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musai

Canada552 Posts

February 14 2013 13:52 GMT

#6081

Also you can just copy a build from one of the PoE Class forums, or just mess around in your normal play through. You get from 1-40 so quickly that even if you mess up your build (to the point where 18 respecs aren't enough), it's really easy to re-roll.

Personally I tried a couple builds to mid 40s, (A2 Cruel) before I decided what to play.

AnotherRandom

Canada81 Posts

February 14 2013 14:26 GMT

#6082

On February 14 2013 22:19 shaftofpleasure wrote:
Is there a guide for someone who is completely new to the game?

.. is this the right place to ask this question? im gonna start today and would love some tips on how/where to start ..

If you've never played an ARPG before then just do whatever, you'll figure it out eventually.

If you have played an ARPG before then the resources I would strongly suggest you look at are the quest rewards list on the wiki, and the passive tree on the main website. Look over what skills are in the game and get an idea for what kind of character you'd like to play, and from there using both the quest reward list and the passive tree figure out which class you'd like to start with.

For example: The moment I saw there were summons in this game, I found the class that needed the fewest levels to get all the minion related skills (Witch) and played that. Then I wanted a character with a bow yet I didn't want to rely on gear that had +elemental damage% so I made a Ranger and built her for physical damage. Right now I saw some of the skills on the shadow side of the tree (namely life on hit and mana/life leech) and am currently playing what I hope to be a tanky/DPS dual wielding claw shadow that may or may not use CI (Chaos Innoculation).

Also, wiki Keystone and Notable nodes on the passive tree, they're pretty cool and many builds are focused solely around them. (Keystone Nodes are the biggest ones on the outside of the tree and a few in the middle).

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

February 14 2013 15:08 GMT

#6083

Oh and if you play in party.. Learn how to and actively ninja anything you see. It massively increases your itemincome (instead of getting half your item ninjad you ninja like a whole playerdrop more on average) and actually teaches you a lot about mobility and how to move in closerange (well, except you wanna play elemental ranger all your life... then you just stand anywhere and rightclick, so you will never need that, but probably that isnt your goal)

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

February 14 2013 15:26 GMT

#6084

I brought my trap templar to act 3 normal, lvl 35 now. So far I am steamrolling everything. I joined some groups to do boring act 3 faster and I was doing most damage :D
When we did Piety in crematorium (5 man group) I ran up to her alone, threw 2 fire and 2 bear traps and made her run away :D

So, anyone that has access to Searing Touch, if you want to play crazy OP and fun trap templar I recommend it fully.

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

February 14 2013 15:44 GMT

#6085

I have a firetrap+Dual flametotem templar at lvl 62 in HC right now

Okiesmokie

Canada379 Posts

February 14 2013 15:56 GMT

#6086

Account: xOkiesmokie
Build: Cold/CI Witch
Softcore/Hardcore: Softcore
Other: Currently level 71, looking for people to do maps with and such.

Tennet

United States1458 Posts

February 14 2013 16:07 GMT

#6087

If anyone has windscream for sale on HC, I am interested.

Archers_bane

United States1338 Posts

February 14 2013 16:12 GMT

#6088

How do yall play firetrap templars?

I am thinking about spending a lot of currency to respec into Ice Nova AOE + Freezing Trap. That sounds more fun that freezing pulse, but I don't know if its even good. I really dont feel like leveling up to lvl 70 again though :S Any ideas or people playing Ice witch AOE Nova is right now?

Pwere

Canada1557 Posts

February 14 2013 16:40 GMT

#6089

I have an Ice Nova Templar. The damage is pitiful, the range is not enough, the cast speed is dangerously low, mana cost is high, but it is somewhat viable, due solely to the strength of the decoy totem and high life. As long as you stay ahead of the curve (i.e. your ice nova deals enough damage to interrupt targets), it is stupidly easy. But A3 was hard because you don't have your good support gems yet, lots of elemental resist around, and smaller packs of harder monsters.

Freezing Pulse is simply in another league. Shotgunning on an AoE spell with fast cast and low cost is stupidly effective. You setup one spell and you have AoE, Crowd Control, Single Target and sustainability.

On February 14 2013 16:52 udgnim wrote:

Show nested quote +

use orbs

Don't. Trading is a lot more effective. Keep your orbs for high level items.

I agree on the item drought in Cruel. It's always been this way. You'd get ok gear in normal, then very few upgrades in cruel/ruthless. I remember one ranger using the same bow to kill normal, cruel and Ruthless Vaal in CB. You either have to play in a party that shares loot, so everyone gets a lot of upgrades, or when you hit a wall, you roll a new character that levels fast with your twink gear, and will eventually find upgrades for your main character (mostly rings/belts/amulets).

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

February 14 2013 16:44 GMT

#6090

My Templar has mostly survivalspec (Life+res+armor, it is HC ^^), dualtotem, static blows and in a few levels will get eldritch battery. Got the major firenodes, and the elenodes in the templar area that you have to pass through to get out.
And ofc i got 0 trapnodes ^.^ True traptemplar :D
Gems are:
Flame Totem + Reduced Mana + Fire Penetration + Added Lightning Dmg (for shock)
Firetrap + Firepenetration + Chance to Ignite
Firetrap + Concentrated effect
Clarity + TempChains + Enfeeble + Reduced Mana

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

February 14 2013 16:50 GMT

#6091

On February 15 2013 01:12 Archers_bane wrote:
How do yall play firetrap templars?

I am thinking about spending a lot of currency to respec into Ice Nova AOE + Freezing Trap. That sounds more fun that freezing pulse, but I don't know if its even good. I really dont feel like leveling up to lvl 70 again though :S Any ideas or people playing Ice witch AOE Nova is right now?

If you are not HC (I don't do HC builds) this is where I explained my version of Trap Templar:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=17774343

And this would be my passive tree when it is finished:+ Show Spoiler +

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUBAnEEBwSzBVsMfQ5IEH8RlhJpFE0XHBmFGjgabB0UHwIkPCSqJpUnqSlPLR82xTbpPV9G10lRUEJSU1VLVcZYrlptW1ldxl3yYG1mT2e9bRlwUnDVcXl-WX_GgUmCHoKbgziHZYhCi4yMNo5kj0aPppBVl5WYrZuhnC2dgJ2jna6ftKIAoi6nCKdcp4SyOLUEtvq4k8HFwfPGns9l0NDYJNrd2wvd8-Fz42rkIuw47SDub-988XbyHfem99f8qw==

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

February 14 2013 16:53 GMT

#6092

On February 15 2013 01:44 mahrgell wrote:
My Templar has mostly survivalspec (Life+res+armor, it is HC ^^), dualtotem, static blows and in a few levels will get eldritch battery. Got the major firenodes, and the elenodes in the templar area that you have to pass through to get out.
And ofc i got 0 trapnodes ^.^ True traptemplar :D
Gems are:
Flame Totem + Reduced Mana + Fire Penetration + Added Lightning Dmg (for shock)
Firetrap + Firepenetration + Chance to Ignite
Firetrap + Concentrated effect
Clarity + TempChains + Enfeeble + Reduced Mana

I would link 2 fire traps to Increased AoE and fire penetration. And use bear trap+added fire damage for rares and bosses.

And I agree, trap passives are weak and not enough of them on main pathways.
BTW, this is dual totem build + traps, not really a trap templar :D

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

February 14 2013 17:13 GMT

#6093

I feel like traps and totems belong together. The cooldown on traps is too high, even when using 3 trapslots. (it is still only one cast per second then, once you spammed out your initial 9 traps) On the other hand they are an awesome addition to a dual totem build since you now have a nice dmg support while most skills are disabled. Also Dualtotem is almost on the way for my passive-build.
You can basically now use half your time for traps (cooldown doesnt allow for much more anyway and you can easily burst them out and then let em regen), and split the remaining time between movement, curses and totemcasting.
Not sure why you wouldnt use dualtotem (whatever totem you like) on a trap templar, except for pridereasons.

Iblis

904 Posts

February 14 2013 17:22 GMT

#6094

Anyone know how much a basic enfeeble is worth?

Butcherski

Poland446 Posts

February 14 2013 17:23 GMT

#6095

So my templar is gonna be map ready tomorrow, feel free to add me ign @ Butcherski on softcore.

Tennet

United States1458 Posts

February 14 2013 17:29 GMT

#6096

On February 15 2013 02:22 Iblis wrote:
Anyone know how much a basic enfeeble is worth?

I bought one today for an alch, so try that.

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

February 14 2013 17:34 GMT

#6097

Is there any use for those?

Rarity: Unique
Facebreaker
Strapped Mitts
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Evasion Rating: 26
Energy Shield: 8
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Requirements:
Level: 16
Dex: 14
Int: 14
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60% increased Global Critical Strike Multiplier
10% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold
917% more Unarmed Physical Damage
Extra gore
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Fly like a Storm Crow, crush like a Rhoa

The Critmult is massive, but i would love to somehow utilise the unarmed... but it just seems like a joke

Even a lvl50 char has like 5 Basedmg unarmed, so with those gloves it is 50... yay...

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

February 14 2013 17:37 GMT

#6098

They're really good for leveling up a new character. There was a build in CB that utilized them as well, but they're a very niche item that doesn't see much use.

Southlight

United States11768 Posts

February 14 2013 17:40 GMT

#6099

There're unarmed builds. It's a niche item because it's a Unique and it's hard building around a Unique.

ZasZ.

United States2911 Posts

February 14 2013 17:45 GMT

#6100

Agreed on the trap passive being relatively weak, but would they be worth picking up if you're starting as Shadow, since you get an extra trap per cluster?

Have been thinking about starting a trap Shadow.