I played a little before but never beat the campaign. I started again this season and am about to beat the campaign haha. I also play a duelist but I went gladiator and have a bleed dual wield build. Loving it so far I didn't follow a build guide but read up and watch a lot of stuff on mechanics and basically tutorials of the game. Hope you get to explore more of the game! great vid
@mrsquiggles1379 if you want my advice for new players...please follow a build guide. This will teach you the game way better... I know it sounds opposite, but believe me I have seen many of my friends and people who followed a guide are still playing to this day and people who didn't don't, except for 1
a lot of people trade instead of crafting. I personally only craft like 2-3 pieces for fun and buy the rest. Also you can respec with gold talking to Faustus in your town.
I have somewhere around 10k hours in PoE. Haven't really played much in the last 2 years. The difficulty powercreep kind of got to me. If I want to tackle the end-game, I must grind for quite a bit to get all the gear and really be able to kill and not be killed over and over again. I think it was Archnemesis changes to rares that really took the air out of my sails. Just felt unfair. Having said that, you have way too little investment in effective Health. Resists are important to be capped and even overcapped (unless some other unique mechanic of the build dictates they should not). The amount of defensive layers you gotta have, have also be balanced with the damage you must have. The game tankchecks and dpschecks you often. What I love about this game is the mindblowing amount of ways you can make your character work. There's so much intricate intertwined mechanics and synergies, it's astonishing. You can take anything and make it do anything. Str based barbarian spellcaster? Summoner? Go ahead! Int-based melee powerhouse witch? Also viable. It's the variety and freedom of choice.
i feel like the difficulty dropped big time since affliction, we now have so much character power and Regeneration that if you play trade you can kill every boss with only 1 day worth of currency, of course you need to level your character, go for the right upgrades at the right times but in the end it has become quite easy to reach endgame and beat all the bosses
It's okay to "drop" path of exile. The next season you play you'll have a smoother ride, the next one will be a smoother ride yet. Each season will get better and more interesting as well since you'll have more pieces of the puzzle together. There is no need to learn all of the complexity in one try. The game changes a bit over the years but what you learned is useful later. I can give some tips but I don't know if that's the best, or if the best is to change builds or take a break since all of those things can help equally. Taking it easy works. Btw if an enemy is designed for you to have 75% res, then for every 100 damage it actually does 25. Therefore having 30% res fire is essentially receiving 70 instead of 25, almost triple of what's intended. (Chaos is designed for you to have little res, they know).
It's very true that you'll basically look the same as the start if you don't buy a set or earn season challenge sets. Most people can run campaign in 7 to 10 hours roughly. Only giga groups are smashing it out in -5 hours.
I have only played 3 seasons, kalguur being the one that really got me going. I have clocked in 500hrs of playtime and still find new stuff and mechanics and only understand crafting a little bit. you should try the trading system to look for your gear and mess around with crafting too a little bit at a time, it will come eventually. definitely try getting all your resistances to at least 75% and make sure to read the map modifiers, you will be able to make sense of them later when you notice you die to one over and over. this game has a lot to give, dont give up and it will only get better and better.
the experience loss on death is my biggest gripe with the game, i dont mind it on the campain but i think its overly excessive on the maps where the 1 shots are guaranteed, your only aloud 6 deaths on a given map anyhow so thats more than adequit as a death penilization without the need of losing days of xp gain depending on your level.
Expedition rog is great for mid tier gear. Easy to understand. First character is alot harder to make than later but rares are better than uniques 90% of the time
i know you're not playing anymore but incase you decide to pick up the game again, the only reason you're getting 1 shot is from fire as you have 37% fire res, now 37% in d2 is fully viable but literally anything below max 75 is going to make you take significant damage, so even if you're not interested in crafting i would at the very least do the basic crafting and put fire res on your equipment. I can't imagine you enjoyed getting 1 shotted like that haha. Also bleed can easily be removed from flask, you can trasmutation on flask to make it blue and use augmentation, if you don't get remove bleed and corrupted blood use orb of alteration to reroll blue
Hope you continue POE. I find the pet noise annoying as well, wish I could turn it off! I played as a slayer first time this league, and I found i really needed to have mana and life leech (with 10% instant leech) to survive. There’s a handy node/wheel in the starting region that gives both. Also there are three types of defences in POE: armour (reduce physical damage), evasion (avoid hits) and energy shield. I focused on armour mostly, with a little bit of evasion (so most of my gear is armour/evasion), that will help you survive a lot. You should consider changing from hatred aura to determination (extra armour) or grace aura (extra evasion). Yes capped elemental resistances are important. I try to have it by early maps. -30% chaos is ok until mid tier maps (6-10). Last thing, +maximum life is really important. You should be around 2.5-3k life by lv80. To make it work with precise technique (+40% more damage when accuracy > max life) I took the accuracy nodes and +500 accuracy -2 per level mastery.
I know it's a bit late but 1600 life is way too low, especially with no other defensive mechanics investment. Do you not have any flat life on your gear? some strength? Your resistances not being capped is also a factor but having 3k hp with some defensive mechanism and resistances capped is considered average/OK by level 80. Looking at your tree, you didn't put many points in the many life notables available to you directly and you also didn't show the map modifiers for the map(unless you ran it without any) and you can see when you get one shotted by fire, you have 37% fire res, if you had 75% and 2.5k hp you wouldn't. Then when it comes to bleeding, there are flask modifiers that staunch bleeding as well as passives and pantheon nodes that reduce damage over time. Honestly, your HP is way too low while you have no real survivability options. Your DPS seems great so you're a glass cannon but you don't have to. Find a strength or health belt that gives you some life and resistances , should be easy to do without trading if you use the crafting bench in your hideout. Improve your gear, if you want to go towards evasion try to get some good chest piece with evasion and % increase evasion. I also noticed when you get 1 shot by elemental damage, you're not using your bismuth flask that increases resistances.
Yes! Everything I have seen of it so far looks great. From the conversations the devs have had, it seems like it will be a different playstyle experience to POE 1, so I guess time will tell if that is good or bad. Either way, I will 100% be trying it out.
reistances needs to be at least 75 or more just like D2. chaos would be great to have them at zero at least. get spell suppression up to 100, and then ailment avoidance
Glad you had a good time with it... yeah lots of people step back, or step away from PoE.. one of the cool things about the game is because the seasonal content you can skip a year or two and come back to it, you'll be surprised how much info you retain. Just a familiarity with the basics will take you a long way.
I find it amusing that you think the PoE campaign will grind on you considering your a Diablo 2 player where doing the campaign over and over is literally the whole game! 😂
The game is amazing when you have an idea what is possible and specialize into specific things via the atlas skilltree. And yes, your character looks the same through the entire game. Sadly only very few uniques really look different. I wish they would focus the shop on different skill animations, hideout stuff and stashtabs and let us find different looking armour. I recommend not to spend money on lootboxes and other stupid things. You can make the game better and even easier to understand with the right stashtabs. I would buy currency, map, fragment, unique stashtab in that order over time. Then the ones you enjoy the content of, for example if you like essence or delve and want to spend some money, get those.
I played a little before but never beat the campaign. I started again this season and am about to beat the campaign haha. I also play a duelist but I went gladiator and have a bleed dual wield build. Loving it so far I didn't follow a build guide but read up and watch a lot of stuff on mechanics and basically tutorials of the game. Hope you get to explore more of the game! great vid
@mrsquiggles1379 if you want my advice for new players...please follow a build guide. This will teach you the game way better... I know it sounds opposite, but believe me I have seen many of my friends and people who followed a guide are still playing to this day and people who didn't don't, except for 1
a lot of people trade instead of crafting. I personally only craft like 2-3 pieces for fun and buy the rest. Also you can respec with gold talking to Faustus in your town.
I have somewhere around 10k hours in PoE. Haven't really played much in the last 2 years. The difficulty powercreep kind of got to me. If I want to tackle the end-game, I must grind for quite a bit to get all the gear and really be able to kill and not be killed over and over again. I think it was Archnemesis changes to rares that really took the air out of my sails. Just felt unfair.
Having said that, you have way too little investment in effective Health. Resists are important to be capped and even overcapped (unless some other unique mechanic of the build dictates they should not). The amount of defensive layers you gotta have, have also be balanced with the damage you must have. The game tankchecks and dpschecks you often.
What I love about this game is the mindblowing amount of ways you can make your character work. There's so much intricate intertwined mechanics and synergies, it's astonishing. You can take anything and make it do anything. Str based barbarian spellcaster? Summoner? Go ahead! Int-based melee powerhouse witch? Also viable. It's the variety and freedom of choice.
i feel like the difficulty dropped big time since affliction, we now have so much character power and Regeneration that if you play trade you can kill every boss with only 1 day worth of currency, of course you need to level your character, go for the right upgrades at the right times but in the end it has become quite easy to reach endgame and beat all the bosses
It's okay to "drop" path of exile. The next season you play you'll have a smoother ride, the next one will be a smoother ride yet. Each season will get better and more interesting as well since you'll have more pieces of the puzzle together. There is no need to learn all of the complexity in one try. The game changes a bit over the years but what you learned is useful later. I can give some tips but I don't know if that's the best, or if the best is to change builds or take a break since all of those things can help equally. Taking it easy works.
Btw if an enemy is designed for you to have 75% res, then for every 100 damage it actually does 25. Therefore having 30% res fire is essentially receiving 70 instead of 25, almost triple of what's intended. (Chaos is designed for you to have little res, they know).
It's very true that you'll basically look the same as the start if you don't buy a set or earn season challenge sets. Most people can run campaign in 7 to 10 hours roughly. Only giga groups are smashing it out in -5 hours.
I love the the goblin band.
I have only played 3 seasons, kalguur being the one that really got me going. I have clocked in 500hrs of playtime and still find new stuff and mechanics and only understand crafting a little bit. you should try the trading system to look for your gear and mess around with crafting too a little bit at a time, it will come eventually. definitely try getting all your resistances to at least 75% and make sure to read the map modifiers, you will be able to make sense of them later when you notice you die to one over and over. this game has a lot to give, dont give up and it will only get better and better.
the experience loss on death is my biggest gripe with the game, i dont mind it on the campain but i think its overly excessive on the maps where the 1 shots are guaranteed, your only aloud 6 deaths on a given map anyhow so thats more than adequit as a death penilization without the need of losing days of xp gain depending on your level.
I craft my own stuff with Currency from Expedition game ‘mechanic’ and NPC named Rog
Rog is Pog.
Expedition rog is great for mid tier gear. Easy to understand. First character is alot harder to make than later but rares are better than uniques 90% of the time
i know you're not playing anymore but incase you decide to pick up the game again, the only reason you're getting 1 shot is from fire as you have 37% fire res, now 37% in d2 is fully viable but literally anything below max 75 is going to make you take significant damage, so even if you're not interested in crafting i would at the very least do the basic crafting and put fire res on your equipment. I can't imagine you enjoyed getting 1 shotted like that haha. Also bleed can easily be removed from flask, you can trasmutation on flask to make it blue and use augmentation, if you don't get remove bleed and corrupted blood use orb of alteration to reroll blue
I have 7344 hrs playtime and i still have no idea how effectively craft. My playstyle is: sell loot i dont need and buy stuff i need on trade site.
Hope you continue POE. I find the pet noise annoying as well, wish I could turn it off! I played as a slayer first time this league, and I found i really needed to have mana and life leech (with 10% instant leech) to survive. There’s a handy node/wheel in the starting region that gives both. Also there are three types of defences in POE: armour (reduce physical damage), evasion (avoid hits) and energy shield. I focused on armour mostly, with a little bit of evasion (so most of my gear is armour/evasion), that will help you survive a lot. You should consider changing from hatred aura to determination (extra armour) or grace aura (extra evasion). Yes capped elemental resistances are important. I try to have it by early maps. -30% chaos is ok until mid tier maps (6-10). Last thing, +maximum life is really important. You should be around 2.5-3k life by lv80. To make it work with precise technique (+40% more damage when accuracy > max life) I took the accuracy nodes and +500 accuracy -2 per level mastery.
This is great info. Thanks a lot!
i played D2 since day one. it was my favouriite game until i got used to the systems of poe. i swear once you master this game you wont going back
I know it's a bit late but 1600 life is way too low, especially with no other defensive mechanics investment. Do you not have any flat life on your gear? some strength? Your resistances not being capped is also a factor but having 3k hp with some defensive mechanism and resistances capped is considered average/OK by level 80. Looking at your tree, you didn't put many points in the many life notables available to you directly and you also didn't show the map modifiers for the map(unless you ran it without any) and you can see when you get one shotted by fire, you have 37% fire res, if you had 75% and 2.5k hp you wouldn't. Then when it comes to bleeding, there are flask modifiers that staunch bleeding as well as passives and pantheon nodes that reduce damage over time. Honestly, your HP is way too low while you have no real survivability options. Your DPS seems great so you're a glass cannon but you don't have to. Find a strength or health belt that gives you some life and resistances , should be easy to do without trading if you use the crafting bench in your hideout. Improve your gear, if you want to go towards evasion try to get some good chest piece with evasion and % increase evasion. I also noticed when you get 1 shot by elemental damage, you're not using your bismuth flask that increases resistances.
Finding your own 6 link is wild, I was deep into endgame before I had my own.
what 6 link, his chest is a 6 socket
have you seen the trailer to the upcoming POE 2? what are your thoughts
Yes! Everything I have seen of it so far looks great. From the conversations the devs have had, it seems like it will be a different playstyle experience to POE 1, so I guess time will tell if that is good or bad. Either way, I will 100% be trying it out.
reistances needs to be at least 75 or more just like D2. chaos would be great to have them at zero at least. get spell suppression up to 100, and then ailment avoidance
For most of you Questions look for Zizaran he got a Video for everything. The Problem with what to pickup that what Item filters are for.
Cheers I will check him out!
17:00 I also hate the goblin band.
Glad you had a good time with it... yeah lots of people step back, or step away from PoE.. one of the cool things about the game is because the seasonal content you can skip a year or two and come back to it, you'll be surprised how much info you retain. Just a familiarity with the basics will take you a long way.
welcome to the fold
I find it amusing that you think the PoE campaign will grind on you considering your a Diablo 2 player where doing the campaign over and over is literally the whole game! 😂
just play another build
The game is amazing when you have an idea what is possible and specialize into specific things via the atlas skilltree.
And yes, your character looks the same through the entire game. Sadly only very few uniques really look different. I wish they would focus the shop on different skill animations, hideout stuff and stashtabs and let us find different looking armour.
I recommend not to spend money on lootboxes and other stupid things. You can make the game better and even easier to understand with the right stashtabs.
I would buy currency, map, fragment, unique stashtab in that order over time. Then the ones you enjoy the content of, for example if you like essence or delve and want to spend some money, get those.
@@ramschasar7654Great advice. Thank you!
@@RNGesus_Channel Get some quad tabs if you can afford them, they aren't really necessary, but they make life a lot easier