If anyone in the mid-50's etc in hardcore needs some items add me in the game StickAnArrow .

I might have some stuff I can pass down for free, lots of stuff I vendor because I'm too lazy to deal with trying to sell it in game. I'm terrible at valuing items.

Also running maps, if anyone wants to do that. So far I've played the entire game solo so it might be a nice change-up.

Took me like 6 tries to kill merciless Oak on HC. Was under 200hp one time and couldnt tp another time(had to recast TP). For last try I bought 2 aditional hp flask and never went below ~75% .

What should my long term aims be for each class? I have a 20 HC marauder, 20 HC ranger and 20 SC templar. I may just finish the first act with each class in HC and see which I prefer, but as I won't have much experience past that I'm liable to get confused.

Don't really know what you mean by long term aim, could you clarify a bit?

Has anyone had heating problems with PoE? I have a Macbook Pro running Windows 7 with a 2.3GHz i7 and unless I make sure there is really good ventilation on external fan my laptop shuts down from heat. Never had problems running Skyrim or similarly intensive games, but PoE is giving me consistent issues.

Well, I play softcore, so I try to make a character that can efficently farm and kick ass, that means a ton of offensive stuff but a decent amount of defensive stuff as well, just enough not to die a ton, but dying ever now and then isn't hte end of the world either.

When you play hardcore you might wanna sacrafice DPS for extra survivability. You may not kill as fast another build, but staying alive trumps that.

I am not sure if this is your problem but my computer has two video cards on it. The regular intel to run for basic things and a Nvidia for heavier intensive games. Path of Exile is NOT recognized as a Heavier intensive game. I tried to manually select it as a Heavier intensive game for it to automatically use the Nvidia video card when it runs however it states that POE is "Phantasy Star Online 2" which I never even heard of.

Anyways if I force my video card to turn on itself I do not have heating problems.

Dunno!

I guess - what works in 20 levels, what works in 40 levels that I need to prepare for now?

Thanks. I've had quite a lot of practice in hardcore in D3 but I still can't resist going two handers etc...

If you want to go 2h and do ground slam I would suggest a build from a guy called Rhox. I chose to go for the templar nodes first but you can go for blood magic earlier if you want. Also you should probably not get the +damage nodes until much later as you want to get as much HP nodes as possible.

Help oak also in act 2 for the +40 hp.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...f3vgHnAnGrxQ==

R.I.P. lvl 64 templar (killed by Vaal)

Going to try and hit up both 2 hour party races today. They're like free points, only need to hit lvl 16.

The 1 week race must have some kind of extra incentive right? Or else hardcore racers aren't going to bother with it, when it'll cause them to miss out on so many other races.

Is there a buddy system?

There's a friends list if that's what you mean?

I'm in for the 10 pm one, what's a character name I can add you as a friend and we can team up if you don't have a party already.

You can do 16 easily solo in 2 hours, so with a party it will be cake.

Guys add me for the 10PM party race: Killerwalski

Also on steam: Killerwalski

Let's get dem points

i have a character named cherry_venus

I might play or maybe not idk.

Cmannnnn

well, my dota game went on a bit long so I missed the race start.

Rolled with a friend and we picked up two pubs. Only me and a pub made it to the end, level 20 each... Amazing how some people can just faceroll through this game at an alarming rate... Guess I'll have to watch some videos for the next race.

650th overall =/

Trying to do a claw/curse shadow, this is what I have so far for a build but think it is probably going to end up with no survivability.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...1276Dy4fv1_Ks=

Any suggestions on how to make it more viable?

Didn't really look but I see that you chose not to get any HP nodes despite being right next to them. You need to get them. All of them. Also you wasted 2 stat points for power charges. I thought the only way to get power charges were through wanding, but I could be wrong. I also removed 2 - 3 int nodes and picked up 1 more crit node that you would want I assume.
You might want to pick up the +30 str node since you need it to connect to more HP nodes. Stats are always good to use better gear and upgrade gems.

You have physical damage nodes and spell damage nodes. I am not sure what skills you are using, but that seems wasteful.

Slight modifcation http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...X8q3RVwfOdow==

I meant to the the race tonight but missed the start so didn't bother.

I like the shorter races, like the 1 hour ones I can deal with, the 3 hour one was just stressful, you really do have to rush to get any points and there's always the threat of dying and not getting anything. The prizes are completely worthless so it's more just for the fun of it.

The 1 hour ones are fun, less of a time commitment and if you fudge it up by dying, oh well, you may be out 30-45 minutes, not 3 hours.

I can't imagine the week races. Can you imagine playing a whole week and then dying like 30 minutes before the race was over or something and getting nothing, that's life tilt potential with no real upside. Reverse implied odds in play.

Kowalski: there's a pretty straightforward and set strategy in place for the 1h/2h/3h races. watch nugi or kripp or someone stream and you'll see. if you want any chance to place near the top, you have to have an organized party that knows what they're doing. i only have a very small handful of friends that play PoE so i know i have no chance in the party ones so i'm glad there are solo races where i have a shot.

furyshade: you're going to die. a lot. get every life node you can or i guarantee you'll hit a wall at some point in late cruel or early merciless. other than that, need a bit more info on exactly what you're trying to do to give anymore specific advice

Cotton Hill: yeah i like 1h the best. 3h is ok but i agree its a bit long. 2h today was pretty reasonable, and i personally feel like 1h>>2h>>>>>>>>>3h. 1 week will be pretty cool i think because it's basically replicating the release of open beta again, with everyone on an even slate. IMO that's pretty fun and even if you die at 50+ at least you'll still have the guy in HC. i'm just going to roll a char i want to play anyways so i'm basically freerolling the race. also, i'd def try to hit the 60 RP marker for the coral ring, it's the only prize i think is worth it (unless you're an artwork fan, for the other items). it's ilevel 100 so i'd imagine we'll be seeing some godly rings being rolled over the next few weeks.

yeah, I really want the coral ring. But I'm sitting at only 3 points right now.

so yeah, definitely not getting it. Just going to grab the redbeak I guess.. lol