EPTcoming back after a 3-4 season hiatus so i'm woefully clueless.
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
coming back after a 3-4 season hiatus so i'm woefully clueless. | ||
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Sermokala
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yamato77
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EchelonTee
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I'm playing ED contagion with spellslinger. Spellslinger in general is super super fun, highly recommend. So far I'm happy with the league. Farming is a bit clunky and is kind of a time waste, but it's really satisfying for some reason -- @ticklish There's a streamer suggested builds thread here if you need some guidance https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/hbsu5k/compiled_list_of_streamer_starter_builds_for/ | ||
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ticklishmusic
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smr
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Valiver
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HolydaKing
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Pretty fun league so far. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On June 21 2020 06:43 HolydaKing wrote: Been a while since a league made leveling a lot easier with not too much danger (or is it just me who didn't die or come close to dying to harvest mobs pre maps?). The crafting is really, really good in SSF. I created a 5L just before lvl 40 (lucky I guess) and had several good crafts in Act1 and so on which made leveling easier than ever. Pretty fun league so far. That was my initial impression as well, but the league mechanic seems awfully executed after tier 1 seeds. Why can't everything connect through magic? Placing pylons manually is an absolute waste of time and resources and serves no purpose. I'd even go further and say storage and dispenser are as well, but can see why they'd want that at least. The mechanic is powerful enough that it's worth it, but just feels like horrible game design. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22073 Posts
On June 21 2020 07:44 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: Having to manually place things adds the ability to min/max and optimise your layouts. And I'm sure some people love that, but there are MUCH better games to play if I want to spend an afternoon optimising building layouts.That was my initial impression as well, but the league mechanic seems awfully executed after tier 1 seeds. Why can't everything connect through magic? Placing pylons manually is an absolute waste of time and resources and serves no purpose. I'd even go further and say storage and dispenser are as well, but can see why they'd want that at least. The mechanic is powerful enough that it's worth it, but just feels like horrible game design. For me it doesn't add enough compared to the hassle, so I just put down a field of each color with dispensers between them and that will have to be enough. I like the crafting itself and how its much more targeted then the usual RNG fest. | ||
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HolydaKing
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And I'm sure GGG didn't expect everyone to do it like that, doing it worse lets you get crafts as well. | ||
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
Still much less complicated than synthesis. Synthesis grid was fully fun though, had a lot more unique content (voice lines, mobs in map, cool bosses). will have to see how the endgame harvest fights are but I'm not really holding my breath | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On June 21 2020 08:17 HolydaKing wrote: Honestly, I messed some with it and it kinda worked but then I wanted to do it better and looked what's up on reddit. After seeing this example of how to do it well I was like ok, wtf. I now managed to copy parts of it (don't have enough tools for all of it yet) and yes it took some minutes for sure, I didn't hate it though. Even if it isn't fun tho, it just needs to be done once and then you can just grow seeds and harvest things. And I'm sure GGG didn't expect everyone to do it like that, doing it worse lets you get crafts as well. I forget who, but someone from GGG said that everyone would have the optimal layout in ten minutes because someone would make it and post it on reddit on one of the podcasts. The question then becomes why bother wasting time coding all this when it contributes nothing to the league mechanic. Going back to complaining about pylons. Their existence implies a decision should be made, but connecting is always the right choice. When you condense, you can't craft with the material anymore so there's never a time when you don't want everything connected. Anything you save must eventually be used for the same thing which is spraying higher tier seeds. Higher seeds don't auto plant so you can never want to save it for something you aren't in control of. | ||
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Haasts
New Zealand4445 Posts
Can anyone more progressed tell me which atlas region Pen Map is in / what T2s it is connected to? Can't find a visual of the new atlas. | ||
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
On June 21 2020 12:41 Haasts wrote: The mistake I made with pylons rushing through the acts at league start was thinking they had to be directly adjacent, oops. Easily fixed after I looked a few things up after reaching maps. Can anyone more progressed tell me which atlas region Pen Map is in / what T2s it is connected to? Can't find a visual of the new atlas. Pen is T3, in Lex Ejoris region (top right). It's really close to the upper left border between Lex Ejoris and Lex Proxima. It's adjacent maps are Terrace (T3, Lex Proxima) and Lair (T4, Lex Ejoris) | ||
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Duka08
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For some reason this version is way nicer for my organizational preferences than the google docs that have been floating around lol | ||
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Haasts
New Zealand4445 Posts
On June 21 2020 13:12 EchelonTee wrote: Pen is T3, in Lex Ejoris region (top right). It's really close to the upper left border between Lex Ejoris and Lex Proxima. It's adjacent maps are Terrace (T3, Lex Proxima) and Lair (T4, Lex Ejoris) Cheers for that, Echelon - not having as much time as usual on league start, and trying to finesse things to have Pen as my only T3 for The Chains That Bind farming - little bit trickier with no adjacent T2, but I think I can leapfrog via 3-1ing Arsenal/Terrace to an adjacent T4. | ||
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smr
Germany4808 Posts
For a change I'm thinking of rolling a flicker-raider. Had an Oro's dropped earlier. Can anybody enlighten me how to transition from yellow to red best the best way atlaswise? I'm 12 conquerors deep and about every ~t10 map is to low for spawning. Do I go for 3 areas à 4 watchstones and wait for those t10s to drop higher maps? It's the barrier that I haven't passed yet in all those leagues (yeah supernoob ) | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On June 22 2020 06:24 smr wrote: Swapped from Chaos-Spellslinger to selfcast ed-contagion. I probably never played that build in endgame before. Feels like cheating only being balanced by my lack of skill. For a change I'm thinking of rolling a flicker-raider. Had an Oro's dropped earlier. Can anybody enlighten me how to transition from yellow to red best the best way atlaswise? I'm 12 conquerors deep and about every ~t10 map is to low for spawning. Do I go for 3 areas à 4 watchstones and wait for those t10s to drop higher maps? It's the barrier that I haven't passed yet in all those leagues (yeah supernoob )Have you watched any youtube videos explaining conquerors of the atlas? Coming back to playing from pre-atlas days and it was very informative on how all the mechanics work and the optimal setup. If you understand the mechanics its probably either bad luck or lower drop rates of maps. This league seems to have less currency/map pinatas as crafting is built into the harvest garden. At the same time, it's basically free to alch every map using harvest crafts. | ||
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