Path of Exile: Awakening

[Oogei]

Launching today at 2pm is their new expansion, I haven't played in forever but I think my friends and I might start the warband league after work. If anyone is interested, hit me up!

[Tapatio]

free to play?

[Swish]

free to play?

http://media.giphy.com/media/qs6ev2pm8g9dS/giphy.gif


It's the spiritual successor to diablo 2 - I tried it but there wasn't enough there to keep me logging back in.

[touchtonedialing]

free to play?

Its the best kind of free to play to. Everything you can buy is cosmetic or convenience (Like additional bank tabs)

Also saying there isnt enough there is crazy, Leagues, events, a massive skill tree (https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree) and you dont have to pay cent. I ended up getting a supporter pack just because I felt bad playing it so much and not contributing.

Its everything Diablo 3 should have been

[Tapatio]

gonna check it out for some casual pvp

[Madbad]

Best F2P game out there, present company excluded of course

[MrSparkle001]

I'm eagerly awaiting 2pm. I'll probably be in the warbands league but will also check out tempest because hardcore can be fun.

[Tradesonred]

Its the best kind of free to play to. Everything you can buy is cosmetic or convenience (Like additional bank tabs)

Also saying there isnt enough there is crazy, Leagues, events, a massive skill tree (https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree) and you dont have to pay cent. I ended up getting a supporter pack just because I felt bad playing it so much and not contributing.

Its everything Diablo 3 should have been

Same, i put in 20$ cuz i thought "this is the kind of F2P i wanna support"

The extra bank space was nice but i didnt really need it. I liked the fact that they sell stuff like weapon graphics, not sword of +999 dmg

[Ghordo]

Anyone playing this on steam ? If so post you're name lets get this shit going >=D

[chtulu]

i'M down. [con] nyra is my steam ID

[Oogei]

ill be on soon!

[Oogei]

the d/l traffic is real

[SamwiseRed]

difference between standard hardcore and tempest?

i wanna play hardcore pvp, halp.

i picked tempest for now since it sounded goog

[Tradesonred]

difference between standard hardcore and tempest?

i wanna play hardcore pvp, halp.

PVP is optional in any league, you can participate whenever i think from lvl 28

Tempest is the new league that starts today, with special item drops. If u die in that league, u get dropped in standard, where you can die as much as u want.

If u survive the whole league, which i think is 4 months, your character gets dropped in Hardcore league which has better item drops than standard.

If u die in hardcore, you get dropped in standard

[SamwiseRed]

k
i am Saam on tempest. my kid picked shadow class for me even tho i hate assassins.

[Snapple]

k
i am Saam on tempest. my kid picked shadow class for me even tho i hate assassins.

class does not matter that much - it just changes where you start off in the skill tree. Any class can be any build in the game if they wanted.

[SamwiseRed]

ya forgot about that. just figured out that i have to socket gems to get skills lol. i died already once. im a level 5 templar now

[Tameth]

I loved poe, plus the devs are gamers that listened to the player base.

[SamwiseRed]

got to 10, gonna go play some sports then pick back up. i have no direction or plan for my guy so im just getting whatever skills look good lol. should be interesting running a blind build. my fav thing so far is when the one of the top 100 die. everyone trolls them including the good ol "cya nerd"

pras

[Tradesonred]

How do you fix this new stutter?

Yeah or RIIIIIPPPPP, I said "Only dreams now" its pretty funny i know itll happen to me

Not sure exactly how the new stuff works but you can mess with network settings at the options in UI, only from login screen though. Im trying predictive setting now

[Oogei]

need power level

[MrSparkle001]

PVP is optional in any league, you can participate whenever i think from lvl 28

Tempest is the new league that starts today, with special item drops. If u die in that league, u get dropped in standard, where you can die as much as u want.

If u survive the whole league, which i think is 4 months, your character gets dropped in Hardcore league which has better item drops than standard.

If u die in hardcore, you get dropped in standard

Hardcore doesn't have better drops. It's the exact same game as standard except your character drops out of the league to standard when he dies.

PvP rarely happens even in regular hardcore. I would imagine it will never happen in tempest. I've been to the regular hardcore arena plenty of times and never once saw anyone else, even when the Leo daily was something simple like "survive 180 seconds in the arena. 1v1 queue as a hardcore character only works because it's a combined standard/hardcore queue.

There are people over level 80 in warbands. I mean do they even sleep? I'm level 17 after 24 hours, but because of things like life I don't exactly play for hours at a time nonstop.

Haven't tried tempest yet.

got to 10, gonna go play some sports then pick back up. i have no direction or plan for my guy so im just getting whatever skills look good lol. should be interesting running a blind build. my fav thing so far is when the one of the top 100 die. everyone trolls them including the good ol "cya nerd"

pras

You'll be screwed later. Definitely follow a guide if you aren't too familiar with the skill tree and endgame.

[Tradesonred]

Hardcore doesn't have better drops. It's the exact same game as standard except your character drops out of the league to standard when he dies.



Guess youre right, always assumed HC had better drops, like leagues. HCs advantage is a better economy i guess then.

This tempest build im following is quite tanky, more so than any marauder builds i had tried before

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/105920

Im currently 39, probably gonna pay someone to tank dominus for me though lol just to be safe

Theres something special about watching a guy pushing it to the limit from 3pm to 12pm the next day, dying at 70 and seeing people tell him things like "go to sleep now nerd"

[Pyrion]

There are 2 main differences between tempest league and hardcore.

1) The name giver, tempests. Those are AE effects that happen in certain regions, randomized every hour. Those can be beneficial (for you and the mobs) or detrimental (again for you and the mobs). Since most mobs are dumb you can exploit both the beneficial and detrimental effects.

2) Fresh economy. Tempest is a temporal league, meaning it just started and nobody had any stuff they could use from previous playing. And the league will end, dropping everybody into a permanent league.

That's really nice in PoE, the fact that you get a restart every few month. I would like to have that option in p1999 as well. Like one server that restarts every 6 months and one that is permanent.

[SamwiseRed]

LOL thought those AE storms all over the map were normal. This is my first time really playing. So far I am level 32 templar in act 3. i havent read much, still no idea what all these orbs do, but I've been using molten strike paired with some overkill fire gem i found. Everyone says I will die in act 4 without a proper builds, well see. I filled my stash with rares and unique in case I die.

[SamwiseRed]

my build so far (made it up)
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwUABjkLYRT2NI43RzqdPQ9G108ET31RYGP9ZlRo8mvZcY VyD3rmfEuAVoKbhXuGO4rklG-WdJvsogCvbLaG7DjtIPAf-d3_0w==?accountName=Traak&characterName=Saam

got 75 all resists atm, using sceptors and shields

i basically wanted a d2 paladin since my fav thing to do in d2 was to pvp with my hammerdin. one thing that really erks me is my guy has no pants despite wearing heavy plate armor.

http://i.imgur.com/ioO85i4.jpg

gonna steam a little today twitch.tv/traaksc

[LoliPops]

http://theralphretort.com/wp-content/uploads/1421858354455.jpg

[Swish]

Is this game regioned? If I'm stuck on the EU servers I feel less inclined to play.

[SamwiseRed]

dont think so, it lets me pick a variety of servers but i could be wrong.

[Swish]

Made a duelist - its a hoot... think one of the quest zones bugged on me to stop me opening up another zone but I'll go back and try again tomorrow.

Sam kindly donated a few items, can't use the weapons yet but level 7 and rising - its good fun.

[Tradesonred]

LOL thought those AE storms all over the map were normal. This is my first time really playing. So far I am level 32 templar in act 3. i havent read much, still no idea what all these orbs do, but I've been using molten strike paired with some overkill fire gem i found. Everyone says I will die in act 4 without a proper builds, well see. I filled my stash with rares and unique in case I die.

What you need to watch for is piety in act4, her 360 beam is ridic. Id watch a video of it before trying to go through it. My 46 tempest was lolfacetanking everything up to her and she 3 hit rip me. Apparently malachai is tough too, ill be checkin some vids first. You can pay 70+ players to kill tough bosses for you, i might do that just to go to cruel docks. If you didnt know theres some farm zones, Docks is farm map for act3 and dried lake is for act4.

[stavio]

I've had a bunch of fun with the new expansion. Been playing a dual fire totem witch build, have gotten to around level 36 so far and enjoying every minute of it.

The desync is completely gone for me and the lag that they said might occur while using the new synching system is non existent for me.

The game just feels so much better only having to click on a chest once to open it, not a dozen times and not getting randomly teleported and swarmed because of desync.

The levels and how you can obtain the fun leveling gems have improved dramatically. I remember having to rush to act 2 of the second difficulty to get my fire totems, was such a pain to level up to 30ish before getting the skill you will be using for your characters entirety.

They did a really nice job with this expansion. Imo still one of the best f2p games out there.

[Tradesonred]

Are you using lockstep or predictive? Lockstep was stuttering for me when i first played friday, so i put it to predictive. Worked fine for 24h. Then bad desyncs, so i tried lockstep again. Same stutter but at least no desync. This morning i was booted off server and there was a small queue coming back in so looks like part of the problem is on their side. I agree on fun factor and non P2W, this is how F2P should be done.

[stavio]

I'm using the lockstep, whatever region server you connect to will impact your performance. I'm in Tennessee and the game routed me to a Texas server, I only experienced a lock-up lag once and that was during the release day. It was strange, the game was running but all characters stood still, then all at once everything moved at supersonic speeds, luckily my fire totems kept me alive.

Other then that incident I haven't had any other issues.

[stavio]

got 75 all resists atm

Thats pretty awesome for a level 32. I'm not to sure what your plans on for a end build but I see quite a few wasted nodes that could be spent else where for better bang for your buck.

For example, removing the Int node at templar, the two staff/mace nodes. Then moving those points into Catalyst for + int/str +24% element weapon dmg, for the price of 2 points. If you would remove the elemental dmg at templar you would only be 1 point away from faith & steel 20%armor/10% energy shield/8% all resist.

Not bashing, I think your build is fine, just throwing out a few tips.

[citizen1080]

Just downloaded and booted it up for the first time in like 3 years...have a 70 witch and 70 ranger...apparently my gear is super outdated and crap lol. Where should i go to lvl/grind gear?

[Tradesonred]

Just downloaded and booted it up for the first time in like 3 years...have a 70 witch and 70 ranger...apparently my gear is super outdated and crap lol. Where should i go to lvl/grind gear?

The fresh league, tempest :D

[Riotgirl]

Christ! I wish I had never set eyes on this thread. I watched a TotalBiscuit YouTube review, and he came away with favourable impressions, and now you folks are posting favourable impressions.

I do like the concept of separate PvP rule-sets for leagues, I like the concept of builds and being able to switch builds (to an extent) if you've realised that you don't like a build or have FUBARed, and this [product] sounds like a well-executed FTP game.

If I wasn't enjoying P99, I'd play in a heart-beat.

[stavio]

this [product] sounds like a well-executed FTP game.


It is, I think it's the best ftp system of them all. Only thing that comes even marginally close to being so called p2w is stash space, but you can have tons of mules to easily solve that problem.

Even with their ftp system they still net strong profits without gouging their players wallets. Which makes me want to help fund such a project, unlike all these cash grab games we're getting these days.

[Pyrion]

stavio got that right. PoE is ftp exceptionally well done, in an ethically sound way. The developers (Grinding Gear Games) seem to be people with morals. That they can still live from that is a marvel worth supporting. I bought some stash tabs as well.

[SamwiseRed]

died last night on my 40 templar in act 4. had max res nad over 1k life but something 1 or 2 shotted me lol. it was a good first run and I learned alot. thankfully I filled my stash with rares and a bunch of shit.

re-rolled a Shadow last night. Found a build online that sounded kinda interesting and decided to try it. so far I am going thru the game a lot faster/easier. Already in act 3 level 22ish.

in-game name is Traak on Tempest.

[Pyrion]

1k life at 40 is kinda OK, but not exceptional. For the beginning of cruel you should aim for about 1.5k. Of course defenses play a role. My witch is 35 with 1k hp, but also mind over matter which will redirect 30% of damage to my mana. Armor and evasion and energy shield are important as well (normally just one of those).

[Kileras]

such a fantastic game. too into EQ to make a go again, but played hardcore leave for the last year or so. it is what d3 should have been.

[SamwiseRed]

1k life at 40 is kinda OK, but not exceptional. For the beginning of cruel you should aim for about 1.5k. Of course defenses play a role. My witch is 35 with 1k hp, but also mind over matter which will redirect 30% of damage to my mana. Armor and evasion and energy shield are important as well (normally just one of those).

ya it may have been the tempest. I havent been paying much attention to what they do. the things that killed me was some snake worm in that act 4 level called somethings dream. it would spawn another worm thing. no idea happened so fast.

[Tradesonred]

ya it may have been the tempest. I havent been paying much attention to what they do. the things that killed me was some snake worm in that act 4 level called somethings dream. it would spawn another worm thing. no idea happened so fast.

Ive been walking into them on purpose yesterday to find out what they all do.

White one is auto-crit so im guessing this is a dangerous one as you go up in levels

Im taking it easy and slowly gearing up a safe Dual totem marauder, for now i got another templar built up to 44, to farm lake until im ready to pay for someone to get me to cruel, too casual to be really good and dont wanna rip again. Im aiming to have at least one 60s farmer to drop stuff on the alts ill be trying.

For people who dont know, this is a very useful site to buy some gear

http://poe.trade

You can turn on a thing in search results that only lists people that are online right now, even lets you paste a msg into POE for maximum ease trading

[Swish]

up to a mighty level 14, not sure how much is left on Act 1 but I'm hoping to advance soon :)

Add SwishXV as a pal <3

[Ravager]

Can this game be run from a thumb drive yet?

[stavio]

up to a mighty level 14, not sure how much is left on Act 1 but I'm hoping to advance soon :)

Add SwishXV as a pal <3

You should be moving into act 2 soon, the game follows the roots of Diablo 2, there will be quests that are extremely important (skill points and main quest line) and some that you just do when you need to (reset skill points and gear). Once you get the quests and areas figured out, you will progress a lot quicker.

My first time playing I spent an enormous amount of time in act 2 because I had so many options and was very unsure of what to do next.

Here is a link to one of LiftingNerd's youtube playlist for leveling guides. He has an enormous collection of PoE video's and imo he is a great youtuber. I asked if he could redo some of his older level builds for the expansion and the very next day the guy posted up three new leveling builds for the expansion.

LiftingNerd:PoE Leveling guides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akV6QUIXS4c&index=2&list=PLtJTagDhoDUjmA16s4cjfKhpUwjwSCpoP)

[SamwiseRed]

damnit died again. this time on the act 3 boss. he DoT'd me or something. I was spamming heal pots but my HP wouldnt stop going down even though i wasnt getting hit. it's weird because I was better geared and had more HP than my last build which didn't have a problem with him. meh gonna try again :)

[Tradesonred]

damnit died again. this time on the act 3 boss. he DoT'd me or something. I was spamming heal pots but my HP wouldnt stop going down even though i wasnt getting hit. it's weird because I was better geared and had more HP than my last build which didn't have a problem with him. meh gonna try again :)

lol ripped twice at around 44 myself. Ill be paying a high lvl to leapfrog hard bosses for this run, like 1 alch/fuse for domi/piety and 1c for malachai. Cruel act1 is usually smooth sailing for me till docks again where i need to watch more carefully what im doing.

[stavio]

When the final boss in act 3 goes into his blood rain phase, you need to go into the huge colorful circle that surrounds the boss, it blocks the blood rain DoT dmg.

[Tradesonred]

1- Decide to not try piety this time around unless i pay a high lvl char to gank her

2- Playing it safe not touching Piety, Farming arena

3- ???????????

4- Get one shot by Daresso on 3rd char. Fuck this game.

[MrSparkle001]

I don't know how you guys are doing hardcore act 4 (or why lol). Almost that whole act is rip city.

I haven't died yet but I'm also in warband league and haven't fought Malachai. Piety was annoying but not OP. Daresso was worse.

IMO they overdid the bosses in that act. Sooner or later they'll be nerfed. Malachai already was.

I'm actually not really enjoying act 4. Maybe it's because I'm used to acts 1-3 so they're familiar and comfortable. Act 4 feels tedious. Kaom's maps were especially tedious. I thought Lunaris Temple level 3 was bad (now level 2) but act 4 takes the tedium to a whole new level. I kinda can't wait to get this crap over with and get back to the fun maps in the next difficulty.

My favorite farming map in act 3 used to be Catacombs. It's higher level and easy to run. The waypoint to get to it used to be right next to it. Was a good place to find low level maps.

[Ket]

Be my POE Pal! Ketilron - I enjoy lvling up all classes in hardcore leagues (tempest) at one time, and just continuing to play the ones that don't die off. Like a king of the hill. He who stands last, continues!

I need a hobby ....

-Ket

[stavio]

I scored two blessed orbs within 15 minutes, I've never seen one before. So I asked about them and apparently they are super rare, one guy said he has been playing since release and only found one. I posted them for sell on the trade chat and people spammed hate tells and liar tells and all that good jazz, was quite amusing.

Then about half a hour later I found a awesome lvl 1 PL bow, gives +10 mana per kill, plus other goodies. Quickly made a ranger to test it out, spammed split arrow without ever using a mana pot until brutus.

Had a pretty good run this morning.

[Swish]

You should be moving into act 2 soon, the game follows the roots of Diablo 2, there will be quests that are extremely important (skill points and main quest line) and some that you just do when you need to (reset skill points and gear). Once you get the quests and areas figured out, you will progress a lot quicker.

My first time playing I spent an enormous amount of time in act 2 because I had so many options and was very unsure of what to do next.

Here is a link to one of LiftingNerd's youtube playlist for leveling guides. He has an enormous collection of PoE video's and imo he is a great youtuber. I asked if he could redo some of his older level builds for the expansion and the very next day the guy posted up three new leveling builds for the expansion.

LiftingNerd:PoE Leveling guides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akV6QUIXS4c&index=2&list=PLtJTagDhoDUjmA16s4cjfKhpUwjwSCpoP)

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Also...shit reminds me of red lol

http://imageupload.co.uk/images/2015/07/15/Untitled6aa2d.png

[MrSparkle001]

Tempest is fucking RIP city, I'm telling you.

We like to play the RIP game corrupting items in chat too. That's more for the regular HC league where everyone is bored and has too much of everything.

[Tradesonred]

To me tempest is the only way to play, just like i cant see myself playing on blue. More excitement, more reward. Better economy on tempest/HC. Wish i could gauge better act4 though. Daresso was a breeze on my templar so i was careful on my dual totem marauder but not excessively, didnt expect to get one-shotted. Didnt help to make me wary that we just plowed through everything in the arena up to him and i was about 8 levels higher than everyone in my group.

Starting a new toon now lol

[SamwiseRed]

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Also...shit reminds me of red lol

http://imageupload.co.uk/images/2015/07/15/Untitled6aa2d.png

yay for aWeasel dying. aPam died earlier this week. this pleases me. logging back on in a few to start another new char. god i love hardcore.

[stavio]

After toying around with my ranger I decided to finish act 4, and my god did they overdo themselves with some of the things in it. Malachai took me around 16 minutes to beat, nearly died about a dozen times, literally I would zone in, throw down totems, pop flammability, pop quicksilver flask, run around like crazy till potions were all down, then redo it all.

After beating him, I zoned into cruel, thinking hmmm a zombie, wtf can you do to me after what I just been through..

[Swish]

Just died a stupid death in Act 2, suddenly my stash was empty and I figured out... oh shit, this character is dead in Tempest :p

[citizen1080]

Just hit 70 on my dual incenerate totem scion. Farming away.

Though I had some facebreakers drop....so im thinking about starting a facebreaker cyclone build, tried of dropping totems and running away, just wanna run in and make shit blow up.

[stavio]

I'm still playing casually, up to level 73, been debating on trying out a few different builds, but my luck has been great with RNG, to the point I think its broke for me, exalteds and chaos orbs dropping like candy. I found a unique strongbox last night that had a guaranteed Koam's item and not one but two Koam's items dropped, got the ring and the 2hd axe.