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man.. got through Lunaris temple and killed Piety for the first time last night.. jeesh.. that lunaris seemed to go on forever!!

hit 40.. in cruel now... got to Blood Magic... man! love it! what a difference on my Marauder.. still 1h and shield..

need a 4 link!! or 2...

got to 1200+ hp too.. so far..so good..
 
XBarbarian said:
man.. got through Lunaris temple and killed Piety for the first time last night.. jeesh.. that lunaris seemed to go on forever!!

hit 40.. in cruel now... got to Blood Magic... man! love it! what a difference on my Marauder.. still 1h and shield..

need a 4 link!! or 2...

got to 1200+ hp too.. so far..so good..
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damn just last night i went through my inventory and vendored everything less than ilvl 60. Pretty sure there were some 4-linked shit in there ><

I just need to get more stash tabs so i can be a better hoarder.

I bought a 4-linked ilvl 70 ES helm last night. Used an alchemy and 4 chaos on it. Still crap. Rabble rabble. I traded all my shit for those chaos too. I am really really poor atm :( Damn this game's gambling. This is why i don't go to casinos.
 
Ha ha ha. Yes, gambling is bad. But at least in this game it doesn't cost you real money unless... You're addicted!
 
ooohhh noooeeess! lol

no worries.. send me a friend .. I'm "destroyd" on US

Im pretty broke too =(

on a side note.. is there a recipe to roll up the piles and piles of wisdom scrolls I have ( like 500+ )? can I turn them into better stuff>?
 
I've started to stock pile Fusings, want to make my 5L a 6L. I'm thinking I'll wait till I get ~200, start trying, and if I don't get 6L within the first 100ish then just quit when I get back to 5L.
 
Finally got my witch to Merciless, and my chaos resistance is at -30%, lol. Would that mean the damage is being amplified by 30% instead?
 
Hornet said:
Finally got my witch to Merciless, and my chaos resistance is at -30%, lol. Would that mean the damage is being amplified by 30% instead?
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yes. I've gotten mine down to -8, which is very manageable, but poison throwers and spitting snakes are still extremely scary.
 
cageymaru said:
Ha ha ha. Yes, gambling is bad. But at least in this game it doesn't cost you real money unless... You're addicted!
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I was surprised to see a banner add on POEEX for the first time yesterday... "POE ORBS FOR CASH" or some such.

I don't think i'll ever be THAT addicted to gambling in this game... i hope.

That being said, i am still collecting all the gold and paua rings so i can throw my chances on them =P

XBarbarian said:
on a side note.. is there a recipe to roll up the piles and piles of wisdom scrolls I have ( like 500+ )? can I turn them into better stuff>?
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Not that I've seen. You can sell them to people though.

lilbabycat said:
I've started to stock pile Fusings, want to make my 5L a 6L. I'm thinking I'll wait till I get ~200, start trying, and if I don't get 6L within the first 100ish then just quit when I get back to 5L.
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Who knows man, you might get lucky and only need 10 of those =P

Hornet said:
Finally got my witch to Merciless, and my chaos resistance is at -30%, lol. Would that mean the damage is being amplified by 30% instead?
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i'm at 18% i believe, which sucks, but actually isn't too bad unless it's 100% chaos damage. If it's those snakes, they're no problem because half the damage is still physical so i can tank it with my armor flask.
 
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More low-level goodness: decided to roll a quick Witch to Brutus for a Clarity gem and...

 
Most of the regals, exalts and gcps I've gotten were dicking around with low level characters.
 
I would assume there is some one-time boost to drop rates on your first run throughs. I've gotten two chaos and a few fusings on my lvl 17 marauder already, and it was like that for every character I played with. The middle levels seem to give you more gems, then on the back-end of you 40's/50's you have a period of almost nothing worthwhile.
 
lilbabycat said:
I would assume there is some one-time boost to drop rates on your first run throughs. I've gotten two chaos and a few fusings on my lvl 17 marauder already, and it was like that for every character I played with. The middle levels seem to give you more gems, then on the back-end of you 40's/50's you have a period of almost nothing worthwhile.
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RNG. 40's and 50's are always pretty good to me.
 
lilbabycat said:
I would assume there is some one-time boost to drop rates on your first run throughs. I've gotten two chaos and a few fusings on my lvl 17 marauder already, and it was like that for every character I played with. The middle levels seem to give you more gems, then on the back-end of you 40's/50's you have a period of almost nothing worthwhile.
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As far as I know, your chances of finding orbs and other 'currency' items are the same throughout the game as long as you aren't +/- 2 levels over/under the area you're in. Once you go over 2 levels you suffer a penalty, although I don't remember what it is off-hand.
 
Aix. said:
As far as I know, your chances of finding orbs and other 'currency' items are the same throughout the game as long as you aren't +/- 2 levels over/under the area you're in. Once you go over 2 levels you suffer a penalty, although I don't remember what it is off-hand.
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For currency, it's 2.5% less chance to drop currency per level above 2. It does not work both ways. A level 50 character farming a level 60 area receives no currency penalty.

I'm glad this was brought up though, because i just read the wiki to find out how this works. No wonder i see dick for currency. I'm 66 farming 61 areas.

rabble rabble.
 
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So is it better to have a cold penetration support gem or a cold damage support gem?
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Depends. Cold Pen will treat your attacks/spells as if the enemy has -x% lower resistance, and can go into the negatives. Cold Damage simply adds cold dam (and chance to freeze too for quality right?), which alone would probably be weaker every time, BUT it does get effected by any passive skill points / itemization points such as "increased elemental dam" or "increases cold dam by x%".

i don't know if there is an easy graph anywhere comparing pene / added.
 
Penetration is almost always better, due to enemies always having resists on higher difficulties. The amount of damage added by the Additional Cold Damage gem is so small unless using very high attack speeds as well.

For example, an average enemy will probably have 50 cold resist. Assuming a mid level cold pen gem of 25% reduction and an attack that is 200 damage.

Without cold pen = 200 * 50% = 100 damage dealt
With cold pen = 200 * (50-25%) = 150 damage dealt

Another interesting effect of penetration gems posted by one of the devs:
"These support gems reduced the actual resistance of a monster, or the resistance that a monster has at the point of damage. If a monster has 75% resistance and is affected by a 40% penetration support gem it will have 35% resistance, as with a curse. If a monster has 120% resistance, it will be capped at 75%, and for the purpose of the penetration support gems, its resistance will be 75%, not 120%. So a 40% penetration gem will reduce the resistance to 35% (which differs from the effect of curses)"
 
Played it for an hour or so. It's pretty decent but it has the same problem as Diablo III - forced online play, with no ability to play on your own machine, let alone offline. Since there are no Australian servers (as usual...Singapore gets servers though...), there is unacceptable lag between mouse-click and actually performing the action, plus you get hit by melee attacks after you've moved well out of range, and there is rubber-banding.
 
Leave a message on the forums about getting some Aussie servers going. They really do read them!
 
Apparently running servers in Australia is too expensive. Lame.

There is a lot to like about the game, though. It's also amazing how much better the graphics are in this F2P game than Diablo III.
 
Don't you'll have to pay per MB after you go over your monthly allotment? If so that would explain why the lack of servers. Wonder if it's a monopoly in Australia or the government allowing ridiculous consumer gouging.
 
So I got a summoner witch to the mid 50's and found bosses are just too much so I shelved the toon and started a marauder. I'm just hitting 40 and starting to die a lot to packs of mobs. I'm currently a 2h mace using leap slam/ground slam and one single target attack. I have built around most forum posts, so mostly life and such. I have tons of life per second and life on hit, but its not enough. One freeze or stun and its over. I think I'm having severe gear issues or something. Thinking about going defacto ranger next.../sigh
 
ob1 said:
So I got a summoner witch to the mid 50's and found bosses are just too much so I shelved the toon and started a marauder. I'm just hitting 40 and starting to die a lot to packs of mobs. I'm currently a 2h mace using leap slam/ground slam and one single target attack. I have built around most forum posts, so mostly life and such. I have tons of life per second and life on hit, but its not enough. One freeze or stun and its over. I think I'm having severe gear issues or something. Thinking about going defacto ranger next.../sigh
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Have you checked your resistances? Sounds like they're not up to snuff.
 
My resistances suck pretty bad. I am just starving for gear I think. I mean, I have killed roughly the second half of act 1 in cruel and received two yellow drops total, and they were a level 12 rapier and a level 26 leather belt. I tried picking up the whites and using my orbs of alch and chaos on them to get upgrades, but now I'm just out of mats and orbs. I hate the rng....
 
what are you lacking i might have some old okish gear laying around if you need it. what lvl are you and what are you lacking the most? and how much hp do you have? you might just need to take some points out of dps skills and go to hp/tank skills
 
I feel like such a newb, I didn't know you (or never thought), to use my alch orbs on potions.../sigh Now I have a remove curse heal pot, unfreeze heal pot, remove burn heal, etc. It is helping a lot. Moving slower through areas and being a little more cautious, but I'm living....
 
ob1 said:
I feel like such a newb, I didn't know you (or never thought), to use my alch orbs on potions.../sigh Now I have a remove curse heal pot, unfreeze heal pot, remove burn heal, etc. It is helping a lot. Moving slower through areas and being a little more cautious, but I'm living....
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huh? alch on flasks? Sorry, but no. All you need is a Transmutation Orb. If it rolls one stat, use an Augmentation orb on the flask.

If you really like the flask, but don't like the 2 blue effects it rolled, use an orb of Alteration.

These are all much cheaper than an Alchemy orb. I never tried using an Alch orb on a flask because I've never seen a Rare (yellow) flask by anybody.

If you get +75% cold resist, you can't be frozen solid. When you get to Merveil, make sure to grab 2 cheap sapphire rings for > 60% cold resist. Then you won't have a problem with her.
 
So what levels are your guys' mains?

I'm about to hit 70 on my witch tonight.

It's strange getting to the end of the line on a character. After i spend the 6 points i've been hoarding, there's really no other place i want to get to. Everything else will just go into filler hp/es nodes.

Sad :(

But! it's about time for my lightening templar!

edit: How do you guys go about leveling up your gems? I switched to two quality ice spear gems at about lvl 60, and my dps has lagged behind ever since. They level too slow... it seems they'll never catch up!
 
Aix. said:
More low-level goodness: decided to roll a quick Witch to Brutus for a Clarity gem and...
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dang. I just found my first exalted this last weekend. Then I found a second the next day.
I've only seen one GCP drop ever. and it got ninjad from me in a no-ninja game.

Here's an idea of how much time I've played:
my char levels:
63 witch: dual totem GMP ice spear, 2 spectre, 2 curses, conversion trap, fire trap (goal is to get to level ~75 to get everything I need)

62 mara: 2H, cleave, sweep, heavy strike, groundslam (switch depending on the weapon)
44 shadow: dagger crit
and a bunch of lowbies: 22, 14, 16, 17, 21
I was going to make a plain jane marader shocker bow build, but I'm having so much fun with the witch.
 
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