[Megathread] Path of Exile

[Lysah]

Is there a release date for Ascendancy yet other than "Early 2016"

Should be directly after Talisman ends, they already said they don't plan on having a waste of time intermission league last I checked. So, mid March or so? No official date yet, but should be around then, slightly more specific than "early 2016."

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Hey, whadya know, early March confirmed

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Should be directly after Talisman ends, they already said they don't plan on having a waste of time intermission league last I checked. So, mid March or so? No official date yet, but should be around then, slightly more specific than "early 2016."

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Hey, whadya know, early March confirmed

Ah that´s neat

[ParanoiD84]

Think i need some guidance by my fellow champions here. So im back after a long time and made a summoner in the sc talisman league, Profile name is Paranoid84 and character is Slaaneshiii, now i have been following a few guides like

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1317731 Leary's Hybrid Summoner
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/968988 Ghazzy - Summoner Guides
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1388991 STYGIAN REVENANTS Quad+ CURSE

And im not sure what to go for, i like running auras and curses and full on zombies(meatshields) and spectres(damage). It's been going pretty good so far only problem was Malachai, hard as hell as summoner lol, and as you can see my gear is pretty shit and i have pretty low hp and es i have mostly been going for resist on my gear, i also mostly run solo.

atm im running zombies as meatshields they are pretty tanky, chaos golem and 3 spectres with my boots ( been trying out both the undying Evangelist and the Stygian Revenant in act 4 and so far i like the former the best but i dont have a good 5 link for my spectres yet, also still using totem with skeletons as they are still pretty good for keeping me alive, also have vaal skeles and they are wonderful. Also use flesh/bone offering for some minion buffs.

Im running ele resist aura/arctic armor, discipline and clarity so far, and enfeeble for curse i have not found temporal chains otherwise it would go in same link.. I also been trying out 3 attacks for what's better to spread curses with, i like firestorm and arc the most but people are saying lightning ball is the best but i dont really like using that spell.

And in my tree should i go for both Necromantic aegis and Elemental equilibrium, and if so when to spec those?

And finally is it worth picking up white items with 6 sockets in them? are they worth anything, i have not traded anything yet as im trying to learn the economy first abit. Need to buy more stashes as they are getting full fast

So finally is summoner good for a newbie or is dual flametotem something better for someone who mostly solos and is new to the game.

[Lysah]

Aegis is generally not worth it, it doesn't really give your minions enough benefit and costs you a lot. You can take EE whenever you want, if you use flame sentinels and then use arc to spread curses it's a pretty big damage buff for them. Summoners are great for new players because they are very cheap to build and do a lot of damage passively with spectres. Bosses like Malachai will always be tough because spectres will die since you can't really control them and keep them out of stuff, convocation helps but has a long cooldown. You just have to suffer through it really, once you're high level with a +2 minion hat the game should get pretty easy. The reason people go for auras/curses is because the basic summoner tree only costs like 70 points, so you're already done with it by level 50, auras and curses are the only way to get more damage really. You could always stack more survivability instead, or grab cast speed/spell damage for SRS or something.


Pick up all 6 socket items, they vendor for 7 jeweler orbs.

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The new gems of Ascendency sure is nice. It´s just weird that Frost Bombs doesn´t slow the mobs. I do like how Orb of Storms support other lightning skills

[ParanoiD84]

Aegis is generally not worth it, it doesn't really give your minions enough benefit and costs you a lot. You can take EE whenever you want, if you use flame sentinels and then use arc to spread curses it's a pretty big damage buff for them. Summoners are great for new players because they are very cheap to build and do a lot of damage passively with spectres. Bosses like Malachai will always be tough because spectres will die since you can't really control them and keep them out of stuff, convocation helps but has a long cooldown. You just have to suffer through it really, once you're high level with a +2 minion hat the game should get pretty easy. The reason people go for auras/curses is because the basic summoner tree only costs like 70 points, so you're already done with it by level 50, auras and curses are the only way to get more damage really. You could always stack more survivability instead, or grab cast speed/spell damage for SRS or something.


Pick up all 6 socket items, they vendor for 7 jeweler orbs.

Thanks yeah maby i leave aegis or wait untill i have really good gear as my shield is one of my best gear slots atm. Is 2+ minion helms something you can find? im in merciless atm and have seen none so far.

And yeah Malachai was a nightmare as my minions keps dying, had to cheese it with going into other zones and resummon then back in, cant wait to fight him on merciless

[Lysah]

Thanks yeah maby i leave aegis or wait untill i have really good gear as my shield is one of my best gear slots atm. Is 2+ minion helms something you can find? im in merciless atm and have seen none so far.

And yeah Malachai was a nightmare as my minions keps dying, had to cheese it with going into other zones and resummon then back in, cant wait to fight him on merciless

Yeah they're pretty cheap, if you want to take the time to find one to trade for. Put your zombies in it and they'll be a lot stronger, Zombies get an insane amount of health from levels. Most people do zombies in +2 hat/spectres in 5 link chest, if they are SRS they grab a +2/+3 5 link staff for them, since you can farm 5 link staves in tropical island they are also very cheap. The biggest issue with auras and curses is that they're quickly going to consume all of your sockets, the real struggle as a summoner is finding enough space for all your gems.

Surprisingly, bosses get easier in higher difficulties for summoners, mainly because minions finally get strong enough to not die instantly. Spectres are always pretty weak, though. When I did excavation the first and last time I basically spent ten minutes running around waiting for zombies to do enough damage.

[Lagwin]

Last shadow sub class revealed, the trickster, one stand out passive, movement skills cost no mana and 20% increased attack/cast speed after using a movement skill....sooooo cyclone still classed as a movement skill.

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What makes people half-addicted to this game?
I got people on friendlist playing this game 12-14 hours a day for weeks :P
So I'm a bit interested in what makes people want to play it so much?

[Lagwin]

What makes people half-addicted to this game?
I got people on friendlist playing this game 12-14 hours a day for weeks :P
So I'm a bit interested in what makes people want to play it so much?

If you played and like D2 then this is about as close to it as you can get in a modern game...good challenge, races and loads of new content released regularly

[Fencers]

What makes people half-addicted to this game?

Could be many reasons; it's a loot grinder. So the impulse to grind out maps for awesome gear is pretty standard among many games.

Path of Exile is also extremely complex. It's one of the most mechanically complex games on the current market. People have played this game for years and thousands of hours literally and have yet to figure everything out. So much so that new revelation of how crafting, skills, recipes, cards and so on work happen fairly regularly in the community and it's usually a big deal when they are figured out.

Path of Exile is deep and richly rewarding for one's time- the more you play the more significant the loot your acquire actually becomes (or your wealth relatively speaking) and one's knowledge of the game deepens.

So on the one hand POE has the base 'kill monsters/hunt loot' aspect going but also has the "I have mastered this complex thing!" angle that satisfies intellectually.

Path of Exile is a game where someone had the idea to use a Bow to convert lightning damage into Chaos damage and cast spells by proxy of a trap/mine and never fire a single arrow as a Barbarian.

Just because someone dreamed of that above build, so to speak, and it was possible.

[Lysah]

And GGG consistently makes quality, interesting updates to the game, including their next expansion coming out in a month that is going to add literally SO MANY BUILDS to the game. I'm personally looking forward to making a Heirophant to make mana stacking a viable way to play the game.

[Fencers]

I am thinking this will be the league where I go traps. For serious. Like serious trapping.

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Woo, got first t15 map drop, time to see if I can get an ex for it

I am thinking this will be the league where I go traps. For serious. Like serious trapping.

I did bladefall/poison trapper this one (going Ice Traps next), only have it in Deerstalkers (bladefall/multitrap/more trap dmg/poison) and one cast is enough for 90% of even rare packs up to t13

Didn't really have any defenses though and ripped at 80ish I think, still playing it in SC for now but need to find some way to live next league

[Lysah]

Poison is for sure going to get nerfed to hell I think, so I wouldn't bank on having overpowered poison damage next league.

[Redblade]

Yeah poisons will get nerfed as well as bladefall (sadly as I'm using it), unique flasks might take a hit as well and Skyforth will probably survive this round of nerfs but I'm betting on a legacy in the futer on that one.

Hit 98 today and got bored so pissed away about 1500 chaos on a hubris without getting 3x T1 ES rolls =( , guess I had it coming though as I rolled a 610 ES shield among many many other ES items this league...which is where the chaos came from anyway, that and the 4x 6-links I rolled :P

Kinda stupid how powerful my build became, close to 60k bladefall totems with close to 9.5k ES as low life blood magic.

[Lysah]

Still have yet to 6 link anything...

[Redblade]

It's not THAT hard if you're intent on doing it. Yes some are horribly unlucky when trying to 6L but the average is around 1200 fuse iirc. I linked my first Shav's this league in around 200 so I was really lucky, the second Shav's (needed other colors for an alt) took around 400, third was a Belly of the Beast I got as a drop so figured "what the hell" and tossed about 80 jewellers on it before it 6 socketed and I then dropped like 60 fuse on it and it 6 linked.

Last one was a Voltaxic I bought just because I gathered so many jew's and fuses but this one took about 6-800, I ran out of jew's and fuses and got it eventually with my daily brodeal fuses from Vorici.

If you always stop on 5 links then I can see how it can end up never happening.

[Lysah]

I do usually stop at 5 links because I actually want to use the item I'm linking
I did roll over a few 5 link tremor rods this league but I didn't actually pursue a 6 link very far with that, maybe 200 fuses total. At least I usually have pretty good luck getting 5 links.

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