Alt-F4 isn't as quick as the menu exit it seems. Menu exit should be quite easy as the exit option is always in the same place, so you can use click x, y

thanks, that's something to consider. But I don't know how I'd go about testing to see which is faster (both appear to be instant to me)

also the menu exit would be against GGG rules (although I think they'd hardly object considering they do allow alt+f4 hotkey.

I wrote an AHK script to join 25 trade channels spamming my WTS/WTB list if anyone wants that.

Going to do an Esc -> Logout one after dinner... Don't know why that hadn't occurred to me.

Script to spam trade channel might get your account perma banned.

It does the same thing as me typing
/trade 1
enter, up, up, enter
/trade 2
...

25 times, which pretty much everyone selling goods does - except my fingers aren't moving. Bannable? I doubt it.

I think it's just the conventional wisdom. It seems to be roughly true to me.

I don't think GGG can stop it if you're careful, though I doubt they care in that case.

For example, for the trade script, if you insert random pauses after each action varied around some kind of realistic typing speed, I don't think there's much they can do.

be careful.

Got to act 3 for the first time today and died 2 minutes ago ^_^

REEEEEEEEEEEEP

any advice for mf? I remember complaints about dual sporkers being the only viable mf build, how is it now? what items one should get first? how do you deal balancing mf with defenses?

I'm freezepulse which isn't a good plan against Merveil. But I do have 75 resists on cold and fire (and -7 on light...) and 2800 life. I figure 75 cold, 50 fire, 25 light in merciless should be doable.

I am tempted to make a new char to do pure magic find. I think you need to be based on two handed axe damage - Reaper's Pursuit is the only weapon with IIR. It's going to cost you ~6 chaos though. It also means you can't use a ~35 res all shield - maybe you should go goldrim for ~+35% all res and 10% MF.

You can relatively cheaply get 40 IIQ from perandus blazon and goldwyrm (cost me 5c total). Then you do 30 IIR from gloves, 30 from hat, 60 from rings, 40 from amulet and 55 from IIR gem (at 64). That takes you to 40 IIQ, 230 IIR if we go goldrim hat, 250 IIR if we don't.

The way I set up for Merv runs - with freezepulse vs. cold resist as I'm dumb - was to literally calculate backwards from the resists I wanted and buy a load of 1c items with good MF and either a resist I needed or +life.

There don't appear to more than a couple of andvarius on the server, aurseize is 10c+ and the +IIR flask is 40c+ so let's ignore those for now.

Sorry, whats MF? Been trying to figure it out for like 5 minutes lol.

magic find - so in poe terms IIQ - increased item quantity and IIR - increased item rarity

No idea, didn't really use it. Honestly it is easy to stay geared in this game, just don't waste your alchemical orbs.

Perhaps something along these lines:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...jvDvGs8i_2SPrS

Pure physical damage axe wielder... Doesn't have to be viable past Merv.

Let's see how you stay geared in merciless and during progression towards maps.

My char name was InternetClub fwiw. Whoever was the rauder I grouped with the other day please post that build. Was pretty sick.

I don't think I would - I think I'd just go purely for Merv runs. My FP char should be OK in low level maps in ~5 levels from what I've read at least.

Now that I get you weren't talking to me this whole conversation makes a lot more sense haha.

Aha - act 3 advice is be scared of the snakes in the first area outside town. They do chaos damage and you have no chaos resist. In the pre-town area, run along the left hand side of the map to avoid the guy with bear trap until you have a ton of health and seething health potions.

you guys are nuts, I was indeed talking to you Regret, not to Sciolist.

The patch notes say that there are three new side quests in the 1.0.0 patch. One's the new fairgreaves quest. What are the other two?

Perpetus claims another?

Was reading patch notes as I vaguely remembered this:

"40% of the item quantity bonus for additional party members is now shifted towards item rarity. Gems and currency items still receive the old item quantity bonus."

If we assume that 2 points of quantity is worth about the same as 1 of rarity, this reduces group effectiveness for IIR but doesn't remove it.

Nope, just randomly died. I was fighting 5 ribbons, blinked, and died. Probably an elite in there.

My skill tree was 75% evasion and life too lol. (I had just gotten acrobatics.)

I'd avoid evasion in hardcore (except for iron reflexes) - you don't evade 75% of the damage, you evade 100% of the damage 75% of the time. So when something with a high crit or with charge (like ribbons) hit you and you get unlucky, you just die.