BrellWatcher
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if you are just hitting rare maps you are probably not ready to start farming nem3 but if you want to try Empyrian has a good video on how to set it up.
Smite and boneshatter maybe? Static strike? Seen a few of those builds this league, but I wouldn't call them POPULAR by any stretch.What strike skills even exist that get played that could use melee splash? Ain't no one running around out there playing double strike or anything like that.
Lightning strike can't use it, flicker can and sometimes uses it but the hydrosphere interaction is irrelevant because you can't control it. Glacial hammer maybe could utilize it? But that tends to run the dual unique jewels for splash anyway, and also sucks.
You can't auto target hydrosphere, it's not an enemy. The hydrosphere gets placed on top of the target and happens to get hit by the strike targeting the boss, splashing onto the boss. You are correct that if the boss moves so that the strike's cone doesn't also hit the hydrosphere, it's a waste.Assuming flicker will target and teleport you to the hydrosphere that has to just be cancer right? On any boss that moves even slightly the sphere is just constantly gonna be out of range and sending you off to the middle of nowhere.
What the fuck do I know though, that's apparently what people like about flicker strike lol.
I'll save you the $10:
A scourge mob on fucking crack hit you for 10,000 when you had 182 stacks
That seems to be about the only thing I die to now.
My last couple of deaths I can only attribute to miniscule lag.Half my deaths are obvious. Generally those deaths are in 150+ scourge T16 maps. It's the other deaths I scratch my head over.
Couple days ago I died after an apparent ice nova from a blue box. Can those hit that hard? I have 100% spell suppression with 53% mitigation. The corpse explosion boxes are at least kinda obvious. I don't read mods on T16 maps anymore but opening strongboxes terrifies me; and if I survive the opening the result is generally nothing that matches my lootfilter so perhaps I need to train myself to not click.
Had Sirus drop an insta-kill meteor on my head after rejoining the fight from a previous death. Zero que or warning or maze or anything just death a second after I ran up to him. I give Sirus to my friend now. Fuck that fight. It's obvious to me why I see so many Koreans playing this game: the end game boss fights are bullet hell shooters. (no offense, I <3 Koreans. thanks for selling me stuff)
Single random heist rares one-shotting me out of nowhere with 5.3hp 700 ES and steelskin on after I just waded through 20 blue/purple/yellow/unique mobs and blew them up in 2 seconds.
Explosions occurring after you kill the mobs seems to be a common phenomena in this game.
One-shot dying the same exact moment I kill a map boss seems to happen sometimes. (no apparent explosion)
Rarely I'll get a massive dot on me seemingly from nowhere. I'm running pathfinder concoction so I have infinite flasks, including perma health flasks, but if I didn't these would have killed me. Sometimes I can just sit there for many minutes using life flask repeatedly after everything is dead and the dot won't go away. Not in nightmare. Bug? (it's not a ground mod)
Catarina has this undodgeable ranged attack that was one-shotting me while she was off-screen. I'm probably geared enough now to survive it but it was aggravating. I find the boss mechanics unintuitive and confusing. Couldn't figure out what it was even after reading the wiki. 'Where is the massive a mount of damage coming from? I see nothing' is something I say playing PoE more than every other game combined.
Really really enjoying the game after having not played it in years (I highly recommend PoE and is a favorite) so I don't want be be a hater but I have to LOL at some of this. PoE really has this crazy/sexy vibe to it; the good parts are just so good. Scourge league's gimmick is brutal but also highly rewarding so I don't mind it too much. (although the corrupted scourge implicits are strangely stupid) Got a Doctor card a few days ago because div card farming is much more viable with scourge. Fun stuff.
Game is much more enjoyable if you pretend 96 is the last level.