Path of Exile

Never seen it this high. Going to assume there’s an overall large influx of stuff due to temples. More items, more currency, more more.

Yeah, no doubt this is happening. We’ve already mentioned up-thread that the temples are providing XP during leveling. During end-game, they’re a serious loot source. And some of the new mods…whew. Body armor isn’t any good any more unless it’s got 100+ life and 10% more life on it.

I was one of the people talking about the xp glut :P

I haven’t seen an “interesting” body armor drop in the temple in awhile (by which I mean % max health; I’ve seen a couple of those), sadly. I did 6s a Cloak of Defiance though. I want to try and link to make the real monies.

Once again for me, blade vortex elementalist is the easiest and smoothest to level in SSF. That skill is cake from the second you get it, even with horrible gear. My arc totem build was also pretty good, but BV is so much better on bosses.

I think from now on I’m just going to go BV as my league starter, it’s just so easy lol.

I found a quill rain and a tabula, so I started a poison assassin. I just hit a real leveling lag with that toon pre doing the first lab run, that ascendency is so important that I may have to try and cheese my way through earlier than I should. All in all pretty fun though.

Well poe.ninja supports your claims I think, since 21% of all players this league are playing Elementalist, and of those, 64% are vaal BV =)

http://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?class=Elementalist

I thought everyone was playing Arc / Arc Traps / Arc Totems :)

I think this means I should work on my Skeleton Necro, because I’m never going to get my hands on an Inpulsa at this rate =)

I had a tinkerskin drop and I 6s’d it. Took between 40-60 jewellers I think, so nice return.

It looks like I could move it and the CoD for about 100-120c (depending on if the very cheapest 6s CoD’s are just scammers, which I suspect they are). But I want to 6-L one of these, (or at least 5L) and try to make real bank, so I am going to keep rolling. I haven’t checked this yet but I assume the CoD will be worth more and I’ll focus there (but I’ll check first).

Might want to check poe.ninja first (I’m not sure if they have volume of trades or not). It’s possible CoD is worth more but if it’s a niche item it will be hard to move. On the other hand, a lot of people are playing trappers atm and Tinkerskin is BiS for a lot of trapper builds.

And uh, I haven’t heard of anyone unironically using CoD for a while now. Like 3 years. Not even any of my friends who play hc mentioned it.

Vaal skeletons is redonkulous, that is all.

I’ve made it into A8 for the first time. The end of A7 wasn’t too bad but Doedre in the sewers sounds a lot tougher, any advice? My summoner has 2.5 k life, 1k mana and mind-over-matter, and max elemental resists, 20% damage reduction, no evade, little ES, and I have slow reflexes. Do I need to grind for more life or more armor?

This far in, its getting more important to have the right setup for the fight. Make sure you have a e.g. poison removal flask (or two), bleed flask, and get some specific advice from people who know these bosses better than I do.

If you can’t burst her down then just rotate the curses (by turning the valve) so their effects don’t stack too high.

I finally got around to making a lightning trapper…lol. I mean seriously…wow. 2nd phase of Dominus, literally one shot…just crazy. Any boss or NPC that has any kind of phase, wind up, or speech, is just insta-toast, it’s ridiculous.

Will be fun to see how it scales, but given the videos I’ve seen, I’m guessing pretty well. Not even my skeleton-mancer kills bosses this quick, fun stuff.

Hmmm… Suggestions on which gems to corrupt in Doyani’s Institute?

I’m definitely not an expert on the economy but I’d imagine you’d want gems that benefit greatly from increased level and are meta. Arc would probably be my first choice. Elemental Hit I haven’t looked at but I imagine it does well with level 21. Then any popular support; added cold maybe, gotta have them shatters.

I’m irritated at my rng as I keep getting the doryani’s institute but never have a level 20 gem to put in it much less a 20/20. I’m not willing to spend the money on a 20/20 to take a chance on hitting it big. Meanwhile I’ve only gotten the corruption chamber thing once and I’d love to be throwing things on there.

BV, Arc. Generally any active gem that also has a Vaal variant, at least if you’re going for the challenges.

Thankee, folks!

Also I just learned a bit about the Doryani’s Institute Lens. Apparently you can get a level 19 gem to level 21, and a level 2 enlighten/empower to level 4 which would be huge. You can get +2 levels, you just can’t go past 21 or 4. So all those times I didn’t put a level 20 gem in I could have taken a chance with a 19 which I do frequently have sitting around thanks to the dying anguish divination cards.

Researched it a bit and there’s plenty of conflicting opinions which makes sense given that fairly common outcomes will be things like +1 level and -1 level appearing to do nothing etc. There are enough reports of the same outcome happening twice though that it seems to be correct. I wouldn’t waste a level 19 gem you wanted to use on it, but if you’ve got extra 19s around and nothing better to put in there it might be worth a shot.

thanks for the implicit suggestion! I did cursed lab to get bone sculptor and then it was indeed pretty quick (1 heal pot) to burn her down. What is likely to be the next difficult step?