3582

And red tier Elder down as well. I’m still not clear on the mechanics of the fight because I’m literally right clicking my way through the atlas on the gladiator, lol.

3583

Another vendor tip to keep in mind: when you’ve got your Masters up to a certain level (4, I think?) they start offering skill gems for sale. Fairly often you can find a quality gem on offer, and it doesn’t cost any more than the normal version. I collect these until I have a total of 40% quality and sell them for a Gemcutter’s Prism. And once in a blue moon you might even find one you’d actually like to use!

3584

I think I remember that if you trade a lvl 20 gem you will get it back as lvl1 quality 20. I have never powerleveled enough for that to be useful though.

3585

There’s a vendor recipe. lvl20 gem + gemcutter prism == lvl1 20% quality gem.

IIRC, if you don’t die (much), a gem will hit 20 when your character hits 88 or so.

3586

Wow. Sunder/ancestral recall/life on hit/multistrike is amazing. They weren’t kidding about sunder.

3587

Spectres are great now, too. The 3.1.1 patch fixed some gems like Spell Echo which weren’t quite doing the right thing on some spectres (especially Solar Guards), and now they are very powerful again (instead of just fairly powerful.) The Abyss jewels with flat minion damage and minion attack/cast speed are a big buff. On top of that, one of the new uniques and some of the shaper/elder bonuses are saving me gem slots and I can fit a bit more into the build than usual for a summoner.

3588

Why ancestral call on sunder? It’s an aoe skill.

3589

Maybe it’s just being linked so that the ancestral protector gets multistrike?

3590

Ancestral Call is the new support gem that gives single target abilities some splash, Ancestral Protector is a melee totem.

3591

This particular set of links is what the posts above are talking about. To help clarify, Ancestral Call shouldn’t actually kick in for this 4-link. However, Sunder is so powerful you might not notice.

3592

Interesting. I saw the combination as recommended in the forum. I’ll have to check again. Thanks for the info.

Edit: Yep, I read wrong. That’s cool, I can find something else for that slot.

3593

Added Fire or Faster Attacks are would be good places to start.

Also, if you didn’t know, after you finish the Library quest (find the 4 golden pages), you can buy all gems (including cross class gems) at level one, once you’ve done whatever quest they’re associated with, from the quest dude by the waypoint. It’s super convenient.

I believe Lilly functions similarly if not the same as of partway through act 6.

3594

Yeah about the library guy. And I used the Ancestral Call on a single hit attack and the effect is pretty obvious. Also obvious why it would be OP firing on an AOE.

3595

Although apparently AC with Molten Strike or Frost Blades is a thing…

3596

Has the metagame started to settle any yet? What’s generally considered the top builds?

3597

Does Path of Exile track hours played in a menu or a website somewhere? I’m kind of curious to how long I’ve played.

EDIT: Apparently there’s not.

You have to go to each character and type /played, and add all of them up yourself. And there’s no way to know for all the characters you’ve deleted.

3598

The only way I know of is to play through Steam and let it track.

3599

Silly person, this isn’t Diablo 3. There are many builds people enjoy ;)

3600

I really enjoy this game until it’s time to do the Trials then I want to quit every single time.

I don’t enjoy traps for days and weird puzzles that rarely make any sense. My dude loves to path over saws and instantly die.

It’s like a completely different game and one that I would never play and I’m forced to play it.

3601

The Lab is a debate that’s been done to death and I doubt anyone’s getting convinced here, but FWIW I too hated it until I took the time to breathe and understand it. The Lab is generally pretty trivial to get through these days as long as you don’t panic and know more or less what you’re doing.

Coming strapped with a movement skill ain’t a bad idea either, but hardly necessary.