I’m in a different guild so I can’t just put stuff in the guild stash, but I can definitely help improve your gear a bit as I’m done with the league.
I’ve got an okay 5-link armor that should be easy to color for whatever links you want for lacerate just sitting around and various other items you can definitely use to improve (and see the type of gear you should be looking to buy).
Because I’m not in the guild and am not playing anymore this league we’d have to set a time to meet; I’m off work today and tomorrow so if you want some free stuff let me know when you can hop in to the game.
@Outlandish I am going into the game right now for a while.
Okay, all my characters have the name “Ventri” in them somewhere so if you see a friend request with Ventri, that’s me.
Thanks very much @Outlandish.
Am I correct that there is no combat log in PoE? I just died about 5 times in a row to a metamorph that looks like it should have been an easy kill based on how little the bar filled up when I created it. Had to stop playing after losing 25% of a level before I rage quit! I’ve also failed the last couple of times when trying the labyrinth and have no idea what damage is killing me. All my elemental resists are 76% but my chaos is -30% so I’m guessing that’s it. I lost 30% chaos when switching to my 5 linked body armor so I may have to go back to the old 4 link armor for now.
Bleed is something to really watch out for, that will kill you quickly.
Might have been bleed but in every case I went from full health to dead in about 1 second. Felt like a one shot from something.
Could be reflect from offscreen, corpse being blown up, there are a few really nasty insta kill things in PoE, one of the things I really dislike about the game. Not sure how much of that has changed as my character isn’t very high yet in this version.
Yeah, the lack of a combat log is annoying. I rarely know exactly what killed me, though you can often get an educated guess. In the lab, there’s traps that cause bleeding that are common causes, and the boss often does insane damage too, particularly if you’re underleveled. Chaos damage isn’t usually the culprit, because it’s pretty easy to tell when that gets you.
Tl;dr: At some point you need to drop damage and get some life, or just accept that you’re going to die a lot unless you have tons of game knowledge and the reflexes to back it up. I do a lot of build planning so I’ve put a bunch of words below that might help a little. I’ve never played impale though so I can’t give full advice.
edit: And for some reason I always forget I can’t have carriage returns in the spoiler text and end up editing every spoiler post. Some day.
When I looked at your profile the other day your life total was about 1000 less than what I would have at your level. Just checked it again and assuming it’s accurate it says you have 2536 life at level 72.
I generally have about 4000 at that point; I like to have about 4000 life when I go to maps and that happens around level 70. That’s why I made sure to craft some life onto that gear I gave you, but you still need life nodes on the tree. Badly.
You have 83% life on the tree. In general even in softcore I want an absolute minimum of 140% for a life based build, and that’s only if I have a lot of other defenses like maxed out blocking or dodge etc. My usual target is about 170% for softcore, but I’m usually starting in the Shadow or Witch area where life is harder to come by and sometimes end up in the 160s.
At a quick glance I’d say that neither of the jewels in your tree are worth using so that’s 5 points you could have back. The rare jewel is mostly crit based and you can’t crit because you’re a Resolute Technique build.
You’re right next to the Barbarism nodes so I’d definitely get those 3, and you’re not too far from the Devotion nodes near Templar and all the life near the Marauder start.
OK, thanks for the tips @Outlandish. A couple pieces of the gear you gave me had too high Dex for me to wear them. Will look into making some changes in the tree.
Edit - It does look like picking up those life nodes are next up in Esoro’s build. I got rid of the jewels and got Barbarism.
The two flasks I feel are must haves are one to stop bleeding, and one for poison. Poison is moderated by chaos resist so if you stand in poison or fight a monster that uses poison and you have negative chaos resist, as many people do, you are going to take damage like there’s no tomorrow.
I also seem to be addicted to this league. I am now leveling two characters, one being a darkness farmer Scion (to run around in delves with no light). It’s called a pacifist character because it doesn’t kill anybody, it just runs around. The second is yet another minion build, but this time using Holy Relic for the minion. You get a helm that lets you have two of them, and Herald of Purity, and an enchant on your glove that spawns minions when you kill stuff. And then you whack at the mobs once every 8 seconds to spawn minions, then run around like all summoners to. It sounded so strange that I just needed to try it.
Leveling the Scion is painful because you level it as a completely different talent spec, and then when you hit… I’m not sure… maybe 75 or so you respec. I’m leveling her as an arc spellcaster, and she plows through regular mobs but bosses beat the snot out of her.
Also, and I won’t keep replying to myself after this… Another shout out to @Outlandish for his idea about having different statically priced sales tabs. I’m using the technique he described above and I sell a couple of items every time I play, for between 2 and 22 chaos. It’s a great no stress way to get chaos orbs! I typically only put gloves, boots, helmets, and jewelry in the tabs so they often take or a little time to fill up.
Noob map questions: Now that I’ve done the PoE tutorial (i.e. Acts 1-10) :) is there any reason to keep multiple copies of a map after completing it once? Should I turn in 3 copies for a higher tier map in all cases? Thanks.
I saw a video that said once you start doing maps you should try to stay in one area of the Atlas and get out to a corner rather than doing maps all over the Atlas. It wasn’t clear why, so do you guys agree that’s a good way to do the Atlas?
Thanks.
The new atlas really shakes things up so it’s hard to say. I use the 3 for 1 recipe if I have spare maps, but by spare I mean I have 6+ copies of the map.
As for going to a corner, I’m trying to remember how the atlas works now when you first get to it. If I recall correctly the new bosses initially spawn in the 4 corners and that’s why you need to get out there. You want to be spawning them as quickly as possible as it takes a lot of maps to fully awaken the atlas if that’s what you’re after. So many now that that’s one of the reasons I quit this league.
Eventually you’ll need to chase the bosses down all over the place and that’s why the 3 for 1 recipe is a little worse now. You need copies of a lot of maps which is why I don’t like to sell them unless I definitely have enough. There’s probably ways to game the system I don’t know about. I’ve never been any good at manipulating the atlas; it was always more work than I was willing to put in.
Thanks @Outlandish. I’m just running maps for fun now and I’m not going to try and game the system or worry about all the details this time around. However far I get in this league will be fine. I’ll probably continue in Standard after it’s over to complete leveling rather than jump right back into the next league and start over.
As mentioned, your initial mapping strategy should be to complete each type of map once because that adds to the map bonus that is displayed in the center of the atlas. That number is the percent that you will get a map drop that is higher than the map you’re in so you want that to be as high as possible, because that’s how you get higher level maps when you’re running in a map.
Also, yes, the conquerors spawn initially in the four corners of the map so you ideally want to run maps in those areas as much as possible. There may be a few maps that you can use for that purpose in the guild bank tab …the Maps tab …that will help you if you need them.
Lastly, I believe they changed the map vendor recipe. It used to be that when you sold three of a the same type of map you got one map of the higher tier back. So for Instance if you sold three Tier 1 Pier maps you would get one Tier 2 Cavern map in return. That was deterministic as far as I know. Now, the recipe has been slightly changed so if you look at the transaction and don’t want the map you’re going to receive sometimes you can get a different map if you switch out some of the maps you’re selling for other identical copies. So I believe the three for one recipe now can return one of two choices.
Thanks as well @Charlatan
Do you guys upgrade your maps with alchemy or whatever? Didn’t even know that was an option until I watched a beginner map guide on Youtube.
