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[Path of Exile] They might have forgotten to tell you that you're in the beta.
That's just for the closed beta. They'll add more for open beta.
As a test of our microtransaction system, we’re initially offering two small purchases:
Extra Stash Tab (30 Points): Your quota of stash tabs is increased in all leagues. The number of stash tabs is not reset when we enter Open Beta.
Extra Character Slot (30 Points)
At Open Beta, we will have a range of different microtransactions for sale, including many of the following:
Public stash tabs (viewable to other players for trade purposes)
Cosmetic pets
Alternate skill effects
Special animations (for example, taunts or PvP victory animations)
Special paid leagues (with custom game rules)
Guild storage
Alternate item skins and visual effects
Special cosmetic item properties such as “extra gore”
Item dyes
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Mojo_JojoWe are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourseRegistered Userregular
Yes, I was looking at the full list.
So, maybe the alternate skill effects will be worthwhile? The rest is kind of worthless in a game where you barely see other players.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
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KlykaDO you have anySPARE BATTERIES?Registered Userregular
I'm digging how they do the hardcore league: when you die, you're just kicked down to the default league and can keep playing the character there.
It's a fate worse than death. Instead of just being gone for good, you have now become what you always hated most:
CASUAL.
They broadcast a message across the public general chat that you've just died and had your Hardcore status revoked.
Shame him! SHAME HIMMM!
Just got an email saying that you can buy a little package and get beta access plus some points or something. Their payment methods are borked too. Pity. I'm more interested in this then I am in D3.
A Flock of Walrus on
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DyvionBack in Sunny Florida!!Registered Userregular
There are a few of us who gave them some cash. I did. I used paypal and it worked just fine.
Dyvion in game. If you friend one character it friends the account, or something like that.
Steam: No Safety In Life
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
So, maybe the alternate skill effects will be worthwhile? The rest is kind of worthless in a game where you barely see other players.
Given the rest of the list, I'd bet that "alternate skill effects" means alternate visual effects, not gameplay effects.
So yeah, there's no way they'll turn a profit off of this. They'll eventually need to sell something with a significant impact on gameplay.
I hope you're incorrect. They're doing a noble thing by not selling power. I hope the public rewards them.
I hope they can make money off of me buying whatever stash tabs and character slots I need. Alternate skill animations isn't something that is going to get me to pay. If I did buy them, it'd be more out of a desire to support them than because I really want the animation.
Went ahead and got in on this. Am really enjoying it so far. Seems pretty challenging.
Currently running a templar on the Hardcore mode. Level 6. Anyone else interested in playing?
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DyvionBack in Sunny Florida!!Registered Userregular
Got my archer up to 30 today. Finished Act II and it starts you back over at the intro, on a much harder difficulty with corresponding higher drops. I'm kitted out right now pretty well. I picked up the 35% chance for arrows to pierce their target and keep going, and found a support gem with 40% (leveled up twice, it's now at 42%) and using split arrow (rank 8 currently, 4 arrows) I can clear waves of critters. My poison arrow is my bread and butter though. Extra damage and a cloud that puts a heavy DOT effect on mobs is great, plus I have the debuff that makes things vulnerable to arrows... chews through normal difficulty things.
I'm loving the loot system. Six varieties of each type of armor in all of the tiers corresponds with each of the types of classes: Armor, Energy Shield, Evasion, Armor/Evasion, Armor/Energy Shield, Energy Shield/Evasion. I'm running full evasion right now and have a 49% chance to evade attacks, working towards the 20% chance to dodge attacks for a total of 70% chance to dodge (and various points along the way up that).
Lots of variety in weapons and weapon models. Lots of variety in bonuses to weapons. I got a flask the other day that applied a buff to fire resistance instead of just health/mana regen. I thought that was a neat touch.
My most favorite thing about the game though, and one I haven't heard people talk about much... Every level is randomly generated. When you leave a level you have 8 minutes to get back to it (15 minutes for core areas) or it will be deleted and a new one will be generated. You can also ctrl-click to just join a new instance of an area. When you team up with someone the monsters effective levels are raised to present more of a challenge. I teamed up a couple times with people and it really gets hectic when you face room fulls of beefed up monsters.
I'm really enjoying this a whole lot. We should get a list together for friends. When you friend one person you get their account friended so it doesn't matter which character they're on.
One thing I'm looking forward to is the sell tab. Hopefully whatever you put in it will go to an auction house type system... although with bartering I don't know how that would work.... I'm looking forward to watching this thing grow.
Steam: No Safety In Life
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
I decided to hop on this as well. Feeling the call of the loot trance strongly this weekend. My account is jericho89, for friending. Are there guilds or guildish things yet?
Well, I tried this a bit on the open weekend. Couldn't play more than a couple hours, though. I have to say, I would really, really welcome an "auto-order" button in the inventory like Titan Quest had. Diablo 2's inventory was always one of the most aggravating parts of the experience.
Otherwise, it looks like a fairly decent hackslasher. The rarity of scrolls at the beginning, both identification and town portal ones, was very noticed, and will probably give it a rather different feel, as will the whole barter instead of gold thing.
Staff Templar with Avatar of Fire is pretty great. Got the +Weapon Elemental Damage nodes, using Glacial Hammer and Sweep. Almost every dies in 1 or 2 hits, so now I'm scooping up survivability stuff like +20% Armor and Energy Shield. :^:
I decided to hop on this as well. Feeling the call of the loot trance strongly this weekend. My account is jericho89, for friending. Are there guilds or guildish things yet?
I need one of your characte's name if i'm going to add you.
I decided to hop on this as well. Feeling the call of the loot trance strongly this weekend. My account is jericho89, for friending. Are there guilds or guildish things yet?
I need one of your characte's name if i'm going to add you.
DyvionBack in Sunny Florida!!Registered Userregular
When tromping through Act 1 with Mahnmut with my marauder and his witch and had lots of fun with much more difficult enemies. It must get really hectic with 3 or 4 people.
Steam: No Safety In Life
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
When tromping through Act 1 with Mahnmut with my marauder and his witch and had lots of fun with much more difficult enemies. It must get really hectic with 3 or 4 people.
:^:
Many strong and devious champions fell, often as snowflakes, before our relentless advance. Then the server crashed or something.
When tromping through Act 1 with Mahnmut with my marauder and his witch and had lots of fun with much more difficult enemies. It must get really hectic with 3 or 4 people.
Mahnmut and I had one or 2 close calls too. Walk into a room full of mobs and a quick attacking boss. Bad news bearssss.
The 3 of us should get together and try it sometime. Hardcore modddeee.
When tromping through Act 1 with Mahnmut with my marauder and his witch and had lots of fun with much more difficult enemies. It must get really hectic with 3 or 4 people.
Mahnmut and I had one or 2 close calls too. Walk into a room full of mobs and a quick attacking boss. Bad news bearssss.
The 3 of us should get together and try it sometime. Hardcore modddeee.
DyvionBack in Sunny Florida!!Registered Userregular
I'm starting to re-think my full evasion strategy on my Ranger... up to 800 evasion now, but at my level that's only 44% dodge... and when I do get hit I lose 1/4 of my hps (no armor, no magic shield). It works really well if I can get in a team though.
Steam: No Safety In Life
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
evasion is crap basically
you need armour to back it up or you gonna get whomped
and the game lies to you about the chance, because it depends on the accuracy of the mob - and high dex enemies like skeleton archers have monster dex, so even if you have nominally 44% chance to dodge its actually way less
Yea, Dex is sort of an odd stat right now. Even 90% evasion is no good if the 10th hit one shots you. Dex doesn't directly increase your damage either, it only increases your accuracy.
Is there not a perk which converts evasion -> armor? Probably worth it if you want to go heavy dex.
Oh, and my username is Varys. Feel free to add me if you want to play, although I am a swede so I probably wont be on at the same time as you americans.
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So, maybe the alternate skill effects will be worthwhile? The rest is kind of worthless in a game where you barely see other players.
I can see many players making PvP leagues and competing there. Those taunts/animations will sell pretty well, I'm sure.
It's a fate worse than death. Instead of just being gone for good, you have now become what you always hated most:
CASUAL.
They broadcast a message across the public general chat that you've just died and had your Hardcore status revoked.
Shame him! SHAME HIMMM!
Just got an email saying that you can buy a little package and get beta access plus some points or something. Their payment methods are borked too. Pity. I'm more interested in this then I am in D3.
Dyvion in game. If you friend one character it friends the account, or something like that.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
I'd rather not use paypal but I think this is going to be my only option over the weekend.
I thought this game sounded a lot more like an old school ARPG. I'm in the D3 beta and wasn't impressed by it. Would do you think so far?
So yeah, there's no way they'll turn a profit off of this. They'll eventually need to sell something with a significant impact on gameplay.
I hope you're incorrect. They're doing a noble thing by not selling power. I hope the public rewards them.
I hope they can make money off of me buying whatever stash tabs and character slots I need. Alternate skill animations isn't something that is going to get me to pay. If I did buy them, it'd be more out of a desire to support them than because I really want the animation.
Currently running a templar on the Hardcore mode. Level 6. Anyone else interested in playing?
I'm loving the loot system. Six varieties of each type of armor in all of the tiers corresponds with each of the types of classes: Armor, Energy Shield, Evasion, Armor/Evasion, Armor/Energy Shield, Energy Shield/Evasion. I'm running full evasion right now and have a 49% chance to evade attacks, working towards the 20% chance to dodge attacks for a total of 70% chance to dodge (and various points along the way up that).
Lots of variety in weapons and weapon models. Lots of variety in bonuses to weapons. I got a flask the other day that applied a buff to fire resistance instead of just health/mana regen. I thought that was a neat touch.
My most favorite thing about the game though, and one I haven't heard people talk about much... Every level is randomly generated. When you leave a level you have 8 minutes to get back to it (15 minutes for core areas) or it will be deleted and a new one will be generated. You can also ctrl-click to just join a new instance of an area. When you team up with someone the monsters effective levels are raised to present more of a challenge. I teamed up a couple times with people and it really gets hectic when you face room fulls of beefed up monsters.
I'm really enjoying this a whole lot. We should get a list together for friends. When you friend one person you get their account friended so it doesn't matter which character they're on.
One thing I'm looking forward to is the sell tab. Hopefully whatever you put in it will go to an auction house type system... although with bartering I don't know how that would work.... I'm looking forward to watching this thing grow.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
Otherwise, it looks like a fairly decent hackslasher. The rarity of scrolls at the beginning, both identification and town portal ones, was very noticed, and will probably give it a rather different feel, as will the whole barter instead of gold thing.
I need one of your characte's name if i'm going to add you.
Hm. Yeshua
I'm dead serious."
They said they will before they release.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
:^:
Many strong and devious champions fell, often as snowflakes, before our relentless advance. Then the server crashed or something.
Mahnmut and I had one or 2 close calls too. Walk into a room full of mobs and a quick attacking boss. Bad news bearssss.
The 3 of us should get together and try it sometime. Hardcore modddeee.
My HP globe looked totally empty.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
you need armour to back it up or you gonna get whomped
and the game lies to you about the chance, because it depends on the accuracy of the mob - and high dex enemies like skeleton archers have monster dex, so even if you have nominally 44% chance to dodge its actually way less
The eternal problem with having a stat that nullifies damage entirely, as plenty of game devs eventually discover.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
Oh, and my username is Varys. Feel free to add me if you want to play, although I am a swede so I probably wont be on at the same time as you americans.
LoL EU West nickname: Irridan
I was going dex specifically for the evasion, so that's not actually helpful. I'll take a look at it on the skill tree.
I just added you too btw.
e: Just took a look at it, it's nearby what I'm already spec'ing in. It's only 6 points away.
e2: Ok, I just used a couple re-spec points and i'm only 4 points away from turning all evasion to armor... let's see how this works out.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
I've been dumping all of my points into spellpower and fire magic on my Witch. Love Firestorm so much.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
I'm focusing on crits with the frost witch, because crits are what statue things apparently.