Maybe try something really tanky? Something based around block chance perhaps. I was thinking of doing block chance + totems (as many monsters will hit the totems instead of you, so it's better survivability too).

I'm going to do the EK/aura thing I mentioned above, but block/totem was next on the list.

naturally

Got a link to build? Or guide? I like to read them. How do you kill stuff? Totems?

I saw a cyclone duelist, but dunno if I want that.

Yeh, you kill with totems. I guess you want spell totems and probably Soul Mantle so that you can have three totems.

You don't have control over cyclone do you?

Is there a build that is like a slice and dice? I'm thinking dual wield daggers and stacking attack speed. I was playing in a group the other day where one guy was just insanely fast.

I think a Totem Templar sounds interesting. Throw down totems and let them do all the work. I could see it being pretty popular in parties.

Is there still issues with Cruel Dominus? I was briefly reading something this morning about the game crashing. Also, some Carrion Queen killing a lot of Nemesis players from a damage bug?

They were both fixed in 1.01b

I quite like the idea of going frenzy charges + lots of increased attack speed. Being able to do 7 or 8 attacks per second sounds fun. You'd need a lot of mana to go frenzy/multistrike/faster attacks though, particularly if you go for melee splash to get some AOE.

White foils are 1.7 APS. Quill Rain is 3.11 which is why I was talking about it earlier. There's nothing else above 2 without the IAS mod.

It may be that going frenzy + claws is a good idea because of their life leech. The problem with that is it's hard to get any armour (I think?).

Iron reflexes?

I see. I'm going to continue with my Spectral Scion, but a lot of the fun of this game, to me, is starting over with an idea in mind. The first couple clicks of the passive tree are exciting. I actually have a Quill Rain if I remember right, Legendary Bow??? but I've never used it.

Also, I'm stuck on updating. It looks like it's at the end, I click Play Game (from Steam) and then when I try to Login it says it's not updated. I've tried 3 times now, and this last time it's been sitting on the update window for over 5 minutes saying "Preparing to launch POE" but it's not doing anything.

EDIT: Close Steam completely and then restart. It'll update in Steam, which it was not doing before.

Doesn't it work out as rubbish if you go pure evasion and IR? I didn't really follow the earlier discussion on it here.

I dunno :P
I was just here for the discussion.

Both dominion and standard are softcore leagues. So 72% of players are in SC, although I don't know what those numbers really mean (average number of players, or characters)



nemesis league is supposed to run until february 23rd, I doubt I will play it for nearly that long. There was supposed to be a league where potions did not refill when you returned to town (along with other mechanics to support that), did this league ever run? I'm guessing no because they probably had issues balancing it. I would really like to play in a several month long cutthroat league as well (hc or sc, as long as your items drop on death)

it's fine, although if your character has a large amount of dexterity from the passive tree then you will lose that %eva bonus.

The discussion earlier was mostly to clear up confusion about which passives to get if you're running IR (eg +armor or +eva or +armor&eva)

Ok, thanks. Pretty hard to avoid lots of dex if you go frenzy charge build I guess.

Potions not filling would be silly - you TP back from boss, go to the first area in the act, kill the easy mobs, walk back and TP back to boss.

Multistrike gem. Works great with Double Strike and Dual Strike. Melee Splash is fun with it too.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...7x9Plj_Ev8xf4J

I might do this, it looks viable. Lots of APS would be fun after infernal blow/aoe/2-hander.

Frenzy/multistrike/faster attacks/melee splash and haste. Something like that. Though that build I made above is too little mana. (15 * 1.8 * 1.15 * 1.6 = 50 mana per hit and there's a lot of hitting going on). Maybe if you can get 2-3% mana leech it'd be OK though.

I don't think we'll ever see a cutthroat mode not in races. The potion thingy you described is also a race with 'famine' in description. Look race 038 of season 5.

I'll do some googling for totem duelist when I get home. I picked up a few totem gems iirc, like searing bond and something else

Theres a ton of good stuff if you go towards Shadow instead of getting the stuff near scion and bottom left of duelist. Only takes you a few points to get Haste and blinding speed for another 24% attack speed, plus the life/health nearby, and since you are near you can get mind drinker for the mana leech you need. You will have less armor/evasion than your posted version but more life. Can always make up for that by doing the evasion/life start for ranger instead of the crappy attack speed/accuracy start? Either way you should get the rest of the ranger life circle for 8/8/12% instead of the 8/8/8/8 scion one imo. Also is there a reason you didnt get the other frenzy charge near duelist? Is there a cap on charges or something? No idea. But ya maybe something like this?:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...7tgxmOtvcRLw==

What classes/builds are good with 2h staves

Ek and ground slam.

Cheers, good ideas all round.

Damn this patch is downloading slow as ****. Speed is jumping from 0-100KBps

getting use to things I guess. restarted a hc ranger, up to lvl17 now. how badly have I done on the passive tree?

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...V35jtg_66_sg==

Hopefully you did a nemesis ranger and not hc

hc