Done

Highlight from the cutthroat party:
http://www.twitch.tv/drehverschluss/...637?t=4h07m14s
Goes to about 4:11:00

Leveling up saved my ass, then they got turned on. I'm the one giggling like a girl.

just don't level as LA, it's very weak early.

I haven't deleted mine yet. I don't see myself playing them though. If any one needs spectral throw or ek gear on standard let me know.

Yeah, using rain of arrows atm. Leveling LA though. What can I link with it?

Pretty impressed with the game so far (having only played about an hour or so), enough so that it kind of makes me sad that it's 85% Diablo clone. Game could have gone from good to great if they had actually put the effort into a bit of originality. Skill tree is pretty impressive (although it feels like they probably enjoyed Final Fantasy X quite a bit in that regard).

Over/Under on Blizzard trying to sue them if the game takes off?

If?

they're former diablo developers so...

there's no way they can be sued, similarities can be there, it's nowhere near close a 'ripoff' or anything like that, blizzard steals ideas from other games from time to time as well if they turn out successful. blizzard can now steal some ideas from poe and put it into ros and make it better.

and what does it mean 'if the game takes off'? the game is huge already. they worked for 7+ years for this success, they well deserve it. look how they handle PR how engaged they're with community. they're pretty much the perfect example of a developer, similar to blizzard pre-acquisition by Activision.

with RoA? typical stuff, faster projectiles, added fire and so on

Most of the innovation comes from the depth rather than anything near the surface - you'll probably become more impressed the more you play it. Vendor recipes, the gem system, the passive tree, the crafting system, end game maps, variety of viable builds, etc.

Alright!
Guesteded is letting me borrow some leveling items, I'm pretty much flying thru my levels, but obviously it's easy until act 3. I think my goal for the weekend is to hit 40 and be in cruel. (Although I could do that tonight if I put in a long enough session, currently 13 or so)

Conc effect and faster attacks.

I can see this for sure. It's like they took Diablo 3 and put an actual game under it.

I'm not saying I'm not impressed - I'm enjoying the game and will probably continue to play it. I just think it's weird the superficial ways they cloned Diablo (such as having rare mobs generally come in packs of three, put health and mana bars in globes on either side of the screen, modeled "Brutus" really obviously after the butcher and put him at roughly the same point in the game, etc.) The stuff that they could have easily changed or designed differently to make themselves distinct from Diablo, and just didn't. Seems like an odd choice.

Only thing that really annoys me about the game so far is that they chose to copy the pure aids of the Diablo pack/carry system. Seems like I spend a ton of time rearranging my packs to pick stuff up.

To be honest the variety of builds will probably keep me going for awhile.

How much unique content is there? I've played for about three hours now and I'm not yet through Act 1 on "general" mode, so I'm taking that as a good sign. As long as there's new stuff to do or solid PvP I'm likely hooked. As soon as the best thing to do is kill the same boss or make the same loot run for the 4th or 5th time, I'll move along.

completely forgot I was leveling a lightning arrow gem. I like split arrow with pierce and increased crit for aoe cause you don't need to aim much, but lightning arrow works great with pierce and +elemental.

I like the one that makes them bleed for rain of arrows

Well, you need to finish the game on normal and cruel and get most the way through merciless, then you can do end game maps. These are one off areas which have different rules depending on how you roll the map. For example, right now I'm doing 66 maps - the lowest level - and I transmute them to get a suffix and prefix, then alteration them until I like them.

You can get things like +33% monster damage, or larger map, or a specific monster type, or enemies reflect 15% elemental damage, etc. This makes for a LOT of variety, and there are lots of different basic map types too. Basically, it lasts a long time.

It appears that if you build exactly right, you can get faster XP doing crematorium on merciless, but that's pretty boring and it isn't a huge gain on doing top-tier maps.

Also, any gripes aside, they pretty much win the industry imo for actually doing F2P right. Even if I don't stick with the game long term, I hope they make seven billion dollars so other developers sit up and take notice.

Updated my store, obv huge discount to 2p2ers:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/572904

I'll take slitherpinch and ungil's gauche

Put me down for the Peregrine please.

Some **** is not for sale btw, just linked my stash tabs

1.5c for Slither+Ungils
1 alch for Peregrine

msg soon I g2g soon and then I probably wont be on all weekend

So. Multistrike dropped for me. Am I better off selling it or making a toon around it?

Also, man my spec duelist died with the 19% quality double strike. makes me sad

I wouldn't make a new character just because you got a multistrike. If you already have a melee character then use it, because it's an op gem to begin with. Especially on flicker strike. It's good on double strike too.

My main guy died. I have marauder with gs/hs but after playing ek scion and spec throw, I hate him.

Just made a ranger but she's only 13.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...j5Y_yr_MX-yA==

Time to hope for the best