Incline Path of Exile 2 - now available on Early Access

[Jermu]

bought new gloves + boots today and managed to slam 2 sockets into em so gear is pretty much done now
wasted about 250 divines fucking up gloves + boots with corruptions (4 in a row) but today hit both times

still need 2 jewels that would be about 1 mirror each and higher rolled belt (1-2 mirrors) but pretty happy with this
breach ring is the only thing I created rest are bought (but all items were bought before corruption except shield + wand)
could swap my 200+ mf shield into 40%+ mana shield but no reason to do so 8k mana is plenty already

anyways I might do some random mapping and start hc ssf char or wait until reset not sure yet

 

[ArchAngel]

I assume you got the money to get all those items by playing Path of Trading instead of Path of Exile. I see zero fun in that.

 

[Jermu]

I assume you got the money to get all those items by playing Path of Trading instead of Path of Exile. I see zero fun in that.

made about 100 divines buying and corrupting dream fragments rings until I hit 1 for myself (28% mana roll)
then I bought and corrupted perfect ingenuity which sold for 750 divines, would have used that but getting mirrored wand was better for me at that point

purely flipping items (buy + sell as it was) I did 0 times, only for shit I was gonna use
so yeah most of my wealth is from mapping + bossing + 1 lucky corruption

edit oh yeah and I made about 150 divines crafting wands when it was hidden secret (buy magic +5 wands and use haste essence for cast rate), but did not hit 1 I wanted for myself

 

[ArchAngel]

I assume you got the money to get all those items by playing Path of Trading instead of Path of Exile. I see zero fun in that.

made about 100 divines buying and corrupting dream fragments rings until I hit 1 for myself (28% mana roll)
then I bought and corrupted perfect ingenuity which sold for 750 divines, would have used that but getting mirrored wand was better for me at that point

purely flipping items (buy + sell as it was) I did 0 times, only for shit I was gonna use
so yeah most of my wealth is from mapping + bossing + 1 lucky corruption

edit oh yeah and I made about 150 divines crafting wands when it was hidden secret (buy magic +5 wands and use haste essence for cast rate), but did not hit 1 I wanted for myself

That all fits into Path of Trading.

If you buy something and then sell it back for more it is path of trading, no matter if you did changes to it first.

I only do not consider path of trading if you sell stuff that you got from killing enemies and playing the game. Although I consider that a less fun way to play the game to use that to buy best stuff than finding stuff or crafting it and that has always been the problem with PoE1 as well.

 

[ArchAngel]

With all the shortcomings D4 has, it has better item hunt. It lets you get useful stuff from the ground and then modify it in way that make it useful for your character. Its only problem is that item mods are somewhat boring and smart loot is too smart. It should be dropping more non class stuff.

 

[Jermu]

crafting is not too bad imo except best omens are too rare/expensive and there could be similar system to essences when tuning rare items so its not just spam exalted orbs and pray

but then if those were close to free it would be pretty easy to create "perfect" items

most annoying thing imo is that there are like 10 uniques worth picking up rest are shit, but then they have not released most end game uniques yet

 

[ArchAngel]

crafting is not too bad imo except best omens are too rare/expensive and there could be similar system to essences when tuning rare items so its not just spam exalted orbs and pray

but then if those were close to free it would be pretty easy to create "perfect" items

most annoying thing imo is that there are like 10 uniques worth picking up rest are shit, but then they have not released most end game uniques yet

Crafting is terrible. How many items you used did you craft after you reached endgame?
Crafting is not just for 10+ divine items.

 

[Jermu]

crafting is not too bad imo except best omens are too rare/expensive and there could be similar system to essences when tuning rare items so its not just spam exalted orbs and pray

but then if those were close to free it would be pretty easy to create "perfect" items

most annoying thing imo is that there are like 10 uniques worth picking up rest are shit, but then they have not released most end game uniques yet

Crafting is terrible. How many items you used did you craft after you reached endgame?
Crafting is not just for 10+ divine items.

gloves, ring, weapon comes to mind and belt before ingenuity
gloves + weapon required expensive omens though and weapon I bought +5 magic bases, ring got lucky with exalted orbs and belt was nothing special high mana + high res which is fairly common sold quite a few similar ones for some divs each that I found

weapon I also crafted some +4/+5 ones with lightning essence (I craft all 81+ normal bases I find since those can roll +5) but did not end up using those since adds were not good and I had a better one already

in general breach ring(s) should be easy to get acceptable one if u use normal essences

this was just essence of haste + exalted orbs and its a very good one (yes I got lucky but I have crafted 100+ of these)
I have also sold about 10 haste breach rings I have crafted, 1 ended up selling for 40 divs

edit also I made a good amulet that I got from alva but it required greater essence (+3 projectile magic base, used mana essence on it)
edit2 gloves and belt are actually not really crafting related, just found a good rare ones and spammed few exalted on em (except gloves used omen of whittling after exalted spam)

but yeah for now its about knowing which few normal bases are worth crafting and using right essences on em (and if u are highroller then expensive omens too)
then magic bases are more situational (is it worth it to use greater essence and shit, use orb of annulment to try get rid of shit stat and so on. pretty lotto heavy)

 

[Matador]

I assume you got the money to get all those items by playing Path of Trading instead of Path of Exile. I see zero fun in that.

made about 100 divines buying and corrupting dream fragments rings until I hit 1 for myself (28% mana roll)
then I bought and corrupted perfect ingenuity which sold for 750 divines, would have used that but getting mirrored wand was better for me at that point

purely flipping items (buy + sell as it was) I did 0 times, only for shit I was gonna use
so yeah most of my wealth is from mapping + bossing + 1 lucky corruption

edit oh yeah and I made about 150 divines crafting wands when it was hidden secret (buy magic +5 wands and use haste essence for cast rate), but did not hit 1 I wanted for myself

This sounds absolute dreadful. Path of Merchants.

I just want to kill hard monsters and get loot or materials to make good loot, and I guess majority of people wants that from an ARPG. Should not be that hard.

 

[ArchAngel]

crafting is not too bad imo except best omens are too rare/expensive and there could be similar system to essences when tuning rare items so its not just spam exalted orbs and pray

but then if those were close to free it would be pretty easy to create "perfect" items

most annoying thing imo is that there are like 10 uniques worth picking up rest are shit, but then they have not released most end game uniques yet

Crafting is terrible. How many items you used did you craft after you reached endgame?
Crafting is not just for 10+ divine items.

gloves, ring, weapon comes to mind and belt before ingenuity
gloves + weapon required expensive omens though and weapon I bought +5 magic bases, ring got lucky with exalted orbs and belt was nothing special high mana + high res which is fairly common sold quite a few similar ones for some divs each that I found

weapon I also crafted some +4/+5 ones with lightning essence (I craft all 81+ normal bases I find since those can roll +5) but did not end up using those since adds were not good and I had a better one already

in general breach ring(s) should be easy to get acceptable one if u use normal essences
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this was just essence of haste + exalted orbs and its a very good one (yes I got lucky but I have crafted 100+ of these)
I have also sold about 10 haste breach rings I have crafted, 1 ended up selling for 40 divs

edit also I made a good amulet that I got from alva but it required greater essence (+3 projectile magic base, used mana essence on it)
edit2 gloves and belt are actually not really crafting related, just found a good rare ones and spammed few exalted on em (except gloves used omen of whittling after exalted spam)

but yeah for now its about knowing which few normal bases are worth crafting and using right essences on em (and if u are highroller then expensive omens too)
then magic bases are more situational (is it worth it to use greater essence and shit, use orb of annulment to try get rid of shit stat and so on. pretty lotto heavy)

You misunderstood my question. I said after reaching the endgame (meaning T1 maps), not after playing it for 100h and doing the whole Path of Trading thing. All these fancy items you have now are not needed to do all content and it is a pointless showcase that only matters to other Path of Trading players that also got rich by not playing Path of Exile.

 

[Jermu]

You misunderstood my question. I said after reaching the endgame (meaning T1 maps), not after playing it for 100h and doing the whole Path of Trading thing. All these fancy items you have now are not needed to do all content and it is a pointless showcase that only matters to other Path of Trading players that also got rich by not playing Path of Exile.

ah, I did solo blind without trading for first 1.5 weeks or so I started trading first time when I reached about T4~ maps and bought some of em since I ran out(did not know to roll em properly)

I got by just from loot I found and did 0 crafting before I reached mapping so I'm not qualified to talk how crafting is before that. but as I mentioned I played spark witch which felt doable to do campaign close to naked (even though I died like 50-100 times before I reached maps)

but I was pretty clueless since last time before poe2 I played was poe1 beta but my main build in poe1 hc was spark totem so I had some idea how to build her

 

[ArchAngel]

You misunderstood my question. I said after reaching the endgame (meaning T1 maps), not after playing it for 100h and doing the whole Path of Trading thing. All these fancy items you have now are not needed to do all content and it is a pointless showcase that only matters to other Path of Trading players that also got rich by not playing Path of Exile.

ah, I did solo blind without trading for first 1.5 weeks or so I started trading first time when I reached about T4~ maps and bought some of em since I ran out(did not know to roll em properly)

I got by just from loot I found and did 0 crafting before I reached mapping so I'm not qualified to talk how crafting is before that. but as I mentioned I played spark witch which felt doable to do campaign close to naked (even though I died like 50-100 times before I reached maps)

but I was pretty clueless since last time before poe2 I played was poe1 beta but my main build in poe1 hc was spark totem so I had some idea how to build her

So between T1 and T4 you did zero crafting and just survived on found loot and after reaching T4 you went to trade site and bought you mapping gear?
If that is true, as I said, crafting is crap.

 

[Jermu]

So between T1 and T4 you did zero crafting and just survived on found loot and after reaching T4 you went to trade site and bought you mapping gear?

If that is true, as I said, crafting is crap.

I don't recall when I started to buy gear but I remember that my first purchases were x tier maps. most likely when I reached tier 4~ maps I bought a wand and made a dump page to sell shit

as a new player without knowing poe1 meta its pretty hard to figure out what shit is even worth selling (other than uniques which are easy to check) and I wanted to enjoy first playthrough without spoiling myself

and yeah since I was lucky/unlucky enough to pick metaslave class+skill I had easy time with low tier maps even with ssf gear so if I played build with some chest hair crafting could have been required

regarding crafting I'm not sure what would be my optimal solution for it, some kind of mix between rng + deterministic system. full rng is retarded and full deterministic is boring

 

[tritosine2k]

Tainted jewellers + fuse is kinda nice it only took them 5-6 years(?) lol.
And still nowhere near D1-2 music.

 

[ArchAngel]

Tainted jewellers + fuse is kinda nice it only took them 5-6 years(?) lol.
And still nowhere near D1-2 music.

Music is at least an upgrade to PoE1. I always had music off in poe1, here I have it on