Path of Exile 2

yea i dropped minions for now and am just doing chaos damage.

will my chaos damage passives, apply to chaos-damage-dealing spectres? i saw that the cult archer flings chaos damage like a madman.

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yea i dropped minions for now and am just doing chaos damage.

will my chaos damage passives, apply to chaos-damage-dealing spectres? i saw that the cult archer flings chaos damage like a madman.

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If you take a node that increases chaos damage it won't increase the chaos damage of your minions.

Arbitrary said:

If you take a node that increases chaos damage it won't increase the chaos damage of your minions.

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hmm will it effect triggered skills? Like the arsonist blast, or skeletal archer's gas arrow?

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hmm will it effect triggered skills? Like the arsonist blast, or skeletal archer's gas arrow?

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No sir. It's very particular

I have no idea, maybe you think it's fun gameplay to struggle through white mobs killing you pets.

I don't like how the game feels right now. I don't want to play it. Thats it.

Huntress gameplay



and then 20 tornadoes come out.

Chris said:

Minion Instability.

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You DO realize minion builds are the absolute least gear dependent builds in the entire game, and maybe, just maybe, people who aren't finding the game fun are all of us playing martial weapons who actually have to get up close and in the face of overtuned monsters to do piddly damage?

Nearly every other class in the game has to actually find upgrades on the ground in order to progress their character in a meaningful way, and that is another huge problem right now.

In case you can't see it the edge of that temporal bubble is the tiny top corner of my screen.

They are larger than your viewable area now

elidib said:

You DO realize minion builds are the absolute least gear dependent builds in the entire game, and maybe, just maybe, people who aren't finding the game fun are all of us playing martial weapons who actually have to get up close and in the face of overtuned monsters to do piddly damage?

Nearly every other class in the game has to actually find upgrades on the ground in order to progress their character in a meaningful way, and that is another huge problem right now.

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Seeing Ghazzy going depressed when failing T1 maps due to white mobs killing his minion just cemented my thoughts on not continuing right now.

I'll keep my eyes open for patches but what wet fart this was.

Played a bit more today up to level 12 or 13 at the farmlands and just killed the king of the mist. Huntress still feels terrible with spears, going to give it until level 25 at most and if it doesnt get better, quarterstaves time.

There was a note that the servers are coming down in 30 mins for a patch, guessing it isnt going to improve anything though.

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Looking at all these Huntress and Warrior clips I was having an easy time with Skeletal Snipers.

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Made it to Geonor on the huntress yesterday, when I couldn’t get a quarter of the life bar down I made the ranger… from here on out ranger is my starter character.

Julian The Apostate said:

Duly noted.

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This aged like 35 year old Mexican woman.

I started out trying to do minions but it felt kind of flakey and i didn't like spam casting to make skulls constantly so i respent to chaos damage contagion/essenece drain. i still have emberfussilade and srs on the bar (with unleash) because i mash that between ED dots to just send some skulls out to bug everyone.

and....i've had a much much, much easier time than when i w as doing a similar build at launch. it must be 100 percent because i know what i'm doing now, and because i have used the market to buy 2 'good' items. i payed 1ex for an effigy of cruelty antler focus (79% spell damage) and some corpsewades.

I managed to kill count gooner on the first try, without sweating at all. i did the king of the mist.... in a few tries while i was still trying to do a hybrid minion build.

I doubt my build or skills or ability to buy items will float me forever but i played ed/contagion at launch and it was toasted ass till i got hex blast. it's seemingly much easier this time. prolly i'm just specced better.

edit: i should clarify, i was ratty ass shitty blood mage last league. this time i'm going to go golden beautiful lich and i expect that to make a big difference later heh.

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I started out trying to do minions but it felt kind of flakey and i didn't like spam casting to make skulls constantly so i respent to chaos damage contagion/essenece drain. i still have emberfussilade and srs on the bar (with unleash) because i mash that between ED dots to just send some skulls out to bug everyone.

and....i've had a much much, much easier time than when i w as doing a similar build at launch. it must be 100 percent because i know what i'm doing now, and because i have used the market to buy 2 'good' items. i payed 1ex for an effigy of cruelty antler focus (79% spell damage) and some corpsewades.

I managed to kill count gooner on the first try, without sweating at all. i did the king of the mist.... in a few tries while i was still trying to do a hybrid minion build.

I doubt my build or skills or ability to buy items will float me forever but i played ed/contagion at launch and it was toasted ass till i got hex blast. it's seemingly much easier this time. prolly i'm just specced better.

edit: i should clarify, i was ratty ass shitty blood mage last league. this time i'm going to go golden beautiful lich and i expect that to make a big difference later heh.

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Going to be a lot of "I started as X and swapped to Y" stories this league. The last thing I did last night before logging off was to check if I had enough gold to respec out of minions and to ED/Contagion (which I do). We're getting a picture of what looks to be successful so just do that instead. If you don't like chaos dot crossbows exist.

I honestly may wait a few days until they figure out how to unfuck stuff. I agree that people are going to level as X spec to hopefully try Y spec endgame TOO much to be considered an acceptable way to play the game. They need to unfuck whatever they fucked for everything sub level 65. Father Chris said something along the lines of the campaign being something to take pride in, but it's imperative to get people to endgame to get them hooked on the game. Right now they're just breaking the will of the majority of the people to get to an endgame that may not even be in a better state than it was in 0.1.

I don't know who they got for closed testing, if they even had people doing it, but they're either terrible or they didn't listen to them. This game makes D4, unironically, look smooth and enjoyable. Not even being hyperbolic or memeing, it in it's original form was more enjoyable than 0.1 feels at the moment.

LE probably getting a big boost in players from this. I probably won't be playing, but this definitely probably pushed some people who were mulling it over in the LE direction. Delaying their shit was absolutely a correct decision.

That said I started with Crossbow and had 0 damage on tree (as I was pathing from merc to minions) and the game felt VERY playable. But from what I hear Xbows are in some of the best place of all the playstyles, so maybe that was it. And I'd feel scummy switching from xbow to minion back to xbow.

If theres no changes to campaign "gameplay" and various buffs the coming week, I'll head over to LE and not looking back.

Was not planning on having time for LE but hey, seems it opened up!