Path of Exile - Page 643

On January 05 2014 14:25 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


They actually aren't at all. The affixes on the item matter a million times more than the base stats. You will often be using the four energy shield boots until level 30 or 40 because they rolled movespeed. It is actually better than using some other item with marginally more defense that doesn't have the best affix on boots. Don't pull an evo and be in merciless with 300 armor and wonder why you're taking so much damage, but there is a pretty big margin to work with. More so if you utilize other defensive mechanics like endurance charges or block and then eventually granite/jade flasks.

It isn't unreasonable to take say 10 additional life over 50 armor, especially if said item also has some resist rolls. You'll probably have a life roll on every piece of gear unless you're using some unique that has a favorable affix (goldrim is a good example). Choosing the piece with the most life (disregard it's base defense entirely) should work out pretty well until you're in cruel act 3 as long as your resists aren't super bad.



Crafting jewelry is pretty terrible generally. These items have one of the higher affix pools so getting what you want of them is going to require a lot more investment. It is also far more efficient to trade for it due to the way level requirements and item level work, but you probably won't find much at such a low level. After you finish cruel you should be able to pick up some good jewelry from piety/dominus farmers.

On January 04 2014 09:38 HolydaKing wrote:
Zoroxo what supports do you use for Flameblast? I'm playing Flameblast too and am lvl 54 right now (Nemesis One Week too). Really hard choices imo. I think the additional 110% more spell damage per charge make things like added lightning really good.

On January 05 2014 23:36 oneofthem wrote:
btw how do people have like 50 eternals? is it just through trade chat sniping?

On January 06 2014 00:07 ZoRoXo wrote:

I use ele prolif, chance to ignite, increased burning damage in my searing touch. If I didn't RIP my fusings I'd have a fire pen as well. Maybe faster casting as 6l, hard to say without trying.

Added lightning is fine while leveling, anything is really fine while leveling since you oneshot most stuff anyway.

On January 05 2014 23:00 Broetchenholer wrote:


I am just saying, if you are using orbs to craft low level equipment, which is not exactly resource efficient to begin with, you better start with an item that has the best possible outlook to improve your equipment. Of course, in the end you want to use the + 50 health item over the +20% increased evasion or similar, but starting the crafting with a gighlevel white with good sockets still provides better outcomes, especially cause the ilvl should be higher and higher roles on the affixes might occur.

On January 06 2014 04:09 Uquu wrote:
Ripped my 85lvl Marauder in Nemesis today due to Spider lair boss, increased boss damage/attack speed and cold extra damage (and my panic) was too much for him hehe.

On January 06 2014 01:58 r.Evo wrote:

I think incr burn damage is a waste.

Your basic options are for a 6L:
Prolif / Firepen / Chance to Ignite / Incr Burn Damage / Faster Casting / Incr AoE / Conc effect / Empower.

In theory for a build like this the no-brainer options should be Prolif / Firepen / Chance to ignite. However, compared to similar spells (Discharge/Firetrap) your two main issues are getting to full stacks ASAP and things randomly walking inside/outside of your AoE. Your 10 stacks do more damage (albeit just 5%-ish) than a 7 Endurance Discharge anyway.

Based on that I think the only true no-brainer gem is Faster Casting, with the second one to consider being incr AoE. You gain chance to ignite from quality on the Flameblast and most likely any of the above is better than any kind of Added X damage.

FC / Incr AoE / Prolif for the 4-Link and then I'd shoot for Firepen + Conc effect for the 6 Link.


PS: Kind of fun to see that streamers seem to play my Burning Miscreation build now and my Cloak of Defiance stash rose about 5x in worth. Easy life.

On January 05 2014 21:38 Svetz wrote:
Started my first nemesis character, some kind of cold ranger. Having fun so far, pretty fun kiting everything knowing that 2-3 hits at the same time will lead to death.

Strangely enough the only desync I've had so far was during the warden fight, that was pretty scary having him teleport around the screen knowing he'll probably one shot me if he hits me.

Is it normal to only get desync during boss fights or just unlucky? Could imagine the special effects/abilities having an effect on the desync rate if they result in a lot of extra traffic.

Would like to know if it's normal so I can try and plan around it