EPTElse, simply use Ice Crash with some AoE nodes and increased AoE gem for almost full screen AoE, which is basically ranged as well.
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HolydaKing
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Else, simply use Ice Crash with some AoE nodes and increased AoE gem for almost full screen AoE, which is basically ranged as well. | ||
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Miragee
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Wander is an option for one hand/shield. Kinetic Blast is pretty strong. | ||
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HolydaKing
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On July 08 2015 20:15 Miragee wrote: For Frost Blades you need to hit your target in melee range. Wander is an option for one hand/shield. Kinetic Blast is pretty strong. ?? Where does it say that? +14 weapon range isn't really melee anymore is it? Else that skill would have zero benefit. Would make it like Lightning Strike (hate that skill) with cold dmg instead of lightning... | ||
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Miragee
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On July 08 2015 21:19 HolydaKing wrote: ?? Where does it say that? +14 weapon range isn't really melee anymore is it? Else that skill would have zero benefit. Yeah you are right. 14 weapon range is a lot for melee. But it isn't really ranged, either. | ||
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vndestiny
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WTB Disable particle effects option. | ||
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Smuft
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On July 08 2015 15:02 r.Evo wrote: Ugh. This might be the first league where I'm seriously debating just rolling temp SC. Normal Malachai was the first serious issue for me but I can put that down to a shitty build (I decided to level as SRS/AW, cause why not), Cruel was a walk in the park until late A4. Kaom was stupid (cheesed the fight with like 15 animated weapons, the DPS race against his summons in the last phase seems absolutely impossible) and I can't even get to Daresso because the 2nd set of Minibosses (not the puncture guys, the ones where you're locked in and shit continously spawns) come in such huge numbers that SRS can't keep up at all. I guess I could consider going Firestorm/Ball Lightning until A1 merci but it almost seems as if I'd need to commit too many points to make those work. Really unsure how people are doing this atm. ball lightning / glacial cascade / flame totem (even if nerfed a bit) will all do fine the fight is hard but not near as hard as people are making it out to be, just need a bit of experience for what to avoid, when to move, when to attack, etc 1500 hp / capped resists / couple instant pots and ur good to go as long as you have some idea how to fight I think even melee should be fine, just need a bit more HP and a bit more experience on how the fight works | ||
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HolydaKing
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Also melee shouldn't be much harder, you just need to be careful a bit more because of the Smash. Else, you at least have more armour and fortify so you don't take as much dmg from the undodgeable stuff. | ||
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Probemicro
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his attacks by themselves are all dodgeable but the small size of the arena plus intensity of aoe attacks (that dissolve into clusterfuck) means some builds have it easier than others. totems/lategame srs players can mostly concentrate on dodging rather than attacking, very easy for them. regular summoners are toast will simply have their summons melt before they can do anything | ||
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r.Evo
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On July 09 2015 03:24 Smuft wrote: ball lightning / glacial cascade / flame totem (even if nerfed a bit) will all do fine the fight is hard but not near as hard as people are making it out to be, just need a bit of experience for what to avoid, when to move, when to attack, etc 1500 hp / capped resists / couple instant pots and ur good to go as long as you have some idea how to fight I think even melee should be fine, just need a bit more HP and a bit more experience on how the fight works Yeah agreed. I think it just seems a lot worse for me cause I tried to shove a minion build down his throat that wasn't designed for him. If you go dual curse with tanky as hell zombies/specs like AngryAA did I think you're fine as well. | ||
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TheTenthDoc
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On July 09 2015 09:16 Probemicro wrote: they will definitely nerf normal/cruel malachai simply for sake of new players. his attacks by themselves are all dodgeable but the small size of the arena plus intensity of aoe attacks (that dissolve into clusterfuck) means some builds have it easier than others. totems/lategame srs players can mostly concentrate on dodging rather than attacking, very easy for them. regular summoners are toast will simply have their summons melt before they can do anything It would be pretty cool if their approach to making it easier was making phase II take place in a progressively smaller arena in normal, cruel, and merciless. I felt like 95% of the difficulty was just keeping track of the clusterfuck of crap he throws out. Normal = Size of Atziri trio room, Cruel = ~1.3x the current size, Merciless = just a bit smaller than current size. Too bad it's way too late for them to do that. | ||
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Probemicro
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also portalling removes all the traps that are currently in the area, so portalling after every 20-30s would actually help to give you more room to fight malachai with | ||
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Ota Solgryn
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My thinking is that since you can get life from leech and flasks, maybe it would make sense | ||
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Alur
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On July 08 2015 19:27 Meavis wrote: haven't played this game all to much with highest char just getting to 3rd playthrough, but planning to play a lot more after patch hits. was thinking of making a ranged with shield character, but with the only ranged weapon being a 2h in bows, I was wondering what alternatives are possible for a ranged attack, spectral throw seems to be a good option but I'm curious if there are other options. Wands are 1h ranged weapons, and wanders seem quite strong atm, so you could look into that. | ||
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HolydaKing
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On July 09 2015 17:29 Ota Solgryn wrote: Thinking of going Life + ES hybrid build. Does anyone have experience using zealots oath? Is it really making a difference or is it useless? My thinking is that since you can get life from leech and flasks, maybe it would make sense I do have experience with both Zealot's Oath and Ghost Reaver hybrid chars. If you go hybrid you want one of them. Zealot's Oath only makes a difference if you have a decent amount of life regeneration, but it is definitely useful if you have no leech and no Ghost Reaver. Because you often will be at full Life and then your Life regen will do nothing. Gotta use Life Flasks for when Chaos damage hits you, and thus you need to be on alert. In general Zealot's Oath will be a lot more popular in 2.0, because if you go EB and Zealot's Oath you can use skills completely on Energy Shield and can reserve all mana for auras. EDIT: But if you have leech, I'd probably favor Ghost Reaver over ZO. Oh, and for the build I'll play tomorrow, I'm still quite unsure. Right now it's between 1h+shield hybrid wander with KB (never played KB) and a Firestorm build. I'm sure the leveling will be a lot more fun and faster with the Firestorm build, because the Wander would need to level with EK first and I have no good experience with that. Though people that played it on the beta say it's better now. | ||
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Ler
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Miragee
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On July 09 2015 20:06 HolydaKing wrote: Great to hear that the patch notes will be up about 12 hours before release. I'm sure quite a lot of things will differ from the beta. Like a Flame Totem nerf is already announced but didn't happen yet. They are out already: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1303227  | ||
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