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On April 01 2019 01:38 hunts wrote:
I'm in a guild with friends, but if anyone wants to add me to friends feel free to, I mostly just play softcore and in whatever the current league is. My name is HuntsSynthTwo (assuming you add by character name and not account name?)
Also after hearing all the talk about bane and soulrend I decided to try LL soulrend/bane trickster, I must say so far I'm not very impressed. Granted my skills are only 19/20 still, and empower is only 2, but in general the slow cast time on bane, and lack of movement skill because I'm using a bow, feels clunky. That and lack of leech and having to rely heavily on ES regen. I know I'm not using the best of gear and this alt is only lvl 86 but still, feels much worse than my HOWA CI jugg.
Post your tree? I'm surprised the cast speed feels bad, I don't think I took a TON of extra cast speed on my tree but Bane doesn't feel slow or clunky at all, it's basically just a click and delete screen, barely stop moving.
Also the trickster ES regen on kill is plenty to keep me topped off for the most part. For maps obviously, I haven't done much bossing.
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I mean nothing can beat howa ms jugg for bossing so if thats your benchmark then bane/soulrend will feel bad.
It's not an insane build, although with enough currency it maybe can become one. The clearspeed is at the top though, only beaten by winter orb and other builds that barely have to stop like tornado shot deadeyes etc. One cast of soulrend clears the entire screen and some more and with queen of the forest and decent items you run hella fast.
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The cast speed node by Whispers of Doom applies to Bane, and I'm also dual wielding wands for the Dark Arts nodes (though it still didn't feel that bad back when I was using Cane of Unraveling). Not sure where else to pick it up for bows, I guess maybe some jewels and gear.
Does Zealotry do anything for the chaos dot skills?
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zealotry increases spell damage. Malevolence is better, but I needed a helm enchant that reduced mana cost of an aura that I would use with blood magic, and didn't want to pay the price for a grace one.
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Your char is very decent, surprised you dont like it, but i understand your criticism. Maybe getting Flame dash cooldown enchant on helm would mitigate the mobility downside a bit, but overall bow AND shavs is probably not a good combo for that reason. Im playing life/es combo with staff and qotf for runspeed but im also not happy on the boss damage right now, though i havent invested too much into the build yet.
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how NOT to engage delve screamers
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I did Minotaur/Chimera/Hydra with harsh mods last friday as CI-Bane-Blight (Allelopathy gloves).
Died once to Mino because i taught i could just tank (well, dodge/block) him for the last 10%, turned out this was a bad idea  .
Died once to Chimera because the Mods were really, really harsh (speed, dmg, vulnerability...).
Hydra was a total pushover but it was from a Zana with basically no mods and i have 80% Coldres.
I'm really inexperienced with these fights, Iirc I havent done any Guardian more than 3 to 4 times total and that was on brain-afk RF or LL-RF builds that cost a fortune (in comparison). So if i could do it on harsh mods with no/minor issues, most people should also be able to.
I also did the Mastermind for the first time. That was really easy despite me not having a clue what to do but i guess thats thanks to CI.
The fights actually didn't take too long. Sure its not a build that just deletes bosses but the damage seems more than fine and Bane is still just awesome in Maps, aside from Mapbosses, Syndicate and some strong Synth rares everything dies in 1 cast.
I run Cerberus-Limb/Aegis Aurora + Qotf/The Vertex, these Items just synergise so well with Trickster and the Shieldnodes for Casters also seem really strong.
I don't see a reason to go with more offensive Items so far.
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On April 01 2019 18:33 Velr wrote:
I run Cerberus-Limb/Aegis Aurora + Qotf/The Vertex, these Items just synergise so well with Trickster and the Shieldnodes for Casters also seem really strong.
How does needing armor for Aegis but needing Evasion for the Trickster nodes work? Do you take Iron Reflexes and just not worry about the ES-when-hit from Trickster? I assume you still get the ES from your chest in that case. (Wait that would make no sense with QotF.) Or do you try to get decent amounts of both evasion and armor?
*edit* Jesus, I just noticed that Aegis got a MASSIVE buff to its ES and armor in 3.5.
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I'm actually confused. How are you supposed to get 100% reduced stat requirements on shields for the +1-2 minimum of each charge, when it caps out at 32% and as far as I know there is no way to double up on it?
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On April 02 2019 04:04 hunts wrote:
I'm actually confused. How are you supposed to get 100% reduced stat requirements on shields for the +1-2 minimum of each charge, when it caps out at 32% and as far as I know there is no way to double up on it?
I don't know, but possibly related: What does it mean that the dump lists the requirement as "-100" rather than "100"?
*edit* Oh, it's because the stat is actually increased attribute requirements, and items just have negative values of the stat. Okay never mind, I just don't know.
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You dont, you only need 86. The wording on some sites, even on poedb is a bit bad. The column tells you the lower and upper bound for each tier, but since the highest tier cant go any better the upper bound there is redundant. Anyway i assum you mean
#% increased Attribute Requirements -86 ~ -100
That says -86. And yes on the trade page you have to search for Increased attribute too and then enter a negative value.
Im starting to get annoyed. A few days ago i was buying bow bases for 1ex left and right, now theres apparently like 10 people trying to buy them, price has gone up to like 2ex and they are snatched immediately. Im still hanging in livesearch whole day and whisper every time i see one with a 2ex offer and most of the time they sell to someone else because they just got a lot of whispers as they say...
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I haven't been having any luck at all with memory rewards. I've been diverted in half my attempts to get to a reward node and 2 of the last 3 I actually did get to had unfair memory decay (one I explored over 1/2 the large map without getting any waypoint information and the 1/2 the reward must have been on decayed almost immediately.).
I still really like doing the memories but the length of chains w/o ability to pause & resume combined with the RNG of the decay really drags it down quite a bit. I've been throwing out any memories that aren't something like 50%/30%/30% IIR/IIQ/Pack size or better so it at least feels really worthwhile anytime I do actually start some memories.
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On April 02 2019 02:40 ASoo wrote:Show nested quote +On April 01 2019 18:33 Velr wrote:
I run Cerberus-Limb/Aegis Aurora + Qotf/The Vertex, these Items just synergise so well with Trickster and the Shieldnodes for Casters also seem really strong. How does needing armor for Aegis but needing Evasion for the Trickster nodes work? Do you take Iron Reflexes and just not worry about the ES-when-hit from Trickster? I assume you still get the ES from your chest in that case. (Wait that would make no sense with QotF.) Or do you try to get decent amounts of both evasion and armor? *edit* Jesus, I just noticed that Aegis got a MASSIVE buff to its ES and armor in 3.5.
+Cerberus Limb transforms that ES and Armour into even more ES (around 18X) and Evasion (~900 iirc, didn't check) and is in General an ok weapon... I found a nearly perfect one while still running around with a trash rare so it was kinda a given to try this  .
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On April 02 2019 05:35 Warri wrote:
You dont, you only need 86. The wording on some sites, even on poedb is a bit bad. The column tells you the lower and upper bound for each tier, but since the highest tier cant go any better the upper bound there is redundant. Anyway i assum you mean
#% increased Attribute Requirements -86 ~ -100
That says -86. And yes on the trade page you have to search for Increased attribute too and then enter a negative value
dont blame the sites, they simply show ingame data and that's how GGG decided to handle that
for example, try to search for any and all jewels with corrupted 1% reduced Mana Reserved implicit
an answer here in spoiler
+ Show Spoiler +https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Hardcore%20Synthesis/g2brzOFQ
the real crime is that Synthesis FAQ posted by GGG recently lacks link to poedb and none of that synthesis crap is explained in-game at all
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After quite some screwing around, I made this item. Don't know if I want to use it or try to sell it, or how much it would be worth. There are no titanium spirit shields up with endurance charges, let alone rolled ones.
+ Show Spoiler +
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Muddling along in SSF on my Guardian but it's not quite Shaper-ready (and JFC I forgot how frustrating Phoenix is for a RF character); had a Snowblind Grace drop from a Tul breach and then nabbed a blessing from a charged breachstone - with that and a random Taste of Hate drop, wondering if rerolling on a Trickster using Blade Vortex or Divine Ire might be the ticket for endgame bossing - have Eber's Unification, Hrimsorrow and a few shaped caster weapon bases for conversion, but no Call of the Brotherhoods for the full conversion rollercoaster. Ran all my sac frag sets hoping for the dodge boots, but it's flasks/belts for days. Any suggestions?
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On April 03 2019 06:01 hunts wrote:After quite some screwing around, I made this item. Don't know if I want to use it or try to sell it, or how much it would be worth. There are no titanium spirit shields up with endurance charges, let alone rolled ones. + Show Spoiler +
That seems like it ought to be really good. ES builds have a hard time generating endurance charges (on bosses at least), but benefit from them perfectly well. No idea about price, though; stuff this league is impossible to price check.
On April 03 2019 00:25 Velr wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2019 02:40 ASoo wrote:On April 01 2019 18:33 Velr wrote:
I run Cerberus-Limb/Aegis Aurora + Qotf/The Vertex, these Items just synergise so well with Trickster and the Shieldnodes for Casters also seem really strong. How does needing armor for Aegis but needing Evasion for the Trickster nodes work? Do you take Iron Reflexes and just not worry about the ES-when-hit from Trickster? I assume you still get the ES from your chest in that case. (Wait that would make no sense with QotF.) Or do you try to get decent amounts of both evasion and armor? *edit* Jesus, I just noticed that Aegis got a MASSIVE buff to its ES and armor in 3.5. +Cerberus Limb transforms that ES and Armour into even more ES (around 18X) and Evasion (~900 iirc, didn't check) and is in General an ok weapon... I found a nearly perfect one while still running around with a trash rare so it was kinda a given to try this .
Damn, so you end up with relevant amounts of armour, evasion, and block, and you recover ES when hit and on block? Sounds like you should be immortal except maybe to DoTs.
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The Shield is the only armour Item, so that regen is sadly very small.
You end up with okish ES (7k easily), 32% Block from Shield, pretty high Dodge chance and Qotf speed.
Its for sure not the best build for high end Bossing but it can do them - mapping is an absolute breeze no matter the mods.
Perfect Form instead of Qotf would also be an option. Phase Acro, free Ice Armor and high EVA boost if you can stack high amounts of coldres, whch I can't witheout rethinking all my gear, so i won't
Its not as tanki as Occultist but well, what is?
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