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Path of Exile 2 Early Access |OT| An Exile like ARPG.

Sabejita

Member
Yup. What we didn't wasn't really "boosting" though. We were on the same power level. It's just that I had a lot more powerful relics at my disposal. Lots of honor resistance, and I have extra merchant options so I have a better chance of buying the OP boons.



That was a weird run, I think we just got unlucky. What fucked us is in the beginning we had -50% sacred water malus, so I couldn't buy the boons I wanted at the first merchant. As well as some other unlucky maluses that I had to take because the other ones were worse. The run after that was super easy though.
Yeah the lack of energy shield wasn't helpful either lol bad boons run yeah.

Second run was so different, we got the best ones, only the armor malus.

edit: floor 2 boss was such a joke...
 
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panda-zebra

Member
Locked the framerate at 40Hz for mapping earlier. It took some getting used to but at least seemed more consistent than relying on 120 with VFR kicking in and not being able to handle the semi-regular hitching.

Rentahamster Rentahamster Thank you so much for the tier 10 mapping service and the just one more run at the end - it's appreciated :D Only had a few 10s and some 11s and I'd not seen a tablet for days so couldn't do anything with the towers I was unlocking, so it constantly felt like it would stall. That belt looks good and the stash has a real unique item issue now, heh. Think I probably spent half the time trying to kill your minions, they just swarm in like mobs. The build you found me is actually getting better/stronger higher up I go and has a few good boosts some levels from now 👍

Chat on console is just a pita (it's not -all- me I promise -it's a bizarre series of button presses that is taking some getting used to, you can imagine how much fun that is when trading:-
  • Select button
  • Pick social
  • Tap left trigger to bring up chat
  • Hold left trigger to be allowed to type
  • Type message out
  • Submit message
  • Finally press button to confirm sending message...
I'll have my phone handy in future 😂
 
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draliko

Member
Chaos trial Is whopping my ass even at lvl 53 (minion witch build)... That asshole bird at the end one shoot me with the unavoidable tornado... Dunno if build is wrong (actually at act2 cruel and killing everything nearly on sight)... This evening I'll try looking for a better build... I hate trials😭😭😭😭(funny thing is I totally obliterated it first time with my ranger, but found a different end boss that time)
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Chaos trial Is whopping my ass even at lvl 53 (minion witch build)... That asshole bird at the end one shoot me with the unavoidable tornado... Dunno if build is wrong (actually at act2 cruel and killing everything nearly on sight)... This evening I'll try looking for a better build... I hate trials😭😭😭😭(funny thing is I totally obliterated it first time with my ranger, but found a different end boss that time)

Try this?

 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Rentahamster Rentahamster Rentahamster Rentahamster Thank you so much for the tier 10 mapping service and the just one more run at the end - it's appreciated :D Only had a few 10s and some 11s and I'd not seen a tablet for days so couldn't do anything with the towers I was unlocking, so it constantly felt like it would stall. That belt looks good and the stash has a real unique item issue now, heh. Think I probably spent half the time trying to kill your minions, they just swarm in like mobs. The build you found me is actually getting better/stronger higher up I go and has a few good boosts some levels from now 👍

ggs! Ohh okay I see what your problem was now. It was a lack of the proper mats to get your quests done so that's why you wanted me to do mine.
 

Men_in_Boxes

Snake Oil Salesman
Game is 4 weeks old.

Week 1: Path of Exile 2 is awesome! Way better than Diablo 4!

Week 4: This game isn't even close to being ready. It has so many issues right now.

The honeymoon period is amazing.
 
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clarky

Gold Member
Game is 4 weeks old.

Week 1: Path of Exile 2 is awesome! Way better than Diablo 4!

Week 4: This game isn't even close to being ready. It has so many issues right now.

The honeymoon period is amazing.
One of the most successful EA launches of all time with amazing player retention?

Men_in_Boxes Men_in_Boxes : Destiny 2 is doing amazing!

The first 3 acts are amazing and the most finished. Of course the cracks are going to show after a few weeks with such a large game and massive player base. Which is the whole point of early access. Game still bests D4 in its current form imo.
 
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Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Try this?


Do NOT try this. This build is half assed by Kripp. Even the comments in the video are people calling him out for mistakes.

I swapped to it giving him the benefit of the doubt, and the poison arrow almost never ignites and pops off. It’s also very crappy for controller users.

My damage fell off a cliff and yes my gear is amazing and what he asks for, the tree is what he asks for, and gems.

Didn’t matter. It’s dog shit. I went to Ghazzy to ask him on storm vs arsonist vs frost vs this explode. He was trying to be nice but even he said the explode is caca.

The best ones are storm and frost. Storm has a little less damage on bossing but is amazing at map clear. It’s also considerably kinder to your frame rate since you no longer use flame wall.

I would suggest helm breakers variants for end game for frost or storm skeletons.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Do NOT try this. This build is half assed by Kripp. Even the comments in the video are people calling him out for mistakes.

I swapped to it giving him the benefit of the doubt, and the poison arrow almost never ignites and pops off. It’s also very crappy for controller users.

My damage fell off a cliff and yes my gear is amazing and what he asks for, the tree is what he asks for, and gems.

Didn’t matter. It’s dog shit. I went to Ghazzy to ask him on storm vs arsonist vs frost vs this explode. He was trying to be nice but even he said the explode is caca.

The best ones are storm and frost. Storm has a little less damage on bossing but is amazing at map clear. It’s also considerably kinder to your frame rate since you no longer use flame wall.

I would suggest helm breakers variants for end game for frost or storm skeletons.

I'm using a variant. I'm using Storm Mages with Doryani's Prototype, and snipers for single target booms. I have my flammability curse set to ignited ground so that it sets off the poison explosions instantly.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Stupid fucking bloat
It’s a massive step down from poe1s tree. PoE1 is massive but about 90% is useful, has wild build defining nodes, and was intimidating in the right way,

This is clearly missing a ton of clusters from future classes. (Druid, huntress for example) It also has worthless areas cuz shadow isn’t in and it has dagger and trap nodes on it.

I’m not concerned about the tree when it all falls into place.

I am concerned about warriors tree overall in the current state of the game. Wanna go energy shield? Get ready to trek through a LOT of worthless nodes to make it over there on the warrior. It’s the same if you want to get into attack speed since it’s over near monk area.

Honestly? I’d change so when you make your character you can pick from 1 of 2 starting points. I wouldn’t let the player pick any because then everyone would start in one specific chunk for most builds and would kill variety off.

A warrior being able to start on monk nodes or warrior nodes. Ranger can start on merc or on ranger. Witch and sorc interchangeable starts. Monk and warrior swappable perhaps.

Or just add more nodes all around the tree for clusters of things needed.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
I'm using a variant. I'm using Storm Mages with Doryani's Prototype, and snipers for single target booms. I have my flammability curse set to ignited ground so that it sets off the poison explosions instantly.
I’m going the straight storm mages build helm breaker pit up on max roll.

I am actually going to try cast on shock from tunas sorc build added to it to see what happens. I think it should fix all the missing boss damage.
 

MagiusNecros

Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Game is 4 weeks old.

Week 1: Path of Exile 2 is awesome! Way better than Diablo 4!

Week 4: This game isn't even close to being ready. It has so many issues right now.

The honeymoon period is amazing.
I'm looking forward to this instead.

Week 1: The maps are too big and take forever to clear

Week 50: The maps are too small and everything dies too fast.
 

MagiusNecros

Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Personally hoping they can deliver the act1-3 experience across the whole game. Shit is fucking sublime.
It's early access and full launch will have us go through 6 or 7(either 6 or 6 and a final) acts. It's gonna be great. I hope Huntress and Druid are added in Jan or Feb.

If they can deliver the pacing across the whole game with a great finale I'm all for it. Boss fights are probably the highlight. It's a big departure from how bosses in PoE1 work.

The modern MMO mechanic driven design is done very well in this game. Makes it difficult to ever return to the likes of Titan Quest or Path of Exile. Or Diablo even.
 

clarky

Gold Member
It's early access and full launch will have us go through 6 or 7(either 6 or 6 and a final) acts. It's gonna be great. I hope Huntress and Druid are added in Jan or Feb.

If they can deliver the pacing across the whole game with a great finale I'm all for it. Boss fights are probably the highlight. It's a big departure from how bosses in PoE1 work.

The modern MMO mechanic driven design is done very well in this game. Makes it difficult to ever return to the likes of Titan Quest or Path of Exile. Or Diablo even.
For me its a true evolution of the genre. I played monk and the journey through the skills and how my play style has evolved has been nothing short of amazing. No guides or meta builds required, just pure joy fucking around with builds.It plays like a true action game at times. And the best thing is most things i try work.

Still love the game in act one of cruel but the feel of the game is definitely changing. Im here for the full ride but hopefully like i say GGG follow through on the early game.
 

MagiusNecros

Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
For me its a true evolution of the genre. I played monk and the journey through the skills and how my play style has evolved has been nothing short of amazing. No guides or meta builds required, just pure joy fucking around with builds.It plays like a true action game at times. And the best thing is most things i try work.

Still love the game in act one of cruel but the feel of the game is definitely changing. Im here for the full ride but hopefully like i say GGG follow through on the early game.
I think it's probably gonna go Acts 1-6 > Acts 1-6 Cruel > Endgame most likely. A smoother progression.

The beauty about PoE is that each Class just starts somewhere else on the skill tree and barring Ascendancies you can make any build you really want. Whether it's passives or skills. You could retool a late game Warrior into a beefy Necromancer if you wanted to.

I feel like if you min max or follow a meta build you just ruin the game for yourself instead of immersing oneself in self discovery.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I just crafted some pretty sweet gloves if you don't care that it doesn't have that much ES or resists haha

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Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
We just completed Herbspiceguy Herbspiceguy 's third ascendancy no problem. If anyone needs help with that, let me know and I can help you through a run.
Wake me up when you’re running 4th Carrie’s haha.

I have gotten to the final boss of sekhmas twice to get one shot by the dumb clock.

Beat ultimatum once thinking I did it then saw you have to beat it 3 times to get all the pieces. Or buy them for a divine each.

Found two of the 3 citadels, and then a repeat of copper.

Can’t find the third so I can try the ash uber boss. :(
 

panda-zebra

Member
We just completed Herbspiceguy Herbspiceguy 's third ascendancy no problem. If anyone needs help with that, let me know and I can help you through a run.
Is this the Sekhemas vs. the scorpion boss? I had it close but stupidly cast comet and while stuck in the animation got melted with poison, lol. It was so much easier to get through to the end with a proper build and some levels, but probably should have looked up the boss' attacks before running it. Still getting the names of the trials mixed up - the ritual summoning one is trivial but I keep ending up in the ones with all the doors/switches/traps thinking it'll be the former. D'oh.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Chaos trial Is whopping my ass even at lvl 53 (minion witch build)... That asshole bird at the end one shoot me with the unavoidable tornado... Dunno if build is wrong (actually at act2 cruel and killing everything nearly on sight)... This evening I'll try looking for a better build... I hate trials😭😭😭😭(funny thing is I totally obliterated it first time with my ranger, but found a different end boss that time)

You can also try frost mages if you want. I was using them before storm mages and they're pretty good at damage including crowd control. I also used Frost Wall (Spell Cascade, Spell Echo, Icicle) for good single target DPS. They blow up the ice crystals very well.

I also put Wildshards on my frost mages which makes their AoE super cool.

 
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Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Is this the Sekhemas vs. the scorpion boss? I had it close but stupidly cast comet and while stuck in the animation got melted with poison, lol. It was so much easier to get through to the end with a proper build and some levels, but probably should have looked up the boss' attacks before running it. Still getting the names of the trials mixed up - the ritual summoning one is trivial but I keep ending up in the ones with all the doors/switches/traps thinking it'll be the former. D'oh.

Yup, that's the one. I have really sweet relics, so when I enter the run I have lots of honor and honor resistance, and a chance for multiple merchant options. It's strong.
 
I'm doing it. On the lev 20 gear I'm putting my ultimate 2h mace for the guild in the bottom right. This thing has lasted me from mid 20's to 50 with the 3x strength need for dual wielding 2 handers. It's a lev 22 101-153 damage beast with 6 needed stats. I'd probably get a lot on the marketplace but I don't know how to use it yet :messenger_grinning_smiling:

Pass it on after.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I'm doing it. On the lev 20 gear I'm putting my ultimate 2h mace for the guild in the bottom right. This thing has lasted me from mid 20's to 50 with the 3x strength need for dual wielding 2 handers. It's a lev 22 101-153 damage beast with 6 needed stats. I'd probably get a lot on the marketplace but I don't know how to use it yet :messenger_grinning_smiling:

Pass it on after.

Are there upgrades in the other tabs for you now? Or us your new weapon self found?
 
yup, but I've found warrior stuff is rare compared to other character stuff. We are getting screwed a bit

edit: I found one I'm using and one I took from the stash (y)
 
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Akuji

Member
did manage to go from lvl 91 0% to 91 20% to 91 0% to 92 0% :D no deaths from the 2nd 0%. was like 4 hours of normal gameplay, pretty stoked.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Realized cast on shock doesn’t work for shock build up my minions are doing. Has to come from me.

Should’ve read closer. Doh!
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Realized cast on shock doesn’t work for shock build up my minions are doing. Has to come from me.

Should’ve read closer. Doh!

Nope, but theoretically you might be able to use storm mages as lightning chain bots to proc lightning rod, which then would proc shock, which could proc ball lightning which could proc more shock.
 

Men_in_Boxes

Snake Oil Salesman
One of the most successful EA launches of all time with amazing player retention?

Men_in_Boxes Men_in_Boxes : Destiny 2 is doing amazing!

The first 3 acts are amazing and the most finished. Of course the cracks are going to show after a few weeks with such a large game and massive player base. Which is the whole point of early access. Game still bests D4 in its current form imo.
All men fall from time to time.

Your player retention comment lifted me back to my feet. I was blinded by madness for just a moment. Thank you clarky clarky .
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I’m going the straight storm mages build helm breaker pit up on max roll.

I am actually going to try cast on shock from tunas sorc build added to it to see what happens. I think it should fix all the missing boss damage.

That's why I use the snipers. The Snipers' single target burst DPS is friggin stupid strong. Scattershot gas arrow command deletes bosses. and I only really need 3 or 4 snipers for that.
 
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Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
That's why I use the snipers. The Snipers' single target burst DPS is friggin stupid strong. Scattershot gas arrow command deletes bosses. and I only really need 3 or 4 snipers for that.
Idk what I did wrong. I had kripps build down. My damage fell off a cliff for mapping and for bossing.

Snipers refused to consistently do the big OOMPH explosion.
 

Sabejita

Member
Something the game doesn't explain well and should remove at least at start of Cruel is the "Show Recommended Gems" switch.
I understand not wanting to overwhelm new players but you miss out on so much customization for your skills...
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I don't even use one recommended gem on that skill.
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Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Idk what I did wrong. I had kripps build down. My damage fell off a cliff for mapping and for bossing.

Snipers refused to consistently do the big OOMPH explosion.

You might have been missing the ignite window. Take off immolate and put on something else that works all the time, like physical mastery, minion mastery, fire mastery, feeding frenzy, or heft. Make sure your target is ignited to get the most damage. If you're having trouble keeping targets ignited from just your infernal doggo alone, try putting Infernal Legion onto your raging spirits.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Idk what I did wrong. I had kripps build down. My damage fell off a cliff for mapping and for bossing.

Snipers refused to consistently do the big OOMPH explosion.

Additionally, you can also use reapers for single target DPS. When fighting a boss, increase your reapers, decrease your storm mages, and then use pain offering.
 

Sabejita

Member
I have a bug that happens sometimes on the map (no idea what triggers it), logging out to character selection is enough to fix it.
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Exede

Member
The Divine Orb trading sux so so much... I just want a perfect jewellers Orb but man 3 Divines? I don't own a single one and i play since launch
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
The Divine Orb trading sux so so much... I just want a perfect jewellers Orb but man 3 Divines? I don't own a single one and i play since launch

Don't worry about it so much. Having 5 slots is nice, but not necessary for now. You can buy 4 slot skill gems for pretty cheap on the trading site, which are excellent from a cost/benefit standpoint.

If you want more divines, I would suggest that you add some "increases item rarity" on your gear. Your drops will improve significantly.

Insightful discussion about that very topic here (timestamped):

 
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Sabejita

Member
That's weird I got a duplicated boss:
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Not that I complain, more loot :messenger_beaming:, but is it normal behaviour (it was a +2 level map) or is it because of the atlas skill?
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Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Additionally, you can also use reapers for single target DPS. When fighting a boss, increase your reapers, decrease your storm mages, and then use pain offering.

Arsic Arsic

In addition to that, +minion skill levels is a MUST. You need to get them on your scepter, hat, and amulet as high as possible to do the most DPS. And upgrade your gems. Just one skill level higher increases their damage and life by a huge amount.
 

panda-zebra

Member
Yup, that's the one. I have really sweet relics, so when I enter the run I have lots of honor and honor resistance, and a chance for multiple merchant options. It's strong.
I'll take you up on this when you can. Had another run at it that was awful vs. the boss, movement went to crap and couldn't do anything but sludge around a bit and die lol.
 

Duellist

Member
Something the game doesn't explain well and should remove at least at start of Cruel is the "Show Recommended Gems" switch.
I understand not wanting to overwhelm new players but you miss out on so much customization for your skills...
UFrwNQq.png


I don't even use one recommended gem on that skill.
GFAWjOY.png
Is that something that is on ps5 also? Never noticed and I remember looking for it. How do you turn it off?
 

Sabejita

Member
Is that something that is on ps5 also? Never noticed and I remember looking for it. How do you turn it off?
On PC I have to uncheck it (low left corner) every time I open the gemcutting pannel. Didn't find an option for it to remain unchecked.
 
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