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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14105 Posts
December 12 2019 23:55 GMT
#31421
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
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14080 Posts
December 13 2019 00:32 GMT
#31422
On December 13 2019 08:55 Sermokala wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

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
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
Duka08
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
3391 Posts
December 13 2019 00:57 GMT
#31423
What does Vortex Cold Snap Occultist mapping look like anyway? That was the one alternative to ED Trickster I was thinking of at the moment but I need to go find some good gameplay videos, it sounds weird lol
r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14080 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-13 02:34:27
December 13 2019 01:29 GMT
#31424
Waggles old video is still pretty accurate. Gear and/or gems are obviously a bit outdated iirc but the general idea is still the same.

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
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
LagLovah
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada552 Posts
December 13 2019 04:37 GMT
#31425
On December 13 2019 09:32 r.Evo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2019 08:55 Sermokala wrote:
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.

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.
rSLagLovah on NA xSixLagLovah on Kr
r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14080 Posts
December 13 2019 04:51 GMT
#31426
On December 13 2019 13:37 LagLovah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2019 09:32 r.Evo wrote:
On December 13 2019 08:55 Sermokala wrote:
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.

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.

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. :>
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
LagLovah
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada552 Posts
December 13 2019 05:12 GMT
#31427
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.
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r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14080 Posts
December 13 2019 05:32 GMT
#31428
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.
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
December 13 2019 07:24 GMT
#31429
Only lightning spire got "trashed", the rest are still competitive
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Duka08
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
3391 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-13 07:42:14
December 13 2019 07:41 GMT
#31430
Yeah the changes to Orb of Storms looked smaller than people expected I think? I'm not even up to date on what makes that so OP for leveling/racing in the first place.

Lightning Spire looks a bit more dramatic.
smr
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany4808 Posts
December 13 2019 08:22 GMT
#31431
Another leaguestart, another ihavenocluewhatimgoingtoplaythisevening.

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.
r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14080 Posts
December 13 2019 08:58 GMT
#31432
Just from a quick run to get some rust off: Feels like stormblast mine carries singletarget really, really hard. Bit less damage shouldn't matter. Not sure on packs, oos felt a bit meh, stormblast felt a bit meh, combined was okay but not great.

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.
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10876 Posts
December 13 2019 09:28 GMT
#31433
Shocknova-Trap could be fun?
PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7735 Posts
December 13 2019 09:54 GMT
#31434
Storm Brand should still be a good fire-and-forget skill for leveling
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smr
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany4808 Posts
December 13 2019 09:59 GMT
#31435
Selfcast-Arc would be cool. Haven't played that in a while but looking at league mechanics I would expect that to be at best mediocre for bosses, right?

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.
Warri
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany3208 Posts
December 13 2019 11:59 GMT
#31436
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
LagLovah
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada552 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-13 13:16:09
December 13 2019 12:51 GMT
#31437
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.
rSLagLovah on NA xSixLagLovah on Kr
PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7735 Posts
December 13 2019 13:10 GMT
#31438
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
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-13 14:39:49
December 13 2019 14:32 GMT
#31439
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]
And the drops:
[image loading]

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.
nukem1
Profile Joined October 2010
345 Posts
December 13 2019 14:35 GMT
#31440
This is an interesting question - will it be worth doing the Metamorphs?
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]
And the drops:
[image loading]
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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