i think ill be using poison+herald of agony (blasphemy despair too?) while questing quite a bit and dropping all of that stuff for meeps (and going into ass mark blasphemy probably until shaper ring)

btw EVERYBODY USE THIS SPREADSHEET FOR YOUR OILS NEEDS

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...lview?sle=true

will prob try some sort of touch of anguish cobra lash deadeye till yellow maps when its clear that i have no clue what im doing. i will then spec into LA or ice shot >.<

Day 1 warning: cobra lash ahs some REAL BAD leveling phases

between like 10 and 38 (GMP), after that you got great clear but your single target sucks after you put GMP on.

Then after 3rd lab your single target gets the massive near 60% more dmg boost.

The reason is basically your support sucks (and also your dmg effectiveness goes up on top of ur base dmg per lvl, etc.)

ps: HIGHLY RECOMMEND WITHERING STEP ITS SO OP for chaos cobra lash (and prob anythign chaos related)

Yeah I've been gem swapping to poison or void manipulation for bosses. Thanks for the tip on withering step. I forgot to try it out.

I can't say I expected the meta build to be orb of storms/lightning spire trap/wave of conviction on the first day. Is Inspiration actually the biggest mistake of the league?

red maps are rough rn

****

Gear lagging your advancement, or was the hype not real? Are you poison or not poison?

Well, I wasn't super happy with cobra lash either. I spun up a Summon Raging Spirit + Infernal Legion + Minion Instability necro, and man, I know I'm not to maps with her yet, but it's some of the smoothest leveling I've ever done. You can get those mechanics going together blissfully early. Clear and bossing are super easy, just send them auto-homing nukes. The buffed zombies are good, but they're probably going to be relegated to meat shield support rather than asked to do much. Plays nice with the blight mechanic, too.

Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop

4.0 likely in 2021...

playable demo makes it sound like december 2020 is still pretty likely

THATS SO FAR THO

I was hoping for non-poison (with deadeye), which was pretty underwhelming.

big thing that was reported recently is chained hits cant hit the same target twice, even if it uses a chain to bounce back to it. Thats a pretty damn big deal... mathil seemed to make poison cobra lash work (i think on poison assas), plague bearer seems pretty strong.

I dont think any poison builds can (almost) ever compete with the real meta builds tho.


playing on icicle mines almost lvl 97 right now its pretty great. Pyro is also the most insane single target skill, dwarfs lightning spire trap compeltely and with more coverage

i rolled minions to start working towards the ice golem build, but got bored and am still a couple hundred C from being able to get the jewels needed (I have 12).

i'm re rolling a cyclone whispering ice build and icicle mines were suggested for leveling and now at 60 I like the mines way more then the cyclone cwc build

made it to Oriath at lvl69 with the dancing queen and when i went back to clean up quests, had left 8 skills points behind so pretty happy about that.

very inexpensive build too

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/vi...2628295/page/1

Hype

Woah sick. So gutted I'm living in a place with terrible internet

excite

Support Plus Gems?
you can't be serious!
This is the worst direction they could have taken, what's next, paragon levels and primal ancients?
This is really disappointing, I'm excited for new campaign but not at all for 3.9.
Haven't managed to reach maps or even uber lab since betrayal, every new try I get bored before 80.
I don't enjoy the game as I used to, every league is just clustering the game, there are way too many mechanics, I just hate it atm and it doesn't look like it's going in the right direction right now.
Hopefully POE2 simplify everything , this really sucks I'm mad.

Same here (plus my internet is crap). If I play again it'll probably just be messing around SSFHC in Standard.

Come to Grim Dawn weeez. They've just released a big free update.

It's a bit the same for me. I really miss the days of three-act-three-difficulties POE. But I also realize that I'm just not their target audience any more, and I'll have to accept that. I can't (and even if I could, would have no desire to) no-life games any more. So nowadays, I come back to POE every so often, be completely overwhelmed with mechanics on top of mechanics on top of mechanics I am unfamiliar with, play a bit of the softcore league (used to play HC exclusively in the early days - badly, mind you, but I would reach maps on my chars most of the time and had lots of fun), and leave a few days later, more often than not before finishing all the acts.

I can't even breeze through the story any more, because I just can't memorize all the **** I have to do in the new acts. So I find myself googling where the passive skill point quests are now, or where the stupid lab trials are which I have to complete to get to the stupid lab to get the ascendency points which are mandatory to have for the cookie-cutter build somebody on the internet made and which I'm following to the letter. Because nowadays there is so much **** in the game, that for a (by now) casual like myself to create his own build would take up all the time (or more) I'd have to play the game in a given week.

There's a DNA weapon effect, so I pretty much have to have it.

Seems like GGG is trying really hard to make arrow totems the thing. Prove me wrong.

So, burning arrow, with or without totems ballistas? Maybe toxic rain? It doesn't feel like they put much into new skills this league (which is perhaps understandable given the massive change to the atlas), and most of the changes to existing skills look either like nerfs, or like a combination of buffs and nerfs that don't result in anything amazingly dominant.

Unstable SRS + zombies + spectres that I played last time looks like it'll still be amazing, even if the zombies are weaker. Golementalist looks like it'll still be great (maybe I'll do that). RIP elemental hit. RIP melee, lol @ that lasting a whole league and no more. RIP two handers. RIP multimod casters with bows (ED+contagion et al.).

It's hard to believe but I'm actually considering trying my hand at HC SSF. I fully expect to die and go back to SC and/or quit before I get far enough but maybe by some miracle I'll actually manage to get into the MTX giveaway for beating the new final boss.
Problem is I don't know what's good for HC SSF and I don't know what I'd want to play.

bossing league and new atlas has me way more excited than blight. gonna miss league start by a few hours which makes me wanna tilt skip the league but ill prob start as a deadeye miner and wait a few days to see what bow skill is broken and respec into that for the hh farm.

the hcssf event seems pretty awesome and with how ggg overtunes some things at league start it might last a good amount of time as well.

excite!

what hc ssf event? you guys got me curious

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2684989