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[Path of Exile] Released on Steam! New Leagues! Now with more balance complaining!

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  • Albino BunnyAlbino Bunny Jackie Registered User regular
    I am down for this.

    I'm getting all my friends to download it too.

    Even one poor sod who just brought Torchlight 2. No, you can't have that loot come over here and join me on this loot whore game.

  • exisexis Registered User regular
    Just over nine hours to go :) off to bed, can't wait for tomorrow morning.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    That's 10 pm here in Swedistan. Woo.

  • mr_michmr_mich Mmmmagic. MDRegistered User regular
    A buddy just told me about this game yesterday. I'll hopefully be able to try it today, but between my schedule and the nightmare that is launch day (especially with F2P) I'm not counting on it.

    I wanna get a Ranger and go pewpewpew.

  • Minerva_SCMinerva_SC Registered User regular
    bah, was hoping I'd be able to just wake up and play. I'll have to find some way to entertain myself for the next 6 hours....

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    I'm pretty excited to start a Frost Witch that won't be wiped and play her desultorily until she's high-level and can farm some medium-sweet loots for new characters. Yo, if they do a patch and my character gets bumped to a legacy league, does that mean her items in the shared stash go there too?

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    I'll be on around 4 PM EST for those wanting to start characters together. We're meeting up in the PA vent server, then?

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    Oh also, I'm not sure if this would interest people or not, but I had a quick idea this morning. If we have any hardcore players in the house (of which I am one), we could have a "kill screen" section of the OP of hardcore deaths. Just submit screenshots to me and I'll make it work. For now, I don't want to put any restrictions on it, but later we could do something like only allow one kill-screen per forum member to save space. Or I could just be lazy and put it in a spoiler. Whatever.

    Let me know if that sounds cool, if not I'll just be over here. Playing Path of Exile.

    Steam: Spawnbroker
  • Albino BunnyAlbino Bunny Jackie Registered User regular
    I'm down for that.

    Though mine will likely be a suicide one because my friend just died and I wish to keep playing with him.

  • eelektrikeelektrik Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    How well does min-maxing work in Path of Exile and how exactly do power charges, endurance charges, frenzy charges work?

    Because I was messing with the passive tree and came up with a build that might be retarded involving getting conduit and all the passive skills related to charges, thus is goes all over the tree. But not sure what active skills to use with it.

    Also the website lists 111 skill points, I assume thats at max level and takes a long time to reach? Whats a reasonable amount of skill points to plan builds around completing in a reasonable time frame?

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    edited January 2013
    eelektrik wrote: »
    How well does min-maxing work in Path of Exile and how exactly do power charges, endurance charges, frenzy charges work?

    Because I was messing with the passive tree and came up with a build that might be retarded involving getting conduit and all the passive skills related to charges, thus is goes all over the tree. But not sure what active skills to use with it.

    Also the website lists 111 skill points, I assume thats at max level and takes a long time to reach? Whats a reasonable amount of skill points to plan builds around completing in a reasonable time frame?

    So power charges are associated with intelligence, and they give 50% increased crit chance per charge. Endurance charges are associated with strength and give 5% physical damage reduction and 5% elemental resists per charge. Frenzy charges are dexterity, and they give 5% attack speed and 5% cast speed per charge. Each type of charge can be gained by certain skills, and certain skills can consume them. For example, Flicker Strike is a dex skill and it consumes frenzy charges. Warlord's Mark is a strength skill and it gives you endurance charges when you kill monsters affected by it.

    111 used to be the maximum skill point value, which was impossible to reach because you will never reach level 100. Usually people get to the low 80s by doing lots of grinding. Also, many players used to do the "help Oak" option on the bandits for all four difficulties, so that's another four skill points they wouldn't have. Generally, people used to post builds with around 80 skill points as an achievable end-game goal.

    With the new changes, characters are going to be higher level on average, since maps now go up to level 75. Also, there will now be 21 skill points available from quests in all difficulties instead of 11. So I'd say a reasonable end-game build would have about 90 points.

    Edit: I forgot to mention, helping Oak will only give you hit points on Normal difficulty now due to the open beta patch, so there's another 2 skill points right there. 95 might even be reasonable.

    Edit Edit: I forgot there are only three difficulties now.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    exis wrote: »
    Yep, I'll jump on vent tomorrow morning too. There isn't a game-specific lobby for Path of Exile so make sure to put the game name in your comment so folks know who to join :)

    *whistles innocently*

    Are you sure about that? :3

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  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    edited January 2013
    Is there a website or other place yet with build guides or ideas? Might be putting some time into this over the weekend and I haven't been paying a lot of attention to skills and such.

    Rius on
  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    Just checked it out, thanks @PMAvers for giving us our own set of channels on the PA ventrilo! Awful nice of you.

    Steam: Spawnbroker
  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    Rius wrote: »
    Is there a website or other place yet with build guides or ideas? Might be putting some time into this over the weekend and I haven't been paying a lot of attention to skills and such.

    It's a bit of a bear to actually navigate and find guides but the class forums on the official website have a lot of guides in them. Many of them are meant to be "advanced" builds that only really work if you have good specific gear to support them, but if the guide is formatted well you should be able to see if it's good to start with or not.

  • BeefersBeefers Registered User regular
    edited January 2013
    So question about the new totem mastery. Does it include all skills that cost mana, such as heavy strike or shield charge, or just some subset of the skills that are considered "spells"?

    Beefers on
  • sliver911sliver911 Registered User regular
    Getting pretty pumped for the launch! I will be on around launch time (3:00 pm EST) on vent to join others to start new characters!

  • PacificstarPacificstar Registered User regular
    I'll be on around 4 PM EST for those wanting to start characters together. We're meeting up in the PA vent server, then?

    Yes I will be there too. Guys launch is at 4pm EST, though you can download the updated client sooner. If you go to the website you can see a timer. It's 3:30 minutes from now, so 4PM EST. That said servers will go down I think 2 hours before launch and you can download updated client during that time.
    Rius wrote: »
    Is there a website or other place yet with build guides or ideas? Might be putting some time into this over the weekend and I haven't been paying a lot of attention to skills and such.

    Official forums are a great place to look, and this dude Krippa has posted extensively on youtube about the game.

  • MadpandaMadpanda suburbs west of chicagoRegistered User regular
    I'll be on around 4 CST to co-op. I am coming into this pretty much blind.

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    Beefers wrote: »
    So question about the new totem mastery. Does it include all skills that cost mana, such as heavy strike or shield charge, or just some subset of the skills that are considered "spells"?

    So this can be kinda confusing, but I'll try to explain. You will no longer be able to deal damage with skills where the damage source is your character. So anything where your character would be doing damage, now does no damage.

    So what is excluded from this? Pretty much only summons, totems, traps, and mines. Bear Trap will still do damage because the damage source is the trap, not your character. So yeah, you'd better be extra confident that your dual totems are going to do enough damage before you take the passive.

    Steam: Spawnbroker
  • RofflorRofflor Adventurer Registered User regular
    Anyone want an invite to the closed beta? First to pm get's it then I'll edit this post.

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    The closed beta ended literally 30 minutes ago, I have a feeling you won't get much interest in a key :P

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  • RofflorRofflor Adventurer Registered User regular
    Ha! Didn't know the open beta was forever now :)
    Sorry about that then!

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  • exisexis Registered User regular
    edited January 2013
    You might be able to get a forum tag out of it :P
    PMAvers wrote: »
    exis wrote: »
    Yep, I'll jump on vent tomorrow morning too. There isn't a game-specific lobby for Path of Exile so make sure to put the game name in your comment so folks know who to join :)

    *whistles innocently*

    Are you sure about that? :3

    Damn yoooouuuuu.
    <3

    exis on
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Patchin' mah closed beta client.

  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    So, uh, I am in love with what they're doing for the microtransactions.

    They have a skin for Summon Skeleton that turns them into Animated Statues, or a skin that turns Cold Grasp into an undead hand coming out of the ground and grabbing you. Fireball becomes a burning dragon that you launch.

    Kind of wish I had grabbed the $25 Kiwi pack now, because I am definitely going to spend money on some of these.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Was going to grumble about how wanged their update servers must be, going at 1.5kB/s, but then it jumped to 1.9 megs/second. 8->

  • Albino BunnyAlbino Bunny Jackie Registered User regular
    20KB/s max.

    This is gonna be a while.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Fluctuating wildly for me. Anything from 100k/s and up to 2 megs/s. Oh well, no real time to play tonight anyway.

  • MadpandaMadpanda suburbs west of chicagoRegistered User regular
    For someone who hasn't played this at all but wants to play an assassin like class, duelist or ranger?

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  • Albino BunnyAlbino Bunny Jackie Registered User regular
    It's weird how it's clearly server limited yet I still get half of everyone elses :3

    My internet is so bad.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Madpanda wrote: »
    For someone who hasn't played this at all but wants to play an assassin like class, duelist or ranger?

    Or the actual assassin, the Shadow!

  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    Madpanda wrote: »
    For someone who hasn't played this at all but wants to play an assassin like class, duelist or ranger?

    Is there a reason you're ignoring Shadow, which is an assassin?

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  • Minerva_SCMinerva_SC Registered User regular
    yeah the patcher is kind of off it's rocker, the dl speed jumps around like crazy. Did a clean install last night and now dling the new patch, hopefully it will be playable by 4 est.

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  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    I really hope they keep releasing Statue-themed stuff. I have never had any interest in playing as summoner, but those Animated Statues totally changed my mind.

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  • Albino BunnyAlbino Bunny Jackie Registered User regular
    I guess if you're talking traditional assassin then Shadow doesn't overly work because he's magicky too.

    Where as ranger and duelist are more focused on the physical side of things.

    By more focused I mean slightly veers away considering my ranger at level 2 shoots fire and lightning from her bow.

  • PacificstarPacificstar Registered User regular
    Exis and I are hanging out in ventrilo while we wait for our clients to patch

  • MadpandaMadpanda suburbs west of chicagoRegistered User regular
    I didn't see how int/dex was going to mix but looking at where shadow starts out on the skill tree I see it.

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  • InkSplatInkSplat 100%ed Bad Rats. Registered User regular
    I guess if you're talking traditional assassin then Shadow doesn't overly work because he's magicky too.

    Where as ranger and duelist are more focused on the physical side of things.

    By more focused I mean slightly veers away considering my ranger at level 2 shoots fire and lightning from her bow.

    So, what do you consider Assassin-like then? Because the Shadow is the one who uses Claws and Daggers and Traps (and doesn't have to be magic at all if you don't go that way).

    Duelist is fun, and I personally really like melee Rangers, but since you seem to have a different idea of what you want in an Assassin, I think we need a bit more clarification.

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  • Albino BunnyAlbino Bunny Jackie Registered User regular
    InkSplat wrote: »
    I guess if you're talking traditional assassin then Shadow doesn't overly work because he's magicky too.

    Where as ranger and duelist are more focused on the physical side of things.

    By more focused I mean slightly veers away considering my ranger at level 2 shoots fire and lightning from her bow.

    So, what do you consider Assassin-like then? Because the Shadow is the one who uses Claws and Daggers and Traps (and doesn't have to be magic at all if you don't go that way).

    Duelist is fun, and I personally really like melee Rangers, but since you seem to have a different idea of what you want in an Assassin, I think we need a bit more clarification.

    No what I'm saying is that at a glance you can see why he didn't include the Shadow in it. Not that the Shadow is not the assassin style class.

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