[Megathread] Path of Exile

**Fencers** · 2013-10-31, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by Dabrix32

How the hell do people even do Dominus in hardcore leagues? Seriously this guy is just a Rape Machine. I went in there to beat Cruel at 25-30% into my new level and when he died was at 0%. Also on another kill I actually had time to stop, eat a chili cheesburger with tater tots, and when I came back he still wasnt dead yet. Is he a lot easier when single player or something?

Most HC characters are highly defensive while leveling. There is also the tendency for HC players to vastly over-level / over farm content.

I've killed him solo & in a party. In Nemesis, softcore legacy, hardcore legacy and in Domination. There was no real difference other than the aforementioned tendencies to be over-leveled / super defensive in HC over SC leagues.

**Ashnazg** · 2013-10-31, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by Dabrix32

How the hell do people even do Dominus in hardcore leagues? Seriously this guy is just a Rape Machine. I went in there to beat Cruel at 25-30% into my new level and when he died was at 0%. Also on another kill I actually had time to stop, eat a chili cheesburger with tater tots, and when I came back he still wasnt dead yet. Is he a lot easier when single player or something?

That depends on what tactics you use to kill him. If you are a melee face tanking him, I guess I could see how the fight is difficult.

Both of the times I killed him so far in Cruel Nemesis was on two spellcasters - a dual totem incinerate caster, and a fireball spec caster (with a flame totem to tank for me). Every boss fight is more or less simple - I chain cast totems at the edge of the screen and let them tank the boss for me. For Dominus, in Phase2, I just get in his melee range and stay in it. He either targets and kills my totems, or tries to melee me, which I can outpot. The other mobs in the room usually gun for the totems.

My flame totem caster has gmp / blind slotted into the flame totem, which gives me a permanent at least 75% evasion vs projectiles and melee, which also makes Dominus painfully simple.

**Cyclone Jack** · 2013-10-31, 06:25 PM

I think I'm going to try something weird: a Low-Life, Freeze Mine, Shock Nova character.

Still haven't ironed out the passive tree, but its looking to be fairly tight. Anyone have any pointers for low-life builds? This will be my first. I would assume that energy shield is a big requirement. I'm looking at using either Shadow, Witch or Scion.

**Dabrix32** · 2013-10-31, 06:39 PM

After watching some guy streaming just melt mobs Im trying this build out:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...Af89360v4K_o8=

He was using Double Strike>Melee Splash>Added Fire>Multi Strike>Melee Physical>Faster Attacks. It was just silly how fast he was mowing through maps. Also had Cast on damage Taken>Enduring Cry>Temp Chains>Molten Shell

Deleted · 2013-10-31, 10:35 PM

Anyone else getting disconnected a lot tonight? I finally came to the last boss for the first time, fighted a bit and suddenly got disconnected... Im too annoyed to go all the way again

I like the fight for last boss tho.

**Lagwin** · 2013-10-31, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by Dude From Denmark

Anyone else getting disconnected a lot tonight? I finally came to the last boss for the first time, fighted a bit and suddenly got disconnected... Im too annoyed to go all the way again

I like the fight for last boss tho.

Not actually been on tonight, there have been a load of posts on the forums about DC's and lag but tbh barring today i've been on daily since the launch for 6 hours(ish) a day and i've experienced no lag and only had 3 DC's 2 on my part and one seemed to be server related.
Before the launch i got DC's at least once per day...so this is an improvement for connectivity.

Deleted · 2013-11-01, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by Cyclone Jack

I think I'm going to try something weird: a Low-Life, Freeze Mine, Shock Nova character.

Still haven't ironed out the passive tree, but its looking to be fairly tight. Anyone have any pointers for low-life builds? This will be my first. I would assume that energy shield is a big requirement. I'm looking at using either Shadow, Witch or Scion.

Aren't they dependent on this one Unique that makes chaos damage go to ES instead of life? I think it's Shavronne's. That's all I can help with unfortunately, as I never played one

Deleted · 2013-11-01, 11:42 AM

Hi, first post here for me. I got the game almost a week ago when it launched on steam and just making my way up the levels, cleared normal already and in act 2 of cruel. I'm playing a summoner + fire witch currently this far into my build. My long term plan would be to use this build for farming.

I have 2 item rarity gems, allowing me to have all my minions (spectre, skeleton & zombies) linked up, but I hope to get my hands on a Tabula Rasa, or some chest with 6 blue sockets linked so I can have all 3 summons with + damage and + health, and then have another items with Firestorm and my other item rarity gem.

I have a question though, if I cast firestorm, and I have chance to ignite and item rarity, what happens if the mob dies to the DoT? Does item rarity only apply to the direct damage of the spell, or to the burning also?

I want to be able to send a swarm of meat at baddies (the Act 1 boss on cruel was a complete walkover with 10 skellies, 7 zombies and 2 spectres) while I have Discipline running, and my shield has hit back, ES and health regen shared out to all my minions. I have the vulnerability curse which I find quite useful .

for the next few levels I'm going to focus on catching the remaining fire damage skills and then I can focus purely on increasing health before and during merciless difficulty.

I have the unique neck that boost summons speed/damage/health only so far, and would like to get the one that give boost to number of minions. Is there any unique that give +1 level to minion gems?

Is there anything glaringly wrong with my proposed end game build?

And finally, if I'm focussing on minions for damage, is there really any point in upgrading my wand? I have one that gives +1 to fire gems, it's a quartz wand with 3 blue linked slots. I rarely actually cast direct damage spells, or even use the default attack, since al I do is ensure I've got all my minions up.

Thanks for any answers.

**Dezerte** · 2013-11-01, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Jinna

Hi, first post here for me. I got the game almost a week ago when it launched on steam and just making my way up the levels, cleared normal already and in act 2 of cruel. I'm playing a summoner + fire witch currently this far into my build. My long term plan would be to use this build for farming.

I have 2 item rarity gems, allowing me to have all my minions (spectre, skeleton & zombies) linked up, but I hope to get my hands on a Tabula Rasa, or some chest with 6 blue sockets linked so I can have all 3 summons with + damage and + health, and then have another items with Firestorm and my other item rarity gem.

I have a question though, if I cast firestorm, and I have chance to ignite and item rarity, what happens if the mob dies to the DoT? Does item rarity only apply to the direct damage of the spell, or to the burning also?

I want to be able to send a swarm of meat at baddies (the Act 1 boss on cruel was a complete walkover with 10 skellies, 7 zombies and 2 spectres) while I have Discipline running, and my shield has hit back, ES and health regen shared out to all my minions. I have the vulnerability curse which I find quite useful .

for the next few levels I'm going to focus on catching the remaining fire damage skills and then I can focus purely on increasing health before and during merciless difficulty.

I have the unique neck that boost summons speed/damage/health only so far, and would like to get the one that give boost to number of minions. Is there any unique that give +1 level to minion gems?

Is there anything glaringly wrong with my proposed end game build?

And finally, if I'm focussing on minions for damage, is there really any point in upgrading my wand? I have one that gives +1 to fire gems, it's a quartz wand with 3 blue linked slots. I rarely actually cast direct damage spells, or even use the default attack, since al I do is ensure I've got all my minions up.

Thanks for any answers.

Here's a list of uniques: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Full_Unique_Index

I'm no PoE expert but you should always make your build around 80-90 points, and see if the build is viable at that point. Getting to 120 is going to require a long long time. Can't help you any further than that regarding gem interactions and build viability.

**Dabrix32** · 2013-11-01, 01:54 PM

Do totem builds still work pretty well? I noticed there was a unique now for an extra totem. Im thinking 3 totems would be pretty sweet unless the damage on them is crap now. I know my spark totem witch is pretty bad after all the nerfs. Might try fire totems if they are any better.

Deleted · 2013-11-01, 02:24 PM

Is there a PoE MMO-Champ guild on the European server? How does one join? If not, are there any guild out there looking to recruit (PM me please)?

**Fencers** · 2013-11-01, 02:36 PM

I have a question though, if I cast firestorm, and I have chance to ignite and item rarity, what happens if the mob dies to the DoT? Does item rarity only apply to the direct damage of the spell, or to the burning also?

It applies to the DOT as far as I can tell. It used to not apply, actually. To the point where like Poison Arrow, Viper Strike and so on were a loss. Though I think they fixed it some time ago as I use culling strike with GMP Fireball as a Summon Witch for quite a while now with no noticeable loss to drops w/ & w/o gems.

Is there anything glaringly wrong with my proposed end game build?

If you didn't have minions, you would be dead meat. Your defenses are too low for a non minion build.

However, summoners can get away with having relatively low defenses compared to other builds. To be honest, so long as a summon build grabs every minion node on the tree, it doesn't matter if a summoner is based on life, CI, EV, hybrid or if they run around naked. It doesn't matter what a summoner is using for attacks either- melee, ranged, spells, etc.

And finally, if I'm focussing on minions for damage, is there really any point in upgrading my wand? I have one that gives +1 to fire gems, it's a quartz wand with 3 blue linked slots. I rarely actually cast direct damage spells, or even use the default attack, since al I do is ensure I've got all my minions up.

Depends.

If you want to provide offensive support to the minions than obviously you should have a good weapon. Or perhaps you want to use a some sort of attack or spell with culling to maximize rarity drops or maybe you are interesting in spreading additional status conditions such as blind or fear.

I used a unique wand called Moonsorrow for a while. Which added blind to all gems socketed. Combined with Arc and Culling Strike, this allowed me to Blind, shock, execute and grab the rarity drop roll (without gems minions have their own internal rarity chance. which sucks.).

There are also wands for minions users such as Midnight Bargain and the like. So weapon matters to an extent depending on what your desires are.

Originally Posted by Dabrix32

Do totem builds still work pretty well? I noticed there was a unique now for an extra totem. Im thinking 3 totems would be pretty sweet unless the damage on them is crap now. I know my spark totem witch is pretty bad after all the nerfs. Might try fire totems if they are any better.

Totems are okay. But you really have to invest in totems now it seems.

Deleted · 2013-11-01, 03:19 PM