1. #15881
    Quote Originally Posted by Daedius View Post
    Rares with Regen and the aura to sap away your flasks are the absolute worst as a melee... :|
    I was having fun leveling my titan. But when I played maps with my husband who is melee while I Frost Mage it up, I decided to not progress my titan for a bit.

    This is crazy.

    Mr Llama is speaking truth to power here:



    (He has a video with all he likes about POE2 as well. This one is just amusing.)
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  2. #15882
    I enjoy this quite a bit. I'm annoyed that things are getting nerfed live and things that are broken are getting tweaked tho.

    (i'm not mad, it's just a pet peeve :P)

    For me, I went lightning route on a monk which was objectively a bad choice, but I'm sticking with it. Frost ANYTHING is the correct choice right now. It's just broken strong.


    Me who had to perfectly dodge viper mechanics for like 7 minutes vs the frost sorc who just 45 seconds the boss and barely sees half the mechanics >.< feelsbad lol
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  3. #15883
    Quote Originally Posted by Mendzia View Post
    I think the problem is that most of the people just skip all white (and most blue) items as they think these are worthless.
    You should check for good bases and use orb on them and you are good.
    I pick up all socketed and rare gear to dismantle. I need more than just 2-mod magic items at this point so having some transmutes/augments doesn't do much for me anymore. I need regals and exalts to craft but like a fuckin idiot I listened to Jonathan and used those in A1/2 believing they would indeed be more common and I don't think I've seen a single exalt in all of A3, nor any alchemy or regals : /

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fencers View Post
    I was having fun leveling my titan. But when I played maps with my husband who is melee while I Frost Mage it up, I decided to not progress my titan for a bit.
    Right now I'm stuck on the stupid chaos trial/molten gold boss and I'm legit considering rerolling away from melee/titan despite it going alright up to this point -_-

  4. #15884
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Right now I'm stuck on the stupid chaos trial/molten gold boss and I'm legit considering rerolling away from melee/titan despite it going alright up to this point -_-
    Ultimatum will make you hate your choices in life if you do it as melee. Don't.

  5. #15885
    Quote Originally Posted by Fencers View Post
    Ultimatum will make you hate your choices in life if you do it as melee. Don't.
    I have about a dozen times.

    Bird boss is absolute bullshit and I'm not sure how any melee are ever supposed to either do damage or not get hit since his attacks are so fucking fast and sweeping it appears you can't be in melee.

    Otherwise just gambling for "mods that don't totally fuckin brick my run" is super duper exciting.

    Chimera boss seems doable until his tail bullshit of, "Oh, NO WARNING HERE ARE 200 CHAOS PROJECTILES TO YOUR FACE WITH NO WINDUP AND A .0002S ATTACK SPEEC ON EACH FUCK YOU."

    Died to that horse shit at like 10% twice.

    I legit hope whoever worked on Ultimatum stubs their toes every week for the next few years.

    Real, my choices always end up being bad ones. At least I didn't start Blood Mage, I guess, where your first ascendency point can just straight up kill you.

  6. #15886
    Chimera boss seems doable until his tail bullshit of, "Oh, NO WARNING HERE ARE 200 CHAOS PROJECTILES TO YOUR FACE WITH NO WINDUP AND A .0002S ATTACK SPEEC ON EACH FUCK YOU."
    You have to run in a U pattern against that boss. Back and forth, drop aoes/totems/sacrifice minions/glacial cascade when you reach the top of each end of the U pattern.

    Using the gas grenades on Merc works well too.

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    I should also say, that NOTHING in the campaign prepares you for maps. The campaign is for babies. Maps are pure chaos.

  7. #15887
    Quote Originally Posted by Fencers View Post
    You have to run in a U pattern against that boss. Back and forth, drop aoes/totems/sacrifice minions/glacial cascade when you reach the top of each end of the U pattern.

    Using the gas grenades on Merc works well too.

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    I should also say, that NOTHING in the campaign prepares you for maps. The campaign is for babies. Maps are pure chaos.
    I'm unsure how I'm supposed to avoid anything on that boss. I get off a single attack and I'm hit lol. I'm on Titan and not building totems, which might be a mistake, building slams with a focus on armor break and heavy stunning.

    Heavy stunning really feels lackluster on bosses. Super lackluster so far. Great for clear, but holy crap even investing pretty heavily into stun leaves such tiny windows to do big damage for all the fucking effort required to set it up.

  8. #15888
    So I specced into frost as a sorceress and I am now steamrolling the game. Some stuff is really overtuned (or the rest is undertuned).

  9. #15889
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    I'm unsure how I'm supposed to avoid anything on that boss. I get off a single attack and I'm hit lol. I'm on Titan and not building totems, which might be a mistake, building slams with a focus on armor break and heavy stunning.
    Sure, but then you need a way to hit at mid to long-range or drop an AOE with duration. You can use a weapon swap for an AOE skill. I used the quarterstaff with Glacial Cascade on my Titan. I had poison arrow on a bow, etc.

    Totems are just the most logical get for a Warrior because they are STR skills. But a totem, gas grenade, fire wall, etc - all serve the same function. Damage uptime.

    Heavy stunning really feels lackluster on bosses. Super lackluster so far. Great for clear, but holy crap even investing pretty heavily into stun leaves such tiny windows to do big damage for all the fucking effort required to set it up.
    Are you using a 2h on your best skills when it's time to unload? I played with Shield/Mace as main and had my bonks set for 2h.

    Make sure the support gems for big hits are meaningful. I see some people put ancestral boost on Rolling Slam or Earthquake. Put those types of supports on Armor Break, Boneshatter, Perfect Strike, etc. Have like Rage/Envemon on your white hits, etc.

    I am not saying you specifically are making an error. I am just pointing out common oversights I see in how people are building through the campaign due to scarcity and new mechanics.

  10. #15890
    It's a little disheartening to see the warrior build I theorycrafted in my head completely fall flat in the face of the three support gems socketed into my basic attack. Nothing else compares. And if I need a bit of extra aoe clear, boneshatter. Everything else is too slow and sluggish. I even stopped using perfect strike for bosses since I can just use my basic attack and do perhaps marginally less damage with far less effort.

  11. #15891
    The small passive nodes bonus on Titan is a bit misleading. I think Warbringer is the real play on Warrior. Block/Screamer Warbringer with the AOE pushback and armor breaking is rather strong. Still gets the stuns of Titan with the ability to make boss armor 0 while AOEing the entire screen.
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  12. #15892
    Quote Originally Posted by Fencers View Post
    Sure, but then you need a way to hit at mid to long-range or drop an AOE with duration. You can use a weapon swap for an AOE skill. I used the quarterstaff with Glacial Cascade on my Titan. I had poison arrow on a bow, etc.

    Totems are just the most logical get for a Warrior because they are STR skills. But a totem, gas grenade, fire wall, etc - all serve the same function. Damage uptime.
    Forge boss is just horse shit for melee. Ranged seems mandatory for him since he spends good chunks of time in the lava. Just hitting the wall with that fucking boss and the chaos trial is entirely fucking ruining my vibe. Think I beat A3, or at least got to the final boss otherwise, but those two are just fucking bullshit dogshit horseshit pickyourfavoriteanimalshit here.

  13. #15893
    Minions feel pretty good in that regard in that they do face tank alot of damage for you. That's always been pretty strong in arpg assuming the minions can survive said damage and you're not getting swarmed but the nature of reviving pets and the slower nature of path 2 makes them particularly effective damage sponges

  14. #15894
    Skelly Clerics are bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Forge boss is just horse shit for melee. Ranged seems mandatory for him since he spends good chunks of time in the lava. Just hitting the wall with that fucking boss and the chaos trial is entirely fucking ruining my vibe. Think I beat A3, or at least got to the final boss otherwise, but those two are just fucking bullshit dogshit horseshit pickyourfavoriteanimalshit here.
    Well, yeah. I mean a lot of things are kinda stupid. All you can do is play around the BS as best as possible.

  15. #15895
    Quote Originally Posted by Gorsameth View Post
    Its PoE 1 Ruthless and every area appears to be 90% brown and grey.

    I'm enjoying myself for now but I'm fairly certain that is because its new. I question how many will prefer PoE 2 over 1 once the honeymoon period ends.
    a lot of people likely wont,poe2 is not the typical arpg zerg fest and loot raining from the sky like most exile-likes

  16. #15896
    Quote Originally Posted by Fencers View Post
    Well, yeah. I mean a lot of things are kinda stupid. All you can do is play around the BS as best as possible.
    It just feels like shit. My 1h/2h setup has been working fine but now I've gotta go out and look for a fuckin ranged skill and shit? Like, I'm all about learning but jesus christ some of this shit feels so obtuse and stupid.

    Like, this fuckin wall, with no real way I can see around it beyond grinding another 3-4 levels and praying for some fuckin drops, is killing my motivation to play.

    Tried swapping over to Earthshatter to try that since I finally have a proper warcry to pop them and...learned that jewelers modify the GEM itself and not the slot. So I lost a socket over that, not that I really have many options for supports given that you can't have multiples of the same support gem and your level 1 support gem options are are very, very few.

    Maybe I should have gone big fire. Big phys/heavy stun is again, great for small dudes, but feels like fuckin ass on bosses. The heavy stun just doesn't last anywhere near long enough nor seemingly provide enough damage multipliers to justify the effort spent setting it up.

  17. #15897
    Quote Originally Posted by Specialka View Post
    So I specced into frost as a sorceress and I am now steamrolling the game. Some stuff is really overtuned (or the rest is undertuned).
    Raxx just published a YT video about cold sorc steamrolling. Will continue sticking with my lightning sorceress for the moment, I’m so slow that probably patches will happen before I feel forced to switch to a fotm build.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fencers View Post
    I was having fun leveling my titan. But when I played maps with my husband who is melee while I Frost Mage it up, I decided to not progress my titan for a bit.

    This is crazy.

    Mr Llama is speaking truth to power here:



    (He has a video with all he likes about POE2 as well. This one is just amusing.)
    Seems fair enough (and I’m not a Llama fan).

    Asmongold also published a short video about what things he would like to see changed. Good points also (many similar to Llama ones).

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    It's been said enough already so I'll just skip the wall of text: FUCK ULTIMATUM

  19. #15899
    Quote Originally Posted by -aiko- View Post
    It's been said enough already so I'll just skip the wall of text: FUCK ULTIMATUM
    I love how a bunch of the downsides are, "Here, your build is literally bricked." lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    I love how a bunch of the downsides are, "Here, your build is literally bricked." lol.
    "Hey it looks like your build has really come together and you're progressing smoothly and you're having fun. Let's fix that problem."
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