Was very frustrating doing this at the start, but once i started counter-flanking or flanking the weaker sides, while trying to agro and kill as much as possible in the middle, it went much better. It can feel like a stalemate in the beginning, but once you've forced enough respawns it will often turn very fast.
This is basically the strategy I've settled into as well. By the way, according to the in-game help tooltip (hovering over the "i" icon before starting a match), flankers will prioritize destroying totems rather than attacking enemies, and the attackers do the opposite. I started doing way better after assigning flankers since it's a huge risk for me to lose out on dps time by getting stunned while trying to destroy stuff myself.
Ive actually found that having people in the back with strong cc or forced movement is super helpful in the defender positions. That way if an enemy flanker slips by, your defenders just juglethem around, and they dont reapond cause the defenders rarely kill shit
Yeah I think there'll be alternatives, my best results came when I put noone there, but that's no guarantee there's not other solutions, possibly even better.
I just had an epic final against Kaom, getting overwhelmed at first but staying defensive with minions I could turn the tables. This league is pretty cool but it's not the normal "grind, repeat" POE. I like it
Right before I watch,- sirgog, as always to the rescue. Was literarlly tabbing out to look up wtf is wrong with the slam guys' teams and them absolutely oneshotting, or just get a sense of what actually works in this league mechanic, and boom there's gog, as per usual haha. Cheers mate.
Managed to get a Tabula as a reward somewhere in the middle of my first Tournament. Managed to sell it for 35c, and converted that currency to get my ilvl 74 6L Despot Axe. I finished the tournament, and went back to mapping. I might go back to it once I completed the Atlas and got my voidstones.
what level were you when you did that? I'm just in act 2. I did one match in act 1 just to check it out, but I'm wondering if it's worth it to do a tournament during the campaign. I might do one anyway just because I like the mechanic.
@@miramichi30 It's probably not worth doing while levelling, but if you're having fun that's the most important thing. I didn't touch it until I was in yellow maps.
@@L2newbie I didn't count, but eventually, you will see that there is only one option on the screen. If that's what you see, then that will be the final round of the tourney.
Something very worth mentioning is that you can use flasks while stunned so having good flask economy for healing is important while stunned. You can also stop channeling the moment you are hit by an enemy to avoid the stun. If there is one slow attacker on you while you are destroying a totem it is easy to time your channels to keep destroying the totems. You can also use instant skills while channelling like plaguebearer. I want to test what happens when you frost blink but I havent done so yet. You can move your mouse away from the totem while holding left click and continue to channel as well.
Some tips I discovered. You can sell the items and totems you can buy to other tribes, to more easily buy troops. Also any items or totems you have left in your inventory when you win a tournament are turned in to loot drops in the arena after the last match. In my instance I had 2 1 time sue totems that turned in to map level appropriate white arena plate gear. No idea if this can be used to get interesting loot drops
I wanted to add a quick option for how you are picking which competitor to fight. You mention to go with the highest total, but I suggest initially going with the highest total composed of the most coin types MORE than 500 in a stack. Because units cost 600+ and if you picked 500,500,500 you would not necessarily be able to buy a new unit that next round but 750,750 you could buy two. At least in initial rounds that is. Thx for the video!
Very important point - you can SELL characters/items to any of the vendors for the same price, you don't have to sell them to the original vendor. Worst case, you can buy something that doesn't help, and sell it to a vendor that'd get you to enough currency with them to buy something useful.
Totems, or minions seem to do fairly well, especially if you go through this tatic of being defensive. your minions/totems agro their warriors pretty well.
Just wanna add that Toxic Rain covers a really large area, so you can easily stunlock enemy flankers from channelling on your respawn totems just by constantly spraying the area with toxic rain. Bonus if you have toxic rain totems as well
defender slots arent "bad" per se, but they are very niche. there's a guy that builds defensive walls or one that heals nearby allied totems, they do REALLY well in the backline, so you can use the escort slolts for buffers and disablers. the attacker slots are perfect for the fire guy who blows himself up to just exert ongoing pressure on the enemy bulks and flankers are much stronger when used with agile or stealthy guys
@@sirgog i mean its pretty much what you said, just building upon it by utilizing the mercs abilities well, even then the later tournament levels are really tough, like mobs have easily 10x the health of mobs in maps and you're expected to kill them multiple times to look for an opening in which you can snipe a totem or two, its very stressful imo
Good video, confirms a lot of the stuff that I noticed just running it while leveling through the campaign. Total waste of time of course but was interesting at least. I certainly had a match or two where I was the only one left as well, and yeah it takes an eon.
One thing worth mentioning is that all enemies seem to respawn once you destroy a totem. Something you can strategize around in the case of a mine/trap build.
tried the league mechanic but having trouble playing it due to the overwhelming amount of new dialogue. spent most of my play session today just listening to lore. amazing league 10/10
Bit of an extension on your strategies - I have found that the best strategy is basically what you have found, but progressing even further - at least so far in my experience, after each full tournament you win, a few, 2-3 so far each time for me, of the minions you hired will decide to stick with you permanently. Ultimately there is no value of having a team larger than one player per spot so if you win enough tournaments you may find yourself with a completely full roster. However, the vendors who sell the minions have hidden stock - they will only show items that you are within a reasonable range of being able to purchase. If you have an excess of the individual currency you will start to see stronger minions, at least initially the second tier is around 1500-1600 points. It is likely going forward what you will start to want to do is once your team is full, sell the weaker minions replacing them with higher tier minions until your team is again filled with permanent tier 2 minions. I have not yet tried saving up enough of an individual currency to see if there is a 3rd tier of minion, that would likely require focused targetting of an invidual factions currency within 1 tournament. I did find on one occasion an enemy team had a minion turtle that was much larger than normal, and upon spawning he would slowly walk to the middle of the defensive position and then stop there, at which time all that teams totems became completely invulnerable and could not be harmed until that giant turtle was killed. There did not seem to be a time limit on this, but this would make for an incredibly strong defensive minion. I have not been able to actually find this giant turtle for sale yet, but it is likely a tier 2 or even tier 3 minion.
Ruminating on that giant turtle further, it occurs to me, since I believe the very weak almost worthless normal turtle of which we started with 1 comes from Navali I believe, and there is no way to accelerate the aquisition of Navali currency, it is possibly only obtainable by blindly selling minions to Navali until the giant turtle shows up. This is untested however.
I love the mechanic, but two things I think would fix it. 1) Some way to see all the units available to us (since they change each round.) 2) A system to convert favor from one vendor to another (or reduce the different types of favor to 5, similar to Breach/Legion). Other than that, I'm having an absolute ball. Best league mechanic in a long time!
TL/DR: play a build that oneshoits the entire arena at the same time, channel directly the enemy core totem after. Ignore mechanic until you're strong enough to do that?
i had a nice fun bug in my first tournament final fight where i died and in the enemy team there were only defenders left and the same on my team but my totem was gone so i was dead for sure and the fight was just a draw that never finished(waited like 5 mins) then i just went to char selection and yea tournament was gone
Hopefully this will help me. I did three fights so far. Lost 2 in short order and the third one was a very very long fight with the enemy boss respawning over a dozen times since I only had one or two seconds channeling time before a respawned add would stun me.
Nice video. Is your channeling speed grows with level or do you need equipment bought from those sponsors, cause my channeling speed is a lot slower than yours.
I believe it to be 5 seconds if you are channelling alone, but if you channel simultaneously with allies it speeds up accordingly. 10 against the Team Leader. So if you plus 2 allies channel, 1.7 sec or so
i dont think the player respawn time is quite correct or my game is just bugged ? i have never been down for shorter than like 30 seconds give or take at the low end and is usually stuck for a minute or two when i die given they dont kill my totem during that first death :/
I made the mistake of trying to brute force a win and due to that I disliked the league mechanic but now I understand it I love it, its one of my all time favourites
This makes so much more sense than my initial strategy of bum rushing the enemy leader and wiping the majority of their team and going from there. It worked in the first tournament ok but as soon as I progressed through the second it failed fast
league mechanic is easy in party play, also when attacking the other teams totems, its best to use a decoy totem or something else that can taunt enemies. That typically buys enough times for you to break a totem.
Did I summarise corectly? Focus favour points to fill your board with Flankers > Escort > Attackers Spend remaining favours to ugprade gear on Flankers and Escort
I've never revived in this content. I even had to watch the enemy destroy 8 of my totems before ultimately losing. Player revive is definitely tied to one of the totems still being alive.
Basically think of yourself as the chieftain of your own tribe, similarly to Kaom. If the chieftain totem is destroyed, The chieftain is removed from the fight.
In general if you have enough damage with decen reach it's really easy to win. Just cut enemy flankers when they spawn and kill the attackers. Also I think defenders are important specially if they have totem regen they can help you last if you ar not that good damage
i've won 3 tournaments so far while lvling and all the rewards together have been less than what id get from just playing through the acts for like 15min. There should be a cache for the winner that contains currency, items etc for the winner including the one item u chose.
It's like Delirium in a way. There's a main reward (tattoos, clusters) and there's stuff on the side. When everyone does the content - the main reward becomes worthless. I got the reservation efficiency Honoured Tattoo - and it's... only 5 chaos. It won't stay like that.
I've won some of those super long rounds...Had one where I was down to 2 totems (mine and a single flanker) If they hadn't been a flanker, I'd have given up. As it stood, I defended against nearly a fully roster of enemy dudes the whole time my flanker was getting chip damage and eventually killing their totems. It works...I don't think it's worth the time spent at all, though.
Idk if im doing this wrong, but every single opponent has 2x the units I do, and they each have more hp than act bosses. I canr un an offensive because the aggro ranges are small and they ignore me, nor can I run defense because Ill randomly get 1 shot; and I have always lost a match within the very first respawn timer. So not enough units to attack their totems, nor defend my own (they have more units on offense AND defense than I have total)
I feel you might need to come back when stronger (perhaps after Merc Lab and level 75) - then you'll be against level 50 opponents for a bit which will help you win one tourney and gain the extra allies.
tbh this strat only works till like 200 rank lol after that you aren't killing shit buddy. You are the attacker now or you will lose. Defenders become very good because of this reason. You are going to start to get one shot from literally everything even as RF soon. Rank 414 atm hexblast mines and if you want to see what that looks like just watch Ziz, he's rank 435
Does anyone else get rewards when they play in their friends arena? Coz I was playing in my mates arena and sometimes I would get a reward and then other times nothing would drop except his reward?!? it feels really bad to group play if you don't get anything for helping even if it was just random stuff.
the stun that lts you do nothign fro 5 sec is just bulshit enemys wont get stunned if you hit hem at your totem and you just loose. you cant stop challeing or even if you do you most of the time react to late.... i hope they change that to just cant interact with totems for x seconds stuns feel bad.
My thing is, I get it's a bit more complicated than most newer seasonal's, but it's almost impossible to kill the other teams hero if you're trying this at a lower level. Legit took forever to even kill him ..just for him to respawn again.
Thank you so much for the explanation! I just don’t get why GGG is so against explaining their mechanics, not even a word to explain what do the positions do, didn’t mention you damage totems by pressing m1 etc…
It's easy to miss, but there's orange circles with exclamation marks on the UI for the mechanic - those will provide some info. The one on the placement screen describes the roles quite well.
There are so many bugs after all the emergency patches. If youre stunned after attacking a totem and hold flame dash, youll be at the other end of the arena on the first active frame. Ive won three tournaments and I can wipe the entire first few rounds with zero effort. The last two are pure rng. Immoral enemies that cant be stopped from attacking totems arent fun.
@@sirgog i hope so too but i honestly dont think so... but i also dont want to reroll because of a ggg mistake like that and waste so many hours, i planed and practiced my dd character. dont even feel like logging in anymore i would just play standard anyway
EA totems is making this a breeze. Setting one side to flank, clearing the initial enemies on said lane and then move to the middle and kill everything. Easy.
I played the mechanic for 3 hours , it is good and i think while your ranking is going up you get better rewards ,, all i want now is a very strong build very high dps very big aoe abd you will never lose
Yeah, I believe some builds will 'outgrow' the mechanic. If you can have the team leader down in 300ms while also hitting the others - this strategy will annihilate everything.
Yeah, I've learned this since making the video. The tribe that ends 'Kurai' gets out of hand, FAST, if allowed to grow... unless you are staying alive with "phys taken as X" defenses, which their OP Goliath slams don't do as much to. Kaom gets nasty if left to last too.
Jesus. It's an ARPG for god's sake. If I want to play a strategy game, I play Mechabellum. Thanks for the comprehensive insight into the league mechanic anyway, sir!
And what a lot of people enjoy in PoE is that they try to implement mechanics from other genres : Tower defense, Rogue like Dungeons, etc... I understand tho, I love blasting mobs the most, but having that kind of mechanics in the game every now and then is great.
This video is a godsend. I was utterly confused my first time trying this.
I did a few tournaments without even knowing you needed to recruit members between lol
sirgog the goat
Was very frustrating doing this at the start, but once i started counter-flanking or flanking the weaker sides, while trying to agro and kill as much as possible in the middle, it went much better.
It can feel like a stalemate in the beginning, but once you've forced enough respawns it will often turn very fast.
Honestly it feels like this can be crushed with party. One guy kills the other destroys totems
This is basically the strategy I've settled into as well. By the way, according to the in-game help tooltip (hovering over the "i" icon before starting a match), flankers will prioritize destroying totems rather than attacking enemies, and the attackers do the opposite. I started doing way better after assigning flankers since it's a huge risk for me to lose out on dps time by getting stunned while trying to destroy stuff myself.
Ive actually found that having people in the back with strong cc or forced movement is super helpful in the defender positions. That way if an enemy flanker slips by, your defenders just juglethem around, and they dont reapond cause the defenders rarely kill shit
Yeah I think there'll be alternatives, my best results came when I put noone there, but that's no guarantee there's not other solutions, possibly even better.
I just had an epic final against Kaom, getting overwhelmed at first but staying defensive with minions I could turn the tables. This league is pretty cool but it's not the normal "grind, repeat" POE. I like it
Right before I watch,- sirgog, as always to the rescue. Was literarlly tabbing out to look up wtf is wrong with the slam guys' teams and them absolutely oneshotting, or just get a sense of what actually works in this league mechanic, and boom there's gog, as per usual haha. Cheers mate.
Incredibly valuable information for this league mechanic. Thank you for delivering it so succinctly. Instant sub from me.
Hope the launch has gone well and thanks for taking time to make some awesome content for us🤙
Managed to get a Tabula as a reward somewhere in the middle of my first Tournament. Managed to sell it for 35c, and converted that currency to get my ilvl 74 6L Despot Axe. I finished the tournament, and went back to mapping. I might go back to it once I completed the Atlas and got my voidstones.
what level were you when you did that? I'm just in act 2. I did one match in act 1 just to check it out, but I'm wondering if it's worth it to do a tournament during the campaign. I might do one anyway just because I like the mechanic.
@@miramichi30 I was fresh off killing Kitava, so around level 69 I think. It was the very first tournament, and my rewards are ilvl 50.
@@miramichi30 It's probably not worth doing while levelling, but if you're having fun that's the most important thing. I didn't touch it until I was in yellow maps.
How many "rounds" is a whole tournament?
@@L2newbie I didn't count, but eventually, you will see that there is only one option on the screen. If that's what you see, then that will be the final round of the tourney.
Excellent video and thank you for explaining! i feelt so confused when i played it haha!
Thanks! You really saved the league mechanic for me. Awesome video!!!
Great video. To the point and really helps where I was struggling. Love your work!
thanks mate!
Something very worth mentioning is that you can use flasks while stunned so having good flask economy for healing is important while stunned. You can also stop channeling the moment you are hit by an enemy to avoid the stun. If there is one slow attacker on you while you are destroying a totem it is easy to time your channels to keep destroying the totems. You can also use instant skills while channelling like plaguebearer. I want to test what happens when you frost blink but I havent done so yet. You can move your mouse away from the totem while holding left click and continue to channel as well.
Some tips I discovered. You can sell the items and totems you can buy to other tribes, to more easily buy troops. Also any items or totems you have left in your inventory when you win a tournament are turned in to loot drops in the arena after the last match. In my instance I had 2 1 time sue totems that turned in to map level appropriate white arena plate gear. No idea if this can be used to get interesting loot drops
Oh that's interesting re the items. You'd need to have grown rapidly in power to be strong enough to spend lots of points like that though.
I wanted to add a quick option for how you are picking which competitor to fight. You mention to go with the highest total, but I suggest initially going with the highest total composed of the most coin types MORE than 500 in a stack. Because units cost 600+ and if you picked 500,500,500 you would not necessarily be able to buy a new unit that next round but 750,750 you could buy two. At least in initial rounds that is. Thx for the video!
Good consideration. I think people will optimize further than I have.
This is the best video I've seen all league. You're my hero sir.
Very important point - you can SELL characters/items to any of the vendors for the same price, you don't have to sell them to the original vendor. Worst case, you can buy something that doesn't help, and sell it to a vendor that'd get you to enough currency with them to buy something useful.
Good explanation and some good strategies.
I love how of the two videos on this I've watched (yourself and Zizaran), both take the exact opposite approach in tactics xD
Thanks for your time and imput its always appreciated
Are the ally fighters affected by your auras?
Thanks for this much needed explanation!
What's the ideal build gonna be for the mechanic? Is it another freeze everything / tornado shot meta like sanctum? Or maybe taunting totems?
Totems, or minions seem to do fairly well, especially if you go through this tatic of being defensive. your minions/totems agro their warriors pretty well.
So why we need silver coins if there are waypoint to the Trial?
You pay 1 coin per raund
Thank you! I didn’t have a clue of how the mechanic worked.
Very nice summary. Thanks!
Just wanna add that Toxic Rain covers a really large area, so you can easily stunlock enemy flankers from channelling on your respawn totems just by constantly spraying the area with toxic rain. Bonus if you have toxic rain totems as well
defender slots arent "bad" per se, but they are very niche. there's a guy that builds defensive walls or one that heals nearby allied totems, they do REALLY well in the backline, so you can use the escort slolts for buffers and disablers. the attacker slots are perfect for the fire guy who blows himself up to just exert ongoing pressure on the enemy bulks and flankers are much stronger when used with agile or stealthy guys
Yeah I figured people would find better versions of this starting point strategy.
@@sirgog i mean its pretty much what you said, just building upon it by utilizing the mercs abilities well, even then the later tournament levels are really tough, like mobs have easily 10x the health of mobs in maps and you're expected to kill them multiple times to look for an opening in which you can snipe a totem or two, its very stressful imo
Good video, confirms a lot of the stuff that I noticed just running it while leveling through the campaign. Total waste of time of course but was interesting at least. I certainly had a match or two where I was the only one left as well, and yeah it takes an eon.
One thing worth mentioning is that all enemies seem to respawn once you destroy a totem. Something you can strategize around in the case of a mine/trap build.
tried the league mechanic but having trouble playing it due to the overwhelming amount of new dialogue. spent most of my play session today just listening to lore. amazing league 10/10
Bit of an extension on your strategies - I have found that the best strategy is basically what you have found, but progressing even further - at least so far in my experience, after each full tournament you win, a few, 2-3 so far each time for me, of the minions you hired will decide to stick with you permanently. Ultimately there is no value of having a team larger than one player per spot so if you win enough tournaments you may find yourself with a completely full roster.
However, the vendors who sell the minions have hidden stock - they will only show items that you are within a reasonable range of being able to purchase. If you have an excess of the individual currency you will start to see stronger minions, at least initially the second tier is around 1500-1600 points.
It is likely going forward what you will start to want to do is once your team is full, sell the weaker minions replacing them with higher tier minions until your team is again filled with permanent tier 2 minions. I have not yet tried saving up enough of an individual currency to see if there is a 3rd tier of minion, that would likely require focused targetting of an invidual factions currency within 1 tournament.
I did find on one occasion an enemy team had a minion turtle that was much larger than normal, and upon spawning he would slowly walk to the middle of the defensive position and then stop there, at which time all that teams totems became completely invulnerable and could not be harmed until that giant turtle was killed. There did not seem to be a time limit on this, but this would make for an incredibly strong defensive minion. I have not been able to actually find this giant turtle for sale yet, but it is likely a tier 2 or even tier 3 minion.
Ruminating on that giant turtle further, it occurs to me, since I believe the very weak almost worthless normal turtle of which we started with 1 comes from Navali I believe, and there is no way to accelerate the aquisition of Navali currency, it is possibly only obtainable by blindly selling minions to Navali until the giant turtle shows up. This is untested however.
how or why do you have so many minions? Any minions i bought previously seem to go poof? Or does currency carry over between tournaments?
I love the mechanic, but two things I think would fix it.
1) Some way to see all the units available to us (since they change each round.)
2) A system to convert favor from one vendor to another (or reduce the different types of favor to 5, similar to Breach/Legion).
Other than that, I'm having an absolute ball. Best league mechanic in a long time!
but u have a system to convert favour, you just buy from one vendor and sell to another
@@IceTax69 Yes, I know. that. A UI besides doing this would be nice.
I must admit, when I first tried it I malded a little. But I really enjoy the mini game for once!
great vid gog much appreciated and thanks from the console community that is yet to get a crack at this
It's fun, but sadistically tough at low level
@@sirgog thanks for the reply and tx for not calling me a degenerate console player m8 lol
TL/DR: play a build that oneshoits the entire arena at the same time, channel directly the enemy core totem after. Ignore mechanic until you're strong enough to do that?
i had a nice fun bug in my first tournament final fight where i died and in the enemy team there were only defenders left and the same on my team but my totem was gone so i was dead for sure and the fight was just a draw that never finished(waited like 5 mins) then i just went to char selection and yea tournament was gone
Good info and strategy, thx!
thanks for the quick info
I got a 5-link in early act 5 as a tournament reward. kinda massive, but did take over 1h to get through all the fights
Hopefully this will help me. I did three fights so far. Lost 2 in short order and the third one was a very very long fight with the enemy boss respawning over a dozen times since I only had one or two seconds channeling time before a respawned add would stun me.
Cheers mate, very clear
The player's totem can be attacked while the player is alive?
Yes
Nice video. Is your channeling speed grows with level or do you need equipment bought from those sponsors, cause my channeling speed is a lot slower than yours.
I believe it to be 5 seconds if you are channelling alone, but if you channel simultaneously with allies it speeds up accordingly. 10 against the Team Leader.
So if you plus 2 allies channel, 1.7 sec or so
i dont think the player respawn time is quite correct or my game is just bugged ?
i have never been down for shorter than like 30 seconds give or take at the low end
and is usually stuck for a minute or two when i die given they dont kill my totem during that first death :/
Very helpful!! Thank you
Some friends and I will be starting as a group 6 man when it launches on console. Can the tournament be played multiplayer?
Is the Lava Chamber strat a thing now or did they patch something?
I made the mistake of trying to brute force a win and due to that I disliked the league mechanic but now I understand it I love it, its one of my all time favourites
This makes so much more sense than my initial strategy of bum rushing the enemy leader and wiping the majority of their team and going from there. It worked in the first tournament ok but as soon as I progressed through the second it failed fast
The numbers on the other side grow too much for that
league mechanic is easy in party play, also when attacking the other teams totems, its best to use a decoy totem or something else that can taunt enemies. That typically buys enough times for you to break a totem.
I don't think decoy totems are working with this. At least that's what I've been told.
Thank you! I almost gave up on this league, because so much waste of time vs just killing monsters in the world
My first few attempts I've found this more challenging than the Halo of Grandmasters but i'mma give it another go once I hit maps
How do you start destroying enemy pillars?
Did I summarise corectly?
Focus favour points to fill your board with Flankers > Escort > Attackers
Spend remaining favours to ugprade gear on Flankers and Escort
I've never revived in this content. I even had to watch the enemy destroy 8 of my totems before ultimately losing. Player revive is definitely tied to one of the totems still being alive.
It's tied to your personal totem. You can see in the video the icon and healthbar for it in the upper left.
Basically think of yourself as the chieftain of your own tribe, similarly to Kaom. If the chieftain totem is destroyed, The chieftain is removed from the fight.
Let's fucking goo(g)! thanks for the knowledge 🔑🙏
In general if you have enough damage with decen reach it's really easy to win. Just cut enemy flankers when they spawn and kill the attackers. Also I think defenders are important specially if they have totem regen they can help you last if you ar not that good damage
thanks for rly fast guide
Thank you, I was having issues trying to attack the enemy totems and sometimes seeing their HP go down, I was confused.
Dude, ty for the vid, i was playing without using favours LUL 😂
This is the new Delve!
What is your build?
hell yeah!! lets go!!
i've won 3 tournaments so far while lvling and all the rewards together have been less than what id get from just playing through the acts for like 15min. There should be a cache for the winner that contains currency, items etc for the winner including the one item u chose.
It's like Delirium in a way. There's a main reward (tattoos, clusters) and there's stuff on the side.
When everyone does the content - the main reward becomes worthless.
I got the reservation efficiency Honoured Tattoo - and it's... only 5 chaos. It won't stay like that.
I've won some of those super long rounds...Had one where I was down to 2 totems (mine and a single flanker) If they hadn't been a flanker, I'd have given up. As it stood, I defended against nearly a fully roster of enemy dudes the whole time my flanker was getting chip damage and eventually killing their totems. It works...I don't think it's worth the time spent at all, though.
Am I the only one who doesn't know what button you use against the totems?
No you're not...
Idk if im doing this wrong, but every single opponent has 2x the units I do, and they each have more hp than act bosses. I canr un an offensive because the aggro ranges are small and they ignore me, nor can I run defense because Ill randomly get 1 shot; and I have always lost a match within the very first respawn timer. So not enough units to attack their totems, nor defend my own (they have more units on offense AND defense than I have total)
you will gain more permanent guys after a tournament or 2, and you can always buy 1 or 2 guys after your first match. in a tourny
I feel you might need to come back when stronger (perhaps after Merc Lab and level 75) - then you'll be against level 50 opponents for a bit which will help you win one tourney and gain the extra allies.
Thank you!
HEY if were looking for divination cards i had the fortunate drop on plateau as a tier 1. i hope this helps anyone looking for it
tbh this strat only works till like 200 rank lol after that you aren't killing shit buddy. You are the attacker now or you will lose. Defenders become very good because of this reason. You are going to start to get one shot from literally everything even as RF soon. Rank 414 atm hexblast mines and if you want to see what that looks like just watch Ziz, he's rank 435
Yeah I was watching that, wondering is a stun and knockback will work at that point. Focus on disruption instead, no clue if it will work though
Does anyone else get rewards when they play in their friends arena? Coz I was playing in my mates arena and sometimes I would get a reward and then other times nothing would drop except his reward?!? it feels really bad to group play if you don't get anything for helping even if it was just random stuff.
the stun that lts you do nothign fro 5 sec is just bulshit enemys wont get stunned if you hit hem at your totem and you just loose. you cant stop challeing or even if you do you most of the time react to late.... i hope they change that to just cant interact with totems for x seconds stuns feel bad.
Frostblink lets you move out of channel immidietly, once even got me out despite getting stunned
My thing is, I get it's a bit more complicated than most newer seasonal's, but it's almost impossible to kill the other teams hero if you're trying this at a lower level. Legit took forever to even kill him ..just for him to respawn again.
Thank you so much for the explanation! I just don’t get why GGG is so against explaining their mechanics, not even a word to explain what do the positions do, didn’t mention you damage totems by pressing m1 etc…
It's easy to miss, but there's orange circles with exclamation marks on the UI for the mechanic - those will provide some info. The one on the placement screen describes the roles quite well.
@@dumbgames4933wait really? Guess I’m blind then 😂
Good overview though there are some defenders that are actually good like the turtle one
There are so many bugs after all the emergency patches.
If youre stunned after attacking a totem and hold flame dash, youll be at the other end of the arena on the first active frame.
Ive won three tournaments and I can wipe the entire first few rounds with zero effort. The last two are pure rng. Immoral enemies that cant be stopped from attacking totems arent fun.
How do we get more sanctum tomes?
RNG drops, datamined at 8 times rarer than Heist contracts.
Oh i did if fully wrong, i always picked the least favor since i assumed those were the easiest fights (rewards usually are all worthless)
Exactly my first attempts too
Thanks!
thanks
i started as dd and the area lvl1 means i cant play the league mechanic :)
oh ouch :( I hope that changes
@@sirgog i hope so too but i honestly dont think so... but i also dont want to reroll because of a ggg mistake like that and waste so many hours, i planed and practiced my dd character. dont even feel like logging in anymore i would just play standard anyway
Is @sirgog a graduate student? That book pile is growing.
Hilarious that GGG almost has us playing rugby with teams of Maori.
flankers prioritise totems.
Also you say one can tank the entire team easily, but you are playing RF, so that applies to tanky characters...
I am not tanky yet. Not close.
I'm typing this comment while dead in a T5 map without scary mods while the party kill the boss
Pog
is there someone else on the other side waiting for you
ive really only seen RF's play this fairly easily. Maybe death aura players and minion players would as well im imagining.
Anything with good AoE or clear will be fine - bow builds will be great here, for example
You need DPS against multiple heavy targets. I'd say the better your build in Maven 10-ways, the better you'll do here.
Game within a game path of exile is beautifully infinite
pissed i have to work on weekends, like it so lame. then i go home and i can barely get enough time to play
Nice info but i Think even quin have more dmg no hate doe 😅
Path of Exile: the only place where Trauma is a GOOD thing. lol
EA totems is making this a breeze.
Setting one side to flank, clearing the initial enemies on said lane and then move to the middle and kill everything. Easy.
A decoy totem will buy you time as they can be "taunted" by the decoy totem..
Thought this would end up being a meta thing. Can they be knocked back? if so bow totems would probs be good.
so the take away is dont play dot builds couse you cant inerrupt, thx chris
I played the mechanic for 3 hours , it is good and i think while your ranking is going up you get better rewards ,, all i want now is a very strong build very high dps very big aoe abd you will never lose
Yeah, I believe some builds will 'outgrow' the mechanic. If you can have the team leader down in 300ms while also hitting the others - this strategy will annihilate everything.
@@sirgog some rumors they limit how much dmg your oponents take per sec to force you care for strategy , but not confirmed yet .
@3:45: it does get longer every time you die, it says so in the little blue tooltip over the Shop button.
My addition to this would be to kill Kahuturoa as soon as possible
He sucks to fight and you don't to go against him in the high level matches
Yeah, I've learned this since making the video. The tribe that ends 'Kurai' gets out of hand, FAST, if allowed to grow... unless you are staying alive with "phys taken as X" defenses, which their OP Goliath slams don't do as much to.
Kaom gets nasty if left to last too.
Jesus. It's an ARPG for god's sake. If I want to play a strategy game, I play Mechabellum. Thanks for the comprehensive insight into the league mechanic anyway, sir!
And what a lot of people enjoy in PoE is that they try to implement mechanics from other genres : Tower defense, Rogue like Dungeons, etc... I understand tho, I love blasting mobs the most, but having that kind of mechanics in the game every now and then is great.