Path of Exile - Page 405

On April 04 2013 14:18 RoieTRS wrote:
I bought diablo 3 and played through it and whatever. I noticed PoE has these races, which is something I'm really interested in. I love the metagame for example I speedrun a few games and playing the game isn't as much fun as playing the game of fastest-completion beyond the game. This is some shit I dig.

Worth picking up? What is an expected timeframe to become a top-level racer?

On April 05 2013 07:28 Yomi.Doom wrote:
Started racing normal 1 hour/3 hour races 2 or so weeks ago. Currently have 4 demis, hoping for at least 5 by the end of the season. Races with mods are really rough for some reason for me, not exactly sure why. I probably don't play safe enough to do them properly. Also since races with mods don't yield any extra points, not really worth doing imo. I race only shadow where there are only a few people who consistently place at the top. It's mainly just Choi and condemned

I didn't do too much practicing before jumping into the 1 hour races, but I had a pretty good feel for the maps. My first few 1 hours were flops because I was trying EK and FP, but once I just did PA/FT, everything went smooth. Can hit 19-20 very consistently as long as I get the resist rings to progress.

Edit: This is all for solo races, I don't have a real party that wouldn't hold me back so I don't party

On April 04 2013 14:54 LagLovah wrote:
Top level racing, well, for party play, good luck, there are 3 or 4 teams that demolish everyone, no one else has the co-ordination. Solo racing, you have to know how to control the RNG of the items your looking for, for example if you want a +1 bow gems you want a bow from upper prison, best change to get one, or you want to know what level the elemental damage mods are, so when your rolling a new weapon for ele cleave you have the best chance to get a good one.

Along with that is maps, there are only so many different maps generated, some racers run them over and over and over trying to find similarity's with them. Upper submerged is one of these that has a consistent pattern. The general running of the race is pretty straight forward, theres certain breakpoints level wise you want to hit, certain times you want to go to town etc. Finishing top 50 isn't that difficult, winning a class is extremely difficult though.

Also since races with mods don't yield any extra points, not really worth doing imo.

On April 06 2013 09:26 ain wrote:
So how is cutthroat league coming along?

The second week of between-season events will most likely contain some cut-throat events.

On April 06 2013 09:29 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:




That would put it sometime around April 15th I guess.

On April 06 2013 09:33 ain wrote:

I'm talking about a permanent cutthroat league. I have no interest in these events.

On April 06 2013 09:38 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


Is there even plans for a permanent cut-throat league? I suppose if they're going to sell private leagues it is a possibility, but that is quite far away I'd imagine.

On April 06 2013 09:41 ain wrote:

Cut-throat has been advertised as a regular game mode since closed beta. It's the only reason I bought beta access.