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Personally, I'm going to give freezing pulse a try this league as, one, I've never used it before and, two, I'm super curious to try the threshold jewel that gives two extra freezing pulse projectiles. Two jewels and I have a "free" GMP. Is this enough to make freezing pulse good? That...

The big changes are going to happen in between the ranger and shadow so I think your tree will only have minimal changes to deal with.

That tree looks legit. I hope it works out for you.

Skills are broken into two broad categories - spells and attacks - and you need to pay attention to various keywords on support gems and passive nodes to make sure that everything will work together. So, as you've seen, the Doryani's catalyst has no keywords attached to the life leech so it...

The mana leech cluster you're taking only work with attack damage so your fireball spell will not work with those. Spec out of that and use the points to take a few mana / mana regen nodes. Even with those, though, you might need to run with a mana flask. I'd also recommend spending the two...

Oh, and that build is best played with tornado shot or split arrow....

I've played several variations on an elemental bow build using the "Storm Cloud" unique bow. It's dirt cheap and can be had from day one of the league for very little currency. It can then be upgraded to "The Tempest" via a prophecy and in that form it's good enough to take you into early end...

Forum - Shadow - The Rabid Rhoa Spectral Thrower - Path of Exile I made a claw build!!1! Ewww, you say? Perhaps, but I'm having fun nonetheless. Check the build guide if you're interested, I should get a video up later today. EDIT - Now with a video

I don't know the larger (9"-10") tablets but I bought my wife the 2013 Nexus 7 tablet and, so far as I understand there has been nothing better released since then. There's rumors of a new "Nexus 7" but nothing official yet. I'm really hoping for another premium 7" tablet as the special lady...

I'm planning on playing a crit Shockwave totem build using Hierophant instead of going Ancestral Bond. Never played totems before so I thought I'd have a go. I gave it a trial run with an old standard character and ended up with 5k life + 2k ES for a big effective life pool. Combined with the...

They made it possible to set any premium stash tab to public and to set prices and leave notes on any items in a public stash tab. But, yes, you still need to talk to people. So far as I understand GGG is loathe to do away with this aspect of trading as, one, they think the player interaction...

Completely agree - the leveling process is far more compelling than it used to be. I have a feeling that chasing down prophecies will get old in time but, for now, it's tons of fun. I wanted to try the new frostbolt / vortex / ice nova combinations but I didn't want to to be a typical...

Thanks man. I think this is the natural outcome of being addicted to this game. There's something about POE that makes it get stuck in the brain of a certain type of person and I fall very much into that personality type. Eventually you can't help but start to put together more and more...

I can't believe it took 16 posts to get this.... Thanks everyone for the ideas, we're looking through and figuring out what to give a try.

Mother of gumballs, thanks for all the ideas!!

My wife is looking for a game to play together once the kids are in bed. Something laid back and not too hard. Anyone here have some suggestions for something on the chick friendly side?

View Profile - Path of Exile - SerialThriller37 You should be able to see my characters here - this one is called "SparkklePony". It's not actually all that gear dependant - just get all the crit chance you can get and you're most of the way there. Defense is sort of rubbish - a bit of...

New build time.... I wanted to make a Scion build that took advantage of the pierce/projectile mods from the Ranger and the crit from the Shadow. My first thought was to make a cast on crit build using lightning strike but blech, too slow. I've never been a big fan of spectral throw CoC so...

The six trials needed to unlock the labyrinth can be found in these locations.

I've been using Total Media Theater for a few years now but, apparently, it's no longer being supported and it won't play most newer disks. Thus, I need something new for my HTPC. I don't mind paying for something but I'd rather not put money into a player that is just crap bloatware or...

Check out this build here. Pretty strong and pretty cheap. Ascendancy is the latest release for the game - you get a "secondary skill tree" with extremely powerful passive skills to make a character very powerful.

The only expensive piece of gear I have is my chest piece which is 6 linked and cost me 5 exalted to buy though I had to compromise on the amount of armor on it to afford it. I've saved up through most of the league to afford it. Everything else I bought for 5-20 chaos and is pretty run of the...

Having lots of fun with Earthquake still. The skill, without too much investment is very strong - get yourself a Marohi Erqi (which is very cheap these days) and you're good to go. I've geared up pretty well and now Atziri is pretty viable - despite the fact that I'm pretty sloppy at the...

It's a very good build but, if it's your first in the new league it might be a little tough to get running - crit builds take a bit more gearing than others. But, once you get all your stats sorted out it will be very strong.

That was likely a temporary buff, though Etup is a pretty good player so maybe he's got a way to do it. Personally I'm at about 4200 HP and hoping to get to 5000-5500 by the time I'm done. We'll see how good of gear I'm able to get....

I've been playing a Marauder / Berserker with the new Earthquake skill and I absolutely love it. It is stupid strong and the "feel" of the skill is just perfect - chaotic and intense and destructive. I'm only level 66 right now so I'm not sure where the build will hit its ceiling but it was...

I've had a good time playing in the darkshrine league. The shrines can be fun, some very OP but I don't have the currency to dump into crafting the items that have the chance to give crazy results. I've spawned a couple of unique strongboxes, which are very fun, but haven't gotten anything...

There are plenty of "% increased elemental damage" nodes on the tree which will scale all elemental damage types. Most elemental builds try to get big chunks of flat elemental damage on their weapons and from auras (wrath and anger) and then get as high attack speed as possible in order to...

I've had a Lumia 925 for the last couple years and I really like it. Chances are good that I'll upgrade to a 950 when they come out. It certainly looks (market-share-wise) that mobile Windows is circling the drain but I'd really like to see them get a foothold in phones / tablets and remain...

I would disagree somewhat here. Provided you're playing physical attack build mana leech is pretty effective. The two characters I've leveled in Warbands (trees a few posts up) rely completely on mana leech and, unless I completely miss enemies with two or three attacks I never run out, even...

I'm in Warbands too but the economy is so saturated already easily buy "really pretty good" items (a step or two above very-decent) for next to nothing. I've used an item or two from the guild stash but I'm mostly contributing to it as well. I've got two characters going now. The first was a...

I've gotten one of those barrels before; I love the flavor text and they're a fun fight. I got the exact same pair of gloves from it too.

Technically you can use Vorici to change the colors of corrupted items but it get's expensive as, for every application of the Vorici color mod you are required to use as many vaal orbs as chromatics. Some of his mods cost 25 chromatics so it adds up quickly.

I've always heard that static strike really shines with multi-strike, have you tried swapping that in for faster attacks?

I'll try to throw some things in the guild stash too but another option - poe.trade. While you're leveling and even into maps, you can get pretty darn good weapons for next to nothing. I'm playing a 1H sword build right now and, as a rule of thumb, you want about at least a 200 dps 1H weapon...

I do get a little excited every time I roll six extra items on an arcanists box. Still no exalts. Grats on the drop.

That's how their new bosses always feel. Watch a dedicated Atziri killer do Apex of Sacrifice runs today and think back to how impossible those bosses seemed when they were first released - it looks like cake. People will learn the mechanics of these bosses and trivialize them eventually...

All fair points. Piety's laser is kind of "cheap" right now and needs some work to make it a little more fair. That said, with the amount of life you've got, you should be able to take a hit without dying immediately, giving you enough time to get out of the way and heal up. But, still, it's...

I was just about to - I killed three bosses leading up to him and then got called away from the game and didn't actually do Malachi. That said, the trio leading to him are pretty significantly tougher in merciless than cruel - harder hitting and lots of life. I've got a cycloner with 4k life...

I'm playing a 1H sword cycloner in warbands and it's going pretty well so far. Just had a near 200 dps (after master craft) sword drop at level 52 and now everything's smooth and happy for a while now. I've specced very strongly into defense and mana-management nodes as I've leveled but my...