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Topic: Path of Exile (Read 461388 times)
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Loving the new skill gem art:
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« Last Edit: February 26, 2013, 11:34:33 PM by apocrypha »
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Rendakor
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I like them in the inventory and stash, but not in chat links; it's hard to see their colors and thus tough to tell if a skill is class-appropriate without mousing over it.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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ezrast
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Oh, that's super nice. I can already tell what a few of them are just from the art. No more mousing over an entire stash page.
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Fabricated
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~Living the Dream~
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Also most of the shields don't look like you put a handle on a dinner plate or pulled the front off a chest of drawers now. Yay.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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trias_e
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Just had all of my orbs removed from my stash in a 1 hour period when I was logged off from the game. This was quite a bit of wealth. Very sad.
Make sure your shit is secure, your password is secure, etc, etc. Never been hacked before. Feels bad :(
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Phred
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Just had all of my orbs removed from my stash in a 1 hour period when I was logged off from the game. This was quite a bit of wealth. Very sad.
Make sure your shit is secure, your password is secure, etc, etc. Never been hacked before. Feels bad :(
Sadly a bit late for you but they just implemented the same system GW2 uses where if you log in from a different ip than usual then you have to put in a code they mail you.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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This game is bad for my alt-itis. Hmm, wrong screenshots, that witch is level 50 now.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Bunk
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Operating Thetan One
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"Welcome to the internet, pussy." - VDL "I have retard strength." - Schild
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Hoax
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Try this and let me know if it works? http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/19723Have it downloaded but haven't bothered yet. Melee is pretty terrible endgame right now if that matters to you but I'm assuming softcore who cares about endgame (this is f13 afterall) so if so just go for it but know that there are builds that require gear and builds that require gems and some builds that require both. That can get pretty tough on you and make the game a lot less fun if you don't build something simple first. The simple builds are ones that use a skill that does enough damage just from leveling the gem and that skill comes as a quest reward. That's as simple as PoE can get although you still need to balance stats/regens/hp/ele resists/chaos resist as you go.
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« Last Edit: February 27, 2013, 12:22:41 PM by Hoax »
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation. -William Gibson
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Lakov_Sanite
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Duel wielding duelist with the life converted to mana perk and it's cleave alllll day long. So much more fun than D3....still looks like ass sometimes, but more fun.
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~a horrific, dark simulacrum that glares balefully at us, with evil intent.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Does anyone have an opinion on "Iron Reflexes" (converts all evasion rating to armor) as something to build around. I did a quick build on a duel wielder that would be at +140% evasion at 47 points. Does this seem feasible?
At that level, definitely. What I'm not sure about is how useful armour, evasion or energy shield really are at high levels. I've read several posts on the official forums from people complaining that armour is essentially useless against high level mobs and that only endurance charges offer viable protection. I don't have anyone past 60 yet (too many alts!) so I can't personally confirm that.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Hoax
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I think its something like at 20k armor you are immune to small attacks but huge attacks from special prefixes/mob types can still kill you very dead very fast. The problem is 30k 40k 50k 60k 70k even are all the same situation. You take very little damage from normal physical damage but you could still be very dead very quickly to those things. So basically armor only gets you so safe and after that its a waste to go crazy and make your build only about armor tanking.
That's all third hand though so prob me talking out my ass.
You can do crazy things with evasion, look up Devmoon, but common HC wisdom is that pure evasion tanking is a joke because when it fails you are dead. For Softcore though it is probably pretty cool and fun.
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation. -William Gibson
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ezrast
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The armor mechanics are final_damage = base_damage * (base_damage / (base_damage + armor / 12)). So 2400 armor will reduce a 100-damage attack by 66%, but a 200-damage attack by only 50%, and a 400-damage attack by only 33%. The number on your character sheet is based on an average hit for your level. Having high armor is great for making your flasks last longer and surviving trash whites, but stacking life or ES gives you more bang for your buck when it comes to surviving the really dangerous monsters.
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Fabricated
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Yeah, I noticed on my Marauder even in just cruel difficulty that my decision to invest in getting as many endurance charges as possible pays off a looooot more than armor. I'm keeping at the proper gear curve and I've generally been lucky enough to find the most up to date base items with good rolls and bonus armor and I only really become tanky after building up a few endurance charges.
I didn't take any bonus armor passives yet though. I usually sit at 55%-ish+ damage reduction before endurance charges. After all my charges? Try about 88%.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Bunk
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Sounds like it should be fun to try, so I'll keep at it. "End game" is a total non factor for me, due to altitis, so it should be fine.
I'm still trying to get a grasp on the whole support gem thing, and how sockets are linked or not. Need to read more.
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"Welcome to the internet, pussy." - VDL "I have retard strength." - Schild
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EWSpider
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I've been playing this as Nyshtar, level 45 Shadow. Always down to blow shit up with someone. I have several lower level alts as well. I definitely like it better than D3 overall though I somtimes wish the combat was as smooth as D3's was.
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most often known as Drevik
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Nija
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End game is actually pretty fun due to maps changing a lot of factors.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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My biggest problems with this at the moment are the messy graphics in a full party and the fucking impossible to see cursor in those situations.
I mean, this is a mild example, it's usually a lot, lot worse than this:
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Fabricated
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~Living the Dream~
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Playing multiplayer is retarded with random people and not because people suck, but rather because you can't not get like 2-3 fucking summon-based witches.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Phred
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My biggest problems with this at the moment are the messy graphics in a full party and the fucking impossible to see cursor in those situations.
Oh look it's guild wars 2. :)
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Playing multiplayer is retarded with random people and not because people suck, but rather because you can't not get like 2-3 fucking summon-based witches.
God yes, I hate summoners. I was thinking of building one until I started group playing and realised what fucking pain they are.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Pennilenko
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Don't hate cause you are jealous. My summon witch is awesome.
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I'm running a dual totem spark witch.
Don't worry - I don't bring out the summons in group.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Hey, I just hit 60 with my dual totem Ice Spear witch, I'm hardly blameless when it comes to screen-filling. Soon as I get hold of a GMP gem it'll be even worse
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Pennilenko
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Hey, I just hit 60 with my dual totem Ice Spear witch, I'm hardly blameless when it comes to screen-filling. Soon as I get hold of a GMP gem it'll be even worse My Ice witch, is in her 30s and is currently a Single LMP+Ice Spear + Totem , and LMP+ Ice Spear. I don't have enough points i think to make it to dual totems. I can't wait till i find a piece of gear that lets me add fork to my ice spear totem. I've been playing around with LMP+Freezing Pulse, which is like a shotgun blast, but its too short range for my comfort.
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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EWSpider
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Hey, I just hit 60 with my dual totem Ice Spear witch, I'm hardly blameless when it comes to screen-filling. Soon as I get hold of a GMP gem it'll be even worse My Ice witch, is in her 30s and is currently a Single LMP+Ice Spear + Totem , and LMP+ Ice Spear. I don't have enough points i think to make it to dual totems. I can't wait till i find a piece of gear that lets me add fork to my ice spear totem. I've been playing around with LMP+Freezing Pulse, which is like a shotgun blast, but its too short range for my comfort. Add Faster Projectiles to Freezing Pulse to get much better range with it.
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most often known as Drevik
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Dual totems + faster casting + dual curses (Forstbite/Crit Weakness) = most stuff gets frozen as soon as it comes in range and dies before unfreezing. I help out with traps, mana permitting.
It's not the highest DPS in the world, but I bring 2 auras and 2 curses and lots of frozen mobs to a party. Solo I'm very, very safe, almost nothing touches me. Soloed all 3 bandits on Merciless earlier on without a single death. Kraityn took ages though, but the few times he hit me he didn't get through my ES :)
Gets a bit tricky in the tunnel type dungeon maps though, Merciless Vaal Ruins was hairy, I either need to go CI or get some more resists I think.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Lakov_Sanite
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I'm not sure I can fgorgive this game of the duck punch that happens after beating Piety. My reaction: "........seriously?"
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Pennilenko
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I'm not sure I can fgorgive this game of the duck punch that happens after beating Piety. My reaction: "........seriously?"
I am not sure what you mean.
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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Rendakor
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"Game's not done, restart on hard mode til we patch in Act 4" maybe?
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Lakov_Sanite
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Yeah, it was such an abrupt letdown and much worse than D3 to me cause I was actually just getting into it, I was not prepared for the story just...ending. Yes it may be a minor thing in spite of an otherwise fun game but it bugs me a lot that they didn't even put in some kind of splash screen saying something along the lines of "The vortex of power emanating from the scepter assaults your mind, trapping you in your memories, for now" or some other bullshit.
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Rendakor
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It's a beta.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Phred
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It's a beta.
Ya back in alpha it was only 2 acts and the vaal fight wasn't even there for a good while after I joined. Sometimes a bit of research is a good thing.
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Lakov_Sanite
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I like to research the endings of all the games I play before I play them...
Also the "it's in beta" is kind of a shitty excuse when it's a free to play game open to everyone, things like this are never 'done'
Finally, I didn't even say it was their problem. The game IS in beta and they did nothing wrong by having an unfinished game but the way it ends is jarring and annoying and will leave bad impressions.
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