path of exile 2 beta (Page 3 of 3)
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Originally Posted By Larsonous: just hit 48 in cruel difficulty before work. its not bad other than making stats for upgrades is hard. need dex and str for spears need dex for skill gems and some int gear drops still suck but overall its going good That is one of the things I hate about POE2 compared to Diablo4. In POE2 it's very hard to upgrade gear in a timely manner and the crafting is even worse. Crafting requires super rare items that are also used as currency. I'm almost level 30 and I have only gotten TWO exalted orbs! At least in D4 you're always getting better gear as you level and with crafting you can take decent gear and make it to suit your build with no guesswork. Just monetary and material investments. You always feel like you are moving in a positive direction. Of course, in D4 you can become too powerful and crush everything without even trying. Hell in D4 season 7 I had a one button Necro that destroyed everything. Thats fun too. In POE2 you have challenging fights no matter your level and gear. For us old folks though it gets to be a skill vs gear argument, and in POE2 I end up with not enough of either. I do enjoy POE2. But my highest-level character is 52. My gear was too low, and the skill required got too high and I quickly lost interest. |
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Originally Posted By svt40: That is one of the things I hate about POE2 compared to Diablo4. In POE2 it's very hard to upgrade gear in a timely manner and the crafting is even worse. Crafting requires super rare items that are also used as currency. I'm almost level 30 and I have only gotten TWO exalted orbs! At least in D4 you're always getting better gear as you level and with crafting you can take decent gear and make it to suit your build with no guesswork. Just monetary and material investments. You always feel like you are moving in a positive direction. Of course, in D4 you can become too powerful and crush everything without even trying. Hell in D4 season 7 I had a one button Necro that destroyed everything. Thats fun too. In POE2 you have challenging fights no matter your level and gear. For us old folks though it gets to be a skill vs gear argument, and in POE2 I end up with not enough of either. I do enjoy POE2. But my highest-level character is 52. My gear was too low, and the skill required got too high and I quickly lost interest. Launch "league" was rough on that for sure. You really didn't see crafting drops or exalts until end game, and even then not till later maps. In this current league it's no where near as bad for crafting mats, but I still think it they should give a bit more. At level 28ish I'm sitting on 7 Exalts for example, which is great. But the lower tier crafting items are a struggle to go from magic to a decent rare with RNG being what it is and so few gems. On the launch league I didn't get that many exalts until I was in my late 70's clearing T9+ maps. On the flip side I had a SHIT ton of uniques last league by this point, even if they were trash. So far I've gotten 1 this league. So far I've not been hurting for gear upgrades this league. I can roll some things and get enough to keep progressing, even if not ideal stats. Will see how it goes once I get into cruel play through though. |
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restarting in standard league for huntress. throwing out a level 59 character 25 + messages for an item and not one fucking answer. I have the item in the bank in standard and no having to try hunting down 100 or more people to get a response pretty sure I can use my 82 sorceress to power level through the game. don't think it was nerfed like ice invoker was ice invoker made level 92 the day before the new league |
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just hit lv 51 in act 4 on standard with new huntress. only 8 levels and 1 act to catch up to the league one got both uniques 20 levels ago since I had both in the bank GGG so needs to fix the market. when you meet the posted price item is sold. tired of this bullshit no answers from 25+ people for one item which are likely all scammers anyway |
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For once I feel like my character is doing well. Lightning/Primal strike huntress. Kinda going with a hybrid lightning build between the one I posted earlier and this new one that uses Primal strike for single target DPS. Pretty much crap gear and STILL only two Exalted Orbs, act three in the flooded city. Quite a few useless uniques though. I just need to learn what the debuffs are to maximize my primal strikes. Supposed to get "shock" on the boss then nail them with primal strikes for face melting DPS. It works sometimes for me while others it does not seem to. Also, Combat Frenzy does not seem to be working for me either. Or else it's another "what is that buff/debuff icon" situation. May drop Frenzy and go back to Wind Dancer. |
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damn I went with standard. I have some old spears. I just found a unique chest you pay gold to open up to 4 times. 2.2 million gold got me a perfect jeweler and ventors gamble ring ETA I do have a level 58 huntress on league but got pissed with no answers from people to buy gear and switched to standard where I had the kitoko gloves and lycosidae shield if you want to play I can pull her out again. I'm on ps5 |
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Finished off Act3 and just plowed through to Act2 Cruel with ease. I do like this build! The problem I have now is I cannot use any of the tier2 or 3 gems I've gotten since I have no more empty skill slots. I am also running into a problem with my stats being too low to use newer gear or upgrade my spell gems. |
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I had the same problem. got lucky with the build I'm following for stat increases. following Pohx kappa s build just finished act 6 and first map. looking for better gear sucks bad. 52 str for lycosidae shield 34 ish int for kitoko gloves and I'm over 100 dex I might have a spear to upgrade you depending on what you have |
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Originally Posted By Larsonous: I had the same problem. got lucky with the build I'm following for stat increases. following Pohx kappa s build just finished act 6 and first map. looking for better gear sucks bad. 52 str for lycosidae shield 34 ish int for kitoko gloves and I'm over 100 dex I might have a spear to upgrade you depending on what you have My spear is the best item I have. IIRC 56-105 phys dmg 1-15 fire dmg 20-47 lightning dmg 15% phys dmg gem Buncha other stats too. Best would be all of the above plus accuracy. I did have the Kitoko's gloves in my bank. Got them in act 1 off the ice boss. Could not wear them due to the INT requirements (34int) until I hit level 48. |
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I went back and removed Wind-dancer and put Frenzy back in. Frenzy now works very well. I guess I was not building up enough shock for it to kick in. But with Kitoko's gloves it builds a ton of shock now. Did the Act 2 cruel dreadnaught about 10 times last night. Got two more levels and no upgrades to my gear... Tried the boss three times. First was insta death for me. Did the 10 dreadnaught runs. Second try got him to 60%. Third try I got him to 20%. By then I was like eff it and logged out. |
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Originally Posted By Larsonous: with lycosidae shield all lightning skills build electrocute if you need help let me know I use lightning spear to shock then storm lance to stun then thunderous leap to detonate so far up to tier 2 maps and got 2 tier 3 just before work today I guess I do not really have a rotation. Lightning spear pretty much kills everything other than bosses and named mobs. On bosses I will hit him with storm lance and spear while running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Once I see some shock on them I leap in and hit them with barrage and primal strikes. Of course, I usually forget about barrage. Got past Jamanra last night. Only took two more tries. First try got him to 20% and I got greedy and he killed me. Went back to town, gambled on a spear and got lucky with an upgrade. Only about 50 more DPS overall but it had about 70 more accuracy. I also changed up some of my gems and found out that not all gems increase spirit requirements. I thought they did. Went back and cleared the dreadnaught easily and beat Jamanra down easily this time. Rolling through act3 easily but that damn Chimera still sucks! Need to try my second ascendency at some point again. |
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Originally Posted By svt40: I guess I do not really have a rotation. Lightning spear pretty much kills everything other than bosses and named mobs. On bosses I will hit him with storm lance and spear while running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Once I see some shock on them I leap in and hit them with barrage and primal strikes. Of course, I usually forget about barrage. Got past Jamanra last night. Only took two more tries. First try got him to 20% and I got greedy and he killed me. Went back to town, gambled on a spear and got lucky with an upgrade. Only about 50 more DPS overall but it had about 70 more accuracy. I also changed up some of my gems and found out that not all gems increase spirit requirements. I thought they did. Went back and cleared the dreadnaught easily and beat Jamanra down easily this time. Rolling through act3 easily but that damn Chimera still sucks! Need to try my second ascendency at some point again. I failed the 3rd ascendency this morning with her at about 5% need to farm up another barya lightning spear electrocutes pretty quick, I pop him with 3 lances then thunder jump then start again I'm getting frenzy charges pretty good now with crits |
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ha Originally Posted By svt40: Did they add random named bosses in the zones? In Act3 Cruel I've run into at least three random boss type mobs. Every single one dropped a unique as well as a bunch of rares. that was a rogue exile like the first game had they can be tough but can drop good stuff. one dropped 3 uniques for me yesterday |
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good run today made level 81 and bought a new spear. my only divine got me a spear 200-420 ish physical damage jumped from 11k to 20k paper damage for lightning spear person answered immediately compared to trying to get gloves when 25+ never answered huge upgrade from 120-210 ish have cleared tier 10 maps so far and got my first 11 drop going to say this build clears better than the monk that no longer works did. what the hell do I do with a level 92 useless monk break time to make pies with the 14 year old |
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Originally Posted By Larsonous: good run today made level 81 and bought a new spear. my only divine got me a spear 200-420 ish physical damage jumped from 11k to 20k paper damage for lightning spear person answered immediately compared to trying to get gloves when 25+ never answered huge upgrade from 120-210 ish have cleared tier 10 maps so far and got my first 11 drop going to say this build clears better than the monk that no longer works did. what the hell do I do with a level 92 useless monk break time to make pies with the 14 year old Nice! I spent my time throwing myself against Doryana. It's always just that one time I'm out of place and I get one shot. I also tried my second ascendency. It was going great till the end. Terracotta Warriors. Had one dead and the second down to 20% when I got trapped on a stinking rock and could not move. Ended up going back and playing Space Engineers instead. |
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Originally Posted By Larsonous: if you need help scream at me. I'm smashing most everything up to tier 13 maps now I do have cross play turned on PSN larsonous if you are not on ps5 I guess we can try to figure out how to group up PC master race here. Diablo4 is easy for grouping. No clue about PoE2 |
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Tried looking you up on the social page but PoE did not make things easy. Went and redid the first ascendency to change over to infuse weapon. Gemmed it all up and got back to Doryani again. This time I shut down the background podcast I was listening to. I usually have something playing in the background like music or podcasts. I went in with just game sounds and one shot him. Who knew distractions could be so...distracting. Did one map but no clue what I am doing. Cleared it and got one useless unique. |
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next thing to look for is corrupted Nexus and clear each on with a yellow (rare) map. I'm up to tier 4 so far I am assuming you do this 15 times up through tier 15 cleared tier 15 maps yesterday if you want to send me screen name maybe I can figure out how to send friend request to add |
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completed main atlas and first set of breach points beat one of the 3 citadels. doryani smoked my ass first try trying changing some gear around for better damage. dropped lycosidae shield for a scepter so I can drop snipers mark into cast on crit one less button to push also found out where the offhand weapon for the build drops. sacred flame comes from the final version of the arbitor which I haven't even seen yet |
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Nice. Been doing S8 of Diablo but it's already gotten boring. Got level 60 literally the day after it started. Already in T4 crushing bosses. Been playing a lot of Space Engineers. Just learned how to get my LCD screens to display the information I want to see. Now to build a smaller more maneuverable craft with weapons to hunt for platinum. |
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just beat the arbiter for the first time. need to beat him on the hardest difficulty to hope for the scepter he drops for my end game offhand weapon got the ingenuity bet from the king of the mists on 3rd try having to sacrifice increased rarity sucks but I need the stats to replace what I lost on the old belt |