Solo Yolo 5 day ~ Any advice from you self found players?

flameblast prolif and tornado shot+puncture will be god tier. second tier will be totems like flame and swt AND SRS if you manage to drop 5L staff yourself. after that its all pretty close, imo.

I'm sur ethis has been said but,

Honestly, it'a bout the drops. You build as you go. You can't try and make a build waiting for something to drop to 'make' that build happen.

Easiest way is to make a complete build based on what is a quest reward.

Too many useful posts for me to quote! Thanks everyone for the advice, appreciate it :)

It seems it will suit me well, most of the strategies offered by you guys I often employ already during the temp leagues early on.

For builds/skills I should be fine, as I have only ever made my own builds and am used to adapting them on the fly, sometimes with minimal currency/trade at my disposal.

One thing I am really looking forward to is actively using all my currency drops in the later levels, if an exalt drops I can now use it to actually craft an item! rather than stash it for trading.

Human sacrifice is hands down the best way to boost your luck. But if you are in a pinch, pigs are easy to come by and the chants aren't too hard to memorize. You don't even need to learn to roll your R's which is what most beginners get stuck on.

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Josephoenix wrote:

Going with a "spell" user is probably the easiest route.

On a side note: I'm interested in how this will work. The only 2 ways this will work are:

1. No partying allowed.

or with parties:

2. All loot is permanent allocation and then BoA, or cannot be dropped (<--that's silly).

Otherwise, there will still be "trading". Ppl will group together, and do the old mud flats trade (from CB for those unawares). The two ppl will meet in X zone, one drops an item, the other drops the payment and they both go pick up the other players things.

As with most anything PoE related: More information needed lol

You missed the part where Chris said it would be a solo race, so there wont be any partying allowed, its disabled.

Cant wait for this race, but as someone else also mentioned, I am thinking this race might be a cuthroat race as well because Chris mentioned elsewhere, earlier, that he wanted to do a cuthroat one soon. I dont know if a cuthroat would be as long as 5 days though. Guess we'll have to see.

I am generally a self-found solo player so this race is right up my ally. As for tips, I dont really have anything to add :p

Thinking it feels like playing diablow 2 singleplayer which feels nostalgic
Since i trade on every occation I find for upgrade if i got enough currency to do it. Definitely gonna play some clitch build i dont usually play that dont need uniques

Game is super ez with the master crafting anyway.

Make sure your build can solo dom in cruel without too much effort.
I think that is probably the biggest challenge for a self found character starting up.

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CalamityAOE wrote:

Make sure your build can solo dom in cruel without too much effort.
I think that is probably the biggest challenge for a self found character starting up.

If you've already switched to totems by the time you reach cruel Dom, it's a piece of cake. Or you can destroy equally fast with Flamebast.

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CalamityAOE wrote:

Make sure your build can solo dom in cruel without too much effort.
I think that is probably the biggest challenge for a self found character starting up.

I completely agree with this, especially with level 70 being the "gate" most players will want to pass, to get a chance at a closed beta key.

I'll go a *bit* further in saying that not all totems are created equal for cruel dom.

Decoy totem has always worked beautifully for Dom, at least in my experience. I've never had difficulty keeping his "preying mantis, blood rain" phase pointed away from my character with decoy totem, as I just cast it on the other side of him and always re-cast when it takes heavy damage.

Dual totem arc seems to handle his adds quickly enough and whittle him down fast enough to make standing toe to toe with him doable, in his second phase. Dual totem glacial cascade and dual totem storm call were underwhelming because adds tended to increase in number, during his second phase.