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Pyros

Pyros

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Mr Creed_sl said:
Noob question, do they have a spell gem that functions like disintegrate from D3, a continuous death ray you can swerve around? Alternatively, are archers good or shit with these changes?
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Can look at the list of skills on the wiki:
Skills - Path of Exile Wiki
Blue gems tend to be the "spells" even though there's some spells in other stuff. There isn't really a beam, however for example there's incinerate which projects a flame as long as you hold, and the longer you hold, the stronger the flame. It has more limited range than disintegrate but you can in theory get increased projectile speed gear/support to make it longer range, and you can also use lesser multiple projectile to create 3 flames at once to increase the size of the aoe.

As for archers not sure, don't even know how they are now. They used to be all the rage a while ago but nowadays I think they're just only average. They should still be fine though and they're adding a new archer skill I think in this patch, while buffing bows damage. Checking quickly the ranger forum, a few of the top builds seem to still be archer based with people killing Atziri with them and shit, so viable for sure. Nothing really becomes "unplayable" like most people say, it's just stuff that becomes "balanced" lags behind stuff that becomes the new OP. I guess current OP are spells and low life builds and shit like that but most of it is getting nerfed next patch so meh.
 
Sinzar

Sinzar

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Righteous fire post-patch may still be playable, but I wonder how viable it is. Just from a quick estimate, it's losing 3% max resist from the tree, and some % aura effectiveness nodes, which means more max resist loss from buffed purity of fire. In game today I have 92% fire resist, post-patch I'll have 88%. That's a big deal, and even if I can still technically out-regen the burn, if I don't over-regen by a large amount, the character loses all his defense since you can't leech or life on hit with righteous fire.

Still hoping there's more info coming, like maybe they changed the skill or buffed purity auras to compensate for the passive removals.
 
Caliane

Caliane

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Pyros_sl said:
Can look at the list of skills on the wiki:
Skills - Path of Exile Wiki
Blue gems tend to be the "spells" even though there's some spells in other stuff. There isn't really a beam, however for example there's incinerate which projects a flame as long as you hold, and the longer you hold, the stronger the flame. It has more limited range than disintegrate but you can in theory get increased projectile speed gear/support to make it longer range, and you can also use lesser multiple projectile to create 3 flames at once to increase the size of the aoe.

As for archers not sure, don't even know how they are now. They used to be all the rage a while ago but nowadays I think they're just only average. They should still be fine though and they're adding a new archer skill I think in this patch, while buffing bows damage. Checking quickly the ranger forum, a few of the top builds seem to still be archer based with people killing Atziri with them and shit, so viable for sure. Nothing really becomes "unplayable" like most people say, it's just stuff that becomes "balanced" lags behind stuff that becomes the new OP. I guess current OP are spells and low life builds and shit like that but most of it is getting nerfed next patch so meh.
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Searing bond might sortof do what he wants as well.
 
Korrupt

Korrupt

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Mr Creed_sl said:
Noob question, do they have a spell gem that functions like disintegrate from D3, a continuous death ray you can swerve around? Alternatively, are archers good or shit with these changes?
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Archers were pretty strong before and just got their weapons and quivers buffed.

Pyros looked and said they can do Atziri which is basically a beastly raid for you alone or your friends.
 
Korrupt

Korrupt

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Check this out too Creed, this is a new pic of an archer. The Archer is using the new skill Tornado shot, buffed it with GMP (greater multiple projectiles) and when it crits it casts a spell called ball lightning. Just one of the different skills you can design.

http://i.imgur.com/UmUoRHP.jpg
 
Vitality

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Bows are receiving boosts to their base flat damage, passive tree nodes, and quiver increases.

Additionally base attack speeds for all starting weapons have been increased to improve the initial feel of the game.
 
Byr

Byr

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if they wanted to improve the initial feel of the game they should finally get around to removing move speed penalties on armors.
 
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Krassus_sl said:
Holy crap on what a 2h?
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Divine requirements are for off-slots like rings/belts/amulets etc.

Skills in this item are supported by level 1 blood magic - 1x divine

IE:

I assume the Divine Orb mods are for off-item type affixes. Looks interesting. The list of them is:

.1-5% increased Movement Speed 1x Divine Orb
.Attack Projectiles return to you 1x Divine Orb
.3-6% increased Trap Throwing and Mine Laying Speed 1x Divine Orb
.10-20% increased Ignite duration 1x Divine Orb
.10-20% increased Chill and Freeze duration 1x Divine Orb
.10-20% increased Shock duration 1x Divine Orb
.7-10% additional Chance to Block while Dual Wielding 1x Divine Orb
.Gems in this item are Supported by level 1 Blood Magic 2x Divine Orb
.Causes Bleeding on Hit 2x Divine Orb
.12-16% increased Critical Strike chance 1x Divine Orb
.1-2% increased Block chance 2x Divine Orb
.6-12% increased Weapon Elemental Damage 1x Divine Orb
 
Byr

Byr

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Adds 7-9 to 13-16 Physical Damage 3x Orb of Alchemy
Adds 10-13 to 17-20 Physical Damage 1x Chaos Orb
80-99% increased Physical Damage 3x Orb of Alchemy
100-119% increased Physical Damage 1x Chaos Orb

wut?
 
Korrupt

Korrupt

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Yeah its going to be amazing for pushing alts with beast weapons and makes crafting your own so much easier.

GG on those mods, Im at work until at least 4 today and it looks like I have so much treasure to sift through. The cold nodes on the tree they added along with freeze causing refreeze automatically etc are going to birth some wild cold builds.
 
Hatorade

Hatorade

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Going for a caster sword and board build, lots of +shield block %/recovery and energy shield and resists all within easy reach of the Marauder, Witch, and Templar. Thinking Marauder due to all the +1hander dmg.
 
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Krassus_sl said:
Yeah its going to be amazing for pushing alts with beast weapons and makes crafting your own so much easier.

GG on those mods, Im at work until at least 4 today and it looks like I have so much treasure to sift through. The cold nodes on the tree they added along with freeze causing refreeze automatically etc are going to birth some wild cold builds.
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Chris said that the phys% rolls on weapons for the bench crafting will not go over 100% - that the current values are too high and will likely get nerfed.
 
Krag

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I made my preliminary flame trapper build (might adjust it when we see the full patch notes) with likely too much defense, and somehow there's still six days to go... now what.
 
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Krag_sl said:
I made my preliminary flame trapper build (might adjust it when we see the full patch notes) with likely too much defense, and somehow there's still six days to go... now what.
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I'll run my guy through normal self found a couple times with similar passives to the 1.2 changes just to get a feel for it
 
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Krassus_sl said:
I still need to go home and plan my shit out, you bros are ahead
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Hop to it fool. This site doesn't trip my companies firewall, which is badass.

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AlsoInteresting Changes to bosses and other things

Also, apparently beyond league's unique mechanic is:

When you kill large packs of monsters they spawn small portals which spawn demons, if you kill packs of demons near their portals they spawn bigger portals with bigger demons, if you kill those nearby the portals it spawns an extra large portal which summons a Unique demon.

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