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On January 01 2025 04:12 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On December 30 2024 21:00 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I just finished my first playthrough (as a cold sorc / stormweaver / intelligence build) - completed act 3 cruel in the mid-60s and then played the endgame's waystone tier nodes until level 70 and stopped. I mostly enjoyed playing through the 3 normal acts and 3 cruel acts, but I just don't understand the post-game grind and atlas map - it seems boring and monotonous.
I'm looking forward to trying the ranger/deadeye/dexterity next, and then probably a melee/strength character for my third playthrough. I'll probably do the same thing: try to beat the regular game before level 70, play a few rounds of the endgame to get to 70, and then move on.
Any advice for a new ranger/deadeye/dexterity build? Following up: While I don't think that the ranger is as fun as the sorc, the ranger is definitely playing the (early, at least) game on easy mode. Act 2, level 22, just got my ascendancy / beat the trial on the first try, and I've died a total of 0 times so far. No deaths in act 1, and none in act 2 so far.
Yeah, I've seen both played and range early looks to be cheating. Merc and Monk are kinda difficult lol. I'm in act 3 with Monk and it's a tiny bit easy but I'm in the middle of the mobs banging the bell like a deranged person.
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imo the trick to Monk early game is to just grab a bow and pretend to be a ranger.
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On January 01 2025 05:04 Gorsameth wrote:
imo the trick to Monk early game is to just grab a bow and pretend to be a ranger.
lmao probably the way to go. But I'm already too invested.
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Just got my next 2 points and I just got into Cruel. Not sure I wanna run this whole thing back but I'll at least get into Act 2 before I decide to abandon and play something else.
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About halfway through Act 3, still on my SSF minion/chao infernalist. Having a blast still, especially trying to balance getting minion nodes versus chaos. I know I'm probably not playing optimally but just trying to take in the game on my own. I am absolutely in love with how beautiful the game is. I also realized the parallel between POE2 and D2, literally act 2 are deserts and act 3 are jungle lmao.
Cons:
REALLY wish more exalted orbs would drop for me so I can craft more because I feel a little starved for gear experimentation. That being said, every yellow that drops I get a pretty fucking excited that it might be good; sadly 80% of the time it's not what I am looking for.
Hate on death effects
Overall wish enemies would not respawn on death
Wish maps and checkpoints would stay instead of random generation upon exit so that I can more efficiently re-farm prior bosses. I love the boss fights and want to do them more, and as SSF I feel I need to farm them for some gear
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having little bits of crafting would be fun but idk if they have the right design for that. I enjoyed fiddling with gear in Last Epoch a lot more. PoE2 combat / atmosphere is great but itemization and crafting idk
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Just finished Act 3 on Cruel and started maps/atlas. I have no idea what I'm doing in there. I go in and almost immediately die. So probably a combo of skill + gear. I dunno if I'll stick with doing maps over and over. I enjoyed the game (Got 2 uniques before I hit 30 and I've just been using those (Also got about 6 uniques in stash that I can't use but I don't want to get rid of them yet)).
Might take a break and come back in a few months. See what's been changed and what hasn't.
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might be elemental resistances or total effective hit pool (HP + energy shielc). Ele res cap is 75%, its pretty hard to hit without trading for some gear tho
personally I found campaign the most fun, got bored in mapping pretty quick
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On January 05 2025 01:55 EchelonTee wrote:
might be elemental resistances or total effective hit pool (HP + energy shielc). Ele res cap is 75%, its pretty hard to hit without trading for some gear tho
personally I found campaign the most fun, got bored in mapping pretty quick
Yeah once this build I'm following took over, it made the game almost laughable. Invoker Ice Monk hits pretty hard. So that was fun and it was intriguing to see it play out. Now I'm just like, what next. Luckily I have other games I can play on PS5 til later. It's a crazy beginning to the year for games, so I'll probably degen on Dynasty Warriors in a few weeks.
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On January 05 2025 02:48 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 05 2025 01:55 EchelonTee wrote:
might be elemental resistances or total effective hit pool (HP + energy shielc). Ele res cap is 75%, its pretty hard to hit without trading for some gear tho
personally I found campaign the most fun, got bored in mapping pretty quick Yeah once this build I'm following took over, it made the game almost laughable. Invoker Ice Monk hits pretty hard. So that was fun and it was intriguing to see it play out. Now I'm just like, what next. Luckily I have other games I can play on PS5 til later. It's a crazy beginning to the year for games, so I'll probably degen on Dynasty Warriors in a few weeks.
I made a cast on freeze comet sorceress, minion infernalist and now I'm leveling up an ice monk myself, but half-heartedly.
I fully believe any day now, GGG will awaken from their holiday slumber and bring judgement day upon us sinners killing like 75% of the builds, including that very ice monk so I'm not too invested into rushing him to maps and level 70+.
I'm still going to play PoE2 until Monster Hunter: Wilds releases in February then take a long rest from PoE2.
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