[Megathread] Path of Exile

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Idols & Async trade. We will never juice harder.

I'll finally be able to use my trader MTX that I have from a supporter pack that I've never used because SSF.

It'd be pretty rad if they brought back Phrecia for the "current league" with some tweaks and updates periodically. Still wondering when they're gonna make it available for private leagues.

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3 weeks is too short, though. We didn't have Bloodlines, the Gen Tree, and Async trade in the Phercia 1.

I might not have time to crack out my double fishing rod surf caster. Or my Gucci Scavenger.

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3 weeks is too short, though. We didn't have Bloodlines, the Gen Tree, and Async trade in the Phercia 1.

I might not have time to crack out my double fishing rod surf caster. Or my Gucci Scavenger.

this is my biggest gripe - i'm gonna feel rushed, and i ain't takin time off for this (and I can't).

should be able to at least hit 90 for the couple of lockboxes. i'm very eagerly awaiting the updated notes/info as i'm just sitting here regularly getting distracted coming up with the absolute most scuffed concepts i dumpster fairly quickly

latest was a cobra lash (or other dagger-based poison) servant of arakali with perfect agony. did not go well

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latest was a cobra lash (or other dagger-based poison) servant of arakali with perfect agony. did not go well

I played this in Phrecia 1. I talked about it here. I think. Starts strong, but then it sucks.

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Dreamcore just released a great video discussing the Phrecia+Keepers overlap.

https://youtu.be/YBt5JQUfJXE?si=owfvyVgDzq3LctWp

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Latest bad idea for the bin:

Voltaxic Burst Totems Polytheist

I really want to do something with that ascendency for the "nova spells cast at the targeted location" node, been dying for Blade Blast of Dagger Detonation for ages. Problem is the ascendency screams "evasion" for defenses and pathing over there as totems is ass.

gah, without knowing any changes i know this is a waste of time but it's also kinda fun and i'm learning a lot of shit about skills i've never looked into

maybe be boring and go some flavor of dex-stacking wildspeaker?

[Fencers]

Latest bad idea for the bin:

Voltaxic Burst Totems Polytheist

I really want to do something with that ascendency for the "nova spells cast at the targeted location" node, been dying for Blade Blast of Dagger Detonation for ages. Problem is the ascendency screams "evasion" for defenses and pathing over there as totems is ass.

gah, without knowing any changes i know this is a waste of time but it's also kinda fun and i'm learning a lot of shit about skills i've never looked into

maybe be boring and go some flavor of dex-stacking wildspeaker?

Your dedication to playing a longneck build is seen and appreciated.

[Shaiandra]

I really want to do something with that ascendency for the "nova spells cast at the targeted location" node, been dying for Blade Blast of Dagger Detonation for ages. Problem is the ascendency screams "evasion" for defenses and pathing over there as totems is ass.

I'm pondering various ideas but parts of one might be relevant to you too if you want Evasion.

Foulborn The Perfect Form (or The Snowblind Grace) has a mod which gives flat Evasion per 10 Life. So if you stack a lot of life, you can get a lot of flat evasion.

Shaper's Touch and/or Evasion and Energy Shield Mastery can make Int apply to Evasion at a good 5 to 1% ratio (or 5 to 2% if you use both). Admittedly the latter still is far away from Templar.

Mask of the Stitched Demon makes Int apply to Life at a good 2 to 1 ratio, although Str no longer adds life and Int no longer adds mana. And it kills your Energy Shield but gives you regen instead.

So if you were to use all of these, 2 Int gives 1 Life, 5 Int gives 1-2% Evasion, 10 life gives 8 flat evasion, so you can probably do some Int + Life% stacking to get a ton of Life and Eva.. Could go very well with the Daughter of Oshabi + The Grey Wind idea that Dreamcore included in his video..

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GGG confirms the area modifiers will scale rarity and quantity as well.

Bro. We will never blast and juice harder than this... holy hell.

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hmmm

new dumb idea

shock nova trapper. can be done as trickster normally or the chill dude synergizes surprisingly well with the idea. i've never used shock nova so i'll need to dick around with it a bit to see how annoying the donut is

Edit: ok dicked around with level 1 skills a bit on an old trap character (rough basic tree, too lazy to actually do a fresh full build) and...it's probably not gonna be great but it looks functional enough with cluster traps. chill/freeze should be a very nice layers of defense for general mapping...i'm gonna do this dumb shit.

edit 2: ok with basically no gear it's at 250k dps (more with double hits from some of the shock novas) just on gems/passives alone.

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Hold on. It just came to me... Corrupting Fever Bog Shaman.

Edit: Nevermind. Bunch of people did this and it looks lame actually.

[Khaza-R]

I'm probably going to go Architect because its the one ascendancy i didn't get to try last time. I gonna shoot for storm call but will probably settle on smite or cold snap cause this event is so short

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Gonna take Friday off work so I can blast Rouge Exiles all weekend. I am so excited!

My husband and I have it all planned out.

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https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3908674

CHANGES ARE LIVE (notes, at least)

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Notes: LFG!!!!!!

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3908674

[Khaza-R]

Damn, they really don't want anyone playing AC this go around. Some of the other buffs look juicy though.

[Fencers]

The Behemoth changes look good. Am I playing Incredible Hulk this league? Maybe!

Buffs to Oshibi only confirms that this should be a core Ascend.

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So.. Scion got gutted. Nasty work, GGG. Nasty.

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Overall...I'm whelmed. I know this isn't a proper league/event but I was hoping for a bit more.


Aristocrat...something has gone up on my list, slightly. Paladin doesn't look much better at all, really underwhelmed.

Longneck looking the most interesting so far - Polytheist got some nice little perks and oh look, 30% increased AoE for the nova node. get outta my head GGG. Oh and Puppeteer? 40% increased strength? +5 to zombie? Yeah, I might really super need to figure out some kinda falling zombie build, especially with founborn great old ones ward + Necromantic Aegis node + Impale support making 100% impale extremely easy for them. maybe brand/brand recall? selfcast unleash? who knows

Moderately interested in Bog Shaman, still. Been trying to come up with something very dumb like a soulrend of reaping bog shaman for bonus phys from scaling life cost on skill (400% skill scaling on the skill is big for that) and use that to apply poison? evasion base with lots of life regen to deal with life cost and incoming damage? i dunno, i'm cookin at room temp right now

[Fencers]

Bog Shaman looks kinda meh now. Juice not worth squeezing.

Herald though...

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oh shit...puppeteer can dual wield montreguls with falling zombies now and still have (i think) 60 zombies active due to the 30% increase node. fallin zombies brand puppeteer it might end up being.

str stack version seems...reasonable, though ultimately not sure how to scale damage or if i just go poison like everything else. just need to get solve a bit more spell block (leaning on glancing blows) and it should be functional, at the very least.

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I played too much Kinetic Blast in Keepers to do it again in Phrecia 2. However, I admit the meme builds KBoC in Whisperer and Oshabi are tempting as a league starter. These are likely the most "can't miss" build shells on Friday.

That said... unarmed Cyclone Behemoth looks hilarious to me. Still working on how to make Smite Longneck work as a backup, but I probably will do some Shadow shit as usual. lol