It's a bad support for builds that use spell totems I would guess and good for maybe RAT or Warchief totems. Have to see the numbers in PoB. But two less multipliers for spells sounds sketchy for maps.

Goddammit just realised I have a work dinner event on 7th, sigh.

Feign stomach flu!

The worst part it usually started at 11pm euro time and I had much easier time not playing day 1, now it starts at 8pm. And I'm so pumped after not playing Delve. Can't wait. I event leveled a trapsin in D2 to fill the hole, but quit in hell act 2 after running into lightning immunes (I did fire blast but wasn't that great) and cba to ask for boost.

I've taken the Fri and Mon off!

Unfortunately it wasn't because of PoE, and I actually have real life things to do...

Should still be able to start a handful of terrible builds though.

balance manifesto tomorrow

should be some juicy stuff

pretty sure arc is getting the bat globally I kinda wanted to try for first saboteur with arc mines 100 in trade sc but Its the only type of mine or trap I'm used to.

No idea what else I feel like I want to race with, especially in trade everything else is too team oriented. Might go back for some ssf schhhtuffs

I doubt arc is getting nerfed by much if at all. It doesn't have the qualities of what GGG likes to nerf. It's similar to sunder. It's awesome for clear but you don't really use it for boss killing.

Also, if it does get nerf just play BV of some sort. I'm pretty sure the fastest clearspeed bv is either inquis or trickster.

Since I dabbed a bit in D2: LoD a trailer for big update to Median XL caught my eye, looks promising. Good release date too 18.01.2019 right when many people will be done with the league

You play Grim Dawn mashxx? I alternate between burning myself out on PoE and then Grim Dawn.

They have a new expansion early next year too.

Yeah I played Grim Dawn for about 100 hours, even played a few months ago a lol unkillable retalliation char to get hc achievements. Still haven't bought crucible or ashes of malmouth though. Once you get 85 and kill everything I didn't see much point in continuing. I will still probably play it again in a few months with a new char.

Ashes is well worth getting imo. Adds a load of new content - you can get to level 100 then, and get killed by everything instead!

Crucible's not my cup of tea.

only thing its not amazing against is uber elder imo

elementalist is fastest cause of inpulsa synergy

but 2 leagues ago I decided to get a few top 5s in SSF and I did

BV occultist

BV inquisitor

BV trickster

BV pathfinder


So I'm not sure I want to bv again tbh.. lol

I'm going to try the same strategy that worked for Delve; find 2 tabla rasas in the first day of the league.

HERE WE GO

I'm just glad Dread Thicket is still 50%

Zerphi's gettin nerph-ied, imo

Trickster is faster than Elementalist because of ascendancy as far as being able to move through maps, and you can get shock going on it for inpulsa's fairly easily. The only reason I think ele is preferable is the heralds. I've played both with having gear beforehand and trickster was doing more xp/hr


And arc isn't amazing against bosses. Its LST that makes bossing awesome. I would think LST gets reduced more so than arc.

you probably did something wrong if your bv trickster was faster than your elementalist

i was a big believer that trickster could be faster but seeing both in action theres no chance. the aoe coverage difference is immense, its not about the shock with trickster its about the proliferation from elementalit ascendancy (meaning the enemies dying from inpulsa and then exploding from those skills will cause their own shocks and explosions to the enemies nearby, while with trickster you can't shock the enemies out of range of your bladevortex so inpulsa will only trigger in your small range).


Idk how deep your experience with them personally I got to 97 with trickster in incursion and I've seen how bv ele was much faster

also here's a video of a guy doing uber elder in 1:53 with arc mines pretty easily, not even using lightning spire



pretty sure arc mine was WindZ build to start this league, for people who dont know, hes the person to rush to boss kills for the #1 sc team in the world with havoc and company, basically getting them the quickest guardian kills, then uber elder for their ultra fast progression with elder orbs and elder maps asap

Okay, everything you said about elementalist ascendancy can be done on other classes with support gems. You don't need as many damage gems on Trickster because you don't go EO you go crit. Ghost dance alone makes you go faster than elementalist.

Your probably not maxing out what Trickster can actually do.

where is your trickster sir?

there wasnt a single trickster bv that got 100 this league

https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?skill=Blade-Vortex

two trickster bv lvl 99

elementalist had 99 lvl 99 and 100.



I literally got first as trickster BV in ssf in incursion with 3 other top 5s with BV in the same league, i kinda know a thing or two about this exact topic, its literally what I know the most about in poe right now.


If you dont care about XP at all then elementalist loses a bit of its value because a big part of it is freezing everything giving you tremendous survivability

I don't ever play to 100 because past 95 is boring. I also play hc mainly and delete characters when I either die or league goes bye bye.

ssf sc is trash as far as competition goes and nobody cares. Grats? No offense intended. But all the real good players play ssf hc or the trade leagues.

I am fairly sure you don't know more about bv than me, because I've played that skill since you had to 50 stack it, poison bv when you literally killed a boss within 2 seconds, and various incarnations of bv. You started after some of that stuff because of your first posting itt. In fact I am sure I played that skill every league since Talisman and ended up quitting most builds because I hated the 50 and 20 stack versions of the skill.

And F for sunderbois

so you got to like 90 on a bv trickster and decided it was faster than your bv elementalist...

literally there on 2nd day of a new league for fast players

And all the "real" players that play in trade go bv elementalist cause, theyre better than you and me, and they all agree that BV elementalist is faster.

The best players in SSF HC and trade HC also agree that bv elementalist is faster. IDK what else to add.