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yes.
Alot of speculation a 5th herald in the unannounced gems as well. A chaos/poison one.
That won't have the added phys, conversion, hatred/ash synergies however.
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Alot of speculation a 5th herald in the unannounced gems as well. A chaos/poison one.
That won't have the added phys, conversion, hatred/ash synergies however.
Korrupt
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I loved it during the BF poison meta, those wolves would get the fortify and faster attacks from whirling blades you had socketed in it. This meta is going to be all about that D P S though and how far into delves you can get.
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Exciting times. I ask because I am still learning how to determine if a build is good or not.
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I'm leaning towards barrage (tornado shot to clear thru the easy stuff, barrage for bosses and harder stuff) ranged attack totems, Quill Rain stacking poison. Something tells me that firing crazy piercing projectiles down the hallway is the way to go.
Push Delve in SC first, make support Occultist later in season on HC.
Push Delve in SC first, make support Occultist later in season on HC.
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Korrupt
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Yeah im going to image wanders and bow toons are going to really do work with how wild their DPS is currently. The way this is shaping up I am going to probably play with a group and want to KMS farming for mirrors the first 3 days instead of playing alone peacefully. This league its my turn to be the seller / bitch boi too, really not looking forward to interacting with traders.
Caliane
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Staff is pretty cool.
"trigger on consume" So, Offerings, detonate skills, or bodyswap. some serious potential.
problem. its a staff. red/blue. proj gems might be a pain in the ass to get on it. Cremation scales with projectiles. smite also can use staves.
"trigger on consume" So, Offerings, detonate skills, or bodyswap. some serious potential.
problem. its a staff. red/blue. proj gems might be a pain in the ass to get on it. Cremation scales with projectiles. smite also can use staves.
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You only need 2 greens for phantasms, GMP and Faster proj. They cast spells still, it's like a shitty EK, so you want echo/controlled destruction/minion damage and maybe added fire or some other shit I don't know. So it won't be hard to roll the right sockets, and they don't have to be linked so that's nice. I think a staff is perfectly playable as a summoner at least, you do lose the shield slot with necro aegis but you can do without, just the 45-66phys damage on minions is pretty big for damage output to compensate, you still have block chance. You could do skeles too, typical necro build, and use hatred with generosity and grip of the council for some massive added cold scaling. The main concern as usual is having to use leap slam instead of WB/shield charge, but it's not THAT bad I guess, sucks the weapon didn't come with 26% cast/attackspeed instead though.
Also one interesting thing to note about minions is that in the herald of purity teaser, they mentionned there will be new minion passives in the tree. That's possibly a pretty big deal, especially if some of them are like accuracy(great for SRS/AW builds mostly, they're also adding unique gloves to help but it's only 1k accuracy, having more would be nice), and if there's a keystone with fancy new tech.
Overall the shift from Guardian to a team based or minion based attacking build and all the new minions centric gear, skills and passives might end up shaking stuff up for minion builds. Which for someone like me who played minion builds 90% of my entire time in PoE, is a pretty nice change.
And I guess it can be played in non minion builds too, but I'm not sure it'll be worth it then. I guess some weird detonate/cremation/volatile hybrid thing, but you won't scale the minions for shit most likely, so I question how good that is, unless Guardian has some "your spell damage adds minions damage" stuff, or they have this as a notable on the tree or something.
Also one interesting thing to note about minions is that in the herald of purity teaser, they mentionned there will be new minion passives in the tree. That's possibly a pretty big deal, especially if some of them are like accuracy(great for SRS/AW builds mostly, they're also adding unique gloves to help but it's only 1k accuracy, having more would be nice), and if there's a keystone with fancy new tech.
Overall the shift from Guardian to a team based or minion based attacking build and all the new minions centric gear, skills and passives might end up shaking stuff up for minion builds. Which for someone like me who played minion builds 90% of my entire time in PoE, is a pretty nice change.
And I guess it can be played in non minion builds too, but I'm not sure it'll be worth it then. I guess some weird detonate/cremation/volatile hybrid thing, but you won't scale the minions for shit most likely, so I question how good that is, unless Guardian has some "your spell damage adds minions damage" stuff, or they have this as a notable on the tree or something.
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I really enjoyed running burning spectres back in Abyss league. I guess I need to wait for patch notes but I am excited to try a skeleton or zombie summoner build or some form of a BV build.
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Knitted horror specters are gonna be back, baby!
Edit: Aw fuck, not only are they not desecratable, but they're not "spells" like I thought. Slashed miscreations are phys spells though, so they may be a good specter to slot into your staff if you don't just use a 5l/6l Vis Mortis. Also with the new +1 Specter on rare boots with craftable mods, it's gonna be a summoner league for sure.
Edit: Aw fuck, not only are they not desecratable, but they're not "spells" like I thought. Slashed miscreations are phys spells though, so they may be a good specter to slot into your staff if you don't just use a 5l/6l Vis Mortis. Also with the new +1 Specter on rare boots with craftable mods, it's gonna be a summoner league for sure.
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Forum - Announcements - Changes to Zana and the Atlas - Path of Exile
I like where this is going, a lot.
I like where this is going, a lot.
Get us all the details and we can probably pool that quite easily.
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Doesn't this allow for easier shaper "squares", something they don't want? If you can permanently bottleneck elder influence at 4 maps, you can elder/shaper farm other parts of the map besides UGS. Not sure there actually ARE better maps than Elder UGS. But whatever, farming for farming's sake, boring.
Strongholds themselves look fun.
My guess is that it's going to be cast while running, which is still a nice little perk.
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r/pathofexile - Introducing Instant Skills
so, you can use instant warcrys, WHILE bladeflurrying.. or cycloning, or leapslaming, etc.. Self cast immortal call on the table.
so, you can use instant warcrys, WHILE bladeflurrying.. or cycloning, or leapslaming, etc.. Self cast immortal call on the table.
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Damn, just what the game needed.
Now, just give me time to react to danger so I can press my situational cooldowns.
I also hope this means they're starting to implement animation canceling so they can tone down the ridiculousness of stacking attack speed and movement skills.
Now, just give me time to react to danger so I can press my situational cooldowns.
I also hope this means they're starting to implement animation canceling so they can tone down the ridiculousness of stacking attack speed and movement skills.