The most important thing about your build is whether or not you find it satisfying to play. I have played powerful builds in poe 1 that just didn’t feel good to play for me and so I just stopped progressing them. Because you’re hitting roughly the same set of abilities throughout the game, you better like them haha. Your satisfaction second by second is more valuable than the potential for you to hit pinnacle content, especially if you are a new player.
I agree. The bummer of some acendancy's if you ask me is that some of them seem straight forward and strong right away. An all arounder if you will which often become somewhat boring. While others seem like they will not shine until later into the game with gear and passives but sound like a cool playstyle. They become a major slog or feel like you're limiting yourself and behind until you can get them online if you will.
Thing is, if this game is anything like poe 1, the ascendancy is important but your gear and main passive tree are arguably more important and build defining. The ascendancy really just helps you focus your build a bit and add some power. If this game is as well designed as poe 1 the variability in builds will be vast and you can make almost anything work once your knowledge of the passive tree, crafting and gearing is proficient.
The issue is that if you want to reach the endgame, because you want experience it, you HAVE to play the 'powerful builds'. Otherwise, you'll end up like me. Stuck dying after after getting Innocence unlocked, because I just don't have the attention span or interest to focus on a cookie cutter build that I know will get me there, because I don't find it fun.
big problem is that early access is not even as balanced a normal league patch, and even those arent perfectly balanced. if you play a cool build but its generically weak then youre not going to have a fun time either being stuck in 1 act and cant even get your full ascendancy. i think a lot of people are REALLY underestimating how much more difficult poe2 is. you need to plan your build from the first point to maps and be strong at every point.
Played a Haunted Spark Trickster as my 3rd Char last season. Min maxed it as much as possible. Have stoped counting how many mirror ive put into it and in the End it wasnt fun. Went back to my Str/Int stacking coc inqui. Way cheaper and way more fun
That’s funny. I went out and bought a copy book specifically for this game so I can write down everything that I’m learning in game and for watching people rax. because I had a really hard time with the first one so I stopped playing it. I mean to be honest with you. I probably the first one for like an hour and I was like oh the heck with this but this game just looks too good for me not to play this. I figure since this is early access. This is gonna be like a six month to a year long class for me until the game is fully released so you know I’m gonna take my time and enjoy a ride and just try to learn everything I can at my own pace so this way when the game goes full release I’ll be ready
@ yes it is definitely is a game but at the same time it’s more than that. It’s that’s crazy cause I’m a new player. I couldn’t handle the first one because the complexity and that kind of turned me off a bit, but I’ll be damned if I let that happen this time I’m gonna learn this gameif it takes me two years to figure it out I am going to learn this game.
Conor is a wizard with Poe. He doesn't often miss. His builds are always a safe choice. Not recommended for absolute beginners tho. As sometimes he may gloss over things that new players may not understand. But raxxx is very good at translating those things to new players.
I was really hoping you were working on something like this. I'm totally new to PoE, so this is going to help me out so much. Thanks for you and the community for the effort!
If you're a PoE noob, Raxx is your best friend. His PoE beginners guides are always incredibly well done and help thousands of new players de-overwhelm their brain 😄
36:58 - Yes it does something on its own. It increaseses the monster's abilities cooldowns. Imagine if a ascendancy node DIDN'T do anything on its own and you HAD to pick the node behind that. That would suck balls. Fortunatellly this is not the case here. And by the way, there is literally a tooltip explaining that in the picture you are looking at :P
He also recommended to take culling strike and decimating strike first. No way in hell someone would take anything other then Zealous inquisition first. That node itself would make leveling 10x faster and safer considering the aoe size that those explosions are and the fact that killing 1 mob could kill an entire pack since it is 100 percent of life.
@@froman1522 that was my thoughts as well it will help you clear areas super fast. especially since when they do explode it deals 100% of their life as phys dmg. imagine you kill a rare surrounded by magic and white monsters and it pops everything else around him dies
@@gamewhizjo I honestly assumed it's related to monster density at first, but you are right. (as in, maybe he knows the density doesn't make it worth it, and didn't mention)
@@darsynia I mean from what I’ve seen monster density doesn’t look like a major issue maybe in the first act but my assumption is that after you’re supposed to get your first 2 ascendency points things are going to ramp a bit. Also you only need one monster proc for it to be useful. I don’t know if you’ve seen ziggyds video of the merc but the AOE on it looks pretty big.(it’s the big white circle that’s how you know when it hits btw)
42:44 One important things to note, the way that it is worded is the gear number determines the spirit, the evasion reduction is then applied to the character. You will not see your spirit go down after picking up the second node.
Thanks Rax for focusing on helping newer players. As a long term follower on TH-cam (pretty sure I have seen 90% of your videos at least) I appreciate that you always try to do that. Bought my SP last night and downloaded to PS5 so I'm all set to go on this journey with you!
I think merc witch hunter is a super straight forward ascendancy and going to be really good for new players. It's very consistent and even with the nerfs to culling strike any type of free %damage is going to be very strong. For those reasons I'm going witch hunter culling strike, decimating strike, and then on top of that concentration is going to be great both of which will greatly buff merc damage and i think 2,3,4,5 will be insane damage
35:14 - to me, concentration is one of the best passives in the game revealed thus far, simply because it is, simultaneously, a well-scaling damage buff and also a defensive buff. It seems too reward consistent damage on enemies, especially strong enemies, because having a 1.3 times damage multiplier and having the enemy's powerful skills charge up 50% slower, it seems to be something that will scale forever, and especially be effective against the Uber bosses. The potential issue of the concentration stacks falling off over time might be able to be solved with damage over time, effects, minions, or multiple consistent hits. This seems to be an excellent boss killing ascendancy.
It also feels like he is understanding it differently from me. The way I read it, the damage buff scales as the enemy loses concentration. So after dealing 20% of enemy life, you have a 15% more damage bonus. So you don't need to break concentration before you get value. And it's likely the boss's big attacks are cooldown based, so losing concentration will make them perform their attacks only half as often.
@@cartuniverse2728 Agreed, I don't think Rax fully understood how it works. Well, he definitely didn't as he missed the explanation of what Concentration does. But that aside the damage ramps up as you reduce concentration not only when they are reduced to 0 as he implied.
Yeah slight misunderstanding I think , if you replace the wording for concentration with something like “energy shield” it makes a lot more sense. (Or at least that’s how my brain interpreted it, without the defensive component of ES obv.) Enemies gain trait concentration, value of concentration is equal to 40% of their hp. Enemies lose concentration based on 100% of damage taken. Breaking concentration… blah blah blah. Something like that
Concentration makes the enemies cast spells less often by its own, scaling for as much of their concentration is broken i believe. Also Its good to mention that the trials are made 4 times but only once per level breakpoint gives 2 points Great video!
For new players and everyone wanting to play the Acolyte of Chayula monk its is VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE: The node giving you instant mana leech requires you to leech mana in the first place! There seems to be little to no access of mana leech on the skill tree: aka 'leech #% of damage as mana' only 'leech % increased damage as mana' which doesn't do anything until your damage actually has a chance to leech mana.
There's a support gem you can use to leech 2% of an attack's physical damage as mana. You can only use it on 1 skill though. Very limited access from what we've seen.
Imagine going Hammer of the Gods with Hourglass support Chronomancer. With "Now and again" and "Unbound Encore" you could at minimum trigger the skill twice, and if you're really lucky, 4 times(1/3*1/3% chance)(or 44% chance to trigger 3 times)
For the altered flesh the chaos res is the important one. The elemental damage exchange is something you don't have to care too much about. the 20% phys to chaos is the kicker. Since hellhound makes you reroute 20% to it, with 20 % phys to chaos that you should mitigate 75% at worst and with CI it would be all of it. What means you receive 30% phys dmg reduction if geared properly at worst and 40% with CI. ( Witch is prime position on the tree to go CI starting in the see of ES nodes if the preview thing is something to go by and keystone is not going to be too far from her) I personally plan on going summoner with hellhound first, pyro pact second into altered flesh and Beidat's will. Pyro pact and flesh are interchangeable depending on the state of my chaos res. Ultimately switching either switching to CI beidat's will and grabing seeting body or taking Beidat's hand instead of pyro pact. I am planning to try most of summons and settle on the ones I enjoy the most. For now mostly looking forward to trying popcorn raging spirits.
For the Acolyte of Chayula, I'm not sure if anything has changed but my brother was showing me the talents. Chaos Innoculation (Max life becomes 1, immune to chaos damage), Eldritch Battery (Spend energy shield before mana for mana costs, energy shield protects mana instead of life), and Mind Over Matter (All damage is taken from mana before life, 50% less mana recovery rate) with Ravenous Doubts (mana leech is instant) and Consuming Questions (Cannot recharge energy shield, mana leech also effects energy shields) looks like it will go absolutely crazy because a lot of mana talents/nodes also boost energy shield. He's going to try this combo as his first class and I have a feeling once it gets online it will go crazy.
As someone new to PoE the biggest concern for me is that I'll get well into the game without realising that I've picked a load of ineffectual skills with no clear indicator that I've done just that.
Good thing about poe2 is that you can repec for gold and it's cheaper at lower levels so if you aren't vibing with it you can change a lot easier than the first one.
Stop fearing and start experimenting. Get used to it and breakthrough to the part where you’re blissfully having fun. It’s time to stop letting yourself be an obstacle.
@Rax thank you for these videos man as a newbie coming to this game. I really appreciate it. That helps so much. I’ll be looking forward to more videos in the future. Once the games are early access is open and you learn more. I need all the help I can get.
Wow ! Yes I play diablo games aswell and if you never tried minions on POE ONE compared to diablo 4 .....You actually "like" and feel sorry for some of your minions in POE haha. SOme spectres are really incredible ! I will start with sorc then minions after :)
Yes, concentration does things on its own (there is a tooltip for that in the corner where they showcase the ascendancy), it lowers the cooldown recovery rate for up to 50% at 0 concentration (so twice longer cooldown on monsters with 0 concentration. Probably can affect special abilities on certain monsters, i'm just guessing there)
Great video, i will be going Gemling legonair Minions mainly because in the past of poe 1 having improved quality on youre minions and +1 to them Heavily boosts them to where if you were to look up a gem level 21 raise specter skill gem it went for decent of divine orbs because its just that good to have on them.
Check the concentration box on the ascendancy page. It makes monsters have longer cooldowns so bosses will do their abilities slower - it's huge for boss killing.
If you would literally would look on the pic it says that Concentration increases the monsters Cooldowns meaning it takes them longer to do anything meaningful.
Planning to go Stormweaver as my first play of Path of Exile of any kind wanted to keep it simple as possible. Also would love to see a video going over what best to spend your points on from RMTX. Like if you bought the 100 supporter pack and got 1000 points, i know smartest is storage, but what storage is best first for new people
25:20 - About curses,there is a skill gem which convert curses to auras,and you reserve 30 spirit per curse you linked to that skill. You can have 5 curses at the same time around you if you can manage spirit cost :D
@@titanicjack6744 yeah my bad on that,still 2 curses aura is not bad at all,you are fine with like dispair and temporal chains for chaos builds,combined with hexblast you get a decent aoe build,but will have to see are numbers are decent enough.
Didn’t see a lot of streams this week but from this video and other raxx stuff this week, you can tell how excited he is for this game. We ready. Goodbye friends. Family. Work. Eating. Sleeping. Even blinking. All exp losses.
Gonna be playing a Mercenary on a Legion Go as a twin stick shooter. Have not made up my mind on ascendancy, but this video definitely pushed me towards gemling!
About the same idea, but then on Steam Deck. Several other options fir that bill too, but Gemling could be a strong option. Given the fact that I've never come above level 94 before rage-ending my seasonals, most of my energy is going to go to the toon that dies the least, haha!
I've switched to playing PoE on my legion go since I bought it when it came out. Love the more casual playstyle and the performance is great. Planning on starting PoE 2 the same way. I might use my TV to play some couch co op with my oldest too. I'm apprehensive about the aiming as a twin stick with all the other buttons to press. Personally I'm leaning towards a poisoning ci Monk of Chayula or a blood witch with all damage bleeds setup. As is tradition I'll probably switch when I hit the character creation step.
@@IJustLikeBikes you've got a point. XYAB buttons are not accessible when aiming with the right thumb stick. But, Legion Space allows us to remap all buttons to whatever, including keyboard keys and key combinations. I'll make it work! :D
@@gumzster My idea with the Steam Input that is available on the Deck out of the box. All kinds of timings and key combinations are possible; if an active toon rpoves to be too much, I'll go minion army (as I did in D4 -- probably Blood Mage for now).
Rax, I really really appreciate your effort trying to break down the game and make our lives easier, that is the type of content I keep looking for. I agree with your thought processing and, as you said, we will need to play a little bit PoE2 to understand how it's gonna work. Thanks for bringing that content up.
A week ago, I had it narrowed down to 2 ascendancies I wanted to play for launch. By yesterday, I was up to 5. I can't wait to see how many it'll be after this...
never played any POE.....super hyped for this! honestly going in for what seems and feels like the most fun for me. I'm a dad of 2 young kids so my time is minimal I ain't got the time to really min max a character and grind super hard. fun and new is what I'm in for and a world to dive into
Great info as always, appreciate you putting this sheet together and talking through some good options. I've got paralysis by analysis and this helps, lol. They all seem fun.
@@motodojo3899 it is said to take around 25hours to complete up until act 3... You'd also have to spend at least a dozens hours more per ascendancy to actually get some skills and gear to get a feel for the ascendancy. Ultimately, this little maneuvers going to cost us 51 years
Im a mana stacking main from POE 1. And Stormweaver just makes me want to cry with joy. It's perfect Unfortunately the problem with Elememtal Storm is it can't crit and it's 4 points to make it feel good. I think we all agree that Arcane Surge in its current form has to be taken. It's just too damn powerful. At that point doing you pick elemental storm over the other nodes Strike twice, Scouring Winds, or Heart of the Storm.
Hello, some kind of mana stacking i would like to play. Im new player to PoE.What ascendancy points you would recommend to looking for? And more important , can we respect this points or are they fix like the ascendancy itself? Best Greetings
@@UntergrundElektronik 1. You can fully respect point within the class...you just can't change accendency at this point 2. -Full arcane surge 4 points (non negotiatable) without it you will run out of mana. - For Me The next point is Strike twice. Shock is a huge damage multiple. I might even take it before the 2nd arcane surge point. - after that pick Scourign winds for more damage or Heart of the storm for more defense. I'm picking Heart of the Storm. 3. Nodes on the tree. -Mind over Matter (non- negotiatable) - Chaos Innoculation: Makes you immune to Choas Damage and bleeding. - Stack as much INT as possible. INT = MANA....MANA EQUALS DAMAGE AND SURVIVAL. - Get "Pure Power", "Arcane intensity", and every node that converts ES into Stun threshold. Without it you will get stunned every time your hit. - gems and skills are still up in the air...but your main Mets gem aura is Arcmage. After that everything is a mystery to uncover. Good Luck
@@UntergrundElektronikAnime Princess here on TH-cam has a very easy breakdown of a mana stacking build to start early access with. It’s not detailed because we still don’t know a lot of specifics but the video breakdown a priority list for a manastacking stormweaver
@@5ean5ean22 Thanks for your time and detailed answer.Very appreciated.This gives me a bit of an idea in wich direction it goes… I’m D4 player and it’s the right time to switch over to PoE now.Usually coming from this Souls Games that From Software made.Just wanna say i nearly wasn’t „hyped“ that much for a new game since my childhood or a new Souls game reveal i think 😂
@@echoesofmalachor3700 Thanks man , i checked that out and even the background music was a bit loud i definitely will follow this dude for my sorceress
@Raxxanterax @19:00 you have the deadeye extra projectile wrong buddy. 1 extra projectile is considered the projectile animation that the character shoots on the sky. So with extra projectile you send 2 and the result is 2x rain of arrows AOE landing is occuring.
I think a lot of Diablo casual players who are getting hyped about this game are going to be in for a rude awakening when they see how much more difficult and technical PoE 2 is.
it's not that deep dude, ppl are gonna be hooked at the start when they see how much fun it is, no one's gonna be paying attention to difficulty and such cause tbh you just need time to get over it, it's an rpg after all, remember?
That Invoker node "...and I shall rage" gives you Unbound avatar, which was introduced in the PoE 1 Settlers league as an ascendancy node for Warden (reworked Raider). At the end of the skill description it says "80% more Elemental Damage while Unbound". So, if this works like in PoE 1, it will be pretty darn good.
1. Super appreciate the breakdown tailored toward newer players and the campaign. It does feel like 90% of the videos jump straight to, "how will this boss feel fighting ubers or blasting tier 16s?" 2. Love the lawn mower analogy for the Gemling Legionnaire. Totally agree it's less flashy than Witchhunter, but I love the idea of a rock-solid ascendancy that can be half-respec'd lategame or where you can mess around with gem allocation depending on the boss.
Hey Rax Someone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, bc I have never really dove deep into POE, but this is how i interpreted the Witchbane description: When the ascendancy is selected, enemies essentially gain a Sekiro-stamina bar - Concentration - that is equivalent to 40% of the mob’s max hp, which reduces the enemy’s cool down timers in this case by up to 50% When you hit an enemy, 100% of the damage you did with the attack will also be done to the enemy’s concentration bar Concentration will begin to regen after 5secs of no damage This is what the skill does on its own No Mercy will enable you to deal bonus damage as you break the enemy’s concentration bar, up to 30%, which I’m assuming is calculated before the damage is dealt to the concentration, as opposed to after Someone feel free to correct me if I’m off, as this is my first time seeing/reading any kind of POE skills
You chose very different points to me on each of these ascendancies. Often what you chose as the most important, I considered to be the least important nodes. I think thats really cool that there is such diversity, the ascendancies realllly make you think about what nodes you want. Unless its just pure damage you want then i guess its quite simple.
One thing about the going negative for armor and Resistances. Jonathan mentioned in the Interview with DM, if im not mistaken, that we cant get enemy defenses below zero. But since Armor Penetration and Ele Pen are scarcer the penetration stuff is still really strong.
I think the reason for the culling strike "nerf" is actually it's interaction with decimating strike. Hypothetical example IF culling strike was like in poe 1: DS->hit->cull if the "hit" does enough damage to bring the target down from wherever the DS left it to the cull threshold.. but NOW because the thresholds are checked FIRST we need a second hit which could lead to situations where the cull just ends up being redundant.
35:47 the reason people are happy with taking decimating strike is because it checks the life total as the enemy spawns. Mean if decimating hits for 30% and then my hit procs I’m probably already capped on concentration reduction. And all I gotta do is keep hitting him to make sure enemies never go above -50% cooldown. It basically works the exact opposite of culling. 37:08 when concentration is broken enemies have -50% cooldown meaning half as many big slams and boss mechanics 38:38 node 3 should(I believe )double dip with meta gems reducing reservation cost AND energy cost meaning more gems going off more often and node 7 basically removes the downside:)
37:24 answer for your concentration question is on the screen xD The lower the concentration the lower the cooldown recovery rate monsters have so they can use their skills less often.
Witchbane plus no mercy seems so good. I think they should be the first 2 choices. 30% more damage after you deal 40% of their life? That's more than half the fight it'll be up. And that's not including the defensiveness of them using their abilities half as often.
Honestly for Titan I 100% agree "crushing impacts" should be the first ascendancy pick for just about everyone. Given how easy it is to "prime" lower rarity mobs for heavy stun the crowdcontrol strength of such a node should not be underestimated and you only need to tickle a mob to proc it once it's "primed". There are also a couple of REALLY juicy notables on the tree relating to heavy stun: "shattering blow" (50% armorbreak) and "flip the script" (50% life "recovery" upon heavy stunning a rare or unique, though recovery duration is 10s default in poe2). The 50% armorbreak node might be interesting if you have some +%increased armorbreak on the tree and pair your preferred aoe-stun skill with "increased armorbreak" support as well as "armour explosion" support =) (later on once you have +50% effect of small passives you can get +100% break without supportgem for basically 3-4 extra passivenodes next to the ones you probably took already).
Hey Rax just wanted to say thanks for the free PoE2 key the other night. your streams are a continuous source of information and I am looking forward to your PoE2 content.
Thank you for the video, I thought it was helpful. Along side my journey of learning PoE, regarding the curses/blood witch, I'm building a blood witch chaos build. There's a curse that debuffs for creatures to get -40% chaos resist which means a fuck ton more dmg I think. However it does cost alot of health/mana to spam if need be. The duration could be useful on stronger foes.
Quick correction at 29:30 regarding Demon Form. It grants a flat 16% cast speed. Conner corrected himself briefly after. Here's some more info below on Demon Form: Demonic possession --- -Revert to human form on reaching 1 life. -16% increased cast speed -+4 to all spell skills -lose 1% of life per second per Demonflame stack -Deal 10% spell damage per Demonflame stack -Gain 1 Demonflame stack per second
The excitement is overwhelming. Im a new Poe player. So I can only imagine how excited you all thats been with it from the start with the first game must be. I think this will overwhelm most people as well as other studios. PoE2 will be seen as a milestone in the gaming industry and set the bar so high. Tomorrow is early christmas guys!!!! Good luck everyone! Happy for you all!
Hey, that was really good post. Yeah, I’m a new player along with you. I had a rough time with the first one. But I bought a key because this game looks really good and I’m gonna bunker down and I’m gonna play this game until I figure it out. Probably going with the sorcerer on the first play through. That’s it was toss up between sorcerer and which but I usually always always play intelligent builds cause that’s what I like so sorcerers are usually my mean so hopefully I can figure this out cause that’s the only part I’m nervous about I don’t mind the challenge cause I played all the souls games and I like playing hard games. It’s just the depth of this game that I really hope I can figure out all the crafting how to gear and going through that passive tree and make sure that I’m doing the right thing And yeah, make my build strong enough in order to try to get the game. I mean it’s probably gonna take me a month to get there compared to allow other people because I take my time and I’m kind of a person that likes to be a completion so I’m gonna search every nook and cranny buthopefully within that time I can really learn the concept of all these different systems but have fun and enjoy
In the Titan ascendancy nodes are you sure, that "Small Passive Skills" in Hulking Form refers to the whole passive tree ? And not referring to the small nodes withing the Ascendancy Tree ?
@@DementoPowerful Very tiny generic bonuses, like the one before the health node would add a bit of life, the one before aftershock nodes might give a bit of aoe, the one before the double armor node might give a bit of armor.
Thank you! I have had this complaint with these types of videos now for years. If the build-guide needs 450h of game time to fulfill, why do I need a build guide after 440h of game time, I'll know everything. You are on to something here for sure, make build guides to use At the breakpoints, when finishing the campaign going into endgame for example ❤
Thanks for the vid Rax, I've followed you when playing a couple of ARPGs before, never been into PoE previously as I didn't like the way you pretty much had to follow a build guide and no real freedom, so I'm going into this as a new player and just looking for advice on new player friendly classes. The info in this video is great, feel like I have a lot to learn already, and not even logged in yet. 😆
One more day and I still have no idea what to start with, this should help. I like the idea of picking based on leveling experience, especially for those of us that are new to this complex game. Having the most fun early on will help me get through the learning curve.
witchbane is an "slow effect" on boss mechanics, when the conentration breaks, and gives you simply better reaction times in boss fights. 40% of max life (can be done very fast if you procc the 30% on inital strike), than "slow effect" with plus 30% dmg in the recovery phase of the boss, and you have a window to push 60->30% of boss life, were than you execution triggers. If it works perfectly like "planned", it is like "chronomancer" a class, which can nuke bosses in a short dmg window. A chronemancer will use the "33% chance not to trigger a cooldown" on a high dmg skill like "hands of god". If you luck strike, you can massive burst a boss.
Interesting thoughts as always. The time going into all this is highly appreciated! Many people who feel a bit lost might be looking for some guidance, so it's always helpful to have that, even though pretty much all of it is of course unproven at this point, as you've pointed out. That being said, I will ignore all of it and go Chronomancer, because I just want to stop time :D. If it turns out to be terrible, I'll probably go for a Titan or Deadeye next - or maybe a Bloodmage. Sheesh, there's so many intetresting choices!
i'll be playing warbringer with armour break stacking, for sure. armour break looks super strong, and there are many strong effects via support gems which occur with armour breaking. can't wait to hop in and see final numbers of things a bit flushed out, my main idea is to break armour with my own damage, and roll with attack totems for main damage to benefit
I'm going Witchhunter. The primary draw is the fact that it is a playstyle that seems very different from POE1 and after 11 years I'm ready for something new. If the exploding corpse works anything like POE1 10% is huge for map clearing basically one out of every 10 enemies is going to explode which will probably kill a bunch of enemies around it which will lead to more explosions. Add that to the l literal arsenal that the witch hunter has and I just see it as being a super fun playstyle. If you're at all curious about the witch hunter check out Ziggy D's video.
re: Warbringer... someone teased a supposedly leaked reservation called "sacrifice" (60 spiritcost) which basically lets your skills consider your own permanent minions as "corpses" with the penalty of a significantly longer respawn timer. I'm a bit scared of the "in your presence" line on "Warrcaller's bellow" to be honest, the fact that it's there suggests to me that the "explosion" might somehow be "delinked" from the warcry triggering it... which would really be a shame because I want to use it in conjunction with "anvil's weight" and proc "armour explosion" from it (if "infernal cry" is the warcry of choice then it could potentially have a weaker on-kill explosion as well without needing to warcry again... OR just leave the body for the next warcry, I don't think ignoring cooldown is worth 2 ascendancypoints).
I heard somewhere respecing ascendancy points cost the same as 4 normal points and once you have refunded all your points from your ascendancy, you can go to the altar and switch ascendancy to a new one. In other words, you can switch and experiment with both ascendancy on the same character.
Tomorrow can't come soon enough! What Class and Ascendancy are you going to start with?
Chronomancer with minions
Thanks, was waiting for this. Also may I ask which headphones are you using?
sunder witchhunter merc
Deadeye. Rain of Arrow or Artillery Ballista build
Gonna try them all
Hi Rax, it's everyone.
Well played sir
Hey everyone, it's somebody else
It always makes me laugh! 😂
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Thanks rãxx always a great video man following you from d4 now to Poe 2 , I did not play poe1 but your videos is so helpfull ❤
Choose wisely you say? I don't see wisely being on the character list.
speccing wisdom is for losers and posers anyway. Pick Charisma/Intelligence and gigachad your way through the game.
Belle is better anyway
*breathe out of nose laugh*
Comes out with full release
He means Wise Lee. I'm not that wise. Sensible, not wise
The most important thing about your build is whether or not you find it satisfying to play. I have played powerful builds in poe 1 that just didn’t feel good to play for me and so I just
stopped progressing them. Because you’re hitting roughly the same set of abilities throughout the game, you better like them haha. Your satisfaction second by second is more valuable than the potential for you to hit pinnacle content, especially if you are a new player.
I agree. The bummer of some acendancy's if you ask me is that some of them seem straight forward and strong right away. An all arounder if you will which often become somewhat boring. While others seem like they will not shine until later into the game with gear and passives but sound like a cool playstyle. They become a major slog or feel like you're limiting yourself and behind until you can get them online if you will.
Thing is, if this game is anything like poe 1, the ascendancy is important but your gear and main passive tree are arguably more important and build defining. The ascendancy really just helps you focus your build a bit and add some power. If this game is as well designed as poe 1 the variability in builds will be vast and you can make almost anything work once your knowledge of the passive tree, crafting and gearing is proficient.
The issue is that if you want to reach the endgame, because you want experience it, you HAVE to play the 'powerful builds'. Otherwise, you'll end up like me. Stuck dying after after getting Innocence unlocked, because I just don't have the attention span or interest to focus on a cookie cutter build that I know will get me there, because I don't find it fun.
big problem is that early access is not even as balanced a normal league patch, and even those arent perfectly balanced. if you play a cool build but its generically weak then youre not going to have a fun time either being stuck in 1 act and cant even get your full ascendancy. i think a lot of people are REALLY underestimating how much more difficult poe2 is. you need to plan your build from the first point to maps and be strong at every point.
Played a Haunted Spark Trickster as my 3rd Char last season. Min maxed it as much as possible. Have stoped counting how many mirror ive put into it and in the End it wasnt fun. Went back to my Str/Int stacking coc inqui. Way cheaper and way more fun
Red Hoodie Evil Raxx isn't real, he can't hurt yo-
Red Hoodie Evil Raxx: 50 minute ascendancy breakdown video to help the masses
Feels like I'm back in college and studying before a big exam lol
Good info.
Gotta get your CPE credits too for this game
That’s funny. I went out and bought a copy book specifically for this game so I can write down everything that I’m learning in game and for watching people rax. because I had a really hard time with the first one so I stopped playing it. I mean to be honest with you. I probably the first one for like an hour and I was like oh the heck with this but this game just looks too good for me not to play this. I figure since this is early access. This is gonna be like a six month to a year long class for me until the game is fully released so you know I’m gonna take my time and enjoy a ride and just try to learn everything I can at my own pace so this way when the game goes full release I’ll be ready
You have no idea how depressing to hear that. It's a game.
@@Slitheringpeanut Its the kind of game it is, you can always play Peggle instead
@ yes it is definitely is a game but at the same time it’s more than that. It’s that’s crazy cause I’m a new player. I couldn’t handle the first one because the complexity and that kind of turned me off a bit, but I’ll be damned if I let that happen this time I’m gonna learn this gameif it takes me two years to figure it out I am going to learn this game.
Thanks for breaking the game down for us! This is going to be my first time playing POE and I can’t wait
Welcome in the Club
Early access might have some quirks, but this dev team is something special. You won't regret a minute of this game.
I’m stoked. First time playing POE. NEVER played an ARPG before Diablo 4. Already told the wife, see you in March. 😂
Same lezgoo
Basically the same story for me! Can’t wait.
Conor is a wizard with Poe. He doesn't often miss. His builds are always a safe choice. Not recommended for absolute beginners tho. As sometimes he may gloss over things that new players may not understand. But raxxx is very good at translating those things to new players.
Agreed! Connor’s builds are great, but very technical. MSotZ in 3.25 being my favorite build ever
Who’s Conor? (I’m new to POE, lol)
I was really hoping you were working on something like this. I'm totally new to PoE, so this is going to help me out so much. Thanks for you and the community for the effort!
If you're a PoE noob, Raxx is your best friend. His PoE beginners guides are always incredibly well done and help thousands of new players de-overwhelm their brain 😄
36:58 - Yes it does something on its own. It increaseses the monster's abilities cooldowns. Imagine if a ascendancy node DIDN'T do anything on its own and you HAD to pick the node behind that. That would suck balls. Fortunatellly this is not the case here. And by the way, there is literally a tooltip explaining that in the picture you are looking at :P
Yeah just read what Concentration does to the right.
He also recommended to take culling strike and decimating strike first. No way in hell someone would take anything other then Zealous inquisition first. That node itself would make leveling 10x faster and safer considering the aoe size that those explosions are and the fact that killing 1 mob could kill an entire pack since it is 100 percent of life.
@@froman1522 that was my thoughts as well it will help you clear areas super fast. especially since when they do explode it deals 100% of their life as phys dmg. imagine you kill a rare surrounded by magic and white monsters and it pops everything else around him dies
@@gamewhizjo I honestly assumed it's related to monster density at first, but you are right. (as in, maybe he knows the density doesn't make it worth it, and didn't mention)
@@darsynia I mean from what I’ve seen monster density doesn’t look like a major issue maybe in the first act but my assumption is that after you’re supposed to get your first 2 ascendency points things are going to ramp a bit. Also you only need one monster proc for it to be useful. I don’t know if you’ve seen ziggyds video of the merc but the AOE on it looks pretty big.(it’s the big white circle that’s how you know when it hits btw)
I'm following you over from the D4 world. I really appreciate these vids man and the focus on setting POE newcomers up to succeed.
42:44 One important things to note, the way that it is worded is the gear number determines the spirit, the evasion reduction is then applied to the character. You will not see your spirit go down after picking up the second node.
Thanks Rax for focusing on helping newer players. As a long term follower on TH-cam (pretty sure I have seen 90% of your videos at least) I appreciate that you always try to do that. Bought my SP last night and downloaded to PS5 so I'm all set to go on this journey with you!
I think merc witch hunter is a super straight forward ascendancy and going to be really good for new players. It's very consistent and even with the nerfs to culling strike any type of free %damage is going to be very strong. For those reasons I'm going witch hunter culling strike, decimating strike, and then on top of that concentration is going to be great both of which will greatly buff merc damage and i think 2,3,4,5 will be insane damage
Amazing info - I’m totally new to the whole game - so a bit lost on what to choose / start. May have to watch beginners guides too 🎉
Good tip👍since i new to poe and dont want anything complicated and i only like male classes so its either mer or titan:)
35:14 - to me, concentration is one of the best passives in the game revealed thus far, simply because it is, simultaneously, a well-scaling damage buff and also a defensive buff. It seems too reward consistent damage on enemies, especially strong enemies, because having a 1.3 times damage multiplier and having the enemy's powerful skills charge up 50% slower, it seems to be something that will scale forever, and especially be effective against the Uber bosses. The potential issue of the concentration stacks falling off over time might be able to be solved with damage over time, effects, minions, or multiple consistent hits. This seems to be an excellent boss killing ascendancy.
It also feels like he is understanding it differently from me. The way I read it, the damage buff scales as the enemy loses concentration. So after dealing 20% of enemy life, you have a 15% more damage bonus. So you don't need to break concentration before you get value.
And it's likely the boss's big attacks are cooldown based, so losing concentration will make them perform their attacks only half as often.
@@cartuniverse2728 Yeah I think you are right, it seems like a really useful skill for sure!
@@cartuniverse2728 Agreed, I don't think Rax fully understood how it works. Well, he definitely didn't as he missed the explanation of what Concentration does. But that aside the damage ramps up as you reduce concentration not only when they are reduced to 0 as he implied.
Yeah slight misunderstanding I think , if you replace the wording for concentration with something like “energy shield” it makes a lot more sense. (Or at least that’s how my brain interpreted it, without the defensive component of ES obv.)
Enemies gain trait concentration, value of concentration is equal to 40% of their hp. Enemies lose concentration based on 100% of damage taken. Breaking concentration… blah blah blah. Something like that
a 50 min Raxx video is dayyyyys of content for most creators. Appreciate it, big dawg.
I was just looking for a video like that Red Rax
As a complete POE noob, this helped me tremendously in understanding wtf is going on with these ascendancies.
Concentration makes the enemies cast spells less often by its own, scaling for as much of their concentration is broken i believe.
Also Its good to mention that the trials are made 4 times but only once per level breakpoint gives 2 points
Great video!
For new players and everyone wanting to play the Acolyte of Chayula monk its is VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
The node giving you instant mana leech requires you to leech mana in the first place!
There seems to be little to no access of mana leech on the skill tree: aka 'leech #% of damage as mana' only 'leech % increased damage as mana' which doesn't do anything until your damage actually has a chance to leech mana.
There's a support gem you can use to leech 2% of an attack's physical damage as mana. You can only use it on 1 skill though. Very limited access from what we've seen.
Maybe items add it? I'm sure it will be in game, especially for Monks.
@@ThatOneKid755 yeah very scary prospect
@@alemayehusolomon941 i hope so otherwise this ascendancy is screwed.
Only melee skills can leech mana. They made it clear that they dont want leech on spells
Imagine going Hammer of the Gods with Hourglass support Chronomancer. With "Now and again" and "Unbound Encore" you could at minimum trigger the skill twice, and if you're really lucky, 4 times(1/3*1/3% chance)(or 44% chance to trigger 3 times)
That sounds dope as hell 😂🔥
Can’t wait until we’ve got Primal and Flail skills to play with. Casters gonna go crazy.
@brilobox2 what skills are those? First time hearing of em
Ignite on hammer of gods will be fun
@@hamedyari9370 Primal probably for the Druid skills and Flail for the Templar skills.
For the altered flesh the chaos res is the important one. The elemental damage exchange is something you don't have to care too much about. the 20% phys to chaos is the kicker. Since hellhound makes you reroute 20% to it, with 20 % phys to chaos that you should mitigate 75% at worst and with CI it would be all of it. What means you receive 30% phys dmg reduction if geared properly at worst and 40% with CI. ( Witch is prime position on the tree to go CI starting in the see of ES nodes if the preview thing is something to go by and keystone is not going to be too far from her) I personally plan on going summoner with hellhound first, pyro pact second into altered flesh and Beidat's will. Pyro pact and flesh are interchangeable depending on the state of my chaos res. Ultimately switching either switching to CI beidat's will and grabing seeting body or taking Beidat's hand instead of pyro pact.
I am planning to try most of summons and settle on the ones I enjoy the most. For now mostly looking forward to trying popcorn raging spirits.
Yes please upload the 3:47 clear video. Thanks.
Came to TH-cam for this exact video. Thank you for your hard work, man. Your excitement for the launch is infectious too. Hype!
Spells are generally between 7-12% base crit. Even if using a spell with 12% base, an extra 3% of base crit is a huge amount.
For the Acolyte of Chayula, I'm not sure if anything has changed but my brother was showing me the talents. Chaos Innoculation (Max life becomes 1, immune to chaos damage), Eldritch Battery (Spend energy shield before mana for mana costs, energy shield protects mana instead of life), and Mind Over Matter (All damage is taken from mana before life, 50% less mana recovery rate) with Ravenous Doubts (mana leech is instant) and Consuming Questions (Cannot recharge energy shield, mana leech also effects energy shields) looks like it will go absolutely crazy because a lot of mana talents/nodes also boost energy shield. He's going to try this combo as his first class and I have a feeling once it gets online it will go crazy.
As someone new to PoE the biggest concern for me is that I'll get well into the game without realising that I've picked a load of ineffectual skills with no clear indicator that I've done just that.
Good thing about poe2 is that you can repec for gold and it's cheaper at lower levels so if you aren't vibing with it you can change a lot easier than the first one.
Stop fearing and start experimenting. Get used to it and breakthrough to the part where you’re blissfully having fun. It’s time to stop letting yourself be an obstacle.
When a video starts with a spreadsheet I’m absolutely sold already. Phenomenal work rax, as always!
Titan Hulking Form! LETS GO!
@Rax thank you for these videos man as a newbie coming to this game. I really appreciate it. That helps so much. I’ll be looking forward to more videos in the future. Once the games are early access is open and you learn more. I need all the help I can get.
Absolutely phenomenal. Only content I've seen actually attempting to help people who know nothing.
Raxx is one of the very best out there when it comes to de-overwhelming the PoE noobs
thank you for this!! loving the community for welcoming new players in and giving good advice
Just one more day to go!!!!!!! I will begin with the Warrior and then play the Witch. I love controlling minions. Necromancer in D4 is so much fun
Wow ! Yes I play diablo games aswell and if you never tried minions on POE ONE compared to diablo 4 .....You actually "like" and feel sorry for some of your minions in POE haha. SOme spectres are really incredible ! I will start with sorc then minions after :)
Watched that video you recommended last night but love that you broke it down even more for us, thank you imposter raxx
Dude, been stalking every content creator to just dive into the theory a bit. And here you swing out, with content going above and beyond! Awesome! :)
Thanks Raxx for putting all the efforts in , we appreciate it , can't wait to see you online. Lets go !!
The blood mage looks like such a fun risk / reward playstyle. Definitely going to run this out of the gate.
I agree looks really cool
Yes, concentration does things on its own (there is a tooltip for that in the corner where they showcase the ascendancy), it lowers the cooldown recovery rate for up to 50% at 0 concentration (so twice longer cooldown on monsters with 0 concentration. Probably can affect special abilities on certain monsters, i'm just guessing there)
Great video, i will be going Gemling legonair Minions mainly because in the past of poe 1 having improved quality on youre minions and +1 to them Heavily boosts them to where if you were to look up a gem level 21 raise specter skill gem it went for decent of divine orbs because its just that good to have on them.
Check the concentration box on the ascendancy page. It makes monsters have longer cooldowns so bosses will do their abilities slower - it's huge for boss killing.
Upload the 3:47:00 run!
Some of the details in this game really appeal to me. Simple things like the names of the invoker tree making a sort of mantra is so cool.
If you would literally would look on the pic it says that Concentration increases the monsters Cooldowns meaning it takes them longer to do anything meaningful.
sorry that sounded way more rude then I wanted it too my bad.
Planning to go Stormweaver as my first play of Path of Exile of any kind wanted to keep it simple as possible. Also would love to see a video going over what best to spend your points on from RMTX. Like if you bought the 100 supporter pack and got 1000 points, i know smartest is storage, but what storage is best first for new people
Yup, that’s gonna be my first play through too. That’s the class. I’m going with storm Weaver.
You can't go wrong with the basic currency specific tab.
25:20 - About curses,there is a skill gem which convert curses to auras,and you reserve 30 spirit per curse you linked to that skill. You can have 5 curses at the same time around you if you can manage spirit cost :D
We don’t know it works that way yet. If it does then there is literally no reason for whispers of Doom to exist.
@@titanicjack6744 yeah my bad on that,still 2 curses aura is not bad at all,you are fine with like dispair and temporal chains for chaos builds,combined with hexblast you get a decent aoe build,but will have to see are numbers are decent enough.
Didn’t see a lot of streams this week but from this video and other raxx stuff this week, you can tell how excited he is for this game. We ready.
Goodbye friends. Family. Work. Eating. Sleeping. Even blinking. All exp losses.
Gonna be playing a Mercenary on a Legion Go as a twin stick shooter. Have not made up my mind on ascendancy, but this video definitely pushed me towards gemling!
About the same idea, but then on Steam Deck. Several other options fir that bill too, but Gemling could be a strong option. Given the fact that I've never come above level 94 before rage-ending my seasonals, most of my energy is going to go to the toon that dies the least, haha!
I've switched to playing PoE on my legion go since I bought it when it came out. Love the more casual playstyle and the performance is great.
Planning on starting PoE 2 the same way. I might use my TV to play some couch co op with my oldest too.
I'm apprehensive about the aiming as a twin stick with all the other buttons to press. Personally I'm leaning towards a poisoning ci Monk of Chayula or a blood witch with all damage bleeds setup. As is tradition I'll probably switch when I hit the character creation step.
@@IJustLikeBikes you've got a point. XYAB buttons are not accessible when aiming with the right thumb stick. But, Legion Space allows us to remap all buttons to whatever, including keyboard keys and key combinations. I'll make it work! :D
@@gumzster My idea with the Steam Input that is available on the Deck out of the box. All kinds of timings and key combinations are possible; if an active toon rpoves to be too much, I'll go minion army (as I did in D4 -- probably Blood Mage for now).
Rax, I really really appreciate your effort trying to break down the game and make our lives easier, that is the type of content I keep looking for. I agree with your thought processing and, as you said, we will need to play a little bit PoE2 to understand how it's gonna work. Thanks for bringing that content up.
Honestly I just want to pick a character that FEELS fun and isn't overly complicated. I'm looking at Invoker, Blood Mage and Chronomancer.
The mechanics are all little more complicated than they look like.
Raxx makes the best guides for people who are brand new to the game.
imma go warrior witchhunter, getting my Guts build going on.
A week ago, I had it narrowed down to 2 ascendancies I wanted to play for launch. By yesterday, I was up to 5. I can't wait to see how many it'll be after this...
never played any POE.....super hyped for this! honestly going in for what seems and feels like the most fun for me. I'm a dad of 2 young kids so my time is minimal I ain't got the time to really min max a character and grind super hard. fun and new is what I'm in for and a world to dive into
Dad of 2 gang here!
@@natetrucnlae6410 lets gooooo
Great info as always, appreciate you putting this sheet together and talking through some good options. I've got paralysis by analysis and this helps, lol. They all seem fun.
Red Rax cannot scare you.
Red Rax:
He switched over to bloods😂
It doesn't matter what we choose, I think like most of us, we are going to make every class with every ascendancy, ultimately.
Not unless you have thousands of hours at hand.
Have you played PoE before?
This stuff takes a while, especially for new players
@darkdraconis it's 3 acts...
@@motodojo3899 it is said to take around 25hours to complete up until act 3...
You'd also have to spend at least a dozens hours more per ascendancy to actually get some skills and gear to get a feel for the ascendancy.
Ultimately, this little maneuvers going to cost us 51 years
Raxx, one more night to go man, ONE! My excitement has been bubbling for so long, its ready to explode.
Im a mana stacking main from POE 1. And Stormweaver just makes me want to cry with joy. It's perfect
Unfortunately the problem with Elememtal Storm is it can't crit and it's 4 points to make it feel good. I think we all agree that Arcane Surge in its current form has to be taken. It's just too damn powerful.
At that point doing you pick elemental storm over the other nodes Strike twice, Scouring Winds, or Heart of the Storm.
Hello, some kind of mana stacking i would like to play.
Im new player to PoE.What ascendancy points you would recommend to looking for? And more important , can we respect this points or are they fix like the ascendancy itself? Best Greetings
@@UntergrundElektronik 1. You can fully respect point within the class...you just can't change accendency at this point
2. -Full arcane surge 4 points (non negotiatable) without it you will run out of mana.
- For Me The next point is Strike twice. Shock is a huge damage multiple. I might even take it before the 2nd arcane surge point.
- after that pick Scourign winds for more damage or Heart of the storm for more defense. I'm picking Heart of the Storm.
3. Nodes on the tree.
-Mind over Matter (non- negotiatable)
- Chaos Innoculation: Makes you immune to Choas Damage and bleeding.
- Stack as much INT as possible. INT = MANA....MANA EQUALS DAMAGE AND SURVIVAL.
- Get "Pure Power", "Arcane intensity", and every node that converts ES into Stun threshold. Without it you will get stunned every time your hit.
- gems and skills are still up in the air...but your main Mets gem aura is Arcmage.
After that everything is a mystery to uncover.
Good Luck
@@UntergrundElektronikAnime Princess here on TH-cam has a very easy breakdown of a mana stacking build to start early access with. It’s not detailed because we still don’t know a lot of specifics but the video breakdown a priority list for a manastacking stormweaver
@@5ean5ean22 Thanks for your time and detailed answer.Very appreciated.This gives me a bit of an idea in wich direction it goes…
I’m D4 player and it’s the right time to switch over to PoE now.Usually coming from this Souls Games that From Software made.Just wanna say i nearly wasn’t „hyped“ that much for a new game since my childhood or a new Souls game reveal i think 😂
@@echoesofmalachor3700
Thanks man , i checked that out and even the background music was a bit loud i definitely will follow this dude for my sorceress
Who is this Red Hooded guy? Where is Raxx?
@Raxxanterax
@19:00 you have the deadeye extra projectile wrong buddy. 1 extra projectile is considered the projectile animation that the character shoots on the sky. So with extra projectile you send 2 and the result is 2x rain of arrows AOE landing is occuring.
Who is this dude with red hoody?
Little Red Raxxing Hood
Thanks Raxx! I really think early crafting is going to very important to support the ascendancy choices. Craft early, craft often!
I think a lot of Diablo casual players who are getting hyped about this game are going to be in for a rude awakening when they see how much more difficult and technical PoE 2 is.
Yup. They won't last.
@@c-tothefourth4879perfect. Save the servers for the veterans 😂😂😂
it's not that deep dude, ppl are gonna be hooked at the start when they see how much fun it is, no one's gonna be paying attention to difficulty and such cause tbh you just need time to get over it, it's an rpg after all, remember?
"Difficult" is crazy 🤣
Games not even out yet and the gatekeepers are already out in full force
Thx Raxx, for getting me started like you did in D3. You're the best.
thank you for bringing us quality content raxx! i love the work you always bring!
That Invoker node "...and I shall rage" gives you Unbound avatar, which was introduced in the PoE 1 Settlers league as an ascendancy node for Warden (reworked Raider). At the end of the skill description it says "80% more Elemental Damage while Unbound". So, if this works like in PoE 1, it will be pretty darn good.
1. Super appreciate the breakdown tailored toward newer players and the campaign. It does feel like 90% of the videos jump straight to, "how will this boss feel fighting ubers or blasting tier 16s?"
2. Love the lawn mower analogy for the Gemling Legionnaire. Totally agree it's less flashy than Witchhunter, but I love the idea of a rock-solid ascendancy that can be half-respec'd lategame or where you can mess around with gem allocation depending on the boss.
Hey Rax
Someone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, bc I have never really dove deep into POE, but this is how i interpreted the Witchbane description:
When the ascendancy is selected, enemies essentially gain a Sekiro-stamina bar - Concentration - that is equivalent to 40% of the mob’s max hp, which reduces the enemy’s cool down timers in this case by up to 50%
When you hit an enemy, 100% of the damage you did with the attack will also be done to the enemy’s concentration bar
Concentration will begin to regen after 5secs of no damage
This is what the skill does on its own
No Mercy will enable you to deal bonus damage as you break the enemy’s concentration bar, up to 30%, which I’m assuming is calculated before the damage is dealt to the concentration, as opposed to after
Someone feel free to correct me if I’m off, as this is my first time seeing/reading any kind of POE skills
You chose very different points to me on each of these ascendancies. Often what you chose as the most important, I considered to be the least important nodes. I think thats really cool that there is such diversity, the ascendancies realllly make you think about what nodes you want. Unless its just pure damage you want then i guess its quite simple.
One thing about the going negative for armor and Resistances. Jonathan mentioned in the Interview with DM, if im not mistaken, that we cant get enemy defenses below zero.
But since Armor Penetration and Ele Pen are scarcer the penetration stuff is still really strong.
Incorrect. You can't penetrate below 0, doesn't mean you can't reduce below 0. Exposure does for instance.
You brought me through Diablo 4 as a new player, you will bring me through POE2!!! You’re the best dude seriously!!
I think the reason for the culling strike "nerf" is actually it's interaction with decimating strike. Hypothetical example IF culling strike was like in poe 1: DS->hit->cull if the "hit" does enough damage to bring the target down from wherever the DS left it to the cull threshold.. but NOW because the thresholds are checked FIRST we need a second hit which could lead to situations where the cull just ends up being redundant.
Thank you Rax this will help me for sure. As a Diablo (2,3,4) casual gamer PoE2 is a really anticipated game. Best of luck to everyone 🍀 let’s enjoy 🎉
35:47 the reason people are happy with taking decimating strike is because it checks the life total as the enemy spawns. Mean if decimating hits for 30% and then my hit procs I’m probably already capped on concentration reduction. And all I gotta do is keep hitting him to make sure enemies never go above -50% cooldown. It basically works the exact opposite of culling. 37:08 when concentration is broken enemies have -50% cooldown meaning half as many big slams and boss mechanics 38:38 node 3 should(I believe )double dip with meta gems reducing reservation cost AND energy cost meaning more gems going off more often and node 7 basically removes the downside:)
I am watching all these videos. Knowing full well, i will just go on to play what i feel like playing in the moment LMAO
As a new person to Poe, this was the most helpful video I've seen.
37:24 answer for your concentration question is on the screen xD The lower the concentration the lower the cooldown recovery rate monsters have so they can use their skills less often.
Witchbane plus no mercy seems so good. I think they should be the first 2 choices.
30% more damage after you deal 40% of their life? That's more than half the fight it'll be up.
And that's not including the defensiveness of them using their abilities half as often.
Honestly for Titan I 100% agree "crushing impacts" should be the first ascendancy pick for just about everyone. Given how easy it is to "prime" lower rarity mobs for heavy stun the crowdcontrol strength of such a node should not be underestimated and you only need to tickle a mob to proc it once it's "primed". There are also a couple of REALLY juicy notables on the tree relating to heavy stun: "shattering blow" (50% armorbreak) and "flip the script" (50% life "recovery" upon heavy stunning a rare or unique, though recovery duration is 10s default in poe2). The 50% armorbreak node might be interesting if you have some +%increased armorbreak on the tree and pair your preferred aoe-stun skill with "increased armorbreak" support as well as "armour explosion" support =) (later on once you have +50% effect of small passives you can get +100% break without supportgem for basically 3-4 extra passivenodes next to the ones you probably took already).
I'm looking forward to all your PoE 2 videos. Thanks for the work you put in trying to make games better for gamers.
Great candid content as always Rax. You're my go to guy when it comes to content creators.
Hey Rax just wanted to say thanks for the free PoE2 key the other night. your streams are a continuous source of information and I am looking forward to your PoE2 content.
Thank you for the video, I thought it was helpful.
Along side my journey of learning PoE, regarding the curses/blood witch, I'm building a blood witch chaos build. There's a curse that debuffs for creatures to get -40% chaos resist which means a fuck ton more dmg I think. However it does cost alot of health/mana to spam if need be. The duration could be useful on stronger foes.
Quick correction at 29:30 regarding Demon Form. It grants a flat 16% cast speed. Conner corrected himself briefly after. Here's some more info below on Demon Form:
Demonic possession ---
-Revert to human form on reaching 1 life.
-16% increased cast speed
-+4 to all spell skills
-lose 1% of life per second per Demonflame stack
-Deal 10% spell damage per Demonflame stack
-Gain 1 Demonflame stack per second
I hear a lot of people saying that reverting to human form at 1% basically gives you full hp, but as I read it your at 1%. Any confirmation on this?
Great video man, thanks for the clear info. Hyped for the game tomorrow!
Thanks for all the hard work you put in man i enjoyed the stream a lot and i’m looking forward to blasting poe2 tomorrow with your stream on ❤
The excitement is overwhelming. Im a new Poe player. So I can only imagine how excited you all thats been with it from the start with the first game must be. I think this will overwhelm most people as well as other studios. PoE2 will be seen as a milestone in the gaming industry and set the bar so high. Tomorrow is early christmas guys!!!! Good luck everyone! Happy for you all!
Hey, that was really good post. Yeah, I’m a new player along with you. I had a rough time with the first one. But I bought a key because this game looks really good and I’m gonna bunker down and I’m gonna play this game until I figure it out. Probably going with the sorcerer on the first play through. That’s it was toss up between sorcerer and which but I usually always always play intelligent builds cause that’s what I like so sorcerers are usually my mean so hopefully I can figure this out cause that’s the only part I’m nervous about I don’t mind the challenge cause I played all the souls games and I like playing hard games. It’s just the depth of this game that I really hope I can figure out all the crafting how to gear and going through that passive tree and make sure that I’m doing the right thing And yeah, make my build strong enough in order to try to get the game. I mean it’s probably gonna take me a month to get there compared to allow other people because I take my time and I’m kind of a person that likes to be a completion so I’m gonna search every nook and cranny buthopefully within that time I can really learn the concept of all these different systems but have fun and enjoy
In the Titan ascendancy nodes are you sure, that "Small Passive Skills" in Hulking Form refers to the whole passive tree ? And not referring to the small nodes withing the Ascendancy Tree ?
If it only applied to the ascendancy tree, then it would give you less stats than just taking two small nodes.
Yup
@@blackomega34do we know what is in the small nodes of the ascendancy tree ?
@@DementoPowerful Very tiny generic bonuses, like the one before the health node would add a bit of life, the one before aftershock nodes might give a bit of aoe, the one before the double armor node might give a bit of armor.
@@blackomega34 Ok thanks a lot !
Raxx you'er the best watching you since D2R and can't wait to study PoE2 with you, Thanks man! You are awesome)
This was very helpful! Thanks, Raxx!
Thank you! I have had this complaint with these types of videos now for years. If the build-guide needs 450h of game time to fulfill, why do I need a build guide after 440h of game time, I'll know everything. You are on to something here for sure, make build guides to use At the breakpoints, when finishing the campaign going into endgame for example ❤
Thanks for the vid Rax, I've followed you when playing a couple of ARPGs before, never been into PoE previously as I didn't like the way you pretty much had to follow a build guide and no real freedom, so I'm going into this as a new player and just looking for advice on new player friendly classes. The info in this video is great, feel like I have a lot to learn already, and not even logged in yet. 😆
One more day and I still have no idea what to start with, this should help. I like the idea of picking based on leveling experience, especially for those of us that are new to this complex game. Having the most fun early on will help me get through the learning curve.
witchbane is an "slow effect" on boss mechanics, when the conentration breaks, and gives you simply better reaction times in boss fights.
40% of max life (can be done very fast if you procc the 30% on inital strike), than "slow effect" with plus 30% dmg in the recovery phase of the boss, and you have a window to push 60->30% of boss life, were than you execution triggers.
If it works perfectly like "planned", it is like "chronomancer" a class, which can nuke bosses in a short dmg window.
A chronemancer will use the "33% chance not to trigger a cooldown" on a high dmg skill like "hands of god". If you luck strike, you can massive burst a boss.
I'm so hyped. Less than a day and a half left.
Interesting thoughts as always. The time going into all this is highly appreciated! Many people who feel a bit lost might be looking for some guidance, so it's always helpful to have that, even though pretty much all of it is of course unproven at this point, as you've pointed out. That being said, I will ignore all of it and go Chronomancer, because I just want to stop time :D. If it turns out to be terrible, I'll probably go for a Titan or Deadeye next - or maybe a Bloodmage. Sheesh, there's so many intetresting choices!
i'll be playing warbringer with armour break stacking, for sure.
armour break looks super strong, and there are many strong effects via support gems which occur with armour breaking. can't wait to hop in and see final numbers of things
a bit flushed out, my main idea is to break armour with my own damage, and roll with attack totems for main damage to benefit
WOOOOOOOO! love this. been following all week i cannot wait until release
I'm going Witchhunter. The primary draw is the fact that it is a playstyle that seems very different from POE1 and after 11 years I'm ready for something new. If the exploding corpse works anything like POE1 10% is huge for map clearing basically one out of every 10 enemies is going to explode which will probably kill a bunch of enemies around it which will lead to more explosions. Add that to the l literal arsenal that the witch hunter has and I just see it as being a super fun playstyle. If you're at all curious about the witch hunter check out Ziggy D's video.
re: Warbringer... someone teased a supposedly leaked reservation called "sacrifice" (60 spiritcost) which basically lets your skills consider your own permanent minions as "corpses" with the penalty of a significantly longer respawn timer. I'm a bit scared of the "in your presence" line on "Warrcaller's bellow" to be honest, the fact that it's there suggests to me that the "explosion" might somehow be "delinked" from the warcry triggering it... which would really be a shame because I want to use it in conjunction with "anvil's weight" and proc "armour explosion" from it (if "infernal cry" is the warcry of choice then it could potentially have a weaker on-kill explosion as well without needing to warcry again... OR just leave the body for the next warcry, I don't think ignoring cooldown is worth 2 ascendancypoints).
I heard somewhere respecing ascendancy points cost the same as 4 normal points and once you have refunded all your points from your ascendancy, you can go to the altar and switch ascendancy to a new one. In other words, you can switch and experiment with both ascendancy on the same character.
@@josephbrodeur6956 not in EA