Path of Exile

"we want chance uniques" indeed. some really crazy stuff.

My frenzy and power charges aren't showing up around my head. I thought it was just this character but went and looked at my harbinger character and him neither. They changed something in the patch I assume but I don't know what to switch so that it shows up. I can turn on/off flask icons but that doesn't apply to power/frenzy charges.

Anyone doing hard content yet who can comment on what it's like with vaal pact change?

The new scorching ray scepter is the tits, it's only like a few chaos and absolutely obliterates anything in early maps.

got a poet's pen to drop. still trying to figure out how i can make use of this.

Edit - didn’t realiZe there was an internal cooldown on the trigger.

Seems like good use for this would be to put an empower gem in it with whatever else damage spell? At lvl 100 that would be a lot of +levels

Cant cyclone with a wand, its a ranged weapon.

Pasteton said:

got a poet's pen to drop. still trying to figure out how i can make use of this.

Edit - didn’t realiZe there was an internal cooldown on the trigger.

Seems like good use for this would be to put an empower gem in it with whatever else damage spell? At lvl 100 that would be a lot of +levels

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Pretty sure a conc effect, etc would be more powerful then double empower.
DW is def the way to go with that wand, I think. one alone, probably isnt great.

brutality+lmp+unearth.
Detonate dead+spellcascade+ele focus
frenzy+coh+lifeleech+whatevs..

Shield throw still in the works.. 10th unannounced gem was a SUPPORT. so not this.

So after bumrushing to 77 I think I can share some thoughts on 3.1/abyss:

The new atlas mechanics are awesome, the new rares seem to be pretty scarce though, I got only 1 shaper rare out of 4 maps I could run so far. I'm sure people will have it down to science soon enough though, but until then you have this beautiful sense of wonder and exploration. The abyss mechanic is nice, but honestly when there's like 3-4 in a map, it starts to feel like a chore, especially once they go to 4 holes or spawn the mini dungeon. And then you run into a breach which is done in a minute including looting ... The new abyss items are nice, but all of them have the breach ring syndrome - so much random shit that I'm not entirely sure is necessarily better than the items previously. Sure, once you have all the resists and look to squeeze the last bit of dps from your gear, they will come in handy, but defensive stats are simply more useful when you start hitting maps. With the amount of slots available these days, the one jewel that comes with the belt is like a piss in the ocean. Then again, I'm playing scorching ray, so flat damage is kinda useless to me.

The new maps are absolutely gorgeous, I think my favorite ones that I ran so far are City square and Haunted mansion. The lack of harbinger orbs is sad, but I guess they want you to trade a bit, otherwise 3.1 rocks !

This is probably the first time no part of the game feels unpolished or lacking. Sure they could add voiceovers to a5-10 and so on, but otherwise everything feels fleshed out.

Yeah, it depends on the gems you're using it with. Savage hit is what I used for barb last league with it casting bladefall/vortex/enfeeble.

For the new CwDT -> Blood Rage -> Immortal Call / Arakaali cheese I went with 2/8/4. You want that combo going off all the time.

Deathwing said:

How do people usually tune their CWDT level? I go for level 1 if I want the supported spell cast as soon/often as possible, which seems rare. Otherwise, I mostly set it to whatever a savage hit is for character at the time.

Also, why isn't CWDT + Vaal Grace more common?

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You can trigger vaal skills ?

Anyway, I generally set it to whatever level is roughly 40% of my HP, you want it to go off when you can top yourself with a flask, not when you hit 10%, since the next hit will probably kill you flask or not. Sometimes I put a golem into my CwDT setup, because recasting is a pain and the bonuses don't scale all that much.

The Arakaali pantheon has a buff that gives you more life recovery when you take a degen recently, and blood rage degen is a cheap and easy way to constantly trigger it