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Hateyou

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Found a Soul Taker last night on merciless piety! Made my week lol.
Grats sir.

This is the kind of stuff that's driving me nuts with this game, you just got your first char to 73ish?. I've got a friend who has been playing a little over 2 months. He has found a Koams Chest, Lioneye bow, thunderfists, and an alpha howl. I've been playing since before release, have several map capable characters in their 70s and 80s and haven't found an item worth even an exalt let alone something that's worth 5-20. I may have some random rares rotting in the bank that could go for an exalt, but yeah, selling is incredibly time consuming and frustrating. The RNG in this game is rough.

Don't even get me started on map RNG, no way I could stomach spending the time and currency that Pasteton does on maps. I'm grateful he does, as it keeps me playing, but I think they need to ease it up a bit on maps dropping.

/rant off, grats again bro =p
 

zombiewizardhawk

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Thanks, went on a spending spree today with the proceeds from soul taker. Bought a 4L Hubris for 1 exa with 107% ES, and 4x% lightning and fire resist. Used 3 exa on it and got it up to 478 ES with the 4x% dual resists and I think intelligence/block recovery. Was pleasantly surprised considering all 3 exalts on my Vaal Regalia gave me doody and now I have to try again (or maybe i'll find myself a shavronne!).

As far as the RNG being rough, what do you usually run? Group of 6 (lot more quantity)? MF build or at least one in the party (the one i've been sporking on lately has had anywhere from 40-100 IIQ and 250-330 rarity since she was level 31 (and she has 370 deaths, that's a lot of exp down the drain... I could be mid 80s heheh)
 

Pasteton

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Yea speaking of which, I'm on my last legs with this game. Hateyou let me know when you're free again ill buy a shipyard for us to run. After that I think I am going to a hiatus for I don't know how long.
After the rng today, and with ffxiv coming out soon, I just don't need the aggravation of the rng in this game.

Wizard - we run around 100 quant and 200-300 rarity
 

Joeboo

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It's all just dumb luck. Out of my ~10ish characters I've taken to level 60ish in Hardcore, almost all of them have either found a 5L chest as a drop, or I crafted one with less than 1 stack of fusings. I gave away 3 5L chests and a 5L staff this past week in softcore, and since then I've already found 2 more in hardcore. 1 was a 5L chest just sitting on a vendor in town, and another randomly dropped as a common grey item already 5-linked. I see videos of some people spending hundreds of fusings just to get a 5L, much less a 6L, and they seem to be pretty common for me for whatever reason.
 

Pasteton

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hateyou im glad we atleast got to do an endgame map =p even if it sucked.
So I will be MIA for a while from this game - maybe until the release - but I did craft up that vaal you gave me - got a nice roll with 800 es and I 5L'd it too, lol.
I probably used 5x the currency it woulda cost me to buy it but I can finally say I crafted something =p
Let me know when youre on next I will get it to you
 

Hateyou

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Cool, I'll probably hop on tomorrow around 1:30 pst like normal. I still plan on playing but going to explore more builds for a while, burnt out on the shitty end game
 

Pasteton

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I 'll probably miss you for the next 3 weeks or so between work and travel. Gave it to my friend to give you. pm'd you details
 

zombiewizardhawk

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Cool, I'll probably hop on tomorrow around 1:30 pst like normal. I still plan on playing but going to explore more builds for a while, burnt out on the shitty end game
I'm getting ready to start a 2h axe double-strike build. Leaning towards marauder but might go duelist, still trying to get opinions on that one.
 

Joeboo

Molten Core Raider
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Haha, motherfucker. Finally get past merciless Vaal for the first time on Hardcore(thanks to double curses, enfeeble + temporal chains), and I immediately die to Perpetus in the next zone. Fucker was down along the south zone wall, where he's almost NEVER at, maybe 1-2% of the time at most. 2-shotted me with his goddamn bear traps. Time for a break from PoE for a while...that one pisses me right off. Sent another 5L BP to softcore...
 

Joeboo

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I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the open Descent test league this weekend, that's a hell of a lot of fun just grinding through level after harder level with no way to go to town. Couple new monster models I haven't seen before either, like the things that looked like big skeletal bears.
 

zombiewizardhawk

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So I just cost myself 4+ exalteds because my mouse stuck a little bit while I was trying to 4S my alpha's howl and instead I end up clicking on my fucking 625 ES 5L 6S vaal regalia and turn it into a 2S...

Not such a great start to the day after being so happy about getting a 6L and a decent helm to replace the GG one I just sold yesterday...
 

Joeboo

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Haven't played this in a couple months, but the official launch of version 1.0 on Steam is coming Oct 23rd

Path of Exile 1.0 Launch Preview | Free Online MMORPG and MMO Games List - OnRPG

Highlights:

New prestige class, the Scion, who opens up after you beat the game and starts smack dab in the middle of the skill tree. Uses all 3 stats as a hybrid class.
Guilds with shared stash tabs
Trigger Gems:
Trigger Gems are new support link gems similar to past support gems, but allowing you to attach multiple on-hit (offensive) or on-damage (defensive) abilities tied to a single weapon or armor piece. What does that mean in English? It means if you're a gambling man, you can throw a gem into place with a percentage chance that not only multiple strings of lightning will come out, but maybe an explosion of flame will compliment it. The defensive trigger gems work the same way when you take damage, meaning if you stick various ones in different segments of your gear, you can turn yourselfinto a walking firework display. Be sure to check out James' MMOHuts' News Recap next week for a preview of the awesomeness because words just don't do it justice.
 

Selix

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Ok I just read the article and holy shit I can't wait for all that to come out.anyone know if there will be a wipe with 1.0? If so I need to choose what character I will use to level up my first time through.
 

rush02112

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No character wipes, but there will be 2 new 4 month leagues which will start when 1.0 is released. Look for the 36 minute gamestop video talking about PoE, towards the end Chris talks about what the new "features" of each league will be.