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Oh cool missed that.
Anyway thinking with ignite changes, maybe I'll finally play a non summoner next league. Thinking elementalist ignite vaal fireball with fireball treshold and all that shit. Haven't really figured a build or if it's gonna be worth it yet but that sounds kinda nice.
Might just make a skeleton build though, having vaal skeleton for almost free sounds pretty good, since before it was often hard to find a gem socket for it.
Caliane
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Everyone going to be playing elementalist. haha. its going to be like 50%.
I was eyeing one for my alt in beast, but never made it. Going to hold off in the throwback league, and do it for 3.3..
looking at tri herald prolif.
I can't decide on what the primary skill will be. Presumably fire based, as ignite and herald of ash will scale with a primary fire skill, while ice/lit will scale of anything.
Flamesurge was the first plan. But, all things have been considered.. wand attacks, bow attacks, firetrap. now this vaal change yeah. vaal fireball would be beast.
attacks will make leech easy.
I was eyeing one for my alt in beast, but never made it. Going to hold off in the throwback league, and do it for 3.3..
looking at tri herald prolif.
I can't decide on what the primary skill will be. Presumably fire based, as ignite and herald of ash will scale with a primary fire skill, while ice/lit will scale of anything.
Flamesurge was the first plan. But, all things have been considered.. wand attacks, bow attacks, firetrap. now this vaal change yeah. vaal fireball would be beast.
attacks will make leech easy.
Korrupt
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CoC was probably my favorite meta in the 5 years ive played this game. I really hope one day they revert it back to what it used to be, the fun levels were maximum. Another meta I really enjoyed which looks like it might come back was the ignite proliferation meta before CoC.
Think I am doing Flashback for sure and going in, haven't gotten a Demi's in 2018 and it might be fun.
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Borzak
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My plan is to wait a week to start the race. Just long enough for the guild bank to fill up with fat loot for me to use with minimal work. I mean it's a plan, didn't say it was a good plan. But it's a plan.
Just kidding. Going something totally wonky because I probably won't play long this time.
Just kidding. Going something totally wonky because I probably won't play long this time.
Caliane
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Trap mirror/blink arrow is a long well known thing.
Summoner buffs passed it in MA/BA actual killing power though. more raw dps, higher up time, immediate dps, more defenses for you, and they dont die.
Trap MA/BA has a delay in activating. massive burst. often die before activating, or dont activate due to area.
Summoner buffs passed it in MA/BA actual killing power though. more raw dps, higher up time, immediate dps, more defenses for you, and they dont die.
Trap MA/BA has a delay in activating. massive burst. often die before activating, or dont activate due to area.
Hatorade
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I know I am a noob at only 400ish hours played but I had no idea. Really says something about PoE though, the meta is so far beyond normal players scope.
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LiquidDeath
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This is my biggest problem with the game.
It is quite literally impossible to play the game effectively without a massive amount of research, even just to get through Act 10. The fact that you have to spend hours on forums or youtube to even understand the basic interactions between skills, stats, and items is ridiculous.
Caliane
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yeah, traps,mines and totems bypass cooldowns. The totem/trap has the cooldown, not you.
So, you can traps/cluster trap, to throw a whole bunch of Mirror arrows down. Ranged attack totem as well.
So, with traps, the CD is effectively removed. however Traps themselves have recharge.
With ranged attack totem. The totem has the CD, and will spam MA for its duration, on CD. (this is not as effective as Summoner self cast, or trapper. although I never tested it for heirophant, or scion.)
Obviously this also applies to other skills with cooldowns. Flamedash, coldsnap, etc.
most of these are not great. But yeah, a very interesting thing, as they do ignore the CD. always something to consider, when looking for a hidden meta.
ps. this discussion made me question of ranged attack totem works with SST. It does not.
Vorph
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Anyone have a good guide to elder loops that actually talks about how to start the whole process? I've seen plenty that explain the mechanics of elder/shaper and how the loop itself works, but none of them have approached it from the perspective of a completely blank atlas and how to go from there to a stable loop most efficiently.