The usual pack of post-release changes is on the way!
For me, only two really matter: performance and the on-death stuff. Performance is a concern for everyone, obviously. The on-death effects are what kill me, every single time so far as I can tell, so rebalancing those and/or making them easier to see will substantially improve my life.
Reemul
5088
I play this on and off but am having a real go at it atm, level 36 Maurauder which I am finding quite boring so am trying a decent build from the web to see if it gets any better. End of Act 3 for me so far
Got to Act 4 with my Kinetic Bolt witch and put her on hold,until I can figure out how to survive longer than a millisecond against things like Kaom. Started up a Static Strike Duelist, though at the moment (right before Merveil) he can only use Frost Blades. Wanted to try a melee-ish type rather than a spell slinger. So far he melts stuff, but runs through mana like folks used to run through Guinness on St. Paddy’s day (pre-COVID-19 at least).
This is your regular reminder to not neglect life nodes on the passive skill tree! :)
When I follow a build, I follow it to the letter, otherwise I go off track fast and get lost. Once I get to the end (which, TBH, I never have, in a season) I guess I could respec a few nodes but the whole point of following a build is to, well, follow it. I don’t know enough about the theorycrafting to deviate too much.
Reemul
5092
I just started following a build, spent all my points level 36. None of my gear was usable, I was short on Dex, luckily I had +30 dex spot free so wiped back 1 point.
Of course, after asking about cluster jewels yesterday, I have started seeing them in Acts seven and eight. I actually got two rare ones to drop that have the “minions do 10% more damage per minor node.” And my build even runs right past a external jewel socket so it would not take very much to get there. And one of them has two interesting notables. But I guess I would have to install that cluster to see if it’s worth using it.
My biggest hurdle now is trying to 5L my unique chest. Still attempting to get six sockets on it.
Piemax2
5094
I just got that jewel too, in A8. perfect for my summoner. and she also picked up a rare chaos-damage cluster jewel that seems good for my essence drain character :)
speaking of essence drain, I’d welcome advice or thoughts on whether this character ( who is going to be a trickster) should go for phase acrobatics of written in blood? phase acrobatics seems safer, but it looks more out of the way, while written in blood is on the way to atrrohpy.
If you hover over it, the jewel should pop up a list of what the notable nodes do. And of course the jewel itself says what the small nodes do.
I haven’t found any cluster jewels of interest to my build yet, but I did drop a couple in the guild stash just so people can see them. One’s a rare with a big boost to Purity auras, which I could see being useful to a build doing incoming damage conversion.
Romalar
5096
Yeah, if you want one for your build, you need to trade, play a while at end game to get a lot to drop, or craft them.
You can change the notables and the extra bonuses on top of the base small passives stat pretty easily. If your build could really use one of the new notables, it’s not a bad idea to just scour-alts-regal to get a good notable combo for you.
Looks like PoeDB can show you all the possible notables on cluster jewels, which is helpful since you can’t see what a notable does when browsing the stuff for sale on poe.trade.
https://poedb.tw/us/mod.php?cn=BaseItemTypes&an=Large+Cluster+Jewel
I finally bought myself one:
Only cost me 2 chaos so I won’t be too upset if I decide to switch to something better later. Of course, I have a whole lot of other upgrades to do before that becomes a concern!
Piemax2
5098
Could you suggest a good reference for crafting/modding these cluster jewels? I have one of the +10% minion damage jewels, I’d like to know if I should try to improve it before using it.
Honestly, I have no idea beyond just the usual stuff - hit it with transmute/alt orbs until you like the two mods, then use a regal and hope it gives you a nice third one. I’m sure there’s special high-end ways to do better, but it’s probably expensive.
And here’s the first round of Delirium changes: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2795674
Lots of damage reduction, which seems like a good idea. Nothing about changing the visibility of on-death triggers, or reducing the number of them, hopefully that’s still coming.
Spect
5101
I was hoping they would roll back the insane buff they gave to bosses. I feel solo play is almost too cumbersome now, and none of my past builds are working well against bosses. I just gave up for a second time trying to kill Kaom. I struggled with Piety and Dominus, and after incredibly lengthy boring battles, I was able to down them, but now I just can’t seem to progress in Act 4.
The 3.9 release increased the life of bosses quite a bit. It was GGG’s effort to make the game a bit more challenging. And I’ll agree it was quite a shock to see the life increases. But you know what - I’m sort of used to it now. It means boss encounters take longer. So I doubt this will be reversed.
So a couple of suggestions:
- If you want to post your build or what skills you’re using, maybe we can give some suggestions for improvements
- If it’s better gear you need you can always use the Qt3 guild stash (and if you’re not in the guild you should be!)
- Last but not least, if there’s a specific skill you want to use we can always give you ideas as to how you could build around it, or point out a build on the Path of Exile forums that uses the skill.
My problem with bosses now is that so many are arena cage fight style encounters, where the entire battle space is filled with AoE attacks or hordes of individual missiles of some sort. So much stuff goes off at once that I usually find I have to die my way through the encounter, chipping off parts of boss health each death cycle. Admittedly, I’ve only been playing Witches, so now I’m trying a Duelist with more sustainability, and I’m sure none of my characters have been optimized, but even when I outlevel a story boss it seems that some of them are just built to screw players.
I feel your pain, @Spect and @TheWombat, that’s much how I felt about boss fights way back when there were only 3 acts! Experience with the fights helps, but the biggest impact is how focused/efficient your build is. I’m with @Charlatan, let us know what you’re using and we’d be happy to make suggestions to help against the bosses!
In case you’re not familiar with sharing character data, the easiest way is to link to your character directly. Like this, which is the link to my current Delirium animate weapon summoner:
That’s https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/YourAccountName/characters?characterName=YourCharacterName. Far as I know you have to copy-paste to generate the URL yourself, there’s no place to just copy the link. Also you’ll want to double check that under Privacy Settings in your account, the “Set profile as private (hides all tabs including Overview)” and “Hide Characters tab” options are not selected.
Reemul
5105
can I get a guild invite? Reemule is my toon.
