Depending on your experience with the game, you'll on average get 25-30 hours per character. Sometimes, you'll get hundreds of hours.

Part of the thrill of HC is that your death is more or less permanent. You do things differently. You don't just yolo much. Fights are scarier because of dying. You can still play the character in a standard league after death though.

I've died to lag, but I generally die to me being dumb or not paying attention.

GGPK Defragmenter

Took about 5 minutes and shaved 802mb off the ggpk (I had copied it over from the beta). Definitely worth running it if you haven't done so since you started playing POE.

edit: Note for Steam Users: Don't use this.

On a related note, the log file can get stupidly big. Mine was > 2gb for some reason.

What log file

Can't check from here, work machine. I'll post when I'm home.

On a whispering ice related note - leap slam/fortify/faster attacks - given that it does no damage and I don't REALLY want to be near any enemies because of totems - is it worthwhile?

Fortify on leap slam, sounds like a good idea. Would it work?

You are still developing your stash (overall wealth), so when you rip all is not lost. Similar to betting a large amount on a sports match you might otherwise find boring, the chance of death and losing some of your progress adds a substantial amount of excitement and fun to the game. It is the added risk in hardcore that makes those "100s of hours of work" feel less like work. With that said a lot of people in the guild are playing warbands (the non hardcore league) and enjoying it, so there's that.

It's a pretty solid 3 link, but if you can't be bothered to manually cast enduring cry every 10 seconds, are you really going to bother procing fortify every 6 seconds or whatever? Melee builds use LS+Fortify for mobility, and because they're jumping into packs. It doesn't seem to really fit the play style of whispering ice totems where you typically won't be leap slamming on top of enemies.

Yup. I think it's what Ice Crash builds do isn't it? I did it quite a lot in beta when I was messing around with a melee phys block build.

I don't do it on my IIR flame totem char because I already have to dual curse and place/replace two totems. On a whispering ice char there's a lot less to do, but the main objection is that you are ideally not too close to enemies.

But it makes sense to add both, I agree. EC would just be a single socket by itself right? So an unset ring with high int seems best there, it's a shame that int and all attrib are both suffixes. Potentially 79 life, 76 int on a ring though.

yeah every couple of months just go in and rename client.txt to <whateverDate>.txt and it'll make a new one next time you launch POE.

the log is helpful if you disconnect and need to find someone you were trading with or whatnot

Jackitos: it's in the "logs" folder of your POE directory

Saw a thread on Reddit about poetempest.com

Apparently, they update what zones/maps have which tempest at that time. Apparently turmoil makes a ton of exiles.

Could be useful for challenges and chaos/regal recipes.

It's too bad that doesn't work for good ol' singapore server.

wat
Also ewww Singapore

Reeep, not really sure what happened, at the boss of a corrupted zone and I dropped really fast. (I wasn't so focused on health because I wasn't expecting it to go to zero in something like 2-3 seconds). I thought I was fighting a bunch of zombies he raised and he was on the other side of a wall or something.

just noticed mine shot up to 675mb in only 10 days of logging. ggg done goofed something

I need some help. Trying to replace Lifesprig and not sure how to figure out what's the best option.

This wand seems great and all but costs 2ex+ I'd assume. If I'm searching for +50% spell dmg, +15% fire, +flat dmg wands (or scepter with extra elemental dmg) it seems like I can get an easy upgrade for lifesprig for 3c-8c. If you add cast speed it skyrockets. But I'm not sure how to compare these Apep's vs rare wand, I should probably get some dmg calculator but seems like a hassle.

My wealth is over 125c by just glimpsing over currency stash. I should be probably not spending more than 50c total shopping in case of rips. I think I'll be trying to replace helm, boots and gloves to aim for extra armor (currently 4,3k with Lioneye's Remorse) so that should go probably in the budget. My jewelry is not that great except for resist ring that I have but it suffices for now, so I'll try to upgrade it last as it's usually the most expensive items.

Oh, I forgot I need to buy Clear Mind but I'm not sure how to find 59% one for 20c (like John did). They're usually way overpriced. That's probably my best bang for the buck at this moment.

Lifesprig means that you are running the gems in the wand, so spending that money on a decent 5 link and a 5c wand should give you a good DPS boost and make it much easier to upgrade in the future.

Looks like getting a cheap clear mind is a question of waiting for people to come online. You could just add everyone selling a good one as a friend. If you can pick up one of the crapper 5c ones, you could take 2 shots to divine it before you hit 20c...

What build are you doing?

There's a 20c 5L astral plate up at the moment, then you can spend ~10c on rolling a decent one. Let's say 10c for a middling clear mind. ~3c each for hat, shoes, gloves, wand seems OK. Or you can spend way less on a worse base white 5L and get better hat etc.

I suggest not adding things one by one - it's much better to replace it all at once, and much easier to buy too.

I am flame totem. I forgot to add that I bought Infernal Mantle that I rolled 5s/4l in and I'm using that for gems. At this time using fire pene, faster casting and added chaos dmg but mostly because of difficulty of rolling 2R1G in it (so that I can do faster projectiles).

Therefore I don't need a wand with +fire, I won't use gems in it except for utility.

I don't think I like the idea of buying some super crap one and divine, I could get easily screwed by rng.

I agree that it's easier to replace in bulk that one by one, however I'm grouping up a bit, since I'll get wand separate and I already have my chest and shield sorted out (infernal mantle and lioneye's remose) (and jewelry will get lower prio) I can do that by getting upgrades for helm boots and gloves next together

edit: one of my rings is set I think for now, +25% all res, 31 life (crafted), 10% rarity, 41% lightning res, so that's fine as it makes up for lack of resists on the shield and chest. My other one is a blue +15% fire and cold res and 60 life - this I should replace maybe together with mentioned helm boots and gloves. My amu is also not great (str, dex, 38 life, 16% fire dmg, 14% rarity, 37% cold res) but I think I can stick to it for now.

If you're not going to use a +2/+1 1h or whatever. For now, you can find a decent wand for around 5c. It will last you a while until you figure out what you want.

I grabbed a +2 fire wand with 50-70 spell damage for like 3c. I have a level 19 flame totem and my tool tip is like 5.8k. I only have fire pen and faster cast linked. I'm melting things at 67 in a4m. Dried lake is 67.

my tooltip is already at ~5,8k if I recall correctly so I think my gear is pretty well even with unused lifesprig, I have plenty of room for improvements, and that's just with 17 flame (+1 from infernal mantle)

140c is like what 4ex?

It's up to you if you want to spend a decent amount on that chaos wand. It's pretty solid.
It's not cheap. If you have a ton of upgrades to get, then don't get the wand, and buy everything you need.

I spent sub 10c getting my guy to merci level. He's got some good stuff for 1-3c.
I think, I got helm/chest/shield/wand/boots/belt for right around 10c.

With 19 flame totem I'm 6.5k dps on a 4 link, with a sceptre that I don't think many people are going to think is good:



No fire pen though, it's faster projectiles, added chaos, faster casting.

Edit: I should probably buy a better sceptre.

Lol that sceptre

You say that, but there isn't a great deal that's better on all three stats: http://poe.trade/search/asasisikanogot

Is it worth it getting flat fire damage?