Assuming you have no health regeneration, the easiest way is to pop righteous fire and then fine tune your health using either instant heal potion (or other potions, but instant heal is fast and it heals for generally small amounts) or rejuvenation totem.

The instant heal potion method is good because when killing an elite or unique, you can fight it with full health and then do the righteous fire + potion combo before you kill it, and it's very fast. You don't actually need more than 1 health actually, but it helps to have some health because your vision is limited otherwise.

I wouldn't recommend doing low life builds on hc though, that sounds kind of insane. I don't even have much experience with using wondertrap, I'm melee and I bought it just for my friend's witch to use.

New Kripp video covering some of the stuff recently discussed here regarding what items to pickup and how to vendor them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8XW...V6a3eA&index=1

If anyone has a bunch of chromatics (like between 20 and 500) I'd love to trade for all of them. I can definitely offer you better than poeex rate, or trade for whatever gems and random crap I have in my stash.

send me pm if you're interested (standard ladder)


I just burned through more than 100 on a 5L I had, trying to get RRGGB

it took me 140 chromes to get the right colors on my 5L (RRGGB)

if it was a 6L, it would've taken me less than 20 chromes for the right 5 color combo. But I'm sure if I had a 6L there would be some crazy 6L color combo I would want.

My friend hates me for spending so many chromes on it.

I was looking at that rightchous fire and was thinking, why the **** would anyone use that?

I think the idea is that you farm much lower monster level. But if you never invested into hp and had alot of strong Energy shield items then you will only lose a bit of survivability. Besides you cannot get boots(or is it gloves) with a higher rarity bonus so it is essential to run a maximised rarity build.

I bought voidhome yesterday thinking it had +rarirty as I thought that would be sick addition to my build and it turned out to be - rarity. Was not pleased.

another way to run low life builds is to use blood magic with mana reserve auras. Imo this works out much better than what CI gives you, but you need to be able to either get BM on the skill tree or get one of the uniques that have it.

I just wasted a divine orb on a unique lvl 65 chest I got. It had a really low roll and I figured a divine would at worst bring it up somewhat- it rolled almost exactly the same thing (from 92% to 93%).


I also bought an amazing carnage heart for 2 exalts. Total 48 all stats (this is just average roll though), 10% life leech (max roll) and 20% all resists (max roll).

CI chaos innoculation? Isn't that having 1hp? Low life is determined by 33 or 30% total hp I think co CI won't work. A 30% reserve won't work either, fine tuning health seems the best way.

That carnage heart really does sound sick. 10% life leech is really OP

I think I need to sell my voidhome, it isn't actually a good weapon. THink I paid GCP chaos and fusing for it. Deffo a mistake (but in my defence I thought it had +rairty not -rairty). I have put it in trade a couple times and not even got an offer lolz

Oh yeah and I finally grasped the 1 transmute per RGB :facepalm:

CI does not trigger "low life" status. I was only comparing a CI build to a low life build, as they both rely on ES for survival. And imo stacking a bunch of reserve auras with BM gives you more than having CI, although chaos damage will instantly kill you rather than being harmless.

Reserving health should work fine, of course only 1 aura won't be enough (unless your max life is very low, which isn't a bad thing with this build!)

one last thing, I think the low life bonus from redbeak is global (100% increased damage), so you can carry it in your offhand and receive full bonuses to all your spells or main hand attacks.

I've got probably 160 of them. IGN is Imsa__Kidd (2x underscore).

On GCPs: Using a GCP is never going to increase a gems value by 1 GCP. I guess this is why they became the default currency, because nobody actually uses them.

Some other vendor recipes:

5 of the same rare type = unID rare of that type (5 crappy rare Decimation Bow = 1 unID Decimation Bow)

6 socket item = 7 jewelers orbs (6 socket, not 6 link)

Its worth it to save rare belts/rings/amulets, then once you get a stockpile of them, start to trade in the "one of each slot" vendor recipe.

guys, you can use this:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/15223

+ chrome add-on which I use and works perfectly, it reads inventory from poe site and tells you what you can craft and/or what you miss.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/42272

I'm totally addicted to uniques in this game, such a huge difference from d3. I've been buying out everything that I think looks good in any build I can imagine, I'm down to <10 exalts equiv in currency.

still looking for 2x Andvarius with good "random" prop roll (I can reroll the implicit myself), Midnight's Bargain, Maligaro's virtuosity, Kaom's Heart, Wake of Destruction, and a Marohi Erqi because I must have it all.

Then I think I can actually start playing again instead of just trading.

That chrome add on is a complete beast. If I had like 20 stash pages I would use it. I remember the lead dev talking about it too, they said it's 100% legal to use because stopping it is impossible.

It's just using the website with the data they provide us in an interesting way.

hmm, I was trying to find a Kaom's heart and apparently it cost 50+ exalteds in CB, and no one knows of one yet in OB.

There was one for sale and it went for a mirror. Wow.

Anyone interested in running hardcore maps?

I've got 16 maps atm, mostly 66 but a few 67-68

(almost) level 79 blood magic lightning arrow duelist with the usual stuff (skele totem, zombies, ele weakness (with enfeeble leveled too if needed), grace, wrath, anger)

MickinX in game

Spent another 150 chromes on my 5L chest. After about 40 chromes I got the right color combo and accidentally blitzed past it and kept chroming, goddamn it. And then after I put all the gems in and tried it out, it turns out that I didn't even need one of them. It's an eva chest and now the best color combo I can use on it is GRRRB, but I already know it'll take me another 500 chromes to get that, since G is very common on pure eva and rolling only 1 is almost impossible.

This game undoubtedly lets people tap into their gambling addictions.

Yeah and it's done in a way that's pretty nice because you have a steady stream of currencies coming at you.

Some of them are nasty though, like trying to roll certain color combos due to how the system works. In Chocula's case an evasion armor is MUCH more likely to get green sockets over red or blue.

Energy armor gets more blue sockets, etc..

I'm so pissed, I was running a 68 map and my friend kept getting instagibbed by everything and wasted all our portals. And I got left soloing the map and eventually died (arcmage just like 2 shot me through max light resist), leaving 80% of the map uncleared. First time I've ever had such a failure like that.

makes me somewhat regret not running cookie cutter lightning arrow or frost totem builds like everyone else.

There isn't a thing as chaos reflect is there?
Poison arrow + silverbranch + vulnerability + fire traps = Very strong poison cloud

How else to make the poison cloud stronger?

How much is divine worth now on Hardcore? Somebody wanted to pay 6 chaos and I declined because the site posted earlier with exchange rate said it was worth 9.

That site is based on closed beta rates and is a decent guide for someone who is new just to know that you don't trade an exalt for an alch 1:1

but right now a divine on hardcore is worth about half an exalt I think

an exalt is worth about 11-12 chaos

so 5.5-6 chaos?

6 was a good/fair deal imo

SC prices:

Exalt = 2 divines, but exalt = 5 gcp rather than 6 right now, and divine = 2.5 rather than 3. So exalt = 15 chaos and divine = 7.5 chaos.

So definitely don't take poeex as an exact pricing guide, it uses some proper base ratios but it can still be wrong all over the place.

ya for HC that's all about right except a GCP is not 3 chaos, more like 2 chaos +1 alch, and that's on a good day

imo HC prices are much better, gcp really does feel inflated in SC. No one actually uses them, so they are literally currency. gcp is actually almost >3 chaos right now in SC, I get people every day asking me to convert their chaos/alch to gcps, but I know that I still need mine for trading.