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On December 17 2019 08:00 Gorsameth wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2019 06:17 Glacierz wrote: Just read about the new awakened support gems. I'm guessing the end game bosses have been scaled to a higher difficulty to compensate for the inflation in DPS? I went with an afk summon starter build, I heard it's been heavily nerfed from last league, hopefully I can still do most of the content with it. They were not nerfed heavily at all. Zombies were a little nerfed, not even that big, and spectres/skeletons are just as crazy. I know ii'm not to far yet but i'm still unstoppable at T5 map with a similar build
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Didn't have much time to play yet over the weekend. About to finish the campaign and farmed a Tabula in Blood Aqueducts. ED Trickster isn't captivating me this league for some reason, it's still good and I don't mind it but I'm in the mood for something a little more smooth, one-button-y, one click kills. Haven't heard much about the bow stuff despite all the new supports. Was thinking of Vortex Occultist before league start but that's got more going on too. Should probably just start mapping and see if the new Conqueror's stuff sucks me back in before wasting another 5 hrs rerolling.
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you could just try bane or soulrend if you haven't yet, to avoid the reroll. Bane in particular is my favorite chaos spell, it's so smooth and quick.
maybe toxic rain? tree should have similarities too. maybe that benefited from some bow changes? I dunno lol
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I played Bane and Soulrend the league they came out, didn't even cross my mind. Soulrend is hit or miss but I did like Bane, click and run. The tree is probably identical to what I have now lol. Not a bad idea.
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What auras am I suppose to run with summon zombie/skeletons/spectres? Right now I'm using haste, not sure if there are better options. Is the end game weapon still a 6L Queen's Escape? I see most are running with some 1H + shield set up atm.
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I got 3 Watchstones now. What's the correct thing to do with them? Just place them somewere? Or keep them stored away until I have completed all the lower tier maps? Or until I have expanded my atlas to all corners?
This new system is still confusing...^^
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On December 19 2019 01:32 Glacierz wrote: What auras am I suppose to run with summon zombie/skeletons/spectres? Right now I'm using haste, not sure if there are better options. Is the end game weapon still a 6L Queen's Escape? I see most are running with some 1H + shield set up atm. 1h/shield + cylone is a more tanky setup. Lets you cyclone CwC spirit offering and use fortify. Otherwise I believe good crafted convoking wands are better then uniques, not sure tho.
Skitterbots is a pretty common aura for the 'free' chill and shock. Depending on your setup you can run some blashemy options, enfeeble/temporal chains or some vulnerability.
Personally I run slave driver specters, using Wrath to boost their lightning damage and then Cyclone with added cold dmg so I can proc EE.
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On December 19 2019 02:10 Joni_ wrote: I got 3 Watchstones now. What's the correct thing to do with them? Just place them somewere? Or keep them stored away until I have completed all the lower tier maps? Or until I have expanded my atlas to all corners?
This new system is still confusing...^^ Go the last outer map corner to get your 4th. at that point you need to socket them to get more (hover over the storage on the left side of the map you can see Region Level: 1 Required to spawn Exile. That is how many socketed watchstones you need in a region to get them to spawn, so 1 for now.
Socket 1 in each of the inner zones, you might have to explore the region some more to find the Citadels. Portal to it can spawn when you kill the map boss. Now run your socketed inner zones, you might need to run lower level maps to get the new higher tier versions. Get another 4 stones.
Then you can repeat the whole process but with 2 stones ect ect. I'm at this point myself and I decided to fill in what I can because I like completing the whole atlas. At this point the nice thing is you can socket 7 regions with 1 stone and keep 1 empty. This forces all your low tier maps to spawn from this zone, make it easier to get any missing ones. I'm repeating this for each zone atm until I have all my tier 2/3's done. Then i'll pick a zone to socket with 2 stones and go from there.
No idea if this is optimal, just what I am doing.
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ZiggyD has some basic videos on new atlas if you don't know wtf is going on.
that strat with 7/8 having a stone and one without seems like an amazing idea, will steal
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Oh my god i hadnt noticed the "requires level 2 to spawn exile" hints at the left side before. I had lost track of what i already did and where i got my stones from and what to do next, but now i can finally see what i need to do, thanks. Damn atlas progression takes like 10x longer than previous leagues now but its fun so far. Dont know if it will be still fun in next or the league after though. You have to run sooooooooo many low level maps and the worst thing is you cant play coop because only the map host gets progression. Ive wasted so much time playing with a friend and progressing his atlas. Kinda bad design :/
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how is this league compared to others? is the meta fairly balanced among classes?
I heard they rebalanced bosses and gave them way more life? I am typically a mechanically awful player and rely on the strength of my build to get past bosses rather than understanding the fights. Will I still be able to do that in league?
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Bosses are a lot harder than previous leagues. Even older bosses like shaper and elder got buffed a lot but the new ones are just insane dmg wise. I cant even fathom how self caster can do them, im just running in circles while my golems do dmg and still get rekt often enough. Class balance is greater than most leagues. https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds Only necro is onesided as always but sabo has a lot of different skills.
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Rerolled. Storm Burst Trickster looked good, had an okay powerlvl to start into maps but just felt too static. Had no idea what I wanted to do and started my first ever Gladiator. Going bladestorm, just arrived at maps aswell. Clear is okay, bossdamage with vaal double strike okay but higher hp Metamorphs can take their time. I guess there is potential with a good pair of weapons.
I like the league, I'm going to love it when organs are changed to autopickup.
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Yeah it's a good league, and the new atlas feels pretty great early on since you can complete many maps easier than before and play many different map layouts.
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I'm having a good time with my Armageddon Brand elementalist, I'm only at t6 maps still but all the Conquerors I met so far basically melted. Map clear is okay, not zoom-zoom but fast enough and with enough damage to kill filled out metamorphs without much problems, and I'm still on a 5link. The new Atlas is fun too, socketing watchstones is very satisfying and map progression is much nicer than before. Overall a great league so far
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Seeing a lot of ballistas in some of the top SSFHC clips (waggle, raiz...). Especially EA. Are they better than expected? Or are folks still playing their experimental starters and just waiting to reroll after deaths.
I thought people were having surprisingly mediocre results with EA and/or ballistas with various skills, even though it looked like bow league ezpz before we saw the gem numbers lol.
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fucked up my first awakaner fight. My golems kept dying to the storms and i didnt know their pattern and died a lot to them too. I can run better next time but i dont know how to fix my stupid minions running into storms and dying every second :/
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Maybe using meat shield support and spamming convocation would do the trick.
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Quite upset that I won't be able to play for a long time right as they add autopickup and as I've theorycrafted some neat stuff to try.
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