At what point do your resistances drop a second time? I swear that prior to the final area in Act 10 my resists were all cap save for chaos. Then I face Kitava and was absolutely wrecked, having had no trouble in any fight prior to that (and quite to the contrary actually). After the fight I check my resists and save for fire (which was far over cap due to my RF build) they were all way down. When did this happen? I’d have thought nothing would change like that during an act, but seems I was wrong.
As for blues, I thought I noted that they’re still pretty worthless prior to endgame b/c no one would spend high level orbs on leveling gear – at least I wouldn’t. I, personally, just learned though that blues are useful at some point. If they have the number of links you’re looking for and the right base item they’re as good as a normal anyway given the advanced crafting mechanics. That’s all I meant to say.
Bateau
3203
When you kill the final boss in story mode you get hit with res penalty.
As for crafting - http://poeaffix.net/ . You can see how the item level influences roll range here. Using alts or regals on gear to craft before you hit maps is completely pointless. It’s better to sell these orbs for chaos and buy a significantly better piece of gear from someone else, likely for very small price. Unless you’re playing SSF of course, in that case, go nuts.
You sure you didn’t swap some gear without realizing it was hurting your resists? The drop isn’t until after the fight.
After a week of no POE while traveling, I got back on today and finished up Act 10 with my Righteous Fire totem marauder. Having seen the Kitava fight once before, this time I was able to avoid the big nasty attacks - particularly that big X thing - and didn’t die. RF totems work great against him since he’s always in the same spot. Drop 'em and run around avoiding attacks, basically.
Started in on maps, just little tier 1/2 stuff thus far. Had to go shopping for a new shield to get my resists straightened out, but once I’d done that everything seems to be in place. I did have a bit of trouble with a rare Factory that spawned two Mother Phyla bosses with extra cold damage, nearly died a couple of times when they froze me and I wasn’t as quick as I’d like on the antifreeze flask. Eventually I killed one off and then the other was no trouble.
You were still capped during the fight. It’s just the usual POE “the bosses are a completely different game” pain in the ass. After he’s dead, then you get hit with the next resistance penalty.
I checked after the fight. Couldn’t figure out what went wrong vs. Kitava. If my resists weren’t reduced yet then that likely wasn’t the issue. And actually Kitava himself wasn’t the problem. It was the adds. They absolutely mobbed me. I’d re-enter the battle after dying and in less than two seconds they’d kill me again. Eventually zerged it. Couldn’t even get off a pot. It was insane. Way worse than I ever remember Dominus back when he was the end boss.
Ah, gotcha. My juggernaut has loh on sunder, so I love a bunch of ads, but I can see where it would be problematic for some builds.
Working on a chaos hierophant at the moment to change things up
On PC, with the Fire Nova Mine softcore Harbinger Shadow, I’ve finished Act 3.
On Xbox, the full game is out of beta. I created a Marauder. I figure a normal Mace and Shield Marauder might be a nice boring build to start me off on Xbox. I’ve already died 3 times before I even got to the first waypoint. Apparently Marauders kind of suck early on.
Plus on Xbox it’s hard to aim at enemies. You have to position yourself with the left thumbstick close to the enemy, but not too close, and not far enough away that you’ll swing swing swing and keep missing. There seems to be no way to lock onto enemies either. And that tetris inventory is already driving me crazy with my controller, since my left thumbstick defaults to go upward constantly.
Kadath
3209
So, um, I just realized that Path of Exile is a different game than Pillars of Eternity. I’m not a smart man.
Bateau
3210
The whole fight is completely unbalanced. It’s actually harder than many map bosses all the way up to tier 12, 13 (where raw damage will kill you, not mechanics). They’ll probably nerf it eventually, just like they did with every act boss in the game so far.
Great, now hurry up and get that GR75 done so you can come and spend some time in this thread!
Bateau
3212
After 12 or so Shaper kills the Rngesus finally blessed me:
Linked in about 20 fuses and hit near max roll in 1 divine. Karma for wasting 800 fuses on Tinkerskin which I then sold as a 5 link out of spite, lol.
Average. I’ll give you…2 alch for it?
Bateau
3215
Throw in some necropolis maps and you have a deal.
hehe, I figured you’d have enough of those too, after all those Shaper runs! :D
It finally happened, death by game crash. Right in the middle of a Harbinger fight. Fortunately I’m playing softcore, but still cost me a good chunk of XP.
First time in the Harbinger league, which says a lot for the stability that PoE has created in the last few years. Back in beta, I’d see lag and/or crash deaths all the time. I’ve seen lag a few times, luckily nothing happening in the middle of a really crucial moment, but this is my first client crash this time around.
I’ve been kicked to login on a couple of occasions, but haven’t crashed.
What skills should I watch out for on my Juggernaut-to-be?
Starting out I’m using Ground Slam for my AoE, and Heavy Strike. But both are unsatisfyingly. I’ve heard Sunder is a good one later on, and Earthquake. Is that what you use? I’ve never seen those two in action.
I’ve had a lot of fun with sunder. It’s kind of like forcewave from grim dawn, but way more satisfying to use. I haven’t used earthquake but it has a big delay before the damage occurs. It doesn’t have the immediacy of sunder.
You can start using it at level 12. Keep in mind that it only scales off of main-hand damage, so it works well with 2h weapons. I used multistrike for a long time, but eventually ditched it because it locked me in one spot for too long.
Syzygy
3221
I’ve been looking for an easy to follow Sunder starter league guide with no luck.
