Path of Exile - Page 1342

On December 12 2017 03:39 ASoo wrote:
Pretty sure SR MoM Trickster (with or without RF) is still great in terms of easy to start but scales to melt endgame bosses. Level as elemental trapper until you get enough cast speed that SR feels good.

I'm really enjoying a volatile dead build (alternate castings of spell cascade desecrate and spell cascade volatile dead), with SR-CwC-Cremation for single target. Don't know how it'll scale in endgame yet though.

Sunder is still good. A lot of the new Shaper/Elder items look insane as Sunder offhands. Possibly good enough that you could socket your Sunder in one of them and wear a Kaom's without it feeling bad.

There's always GC mines or Frostbolt totems.

On December 12 2017 03:39 ASoo wrote:
Pretty sure SR MoM Trickster (with or without RF) is still great in terms of easy to start but scales to melt endgame bosses. Level as elemental trapper until you get enough cast speed that SR feels good.

I'm really enjoying a volatile dead build (alternate castings of spell cascade desecrate and spell cascade volatile dead), with SR-CwC-Cremation for single target. Don't know how it'll scale in endgame yet though.

Sunder is still good. A lot of the new Shaper/Elder items look insane as Sunder offhands. Possibly good enough that you could socket your Sunder in one of them and wear a Kaom's without it feeling bad.

There's always GC mines or Frostbolt totems.

On December 12 2017 07:32 -Archangel- wrote:

Why Cremate? New DD seems a better choice.

On December 12 2017 08:30 bo1b wrote:
Scion ed is significantly better at bossing then trickster ed.

On December 12 2017 07:58 bo1b wrote:
Went with Glacial cascade inq totems + a brightbeak. Possibly the fastest levelling I've ever done, and I did elementalist brightbeak flameblast totems.

For reference, gc totems is imo way faster then gc mines both in map clearing, and bosses that don't get 1 hit.

On December 12 2017 09:00 bo1b wrote:
I might ditch em

On December 12 2017 10:57 TheYango wrote:

I did GC totems Chieftain during Mayhem. Leveling was very smooth, but doing breaches was absolutely miserable (since the totems auto-acquire targets and fire in a cone, they would often just miss a lot of enemies getting swarmed from all sides). Do the totems have the same problem with Abysses, or does the new threshold jewel give them enough coverage?

On December 12 2017 11:56 r.Evo wrote:

"Might"

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On December 12 2017 16:42 PoulsenB wrote:
Ok so what is the trick to unlocking your atlas in a way that will give me less garbage map drops and more desired map drops? I tried reading guides but I'm still unsure about what to do exactly.

On December 12 2017 17:04 r.Evo wrote:

Note: None of this might be actually viable anymore with Atlas of Worlds, I don't think there's a clear pattern in what people shape/don't shape and unlock/don't unlock yet.

Simplified those strats were based around the fact that a map you're running can both drop maps that you have unlocked (as long as they're in droprange for a mob you're killing, e.g. blues can drop +1s and so on) but also maps that they're connected to on the Atlas. Shaped maps are not connected to other maps, meaning they can only drop maps that you have unlocked.

What this means is that if you set up your Atlas so that you have only one shaped map for a certain tier then only this map can drop if it rolls within that tier and when you run this map it will only be able to drop other shaped maps (or lower maps you have unlocked). You're basically eliminating the "garbage" drops from connected maps this way.

That's why you'd set up your Atlas by e.g. unlocking all T10 and below (for quantity bonus) and then having one shaped T11 with no others in that tier unlocked. If you then e.g. only have one shaped T12/T13 unlocked then you can do the same thing with those.