EPTOn April 20 2013 09:20 RuskiPanda wrote:
You don't have to play templar as a melee.
You don't have to play templar as a melee.
true, but playing as ranged feels sooo much easier. its ridiculous.
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
true, but playing as ranged feels sooo much easier. its ridiculous. | ||
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Archers_bane
United States1338 Posts
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SlixSC
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On April 20 2013 09:23 ticklishmusic wrote: true, but playing as ranged feels sooo much easier. its ridiculous. Well, marauder ground slam with lots of health is probably the easiest build. But I prefer my 73 ranger (lightning arrow/m. projectiles/chain/lifel.) and it's almost as easy. | ||
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akatama
Romania982 Posts
On April 20 2013 18:45 SlixSC wrote: Well, marauder ground slam with lots of health is probably the easiest build. But I prefer my 73 ranger (lightning arrow/m. projectiles/chain/lifel.) and it's almost as easy. You can start as a melee Marauder and switch to bows around end of Cruel - start of Merciless (right when melee starts getting harder to play). You can use this ExilePro link for some pointers. That guide focuses on Rain of Arrows but it can be easily modified for LA. That being said, having played a LA Ranger back in CB, I have to say I like RoA more (despite only getting a RoA character to Cruel before dying due to a retarded alt-tab). It is easy for a LA build to die to off-screen Reflect rares (was way worse when Diamond Flasks were in the game) and tackling "allies cannot die" rares or totems can prove difficult at times (special mention for Lightning Thorns). Once you get used to the small delay of RoA it feels much better. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On April 20 2013 18:45 SlixSC wrote: Well, marauder ground slam with lots of health is probably the easiest build. But I prefer my 73 ranger (lightning arrow/m. projectiles/chain/lifel.) and it's almost as easy. yeah, i found a build online that sounds similar to what you're doing that i'm following. all the builds ive seen thus far seem to want reduced mana cost gems, anyone know how to get those/ how rare they are? | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On April 21 2013 02:04 ticklishmusic wrote: yeah, i found a build online that sounds similar to what you're doing that i'm following. all the builds ive seen thus far seem to want reduced mana cost gems, anyone know how to get those/ how rare they are? They're a quest reward so they're relatively cheap. | ||
Spazer
Canada8033 Posts
On April 21 2013 02:04 ticklishmusic wrote: yeah, i found a build online that sounds similar to what you're doing that i'm following. all the builds ive seen thus far seem to want reduced mana cost gems, anyone know how to get those/ how rare they are? 1 alch to 1 chaos is the price range I've seen for reduced mana. | ||
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SlixSC
666 Posts
I'm running anger and wrath with 1 reduced mana gem and it seems to affect both, so I dont really see why you would ever need mutiple reduced mana gem, unless you want to run 5 or more auras at the same time lol | ||
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niuage
United States175 Posts
- searches will default to the Default league. It's better for a majority of players and makes sense. You can register and set your league as Hardcore to change that. - small improvement for readability, I highlight selects and inputs that are not empty - and as requested, I added a way to filter out items with a given mod. For CI builds for instance, it's useful to be able to search for items without the +# to max life mod. | ||
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Spazer
Canada8033 Posts
On April 21 2013 06:41 SlixSC wrote: Pretty sure reduced mana works on multiple auras, so if you want to run 3 auras and have a 4 link you can use 3 auras + 1 reduced mana. I'm running anger and wrath with 1 reduced mana gem and it seems to affect both, so I dont really see why you would ever need mutiple reduced mana gem, unless you want to run 5 or more auras at the same time lol You can run blood magic + reduced mana + non-percentage auras for maximum aura pimpage. | ||
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SlixSC
666 Posts
On April 21 2013 08:50 Spazer wrote: You can run blood magic + reduced mana + non-percentage auras for maximum aura pimpage. Yeah I'm actually using the blood magic keystone, is it worth using the gem instead of the keystone and use the skill point for something else? I have never tried the blood magic gem before. | ||
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Tennet
United States1458 Posts
On April 21 2013 09:11 SlixSC wrote: Yeah I'm actually using the blood magic keystone, is it worth using the gem instead of the keystone and use the skill point for something else? I have never tried the blood magic gem before. There are builds that use the gem so that they can also run auras. But it depends on your build if the keystone or gem is better. | ||
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Marradron
Netherlands1586 Posts
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Spazer
Canada8033 Posts
On April 21 2013 09:11 SlixSC wrote: Yeah I'm actually using the blood magic keystone, is it worth using the gem instead of the keystone and use the skill point for something else? I have never tried the blood magic gem before. What Tennet said. It's build dependent. The drawback of using the blood magic gem lies in the increased cost (245% at min level, 196% at max level). So you'll be using more life if you're linked to a skill, and more life will be reserved for non-percentage auras. The benefit of this route is that you get to use those delicious percentage auras like Determination and Purity. Edit: Also, that blood magic gem takes up a socket. This can severely reduce dps. | ||
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akatama
Romania982 Posts
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coopes
United States144 Posts
On April 21 2013 21:59 akatama wrote: How the heck can you compensate for really bad drops in a race as melee? Started out as a melee Marauder, but by mid A3 normal the best weapon I have found was a 2h that had 3-31 Lightning damage. I was constantly using all the Alts trying to get something decent, but barely managed to get to acceptable health and resist levels. Zero good 2h, bad 1h for ele Cleave (combined with the lack of elemental damage on the rest of gear, low rolls on weapons and the lack of Dex nodes by that level). Yeah playing elecleave or some form of melee build during a race is op as fk if u get good weapons/gear but if not ur pretty much screwed for the tough mobs/bosses. That's one of the perks of racing in a group i suppose, as people can just share loot and it makes it much more likely you'll get atleast something pretty good | ||
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Demonhunter04
1530 Posts
On April 21 2013 02:48 Spazer wrote: 1 alch to 1 chaos is the price range I've seen for reduced mana. Aside from the chaos damage snakes and flamethrower dogs, 2H marauder with lots of life was much easier for me than my witch. Quality on reduced mana gives 0.5% reduced mana cost per % quality, so a lvl 20 with 20% quality reduces the cost to 61% of base. I would try for one of these, though it might be really expensive. You can get a few regular reduced mana gems as quest rewards for strength classes, especially the marauder. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On April 22 2013 02:21 Demonhunter04 wrote: Aside from the chaos damage snakes and flamethrower dogs, 2H marauder with lots of life was much easier for me than my witch. Quality on reduced mana gives 0.5% reduced mana cost per % quality, so a lvl 20 with 20% quality reduces the cost to 61% of base. I would try for one of these, though it might be really expensive. You can get a few regular reduced mana gems as quest rewards for strength classes, especially the marauder. The quality on the reduced mana gem doesn't work on auras which is what most people use them for. On April 21 2013 21:59 akatama wrote: How the heck can you compensate for really bad drops in a race as melee? Started out as a melee Marauder, but by mid A3 normal the best weapon I have found was a 2h that had 3-31 Lightning damage. I was constantly using all the Alts trying to get something decent, but barely managed to get to acceptable health and resist levels. Zero good 2h, bad 1h for ele Cleave (combined with the lack of elemental damage on the rest of gear, low rolls on weapons and the lack of Dex nodes by that level). Sometimes you have to spend that extra few minutes farming a key zone even though it seems like a waste of time. It turns out to be a net gain when you pick up a sick weapon. | ||
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akatama
Romania982 Posts
On April 22 2013 06:35 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: Sometimes you have to spend that extra few minutes farming a key zone even though it seems like a waste of time. It turns out to be a net gain when you pick up a sick weapon. Note: I'm talking about the 1 week race. Spent maybe 90-120 mins combined of farming Western Forest, Vaal Ruins, even cleared the Cave once for the quest hoping the rare belt would be half decent. I only had 2 nice drops in total: a 80 health rare Leather Belt (second stat was garbage), second was a double resist + life armor chest from the warehouse Sewers. | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
Usually I can tell if an item is exceptionally good (like multiple exa territory), with the exception of jewellery which follows its own weird rules. But what about those mediocre, chaos-territory items? Here's one I'm trying to price: + Show Spoiler + Armour: 441 (augmented) Evasion Rating: 441 (augmented) -------- Requirements: Level: 52 (unmet) Str: 73 (unmet) Dex: 73 (unmet) -------- Sockets: R R-R-R -------- Itemlevel: 68 -------- 125% increased Armour and Evasion == could be 176. 1st and 2nd prefix. +77 to maximum Life == could be 109. 3rd prefix 2.8 Life Regenerated per second == 1st suffix, shit. +15% to Cold Resistance == 2nd suffix, shit. +30% to Chaos Resistance == 3rd suffix, great. 14% increased Block and Stun Recovery == part of ar/eva Here's my reasoning on this item: out of the 3 prefixes, all are good. But rolls are shit. Life max is 109 and ar/eva can max out at 176. If they were 80s/90s and 150s then it'd be a good item I think. But there's no room for a flat armor prefix (can those roll on hybrids?) so the defense stats suck. There's one good suffix (max chaos roll), and the other two are shit. No exalt potential here. Sockets/links are shit. How would you price it? | ||
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