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Gravel

Mr. Poopybutthole
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I think there's a lot of variation in what to build.

Do you have the ice orb or ice shard from a staff to freeze? Do you use Frost Bomb and/or Cold Snap? What about Frost Nova?
All of the above. I use every ice spell there is.

I switched to the build posted earlier today (cost about 10k gold) and I'm really melting shit now. Although I'm much more glass cannony.
 

Pasteton

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Ugh so do I need to switch to ice sorc too. Was going along pretty steadily but dmg seems to have fallen off a cliff with essence drain in my mid 20s. Not invested at all into minions, still trying to get to the chaos dmg wheeels - anyone else playing this? It took me sooooo long to kill the last couple bosses , the fat guy that twirls around mechanics weren’t bad but he ignites the whole damn floor if you’re as slow as me and it got close at the end.

The colossus mob fight before him was cool but buggy af - anyone else have curses just randomly not go where you target with him? Also took me forever to kill him.

Hoping someone else here went with a chaos build and can tell me it gets better later
 

Pasteton

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Also is there a way to refight act bosses to farm loot? I had a yellow and unique drop off the colossus boss , and got so excited as I tried to mouse over them I missed the swarm of adds that exploded over me (after the fight ended btw). When I respawned all the fucking loot was gone (from a 10 minute fight)
 

Pasteton

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Despite the bs still love the boss design and art, by far best in class in this genre
 
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Mur

Trakanon Raider
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Just tried Gregor for first time, 1st part was easy, I could face tank him, then he one shot me when he got pissed at his bitch wife. LOL Think I need upgrade my mallet. Damn I'd love to find something with sockets. I have a mountain of runes. Time to farm.

Edit: Need a warrior break, people enjoying Witch. or Sorc more?
 

Caliane

Avatar of War Slayer
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Also is there a way to refight act bosses to farm loot? I had a yellow and unique drop off the colossus boss , and got so excited as I tried to mouse over them I missed the swarm of adds that exploded over me (after the fight ended btw). When I respawned all the fucking loot was gone (from a 10 minute fight)
yes. you can just go back. crtl+click or something resets the instance immediately. a general timeout will do it too.
 

Yaamean

Trakanon Raider
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Just put a decent crossbow and monk staff in the guild stasn if anyone needs. Not playing those classes so I'm not sure how good they actually are but hopefully it helps someone.
 

LiquidDeath

Magnus Deadlift the Fucktiger
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It is clear this game was made by people who liked Dark Souls but either didn't understand the design or were unable to transition it into their game correctly.

I just beat the Praetor fight after about 7 attempts as 2-hand melee, and it is completely stupid. The only reason I could do it was because I luckily specced into Shockwave Totem which allowed me to have a way to attack at range. Without that, there are exactly zero opportunities for a single two-handed strike in the entire fight. As someone who has beat every Soulsborne game released by FromSoft, it is completely obvious that you have to code in downtime for your bosses to allow for player damage equal to the slowest attack type available.

GGG is just complete shit at melee. After all of PoE1 and now this shit, I just can't conceive of a way they fix it.
 
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moonarchia

The Scientific Shitlord
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I'm not a big bosser especially those with phases. Pretty clear 2 is not for me. Have fun.
Give it a few months, or a league or two, and it will be a totally different game. Possibly literally. They change a fuckload between leagues.
 
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Vorph

Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Its pretty telling that the majority of " Git GuDz " talk comes from people playing a sorc. This seems to be the most properly tuned class so far.
End of Act 1 I switched from Sorc to SRS Witch and it's not even a remote comparison in power. I've steamrolled everything with the witch.
 

moonarchia

The Scientific Shitlord
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End of Act 1 I switched from Sorc to SRS Witch and it's not even a remote comparison in power. I've steamrolled everything with the witch.
I just jumped from sniper to arsonist/srs. Things die muuuuuuuuch faster.
 

Gravel

Mr. Poopybutthole
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Man, that act 2 boss is no joke. Maybe switching to a glass cannon build right at the end wasn't the best idea.

I imagine though as more people play, the complaints about difficulty will really ramp up.
 
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Yaamean

Trakanon Raider
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It is clear this game was made by people who liked Dark Souls but either didn't understand the design or were unable to transition it into their game correctly.

I just beat the Praetor fight after about 7 attempts as 2-hand melee, and it is completely stupid. The only reason I could do it was because I luckily specced into Shockwave Totem which allowed me to have a way to attack at range. Without that, there are exactly zero opportunities for a single two-handed strike in the entire fight. As someone who has beat every Soulsborne game released by FromSoft, it is completely obvious that you have to code in downtime for your bosses to allow for player damage equal to the slowest attack type available.

GGG is just complete shit at melee. After all of PoE1 and now this shit, I just can't conceive of a way they fix it.
Idk after I put some decent support gems in my 2handed abilities I feel like Im doing decent dmg / stun buildup. Only the side quest boss bitch in the traitor passage in Act two felt kinda cheap and I barely won. Probably easier if I took time to learn her moves but every rolling attack I did she would teleport and I'd whiff completely. Leapslam / rolling attack / infernal cry / totem all go together pretty well most of the time.

I did put the 25% faster support in rolling attack so that helped a bit as well.

Starved for sockets but most of my gear is rare at least aside from rings / amulets. 2 sockets on my weapon and 1 on body armor, thats it. Have also been basically full clearing every zone so probably overleveled a bit. 29.5 going to Denshar when I can log back on.
 

Palum

what Suineg set it to
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Man, that act 2 boss is no joke. Maybe switching to a glass cannon build right at the end wasn't the best idea.

I imagine though as more people play, the complaints about difficulty will really ramp up.
I noticed a lot of people who did ascendancy in act 2 and went glass cannon get fucked immediately.
 

Intrinsic

Person of Whiteness
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So what’s the crafting loop? Having no PoE1 experience and trying to work through the terminology from the last few pages.

Get White / Blue items that seem a good base for me, use one of the orb things to increase it to Blue and/or Yellow, and another orb thing to add stats to it? I’ve just been vendoring items now for gold. I also need to salvage?