Posted: 1/20/2013 4:49:11 PM EDT
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http://www.pathofexile.com/ I'm surprised I haven't seen a thread on this game. It is the game Diablo 3 should have been. Open beta starts in 3 days.
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Teams of players will play on one character, doing rotations of a few hours a piece. It's extremely common in any multiplayer game with levels. In EQ, when Velious came out, my guild had a roster of about 20 people that played a full group around the clock until they hit max level and then repeated the process on other accounts until we had enough for a raids. The idea is to be the first, or as fast as possible.
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Quoted: The screenshots and videos I've seen so far look exactly like what I had been expecting Diablo 3 to be. I'm excited.  Just be prepared, the character development is very complex. I'm considering going with an extreme build. Something like a tank melee witch. |
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I've watched a few vids from Kripp, started in the middle though, so I have no idea on skills just click kill loot.
JFC! http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/ |
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Quoted: I've watched a few vids from Kripp, started in the middle though, so I have no idea on skills just click kill loot. JFC! http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/ Skills are drops and quest rewards and come in the form of materia. |
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Quoted: Quoted: What class are you going to play Credge? I'm looking at a magic based melee templar. Duelist, just not sure if I'm going to go for an evasive one, a tanky one, or a damage one. I'm really undecided. I think I'm just going to run the start area going straight to the first mini boss until I get a yellow drop. Whatever class it best suits I'm going with. |
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Basically played this all night on Friday. Made it to level 15. I really, really like the game, but there are things I hope they fix before full release. For a game so heavily item-based, the inventory management is abominable. No instant item comparison, selling items is a chore (I did find out later you could Ctrl+Click to instant sell. A tool-tip would be nice.) the inventory space is much too small considering the barter-based economy and small number of portal scrolls available. I ended up making several trips back to "town" every time I found a waypoint just to clean up the dozens of white drops laying around the area. Once I hit around 30 Wisdom scrolls I stop collecting white quality drops just to save on time running back and forth. Again, this is a good game with potential to be great. Especially for a free game! They just need to tidy up some stuff. Torchlight II's item management has spoiled me. They need to just rip that whole system off for Path of Exile. |
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Don't just pass stuff up completely, you can get good stuff out of selling them. Below is a recipe thread. Meaning if you sell these items to the vendor you will get said reward. A couple of things to note is that any item of the same type totaling up to 40% superior quality will net you a will net you an upgrade for that particular item type. The other thing is that turning in unidentified rare items of one of each type will get you 2 chaos orbs. I store them in tabs 3 and 4 and just sell when I accumulate. I have gotten some great unique trades with a single chaos orb for payment.
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Kripparian died today on hardcore. He took it well. I'd have raged after spending the amount of time he did on his character. His team was fighting two rare bosses and after the first one died the second used corpse explosion on the dead boss. Corpse explosion does 18% of a mobs max life as damage. No one realized it could be used on a boss mob. It one shot half his team.
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Quoted: What class are you going to play Credge? I'm looking at a magic based melee templar. I'm currently making a necro Templar. By the time it completed it will have over 20 minions. High defense (lots of life, resistant, armor) with minor in Ice AOE and Spark Lighting. Here is the link to the passive skill nods. http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree The active skills comes in gems. These gems are socked to items and able to level up. You can unsocked them anytime you like without destroying you items. Support gems can help increase increase your active gems but it has to be place on the same item as your active gems. Basically this game can allow you to make any character you like. It really really good. |
This game is kind of hard. On one hand, I like how you can get swarmed and blocked in easily. On the other hand, it is terribly frustrating getting swarmed and blocked in easily. 
I'm doing a Shadow right now, but I'm not quite feeling it. Not all that great at melee, and I guess I haven't got any 'spell' gems yet. So I get pwned constantly. Might roll up a Ranger in a bit and give it a try. ETA: Yeah, Ranger seems to fit me a bit better.... |
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Quoted: This game is kind of hard. On one hand, I like how you can get swarmed and blocked in easily. On the other hand, it is terribly frustrating getting swarmed and blocked in easily. I'm doing a Shadow right now, but I'm not quite feeling it. Not all that great at melee, and I guess I haven't got any 'spell' gems yet. So I get pwned constantly. Might roll up a Ranger in a bit and give it a try. ETA: Yeah, Ranger seems to fit me a bit better.... Melee in general are inferior in this game. The only really melee'ish skills that make them not suck are ground slam and lightning strike, both of which are ranged attacks. |
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Quoted: Quoted: This game is kind of hard. On one hand, I like how you can get swarmed and blocked in easily. On the other hand, it is terribly frustrating getting swarmed and blocked in easily. I'm doing a Shadow right now, but I'm not quite feeling it. Not all that great at melee, and I guess I haven't got any 'spell' gems yet. So I get pwned constantly. Might roll up a Ranger in a bit and give it a try. ETA: Yeah, Ranger seems to fit me a bit better.... Melee in general are inferior in this game. The only really melee'ish skills that make them not suck are ground slam and lightning strike, both of which are ranged attacks. If you're a two handed user, any arch melee ranged attack demolishes. Also, any single target does well. If you're sword and board or using one handers, you've gotta get something to help you. Having % damage mods also helps. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: This game is kind of hard. On one hand, I like how you can get swarmed and blocked in easily. On the other hand, it is terribly frustrating getting swarmed and blocked in easily. I'm doing a Shadow right now, but I'm not quite feeling it. Not all that great at melee, and I guess I haven't got any 'spell' gems yet. So I get pwned constantly. Might roll up a Ranger in a bit and give it a try. ETA: Yeah, Ranger seems to fit me a bit better.... Melee in general are inferior in this game. The only really melee'ish skills that make them not suck are ground slam and lightning strike, both of which are ranged attacks. If you're a two handed user, any arch melee ranged attack demolishes. Also, any single target does well. If you're sword and board or using one handers, you've gotta get something to help you. Having % damage mods also helps. I've played both to fairly high levels. Melee is just awful in comparison to ranged, the only exception is ground slam and LS builds, which I stated, and which are ranged builds anyway. The problem starts with support gems. There are no really good support gems like there are for ranged builds. Secondly, by the way the skill tree is laid out, there is no disadvantage for going ranged defensively. Ranged has access to every defensive node melee does. Usually games are designed that ranged are squishy to offset their range, in POE that simply isn't the case. My wand templar is just as tanky as my mace duelist, even more so in regards to elemental resists. There is just zero reason to go melee, all of the downside with no upside to it. I do more damage as ranged, I'm just as tanky, and well....I'm ranged. |
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Quoted: Is this a free to play or will they charge after the betas over? Completely free to play. They make money by selling fluff items like dance emotes, special armor and attack visual effects, extra bank inventory tabs, etc. Here is the crazy part, they sold over 180 of the special $1000 platinum packages before open beta. This basically gave you a special in game vanity pet, your name in the credits of the game as a supporter, and you get to design a weapon that will be added to the game. I really can't believe they made $180,000 doing that. Crazy stuff.
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Site down but IIRC 5 out of the top 10 are Marauder on Hardcord. The top hardcore ia a Marauder. I know at least one top 10 Marauder that is a pure melee build. There is only one Templar and one Witch in the top 10. The rest is made up of Rangers. I think around 50% of top 1000 on hardcore are Marauders. So Marauder has the highest survival rate on Hardcore. |
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Quoted: Site down but IIRC 5 out of the top 10 are Marauder on Hardcord. The top hardcore ia a Marauder. I know at least one top 10 Marauder that is a pure melee build. There is only one Templar and one Witch in the top 10. The rest is made up of Rangers. I think around 50% of top 1000 on hardcore are Marauders. So Marauder has the highest survival rate on Hardcore. I've been following the ladder, which one is a melee build? I thought they were all the stunlock ground slam build. |
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Dim but he just die. In fact I think within the last 24 hours 2 of the top 10 Marauders hit the bucket. I'm thinking about making a curses melee Marauder with taunt totem. Dim was using taunt totem to migrate the damage. I would like to get Hex Master and Whispers of Doom. Debuffs are really strong. Two debuffs will weaken any boss to manageable levels IMO. |
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Quoted: Dim but he just die. In fact I think within the last 24 hours 2 of the top 10 Marauders hit the bucket. I'm thinking about making a curses melee Marauder with taunt totem. Dim was using taunt totem to migrate the damage. I would like to get Hex Master and Whispers of Doom. Debuffs are really strong. Two debuffs will weaken any boss to manageable levels IMO. Sounds like a good plan, I'm going a speed route with high regen and shield charge/leap slam. Just about to finish cruel with it. I've got 32% extra speed. I use shield charge for extra speed and damage. I can pretty much keep solo bosses locked with each shield charge doing 200% damage. I use a attack speed gem with leap slam to get those things flying. |
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Quoted: I think Duelist is the way to go for pure two handed damage. They seem very underutilized for it and I'm not sure why, especially when access to life, armor, and damage is easier with the Duelist than it is the Marauder. It isn't really easier. The marauder also has access to good resists. Kripp got to level 80 in two days on HC playing the groundslam marauder. He is now rerolling because he is expecting a nerf to it.
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Quoted: Quoted: I think Duelist is the way to go for pure two handed damage. They seem very underutilized for it and I'm not sure why, especially when access to life, armor, and damage is easier with the Duelist than it is the Marauder. It isn't really easier. The marauder also has access to good resists. Kripp got to level 80 in two days on HC playing the groundslam marauder. He is now rerolling because he is expecting a nerf to it. It's mainly that it's right in between two sets of amazing two handed circles that makes me question the Marauder choice.
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Well I blame each and every one of you who said you liked this game, I enjoyed this style of game so much I went and bought Diablo 3 so I could get a game that wasn't a complete duplicate POS.
I've seen on several forums people telling everyone to join path of exile at any mention of Diablo 3, POE is so far behind the curve its not even funny it may be a beta but it would need a complete overhaul just to keep up with similar titles. |
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Quoted: Well I blame each and every one of you who said you liked this game, I enjoyed this style of game so much I went and bought Diablo 3 so I could get a game that wasn't a complete duplicate POS. I've seen on several forums people telling everyone to join path of exile at any mention of Diablo 3, POE is so far behind the curve its not even funny it may be a beta but it would need a complete overhaul just to keep up with similar titles. I think you're judging pretty quickly here seeing as you haven't put in 500 hours into PoE or over a 1000 hours into D3.... You have a level 6 templar in PoE....out of 100 levels. How in depth do you really think you got? You think D3 is better? I hate to tell you, but looks can be deceiving. I guess if all you care about is how it looks, and have no care for the gameplay, then yes, D3 is a better choice. Rainbows and ponies await. I prefer a grimey, dirty, bloody action rpg to frolicking through the my little pony fields with carebears and rainbows. Path of Exile is so much deeper of an adult game, it's mind blowing. The simplicity and childishness of Diablo 3 is boring...and pay 2 win is a trap ----------------------------------------------------------- If anyone needs any help leveling, gear, gems, anything at all other than currency items, let me know and I will help you out in PoE. I have a 65 ranger, a 60 necro witch (friggen amazing), and a cold elemental caster crit witch |
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Quoted: Well I blame each and every one of you who said you liked this game, I enjoyed this style of game so much I went and bought Diablo 3 so I could get a game that wasn't a complete duplicate POS. I've seen on several forums people telling everyone to join path of exile at any mention of Diablo 3, POE is so far behind the curve its not even funny it may be a beta but it would need a complete overhaul just to keep up with similar titles. Wait until you spend some time with D3. It starts out AMAZING and quickly becomes an awful piece of shit.
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