Thanks for the exalt, RNGesus! Allowed me some nice upgrades and a few other purchases to round out my build as I earn a few more levels and get a shot at uber lab.
Whispering Ice is just doing a truck ton of damage. Cruising through yellows. Ran a white T10 Bog just to see how it would go - meh. same as running a T6 and I face-tanked enraged Skullbeak with no problems. Up to near 6k ES and still managing to out-leech the incoming damage.
Bateau
4085
Speaking of exalts, they’re now at ~145c on ISC, which is crazy. Might be a good time to slowly cash out.
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.
Fozzle
4090
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 :)
Fozzle
4092
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).
Bateau
4094
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.
Piemax2
4096
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.
Bateau
4098
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.
Bateau
4102
BV, Arc. Generally any active gem that also has a Vaal variant, at least if you’re going for the challenges.
