I added white iron ring to my item filter, though I need 14 first

Sigri, it's hard to get them when you don't raise level very often.

Make a new character, clean out Lioneye's vendor every few minutes.

Ah yeh, good idea.

This is why no one likes the polish.

from reddit

Did it drop as is, or did they spend #AllTheCurrency to get it to that state?

the owner paid for 2ex for some ****ty one and used 3 divines

3 Divines? Dude should play the lottery. Seriously.

I just did some quick math, and I tend to mess this up when I haven't done any math in a long time, which is the case right now, but am I right in assuming that this ring has a total of 455,485,887,360 (or ~460 Billion) possible ways to roll?

more less yes, but there are quite of a few of satisfiable outcomes too

I found a sim: http://veraan.com/

Sure. But still, he's WAY over the threshold of what would be considered "acceptable" rolls, and three divines for that is just ridiculous.

That simulator is pretty cool.

I just realized that my math is slightly inaccurate, though. It's actually ~46 Billion * 10 different possible rolls. Now, while that's obviously = 460 Billion, in practice, since you can roll the implicit independently, you can divine it for one of the favourable 46 Billion rolls. Then, once you're satisfied with that, you can roll a 1-in-10 chance to get a good implicit, as well.

That ring is so sick.

Needs to blessed it though.

What are casters using to stay alive in 2.0?

I might try a whispering ice build, seems pretty fun.

Any recommendations on a good newb build? I played in closed beta and usually hit like 40 - 50 before giving (aka getting bored ) in new leagues. Want to push through to maps this time though.

Dual flame totem

Very simple build that will easily carry you to low lvl maps with out any expensive items.

I'm running a dual flame totem marauder with a tabula. FT + faster casting + fire pen + added chaos + iron will + faster projectiles. Not sure if gem setup is optimized. Any suggestions? Build works great as is but I'm sure improvements can be made?

Those are the links that most people use with their flame totems. Are you in the guild? If not post your in game name and somebody can add you.

Mash,

Zsed died to a lockbox after he was getting chunked and couldn't figure out what was hitting him. Then a few hours later he's like, "Oh I'm still on the London gateway."

gg wp.

Lol zsed

When you guys talk about characters dying or getting ripped I assume you're talking about hardcore chars.

My question is, how can you play hardcore when there's a non-zero chance you lose 100s of hours of work due to lag?

There's a non zero chance that lots of things can go badly. I just find it more fun with something at risk, though I don't think I've ever died to lag. Maybe once or twice from going out of snyc, but generally I die from being dumb or being one shot by something I didn't know existed.

I also prefer to have more than one char so that I don't just feel the need to quit entirely when my "main" one dies. Just got to get to level 82 on current one...

Can you guesstimate how much time you spend on a hardcore character before he dies?

Hours, tens of hours or hundreds?

it could be anywhere between 10 seconds and eternity.

I think I'm going to go spell totem whispering ice for my next build. I think this tree works ok, though it looks weirdly inefficient due to the twofold value of int nodes that most builds don't have:

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-...P5N_no_gr-jw==

Using 4x anatomical knowledge & 1x brute force solution, we end up with 198% life, +152 life, +504 int, and 25% chance to freeze. Whispering ice gives us potentially 18% more int too.

Then we use whispering ice on dual spell totem with 25% freeze chance, mind over matter (unsure), AA and grace as defences. I think this ends up relatively tanky.

Ideally you want 2x perandus signet, but that's asking quite a lot. 100+ int on astramentis and 15% int on black sun crest are probably necessary.

So this works out as pretty expensive. Astramentis is probably 3ex, whispering ice is probably 4.5ex, each anatomical knowledge jewel is 20c, and perandus signet is 10ex if they ever appear. I can't afford perandus signet but I guess I can afford the rest. So I'm going to go try this out next.

Whispering Ice doesn't need to be linked, but "links" would be spell totem, faster casting, concentrated effect, cold pen, hypothermia plus one other. Added chaos?