Path of Exile

Krassus_sl said:

Thats the only map mods I do on Rampage, we get explosions and tornadoes of death the more mobs we kill =)

No other way to do them if you want XP, loot is another story

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I think I'm gonna bust it to 80 this weekend then roll a flicker strike duelist on rampage. Gonna go for the all chars 65 challenge and the rampage tier challenge, I think flicker strike can make it happen. Need to find blood dance boots and a terminus est.

Might fk around with terminus est and do a tabula rasa - Flicker Strike - Cast on Crit - Enduring Cry - Discharge - Multistrike - Melee Splash - PCOC

Basically get all 3 charges per crit and discharge them on crit. (get frenzy charges when stuff dies from blood rage + blood dance to keep stuff going)

How much do you think I'd need to scale discharge to make this work?

Ive never messed with discharge but I have blood dance boots for you. Ghudda made one I remember with Volls and the blood magic mask.

What the challenge on Rampage tiers? I must not have come close, I think my max has been into the 400's when you get the dual cyclone pets.

Krassus_sl said:

Ive never messed with discharge but I have blood dance boots for you. Ghudda made one I remember with Volls and the blood magic mask.

What the challenge on Rampage tiers? I must not have come close, I think my max has been into the 400's when you get the dual cyclone pets.

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I think it's 1000

Vitality_sl said:

I think I'm gonna bust it to 80 this weekend then roll a flicker strike duelist on rampage. Gonna go for the all chars 65 challenge and the rampage tier challenge, I think flicker strike can make it happen. Need to find blood dance boots and a terminus est.

Might fk around with terminus est and do a tabula rasa - Flicker Strike - Cast on Crit - Enduring Cry - Discharge - Multistrike - Melee Splash - PCOC

Basically get all 3 charges per crit and discharge them on crit. (get frenzy charges when stuff dies from blood rage + blood dance to keep stuff going)

How much do you think I'd need to scale discharge to make this work?

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I was considering various cast on crits with it, or cast on kill, with aoe splash's, wrote it off.
Just added fire, melee damage. and maybe increased aoe if you want. although blood magic is a very real choice.
Standard physical scales more/easier I think.

I have not hit rampage t13 yet. tier 9 so far. 430ish appearently. Kill speed is fast. when you do bounce to another pack, you do it fast and do then keep rampage going. the issue mainly... is when you don't do it on purpose, and you leave stuff behind alive. Running back to get that kill, might break your streak. While leaving it, may also result in you running out of things to kill in chain.

I've tried to do the streak challenge a few times, but the problem is always simply running out of mobs, not kill speed. My best was something like 500 in the underground sea map, then it was about 3 screens worth of empty tunnels until I found the next pack, which killed my streak.

What's the best zone or map you've all found for getting the mega streaks going?

Was asked about my dagger ranger's build, so posting it.Thisis my current skill tree at level 83, with me currently working on revenge of the hunted nodes for % life. You can see my current gear linked inThispost on the PoE forums.

Basically it's your general melee crit dagger build. I use reave as my main attack with multistrike, faster atk, melee phys, and power charge on crit on a 5 link. Added critical damage would go in the 6th slot, should I ever get one.

I have a 4 link spectral throw with greater multiple, curse on hit, and assassins mark for cursing. Using spectral with GMP and curse on hit not only buffs the curses potency through the support, but it's also far, far less mana, curses a wider area, and uses my high attack speed instead of my shitty casting speed by applying them through curse on hit with ST.

Auras are the typical physical auras, Hatred, Herald of Ash and Herald of Ice. For challenging maps, I turn off the heralds and use grace and hatred instead. You could also swap herald of ice for tempest shield for another 4% block, but I'm on rampage, so not that big a deal.

Then of course the typical cast on damage taken stuff like enduring, immortal, enfeeble.

Overall I'm enjoying the build. It's extremely tanky. Physical attacks have to get through ~45% evasion (~55% with grace), 40% dodge, and 60% block. I have 45% dodge against spells as well, and sometimes I swap in Saffels frame for nuke heavy caster bosses. My dps is ~29k on reave with charges up, and it's like 40k if I swap double strike in for reave when I want to maximize single target dps on something. What I really need is a dagger with a higher local crit chance, but most of the ones I want to buy are 10-15 exalted, and I'm only up to 7 so far. Soon!

One thing to note is the build is strength starved, and slightly int deprived. My strength is only 44 base, and 84 int. You need 109 str and int I think for your level 20 gems. You will need a piece or two with stats on gear, or you need to take some filler stat nodes.

Edit: Bandits were Oak, Kraityn, Alira. Traitor Achievement obtained!

Sinzar_sl said:

I've tried to do the streak challenge a few times, but the problem is always simply running out of mobs, not kill speed. My best was something like 500 in the underground sea map, then it was about 3 screens worth of empty tunnels until I found the next pack, which killed my streak.

What's the best zone or map you've all found for getting the mega streaks going?

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merciless weaver. get weaver to second phase, then run south to the entrance with a quicksilver, leaving weaver in the northern part of the cave. He will continue to spawn mobs around you at a very quick rate that you can just aoe down and get 1000 kills easily. granted i havnt played rampage so i dont know if this works or not but it would be the first place id try.

Closest I got trying last night was sea witch map with fracture. Fucking cyclones at 4 or 500 though just go insane AEing and dominated anything close.

yeah. seawitch on island was my closest.

The vid I saw of a 1000, was whichever map uses the Battlefront tileset. I don't really play the endgame enough to know which that is.

I "think" weaver doesn't work. as well as skeletons. could be missremembering which do, and which don't.

Only mobs which give exp/loot count for the streaks, meaning no summons, resurrected mobs, or fractured clones.

We need to find a honey hole or a map we can make to reach it.

Caliane_sl said:

SRS is stupid easy/safe. you can just afk off screen and kill bosses.

No reflect, no nothing.

Its almost too easy, and kindof boring.

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I picked up my srs witch after I got spell echo again and it's a huge improvement. I disagree with this though, except for bosses. All kinds of mobs do their best to jump at me ignoring the spectres so I have to play way more safe than with my shockwave totem build. Can you explain how you feel this is so safe, aside from maybe LOS-killing bosses where applicable (piety was so easy for me to solo on merciless)

you can do it with regular packs too? and easier line of sight on doors. Throw in a skel totem, and you should pretty much never get targeted at all.

kitsune_sl said:

I picked up my srs witch after I got spell echo again and it's a huge improvement. I disagree with this though, except for bosses. All kinds of mobs do their best to jump at me ignoring the spectres so I have to play way more safe than with my shockwave totem build. Can you explain how you feel this is so safe, aside from maybe LOS-killing bosses where applicable (piety was so easy for me to solo on merciless)

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Most SRS builds run EB/MOM/AA (+/- IR) which is usually a pretty safe setup. Especially if you can fit a lightning coil/CoD in there. CWDT + IC EC has saved my bacon more times this league than ever.

The only thing scary now with this setup are the beyond bosses on various map mods. (I don't particularly run SRS but my build is very close to what one would run).

For reference I'm running a Tri-spectre setup in a rime gaze for the passive conc effect. Spell echo - minion dmg - lmp (Flame Sentinels)

Supported by my Moonsorrow with curse on hit ele weakness arc with EE

Standard zombies setup in tabula rasa except I have minion life in there to put the zombies over 5.5k hp.

It seems that +Incr Duration on nodes and gem make the SRS off screen target and path farther.

Yeah I've been meaning to add the skeleton totem. Previously I used raise zombie but they are no longer really worth it as I don't have all the minion hp nodes (or even good links for them). I am building the fairly 'standard' srs build found on the forum, which means I take all the aura / skill duration nodes and as much of the minion damage nodes as possible. Towards really late game I'll be able to pick up double curses too, but still a ways off. I feel like I messed up my build a bit (or rather, went about it in the wrong order) but it's a bit too late to change it now. I'll have to pray my 3000 hp lets me survive into level 80ish

Pics on reddit of a bow made with LVL 8 Elreons multiple mods he added, seems like once you use Elreon to add multiple mods flag you can double up on Phys Dmg + IAS

Someone level up asap =(

I greatly dislike the mechanic(that mostly applies to hardcore leagues) that you basically can't do daily quests for your masters in your hideouts when you lose a character. I have a level 5 armor and level 5 weapon master in my hideout, lost my lvl 65 character and couldn't do any more dailies until I got my new character back to Cruel difficulty, and really still couldn't do dailies as the zones that were spawning were in the 40s, and when I first hit Cruel my character was in the mid 30s.

It may not sound like a whole lot, but as a casual player I probably missed out on 4 or 5 days worth of daily quests until I leveled back up high enough.

I'm also not really looking forward to having to level new masters with every new league that releases. As slow as I go, I'll never see any of them through to level 8 unless I play standard league :/

yeah. the master system is a bit.. "wonky" at best. When it comes to levels and exp.

it sucks for alts. It sucks for deaths as you say. its sucks if your masters out level you. It can kindof suck the other way too. your level 70 doing level 70 map masters.. when they are still level 30 for dailys. Extra difficulty for no real rewards. Supposed to run back and farm level 30 zones?

Really not a fan of the issue with alts. Basically having master spawns be entirely pointless for them.

We didnt get in on that insane PLing before they nerfed those zones either, at least I didnt.

Idk if It's just me and my epik nice luck but I've been getting a master in nearly every mountain ledge junk ass 67 I've been running, I even had a ledge with +2 addtional exiles and then another exile ontop of that one (stupid igna) and then a vorici for a 4th exile.

Masters, atleast for me, spawn a whole lot in maps.

Example of epik nice luck: Got two Chin-Sol's in one 50% pack size map. (basically a guaranteed beyond pack per set of mobs)