Path of Exile

Deathwing said:

How does any system work when you can't pick up anything should be a default QA test case. Even if we had 1k spaces, you should still test it because that takes 1 hour tops. You find out it's annoying and then judge how much it's worth actually fixing.

They didn't test nearly full inventory.

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In Chris' economy we pay more for bulk. That's because in Chris' economy, just because something is listed on the market doesn't mean its actually for sale.

Me spam pinging 30 people to buy some currency and declining 10 invites after accepting the first one that popped up.

GD this fucking melee build. I just got absolutely face fucked by the Bramble Valley poison boss.

Time to change builds I think.

Also, I may love Blight, but this build is also incapable of running more than one direction lol.

Sigh, old man howls at moon and video games.

Penance said:

In Chris' economy we pay more for bulk. That's because in Chris' economy, just because something is listed on the market doesn't mean its actually for sale.

Me spam pinging 30 people to buy some currency and declining 10 invites after accepting the first one that popped up.

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Is her part Russian? Quantity has it's own quality.

Hey, PoE, am I a joke to you? I started the second map I have put Beyond on in this league and the first group of monsters spawned Abaxoth.

Beyond is the worst map mod in PoE, fight me.

Blade blast is a Hatred scaled skill now with the new eldritch implicits that let you easily hit full cold version.

And just like any Hatred skill the damage numbers are completely obscene.

This is the one someone sent me the other day. Damage looks obscene, but this is also not a cheap build with two curse on hit implicit rings and a power charge rime gaze etc, but even still if you cut the DPS in half it's still well above board

Yea I don't know why anyone ever clicks 40 blades in POB, it's literally never happening.

Even at 10 though it's what, like 6m DPS? Plenty to do all the content. Average blast hit in the ~200k range is basically the end goal for blade blast to feel really powerful.

I don't think there is any version of blade blast that still exists that doesn't have to use blades>blast to clear at this point, it's been too heavily nerfed in terms of AE.

I don't honestly know re: profane bloom specifically. I don't play a ton of occultist and don't really have a good feel for how much you need to scale chaos damage for the pops to be reliable.

Asenaths can pad your clear on almost any skill obviously, but I'd be more concerned with whether your 4-5l or whatever it may be bladefall will actually kill magic packs, much less rares.

Historically when blade blast was at its peak you could just clear regular packs by casting blade blast itself, even with no blades to detonate. Maybe that's true again given the base damage buffs?

I started manual BB/BF on my Chieftain this league. Got him to 89 and rerolled in Red Maps, not to lack of damage, but to lack of defense which was mostly my own fault.

There's a few tricks for BB/BF. One is the new Ashes of the Stars amulet. That 30% qual on blade blast gives it a good amount of extra area effect. The second is the physical node which allows you to gain extra blades per cast and extra maximum blades per Bladefall. The third is helmet enchants with either BB AE or BF extra Volley. If you use conc effect AND INTENSITY with Bladefall it nicely stacks most of the blades and it's not unreasonable to get between 8 and 13 blades (without the volley enchant) in a normal boss sized area in ONE cast. Cast it twice and you've got your 20+ blades ready to blast. My starter with ~2 ex in gear maybe had something like 170k damage per blade (with Ngamahu's up). If I kept investing in it I could easily get to probably 300k per blade (Watcher's eyes, better jewels, better clusters, etc) as I literally rerolled this 89 the third day of the league.

The playstyle for manual cast wasn't that bad, either. Mana is a problem I just solved by using lifetap as my Chieftain leeches a ton. Cast speed I didn't fully stack and I was still at ~3 casts per second (spell echo on BF) and it felt fine. It was nice for bosses with prep time as you could load and blow them pretty fucking fast.

You could definitely work with Kitava's, but you'd have to do some weird mana flask/arcane surge effect/Heiro mana stacking shit I think to make it comfortable. I preferred Chieftain for some defense reasons as well as full convert (which with new glove implicits is very easy for anyone). I also use an elder helmet for my BB to get conc and immolate for a free 6 link. They're pretty cheap to buy and if you double corrupt them. Craft +AoE gems from bench on them, double corrupt for +2(AoE gems) and then get +3 global and you're looking at a very nasty lvl 27 Blade Blast.

Edit: Oh shit Mathil's making a BV Templar. A lot of this stuff is going to be figured out for us!