Incline Path of Exile 2 - now available on Early Access

[Jermu]

-Under what situation are you using divine orbs? I have found two.

unless doing ssf you wanna spend divines buying shit you need
generally for items that are worth multiple divines and rolled like shit

for example this belt

40-80% roll range and any roll is worth close to 20 divines so pretty no brainer to roll this well before corrupting

-When do you choose to use Vaal orbs? I've used a handful and all they seem to do is add the Corrupted tag and do nothing else. One added a socket I think.

since you can't tune item after corrupting you wanna upgrade it to max first (quality 20%, max sockets.. for rings/amulets maybe catalysts and allocating skill to amulet)
generally corrupting uniques is better since it won't remove / reroll random stats so less risk. for big boy rares corrupting is imo not usually worth it (risk/reward ratio kinda shit in some cases). but corrupting is fun
https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Corrupted you can read more there

-There is a node in the skill tree (Acrobatics?) that makes evasion work on everything but lowers evasion by 70%. Worth it for a Ranger? If anything is killing me now it is primarily aoe stuff that bypasses my evasion but thats quite a downside it seems.

yeah meta seems to be acrobatics but I have not used it

 

[Peachcurl]

I wonder if

• Fixed a bug where if a player changed their maximum life, energy shield or mana (such as through equipping and unequipping items) their current life, energy shield, mana, overcapped mana, or overcapped energy shield would also increase.

fixes some of the unique item interactions with keystones in some builds.

Yeah, also sounds like it was a prime way to heal yourself with a simple weapon set swap... ?

 

[lukaszek]

did quick return to my ed witch. Pulled 19gem, dropped 15 vaals to get my first t16 and beat fully boosted boss.
Man... that took forever. Between 5-10min? Im so happy that I can pause in poe2
Also, stat requirements for higher lvl skills are no joke. Wonder if they will lower them a bit? Didnt expect that Ill need so many stat and mana nodes honestly

-I have almost 1 million gold and not sure if I should gamble it now or just wait til I truly hit a wall to gamble.

on actual ssf i was gambling all the time. Most pieces of gear that i wear came from gambling. End game i usually hit 500k and gamble down to 100k(buffer for tree respecs). for about 10% id go up to regal. 1/3 of those id end up exalting all the way, possibly chaos too. And still id end up vendoring failed result(most).
Still i can maintain 10 exalt/regal buffer for maps
I fully exalt every jewel that i find.

Right now im going crazy to get +5 ed skill level between wand and focus, figured that it would allow me to ditch demon form. No luck so far and I did dump about 2m in gambling. Not being able to pick wand base hurts chances badly

 

[sebas]

lukaszek - where are you gambling, Act 3 cruel Ava?

 

[lukaszek]

lukaszek - where are you gambling, Act 3 cruel Ava?

yeah but im not sure if it matters, all gambling is scaled to your lvl?

 

[Israfael]

yeah but im not sure if it matters, all gambling is scaled to your lvl?

Not sure about gambling, but it seems that one of the vendors' inventory in hideout has different (and worse) choice as compared to its a6 version (which seem to scale either with your level or the quest progress (now I mostly get yellow and blue expert items at lv 84 while it was normal + advanced when I was level 70 ish or so). Also, I think i've spent more than 2 mil on gambling of various ES helmets and quivers and got only one decent item (+2 skills, 50% bow skill).

 

[frajaq]

On one hand I really want to start a new build in SSF, on the other, I really want to see if this next upcoming patch changes things significantly, so I might as well wait

 

[Jermu]

lukaszek - where are you gambling, Act 3 cruel Ava?

yeah but im not sure if it matters, all gambling is scaled to your lvl?

nope, item level is different depending on where you are gambling
so yeah act 3 cruel ava is best one unless targeting some lower level uniques

for non ssf I would say amulets is the best thing to gamble, breach ring is too good but rare amulets can be worth multiple mirrors and you get often good shit like 3 to skill + spirit and shit