Path of Exile

LiquidDeath said:

Can't at all. The trap sections kill me because Vaal Pact + no enemies to leech. The writhing jar helps a bit, but not when I can't refill. I know i need to git gud at running traps, but for some reason my leap slam misses its target for inexplicable reasons.

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I mean while some builds can just run through traps, that's fairly specific in the way you build your char(damage reduction from like end charges and high armor iirc to mitigate traps). You should probably just use a few regrets before the run, and unspec vaal pact for trap sections, then respec for Izaro. Assuming you do need vaal pact for Izaro, not entirely sure but maybe. Only gonna cost you 3 regrets to run it once for the ascendancy points.

Health flasks are more than enough to do the uber lab trap sections on anyone as long as you're not standing in them for stupid amounts of time. I did uber lab on my necro and I had like no defenses, just a relatively average hp pool(I think about 5k back then?) and some potions and it was super easy. Just don't rush it either, it's better to take a bit of time to observe the traps and see what you have to do than rush through and then find out you're running into a trap moving in the same direction as you are. Also the minor god for flask charges is great, so you can just stand in a safe spot for a few seconds to get charges back if you're low.

Vaal pact makes it unnecessarily hard and honestly I don't think many builds with vaal pact can do lab regardless.

Got pretty lucky today, found a Lich in an abyssal depth. Funny that I never found one during abyss, granted I didn't play that much back then but still to like 80 or so. Dropped a 2socket tombfist with max life and near max attack speed so double lucky, just wish it had been the other lich that's needed for one of the challenges but oh well. It was actually the most challenging fight I've had to do so far, mostly because it seems once it summons the totem things, it shields itself with a damage reflect shield so it'd instantly kill all my zombies and skeletons(and almost killed me the first time cause I was in melee range, seems to pulse aoes when it gets hit).

Getting close to being able to afford a good body now, good thing I didn't buy a rare I guess, I'll just tabula until I can get my 6EX and buy a vis mortis or maybe a belly(but I feel belly isn't going to be that good when I have like 200%+ life already and getting more life% every level from now on).

Trying to work on these stupid challenges that require me not to kill bosses is a fucking pain in the ass too. Took 2 tries for Riftwalker, had to basically hug the edge and only go in for a few secs, let the zombies/spectres hit him a few times, then convocation them back away to get him to teleport without him dying like an idiot. Trying to do the vaal pyramid shit now but it's cancer, I can get the 3 bosses to spawn, then kill the reave fucker away from the others fine(although it's rippy as fuck because I can't move and have to facetank it to not aggro the rest), but everytime after that, the 1st guy runs into melee range and gets annihilated before I can kill the titty bitch. I should probably unsummon my spectres for this fight but then I have to resummon them in a higher map again, stupid shit. I still have to do the one with SRS 100crow shit too, haven't tried this one but sounds pretty dumb.

I hate shit where I have to "not kill" stuff to succeed, it's a pain in the ass to do on a summoner. Fucking Vorici is still rank 5 because I got 3 daillies in a row that were "kill the guards but not him" or "keep the boss at low hp for 8secs", but at rank 5 everything literally dies in one hit. And I can't seem to get him to spawn in maps either, I get fucking Catarina every other map instead.

Anyway, random question, what should I do with sextants? Should I use them on shaped maps? The low sextants I mean, there's no use in keeping them right? Do they work on shaped maps even?

Malinatar said:

I haven't played for a couple of days, but I'm running a Solar Guards build as recommended and i'm having decent success. You think running a Tabula is better than a 5L Mortis which I am currently using. They cost around 40C now.

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I'm not building spectres though, I have spectres in 4L. 6L is skeletons, the spectres are there for fancy pewpew, mostly for clear speed, skeletons do the heavy lifting on everything tough.

If you're using spectres definitely get a Vis Mortis over a Tabula, 1spectre is basically 33% more damage(assuming you also have bones of ullr) but that doesn't take into account the initial burst from solar guards beam or the fact they can split and attack different stuff. And then Unholy Might gives them 33% added phys as chaos, which is a fair amount of free damage, so damage wise it's probably a bit better than a lvl 20 support gem(although I'm not 100% sure on what's the 6th link on SGs), but having 4 spectres is a lot better for QoL than having only 3.

For me, it isn't nearly as clear cut since spectres are secondary, which is why I'm also hesitating with Belly which gives a bunch of other stats.