all into a +11 Spirit "Against the Darkness" jewel. Got me another 66 Spirit I think. Added another Snipers and also slotted in a Storm Mage again for Shock.

So now I have like 23 Snipers, 1 Storm Mage and 1 or 2 Clerics.

Not much more to improve now unless I get the Ingenuity belt and some high end Ventors gamble. But thats a bit pricey, would also need to shuffle resist around if I do that.
 
Chris

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Khane said:
So Accuracy Stacking is really easy in this game, even without widowhail + quiver shenanigans. Random garbage I had sitting in my stash + some tree nodes and hte Falcon Dive on the tree. No jewels



I havent put any effort at all into making it into a real build because I have no currency because I hate mapping and also dont feel like solving the mana problems it would have unless using auto attacks.

I'd guess 75k accuracy is pretty easy to hit, and 100k should be very doable with some currency.
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This is part of the Gemling Legionnaire Stat Stacking Build, my build has this too.

I assume you have the Attack Speed from Accuracy node? There's also an Attack Speed from Dexterity node and Dexterity inherantly gives Accuracy.

So don't know if you are Titan or Gemling, but Gemling may be an upgrade for this because double Accuracy from Dexterity.


My suggestion would be getting Three Dragons Helmet which was only a div or so when I got one. I think I have a spare I'll give you if I can get a guild invite (I'll be online in ~6 hours time).


Three Dragons makes your Fire Damage (from skill) Shock to boost your dps and your Lightning Damage (from Mace) Freeze to boost your crowd control - there's a Freeze = zero resist node that lets you skip needing Fire Penetration.

That set up, you can use the Herald of Thunder/Ice combo by putting a ice/lightning convert to fire gem on Herald of Ice.


Actually tempted to give this a go myself, but I'm locked to Monk skills myself because I use the Pillar of the Caged God Staff. I'll test it with my setup if I have the Mace in my stash.


Hand of Action and Wisdom fits in the build perfectly too, it's more Lightning damage and more Dexterity = Attack Speed.
 
Deathwing

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I wouldn't trust PoB2 about anything at the moment. Most of it is bugged/modeled incorrectly.

You'd probably go with giants blood, a 2 hander with %weapon ele damage and 2 sources of good ele flat, -req and +skills, then get 2 breach rings with all attr, dex, accuracy and again, good sources of flat and a high rolled ingenuity. Fill in res/defenses on other slots, pick up jewel slots on the tree. Precision in an aura and bullseye in the main skill. I don't know why but Bullseye is 50% more instead of increased.

Or you could use a warpick and go crit instead of a 2 hander with giants blood. You dont need to take a ton of accuracy wheels on the tree to hit 50k. Lycosidae is a "true doubling", as in it applies at the end of all calcs. Volcanic Fissure works as well and its really satisfying hitting the fissures with another slam and watching them light up. Its just an annoying style of gameplay even with high attack speed, which GGG will eventually figure out.

This is honestly more of a "back pocket" idea anyway for when other weapon types are released that don't have forced +seconds to attack time and shit animations/interactions.

Did you guys know that you still get poisoned in this game with CI? It applies but just doesn't do any damage. That's something to keep in mind if they ever add things from PoE1 like Golden Rule/Icefang Orbit.
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Yeah, I can see that PoB2 doesn't do some stuff correctly yet, but most of them can be worked around in the custom modifier input.

Giant's Blood seems like a lot of stat requirements in a build that might not have the affixes for them. If you assume Olrovasara is at max stacks, which I think is a safe assumption, it's a 600+ dps weapon that benefits heavily from lucky lightning damage.

Doryani's Prototype was the other thing I was thinking of including.

Titan for Hulking Form seems obvious but then the other 2 ascendancy points are...?

I'm not sure what extra skills to include that benefit single target. Even the spirit gems feel underwhelming.
 
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My build seems to be quite strong now and 10 rooms take about 10-15 minutes depending on the layout. And depending on what I get at the end I usally buy the fragments that did not drop to do Trialmaster. He drops the shield quite a lot and it goes for 70Ex to 2-3 Divs depending on the rolls. have not gotten his better drops yet, if he has any.
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If its 75ilvl+ runs, you can prob sell them for people looking to get 4th ascendancy
 
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If its 75ilvl+ runs, you can prob sell them for people looking to get 4th ascendancy
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When do people need to join for it to count? Would be a good idea for extra currency but could be a hassle to find people.

Edit: Yea doing the lvl 80 Stones.
 
Chris

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Aazrael said:
When do people need to join for it to count? Would be a good idea for extra currency but could be a hassle to find people.

Edit: Yea doing the lvl 80 Stones.
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I've done it twice, you get to the 4th boss then invite people. They stand by the portal to the boss arena.

You can ask for payment before or after, done it both ways.

It unlocks all the skill points too, they don't need to have done the 3rd trial themselves.
 
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I've done it twice, you get to the 4th boss then invite people. They stand by the portal to the boss arena.

You can ask for payment before or after, done it both ways.

It unlocks all the skill points too, they don't need to have done the 3rd trial themselves.
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Do they drop next to you or how do they join the instance?

How much do you charge for that?
 
Chris

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Aazrael said:
Do they drop next to you or how do they join the instance?

How much do you charge for that?
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I bought it, so 1 Div each time. Paid when inside the trial, once before and once after the boss.

I don't know the exact mechanics of how you exit the trial to invite them then go back in.

This is Sekhemas 4 by the way, don't know about Chaos 4.
 
Mist

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Soygen said:
So I killed the Breach pinnacle boss on first try. No problem. Farm up another 300 shards and add +2 to pinnacle zone difficulty, and I die when the boss does that fucking big pimp slap coming out of the ground over and over again. So we just lose the breach stone and eat experience loss when you fail? One f'ing shot?!
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They're going to change that next patch. The pinnacle bosses will all have multiple portals.

You're still gonna eat that XP loss though.

Also, yes, getting killed by the slappy hand or the falling hand is a rite of passage on that guy.
 
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They're going to change that next patch. The pinnacle bosses will all have multiple portals.

You're still gonna eat that XP loss though.

Also, yes, getting killed by the slappy hand or the falling hand is a rite of passage on that guy.
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I'm ok with losing experience, especially when I know exactly how I died and how to avoid it in the future. It's the one and done nature of the event that takes several maps worth of farming, on top of the xp loss that's kind of annoying. You'd lose lots of experience in EQ, but you could try shit over and over again in the vast majority of cases.
 
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