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gem info is out edition

[PoE 1]
Mirage League launches on March 6th
>3.28 Patch Notes
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3913392
>Compiled links, tools and utilities
https://pastebin.com/SHt8unCt

[PoE 2]
>Druids
https://pathofexile2.com/druids
>Ongoing 0.4 patch notes
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/2212

>>559104206
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I'm not a jingakh...
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need cute bf to play poe with >.<
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Guardian league. Totem league. Very exciting.
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First for good updated ssf skill ?
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>>559150298
what's your poe name?
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>>559150309
before anyone asks yes i am FORCING this anon to play guardian and totems
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tranny thread
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Why do they design every shield skill around Emperor's Vigilance?
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>>559150349
Zizaran
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I don't know what to play and will surely make the worst choice possible at leaguestart.
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>>559150356
In your PoE sex dungeon?
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imagine that mark is in the room with us(he is) and think of a sickest reliquarian combo. not necessarily strongest but something that would activate LOGIN neurons for you.
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>>559150408
once it becomes too popular they are going to nerf it
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i don't have anything against carn but it's funny when he suffers
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20% wander 20% rf league
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>>559150408
Because all the other shields are shit AR/EV/ES.
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So if T17s and their dogshit mods are gone what happens to T16.5 maps and their dogshit mods
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>>559150521
CwC Cyclone Forbidden Rite with over 100% recoup and +2 projectiles.
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how good do you think 7 breaches per map will be now xp wise
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>>559150521
im not giving you my build mark. i know you will nerf it.
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>4 days
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>>559150117
uhh i dont think so
slayer is way tankier
only real reason to play zerker is the warcries exert twice as many attacks node
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How do I build smite?
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comparison is the thief of joy
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>>559150693
umaru is dead...
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>>559150813
hang in there, anon.
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>>559150309
shockwave totem got a buff bros..... is it shockwave time?
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>>559150408
Ignite Elementalist doesn't need Int on the shield
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>Vaal Breach: cannot be obtained, and is temporarily disabled from being used for existing copies of the Gem. It will be re-enabled with new Breach effects and monsters in a future patch.
Translation: We have no clue how this shit works and have to pretend it doesn't exist for a while
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>>559150743
i asked for future reliquarian armor-weapon-jewellery combos you retard
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what ascendancy would I play for holy strike bros
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>>559150973
Just imagine what they are going to do to harbringer its going to be way worse
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4 more sleepies
might do a practice run and see how good foulborn ghostwrithe eblade is, it seems quite powerful with 0 gear
just take that shit from my stash and cope that i will get it from the tree in 10 clicks
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>>559151017
probably slayer
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Poe is a cheap Diablo clone. Thats definitely why I’m spending more money on blizzard quality products than on grinding gears. I only spend like a couple k on ggg, but I have bought somebody at blizzard their own luxury car by now, and will be buying him a woman to sit in it with him. Actually like everyone at blizzard is a female now, that’s probably why they don’t draw amazons with huge boobs like in Diablo, they draw stout brown powerful lead characters. It’s actually like really cringe dude what they did to blizzard. That company got the RuneScape treatment where they were mandated to turn every product gay and female positive to brainwash the cattle humans who were enjoying their monopoly on the franchise. I won’t even read Poe story because it’s probably just as brainwashy and trash. Men only want one thing and that’s tall amazons with huge boobs and no face on their character model because it’s too low pixel count.
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>>559150973
the funny thing about this is that theres like 60% chance that some niggger browses this thread and gets butthurt enough to fix it before release after calling you a retard
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>>559150521
eow mines
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>>559151118
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>>559150931
Uh yeah. Shockwave Totem is still great with Astral Projector. Storm Burst Totems is probably the most buffed build though.
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>>559151051
I was thinking of doing this too.
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>>559150973
I bet it will be fixed before 3.28 launch, retard
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>>559151051
start a week late and buy it for 3 alch in act 2
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is connors new 5mirror league start jugg a good choice?
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>>559151241
i bet 10 whetstones that it wont
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>Lance converting all the Ivory Tower bros to FB Ghostwrithe
kek good luck putting that shit together before Monday
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Kind of want to pyroclast mines scion now. All 3 ascend points are pretty good and you could get pretty crazy area, like 110% increased area of effect would be no problem
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>>559151350
Don't be ridiculous, you don't have 10 whetstones
Nobody is that rich
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Chris Wilson used to browse poeg, but you retards couldn't stop being toxic for one second so you drove him away
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for me its life-stacking Energy Blade melee Scion
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>>559151350
bet more, fagggots at ggg cant code.
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>>559151453
If you were right then you would become rich
Are you backpedalling perhaps
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>he is a jingakh
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>>559151349
Of course
>>559151153
PoM bwos...
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>>559150521
it's basically [your favorite skill that hits] and explode Beacon of Madness
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>>559151373
thats my starter. built in astral projector is so nice. i wanted to do something with jack the axe but bleed without bleedsplosions is awful
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>Foulborn Ghostwrithe has your Maximum Energy Shield is equal to 40% of your Maximum Life (previously 50%).
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
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>Excommunicated is a debuff that causes affected targets to be unable to deal chaos damage.
Does this hard counter some boss? I'm not sure when I would use this.
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>>559151708
your bleedplosion gloves, sis?
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>>559151808
Pretty sure they always do a mix of different types of damage.
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>>559151482
As long as you’re having fun. Nice anime picture too, you got more? I’m desiring to whack off to your arousing anime.
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>>559151373
Yeah it's pretty decent and SSF friendly because you can run it with all rares. Just need to figure out defenses if you want to keep playing it past 2 stones or whatever the equivalent of that is now.
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>>559150170
first for new siphoning trap
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>>559151808
Burial chambers?
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>>559151161
channeling makes that skills clear dogshit
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>>559151913
banner corrupting cry does the same damage at 1 stack
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>>559151768
I can play it in Standard
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>>559151808
You can use it for extremely inconsistent lowlife builds instead of coruscating / ivory tower / shavs
>I need to excommunicate you or i'll die
>OH GOD I'M NOT GONNA MAKE IT THIS TIME
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>>559152119
>Get 1 shot offscreen every 3 maps
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>>559150521
kinetic rain of impact scion with a grace of the goddess
5 sacred wisps with the support/ascendancy node
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>Go to the supermarket
>Buy snacks and soda for friday
>Already ate/drink everything
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>>559152119
giga underrated item btw
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Why can't I find the gem that makes your banners apply corrupting fever on the new gems page
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>>559152496
because its a 3% uber sirus drop, not a vendor gem
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>>559152607
>uber sirus
Grim
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>>559151768
oh yeah
nigger nobody even played that shit what the fuck
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>>559151952
The damage applies a full half second faster between the totem placement speed buff and the gem itself getting buffed. It will still be a totem build, but it's gonna be a lot better than it was, and the damage was always good once it got started.
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>>559152119
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>>559152696
it was used to make Animate Guardian invincible
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>4 days til league launch
>still no streamers to tell me how to make a bajillion dps build with this
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You guys are clueless. The fact that the minions use your weapon is NOT a good thing. For example, Dominating Blow's sentinel's base damage is 837-1255. Two handed Maelström staff with max phys rolls and q20% is 507-992. In fact, when doing the maths I think I cracked the algorithm.
Dom blow: (837+1255)/2*2.8=2928.8
Holy strike: (507+992)/2*3.92=2938.04
The multipliers are the attack damage multipliers of the skills. The differences are so small, less than 0.3%, that I don't think it's a coincidence. It is how it is. So the Holy stirke minions are essentially Dom blow minions with some tradeoffs.
With Dom you get more minions; with Holy you get 168% more dmg for the minions (essentially equating to 3*2.68=8.04, roughly eight dom blow minions).
With Dom you get the convenience of minions clearing for you; with Holy you likely get the attack speed inherited from the weapon, which is up to 30% faster than the attack speed of Dom blow minions.
Major issue with Holy strike is that it forces you to use a two-hander which Dom blow builds generally don't want to do.
Conclusion: Maybe it's decent, but saying the numbers are amazing is abjectly false.
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>>559152607
Do all the new support gems come from uber tier content
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thread theme?
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>>559152767
depends on how many stacks Hallowing Flame can go up to
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>>559152859
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK9moIDytgk&list=RDvK9moIDytgk&start_radio=1
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>>559152853
no, they drop from map bosses. you have to farm specific boss for given exceptional gem.
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>>559152767
Holy strike?
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>>559152859
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGk4E9ss95s
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>>559152890
Probably 1 default but we don't know yet
>>559153039
I don't think holy strike is good for it desu. You can only apply 1 stack at a time and holy strike will have 3 clones that hit and try to consume. You won't get 2 stacks up ever because the clones are going to consume them as fast as you apply and only 1 clone will benefit from it. Even if you use something with super fast attacks to apply it you only get 2 stacks so not all 3 holy strike clones will proc it
If you can get 3 stacks and apply 3 stacks on hit then holy strike might end up being super strong with it
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>>559152853
that guy is talking out of his ass, ggg didnt reveal much about the exceptional gems except for maven having the rarest and best one t. andrew
they drop from bosses, theres 40 of them and there are kind of a lot of bosses in the game but not that many ubers. maybe some will be uber drops but definitely not many
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>>559153017
>best gems come from shit layout maps like cells or invul bosses like basillica or laval lake.
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>>559152827
Holy Strike minions are invincible though. Minions that don't die are just better.
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>>559153017
they literally confirmed in the reveal and the q&a they are from pinnacle content. uber elder drops the rain one, neglect drops frostmage, king in the mists drops toads etc.
its probably not from uber sirus but its definitely from an endgame boss not a map boss.
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>>559153313
technically from maven because she still has enli and empoer
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I have decided on my league start
It is going to suck probably but I'll make it work.
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>>559153387
i think maven qualifies for invul phases
not a map but close enough
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>>559152827
you aren't accounting for crit chance which is usually not too easy to get on minions
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>>559153017
its not map bosses, its specific mechanic bosses. the breach support is dropped by the breach bosses for example.
the idea was to give a little special something to every boss so even dogshit old content bosses have a reason for you to sit through their immunity phases
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>>559152767
Any minion/melee hybrid skill
>>559152827
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big damage big damage
dodge and weave
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>>559153374
correct. majority of exceptional gems is from map bosses though. they even talked about maven witnessing being good for farming gems.
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>>559153406
You're a bit late to the party. All the serious players have already finished a 2 voidstone practice run with their build.
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>>559153370
Probably better for bossing, but it's pretty irrelevant while mapping.
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>>559153531
>practice runs
>actually planning beyond main skill + ascendancy
nonsense
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>>559153304
counting all pinnacles + guardians and league bosses (delve/heist/abyss/bestiary/expedition/etc.)
there are over 60 which is enough to house every support
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>>559153469
you realize that theres like 40 exceptional gems right.
also i just realized, what are the chances that ggg is unfathomably based for once and sirus drops his apparition gem?
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>>559153523
are you sure? i remember them saying the opposite, that maven witness is still good because of astrolabes but theres no more gems from maven invites and only a few from maven herself
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Tell me about BANE
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>>559153523
they said maven has chisels and no gems, not sure where you heard witnessing drops gems at all?
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>>559153764
theres a lot of bosses in this game and you already know they are going to put the best gems on fucking aul or the abyss bosses or something
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>>559153858
>>559153772
bro your destructive play?
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>>559153917
the best ones are going to be gated through content normal people doesnt do. The whole economy is centered around organized groups printing 1000x the currency a normal person does
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Give me Destructive play SSF gem farmer build
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>>559154002
map. bosses. dont. drop. exceptional. gems.
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>>559153772
>>559153858
my bad, it was about astrolobes.
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>>559153297
Even just 2 stacks at once is fine given that you're already using Spiritual Aid to scale the damage anyway. +80% extra lightning is nuts. That node alone is good enough for damage on a Holy Strike build, and you can proceed to go all in on block and reservation for the rest of your ascendancy and just ignore the minioncancer.
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>>559154073
re.tard.
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i'm relatively new to poe1, what tips would you give me to speedrun campaign on league start? i have a decent grip on endgame progression now but my campaign runs are so slow. phrecia was brutal because I don't know good leveling strats lol
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while you were pobbing an Eileen Gu I was theory crafting an Alysa Liu
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>>559154203
stop bullying redditors
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>>559154203
Just watch someone else do it and try to learn what tricks you can. If you know exactly when you get access to ideal gems and how to get the right links on your gear without screwing around too much, you can cut your time down fast.
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lol
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>>559154203
Efficient killing and knowing layouts is 99% of the speed for normal players. Dont stop for any mechanic except essences. Kill all blue packs ignore whites and rares unless you are more then 3 levels under a zones level.
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>>559154203
Reduce time in town and hideout are some of the biggest time savers. Know your gems and link colors ahead, make regex for your links, know where you put your skill points in at.
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>>559154585
>essences
we're gamblers here
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>>559152696
i played it with EB last league
i am unironically a meta trendsetter and better at poe than you
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>>559152767
Hollow Palm Dancing Dervish
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>>559154203
buy a supporter pack
better drops
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do we know if holy strike minions inherit stats like double damage?
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>>559154753
Gambler is only certain builds, essences are all builds.
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Redpill me on Static Strike
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>>559153297
I don't think it's a problem. There's plenty of stuff. E.g. just put some supportive stuff to static strike and use it when you need it. Let's say it applies 2 stacks and you have also some spectres or golems to consume them. You also get 1-2 everytime you use holy strike. Should be pretty easy to keep it capped.
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could smite ever be a map blaster skill with a headhunter? it's phys convert
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>>559154815
they probably just slightly altered the code fo animate weapon so it probably works like it
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>>559154585
> Kill all blue packs ignore whites and rares
this is interesting, can you elaborate on why? i can speedrun poo2 campaign pretty fast by basically only killing rares, why only blues? thanks for all the tips otherwise
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>>559155087
blue packs are the most time efficient xp
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>Mirage
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>>559154927
It snapshots exerts for the duration the beams are active, and the beams can activate shockwave. Hitting things with the strike part is usually awkward because you don't build much attack speed, but then you get time to run and autobomb until you need to wind it up again 7 second later.
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>>559154815
if its on the weapon they should

>>559154789
nothing easier or cheaper than dex stacking templar
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>>559155087
Efficiency when you are low dps. If you can one or two tap a rare then rares are good to kill but if you cant then you should be ignoring.

Blue packs give good xp and still are one tapped for most builds.
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Uh oh stinky I've been clicking around on pob for too long. It's time to steal a build
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>>559155183
can ubisoft sue
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>>559155183
FOR THE DJINN
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>>559154927
Regular Static Strike is mostly played by pseudo-autobombers with 300d+ to burn (Shockwave version) and masochists (non-Shockwave)
Nu-Static Strike is lightning Wild Strike that doesn't need the Combat Focus jewels
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>>559154952
the fact that its phys convert doesnt really matter if you arent actually stacking phys damage, which is what hh scales via phys as extra buffs
but yeah its fine, you still get some damage and aoe and a lot of defenses and some speed and hopefully not shroud walker
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>>559155579
>>559155310
I played normal Static Strike during Merc league and it was the clunkiest skill I've ever used. I fucking hated needing to refresh it like every 5 seconds.
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>>559155579
Dont forget to mention its wild strike if you got aoe every 12 hits.
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>>559155674
But static strike double dips wildstrike doesnt
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What ascendancy is better for SRS into Holy Relic of Conviction? Guardian or Necromancer? I played an SRS Guardian back in affliction and it was tanky as fuck and had pretty decent damage. But a lot has changed since then. If I want to be able to do all content (ubers, simulacrum etc), which would be better?
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>>559155672
That's why the duration buff is good, but if you don't like the playstyle then it's not going to be that different.
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>>559155843
guardian is better until you transition to poison. necro is better after you do.
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>>559154098
If your goal is to max out the 80% gain as lightning and less so the minion/consume damage then I wouldn't use holy strike either but a skill that has naturally high hit rate and phys purity + other smaller minions to trigger
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>>559154952
Don't know how the question exactly relates to headhunter, but Smite is great. In Settlers SSF playing Smite, I lost to the top Lightning Strike player by only around three hours on ladder placing somewhere top 10. LS was subsequently nerfed, but Smite is as good as ever. My plan was just to get as much overlapping mechanics as possible (Abyss, Breach, Jun, Harbringer, Beyond), and clear everything with one Vaal Smite.
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>GGG hasn't responded to the worries of Mirages being cancerous sub-zones inside maps
DOA league, I am not running Vaal Side Areas 2.0
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>>559151993
>banner
lol
lmao
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I'm going static strike
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>>559156121
as long as you dont have to backtrack like in scourage it cant be that bad
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I am going holy strike
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>>559156121
you vill watch the loading screen
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I never have totem builds that being able to tank hits
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>>559156121
This is a good thing.
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>>559156121
Because the loading is only for FULL MAP mirages, aka basically a second map. The normal mirages aren't going to have loading screen. The way the full map mirages work is they spawn when you kill the boss and then you enter there and do the map backwards, after you've already finished the first map
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is this static strike of gathering lightning finna double hit or what
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>>559156272
Probably not but it's good regardless
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>>559155843
Its always necro, guardian is better only at the easiest time for the build early game or HC.
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>gruns lut
>elemental hit
>static strike
bait after bait after bait lol
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>>559156220
why would you be getting hit on a totem build?
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>league launches in 3 days
>barely any builds posted
what killed the hype?
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>>559156523
>no buffs, only nerfs
gee I dunno
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>>559156523
pob isnt updated yet so builds cant be made
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>>559156192
>backtrack like in scourage
you didn't though
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>>559156646
but you did you would get teleported back to wherever you activated the mechanic
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>>559156752
looks like cache cleanup is in progress
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>>559156121
they literally arent, in the reveal they hit the button and instantly port outside with no load screen
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>>559156752
ggg basically scans your computer and sends the info to the american government
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Scourge... now that was a mechanic... SOVL...
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>>559156752
cleaning cache so on your first login you will wait 30minutes until all the mtx in lioneyes watch load
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ggg basically scans your computer and sends the info to the New Zealand Liberal Feminist Movement
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is jung's interview tomorrow or wednesday
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>>559156918
unironically should have made it core
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i have never been baited by a goratha build.
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>>559156802
hmmm I see
>>559156852
>>559156954
fuck
>>559156920
but this is the worst of it
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I have never been baited by any build because I have 150 IQ and make my own.
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>>559157000
what could he even ask that ziz didn't cover already
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i got baited by a conner build once but i did it ironically
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>>559157205
gem questions hopefully
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>>559153445
maata's teaching gives 10% base crit to minions and is barely used,minion crit builds just aren't super popular to begin with. There's other ways to do it like ancient skull, play SRS of enormity (which straight up always crit all the time), the uber drop that shares all charges with minions, sniper's mark+precision+brittle ground boots, but but with that same gear slot and support gem and passive tree investment you can do more damage more easily just stacking poison or some shit. Instead of Assassin's Mark you could just use Sniper's Mark with some curse effect for straight up 50% more damage, etc
I played ancient skull lightning crit minions in mercenaries, you could literally just switch out the cyclone+cast while channeling links for holy strike and be fine
all the streamers who have never played a minion build getting baited by this shit is hilarious though, can't wait for the act 6 rerolls as they realize it's just melee absolution.

Being mace/staff only means you can't even do some of the Maata's Teaching crit setups that are already considered mediocre and unpopular.
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one of the biggest issues with the new skill gems is that compared to swords and axes (especially uniques), staves, maces, and sceptres SUCK for attacking unless you're an endurance charge stacker.
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>>559157324
>maata's teaching gives 10% base crit to minions and is barely used
yeah because it cucks one of your hands. obviously its a different thing if you can actually use a good two hander
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Is /vg/ the last remaining organic board on 4chan? I swear the second I post in any other thread on the other boards they immediately die and archive, as if I stumbled over and knocked down a fake cardboard cutout of a thread propped up by bots talking to each other.

I don't know what's real anymore. Maybe /poeg/ isn't real either. Maybe POE never existed at all.
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take me back to better days...
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>>559158013
4chan is dying only feds shills and probably ai remain. I remember v in 2011 you had to mass bump your own thread or it would die in 20 seconds
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Holy Sweep General's Cry
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>>559157783
"a good two-hander" will end up having the same or less damage as the base damage of regular minion skills, and it has anti-synergy where the affixes and stats that make for a high DPS two-hand weapon make for a shitty minion build weapon since it won't have +minion levels or the benefits of dedicated minion buffing uniques. A good two handed weapon also means you can't use a shield, even if a warstaff can make up for that somewhat with block investment and staff masteries.

It's basically Holy Relic except instead of releasing an aoe when you attack its an animated weapon swing. The fact it's like base dominating blow and doesn't have inherent spiritual aid scaling also means your own damage won't even be equal to one of your minions, or you just give up on minion scaling and play a different strike entirely
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I found my archmage crema necro, I missed that. does anyone even know that cremation exist nowadays? don't think I hear about that skill anymore
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>>559158047
literally all this needs to be good again is a buff to minion level and some secondary benefit like intimidation or unholy might or malediction or profane ground or wither.
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>>559158408
dunno why you arent just redoing your initial math with crits in mind. seems like you really want to build the skill wrong and then complain that its bad. good luck with that i guess
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>>559158217
im unironically starting this. what could go wrong?
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Here's a free tip. Please don't tell reddit. I don't mind the giving the knowledge cause I play SSF...
SAVE YOUR WRITHING JARS! The price will skyrocket!
(1) Screams of the Desiccated needs something to fill your flasks with
(2) Shotgun bosses with Holy Sweep by spawning worms at their feet
(3) Insane demand because every player will need 5
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>>559158631
what if no one plays holy sweep
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>>559158631
They are going to nerf it to a % of the mobs hp like they did before with other skills
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>>559158602
>with crits in mind
using a 10% base crit weapon will not significantly change your dps, minion crit builds were already crit capping. At best it saves you an implicit on your boots no longer needing brittle ground.

the fact you're losing out on a +gem level weapon already means you'll do like 40% less damage, even +5% base crit isn't worth that.
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They should unironically heavily nerf spectres and AG until they're not mandatory picks for literally every minion build
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>>559158408
This, Holy Strike is a literal Diabloesque noob trap skill that is anti-synergistic with itself on a fundamental level.
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ATTENTION PRISONERS

>>>/wsg/6102642
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WRITHING MASS
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>>559158486
>does anyone even know that cremation exist nowadays?
I still end up using Arma Brand/Cremation on any caster Templar or Witch for leveling out of habit.
Also Cremation still gets some use from CWS faggots using that spell poison meme dagger that came out last league.
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>>559158662
Even if you don't play holy sweep, it's still a decent choice. It's either that, instant mana flask, instant life flask, or a tincture. For every slot.
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SUCC CUM
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>>559158895
I would be fine with them backporting Companions from poe2, where you have a default Companion limit of 1 and there's uniques or a keystone to increase it at a cost. Then they can also buff Golems and Reaper and make them count as companions.
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Eater has nothing on Sirus; the true boss of PoE.
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witch has nothing on scion, the true waifu of poe
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Mark has nothing on Chris, the true bald fast restart of poe
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Cassia is the best waifu. This isn't a debate.
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>>559159156
The true final boss of POE is actually the exarch meat ball phase.
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EGG SALTED!
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>>559158808
>its literally dom blow
>actually its crit minions
>actually building crit doesnt even make you do more damage
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>POE1 and 2 brings back Mercs but they're notable NPCs from the campaign instead of literal whos
>You can pick from the likes of Bestel, Alva, Divinia, Cassia, Helena, Tujen, Niko, etc
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>>559158047
>2hand
thats a problem
after they changed bone shield to benefit minions 2h is useless in minon builds
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>>559156852
uncle sam uses your build history to determine your most suitable MOS for the upcoming war
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helena's fat fuckin tits
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>>559159336
>you have to sign away 25% item rarity, quantity, and all gold earned for the duration of your contract with them (maximum 5 maps)
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The true boss of PoE is in fact, Gehenix at depth 6,000
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>>559159381
>helena's fat. fuckin tits!
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>>559159289
It's just a dogshit skill bro, Dom Blow can steal rares which makes them not even close, Holy Strike only barely sidegrades the basic bitch white mobs. It doesn't even come close to what Animate Weapon of Self Reflection can do, the less comparison to AW or AG the better, and worst of all you NEED to throw yourself into melee and name lock right click for them to do anything at all.
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>>559159381
many are looking at them
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>>559159423
good thing I have vaal immortal call and a full mirrored set in standard
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>>559159458
>its just dogshit bro here look at my wrong math and obviously retarded reasoning please believe its bad it just is okay please
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>still no broken ssf new skill starter
please tell me about secret tech that can farm new magenoflask
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>>559159504
>standard
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>>559159289
>>actually building crit doesnt even make you do more damage
It's not "building crit doesn't make you do more damage", it's "copying your weapon stats instead of having its own minion base damage is not a benefit, even when building crit."
you would rather have your mainhand and offhand slot free to use actual minion items instead of being forced to use a high dps mainhand while still losing out on like 40% to 50% damage from losing two equipment slots worth of gem level and buffs.

Endgame attack minion builds use something like pic related+Squire to 8-link their main minions' damage. Your warstaff is not providing more benefit than this which is basically a 9-link.
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>>559158995
oh yeah leveling really was the last time I heard cremation talk. never really looked into the CWS stuff so I missed that
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>>559159108
die.
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>>559150170
>https://pastebin.com/SHt8unCt
Since we're all here. Are there any more tools / utilities that I should add? Otherwise I'm just going to punch in "updated 3.28" and call it until summer.
>>559159504
Brofist to standard players
>>559159567
retard
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crazy gluing my peanus in swan's cleavage
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>>559158923
the old intro was sovl
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>>559159770
either sell me a slutty belly dancer skin for animated guardians or make them count against a companion limit, I'm tired of that shit being mandatory when it's literally a low-budget invisible Templar model to the point it's even still left handed
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>>559158602
He's not me (who did the initial math). I admit my omission of the crit, but there's no easy math to do for something that concerns building your character and prioritizing passives. Just for a quick example, I picked a well performing Dom blow build that uses crit and doubled their base crit. Got +24.5% total dps. Pretty good, I admit, but not something that will totally shift the scales. Btw, Maata's teaching will be on the new Scion ascendancy, so we'll see if it becomes more popular now that it doesn't occupy a limb.
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>Zero loot
>All nerfs
>Loading screen league mechanic
>Day 1 stealth nerfs
I give this league 1 week of lifetime
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Garukhan's sandy footjob
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>>559159553
the best SSF build will always be something that doesnt rely on trading for gems and works even with dogshit gear, which will always be Guardian (whcih is also the best Ruthless ascendancy, to the point it had to get ruthless exclusive nerfs and even then it's still the best) because even naked you are carried by elemental relic and sentinel of radiance until red maps
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>>559152890
...2.
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>>559160142
I would rather kill Sin than her honestly
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>>559159993
>Loading screen league mechanic
I feel like people underestimate how shit this feels. Depends on how large the mirage zone is though
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>>559159903
>I picked a well performing Dom blow build that uses crit and doubled their base crit. Got +24.5% total dps.
the real test should be setting the minions' base crit to whatever the player's weapon is. A good minion weapon and a good high dps crit weapon are at opposing odds with each other
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>>559160242
Its only full map mirages and we dont even know how common those are.
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>>559160242
>I feel like people underestimate how shit this feels.
Prepare your angus for having to load the atlas screen ever y time you want to punch in a map.
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>>559159380
>i make my own builds every league
>they always suck
Where would they send me
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>>559160268
Yeah yeah, it was just a quick number and I wanted to be nice to him. But it's a shit skill, don't do it.
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>>559160401
digging ditches for the porta potties
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>>559160268
you can get gem levels and minion damage on staves bwo
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>>559160636
would that be safe from drone strikes? i guess if they killed me people wouldnt have a place to shit and the whole thing would fall apart with imagine rampant cholera
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league is taking so long I was able to download all stuff I needed from myrient already and still 3 days to kill before I can play
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>>559160693
>you can get gem levels and minion damage on staves bwo
it's a prefix competing with damage, which is the entire reason you're using a skill that copies your weapon.
this isn't poe2 where gem level is a suffix and therefore mandatory on every item ever
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>>559159993
Early game will be kinda stale since there's no borrowed power powercreep until you get a non-bricked 7L or some new meme exceptional gem.
But then there's definitely gonna be some busted Mirage farm to be abused that'll fly under the radar like double Evolution fractured rares Alva. Someone will definitely snitch on week 1 so hopefully there's more than one of those.
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imagine a world without path of exile
bliss
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Goratha is trying to bait me to play the new shock nova, i did base LA champion on his build excluding the abyss jewel stuff and it did get me lvl 100 im expecting this league you will need a tanky build i might go for it instead of mines
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>>559160693
DB can use Squire with a one-handed weapon that has bunch of supports rolled on it like melee phys, ele damage with attacks, increased crit, etc.
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>>559161229
what's stopping you from doing that with holy strike?
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is fusilade good or is it based upon jungroan tier 200apm micromanagement
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>>559160693
this is also why one of the most popular builds for Animated Weapon of Self Reflection, the most directly comparable skill to Holy Strikes, uses Energy Blade or Ephemeral Edge since they can just stack energy shield for simultaneous offense and defense.
https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepers/character/tehp-9054/tehp_AltTab?i
https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepers/character/Zitta-7813/Zitta_AndHerGlowSticks?i
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>>559161403
The fact that you want a massive phys weapon that's competing with those mods. You're going to use a two-handed staff or mace and be happy :)
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>>559161486
kinda sounds like its a pretty different skill then
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>>559161460
I hate Energy Blade so much.
>>559161559
Yes, anonkun. Different skills scale differently.
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holy flame totem looking good for 3.28?
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>>559161667
bit of a non sequitur to compare them then innit
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>>559161073
what the fuck was that
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>>559161717
Not really, it was interesting enough discussion if you're curious about builds.
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>>559162003
maybe if you're extremely autistic
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>>559162102
You're on 4chan talking about an ARPG.
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>>559161882
A strat you could have done all of last league but only circulated a few weeks ago iirc. It won't exist in Mirage
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>totems
thousands will be baited...
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I don't want to have to look at my screen to play this league, how do i get 20 balls per second on volatile dead and still deal damage?
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>>559162228
totems are and always will be boring and gay
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>>559162228
I still remember the anon from Merc league who had an existential crisis after getting baited into Storm Burst Totems.
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>>559162354
w-what's wrong with storm burst totems
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>>559162228
?? I've been getting my 4 stones just fine with SB Hiero since Settlers
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>>559152767
what about the saviour consuming the charges?
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>>559162479
do you enjoy watching your totems piss all over the floor and do no damage
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>>559162228
People have played EA ballistas for several leagues in a row
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>>559162479
Nothing :)
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>>559162479
thousand million buttons to press and barely acceptable damage
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>>559162541
will that even work?
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>>559161460
I'm starting to think Energy Blade is the only way to play Holy Strike. People will realize this day 3 and respec en masse because it's so annoying.
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>>559162660
what the fuck you yappin bout
you cast your totems and they do the damage while you get to walk around and pick up loot
self casters have to press their skills every half second
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>>559162710
I guess they are not allies now that I looked it up, probably doesnt work
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>>559161403
>what's stopping you from doing that with holy strike?
the elder and shaper modifiers that make attack minion skills incredibly overpowered with squire are prefixes which compete with flat ele damage or % increased phys. You could do it with holy strikes but at that point copying your weapon will be an enormous downside, not a benefit.
That's the entire point being argued, the best weapons for minion builds do not make for good high dps attacking weapons because you only have 6 affixes available on weapons and only 3 of those are prefixes. If you want an 800 dps staff it can't also be a shaper/elder 9-link. Dominating Blow, Animated Guardian, Animated Weapon of Ranged Arms, Specters, etc. don't use your weapon like Animated Weapon of Self Reflection and now Holy Strikes do.

This axe has less than 250dps but is giving 50 million out of 100 million damage to a 6-linked AG. Holy Strikes cannot use weapons like this because it has to roll %increased phys and flat ele as prefixes to be better than a random white base off the ground. Elder and Shaper shit is a large part of why Squire is so expensive every league, besides the block and defensive benefits of a shield you also get to cheat with the 1h modifiers applying to a full 6-link.
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>>559162793
Oh actually you can't even use it because it's a sword. It's so over for holy strike bros.
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>>559162793
well and part of it is, if you're already playing Energy Blade and scaling minion damage......why are you playing Holy Strike and not Animated Weapon of Self Reflection, which doesn't lock you in place standing still to attack because your minions are cosmetic decorations without you swinging?

all I'm saying is, there's a reason GGG made this the new level 1 starting gem that Templar spawns on the beach with, and it's not because they wanted new players to feel what it's like to be overpowered right from twilight strand....
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>strike skills
lmao LOL
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anyone played frost nova heiro? is it any good?
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>>559163180
Sushi usually league starts that IIRC. It has very high single-target.
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>>559162793
i dont get it
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>>559163240
you can tell this is a poo2 skill being backported to poe2 by the stupid fucking weapon restriction, god forbid we have SWORDS in our ARPG.....
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>>559163309
Im scared is the thread ai? Why were discussing something that was impossible
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>>559162556
>>559162532
2/5000
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>>559163426
retarded autists NEED to compare it to every vaguely similar skill in the game instead of just pobbing it in a couple days
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why do we have 300 posts in 3 hours for a skip league?
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How much proj speed do I need to make this feel instant?
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>>559163550
same reason your mother gets 300 dicks in 3 hours
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>>559163580
Doesn't matter. If they didn't hate WOrb, it would've scaled the targeting range. Cast speed is what makes the skill feel good.
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>>559163518
But like the thing that settles it appart form other skills is the weapon requirements that should have been one of the first thing to notice. Either AI or one guy talking to himself you cant fool me
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build: ready
first atlas tree: ready
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How does frostmage support work?...
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>>559163720
>atlas
anon i...
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>>559163743
like archmage but it's entirely based on reserved mana
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>>559161131
I might take the bait
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>>559163225
>AOE spell
>single target
not gonna bait me
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>>559163743
reading the gem explains the gem
explaining the gem explains the gem
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>>559163779
So.. wouldnt that make it work with skills that cost life?
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>>559161131
>im expecting this league you will need a tanky build
why? with T17 gone there's even less need for any tankiness
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>>559163426
the best skill in terms of mechanics for holy strikes is Animated Weapon of Self Reflection, which doesn't have the no-swords restriction holy strikes does and which is most commonly played with energy shield or ephemeral edge (which is just energy shield as a unique)
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>>559163861
it hits multiple times and gets a ton of flat from archmage, retardbro.
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>>559163940
My point still stands
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Which boss do you think drops frostmage support?
If it's the bird lady that would be cool
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>>559164049
>it hits multiple times
bug
>archmage
nerfed
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lances energy blade build, this dude has 4 builds in one until you get to the build hes showcasing lmfao

>>559163901
mirage and blobs add a mod each map you finish
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>>559164076
>bird lady
who
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>>559163891
It adds a mana cost to the skill equal to a % of reserved mana. If the skill only costs life by default it now has an added mana cost. The way you do it is run EB with it and reserve all of your mana. So you can be mana man with actual auras. But I don't think that's gonna be worth losing out on MoM with the fuck huge mana pool
Youl could go reserved mana = armor route, don't reserve 100% and don't use EB and use like aegis or something to help not insta die but I think ti's gonna be mostly bait support
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>>559164101
genius
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>>559164156
I just want to play selfcast reap and I thought i could make it work, but I dont know because im bad
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Are troongems now worthless since you can deterministically pick them?
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>>559163891
sure but the damage you get is based off the absolute value of mana reserved, so you want as much mana as possible to do damage which is at odds with life cost builds which usually ignore mana entirely if they're not getting rid of it with blood magic.
You want as high a mana pool as you can get and then you want to reserve as close to 100% of it as you can get away with while your skills are still castable.
Stacking as much mana as possible and then using Lifetap might work, but because it gains a BASE mana cost equal to 5% of reserved mana you will probably just fucking kill yourself spamming this with life costs. Lifetap is a 300% cost and reservation multiplier on its own, once you add on a full 6-link you're gonna fall over dead trying to use this shit.

They kind of pre-emptively NO FUN ALLOWED this shit by making it unable to work with brands, totems, mines, traps, and minions. You gotta rawdog hardcast this shit
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>>559164264
More than likely
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>>559164274
Why are people so against casting their own spells?
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>>559164274
well damn, there goes my reap dream i think
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>>559164274
Sounds kinda interesting on an Ignite Elementalist.
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>>559164274
looking at this further, are there any spell skills that last for a long time and have very high effectiveness of added damage, but aren't casted more than once in a while? like whats the spell equivalent to rage vortex of berserking?

maybe you could do it with Corrupting Fever?
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>>559164261
just cause you're bad doesn't mean you can't play selfcast reap. Just don't pick an ascendancy that's shit so you can reroll later if you need
just avoid shadow and possibly marauder and you'll be fine
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>>559164547
it's hard to get high enough cast speed to not feel like you're mapping in a wheelchair
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>>559163426
Look, I’m not some AI-generated script; I’m a human who actually understands that Path of Exile is basically a spreadsheet disguised as a power fantasy. To prove it, let’s talk about the new influence mechanic: the real skill expression isn't in the combat, but in deciding when to split the influenced areas. You’ve got this constant tug-of-war where splitting the zone multiple times lets you speed-run completion rewards, while refusing to split allows you to stack map juice for maximum loot density. In the early game, raw completion rewards clearly beat out the "juicing" meta, so I’ve actually developed an algorithm to find the mathematically optimal split path to finish the zone in the fewest maps possible. Check out this heatmap—it highlights exactly which maps are statistically "skippable" via splitting (assuming they are in the influenced area), allowing you to ignore the filler and get straight to the payout like a real person who values their time. Note that the Atlas is subject to change.
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Aren't Exceptional supports just them trying to bring those retarded PoE2 unique supports to PoE1?
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>my league starter isnt on any streamer list
smooth stronk stonks
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>>559165000
yes
the new map system is also literally just waystones from poo2 as well
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>>559165110
agree with exceptionals but at least the waystones here still importantly allow you to pick the map of your choice
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Remember, don't respond to Frogs.
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>>559163173
Buffed hard this league. Wake up noob
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>>559164729
nu shock nova has a very low cast time, but selfcast novas suck without astral projector. does it have enough damage to not need archmage?
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Unlike in PoE2, "Extra damage" gets scaled by other boosts, right?
Like it'll take all my Phys damage, then give me some amount of Fire damage, which is then scaled by my Elemental Damage % bonuses?
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>playing g*lem elementalist builds after it got nerfed into the ground
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>>559164591
Oops, thanks
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>>559164591
>cannot support fun
T-Thanks
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>>559165367
If you convert damage then either one works.

Phys -> Fire

Physical, Fire, Elemental, Attack, etc all work.
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>>559164980
Thats a weird post where did you get that pic. Now i think you are from some rmter group. or do feds play poe for real
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>>559165642
Nobody mentioned conversions.
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>rename t17s to "nightmare" maps
>/poeg/ thinks t17s are gone
muhahahahahahahahhhaahhaaha
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How rare was a foulborn ghostwrithe?
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>>559165660
Could also be a poe dev i guess
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>rename archnemesis to "rare monster rework"
>/poeg/ thinks archnem is gone
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>>559165660
I was just being facetious, thanks for the (you). But seriously, I think the early game meta (and later for influences you don't care about) to just rush them by splitting. The algorithm and the pic I really did myself, but had to do a lot of assumptions and the atlas will change 100%, so it's not much value at the moment. Still the key takeaway is that if there's a map you hate in a crowded intersection, there's a very small chance you can get rid of it by splitting.
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>>559165902
only the mazed shitslurpers were fooled, which to be fair is almost all of this general
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>>559164547
because in addition to being clunkier it will also do less damage
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>>559165784
they are t16 not t17 thoughbeit
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>>559165660
Don't worry about the glowies and don't overthink the AI thing. There's some psyops going on lol



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