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Sermokala
United States14102 Posts
On December 13 2019 07:04 r.Evo wrote: Oh god how does this game work and what am I playing Its best to keep in mind that its a car game more than anything. You start out puttering along in a bearly moving car that you're trying to get over the "don't crashdie" part of the experience. At the end you're in a formula one team in space. | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14080 Posts
On December 13 2019 08:55 Sermokala wrote: Its best to keep in mind that its a car game more than anything. You start out puttering along in a bearly moving car that you're trying to get over the "don't crashdie" part of the experience. At the end you're in a formula one team in space. I shall play Vortex Occultist, the SUV of PoE in that case. Kinda debated Caustic Arrow again but the damage feels... still underwhelming sadly. Seems hard to push past 700k even with proper gear. What is witch levelling like atm? Still someting like oos/storm brand? Gunde, lag, echelon etc, you guys around or anyone getting sucked into SSF for bragging rights? :o | ||
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Duka08
3391 Posts
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r.Evo
Germany14080 Posts
Most of it is run into middle of pack, drop vortex, move on until vaal coldsnap is up, then just run and let it do the work, repeat. In sketchy spots you can use cold snap as your ranged skill. ED Trickster is 100% a faster mapper, Vortex Occultist is safer and a much cleaner bosskiller. Was my choice of build back in Betrayal and felt like a very smooth build for potentially overtuned bosses. e: Not sure if I'll be able to play at this rate, my game looks like this as of now. Hmmmmm..... e2: Fastest fix ever, having the game set at a wrong (lower) resolution did that. o_O | ||
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LagLovah
Canada552 Posts
On December 13 2019 09:32 r.Evo wrote: I shall play Vortex Occultist, the SUV of PoE in that case. Kinda debated Caustic Arrow again but the damage feels... still underwhelming sadly. Seems hard to push past 700k even with proper gear. What is witch levelling like atm? Still someting like oos/storm brand? Gunde, lag, echelon etc, you guys around or anyone getting sucked into SSF for bragging rights? :o All the meta lightning leveling skills got trashed in this patch Evo. Bossing will probably not be fun. Trade league is just............. sigh, I am not a huge fan. I will be there for league start and probably playing SSF because I hate trading more than anything - until i blow 2000 fuse on a chest in SSF anyway, that sucks more. | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14080 Posts
On December 13 2019 13:37 LagLovah wrote: All the meta lightning leveling skills got trashed in this patch Evo. Bossing will probably not be fun. Trade league is just............. sigh, I am not a huge fan. I will be there for league start and probably playing SSF because I hate trading more than anything - until i blow 2000 fuse on a chest in SSF anyway, that sucks more. Oh yikes, I didn't see the mine got nerfed too, by like 20% at lvl1 as well. Storm brand might be okay-ish? Someone teach me how this works now please, I'm flexible on levelling skills until I swap to CI anyway. Anything elemental would work just fine. See, you can just play trade without trading - same drawbacks and we can all share the pain of fusing and unlocking maps. :> | ||
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LagLovah
Canada552 Posts
I actually think HC trade league will be stupid dead this time around anyways, this event is going to pull a huge portion of that player-base over. Curious to see what it will do the viability of the league. | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14080 Posts
On December 13 2019 14:12 LagLovah wrote: But then you miss the excitement of watching all of the rips in global chat! I actually think HC trade league will be stupid dead this time around anyways, this event is going to pull a huge portion of that player-base over. Curious to see what it will do the viability of the league. Oh, it will be. Without Gunde I'd prolly be doing softcore, as I usually announce. ...I might just do a Summoner Guardian again, just with skellies to change it up if I can't figure out levelling witch until launch, that build was so nice and effortless at league start. | ||
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Alur
Denmark3900 Posts
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Duka08
3391 Posts
Lightning Spire looks a bit more dramatic. | ||
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smr
Germany4808 Posts
I'd love to play some lightning-skill just because I like the visuals but my static strike character last season... that will feel slow and there is no worse feeling at leaguestart. so probably cold snap/vortex or chieftain-ballistas and then swap when i get 1-2 build defining uniques (ssf) and might be able to go for something else. | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14080 Posts
There's gotta be something with lighting that instakills packs besides arc trap. Is leveling with cold skills a thing? Something something frost bolt maybe? Not sure on bosses in that case though. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10842 Posts
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PoulsenB
Poland7729 Posts
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smr
Germany4808 Posts
Saw a video-guide for Storm Burst. That'll probably be my first try at the league. Until one day I'm able to make a potent shocknova build that I do not suck at playing. Probably my favourite skill but each league I'm getting to ~80 and finding that I have no idea how to go beyond yellow maps with that. | ||
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Warri
Germany3208 Posts
So in summary, hard to tell what will be good  | ||
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LagLovah
Canada552 Posts
On December 13 2019 16:24 Alur wrote: Only lightning spire got "trashed", the rest are still competitive Fair, you can kill packs fine but spire trap is the skill that made bossing feel good. With a boss HP buff across the board i dont know if I would want to run around in circles waiting for storm brand to kill them right now. I leave work 30 min before league start anyways so ... between patching and Queue ill be way behind likely. | ||
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PoulsenB
Poland7729 Posts
On December 13 2019 20:59 Warri wrote: arc is really weak singletarget and usually supplemented by something like lightning spire trap or similar. lightning spire trap got nerfed quite heavily now though. I dunno if selfcast arc will be decent, it all depends how much impact the new bosses will have on gameplay. Think betrayal, crazy new content but in the end everyone end up disabling them and only do them on story mode to farm low level hideouts. The actual fights had no reward so people didnt do them. If the new bosses end up dropping shit loot for the effort then you wont need a build that is good for them. So in summary, hard to tell what will be good The new gameplay video showed that Metamorph bosses can drop all sorts of loot, maps, oils, fossils, etc. just like Blights or Legions, so I'd be surprised if people end up skipping them. | ||
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
On December 13 2019 20:59 Warri wrote: arc is really weak singletarget and usually supplemented by something like lightning spire trap or similar. lightning spire trap got nerfed quite heavily now though. I dunno if selfcast arc will be decent, it all depends how much impact the new bosses will have on gameplay. Think betrayal, crazy new content but in the end everyone end up disabling them and only do them on story mode to farm low level hideouts. The actual fights had no reward so people didnt do them. If the new bosses end up dropping shit loot for the effort then you wont need a build that is good for them. So in summary, hard to tell what will be good Crit Arc Inquisitor with MoM should be pretty good with Mind of the Council and Beret's Grip and possibly Inpulsa (since it buffs shock) since shocking will be way easier this patch. For single target worries you can always do what Foxtactics did in the past and use Flame Surge for it (Arc or Storm Brand curse on hit do the ignite part). Iirc Fox used the Arc gem in Essence crafted gloves and 6L Flame Surge in Body Armour (Loreweave I think) back then. On December 13 2019 23:35 nukem1 wrote: This is an interesting question - will it be worth doing the Metamorphs? + Show Spoiler + I'd say those examples are not that relevant. People farmed low level betrayal because the rewards were not linked to the level, rather to the exp needed for unlocking the hideout (there is a point to make regarding the higher level veiled mods, but not particularly relevant). In legion, you were farming splinters and not relying on the actual drops from the mobs. Again, the objective was to fight the bosses in the arena, not in maps. From what I can tell, the system here is more like what we have with mapping. The harder you make it, the more rewarding (hopefully). I'd say the map in the video is a white Reef. These are the stats on the metamorph: ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/eCLWvZI.jpg) And the drops: ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/qdqEs7M.png) It takes that char. about 45 sec. to kill it. What would you guys pick up from there? + Show Spoiler + For me, the concept of the Metamorph is actually answering other issues with the game: 1. slowing it down, which is what they seem to want to do 2. giving the player the option of interacting with the mechanic (not forcing them to do it, but offering proper "compensation", if you will) 3. giving players the means (or at least the illusion) of being able to shape the content There was another clip with a player fighting one of the bigger Metamorphs and also showed the drops, can anyone link that? Can't seem to find it now. Everything. | ||
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nukem1
345 Posts
I'd say those examples are not that relevant. People farmed low level betrayal because the rewards were not linked to the level, rather to the exp needed for unlocking the hideout (there is a point to make regarding the higher level veiled mods, but not particularly relevant). In legion, you were farming splinters and not relying on the actual drops from the mobs. Again, the objective was to fight the bosses in the arena, not in maps. From what I can tell, the system here is more like what we have with mapping. The harder you make it, the more rewarding (hopefully). I'd say the map in the video is a white Reef. These are the stats on the metamorph: And the drops: It takes that char. about 45 sec. to kill it. What would you guys pick up from there? For me, the concept of the Metamorph is actually answering other issues with the game: 1. slowing it down, which is what they seem to want to do 2. giving the player the option of interacting with the mechanic (not forcing them to do it, but offering proper "compensation", if you will) 3. giving players the means (or at least the illusion) of being able to shape the content There was another clip with a player fighting one of the bigger Metamorphs and also showed the drops, can anyone link that? Can't seem to find it now. | ||
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