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Borzak

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Bought my first MTx only because I had a little left after buying the map tab on sale. Last I bought tabs there wasn't a map tab. Anyway bought a portal and got an annoying pet on the free box deal. Wooo Hooo lol. Having said that still not sure I'm playing this next league.

Oh and this just went up.

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Pyros

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Looks alright, might as well pick that if you're playing pure channeling since it's gonna beat most other nodes assuming your channel is affected by castspeed(I think most are?), and you get some free phys reduction from it too.

There's a bunch more posts on reddit including

Wings look pretty dope but 36challenges...
 

Deathwing

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If you don't reroll much, 36 is a couple weeks. Less if you space it out and buy some of the challenges later in the league. 3.4 was stupid with how the bosses were RNG gated, they corrected that quite well in 3.5.
 

Fogel

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Anyone ever tried an ice crash jugg? I've been poking at poe.ninja and building my own and so far...i appear to have built a 1.2M dps (660k shaper) build for less than 5ex. I could easily push that to 1+M shaper dps with some pricey gear and a decent 2 mod watcher's eye.

So far I think sustain would be the problem. DOesn't every ball on MS give you leech? if so this thing will struggle on leech.

The allure with MS was each ball also gave lgoh which was massive for sustain.
 

Pyros

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If you don't reroll much, 36 is a couple weeks. Less if you space it out and buy some of the challenges later in the league. 3.4 was stupid with how the bosses were RNG gated, they corrected that quite well in 3.5.
Last time I played seriously was Incursion and after playing quite a lot, clearing most of the atlas and uber elder and hitting close to 95, I was still pretty far from being done with challenges. I bought a few to get to 24 and I was done with that but a bunch of the ones to 36 were fucking stupid shit. Maybe it won't be as bad this time but they do like their layered RNG challenges a lot so not sure.
 

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36 seems like alot of work most of the time, I really don't have time for all the kill x with x happening bullshit.

A kills enough for me, if that crap happens when i'm killing it so be it, if not i'm not gonna go out my way to complete it.

That's how I feel about it.
 

Pyros

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I actually don't mind these challenges that have you kill bosses in certain ways, the ones that annoy are more like "get all the x from this league, and btw some of these are super rare, or require a bunch of RNG to even spawn and more RNG to get" and shit like that. In incursion, it was shit like upgrading all the rooms to 3(which wasn't hard, just purely RNG based, and a bitch at times) or the worst offender, getting all kinds of results from the fairly rare rooms, like getting all 3 types of gem corruption from the lvl 3 gem corruption room. That shit was super cancer.

But yes generally you can remove the 4 worst out of the bunch and end with ok challenges for the 36 others, but a lot require a fuckton of time and/or currency to get and it still takes quite an effort to do them, especially if you're not amassing wealth. Mind you I had a bunch of maps I dumped in the guild stash back in Incursion, so selling them I could have maybe done most of the challenges up to 36, maybe. I forgot exactly which ones were too bullshit.

We'll see maybe I'll feel like doing this league, the wings do look pretty good for once, generally I don't do 36 both because it's annoying but also because the rewards aren't worth the trouble.

Need to warp a couple days ahead to see the patch notes first though.
 

Deathwing

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Ok, list me 5 challenges from the current league that can't be bought for a couple exalts or done while leveling to 95 with some foresight(this includes utilizing 820 or 4040).
 

dizzie

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Can't list 5 but there's 4 - atlas objectives, level 100, 600 delve, and bestiary bosses.

They are either expensive or time consuming - though i'm not sure about the bestiary, I think they went down in price cept the cat one. Finding them in the wild is damn near impossible.

If you had to do them all legit it's impossible for most people for sure.
 

Deathwing

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That's actually only two, your latter three are part of Endgame Grind.

Since you brought it up, Bestiary Bosses is a bit of a grind. It would be best to do them in group rotation, but it will still a significant cost. That being said, of course nobody should use any parts of Endgame Grind to try to hit 36 challenges.
 

Caliane

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I didnt even make 12 last league.

I do like both 12 and 24 cosmetics. heres hoping I have the tenacity.

I'm not super inspired on a build.
I liked the look of wave of conviction in the first trailer. It reminded me of D1 flamewave. however, A: not quite. B: 3 tri-element? phys/fire/lit? ugh. not even sure how that will scale... C: later vid it looked REALLY weak. taking 4-5 hits to kill trash. D:doorways..

So, I'm pretty off that idea. I'm currently looking at scion totem. Purifying flame totems might work.
Flame totem rework as well, an option.
 

Deathwing

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I'm hoping you can abuse Bane by supporting with Blasphemy and end doing something creative with Doedre's Skin.
 

dizzie

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I was looking at the new chaos skills too, I have no idea how to plan them, i guess i can just take my old occultists framework and work around that to some degree.

I got a flame totem enchant this league from uber lab, sigh....never sold even for 30c on a devoto's devotion.
 

Xequecal

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I'm hoping you can abuse Bane by supporting with Blasphemy and end doing something creative with Doedre's Skin.

You mean like it would project the AoE from the totem, or that Bane would just apply all the curses without regard to the curse limit and ignore the Blasphemy support?
 

Deathwing

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You mean like it would project the AoE from the totem, or that Bane would just apply all the curses without regard to the curse limit and ignore the Blasphemy support?
I'm thinking Bane supported by Blasphemy would be a way to apply multiple curses without 35% reservation for each curse beyond the first.
 
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Pyros

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They said Bane gets the curse tag, so Blasphemy support might work with it. Bane inherently applies linked curses to enemies it is cast upon. So, you might be able to apply curses via Bane Blasphemy for cheap.
A Curse tag doesn't mean it's a curse skill, just that it's affected by things that affect curses. Kinda like how Dom blow has a minion tag, but isn't affected by minion damage directly(the minions it summons are). Blasphemy specifically makes curse skills into auras. Making Bane into a permanent aoe dot that also applies all curses you have linked to it would be pretty weird.