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[nenjin]

Farming in Act 1 Merciless tonight, I got this: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Queen%27s_Decree

Followed shortly (relatively speaking) after by this: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Silverbranch

Think it's time to start a summoner

[Aoi]

Farming in Act 1 Merciless tonight, I got this: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Queen%27s_Decree

Followed shortly (relatively speaking) after by this: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Silverbranch

Followed shortly by a spam of 'reeeeep' in chat, as is how most good drops are followed? =P

[nenjin]

I think I've changed my opinion on the late game of PoE a little bit.

Right now I'm face tanking everything short of large blue packs, Uniques and Rogue Exiles with Firestorm + Life Leech and IR, in all my IR gear. I can do that pretty much from the Twilight Strand to the Climb, avoiding side areas. Chaos is the only thing I have to specifically gear to resist now, as my base resists and gear take care of the elements for the most part. I've got 1000 HPs. And I'm only Level 61.

I got my ass handed to me by the Weaver, to the tune of about 30 deaths. But I learned her spiders eventually stop coming, after you kill.....I dunno, several hundred. I eventually beat that fight by hitting her and her minions off screen with Spectral Throw for like....20 minutes. Turns out when she's not surrounded by 50 spiders, she can be face tanked as well.

So while I know boss fights will be soul crushingly bad, and there's Uniques out there that will always just fuck your shit up (Brutus and his late game twin, because desyncs) Merciless is starting to seem pretty doable. Maybe I can finally get some maps.

[aristabulus]

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I got my ass handed to me by the Weaver, to the tune of about 30 deaths. But I learned her spiders eventually stop coming, after you kill.....I dunno, several hundred. I eventually beat that fight by hitting her and her minions off screen with Spectral Throw for like....20 minutes. Turns out when she's not surrounded by 50 spiders, she can be face tanked as well.
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The Weaver always has a nasty escort, sometimes nastier if the blue spiders' mods are synergistic.  Doesn't matter what build I was using, that fight was always a hair-on-fire affair. 

I played the 2 hour solo race this morning, and got instagibbed in Crossroads by a yellow bear with attack the speed aura flanked by a few blue bears with the speed mod.    Shoulda quit when I got my 3 points instead of gunning for the fourth.

[kcwong]

I think I've changed my opinion on the late game of PoE a little bit.

Right now I'm face tanking everything short of large blue packs, Uniques and Rogue Exiles with Firestorm + Life Leech and IR, in all my IR gear. I can do that pretty much from the Twilight Strand to the Climb, avoiding side areas. Chaos is the only thing I have to specifically gear to resist now, as my base resists and gear take care of the elements for the most part. I've got 1000 HPs. And I'm only Level 61.

I got my ass handed to me by the Weaver, to the tune of about 30 deaths. But I learned her spiders eventually stop coming, after you kill.....I dunno, several hundred. I eventually beat that fight by hitting her and her minions off screen with Spectral Throw for like....20 minutes. Turns out when she's not surrounded by 50 spiders, she can be face tanked as well.

So while I know boss fights will be soul crushingly bad, and there's Uniques out there that will always just fuck your shit up (Brutus and his late game twin, because desyncs) Merciless is starting to seem pretty doable. Maybe I can finally get some maps.

If you check the official forums or ask in global chat, you'll know that 1k life isn't considered a lot in merciless... as a melee you should have at least 2k. My Scion summoner at level 70 has nearly 2k life and ES.

With Iron Reflex, you are tanking all the hits coming your way... so having sufficient resists, armor (aim for 40% or more) and life is crucial.

With life leech, and the spider hoard are there to keep you healed. Life generation from leech is at 20% of your max life per second. The more life you have, the better life leech is.

If you take Vaal Pact, then life leech is instant. With a sufficiently hard-hitting attack, you can stay alive pretty easily... until you get viper strike charges, that is. Then you have to TP quickly, or die.

[Aoi]

So does anybody else here play exclusively Nemesis?

(Edit: Not trying to sound elitist; just wondering, since it sounds like most people here are primarily domination/standard. I'm only made it halfway through cruel on my best.)

[nenjin]

And tonight's unique is...

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Prismatic_Eclipse

3 green gems, and now Spectral Throw + Greater Multiple Projectiles + Projectile Speed truly is like a combine, 5 rows a never ending blades streaming over waves of guys....too bad you can't use Jewelers Orbs on Uniques, I'd love to cram more on this sword.

Although it does basically point out that Ethereal Knives is a shit skill next to Spectral Throw. It took just one mod to make Spectral Throw great. It takes at least 2 mods just to make Ethereal Knives remotely its counter part.

[kcwong]

The spammers are extremely annoying. You can't hide PMs, and can only report by sending a screenshot. And they just keep making new gibberish accounts anyway, so even ignore is futile.

They have bots listening to global chat and make name lists. Once you say anything on global, you're done for. The "ding" purple text will annoy you every few minutes from then on. I don't even trade; I never post to trade chats. Just chit-chat and answering questions on global will get you spammed.

I've sent countless reports to GGG in past few months, and I am tired of doing so anymore. I sent an email telling them how annoyed and tired I am, and how disappointed I am in their reaction speed to the spamming.

I set my web site profile to private, and sent a list to GGG to rename all my characters.

[aristabulus]

So it's been a couple months.... anyone still playing?

I did some race events last season, not much else...  Not terribly interested in getting on this race season, what with classes starting again for me next week.

I haven't been impressed with the extended Act 3 stuff.  The new mechanics seem like a fistful of gauze lazily stapled to unhealthy systems.  And the new mega-boss fight?  Brutally awful optimization.  I'm glad the only time I tangled with it was on a Merciless-grade character.

[Aklyon]

I'm waiting until I have a better computer to play some more, honestly. The new skills sound neat, but I hardly have the fps to finish normal, I'm not interested in trying to push it any further with this speed.

[nenjin]

I backed off playing for various reasons. Still need to get all the way though Merciless so I can start doing Maps, but, considering the xp loss and rare item farming, I'm bottom feeding getting there.

[Karkov]

I stopped playing because the desync was hitting me something awful, and it was getting more than slightly annoying.  You'd think they'd have learned it was a problem and needed to be fixed, but it was still just as bad as it was at launch, blegh.  That and the late-game got pretty old pretty quickly.

If you don't think it's that bad normally, you haven't made a cyclone marauder. 

[nenjin]

it's not that I dislike the end game or anything. It's just a huge time sink compared to blazing through Normal and Cruel, and I've got other games competing for time sinkage. PoE got a lot of play time out of me right before Xmas, so I really needed a break.

That said, Storm Call is awesome and I think I like it more than Firestorm.

[ragnar119]

I dont play it anymore, but will go back to it when there are bigger updates/expansions for the game

[dennislp3]

Same here