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[Path of Exile] 3.6 - Synthesis League - Launches on March 8th!
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I have 2.2m Shaper dps, or 2.7m if I turn on Vaal Cold Snap. Such build, much wreck.
For lols, I six-linked my Voidforge and vaal'd it, and it bricked. I also started to chaos spam these boots and hit these stupid-ass suffixes after like 30 chaos;
Maybe I'll metacraft them in Standard or something someday.
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chaos builds are for suckers
This was a good league, only that last challenge or two were a bit more tedious than I'd have liked but I haven't hit 36 since Perandus.
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@Jubal77 here you go!
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Note the included edited line on my belt; have to stick that somewhere in PoB to reflect the second part of Bonechill Support. PoB still isn't calculating for it, the "enemies in chilling areas from supported skills have cold damage taken increased by chill effect."
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facebreakers continues to call for me
and it rewarded in this shaper kill
perfect rolls D: 3 ex babyyyyyyyyy
happy valentines day poe thread
I'm afraid I'll melt my computer though
1) if i delve to the location point of the boss, does that mean i have to attempt to fight him right then and there to count the point 'claimed' if i fail the fight, will i just appear at the previous delve point to run the last point again?
2) I've wondered about the above and how abyssal citys occur, but never wanted to experiment and possibly lose the chance to do the temple...like if you hit the point, and the crawler spits out its loot. but dont actually enter the temple, do you lose the chance to do the temple? or can you port out, come back and the temple still is available to run?
3) You can bring others into delve right? I've always done it solo, but probably need help killing the boss.
You can open the basement, then use the crawler to return to the mine camp, then use the mine camp to return to the crawler, and still do the basement. But if you load another node, that basement is gone.
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It will be present for all characters in any league on that account.
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
I've been considering Armageddon Brand, but both of the brand skills look pretty cool.
From what I can tell Armageddon is slower and covers a smaller area overall, making it better for single target and worse for clear.
I think it's more that Armageddon Brand does all it's damage in a single hit so you get more milage out of Brand Recall shenanigans.
Dropping a recall on a group of mobs or a boss is really satisfying. Armageddon brand is so much fun.
Ignite prolif seems to help with clear. The ignite damage is good enough to make white mobs fall over quickly, while the actual hits take care of tougher things
show me the foothold from which I can climb
yeah, when I feel low
you show me a signpost for where I should go
Nah, that skill specifically triggered on kill, so you would need to kill a single mob in a pack, but have enough boosts to the enchanted skill (I'm not even sure how you would boost those) that it would kill the rest of the pack through the meteors.
You don't need very much DPS for end game trash mobs in high tier maps.
The actual meteors hit like a truck especially when you Brand Recall five of them on top of a target.
But you don't want to rely on those jumping to every mob because that would be slow. So you use the built in ignite multiplier, Elementalist ignite prolif for free (or just the gem), and scale just enough fire/elemental damage to get the burns up to where melt a white mob in about a half second (so 20-40k DPS depending on map mods) and the clear is pretty good. Then the actual brand hits do their thing on rare mobs, and you abuse overlapping AoE and Brand Recall for bosses
Mathil and Tarke both did a build this way and it worked pretty well on budget gear with most of the investment going into defenses. I'll be trying it next league assuming brands don't get a huge nerf overall. I suspect Storm Brand will get some adjustments.
Also: you definitely can scale DoT damage to endgame levels. Cold DoT rework makes for an amazing build. Chaos DoT has a few issues I was thinking about in the shower this morning (Blight is underpowered altho I like the play style built properly, ES is really undertuned and scales extremely poorly, Caustic Arrow is good but it's basically a caster build that uses a bow and quiver and can't scale from spell damage which is very limiting in gear choices). Fire DoT that isn't RF is probably the second worst DoT build (after poison) as a focused mechanic, but it absolutely has its uses in a hit-based fire build (Combustion/Immolate combo, prolif on a clear 4L with a single target 6L, Trickster regen enabler, etc.)
show me the foothold from which I can climb
yeah, when I feel low
you show me a signpost for where I should go
As Brody said, skills that deal damage after everything is already dead are kinda useless.
The delay on the hit and the cooldown of that enchant made it real bad. Brands fix pretty much every issue that had.
show me the foothold from which I can climb
yeah, when I feel low
you show me a signpost for where I should go
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Awww yeah, can't wait to excitedly play this for 3 weeks and burn myself out until the next league
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Playing this game in 1440p maxed out is totes gorge.