Path of Exile: Awakening

[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]

Originally Posted by SamwiseRed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

[MrSparkle001]

Originally Posted by Tradesonred [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

Originally Posted by SamwiseRed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

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

[Snapple]

Originally Posted by SamwiseRed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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