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Path of Exile (F2P Loot Hack 'n Slash) Open beta later this year
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AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
woops, duplicate
That arrow change will be awesome for my build because my major gripe was not being able to dodge them. Most other enemies I could deal with through dodging and evading the blows but a room of archers would insta-gib me.
Yep, Watercave lvl 1 is just ridiculously hard for evasion based Ranger. You cant even pass them with +70% speed bonus and cant evade shit and they hit like a rock too ;\
KittenMaster
Member
I am running almost full Armor and they still hurt like miniature trucks.
The Hermit
Member
Do you need an invite? I though this was an open beta...
KittenMaster
Member
You either need somebody to give you a beta key, wait until you get one randomly, or purchase one (or more) beta keys. It won't be entering open beta for some time still.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
No, I don't. =)
You can get to 60% ish damage reduction, but getting caught in a crowd will still kill ya. Also gotta look at elemental resists.
The good thing about Enduring Cry is that it adds a flat 5% on top so you can get pretty high.
Especially with increased number of endurance charges from passive skill tree and increased duration. Can make you very tanky.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
I wonder if I can make a healing/support marauder.
Run the life regen aura, have two healing totems, take all the endurance charge buffs with party charge buffing.
Run the life regen aura, have two healing totems, take all the endurance charge buffs with party charge buffing.
Also run all the radius for auras nodes. It'd probably work, though you might want to look at the mana regen aura as well or something. Just to be complete support.
Healing is capped at some point.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
I think it is like 20% of your life a second.
Unless it's been changed recently, that's only for leeching life. Life regen is uncapped.
You can, but it will be only viable for tanky classes, glass cannon or shield based wont benefit from it almost at all.
Totem with regen life aura is quite efficient though.
Acid Tongue
Member
I have one beta key to give away to the first person who quotes this post.
I'll take it!
Acid Tongue
Member
PM sent. Have fun!
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Anyone playing hardcore? I'm copying that wand guy in HC league. =3
KittenMaster
Member
I've been working on a build I plan on using in HC races, and I don't plan on making any more softcore characters. Tried to practice it last night but the lag got to me (that might've been Steam's fault though).
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
I'm playing a elemental hit and power siphon wand user. Plus I'm using Elderich Battery or whatever its called, converts energy shield to mana. Using 6 auras right now and don't even need to use mana pots.
Basically I'm either doing critical hits with elemental hit and one shotting stuff or they are basically dead and finish them off with power siphon to get the power charge.
Basically I'm either doing critical hits with elemental hit and one shotting stuff or they are basically dead and finish them off with power siphon to get the power charge.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Just have high lightning resist. Everything else you can avoid getting one shot. If you get in close he does a ground pound fire attack.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Man, on the surface, I didn't think Eldritch Battery had much use since it seems like the cost is too great. I should look into it more.
On another note, I found a bug with the game. I feel awesome reporting it. 8D!
Edit: Ah they can't reproduce it. Anyone want to try it out? http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/47524/page/1/#p615012
This brought a smile to my face. PoE is the gift that keeps of giving.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
The mouse polling increase is going to make the game feel a lot more responsive, looking forward to trying it when I get home.
Metalmurphy
Member
Watching this video and then looking back at D3 just makes me sad...
What should have been.
I don't really agree. Path of Exile looks cool but the combat seems far less interesting than D3. In D3 you use all the skills on your bar or you die. In this people just seem to spam a couple of skills and potions. Not very interesting. Other elements of the game might be better like hero customization but if the combat is a snooze fest that doesn't mean much.
From the Youtube comments.
Wow that's a pretty insane build, but these things really do need to get nerfed, especially in a game where there will be PvP like the cutthroat leagues. I know at the moment it's cutthroat ladder weekly events, but imagine if there was a constant cutthroat league where someone had the time to farm this out. Or if someone got lucky enough to get exactly what was needed for this build in the timed league.
I don't think its fair to compare a loot game to D3.
8 skill keys and 5 potion keys vs 6 skill keys, yep, exact definition of snore fest ...
Metalmurphy
Member
Sorry if I don't take you very seriously.
I haven't even played alot of PoE and I already know you are wrong. You're basically describing the first hour of PoE not the rest, as if D3 is any different. But at least during that first hour of a "snooze fest" you can already be planning your build and get familiar with all the customization. On D3? not so much.
I laughed.
maniac-kun
Member
I had a better time watching that video then playing Diablo 3 to hell.
Imagine if Volition bought a Diamond support pack, we would be seeing Rubber Dildos in the game.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Valnen's actually not wrong about the combat being mainly spamming a couple skills, and I'm not someone who only played the first hour. I played high-level, well into the 70s, and tried many many different builds and I came to the same conclusion.
Forsaken82
Member
So I just got to the cruel difficulty... im still not sure how I feel about the game overall yet. My Dual Wielding Shadow feels pretty good though! Hoping the build holds up through Cruel difficulty 
Frenzy, Lighting arrow, Wall of Frost, Curse of Projectile Weaknesses, Totem with Detonate Dead - those are skills i'm using all the time in combat + cold aura and phase run from time to time.
Flasks: speed boost + insta heal on low life, dispel burn vial, insta half potion heal + dispel frozen, mana + speed, mana + mana leech.
And my build is not completed, i can still use two more slots.
In D3 on my Monk i was holding lmb on fist of thunder, use blind for stun and serenity for surviving harder encounters, tempest for running away/positioning and two mantras depending of situation: damage one and healing one.
So.
Damage skills PoE 5 vs D3 2
Escape skills: PoE 2 vs D3 1
Survivability skills: PoE 4 vs D3 3
D3 has different flow of combat, but its based on spamming max two skills and pressing two more from time to time.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Start a Demon Hunter, use hungering arrow... reach 60.
Yeah, you really need other skills in D3. /sarcasm
Oh god, this is still happening around here... oh.
Yeah, POE is based on spamming skills just as much as D3 is. As in: you can do non-spamming builds in BOTH games.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
Screenshot of the new item frames to be implemented in 0.9.12, looks pretty slick!
http://webcdn.pathofexile.com/gen/i...Ijt9/aToxO2k6NDt9/1af64384c1/newitemframe.jpg
Also, upcoming patch notes! http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/48576
http://webcdn.pathofexile.com/gen/i...Ijt9/aToxO2k6NDt9/1af64384c1/newitemframe.jpg
Also, upcoming patch notes! http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/48576
It will be happening as long as comments like 'PoE's combat is snore/spam-fest' will show up, sorry.
Though, I would really love D3 and PoE combat systems to be merged together.
There are some really nice changes there, like:
-The quest in the Chamber of Sins now involves rescuing Helena, a new NPC.
-Added a bridging quest to send people towards Act Two after they leave the prison. In return for unblocking the passage between the two acts, you are rewarded with a Passive Skill point.
- Changed item sockets to be smaller and hopefully easier for colourblind users to read.
-Unidentified and white items are now prefixed with "Superior" if they have increased quality. This makes them easier to notice on the ground - this one is big!
- Explosive Arrows now have their own arrow effect. If they miss and stick into terrain, they'll explode as normal after a short time.
- If an item mod affects your entire character (where it would normally only affect that one item), it now has the word "Global" in it, to resolve ambiguity.
- Rebalanced the properties on level 60+ items so that the requirements and damage/defense are higher.
- Increased Item Rarity and Item Quantity mods can now only spawn on gloves, boots, helmets, rings and amulets.
- Making maps more common but adjusting whether item quantity on your character affects the drop rate of maps.
Nice act 3 teaser there too. The skills are greyed out so I'm guessing thats in the town.
KittenMaster
Member
In any good game where you're fighting computer enemies you're most likely spamming something you find better than most skills, and using supportive skills to support your spam. It's usually not something you can avoid. PoE has the right idea on giving you many options as to what you want to spam while having a lot of good utility abilities (like ice wall, traps, minions).
Cool, Templar will suck less just from this since he is pretty much forced to go into another class' tree.
Can't comment on this since they don't go into detail.
