Path of Exile - Page 1373

RIP. I think new impact is super interesting but it doesn't seem possible to be a slayer without taking both 4-point arms now so I won't be trying it I don't believe. Somebody will figure out a stun build and have fun, but that somebody is probably not me.

basically depends on how good tailwind feels. 20% more attackspeed/movespeed sounds hype for sure, assuming it works that way. If it reduces blink arrow cooldown as well as part of the 'faster' mechanic, then I'll try it although the damage options are surprisingly mediocre once you put all your points into tailwind and blink arrow cd. The bleed node is very nice simply for crit/lgoh on bosses, but then you seriously run out of points before you get the "traditional" deadeye extra projectile/chain etc. Quick shoutout to accuracy stacking builds with oskarm and obscurantis, since "100% more accuracy" is preeeeeeeeeeetty good for those.

lots of interesting changes but 60-80% less curse effect is still implicit to the actual spooky monsters in the game. Unless fated windscreams are hella dope I don't think it's worth sinking 4 points into the curse part. The power charge part is very exciting (mostly for 30-40% aoe) and has to be a lock for any occultist caster build that isn't chaos DoT based. The problem is that the rest of your class wants you to be chaos based, and the only good chaos skills are DoT based (maybe there's a dark pact build in here?). The ES buffs are nice although I'm not really a fan of the 30% regen cap xd. Meme talisman required for boss killing ofc. Overall, I haven't figured out what build best abuses all these mechanics best, but there is enough power in the class now if you can figure out the right build. Any actual fix to gigantic less curse effect modifiers and the class is insane.

Maybe it's just me but I simply refuse to play a class based on bullshit rotating timers (part of why i'm so nonplussed by the bullshit set unique "aspect of the dogshit" mechanics). 75% aoe is hype as fuck, but what's the point of even having it if half the time it just isn't there. I'd rather have 25% aoe all the time than 75% half the time, because you can't just wait around for your AoE to be enough for trash clear. That obviates the whole reason to have big aoe: fast trash clear. Ignite is still shit so that whole part of the tree is underwhelming even if it's conceptually hugely powerful. As others have said, 25% pen for 4 points gated behind heralds that might not even help you at all is not competitive with inquisitor. It's nice to see that GGG are willing to give spell leech to classes that aren't berserker, but i don't get why they didn't put a useful number. 0.5% isn't enough to sustain vs single target with default leech, and it's not like you have access to reasonable ways to improve your leech (leech rate, max leech etc). Vaal pact is gone ggg. Golems IDC, it's an interesting buff to golemancer but overall it doesn't really seem enticing.

Everybody knows that harness the void is an incredibly broken node like we've never seen before, but I'm not even convinced that people truly grasp how powerful it is right now. If this node goes to live, you'd have to be stupid to be any other class. Most OP abuse is doomfletch's prism ofc, but even glacial cascade with a cold to fire socketed because what the hell is still like 120% MORE dmg, before you factor in bullshit shaper sceptres etc. Now, it's true that there are some shaper sceptres that are almost as busted, but well it's not news how busted they are. New weave the arcane is stupid in that "0 mana cost movement skills" is just so irrelevant on the node that grants you infinite mana, and rewards you for spending mana, but I get that GGG just wanted both those nodes available to appease people who abused them already and ended up mashing them together to make space for the other shit. Patient reaper seems like REAL good now, although I suppose it's not the most reliable for bossing. The 15% more dot node isn't bad, but it's not close to the power level of the rest of trickster right now.

The 4-point ES/EV arm is very very interesting. It sucks that you become so gear dependant, since one of the nice things about getting flat ES on your ascendancy was that you could go CI at like level 60 and have a real amount of ES without needing gear. The first node is still not so exciting, 10% dodge/spelldodge is powerful but not great when you can't really pair it with acro, and "on ES recharge start" is a very very unreliable mechanic. A bit of MS and more chance to evade is very pleasant tho. The 2nd node is what everybody is going insane over, but I think people are overhyping it. Evasion rating is nice, but you could always run a jade flask and have plenty. The best way to abuse thousands of evasion is with queen of the forest, which admittedly sounds very interesting, but what is fundamentally attractive here is the free ES. Old trickster got 250 ES, no strings attached. In order to beat that, you need to beat (ES Chest of comparable value) + (250). So new trickster needs (250*6 = 1500 evasion) + (full es chest) worth of evasion + ES on their chest. That's hard. That means that realistically, new trickster is going to have LESS ES than old trickster, but far far far more evasion. Which is where QotF comes in, since QotF is still a roughly 300-350 ES chest (only 50-100 more than old trickster with qotf tho), and with the right hat (people keep citing vertex, which is a good choice) you'll have a very useable evasion total. It's important to note that your dodge total is still very lacking compared to acro evasion characters.

In practice, trickster can be a ton of builds right now which is very cool. I think that many combinations of nodes are takeable, although I don't get why harness the void is connected to prolonged pain since you'd have to be totally insane to try a poison build with harness the void and trickster in general. Like, really really dumb. Prolonged pain's poison text doesn't actually exist, even if you think it does.