Path of Exile - Page 904

On March 21 2015 16:25 HolydaKing wrote:

Lawl, I laughed. I mean, you are right they're strong. My summoner beats any map except Atziri (which might be doable but I don't care).

However, they're not easy to farm up, starting from the scratch. They're the most painful leveling experience I had. I'm sure you could avoid that by going something like Flameblast or Searing Bond on normal, though. Since starting like mid Cruel, Zombies are getting pretty strong if you happen to find Melee Splash. If not, your AoE won't be very fun because imo there are no truely good Spectres in Act 1 or Act 2.


Regarding my idea of playing BM Flametotem, I'm starting to think going BM has no real advantages. If you go EB, which isn't a big point investment, then mana should not be a problem at all. Plus you should be able to run Purity (yes I'm worried about the survivability of the totems before lvl 19-20 and/or high quality, knowing minions are snacks without it) and maybe a herald. So I'm kinda torn whether to do it for the first time or not.

On March 21 2015 23:29 phantomlancer23 wrote:
I havent played poe since 1 year and more.I will have plenty of time next weeks,please invite me to the guild account name is Asakujaku server is EU.

On March 21 2015 12:14 Probemicro wrote:


you realise that is the only build that has tested and true since the beginning of public PoE
every other build has come and gone in the meta thanks to balance changes but summoner has always remained cheap and viable for MF/endgame.

funny enough i was one of the few that actually tried out SRS way back last year before its buff and every streamer humper start hyping it up. it was already very strong.

On March 22 2015 03:18 KissBlade wrote:
Btw ticklish (or anyone really), my wife is having a lot of fun with the game as a summoner on her end. However, she only has Wrath as her AoE. Would that work for EE instead of Hatred? Or is there a specific reason why Hatred is used over it?

On March 22 2015 02:57 KissBlade wrote:
Hey Blitzkrieg0 can you send me an invite to the NA guild as well? XvKissblade is my username.

Also I'm back with another newbie question. Are there any whites I should be holding onto? I just found a 5 link (all red) white colosseum plate but the item level is only 49. Not sure if I should do anything with it or just vend it.

On March 22 2015 03:18 KissBlade wrote:
Or is there a specific reason why Hatred is used over it?

On March 22 2015 06:09 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


Invite sent.

Your 5L low item level is worthless on standard as well. Feel free to vendor it for a wisdom scroll fragment. You could consider using it if you want a really weak five link or try to sell it for a chaos or two, but finding a buyer isn't really worth the trouble imo



Hatred adds damage based on a percentage of your physical damage. If you have a physical build this will always be higher than the flat damage that Wrath or Anger adds.

On March 22 2015 07:57 Hikari wrote:
ugh Lightning Orb EE+SRS... that sound... really slow =/

On March 22 2015 07:02 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:
Technically you could do it with Wrath and use a cold spell to proc EE, but there isn't a great cold spell to proc with like ball lightning or arc.

On March 22 2015 02:58 ticklishmusic wrote:


Yea, but the problem is that they're still quite a bit weaker than most builds and a huge pain in the ass to level. I've got a lvl 85(6?) summoner on Torment. Gear is relatively cheap, but the clear is worse than my lvl 70ish flicker striker. Every time I play I use Residence evangelists (I just clear a map with another char), and they die within an hour of mapping. Doesn't matter if I have ridiculously tanky zombies if I have no dps.

I think SRS might get nerfed soon though-- the thing where if you have Hatred on them and it triggers perma EE for free damage is pretty OP, and I feel like it may not have been intended. I've done a couple chars with it, not too bad.

On March 22 2015 08:19 Nub4ever wrote:


Regarding that nerf, is the build that popular rn? I'm hoping to play it when the 1month comes around but if it gets nerfed by then, pretty sad times :/

On March 22 2015 03:49 HolydaKing wrote:
Dunno if you are still reading/writing here, but GLGL in the racing invitational finals Zoroxo!

Starting in 10 minutes.

(Can't help with the SRS question)

EDIT: Hope Throzz dies, kinda shitty he doesn't stream and owns the others so hard. Though I don't blame him for not streaming haha.
EDIT2: Maybe it'll get close though, some are closing the gap a little.

On March 22 2015 07:59 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


SRS has some of the sickest clear speed in the game, at least it used to.

On March 22 2015 10:20 ZoRoXo wrote:

thx, but got owned pretty hard :D

I'm pretty rusty on templar, but honestly didn't expect to win either way. Bit of a shame that throzz doesn't stream, but he did upload some record runs at times. ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2em7W6uBoGu4aQ9UJX_mSQ/videos)
Doesn't seem like he does anything exceptional that I could pick up myself so, guess it mostly just comes down to luck and obviously experience.

The rewards were decent, but for me it was mostly just about the competition.


I'd say on hard maps it has some of the sickest clear speeds since you can kind of run over everything (especially being perma vaal hasted on temp chains), but on simple blue maps that everyone rolls these days. Flameblast beats it by a decent margin, even after the nerf tbh. Also arc with curse on hit is imo way better than ball lightning. You may not hit as many, but you hit them instantly and have no issues at all with corruption blood.
My old srs setup http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1203222 could do any map at very decent speed that didn't have blood magic and noregen. Only reason I died was that I pressed wrong potion while being slightly desynced in atziri split phase :D