Path of Exile is a MAJESTIC incline

[lukaszek]

giving up, wont reach maps.
I cant see shit which was bugging me and slowly building up. Now I ran my first ziggurat and died because I couldnt see telegraphed danger. Is it still present in poe2?

I think I need to move to ssf hc. Ruthless was sadly too build limiting

 

[Gerrard]

the new league is ssf friendly?

League mechanics gives you a lot of good rares and uniques and currency

I didn't get anything but trash.

 

[lukaszek]

I didn't get anything but trash.

it appears that there is a certain threshold to meet, perhaps linked to ones level? Or maybe its more about good that other cities ask for. Did some various testing, I was able to get unique in shipment only if I fulfill their order in FULL.
I did acquire a number of uniques this way, none of them was amazing.

This whole ordeal was getting tedious for me without anything to show for it up to a10.

At the very least it didnt introduce any bulshit combat encounters that previous leagues did.

 

[ArchAngel]

I got all kinds of random currency, some nice leveling rares and a 5l and decent weapons and I am still just in Act 7
And spending gold in black market will give you useful rares

 

[Gerrard]

Kirac is a bro

Unlike GGG who basically fucked all those divination cards by adding new highest tier of armor bases.

 

[Jaedar]

the new league is ssf friendly?

League mechanics gives you a lot of good rares and uniques and currency

I didn't get anything but trash.

There have been better leagues for ssf, there have been worse. I'm liking the league so far (starting act 6 now), leveling with ele hit, plan is to transition to blade flurry. Fulfilling trade requests seem to always give a unique, but I've only gotten garbage ones so far.

This league really does feel like total slam dunk. It's fun and decently rewarding, there's some kind of strategy to it without needing to get bogged down in spreadsheets, it doesn't feel overtuned compared to the rest of the content... Might get boring if there isn't more to it at higher levels though, once the progression to more/better buildings stop there needs to be something else.

 

[Gerrard]

3.25.0 Hotfix 9​ Disabled the "Find the stack of Divination Cards" Kirac Mission. This change re-rolls your existing Kirac Missions, sorry for this.

Good thing I got that drop yesterday.

One issue with the currency exchange I find is that you must specify both items you're trading, it's impossible to see listings for multiple types when trying to buy something like divination cards, for example.

 

[lukaszek]

I got all kinds of random currency, some nice leveling rares and a 5l and decent weapons and I am still just in Act 7
And spending gold in black market will give you useful rares

ok, gave it solid effort. Lvled from 1 to 40, spent gambled all the money on getting ES helmets.
Rough estimate, pulled about 20 of them, none were usable. Got annoyed, crafted something usable with 5 chaos.

All of them were 4S, probably half 4L? Nothing to be crazy about, after all orbs of binding exist.

For that money I could have sent multiple ships giving me a lot of currency for crafting

 

[ArchAngel]

I got all kinds of random currency, some nice leveling rares and a 5l and decent weapons and I am still just in Act 7
And spending gold in black market will give you useful rares

ok, gave it solid effort. Lvled from 1 to 40, spent gambled all the money on getting ES helmets.
Rough estimate, pulled about 20 of them, none were usable. Got annoyed, crafted something usable with 5 chaos.

All of them were 4S, probably half 4L? Nothing to be crazy about, after all orbs of binding exist.

For that money I could have sent multiple ships giving me a lot of currency for crafting

Why would you spend stuff on ES helmets while leveling?! All you need is a good weapon(s). You only gamble to get that, especially if you play slowly and outlevel content, gold gambling always gives you your level items.

 

[lukaszek]

Why would you spend stuff on ES helmets while leveling?! All you need is a good weapon(s). You only gamble to get that, especially if you play slowly and outlevel content, gold gambling always gives you your level items.

because i didnt have a helmet and were missing some resistances? This is ssf, what would I spend stuff on otherwise?

 

[ArchAngel]

Why would you spend stuff on ES helmets while leveling?! All you need is a good weapon(s). You only gamble to get that, especially if you play slowly and outlevel content, gold gambling always gives you your level items.

because i didnt have a helmet and were missing some resistances? This is ssf, what would I spend stuff on otherwise?

You use crafting table to give yourself needed resistances while leveling..
And everyone is SSF while leveling..

 

[lukaszek]

last time i played trade league you could cap everything and wear full unique equipment for 1alch each. Crafting anything was a waste

 

[ArchAngel]

last time i played trade league you could cap everything and wear full unique equipment for 1alch each. Crafting anything was a waste

Crafting table gives exact results for few alts. Buying shit takes longer. And I wonder if anyone even bothers now with selling anything for 1 Alch. Now everyone is rushing to maps so they can start farming.

 

[Israfael]

Why would you spend stuff on ES helmets while leveling?! All you need is a good weapon(s). You only gamble to get that, especially if you play slowly and outlevel content, gold gambling always gives you your level items.

because i didnt have a helmet and were missing some resistances? This is ssf, what would I spend stuff on otherwise?

I personally didn't craft anything (apart from league mechanic) before I was done with the campaign (and farmed needed trans-gems), not really worth doing it unless you play hardcore. Also, it seems the ship loot is highly rolled (i've yet to see items with lower than t4 rolls), so it's actually very useful especially if you get lucky with the new base types of gear.

 

[Gerrard]

last time i played trade league you could cap everything and wear full unique equipment for 1alch each. Crafting anything was a waste

You're not buying leveling uniques for 1 alch at league start, and after league start nobody is going to bother selling you 1 alch items.

 

[Gerrard]

I got the first pirate encounter, was kinda worried as I entered and saw area level 84, but I managed to kill him with my zdps trash gear. Even did some challenges unknowingly.

 

[Cyberarmy]

How is the new gladiator and melee?

 

[ArchAngel]

How is the new gladiator and melee?

Melee sucks like always. It was a trap.

 

[Cyberarmy]

A good chunk of melee skills are also have huge area of effects or dozens of projectiles, so ""melee"". Now even counting screenwide slams which kill you because of slowass attack speed.

Also enemy damage feels a bit higher in this league (didn't play the previous one so dunno if there was a change back then) My heavy armored, %89 all resists chieftain with 5.500 HP feels like paper on some non-rippy maps. Most armor got upgraded defence and HP numbers but somewhat I feel squishier.

 

[ArchAngel]

A good chunk of melee skills are also have huge area of effects or dozens of projectiles, so ""melee"". Now even counting screenwide slams which kill you because of slowass attack speed.

Also enemy damage feels a bit higher in this league (didn't play the previous one so dunno if there was a change back then) My heavy armored, %89 all resists chieftain with 5.500 HP feels like paper on some non-rippy maps. Most armor got upgraded defence and HP numbers but somewhat I feel squishier.

Seems best way to tank is still to not get hit and if you do get hit get as much Converts Physical into X element gear. Being "Tanky" armor based character still sucks.

 

[Israfael]

didn't play the previous one so dunno if there was a change back then

In the previous league there were unavoidable extra mods like "mobs fire 10 extra projectiles" / "mobs have 90% ele res" / "mobs have 1200% extra life" / "mobs penentrate X res"/ "mobs have 90% attack speed", so the current league is very tame in this respect. Also, they've nerfed T17 maps by 30% damage and 50% hp, so it should be much easier now (i didn't feel comfortable in T17s on both my zhp barrage ballista / IS deadeye or pretty tanky poison holy relic necro until I got 30M+ dps (probably won't be easily achieved now because there is no harvest 2.0 to pump out all-T1 items).

 

[ArchAngel]

didn't play the previous one so dunno if there was a change back then

In the previous league there were unavoidable extra mods like "mobs fire 10 extra projectiles" / "mobs have 90% ele res" / "mobs have 1200% extra life" / "mobs penentrate X res"/ "mobs have 90% attack speed", so the current league is very tame in this respect. Also, they've nerfed T17 maps by 30% damage and 50% hp, so it should be much easier now (i didn't feel comfortable in T17s on both my zhp barrage ballista / IS deadeye or pretty tanky poison holy relic necro until I got 30M+ dps (probably won't be easily achieved now because there is no harvest 2.0 to pump out all-T1 items).

Neither of these are close to melee, or even "melee".

 

[Israfael]

Converts Physical into X element gear.

Most of those mods were removed in this patch

• Many Modifiers that granted Physical Damage taken as an Element or Chaos can no longer roll. This includes Incursion Temple and Delve modifiers on Helmets, Corruption modifiers on Shields, Fire Warbands modifiers on Helmets, and all Watcher's Eye modifiers.

 

[ArchAngel]

Converts Physical into X element gear.

Most of those mods were removed in this patch

• Many Modifiers that granted Physical Damage taken as an Element or Chaos can no longer roll. This includes Incursion Temple and Delve modifiers on Helmets, Corruption modifiers on Shields, Fire Warbands modifiers on Helmets, and all Watcher's Eye modifiers.

Zizaran said you can still get like 75% of physical converted into Elemental damage.

 

[Israfael]

Neither of these are close to melee, or even "melee".

With holy relic you have to stand in the mobs to receive the damage buff and to proc aegis as often as possible. In any case, melee chars probably had it worse (not as bad as deadeye though with zero ehp and miniscule recovery from life on hit)