Path of Exile
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Xevy
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My hot take:
This is too much. I like all of it, but it's too much. It's like when little kids go to toy story, it's overwhelming. I think they might've be using the next league as a "rest and tune up" league, which is a good idea, but it's the winter league which is usually a banger.
This is too much. I like all of it, but it's too much. It's like when little kids go to toy story, it's overwhelming. I think they might've be using the next league as a "rest and tune up" league, which is a good idea, but it's the winter league which is usually a banger.
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Idk but probably because I haven't played any of the leagues they are bringing pieces back from, aside from Necropolis. Overall sounds like they are using this league as a huge experiment; and I respect them for it.
A lot of the added stuff and changes sounded really good to me, but I really haven't played long enough to be an expert on it either.
The new chisel types look badass and the new scarabs may be awesome too especially with the extra map slot. Guess I'm going to at least roll a character and see how long I last.
Aazrael
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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Probably going to with a different build this league, but curious what this actually means for the ppl that know their shit:
- Lightning Strike: No longer has Added Lightning Damage at all gem levels. It now has 198% Effectiveness of Base and Added Damage at gem level 1 (previously 135%), scaling up to 237% at gem level 20 (previously 163%). Now has a Mana cost of 6 at gem level 1, scaling up to 10 at gem level 20 (previously 6 at all gem levels)
Penance
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Uriel
Blackwing Lair Raider
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ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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Lightning strike had ~180 flat added lightning - the damage effectiveness MORE than makes up for that at 237% given how high the rolls on a weapon can go.
Overall its a change that basically had to happen, as trying to balance all the varied melee skills while some had huge flat added while some relied solely on weapon scaling was just ridiculous and lead to situations like say, sunder, where mechanically it might be fine but the math just fell apart in lategame scaling.
Biggest change of the entire thing tho:
Skills that use the basic melee strike animation now have a more consistent swing speed, rather than the first swing being slower than the second swing.
Fucking FINALLY. Every goddamn fucking strike skill in the game besides like only specifically frostblades felt like absolute dog ass because of this trashcan system from way back in legion when they 'reworked' melee and busted all the animations in half to the point where you needed like 280% attack speed to make your initial attack not feel like it was stuck in fucking tar.
Overall its a change that basically had to happen, as trying to balance all the varied melee skills while some had huge flat added while some relied solely on weapon scaling was just ridiculous and lead to situations like say, sunder, where mechanically it might be fine but the math just fell apart in lategame scaling.
Biggest change of the entire thing tho:
Skills that use the basic melee strike animation now have a more consistent swing speed, rather than the first swing being slower than the second swing.
Fucking FINALLY. Every goddamn fucking strike skill in the game besides like only specifically frostblades felt like absolute dog ass because of this trashcan system from way back in legion when they 'reworked' melee and busted all the animations in half to the point where you needed like 280% attack speed to make your initial attack not feel like it was stuck in fucking tar.
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Kirun
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JFC, PoE just took a giant dump all over D4.
One of my biggest gripes with this game is now solved in the currency exchange. Now they just need to remove the campaign and this game probably goes up to Top 5 of all-time for me.
"I guess we'll just add Anno 1880 to the game.."
Most stoked I've been for a league since Incursion.
One of my biggest gripes with this game is now solved in the currency exchange. Now they just need to remove the campaign and this game probably goes up to Top 5 of all-time for me.
"I guess we'll just add Anno 1880 to the game.."
Most stoked I've been for a league since Incursion.
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OU Ariakas
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This was even worse for slams because of the 2H windup; I cannot tell you how many times I was stunned when my weapon was .001 sec away from completing the first attack. That leads to stunlock and then death in higher tiers.
Uriel
Blackwing Lair Raider
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You're not gonna be able to send shipments without grinding maps for resources and gold though.
I don't think the bottleneck is going to be how often you can log in. Mark said during the q&a I think that you could just farm all week and then send a massive shipment.
I don't think the bottleneck is going to be how often you can log in. Mark said during the q&a I think that you could just farm all week and then send a massive shipment.
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Penance
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