Path of Exile - Page 1724

On November 22 2024 06:32 haitike wrote:
I didn't expect so much endgame in the early acesss. I'm quite surprised.

On November 22 2024 17:50 BLinD-RawR wrote:
lot of content for an early access god damn.

wonder if the guild also carries over into poe2 or do we have to remake it, I'd assume it just would considering almost everything is being carried over.

On November 06 2024 08:03 Craton wrote:
When I started out, the biggest problems were:

1.) Guides that ended too early.

They'd basically take you to mid-late maps, but with no real idea how to scale beyond that, especially with defense. You might hear a lot about getting more defensive layers, but understanding how to actually apply that to a build is really hard starting out. A lot of the sites you'll find googling have really atrocious guides. Other than Maxroll I'd probably avoid every guide site out there. The poe build subreddit has a stickied thread of decent league starter builds, which are generally the kind of build you'd want as a new player: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1eaudsu/325_settlers_of_kalguur_league_start_build_index/ A lot of those creators have other content you can look at. Certain people like Pohx and Zizaran cater more toward the very new player, but most guides are more toward the player who isn't brand new but also isn't experienced.

2.) Outdated info.

This is a hard one to address since there are a lot of changes every league and leagues are typically every 3-4 months. Poewiki.net is the only wiki you should use for looking things up. Otherwise, if a post or video is more than two leagues old you run the risk of bad info (frankly, even one league old can be problematic in some cases). This was a problem I ran into a lot when trying to look up things about league mechanics.

For guides, you really want to stick with guides made for the current league. There's a good chance anything older will rely on items or mechanics that are gone/have changed. Builds made ages ago that have been "updated" are hot garbage more often than not. This is specifically referring to old videos or guides that just update the text or notes without an actual new guide being made.

A lot of times you just have to go to a place like here or the build sub's Q&A thread to ask questions to get up to date info. Sometimes you just screw something up and learn from experience. POE's a rabbit's nest that can take years to fully explore. In my opinion, good guides are really the best way to approach starting out since there's just so much you won't know exists. There are always loads of build guides made each league to look at.


In terms of tools worth using:

Path of Building Community Edition - This'll be used with basically every guide out there to load in builds or play around making your own.

CraftOfExile.com - A bit advanced for starting out, but useful for looking up what can actually appear on each item. More importantly, there's an emulator where you can test crafting methods out before doing it in game. There are a lot of little gotchas so it's worth going here to verify things work as expected before spending currency in-game.

Awakened PoE Trade - Mostly to help price items. Not worth using on rares since figuring out what's worth something is way too complicated for it, but does pretty good for uniques. I'd recommend changing the settings to have a 0% tolerance on the item rolls since many uniques value is tied heavily to its rolls (by default it lowers everything by 10% for searching).

There are other sites and tools, but they're a bit much for just starting out.

Empyrean Gaming (youtube) also has been doing a series on different money making strategies the last few leagues. This is not at all catered to the new player, but can be a useful place to look if you do reach maps and want to start pushing deeper into making money or just seeing what options are out there.

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