Path of Exile

Joeboo

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Gotta max those resists on Merciless. I don't take a step out of the first town until my resists are maxed (even if I have to craft them, or whatever). Seems like magic damage is exponentially higher in Merciless, I'm pretty sure the whole act it tuned assuming everyone has max resists, so if you're under it's really bad news.
 
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joeboo_sl said:
Gotta max those resists on Merciless. I don't take a step out of the first town until my resists are maxed (even if I have to craft them, or whatever). Seems like magic damage is exponentially higher in Merciless, I'm pretty sure the whole act it tuned assuming everyone has max resists, so if you're under it's really bad news.
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I think the main difficulty increase in merciless is due to the side quest areas being Max mob level for that act. So Tidal Island will fuck you up if you're not on your game, most dudes save it for the end of the act these days anyways.

Hailrake is more rippy than Merveil
 
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Joeboo

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So I'm trying out a flamestrike build, I've never really given it an honest go before. It seems a little slow at low level, at what point do things really speed up? Right now I only have it 2-linked with fire penetration(I'm not even high enough to use faster casting or elemental prolif yet). At this point it's strong enough to 1-shot normal mobs before it even expands once, but it isnt nearly big enough to mow down a whole pack, so I have to stand there casting it for 3-4 seconds to get it near max size to kill everything. Real slow going for clearing areas, but like I said, I'm still in normal difficulty, not even level 30 yet, I'm hoping this changes once I can chain a few more skills on to it.

Also, probably a dumb question, but does herald of ash not trigger with Flamestrike since it doesn't do physical damage? I was nuking the hell out of mobs, WAY overkilling them, and the fire never spread to anything nearby. I know flamestrike won't add any damage for a caster, since it's based on physical damage/melee, but I was hoping the overkill/DoT would work with spells.
 
Joeboo

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So I'm trying out a flamestrike build, I've never really given it an honest go before. It seems a little slow at low level, at what point do things really speed up? Right now I only have it 2-linked with fire penetration(I'm not even high enough to use faster casting or elemental prolif yet). At this point it's strong enough to 1-shot normal mobs before it even expands once, but it isnt nearly big enough to mow down a whole pack, so I have to stand there casting it for 3-4 seconds to get it near max size to kill everything. Real slow going for clearing areas, but like I said, I'm still in normal difficulty, not even level 30 yet, I'm hoping this changes once I can chain a few more skills on to it.

Also, probably a dumb question, but does herald of ash not trigger with Flamestrike since it doesn't do physical damage? I was nuking the hell out of mobs, WAY overkilling them, and the fire never spread to anything nearby. I know flamestrike won't add any damage for a caster, since it's based on physical damage/melee, but I was hoping the overkill/DoT would work with spells.
 
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Herald of ash doesn't work with it no.

The way I've done it to level fast is to rush to ledge and just hit big packs of mobs with it. Repeat couple times to get your levels going. Then Rush to Coves/Merveil lair and beat that.

Flameblast is real good when you can go to certain areas like docks with big pack size and just round up as much as possible and hit it with a big blast.

Shit speeds way up when you can put faster casting and ele-prolif on it.

This might sound crazy but I think Ice nova is better until you can get high enough to use ele prolif on flame blast.
 
Korrupt

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joeboo_sl said:
So I'm trying out a flamestrike build, I've never really given it an honest go before. It seems a little slow at low level, at what point do things really speed up? Right now I only have it 2-linked with fire penetration(I'm not even high enough to use faster casting or elemental prolif yet). At this point it's strong enough to 1-shot normal mobs before it even expands once, but it isnt nearly big enough to mow down a whole pack, so I have to stand there casting it for 3-4 seconds to get it near max size to kill everything. Real slow going for clearing areas, but like I said, I'm still in normal difficulty, not even level 30 yet, I'm hoping this changes once I can chain a few more skills on to it.

Also, probably a dumb question, but does herald of ash not trigger with Flamestrike since it doesn't do physical damage? I was nuking the hell out of mobs, WAY overkilling them, and the fire never spread to anything nearby. I know flamestrike won't add any damage for a caster, since it's based on physical damage/melee, but I was hoping the overkill/DoT would work with spells.
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I theorycrafted a FB build and I could one shot map bosses while carrying 4 people. Its going to pick up when you get to the 60+ range and start to be able to grab the fire + burning damage nodes in the top left of the tree. You don't want to worry too much at 30 about prolif yet, that will come and onces you have the +ignite keystones and level 50ish. Youll only need to open the circle up a tiny bit at this point, barely the minimum and it will spread across the screen one shotting trash.

When you get to Dominus or any big boss with a script you want to preempt them and have the circle fully opened and then just pray for a crit for a one shot. I am not sure if you are leveling AA as well but that was my only defense and it was plenty. If the meta for it is the same youll want to empower it to level 23+.

The ONLY downside to this build is that it cannot do Atziri or Uber Raid version of her, youll never open a circle with that chick going ham and she doesn't burn.
 
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Krassus_sl said:
The ONLY downside to this build is that it cannot do Atziri or Uber Raid version of her, youll never open a circle with that chick going ham and she doesn't burn.
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Not unless you're a bad ass that summons a spell totem that charges up to 10 and de-summon it so the flameblast goes off.

Added bonus of the totem taking any reflect damage :-D
 
Korrupt

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Problem is that Atziri doesn't burn mostly, it absolutely dominates the Trio bosses & Double Vaal before Uber though.
 
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If there's a tree in the room you can get a spectre of an ape from crossroads that will summon enemy monkies from the tree so you can prolif off those.
 
Korrupt

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Deleting so many fail builds, I need a bow skill for next league that's not Tornado shot and works well =/
 
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You going summoner again for the next one? Saw one of the top posts on reddit earlier was a summon build based off of life.
 
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Krassus_sl said:
You going summoner again for the next one? Saw one of the top posts on reddit earlier was a summon build based off of life.
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I'm lvl 78 summoner right now 4aura - hipster 5L rimegaze flame sentinel spell echo LMP and 6L zombies - I'm life/es hybrid - 3k hp 2k es + max level AA (1600 mana)

Curse on hit moonsorrow elemental equilibrium arc

Solo maps up to 72 right now - scariest thing is Phylacteral Link Devourers.
 
Alasliasolonik

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Anyone have a decent dagger they have gathering dust on standard? I'm rocking a full charge/crit/discharge type of deal. They just want so much for daggers, it's either 1 ex or mirrored daggers for 100 ex.

Anything better than a mightflay pretty much.
 
Joeboo

Joeboo

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Hah, lost my new Flameblast character, basically due to killing things too fast. Was in a corrupted area with +45% added pack size. Group of blues come up, I don't really look at what they are. Build up a flameblast, kill them all in one shot, probably 10-12 of them. This immediately summons that blood golem thingy, who can corpse explode...and SPLAT. Insta-death from him corpse-bombing a dozen blues right at my feet. Was only on Act 3 Cruel but had 2900 health and 250 ES, and insta-died. Oh well.

The only bad part was, I sent my badass 5L chest to standard league, Thing had a +50-ish health roll, but +~30-35% of all 3 resists on it. It was a beast for being a level 45 BP.
 
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R I P - get those resists ups bud. Atleast prioritize fire and lightning. If you don't eat ice-nova chests you can skate by on low cold resist aside from maybe facing off against Merveil.
 
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