Path of Exile (free to play & now on Xbone) (1 Viewer)

[Mile High]

Freaking Brutus keeps kicking my ###. My minions die immediately, and it only takes a few hits before i'm toast.

Run.

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

I have my ranger to 23. Just got iron reflexes, so we will see how it goes. Just got a chest piece with tons of evasion. Other than that, pretty much all bow dmg and crit so far.

Anyone going for Blood Magic?

Yes. I'm a 53 duelist trying to make Ethereal Knives work, it's not easy playing with wands as a non-int based class. I swap between my melee weaps and my wands depending on if I can use EK or not.Currently running with Grace and Hatred so my mana pool is pretty small.I want to start working on getting my life up higher. I am 1271 HP right now, there are 3 more 8% nodes adjacent to where I am on the tree then another 3 1 node away for ~48% more HP should bring me to about 1700-1800 and then I have two more .4% life regen nodes and then 4 nodes to enable BM so I guess I am looking at about 11 more levels or around 62-ish.If you are going straight melee or bow you can probably get to a comfortable spot to turn it on around 45 or so.

 

[NewlyRetired]

It way too much like Diablo 2 (which was a horrible failure). I tried it over the weekend, I spent more time downloading it than playing it.

No thanks

Lol what?Pretty sure Diablo 2 held the record for 10 years for most copies sold, until it was broken by Diablo 3 which was a horrible failure - but D2, D2 was not.

Please remind me never to listen to AR's video game reviews.

I meant Diablo 3.

Well in that case, I politely disagree. Though they are both ARPGs, so they will share a lot of commonalities - they are in fact miles apart in virtually every other respect than their most basic of core mechanics. Probably my favorite thing in PoE outside of the skill and passive systems (which are both completely unlike D3) is the currency system (also unlike D3).

By the way that the currency is set up inflation will be almost non-existent, all currencies have a use and are used - frequently ensuring they don't just pile up somewhere.

Just got my Death's Harp Bow on my Elemental Bow shadow, its amazing until there is a single guy left approximately mid-screen in distance from you, the arrows split just perfectly that they entirely miss the mob...

Death's Harp, its slow but its a beauty

Was that bow a unique drop or a recipe trade in?

 

[Run It Up]

Just got my Death's Harp Bow on my Elemental Bow shadow, its amazing until there is a single guy left approximately mid-screen in distance from you, the arrows split just perfectly that they entirely miss the mob...Death's Harp, its slow but its a beauty

Was that bow a unique drop or a recipe trade in?

Its a unique, had to trade for it approximate value of 2.5 Gemcutter's.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Freaking Brutus keeps kicking my ###. My minions die immediately, and it only takes a few hits before i'm toast.

Run.

Not enough players are using the decoy totem. Toss one down, attack until its about to die (icon in the top left corner shows its remaining life), wash and repeat.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

I have my ranger to 23. Just got iron reflexes, so we will see how it goes. Just got a chest piece with tons of evasion. Other than that, pretty much all bow dmg and crit so far.

Anyone going for Blood Magic?

I use BM on my 2h marauder and I absolutely love it. I started a bow using marauder that will go with BM as well to see how that works.

 

[WampusCat43]

Just hit level 8. Enjoying the graphics but starting to wonder if the repetition is going to get old soon.I've seen other games that would let you hit the CTRL key and target the nearest villian, then automatically shoot/whack it until it was gone. Then all you had to do was click the next guy and repeat. Much easier than all the frantic clicking I'm doing right now. Is there a feature like this in PoE?

 

[Mad Cow]

Freaking Brutus keeps kicking my ###. My minions die immediately, and it only takes a few hits before i'm toast.

Run.

Not enough players are using the decoy totem. Toss one down, attack until its about to die (icon in the top left corner shows its remaining life), wash and repeat.

How does one gain access to the totems? Is that a witch only ability?

 

[BroadwayG]

How does one gain access to the totems? Is that a witch only ability?

It's a red skill gem

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Freaking Brutus keeps kicking my ###. My minions die immediately, and it only takes a few hits before i'm toast.

Run.

Not enough players are using the decoy totem. Toss one down, attack until its about to die (icon in the top left corner shows its remaining life), wash and repeat.

How does one gain access to the totems? Is that a witch only ability?

There are no "class" specific abilities. Every ability is available to every player as long as you have the gem and the stats to wear it. if you need one let me know, I may have a couple.

 

[dickey moe]

Just hit level 8. Enjoying the graphics but starting to wonder if the repetition is going to get old soon.I've seen other games that would let you hit the CTRL key and target the nearest villian, then automatically shoot/whack it until it was gone. Then all you had to do was click the next guy and repeat. Much easier than all the frantic clicking I'm doing right now. Is there a feature like this in PoE?

Wondering about this as well. Game seems highly repetitive -- move, kill, move, kill, pick up items, kill. I find the quests lacking. Guess I was hoping for something with a little more meat to it, ala Neverwinter Nights.

 

[Run It Up]

Just hit level 8. Enjoying the graphics but starting to wonder if the repetition is going to get old soon.

I've seen other games that would let you hit the CTRL key and target the nearest villian, then automatically shoot/whack it until it was gone. Then all you had to do was click the next guy and repeat. Much easier than all the frantic clicking I'm doing right now. Is there a feature like this in PoE?

Wondering about this as well. Game seems highly repetitive -- move, kill, move, kill, pick up items, kill. I find the quests lacking. Guess I was hoping for something with a little more meat to it, ala Neverwinter Nights.

It is what it is, to the first point there is no such feature as you described, all your clicks will be manual. To the second its very much an action rpg, what little story there is is mostly cosmetic, the game boils down to skill tree progression, skill gem progression and gear progression. ARPGs arent for everyone, at the end of the day they do become repetitive but if you are playing the game to beat it somehow you're going to be sorely disappointed. I play for the loots and the builds, I've only gotten one character to end-game but I have 5 lvl 45 characters cause it takes me ~5-7 hours to get that far if I don't like the way my new build is progressing I shelve it get back on my end game character and farm some gear and start again. Very repetitve, very fun.

 

[Mad Cow]

Freaking Brutus keeps kicking my ###. My minions die immediately, and it only takes a few hits before i'm toast.

Run.

Not enough players are using the decoy totem. Toss one down, attack until its about to die (icon in the top left corner shows its remaining life), wash and repeat.

How does one gain access to the totems? Is that a witch only ability?

There are no "class" specific abilities. Every ability is available to every player as long as you have the gem and the stats to wear it. if you need one let me know, I may have a couple.

I do not have it, and have a few dex and str ones I could offer as trade.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Freaking Brutus keeps kicking my ###. My minions die immediately, and it only takes a few hits before i'm toast.

Run.

Not enough players are using the decoy totem. Toss one down, attack until its about to die (icon in the top left corner shows its remaining life), wash and repeat.

How does one gain access to the totems? Is that a witch only ability?

There are no "class" specific abilities. Every ability is available to every player as long as you have the gem and the stats to wear it. if you need one let me know, I may have a couple.

I do not have it, and have a few dex and str ones I could offer as trade.

I can just give it to you, no worries.

 

[Mad Cow]

Freaking Brutus keeps kicking my ###. My minions die immediately, and it only takes a few hits before i'm toast.

Run.

Not enough players are using the decoy totem. Toss one down, attack until its about to die (icon in the top left corner shows its remaining life), wash and repeat.

How does one gain access to the totems? Is that a witch only ability?

There are no "class" specific abilities. Every ability is available to every player as long as you have the gem and the stats to wear it. if you need one let me know, I may have a couple.

I do not have it, and have a few dex and str ones I could offer as trade.

I can just give it to you, no worries.

Who do I add as a friend?

 

[BroadwayG]

If you get impatient, the decoy totem gem can be selected as a reward for one of the first couple of quests if you start a new marauder or duelist. Pop it into your stash and away you go.

 

[NewlyRetired]

do skill gems stats stack at all? I am trying to figure out if I have two of the same gem, should I equip both of them or not.

 

[Mad Cow]

do skill gems stats stack at all? I am trying to figure out if I have two of the same gem, should I equip both of them or not.

No they do not. Only the higher level one works, however, they can both level.

 

[NewlyRetired]

do skill gems stats stack at all? I am trying to figure out if I have two of the same gem, should I equip both of them or not.

No they do not. Only the higher level one works, however, they can both level.

Ok thanks. So I should just sell the extras or should I save them to create recipes later?

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

Picked up a Righteous Fire gem - seems like a good gem for Marauders that have lots of HP.Also been using Blood Magic - works really well.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

I have my ranger to 23. Just got iron reflexes, so we will see how it goes. Just got a chest piece with tons of evasion. Other than that, pretty much all bow dmg and crit so far.

Anyone going for Blood Magic?

I got this for my marauder and it seems to be harder to play now? I may remove ASAP and try it again later.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

I have my ranger to 23. Just got iron reflexes, so we will see how it goes. Just got a chest piece with tons of evasion. Other than that, pretty much all bow dmg and crit so far.

Anyone going for Blood Magic?

I got this for my marauder and it seems to be harder to play now? I may remove ASAP and try it again later.

I suggest sticking with it. You need to up your health, get life on hit and life leech gems and you will never ever have to worry about not being able to do a skill again. I did not suffer any real number of deaths until I got to the merciless difficulty (everyone dies here). Here is the build I am using My link. I run around with sweep, heavy strike and leap slam, each one linked with a life on hit or leech gem.

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

Phys Damage reflect elites 1 shot me every time lol, I have to inspect any of them closely now before I approach, is there a graphic that gives them away as reflect mobs? My Ethereal knives are doing 1300 dps at 59 then add Hatred on top of that +22% and you are talking close to 1600 dmg.Reading up on this looks like the most damage they can do is 1/4 of my max life in 1 shot. Problem is EK throws 5+ knives? So if I hit on 4+ mobs I am instagibbed. I just need to watch for that aura (once I figure out what it looks like). And after I finish stacking my HP I should stack more evasion+armor for iron reflexes.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I have read in this thread and elsewhere on line that POE was everything Diablo 3 should have been. I never played Diablo 3. What was wrong with the game that is better with POE?

 

[FootballDummy]

I have read in this thread and elsewhere on line that POE was everything Diablo 3 should have been. I never played Diablo 3. What was wrong with the game that is better with POE?

It was an abortion. Especially considering D2 fans had waited 12 years for a sequel. They basically made it pay to play by making the final act so hard you would have to buy stuff to compete. Plus it sucked in a hundred other ways. It made me want to just fire up D2 again. And plenty of people still play that, even now.

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

Just hit level 8. Enjoying the graphics but starting to wonder if the repetition is going to get old soon.

I've seen other games that would let you hit the CTRL key and target the nearest villian, then automatically shoot/whack it until it was gone. Then all you had to do was click the next guy and repeat. Much easier than all the frantic clicking I'm doing right now. Is there a feature like this in PoE?

Wondering about this as well. Game seems highly repetitive -- move, kill, move, kill, pick up items, kill. I find the quests lacking. Guess I was hoping for something with a little more meat to it, ala Neverwinter Nights.

It is what it is, to the first point there is no such feature as you described, all your clicks will be manual. To the second its very much an action rpg, what little story there is is mostly cosmetic, the game boils down to skill tree progression, skill gem progression and gear progression. ARPGs arent for everyone, at the end of the day they do become repetitive but if you are playing the game to beat it somehow you're going to be sorely disappointed. I play for the loots and the builds, I've only gotten one character to end-game but I have 5 lvl 45 characters cause it takes me ~5-7 hours to get that far if I don't like the way my new build is progressing I shelve it get back on my end game character and farm some gear and start again. Very repetitve, very fun.

How can you get to 45 in 5 hours? Love to be able to do that.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

Just hit level 8. Enjoying the graphics but starting to wonder if the repetition is going to get old soon.

I've seen other games that would let you hit the CTRL key and target the nearest villian, then automatically shoot/whack it until it was gone. Then all you had to do was click the next guy and repeat. Much easier than all the frantic clicking I'm doing right now. Is there a feature like this in PoE?

Wondering about this as well. Game seems highly repetitive -- move, kill, move, kill, pick up items, kill. I find the quests lacking. Guess I was hoping for something with a little more meat to it, ala Neverwinter Nights.

It is what it is, to the first point there is no such feature as you described, all your clicks will be manual. To the second its very much an action rpg, what little story there is is mostly cosmetic, the game boils down to skill tree progression, skill gem progression and gear progression. ARPGs arent for everyone, at the end of the day they do become repetitive but if you are playing the game to beat it somehow you're going to be sorely disappointed. I play for the loots and the builds, I've only gotten one character to end-game but I have 5 lvl 45 characters cause it takes me ~5-7 hours to get that far if I don't like the way my new build is progressing I shelve it get back on my end game character and farm some gear and start again. Very repetitve, very fun.

How can you get to 45 in 5 hours? Love to be able to do that.

agreed that is a lot of levels for a short amount of time. what is the trick?

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Just hit level 8. Enjoying the graphics but starting to wonder if the repetition is going to get old soon.

I've seen other games that would let you hit the CTRL key and target the nearest villian, then automatically shoot/whack it until it was gone. Then all you had to do was click the next guy and repeat. Much easier than all the frantic clicking I'm doing right now. Is there a feature like this in PoE?

Wondering about this as well. Game seems highly repetitive -- move, kill, move, kill, pick up items, kill. I find the quests lacking. Guess I was hoping for something with a little more meat to it, ala Neverwinter Nights.

It is what it is, to the first point there is no such feature as you described, all your clicks will be manual. To the second its very much an action rpg, what little story there is is mostly cosmetic, the game boils down to skill tree progression, skill gem progression and gear progression. ARPGs arent for everyone, at the end of the day they do become repetitive but if you are playing the game to beat it somehow you're going to be sorely disappointed. I play for the loots and the builds, I've only gotten one character to end-game but I have 5 lvl 45 characters cause it takes me ~5-7 hours to get that far if I don't like the way my new build is progressing I shelve it get back on my end game character and farm some gear and start again. Very repetitve, very fun.

How can you get to 45 in 5 hours? Love to be able to do that.

agreed that is a lot of levels for a short amount of time. what is the trick?

DAMAGE! The winners in the races concentrate on nothing but DPS. You must kill everything as quickly as possible and spend little time standing around. The goal is to heard up the monsters and wipe them out and move on to the next area. check out this video:

 

[NewlyRetired]

Is anyone having problems downloading 0.10.0g? I get to a 100% and then a pop up box with the following error occurs"Could not start the patched client"Has happened 4 times in a row. Not sure what to do. Should I delete the entire program from the computer and download from scratch?

 

[Mad Cow]

Is anyone having problems downloading 0.10.0g? I get to a 100% and then a pop up box with the following error occurs"Could not start the patched client"Has happened 4 times in a row. Not sure what to do. Should I delete the entire program from the computer and download from scratch?

Mine updated fine. Try a reboot, if no go, then clean install.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Is anyone having problems downloading 0.10.0g? I get to a 100% and then a pop up box with the following error occurs"Could not start the patched client"Has happened 4 times in a row. Not sure what to do. Should I delete the entire program from the computer and download from scratch?

Mine updated fine. Try a reboot, if no go, then clean install.

ok thanks. Reboot did not fix the issue so doing a full install now.

 

[Run It Up]

agreed that is a lot of levels for a short amount of time. what is the trick?

Damage in normal, health in cruel. Thats it really, I have collected many uniques while farming and there are a large amount of uniques that their sole existence is to make leveling new characters easier, I have most of them if I had the weapons I could do it in less im sure, just using public parties to get self rushed through quests.My bow shadow was quite the glasscannon, so much so that I have burned 90% of my exp bar dying to reflect damage in merciless 3 times now (thats like 20 deaths), I got tired of it and started a ranger that will have approximately 10% less damage and 300% more health and armor. Got her to 43 in 12 hours (about 4 of which were spent rushing friends through normal,) all in all it took maybe 7 hours to level her to 43, if I get my homework done I should be able to get to 61+ tonight (5-6 hours maybe not even).Some classes level better than others, melee classes literally walk through normal difficulty with zero 2 handed damage talents you can throw a 2 hander no a melee class and you will out damage everyone, at that point you just put points into health first, its such a cakewalk./played: all these uniques are lvl 0 to use except the staff, which is ridiculous, the other weapons are just as ridiculous, quickly become garbage at mid levels but from 1-45ish they are great.Edit: Forgot about Quicksilver flasks, listen, anyone who is playing this game still and has never used QS flasks you are doing it wrong . On every character I make I have a quicksilver flask of adrenaline, the flask itself gives 40% movespeed and the adrenaline mod gives an additional 20-30% movespeed. Getting to and from is a big part of leveling, there is a lot of ground to cover.

 

[ScottNorwood]

My duelist sucked. Having fun with my 2H wielding Templar so far

 

[dickey moe]

Having a lot of trouble getting through Act II (particularly the Chamber of Sins). There are monsters everywhere and it's taking a lot of time to kill them all. With 3 Greater Health flasks, one special mana flask, and a quicksilver flask, seems like I'm always tapping into the health flasks -- and it's catching up to me and biting me in the ### (i.e., death). Should I farm for awhile and build up health, armor, and damage stats or what?

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

good resource to know what level instances (maps) you should be grinding for max XP:http://imgur.com/a/1XUDO#5what I mean is let's say you are level 30, you should try to stay 4 levels behind for max xp/hour - so grind in a 26 spot until you get to 31 and then either progress to a 27 map or change maps and grind there until 32 etc...

 

[FootballDummy]

good resource to know what level instances (maps) you should be grinding for max XP:http://imgur.com/a/1XUDO#5what I mean is let's say you are level 30, you should try to stay 4 levels behind for max xp/hour - so grind in a 26 spot until you get to 31 and then either progress to a 27 map or change maps and grind there until 32 etc...

And here's a page that actually shows what level each zone is, plus other useful info, when you hover your mouse over an area: My link

 

[NewlyRetired]

good resource to know what level instances (maps) you should be grinding for max XP:http://imgur.com/a/1XUDO#5what I mean is let's say you are level 30, you should try to stay 4 levels behind for max xp/hour - so grind in a 26 spot until you get to 31 and then either progress to a 27 map or change maps and grind there until 32 etc...

And here's a page that actually shows what level each zone is, plus other useful info, when you hover your mouse over an area: My link

Is this page old or am I misreading the 4 level numbers? I am assuming the 4 numbers relate to difficulty levels but I think there are only three difficulty levels now right?

 

[Run It Up]

Having a lot of trouble getting through Act II (particularly the Chamber of Sins). There are monsters everywhere and it's taking a lot of time to kill them all. With 3 Greater Health flasks, one special mana flask, and a quicksilver flask, seems like I'm always tapping into the health flasks -- and it's catching up to me and biting me in the ### (i.e., death). Should I farm for awhile and build up health, armor, and damage stats or what?

Don't be discouraged, chamber of sins (specifically the 3rd floor) is one of the hardest zones in the game.I would recommend however if you ever struggle in act 1 to farm ledge and if you struggle in act 2 to farm felshrine ruins until you can progress.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

I am about to finish the game for the first time, and I seem very under armed. I just tonight figured out how to link my lightning orb to my axe to get the additional killing power. I feel as if I have missed so much along the way. I would like to be able to find better equipment. I have seen some really nice stuff with 6 sockets. One handed weapons doing 300 plus damage. My two handed weapon is in the 70 range.

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

a couple small tips - was getting hundreds of orbs of alterations - buy jeweller's orbs at the rate of 2x and then buy orbs of fusing at the rate of 4x per jeweller orb

If you are making a witch summoner build, get the spell totem and attach summon skeletons to it, instant meat shield.

I keep switching classes, my latest is a 42 Summoner Witch w/ fire spells, 2 hexes and making my way to Eldritch Battery.

Build I need more HP, might get battery first anyway (SC).

 

[Run It Up]

a couple small tips - was getting hundreds of orbs of alterations - buy jeweller's orbs at the rate of 2x and then buy orbs of fusing at the rate of 4x per jeweller orbIf you are making a witch summoner build, get the spell totem and attach summon skeletons to it, instant meat shield.I keep switching classes, my latest is a 42 Summoner Witch w/ fire spells, 2 hexes and making my way to Eldritch Battery.Build I need more HP, might get battery first anyway (SC).

If you're in softcore and it isn't out of the way can always try it out and respec.Eldritch Battery is amazing for even non casters, throw a single energy shield piece of gear on your character, increase your mana pool by 50%

 

[Mad Cow]

Trying a 2 h marauder. Not that ranger is hard, but this feels easy by comparison. Pretty much live by aggro' ing lots of mobs, then using cleave and leap attack until all are dead. I have yet to die and an almost to Brutus.ETA I mean Merveil and go on to the 2nd Act.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

Best place to farm?

 

[NewlyRetired]

Best place to farm?

Look up some of Buddy's recent posts. He has listed a couple of places.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I am looking forward to playing again. I have been downloading a clean install for 3 days now :( I can't load more than 60meg at a time before it times out so I am just whittling this down slowly. I have to be close to my 40th download try now.Only 500 meg to go

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

Best place to farm?

I have been farming deep thicket a lot (off of pools and streams), got my first GCP there about 5 minutes ago.Made my first 'big ticket' purchase. A level 1 Chain support gem for 8 chaos, tried talking him down but he wouldn't budge. Doing some research it looks like they are selling between 7-8 chaos so I probably did fine.If you guys are looking for items check out my shop, everything should have a price by now:http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/125821

 

[FootballDummy]

Best place to farm?

I have been farming deep thicket a lot (off of pools and streams), got my first GCP there about 5 minutes ago.Made my first 'big ticket' purchase. A level 1 Chain support gem for 8 chaos, tried talking him down but he wouldn't budge. Doing some research it looks like they are selling between 7-8 chaos so I probably did fine.If you guys are looking for items check out my shop, everything should have a price by now:http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/125821

Sweet, I didn't get screwed on the deal I did last night. Paid one scouring and one chaos for an 8% Enduring Cry.

 

[Run It Up]

Best place to farm?

I have been farming deep thicket a lot (off of pools and streams), got my first GCP there about 5 minutes ago.Made my first 'big ticket' purchase. A level 1 Chain support gem for 8 chaos, tried talking him down but he wouldn't budge. Doing some research it looks like they are selling between 7-8 chaos so I probably did fine.If you guys are looking for items check out my shop, everything should have a price by now:http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/125821

Chains seem to be fluctuating between 2.5-3 GCP (8-10 chaos), I bought my first one a little high but it was only a couple days into open beta. I found another a couple days ago, just holding on to them atm cause I can't for the life of me find or buy a 5 linked evasion armor.

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

A guy on Reddit crafted this 6L, ridiculous luck:http://i.imgur.com/eokGZIg.jpg45 chance orbs20 Whetstones100-150 jewelers60-80 fusing

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

A guy on Reddit crafted this 6L, ridiculous luck:http://i.imgur.com/eokGZIg.jpg45 chance orbs20 Whetstones100-150 jewelers60-80 fusing

Saw this for sale yesterday on trade chat channel. Current bid was 26 exalted. Sadly he would not take my two :(