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[aristabulus]

The final boss patch has been pushed back to Monday, due to internal pest control finding too many things.  There will also be a wipe, so that means 4 days of freshly wiped beta before beta is gone...  great planning there, GGG!  *glare*

I guess I know what I'm not doing before the 10th.

[Shadowlord]

They actually push things back to fix bugs instead of ignoring the reports from their testers and releasing to meet a schedule? So much better than Cryptic...

[aristabulus]

I don't have an issue with the delay, in and of itself...  I'm just a bit irritated that (delay+wipe+release+my_RL) means I probably won't have enough time to get to the end of Act 4 from scratch.  Being an adult sucks sometimes.  :/

[Shadowlord]

There's a wipe? Why is there a wipe? All my gems! And stuff! Eh. Not like I'm actually playing right now.

[aristabulus]

There's a wipe? Why is there a wipe? All my gems! And stuff! Eh. Not like I'm actually playing right now.

There will be a wipe of the beta with the final boss patch, then 4 days until release, then the beta realm ceases to be when the patch hits the live servers.  The live servers will not ever be wiped again, according to Chris.

I did mention that in my initial FYI post today...

... There will also be a wipe, so that means 4 days of freshly wiped beta before beta is gone... 

[Shadowlord]

Oh, I see. You meant the Awakening beta, not PoE itself.

[Aklyon]

Markov notes.

Actual patch notes to come later, apparently.

[aristabulus]

So what are everyone's post-release plans?  I'll be doing a melee dude on Warbands, and pondering new builds while I generate a bit of wealth.

If anyone has a few points laying about, you could donate them to the guild.  Every 50 we muster gets us another communal stash tab.  The twink gear seems to have gone untouched, so I'm gonna dial that back some and leave a tab functionally empty for quick trading/transfers in-guild.

[nenjin]

Probably try and replay as much of the game as I can with my Scion, so I can get through it to the new content.

[aristabulus]

The actual not-gibberish patch notes are up.  Warning: it is hella-big; if you're looking for a specific mention, I suggest using a Find function.

Probably try and replay as much of the game as I can with my Scion, so I can get through it to the new content.

With an existing character, you should be able to just access Act 4 in any difficulty you previously completed.  That's how it was when the Act 3 extension was released.

[nenjin]

Yeah but I want to go back through the first chapters to see the changes. I just don't want to crawl through it with a new character.

[Aklyon]

Patch is now available for early download, same size as the beta was (roughly 3gb).

[Kanil]

You can save yourself some download by copying over the content.ggpk file from the beta. My download was only around 500 MB.

[nenjin]

Spent the day playing. I imagine I'm half way through it.

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Once again, I basically have to give up on making XP trying to do anything of note other than farm easy areas. Shit's just too crazy, especially the boss fights. Kaom fight was just ridiculous, there's so much damage being spewed around that max resists don't cut it but for one hit. And some of the new Uniques like The Burning Man are, for me at least, a total pain in the ass. After struggling mightily to not die for 10 minutes, carefully whittling them down, eventually I slip up, die, and end up just zerging the fights. I don't doubt I will be able to finish Chapter 4 in Merciless, but I'm sure the boss fights will all be a pitiless death march.

Lockstep works pretty well, but you definitely feel it when either your connection has issues or their servers do. Had a good hour to two hours of noticeable hitching and chokey performance, and an instance of a couple minutes where I was regularly locking up. I figure that's the player rush and bugs they're still working through and it will improve over time.

Just curious, what's people's HP counts in the 70ish range? I'm starting to think I've been skimping on them.

[aristabulus]

I stuck with predictive, as my ping wasn't quite good enough for lockstep...  I'd get a pinch of lag here and there (within reason for my connection), but never any Desync-type events.  So that's nice; too bad it didn't make a difference with the design flaws.

I finished act 4 Normal (in Warbands) last night, and my experience of the last boss was similar to nenjin's spoiler block.

My lead up had me feeling pretty good; with a melee sword+board duelist, I facetanked Piety and Dominus...  then got my ass handed to me repeatedly on the penultimate boss, and the last boss.  Everything I hated about the Dominus fight when that was new, the A4 boss fight has in spades, and more.  It was severely not fun, and I never want to fight that boss ever again.

My remembrance of the boss fights when they were act-enders and how they are now makes a stark contrast.  I get that the last boss shouldn't be a pushover, but I feel like GGG might just be trolling their userbase.

I guess it really is still Path of Life Nodes.

I am not dancing this jig again.  >_<