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Penance

Penance

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Lightning Lord Rule said:
But is that better than preloading 18 Earthshatter spikes now? Or EQ of amp with a 4 second duration?? Or Sunder hitting all of the penance mark adds???

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EQ Amp with as much duration as possible. I want to get a good wank in before I 1 shot everything on the screen.

But how to survive for 4 seconds 🤔
 
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Uriel

Uriel

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Too many things sound fun, no clue what I'm gonna play, and we still have more tranny gems to come.
 
Khane

Khane

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Xevy said:
So here's the thing no one is mentioning and I'm not sure anyone understands one way or the other:

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So that's the lab font. Looks like Merc lab. That second line SEEMS to imply that it takes the gem you put in, and gives you a Transfigured version OF THAT GEM. For most of the gems there's one version and some two. This doesn't seem like the gems will be rare at all unless for some reason one version has a 80% occurrence and the others have 20% or something dumb like that. I'm also fairly confident that that is recipe we'll see in NORMAL lab as it means you can only blast gems you'd have access to at that time so it makes sense mechanically.

If this is the case, which I think it is, this whole "if we can get the gem" thing is nonsense. I don't think these are supposed to be rare like alt qual, they're just new gems without them having to add new gems. We're SUPPOSED to have access to them as they feel they're all appropriately balanced versus the normal gem rather than just straight "gooder" like several alt quals were.
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All I see is that I can self PL for cheap buying the awakened gem beasts, maxing some bullshit high exp awakened gem, then sacrificing it to level myself.

Log the fuck in boys
 
Penance

Penance

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Khane said:
All I see is that I can self PL for cheap buying the awakened gem beasts, maxing some bullshit high exp awakened gem, then sacrificing it to level myself.

Log the fuck in boys
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Yea that's kinda crazy when you think of it. Should be easier then ever to get to 100 this league.
 
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elidib

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Xevy said:
So here's the thing no one is mentioning and I'm not sure anyone understands one way or the other:

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So that's the lab font. Looks like Merc lab. That second line SEEMS to imply that it takes the gem you put in, and gives you a Transfigured version OF THAT GEM. For most of the gems there's one version and some two. This doesn't seem like the gems will be rare at all unless for some reason one version has a 80% occurrence and the others have 20% or something dumb like that. I'm also fairly confident that that is recipe we'll see in NORMAL lab as it means you can only blast gems you'd have access to at that time so it makes sense mechanically.

If this is the case, which I think it is, this whole "if we can get the gem" thing is nonsense. I don't think these are supposed to be rare like alt qual, they're just new gems without them having to add new gems. We're SUPPOSED to have access to them as they feel they're all appropriately balanced versus the normal gem rather than just straight "gooder" like several alt quals were.
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I definitely do think that font option works as you think it does - guarantees you get the same gem back as you put in. The only problem is that that option might be really rare. I doubt it will be THAT rare, and I think with all the people who normally run lab for their ascendancies and just toss in a gem and get a random gem back from the first option, trade league will be really easy to find the gem you want.
 
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ronne

ronne

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Thregin said:
I'm waiting on someone else to do the math for this. Probably poison (with tincture)
You lose 185->130 base damage, 1->0.85 atk spd, 40->50 less damage projectiles and 100ish flat for this every 5 attack thing, makes it really obscure.
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Assuming you're willing to use a 2h (which you are cause rakiatas exists) this obliterates regular molten strike when you account for the 5 extra proj all returning to you with nimis or return support.

You can also reasonably use intimidating cry for double damage in boss situations.
 
Khane

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Wouldn't chieftain molten strike totem be good with that gem too? Actually, that gem just seems really good, period.
 
Thregin

Thregin

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Khane said:
Out of all the new stuff we have seen I just want to get lucky and get the new frostblink in my normal lab and use it, normally, as a no cd teleport for my playthrough
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Did you see hit has a cast time now like lightning warp? Nothing wrong with that but it's not great as a dodge ability.
Depending on it's range it could replace lightning warp in that asenath helm warpspeed boss rusher that was popular this league to cut out travel time.
Also pretty interesting as a dps ability if you can double hit start and end of the teleport, in which case its 180*2=360% damage effectiveness + 114% more with 30% chill = 770% with 1100-1700 base damage and 0.85 cast speed. Lightning warp has 0.7 cast speed but only 90x2=180% damage and only 51 - 916 base so it's a masive upgrade over it as a dps ability.
 
Khane

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Thregin said:
Did you see hit has a cast time now like lightning warp? Nothing wrong with that but it's not great as a dodge ability.
Depending on it's range it could replace lightning warp in that asenath helm warpspeed boss rusher that was popular this league to cut out travel time.
Also pretty interesting as a dps ability if you can double hit start and end of the teleport, in which case its 180*2=360% damage effectiveness + 114% more with 30% chill = 770% with 1100-1700 base damage and 0.85 cast speed. Lightning warp has 0.7 cast speed but only 90x2=180% damage and only 51 - 916 base so it's a masive upgrade over it as a dps ability.
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Yep its .85 cast time. Flame Dash by comparison is .8 cast time. I just want it while leveling to zoom lol. But there are going to be a lot of Frostblink builds this league. Gonna be a bunch of people who use it and ignore the extra damage from chill effect and use it in the old fashioned Frost Blink ignite build (now with no cooldown!). And others who do things like use Expeditions End or medium clusters with that chilling aura notable and stack chill effect. Gonna be a fun league
 
Xevy

Xevy

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Khane said:
Wouldn't chieftain molten strike totem be good with that gem too? Actually, that gem just seems really good, period.
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Earthbreaker totem only supports slams and MS is a strike. It will however support the new Volcanic Fissure variants as well as new leap slam (!) and Earthquake/Groundslam stuff.
 
Nola

Nola

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Unless the future gem reveals shakes up the meta I'm starting as this.



Then when I get enough currency to buy required gear I'll switch to this.

 
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Thregin

Thregin

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Khane said:
Yep its .85 cast time. Flame Dash by comparison is .8 cast time. I just want it while leveling to zoom lol. But there are going to be a lot of Frostblink builds this league. Gonna be a bunch of people who use it and ignore the extra damage from chill effect and use it in the old fashioned Frost Blink ignite build (now with no cooldown!). And others who do things like use Expeditions End or medium clusters with that chilling aura notable and stack chill effect. Gonna be a fun league
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Difference is Flame dash has this from the wiki so it's semi-instant.
  • If Flame Dash hasn't been cast in a certain time frame, the first part of the cast animation is removed. This results in a near-instantaneous cast. It is not actually instant, and will for example interrupt channeling. This effect seems to have a cooldown based on cast speed.
I'm not sure how good any chilling aura is going to be whitout testing it since frost blink says it removes the chill so you need to reapply it and i'm not sure if an aura will (probably nice for mapping). Also occured to me that unless you can reapply that chill between the start and end of the telepori i.e instantly, that 114% more will only apply to 1 of the hits so more of a 180 + 180*2.14=565 damage effectiveness rather than (180+180)x2.14 = 770 like a said before.
 
Khane

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Aura for mapping. Something like vortex that leaves a chilling effect behind for bossing presumably.

Or maybe some frostblink triggered by cospris with a cold snap of power coc cyclone meme build. Who knows?!
 
Arbitrary

Arbitrary

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Are transfigured support gems also part of this patch? We're only seen skills so far and I couldn't remember if that was because supports were staying the same.
 
Uriel

Uriel

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This looks like fun, with easy SRS fallback if it doesn't pan out.

 
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Arbitrary

Arbitrary

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I want to see someone on falling zombie totems.

edit - there's just no way Guardian doesn't get nerfed after this league so anyone that thought they looked cool should pilot one while they can
 
Xevy

Xevy

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Yeah, I was VERY surprised Guardian didn't get tweaked. They honestly may just be in the "buff everything" state of mind with PoE2 being a separate game. Just let PoE2 get balanced for slow methodic gameplay and Poe1 is zoomer blow up shit unkillable braindead action game.
 
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