Path of Exile

[Fabricated]

IIRC there's actually a build of the week video on the official youtube channel where someone uses that staff.

[Outlawedprod]

IIRC there's actually a build of the week video on the official youtube channel where someone uses that staff.

Where we're going we don't need staffs.

‏@pathofexile: LOL - we didn't expect this combo! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MZdwQMagkk

[koro]

A fair way into Act III now on my summoner. It's gotten a lot harder. The chaos-spitting snakes wreck my face, and fire golems slaughter my minions. It's not frustrating, just sightly annoying.

What was frustrating, though, was miniboss Piety. Jesus fuck that was dumb as shit. She could just one-shot all my minion at any time, and then start blasting at me. Further fights against her will be done in parties.

[Yegolev]

I'm hitting another minion-hump now that I'm out of the prison.  Also, I didn't expect skeletons to suck so much, but maybe I just need to L2P.

[koro]

Skeletons are pretty awful early on. Get something - anything - with three linked blues and slap both skeletons and zombies in there along with a Minion Life gem once you get one. It'll be a huge help.

[Yegolev]

Yep, I'm still waiting for support gems to show up.  Then the mad hunt for something with three linked blue.

[Nija]

I've got minion life for you.

[Ingmar]

Just picked up my first unique. Seen 2 or 3 others drop but other people got them... one was ninja'd from me.

Whoa, back up... this game doesn't have personal drops?

[ezrast]

They're on a timer. Don't get to your loot in a few seconds and it becomes FFA. This is a pretty common complaint though so hopefully an option is in the works. I think the timer is based on how close you are to the drop so they at least throw a bone to ranged characters in this regard.

[koro]

Just picked up my first unique. Seen 2 or 3 others drop but other people got them... one was ninja'd from me.

Whoa, back up... this game doesn't have personal drops?

No it doesn't. It has round robin on a kind of timer (you'll see a bar drain very quickly under an item drop) where only certain people can pick it up before the bar empties, but after that it's free for all.

It's one of the worst parts about the game right now, and if I group I just go into it with the expectation of not getting any loot.

[Rendakor]

A fair way into Act III now on my summoner. It's gotten a lot harder. The chaos-spitting snakes wreck my face, and fire golems slaughter my minions. It's not frustrating, just sightly annoying.

What was frustrating, though, was miniboss Piety. Jesus fuck that was dumb as shit. She could just one-shot all my minion at any time, and then start blasting at me. Further fights against her will be done in parties.

She actually killed me more in that fight (twice) than when I fought her for real (zero).

[Bzalthek]

I got my ass handed to me by her.  Then I equipped a 30% and 24& Lightning Resist rings and she could barely touch me.

[koro]

Yeah I slapped on some LR rings as well, and it helped, but all it meant was that I could take a couple hits instead of being gibbed instantly.

I've had no problem with act bosses so far though.

[ezrast]

Cruel miniboss Piety nearly ended my HC ranger through max resists and 1200+ life. I only beat her due to her willingness to stand in fire traps while I LoS'd her and regenerated.

[Fabricated]

I think that kinda speaks to the power of defensive stats. Granted this is on normal difficulty but I just face-tanked her with my marauder, drinking occasionally and sometimes sidestepping her spells.

[Yegolev]

I've got minion life for you.

OK, good excuse to figure out how to meet/trade.  I'll look for you as time permits.

[PalmTrees]

Just picked up my first unique. Seen 2 or 3 others drop but other people got them... one was ninja'd from me. Not sure what kind of character this will be useful for though, who uses staves? Oh and it's level req 13, but it dropped in a level 45 area.

Heh, after reading your post I got a unique drop too. A leather cap, Heatshiver. Had some evasion, + lvl for cold and fire gems, and -15% cold, fire resists. Sold it to the merchant for a couple of alchemy shards. Why even put garbage like that in there?

[apocrypha]

I whispered you a couple of times last night Yegolev (probably, er, early afternoon your time) but you ignored me so I gave up.

So, after getting that unique staff drop I made a fire witch to use it. The "build of the week" with it was a flame totem templar or marauder, and I've never seen that spell drop anywhere. One morning of public party leeching and she's level 25 and setting fire to all of act 3. 

[apocrypha]

Heh, after reading your post I got a unique drop too. A leather cap, Heatshiver. Had some evasion, + lvl for cold and fire gems, and -15% cold, fire resists. Sold it to the merchant for a couple of alchemy shards. Why even put garbage like that in there?

Yeah there is some dubious stuff to be had. Saw someone trying to sell some shoes with +100% item find but only when on low health. Might've been a hat.

[Lantyssa]

Would those shoes work with Chaos Innoculation, or would that make them never function?

[Fabricated]

I think it'd make them never work. 1/1 life is still 100% to the game.

[apocrypha]

Searing Touch staff + Fireball + LMP + Fork = Nuclear armageddon burning death machine.

[koro]

I think the game wants me to make a new direct damage caster.

[Fabricated]

Hmm, here's what I think I'm going to go for now with my explody-tank marauder.

Boom.

I take some of the major +dex/accuracy and +dex points since I prefer to use axes or swords over maces. I'd take resolute technique but crits are kinda nice.

[Bzalthek]

Kole hurt me.  From the inside.

[koro]

I'm thinking of rolling an alt so I don't get burned out on my summoner, but I'm not sure what. I want to do a melee, but I'm torn between a 2h Marauder, a dual dagger Shadow, or some kind of beaty Templar.

[Fabricated]

Kole hurt me.  From the inside.

I'm full on tank mode and loaded up with endurance charges, decent armor, and a bungload of HP (1000+ on normal) he goddamn near killed me like 5 times.

[Yegolev]

I whispered you a couple of times last night Yegolev (probably, er, early afternoon your time) but you ignored me so I gave up.

Didn't see, if I was actually on the terminal.  Sometimes I wander off.  My gaming time is generally not dedicated.

[apocrypha]

Hehe np, I am used to gaming with people who have families and lives and stuff, I'm often more surprised when someone actually *is* around :)

Got my fire witch up to mid-40s now, added Flame Totem to the mix. Drop a couple of fire traps, drop flame totem behind them and cast Flammability and Firestorm on the mobs as they run towards the totem. Very few make it past that.

Cruel Act 3 is a bit brutal though, I'm definitely going to need to get much better gear to make it any further.

[Fabricated]

I'm in early act 1 cruel and I think I may just spend my next 4 levels getting the 30% extra cold/lightning resists I skipped over heading out of the Marauder start area. The melee damage is nothing I can't handle so far but negative resists are double plus ungood.

I dunno if I wanna mess around with cruel or getting to merciless however. I think I'll just get into act 1/2 in cruel, farm up a bunch of good +rarity/quantity gear, then go to town farming orbs and uniques for other characters. The story presented to you is kinda threadbare but I actually really like PoE's worldbuilding and aesthetic. The only problem is that some of the class-given backgrounds and text kinda make you wonder why half of them wouldn't just prop their feet up in Sarn or the Forest Encampment and call it a life.

Like, what do the witch, ranger, shadow, and to an extent Marauder give a shit that the douchebags who banished them are running around the island?

[PalmTrees]

Revenge mainly. From what I remember about the character introductions, many of them weren't very nice people.

[Hoax]

Good Templar HC starting point?

[ezrast]

Unless you have something specific in mind you want to crit with, I'd drop the crit and accuracy nodes and take Resolute Technique. Crits aren't great without a significant investment and guaranteed hits will contribute much more to your DPS.

45% resist all from passives seems like overkill. You're going to end up with a lot of resists from gear because they are the only useful suffixes on most armor, and rares can have up to three suffixes. In particular, fire resist is worth much less than the others as the elemental status effect from fire damage doesn't do a whole lot, whereas freeze and shock will outright destroy an unprepared character.

There are a couple spots with points in +10 stat nodes that don't need to be there.

I'd also be concerned about mana usage, but that comes with a giant disclaimer that I have no idea how non-Eldritch Battery characters are supposed to go about mana management. Maybe leech is enough?

I'd tweak it to something like this.

edit: you've pretty much got the right idea though. I'm always pleasantly surprised when I click a build link and it isn't 111 points distributed into one of every single type of cluster because what if you want to use a fire spell.

[Rendakor]

I'm not sure how 45% resist all is overkill when you lose 20% in cruel and 60% in merciless. Otherwise I agree with most of ezrast's changes. I would argue you should pick up the Celestial Walker node near your starting point as well. I'd also prune a couple poorly chosen +8% Armor/8% ES Nodes in favor of the 18% Armor/2% Run Speed down near the Marauder starting point since you're not going to have any ES gear with no Int. I dropped the reduced mana since I've yet to see any mana issues on my Templar at 33; all you need is a few pieces of leech/on kill gear and you'll be fine.

Build.

[MrHat]

RIP L32 Bow Ranger.

Was fun while it lasted.  Dead to triple fireballs raining in from off screen at a break neck pace in Act 3.