Path of Exile is a MAJESTIC incline

[Anthedon]

Uh, so I guess now is not a good time to get back into PoE?

 

[Lone Wolf]

Perkel

Yeah, maybe hopw roewur ne, but I honestly just don't have the time for the grind, any more. With a baby around, you take what pew pew you can get.

 

[you know what time it is]

Uh, so I guess now is not a good time to get back into PoE?

League mechanic is hilariously unfun, unless you fancy SSF, then it's useful at least. Beyond that there are plenty of neat changes, new build opportunities and the like. So it's a bit of a mixed bag really, but could be worse I guess

 

[ADL]

I'm staying away from this league. Love the 2H changes though.
There's no thread for this. Anyone played it?

 

[Lone Wolf]

Yes. Very smooth gameplay, now. Still missing significant features (in beta), but I enjoyed building a few characters.

 

[HeyCheckOutHowHardICanPee]

I'm staying away from this league. Love the 2H changes though.
There's no thread for this. Anyone played it?

This game manages to be the first game in 5 years that has managed to 100% my GPU, which is worsened by the fact that it did this on the character selection screen.

 

[abija]

Do you run uncapped fps or what?

 

[Baron Dupek]

Old mold

"ethical microtransaction" lmao

 

[Eyestabber]

So this league managed to be worse than Metamorph? Kek.

Any word on poe2?

 

[Sykar]

I'm staying away from this league. Love the 2H changes though.
There's no thread for this. Anyone played it?

Only 5 abilities makes this very uninteresting to me.

 

[Jaedar]

So this league managed to be worse than Metamorph? Kek.

This league doesn't have that much going for it. I kinda like planting and harvesting, but it's relatively easy and the rewards are mediocre. Getting high tier seeds is a chore though. I'm level 90 at this point and still haven't managed to harvest a tier 4 seed (and I think there's a 'secret' t5 after that).

 

[abija]

Level 90 is like nothing though. In SSF I usually get last lab by 94-95...

 

[Tacgnol]

Level 90 is like nothing though. In SSF I usually get last lab by 94-95...

I usually take most characters to 94 or 95 depending on if 95 gives me a jewel socket or something useful.

Most builds assume level 94 as a minimum for completion.

 

[Gerrard]

Level 90 is like nothing though. In SSF I usually get last lab by 94-95...

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

Tried Sirius again, still get slowed down to the point where I can't even hit him, spiny shit, ground shit, beam shit with audio cues like i'm some juggling clown, guess lol@ at me for wanting to get close some lolmines or lolherald wouldn't have this problem.

 

[Sharpedge]

So this league managed to be worse than Metamorph? Kek.

This league doesn't have that much going for it. I kinda like planting and harvesting, but it's relatively easy and the rewards are mediocre. Getting high tier seeds is a chore though. I'm level 90 at this point and still haven't managed to harvest a tier 4 seed (and I think there's a 'secret' t5 after that).

If you are in trade league and enjoy crafting, this league is probably far too rewarding and I expect they will nuke it rather than allow it to go standard. It is far too easy to create items like this for example:

 

[Saark]

Yeah, its nice to be able to craft really good items yourself, but it's also a massive powercreep. Finished my amulet yday, cost maybe 7ex to make.

 

[Jaedar]

Yeah, its nice to be able to craft really good items yourself, but it's also a massive powercreep. Finished my amulet yday, cost maybe 7ex to make.

This looks like a good amulet. Can you explain how you crafted it?

 

[Sharpedge]

Yeah, its nice to be able to craft really good items yourself, but it's also a massive powercreep. Finished my amulet yday, cost maybe 7ex to make.

Thats a really nice amulet. Mine is not quite there yet, but I am working on it. :S

 

[Saark]

This looks like a good amulet. Can you explain how you crafted it?

Step 1: Get hunter and warlord amu bases, one of them onyx base. Alt spam until you hit +1 int on hunter and +1 fire on warlord.
Steo 2: Use Harvest Annuls to remove all other influenced mods, then use awakaners orb. Woke orb will 100% hit the two +1 gem affixes and combine them.
Step 3: If you get Mana or rarity prefix from the Wokeorb, annul and if you fuck it up start again (chances of that happening are really damn low)
Step 4: Harvest Annul the last prefix and suffixes to get a raw +1/+1 base. If a non-removable suffix is on the item (rarity, mana on kill or mana regen) block prefix and scour.
Step 5: Harvestcraft cold and lightning mods for coldres/lightningres and bench-craft fireres to block all suffixes
Step 6: Spam Life-crafts until you hit T1 life. Its the only life-mod that can spawn since you blocked all suffixes by having 3 of them already.
Step 7: Remove Fireres and one other resistance, bench-craft castspeed.
Step 8: Augment and then remove/add caster crafts until you hit fire DoT. The hunter DoT mods are the only ones you can hit with a caster slam due to having crafted cast-speed and 3 prefixes. If you remove castspeed instead of a DoT multi one, just recraft it on the bench. (not even sure if the bench-block is necessary here)
Step 9: Once you hit triple prefix+dot multi, harvest annul the remaining res and remove bench-castspeed.
Step 10: Augment Chaos. Chaosres is the only available remaining mod. Remove/add until you hit T1.
Step 11: Add last bench-craft. Alternatively you can aim for Firedamage suffix by using harvest fire augments. If you hit fire-res instead, just turn fire res into cold/lightning res with harvest, target-annul that one, and try again.

 

[Kjaska]

Level 90 is like nothing though. In SSF I usually get last lab by 94-95...

Got last lab at 87 this league and 89 last league. You can speed it up by running Zana missions and selecting the map that asks you to complete a trial.

 

[Saark]

Perfectly fine and balanced btw.

 

[Jaedar]

Shit man, I tried fighting Sirus now for the first time (playing dominating blow).

It was going fine until the final phase. After that I barely managed to hurt him at all. He just keeps teleporting around the arena deploying instant death attacks that I can't dodge reliably (especially when the rotato potato slows me down), and after a few attacks I just get unlucky with him teleporting where I can't see him and eat a charged attack to the face and die.

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

It's the same problem I had, increase strike distance and use faster attacks from gear or gem and practice in lower nº sirius.

 

[Saark]

Last phase Sirus is just a matter of practice. You don't see him a lot for a while, so you have to go by sound queues for both the "DIE!" and the "Feel the thrill of the void!" beam attacks. Mobility skills (and corrupted blood/shock immunity) are your friends in that phase, it's why people highly recommend a "Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted in you" jewel corruption for the fight. He almost always does both of these beam attacks immediately after the quad-beam, so leapslamming/flamedashing into another quadrant is the way to do it. You can also keep attacking him as he charges up the quad-beam, if you look closely enough you will be able to see which of the four apparition is the real one.

How to deal with the off-screen attacks: "DIE!" beam you just dash away from your current location as soon as you hear him say it, and you should be able to avoid atleast 3 of the 4 hits.
The apparition beam has multiple sound-queues, although he usually only uses the first two. Dodge into a different quadrant as hes about to say the bolded parts. It's either "Feel the thrill of THE VOID" or "You will long for NONEXISTANCE". There's two that I essentially never heard during any of my kills, but just in case, they're "Meaning is ONLY AN ILLUSION" and "You cling to life ONLY OUT OF IGNORANCE".

As long as you switch quadrants either by running fast or ideally using a mobility skill as he gets to the bolded parts of the voicelines lets you avoid these, otherwise it's likely you will get offscreened. Once those two beam-attacks are over you have some uptime where he fires regular lasers, then he eventually does the corridor or meteor attack and shit just repeats. Keep in mind that while it might feel like a good idea to stay away from him, Sirus is actually easiest if you try to hug him as closely as possible, just sidestepping each of his attacks as much as possible. If he teleports away, jump after him as quickly as you can. Not seeing Sirus is the most likely way to die.

You will most likely fail Sirus or only kill him on the last portal a few times until you get the last phase down. Once you do, however, it's one of the easier fights because he doesn't actually have a dps-check and all his abilities can be manually dodged. While Shaper/UElder are cleaner fights mechanically, they both had a dps-check. Sirus doesn't.