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Pyros

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Byr said:
Targetted aoes, so no dark pact, glacial cascade, ice nova or vortex.
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Did they confirm that btw?

I mean nova and vortex sure but dark pact is targeted then only default to non targetted if there's no valid targets in the area, so sounds a bit fucky for this(but technically it targets skeletons, maybe it'll only work if you have skeletons up and won't cascade if you don't, it could be good for darkpact skeleton though because I assume the additional casts would "stick" to the skeletons like how you don't have to target directly on a skeleton, so you can get 3dark pacts in the same area instantly.

Glacial Cascade should be a targetted aoe. It comes out of you and moves but it's not a projectile, just aoe, targetted wherever. Functions similar to Blade Fall that also moves forwards, only that glacial cascade moves from you and all the way. I mean it should work I feel, but could see it not working for whatever reason since it'd be pretty strong.
 
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Which supporter pack did you buy this time, Ryanz?

Killing time between races, tried some S12 in D3, couldn't do it. Is it really just that it's hard to get into a game that has no dev support behind it? Also found myself thinking combat wasn't as "meaty" as it is in PoE. Screen shakes and thumps for crits, shatters(god, love me some shatters), clearing screens. I think I'm done with D3.
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Top that off with no real loot hunt and your class being only as good as whatever set is OP that season.
 
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Top that off with no real loot hunt and your class being only as good as whatever set is OP that season.
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Loot hunt, I guess I can see. I'm still having trouble determining what my "end game" for PoE to be. I had a nice goal in D3 for a while and that was just the season journey. No petering out, no getting frustrated and bored. Get the cosmetics you want and done. This allowed "new" content to be available next season because they'd revamp sets and I wouldn't try them until 2+ seasons later.

I thought I could do the 36 cake frosting cosmetic this league and I couldn't hack it. I wasn't good/patient/whatever enough to get uber atziri or shaper down, or do the rest of the RNG grinds. Or even that silly achievement where it's like "don't get hit by Dominus' lightning ghosts". Maybe a BV/EK character was the wrong one to try that, but damn was that frustrating. So, got to 34 and I'm thinking I should just stop at 24 next time. Hope they don't put anything good at 36 this time.

Captain America(PoE desperately needs this skill) wasn't underpowered this season. Still wasn't feeling it.
 
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Did they confirm that btw?

I mean nova and vortex sure but dark pact is targeted then only default to non targetted if there's no valid targets in the area, so sounds a bit fucky for this(but technically it targets skeletons, maybe it'll only work if you have skeletons up and won't cascade if you don't, it could be good for darkpact skeleton though because I assume the additional casts would "stick" to the skeletons like how you don't have to target directly on a skeleton, so you can get 3dark pacts in the same area instantly.

Glacial Cascade should be a targetted aoe. It comes out of you and moves but it's not a projectile, just aoe, targetted wherever. Functions similar to Blade Fall that also moves forwards, only that glacial cascade moves from you and all the way. I mean it should work I feel, but could see it not working for whatever reason since it'd be pretty strong.
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yeah, thats why I included them.
Dark Pact
This spell removes some life from one of your Skeleton minions near you or the targeted location to deal chaos damage in an area around it.

Ice Nova
A chilling circle of ice expands from the caster. If the caster targets near one of their Frostbolt projectiles, it will expand from the projectile instead.
is that not targeting an area?
Vortex
If the caster targets near one of their Frostbolt projectiles, it will explode from the projectile instead, destroying it.

I am doubting glacial cascade now. Is it targeted? yes its not a projectile. however, the aoe is spawned in a fixed position from the character. bladefall is similar, but can be targeted.
 
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You guys saw the demo on the Chinese reveal trailer right? It shows some spell cascade in action at 1:51

 
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Which supporter pack did you buy this time, Ryanz?
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None. Moneys tight right now with the newborn, and being off of work until January. Honestly I didn't like any of the armor sets. Only thing that I liked was the portal effects and the cloth atlas. Will try and get whatever pack at least gets me the map of the atlas whenever I've got some disposable cash.
 
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dont forget a second set of supporter packs should launch as well.
One for the league itself. Abyss.
 
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None. Moneys tight right now with the newborn, and being off of work until January. Honestly I didn't like any of the armor sets. Only thing that I liked was the portal effects and the cloth atlas. Will try and get whatever pack at least gets me the map of the atlas whenever I've got some disposable cash.
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Still working on that FSR monetization plan?
 
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These packs look kind of odd honestly, I am not a fan of super sized armor that looks all chunky. The Phoenix and Kitava chests are huge even on small toons, I usually swap in some other smaller chest and use the other pieces. The Kitava helm with Atziri horns looks awesome, wish they would add in more armor for challenges and boss kills again.
 
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D3 was really fun for a long time but it just feels like an arcade game now or something along those lines. I'm playing it until the Mayhem race on Friday and it just feels so uninvolved.
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I played this D3 season with a couple buddies, got pl'd in an hour, in the next coupld hours got my first monk set. In about another 8 hours got my main monk set I was going for, in the next few hours got up to GR 80, logged off and uninstalled. So what, like a day and a half to get geared and then it's a bore fest.

I get at least three solid weeks out of POE, sometimes closer to 4-5 weeks if it's a really cool season.
 
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Forum - Announcements - Adjustments to Existing Corpse Spells - Path of Exile

Highlight is the DD change.

Detonate Dead was the original corpse-destroying spell, available from a very low level. It had its time in the sun during the height of the ignite proliferation and double dipping metagames, but has seen a major decline in use since those mechanics were changed. This is because its corpse requirement makes it less practical to activate than a regular fire spell and its secondary damage harder to specialise in and support.

To let it have more of the benefits of a damaging spell, we've split the explosion into two parts, a corpse-based explosion that deals un-reflectable secondary damage like all other corpse explosions and a powerful spell explosion that has base fire damage that grows as the gem levels.This makes it something you can fully invest in, with a large base area that grows as the gem levels and destructive new visuals to match. Alongside the new Unearth or the improved Desecrate, it's now much easier to rely on this skill while leveling towards any of the new corpse-based skills or as a reliable area of effect skill that can carry you through the game.
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Rolled a trickster ED/MoM and it's different from the zerker. Things went roll over nothing to it till I got to Malachai. Even after he loses his shield and I can attack I can live for 5+ minutes but his health never goes down, at all. Have to work on this one.
 
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Rolled a trickster ED/MoM and it's different from the zerker. Things went roll over nothing to it till I got to Malachai. Even after he loses his shield and I can attack I can live for 5+ minutes but his health never goes down, at all. Have to work on this one.
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ED boss damage will be low throughout the story, it only really picks up later on when you can start mixing in blight and its threshold jewels in. In the meantime make sure you have your wither totem going.
 
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Got him down first try no deaths after I looked him up. Apparently the first run thru on the zerker I just spammed sunder and face tanked him and everything died, all his spawns including the hearts. Took like 15 seconds to kill on the zerker. I wasn't killing the hearts to lower his shield the second time. After I figured that out he died pretty quick with a little running around. That was dumb.

Yeah I had wither and enfeeble going. The only thing I run now with cast on damage is a cry since I can't get immortal call yet.

Been good practice for the upcoming league, assuming something major doesn't change. I got a box with a pair of eyes in it for a reward from the race. Oddly enough they look just like the pair of eyes I got from the harbinger league.

And yes I have more playtime than normal now.

This may be commond knowledge, but I found a site that calculates in chaotic orb prices how much to get so many of each color sockets based on requirements for str/int/dex and compares it to the jewler bench price. Helps a lot.

Vorici Chromatic Calculator
 
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well, I think plan A for 3.1 will be that Volatile dead+desecrate witch.
basically start off with desecrate to spawn balls of death to track offscreen and start a chain reaction of death. Lower cd+spell cascade, and possibly trap, should generate enough bodies for bosses, and gaps.
need to figure out if life+elementalist, or ES+occultist more ideal. fire+aoe favors elem obviously.


Plan B will just be fall back on sunder mace scion. (slayer+jugg)
 
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Yeah I'll probably do some corpse based witch too, seems alright and different than my usual summoner.

It's good they made all corpse explosion damage unreflectable, was worried about the new spells but that makes them a lot more relevant compared to the original DD.
 
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