Path of Exile is a Free to Play action RPG with a large amount of character customization and playstyles. The developers have stated that they will never add "Pay-to-Win" features to the in-game store and generally the store contains cosmetic micro-transactions as well as some very useful account upgrades. It's not uncommon to see Path of Exile be cited as an example of Free-to-Play "done right".
The gameplay is similar to other ARPGs although it can be a little slow to start. Builds are often very involved and can include several unique items that play off one another to create powerful effects. There are three sub-classes for each of the main classes along with a massive
passive tree that allows players to tune builds to their liking.
Current Content:
Useful Links:The Unofficial Wiki.The developer's player trading index site.A third party player trading index site.An online passive tree planner.A calculator to help you figure out the most efficient way to recolor your item sockets with chromatic orbs.The official forums.An economic snapshot/price tracker tool.Trading:
For the majority of players trading is facilitated by looking for items on a third party indexer called
poe.trade. Once an item a player wants is found, they can whisper the seller (usually by clicking a link on the search page which auto-copies a message that can be pasted in the game client) to see if a trade can be made. Sometimes this process is quick and easy, other times it is extremely frustrating. The developers have been teasing about improvements to this system for some time, but at the moment any concrete information is absent.
To have items appear on poe.trade a player can purchase a premium stash from the in game store and then elect to have the contents of that stash tab be public which will allow indexers to see the items as well as any prices the owner may have set on those items. It is also possible to list items for sale without premium stash tabs, this can be done using a third party application: either
Acquisition or
Procurement. These tools can look through the items in your stash tabs and then auto-generate text to either be pasted in, or automatically posted to a sale thread on the forums. The sale thread will then be read by the indexer sites mentioned previously.
It's also possible to trade via trade chat or by trying to buy/sell things on the forums, but doing this is incredibly difficult and time consuming and not recommended. New players will also almost certainly be taken advantage of in either of those places immediately.
It's totally viable to play the entire game without trading at all. Many players do this, some use the newly added SSF (solo self found) feature which has a separate ladder and makes it impossible for the player to group or trade with others. Players can opt out of SSF mode at anytime, though they will be removed from the SSF ladder.
PA Guild:
There is a forum guild; to be invited, post one of your character names in the thread.
If you are a member of the guild, feel free to use the guild stash as you like, I generally put items in there that I would like anyone to take, and I assume most people do the same.
Many thanks to mccart for the OP; I'll add some things sooner or later.
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Earthquake certainly is a good value proposition, and I'm planning on getting 100% phys to fire conversion outside of whatever attack skill I'm using (because I want to fully convert Shockwave too), but the skill itself is less exciting to me. I won't rule it out though, especially if I look at Ignite for scaling with that 70% more damage with hits and ailments.
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Especially on something like Conc Path the ability to jump more frequently is handy. Also you can always stutter step when fighting to manually achieve a .75 attack time, although then you're not automating it. Hell on some skills you can even try to achieve a Multistrike setup where both the first and third swings get Shockwave, combine that with Ruthless for hilarious results.
As for weapons I'm sure that a good crafted Elder rare is ideal but I'd also look at classic uniques like Hegemony, the Innocence staff, and that one Harbinger one I always forget. Melee staff builds are rad.
Right now I'm running Flesh and Stone, Precision, and War Banner. Also, with Rigwalds Curses getting more and more expensive, I think I might end up avoiding going crit/claw nodes, which suddenly leaves me pathing to the right for Acrobatics only, and that feels kind of dumb... So maybe this instead?
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
One option you could also try is grabbing is a Nghamahus Flame. I used one in my Conc Path dude in Delve and it worked great. The axe carries builds with the balls of fire and all I had to do to make it feel good was go max attack speed. You could slow it down how you want to with pulverize but you couldnt do shock wave with it. It would be a good canidate for rage/bezerk however.
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Vaal skills for Izaro is definitely an outside the box strategy
Yeah it's not totally out of the question to get a Shockwave proc on every other attack. If it's 1:1, then Shockwave is effectively a 143% more multiplier for Conc Path, or a 108% more multiplier for Tecslam (on uncharged attacks.) Cutting those numbers in half if it's 1:2, it's still a really strong support gem, just not hilariously strong.
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Its just how I've been using my duder. Most fights I never even use molten armor, its my "oh shit" button. But on Izaro it lets me basically bubble up and burn him down, and it totally would have worked if he'd spawned more god damn skeletons in phase 3!
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They limit the souls he generates on purpose I would wager. Farming Izaro max keys takes work and there is a lot of potential currency behind the fight. And todays Vaal skills would trivialize it a bit. I dont think I really ever have vaal skills up on him as they reset when you enter his room.
What this means is you just need to grab a bit more dps on the tree or life heh.
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The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
rest are just bonuses
i circumvented the lore by runnign saffels, 1c shield instead of 60-120c for chest + trying to link it
Or just a rare with %life/life/resist even. Allowing you to invest more into other slots dps wise. Like those double elemental dmg belts and the like.
So let's celebrate by all going out and buying the same burger. -transmet
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
Yeah, I've done all that, most recently for Cold DoT but it's the same principle.
So multimodding a wand is going to cost 2ex and some small change, or 3ex and small change if you want the highest tier of cast speed. So any finished wand you see is going to represent that cost, plus the crafter's profit. The rest of the cost is getting and isolating a high tier of DoT Multi. You can craft DoT Multi but only in pretty low amounts.
The T1 and T2 affixes for Dot Multi are rareeeeeee so it's mostly grinding Alterations. And then when you hit it, you have to Regal it, and if the Regal isn't good you'll need to Annul once or twice. Plus you have to pay for the base, but an ilvl 78 Opal Wand is entirely sufficient and only costs an alchemy orb so pfft.
If you feel like putting in the effort, you'll probably get the wand for cheaper if you make it on your own. But you'll either have to find someone who can put the Multiple Crafted Mods thing on, or you'll have to collect a Prophecy key set and get that craft yourself.
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@TTODewback mayyyyybe? I don't remember what all was on it.
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You're almost certainly pathing up to the Templar area anyway (unless you buy a Xoph's Blood).
I struggled with Ignite scaling for Chieftain builds because there are already so many good more multipliers for frontloaded damage that you'd rather use. Just off the cuff you have
-Melee Physical Damage
-Elemental Damage with Attacks
-Fire Penetration
-Pulverise
-Added Fire Damage
-Shockwave
For scaling, your two main options are
-Elemental Overload
-Crit
Crit is viable, but it's also pretty awkward with a setup where you're planning to hit each pack exactly once. Chieftain has no crit scaling to speak of, and it's hard to break ~70% crit without being Inquisitor or Assassin, so something like slow Crit EQ can feel really clunky.
In both cases, you need to stack enough accuracy that you hit 100% of the time so that whiffing packs also doesn't feel like shit.
I think a lot of your endgame scaling comes from resistance debuffs - ele weakness on hit, Fire exposure, cover enemies in ash etc. There are also multiple sources of % phys added as fire you can leverage. One final option is to use Hatred + Cold to Fire + Avatar of Fire to get the full benefits of Hatred damage while still converting everything to fire - this works best with Ice Crash specifically.
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MTG Arena: Snow_Crash#34179
Battle.net: Snowcrash#1873
The nghamahu is a lot of fun. I really liked it with cyclone. Does that combo still work or did the rework on cyclone mess it up?
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it's what I use. I'm up to T10 maps right now. I could probably push higher but i want to get leveled up and dying kind of prohibits that
i keep forgetting to make my stash tab public so i can post it on here.
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Scour and Orb of Alchemy
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Chaos Orb
I think there is a unique that negates reflect but wearing it would nerf you in every other way
Edit: nah elemental reflect is only the skill in the elementalist tree. otherwise take Yugul in the pantheon tree to help with it if you really want to roll elemental reflect
awesome, thanks for the info - sidenote if anyone needs it, I do have the multimod craft (unsure how rare it is in this league)
So let's celebrate by all going out and buying the same burger. -transmet
Other than being elementalist the only way is to lessen the reflected dmg. The reflected damage comes back at you just like you dealt it though so that can be a pain. So the damage can be evaded or blocked. But if you have, say, RT that means the hit cant be evaded. etc. There is reduced reflected nodes on the tree and in one of the paragon nodes as well.
Most people that go elemental just reroll or sell the elemental reflect maps though as its easier heh.
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The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
SouthernBiscuits is this league char if you want to see what I'm doing with ngamahu's flame and cyclone. ignore the val skill screw up I forgot to swap my vaal cyclone back with my regular one.
I have a carcass jack im rolling for 6link on the chest and saving up for a dewhatever devotion helm
Phaaasing
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
There is something to be said for running elementalist/slayer ascendant for a ngamahu’s build tho
It roots you in place
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
We live in a strange new age where flame dash is now good! The loss doesnt hurt as much anymore. You also get to use a shield and deidbellow shield charge around, which is pretty fun!
Also dash is totally a skill