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

 

[ArchAngel]

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

What about in ziggurat in the past, no gambling there?

 

[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

What about in ziggurat in the past, no gambling there?

whatever is the last place and ava offers gambling
for some weird reason hideout ava don't have gambling available

 

[blessed king of longing]

Actually laughed when he skipped looting Exalted Orbs

Fuck Exalted, he skipped a Chaos Orb

at least he remembered to pick up that tier 8 waystone, gotta give him credit

 

[blessed king of longing]

yeah I tried to resist using metaslave equipment but today I swapped to this "duped" item

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there is just so much backtracking and shit so instant teleport saves too much time to skip it
for bossing I got different armor

quite broke now bought this amulet for 150 divines
needed 60 spirit so I can have 160 for blink + archmage
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regarding archmage see the dmg with and without it, definitely gonna get nuked

which supports do you run on spark?

 

[Jermu]

cast speed, projectile speed, pierce, reduced mana cost, duration
I have pumped projectile speed as much as possible with jewels and shit so sheet dps could be higher with different setup
also I have many conditional dmg boosts so sheet dmg is quite a lot lower than mapping / boss dmg

anyways soon done with the game, done all but 1 boss with the highest difficulty so after that gonna take a break or try ssf hc

 

[ArchAngel]

I brought my SSF minion dude (doing Ghazzy Ice Mages) up to t5 maps now. I die every 6th map or so which is much better than how ice sorc did.
Getting gear upgrades is terrible experience compared to how enemies are hard hitting, I have not even maxed my resists yet, getting ES higher is a dream. Having 38% block and minions is only thing keeping me alive.
My damage is starting to lag as well now, I can kind of clear maps but Breach or Delirium are not pleasant experiences.
Minion damage depends on getting plus minion level on gear, getting more spirit on gear and having powerful jewels for passive tree slots. I got +2 scepter, +1 on helmet I found back in Act 2 and zero useful jewels for minion damage even with trying to craft every jewel that drops.
SSF is even less fun than PoE1

 

[ADL]

 

[Saark]

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

Keep in mind that in PoE2, 2 of the 4 outcomes of Vaal orbs would make divining items a waste, as one of the outcomes is the rolls being set to a random number that is 0.8 to 1.2x of the maximum roll (it's how you can get 300% Widowhails even when vaaling a 150% one), another one is that it literally just functions like a divine, rerolling the item within its range, with the other two being an Implicit/extra socket or simply doing nothing. In many cases that means that it's cheaper to buy a low-roll item and Vaal it, instead of trying to divine to high rolls, as the vaal can divine the item back to a low-roll if you're unlucky. Depends a lot on the prices of individual items on whether it's worth it or not.

 

[Jermu]

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

Keep in mind that in PoE2, 2 of the 4 outcomes of Vaal orbs would make divining items a waste, as one of the outcomes is the rolls being set to a random number that is 0.8 to 1.2x of the maximum roll (it's how you can get 300% Widowhails even when vaaling a 150% one), another one is that it literally just functions like a divine, rerolling the item within its range, with the other two being an Implicit/extra socket or simply doing nothing. In many cases that means that it's cheaper to buy a low-roll item and Vaal it, instead of trying to divine to high rolls, as the vaal can divine the item back to a low-roll if you're unlucky. Depends a lot on the prices of individual items on whether it's worth it or not.

if item is worth 3-5+ div you should use omen of corruption
and for some high end items even if you fuck up item with vaal (dream fragments ring) retards still pay about same as for clean item. because of this I just bought and slammed until I got "perfect one" for myself

regarding ingenuity Im currently buying 78% for 27-28 div each and try to get 90%+ for myself. so far got 2 res slams and 1 that lowered roll from 78 to 62 (sold this for 14 div). 78 to 94 would be about 200 div item

 

[Peachcurl]

Oh right, Omens. I have received exactly one so far.

lol I fucking love SSF

 

[ItsChon]

Wanted to do a mini experiment to see how deterministic crafting would go, and perhaps I'd get a good weapon out of it. Took my quarterstaff and spent around 180 Divines in Omen's trying to reroll a uselss suffix into a decently tiered attack speed, crit chance, or crit damage bonus only to get...25 dexterity lmao. I suppose it's an extra 10% increased attack speed from HoWA but hilarious. Complete waste of currency. At least the staff is still worth like 50+ Divines.