Path of Exile
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Selix
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I'll take a shot at Nemsis which I'm fairly certain I'll get to level 23 then die to a lagspike (more likely carelesness) then I'll ragequit roflstmp and get my panties all in a bunch and go to domination or whatever the name of the other mode is.
Hey I'm just being honest
Hey I'm just being honest
Not played for 6+ months. Is Summoner expected to be a viable class for high level farming in the fresh four month league at launch today ? Mostly solo as I'll be playing while waiting for dungeon queues to pop in FFXIV.
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Hmm from what I know spectre builds are still good, they're not top end group farming builds but they're good solo builds and good builds overall, even though they do require you to go grab some useful spectres before each map(assuming they're not alive anymore). They are adding 2 new summons too, not sure how good they'll be, but they have a fairly interesting "cost" associated to them. Animate Weapon and Animate Guardian, which apparently consume an item on the ground(has to be identified, has to be yours) to generate minions. How good they'll be and shit I have no idea but I've been considering a summoner too since it'd be my first char in the league so I want something fairly reliable, and with the minion resist supports and the stronger auras, I think it'd be pretty easy/viable to run summoner atm. It's that or a melee, but I don't know about running a melee first class, without any currency to twink with and shit, especially since I don't want to run a tanky melee but more like a fast dagger melee or something similar.
Other choice would be to run a trapper/miner, the new nodes for these look awesome and you can do some pretty cool shit with the supports and the new lightning traps.
I'll choose once they update the skill tree.
On that note, they announced that they will block access to the game 3 hours before the patch, the game will still be up if you're on until the downtime but logins will be down. By doing that they'll be able to change the info on the official site to have the new skill tree(shit's messy they can't just let people view the alpha one and stuff, hope they fix that eventually). That means you'll have 3 hours to figure out a build with the updated new skill tree, which is nice.
eXarc
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I only played the beta once or twice waaaay back when.
Understanding the following question is purely opioninated, but that's what I want, 'cause I respect the opinions here.
Is this going to be better than Diablo 3 in any or all senses?
I personally thought it had potential to be way more fun and time consuming than Diablo3 when I played it. That was when it barely had shit, too.
Understanding the following question is purely opioninated, but that's what I want, 'cause I respect the opinions here.
Is this going to be better than Diablo 3 in any or all senses?
I personally thought it had potential to be way more fun and time consuming than Diablo3 when I played it. That was when it barely had shit, too.
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It really depends on people. Some can live with the fairly crappy animations that you can't cancel(less fluid combat than D3) and the desync issues(which have varying degrees of effect and visibility depending on build, playstyle and obviously connection). Some can't. If you can't then you'll hate the game, if you can I think it's a ton better than D3. I played poe a lot back in the days, I stopped for a few months but I leveled dozens of characters and shit when I was playing. It has more depth and more shit to do, just a better game overall, but the technical issues can be something people can't accept and prevent them from enjoying the game.
Neki
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I haven't played Diablo 3 since 1 month of it's release as I felt so assraped with it that it is still preventing me from picking it up again. I've heard it's gotten better though so I don't know how it compares now. I have however played PoE for a MUCH longer time than D3 and thought it was better in almost all areas (apart from maybe the graphics). This was a few months back and the dev team addsweeklyupdates to PoE introducing new leagues, gems, skills, items regularly so yeah, in my opinion, it is better than D3.
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Technically, while they patch weekly, they only add new skills every 2weeks or so, other week is like new cosmetics, bug fixes and a few uniques everytime. Still yeah they've been patching a ton. Granted Blizzard is gonna release a full expansion at some point next year, but I think it's more like end of 2014 type of deal? Might be earlier don't know. By then PoE will have Act4, which is basically expansion content, and they've added more shit inbetween than Blizzard did by a lot.
As for graphics, they've been redoing shit over time, and imo Act3 shit looked really good, the style grows on you too. Act1 still looks like poop though(but they're adding shit to it for open release so it might look a bit less shitty).
As for graphics, they've been redoing shit over time, and imo Act3 shit looked really good, the style grows on you too. Act1 still looks like poop though(but they're adding shit to it for open release so it might look a bit less shitty).
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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I went back and replayed D3 recently and they've improved it a lot. It's no longer so clear cut that PoE is better than it. Ironically D3 suffers from having an AH that makes it trivial to get good gear that lets you beat the game, while PoE suffers from not having an AH that makes any kind of trading very tedious while having a map system that demands you participate in trading.
Personally I'm waiting until the expansion hits D3 to play it (which will mean something of a gear reset) and waiting until PoE does something about maps and/or trading to play it again.
Personally I'm waiting until the expansion hits D3 to play it (which will mean something of a gear reset) and waiting until PoE does something about maps and/or trading to play it again.
Selix
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They are working on a trading system but they have seen multiple times that they do NOT want a full on AH (I.E. list gear for currency). They want people to list gear and bargin for it. To get good deals or bad ones. To participate in the trading process.
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You can dodge/evade/block charges nowadays but yeah that was annoying.
Anyway gonna go with summoner, with traps. Fire+Lightning trap, hope I can get a conversion trap somewhere too, gonna get a few of the trap passives see how it works out but it's mostly normal summoner, only that you can't go through the middle anymore and I'm probably not going into the templar area anymore when there's this humongous abomination of a life node near the Scion start with like 10 8% nodes. Shit looks like they didn't know where to put life for the Scion so they put everything in one place, it's stupid looking, but eh, not gonna spit on 84%life nodes all in one place.
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I haven't played this in a long time. Back when, my most effective two characters were my elemental dual wield cleaver and blood magic lightning arrow marauder. I saw in the patch notes they killed, or at least heavily nerfed the cleave using dual wield and +elemental damage build. Is lightning arrow still amazing? What are some of the stronger builds these days? I'm going to play domination league using scion, but bank all my talent points until I decide on a build.
Hateyou
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Selix
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Ok holy shit I'm in normal doing dread thicket and I come across the necro exile. I kill her and she drops fairgraves and wideswing (useless as I have a better damage rare staff for spectral throw). Right after her I kill the two unique monkeys and they drop Heartshiver and Aurumvorax...
Holy fucking rng to bad none of them are good for my spectral throw build.
Holy fucking rng to bad none of them are good for my spectral throw build.
I played this is beta and got to around level 70ish with an random skilled Ranger bow class type char that basically raped everything in the game. It was really fun and I appreciated the game but got bored really fast. Anyway, I am thinking about playing since the new patch/class stuff but I wanna play something more gnarly. Any savvy folks out there that can suggest a tanky/melee type build like a shield dualist or marauder? I will be playing with 2 friends and they always build glass cannon so I thought I would try for some aura/tank type thing but I don't wanna be doing the physical dps of fucking Mr. Fantastic.
Some of the new classes starting areas are sick. A ton of life nodes are near (some retarded amount) and also good physical dmg ones and even some shield ones but I don't know what to do about mana and general fighting abilities. Anyway, suggestions welcome. Thanks
Some of the new classes starting areas are sick. A ton of life nodes are near (some retarded amount) and also good physical dmg ones and even some shield ones but I don't know what to do about mana and general fighting abilities. Anyway, suggestions welcome. Thanks
I enjoyed this the most of any game I played this year, and actually forced myself to uninstall after 6 weeks or so because I had other hobbies/learning goals/shit I wanted to tackle and I kept drifting back to play PoE. I thought it beat the shit out of D3, but can have some sync issues especially if you like melee.
Anyone get a chance to play a Templar? Looks like it could be fun as I typically play paladin like characters in most RPGs, but I'm worried it might be too slow. I'm torn between this and a Shadow.
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Classes don't have much of an impact on your playstyle eventually, they only define your starting point and your quest rewards, but you can play a tank shadow or a dual wield dagger templar fine. If you don't plan on playing the game/char very long though yeah you'd probably want to try to pick something based on a playstyle so you can get the right rewards.
There aren't really any paladin-like skills, I guess the closest would be a melee with molten shell and defensive auras, maybe mace+shield with infernal blow or glacial hammer. Both would be kinda slow until you get good supports, but something like molten shell and firestorm or icenova tank caster would work out pretty well and is fairly fast.
