Most fun experience I've had in POE

Was running around in a L78 Springs map with my TS ranger when I ran into Zana who gave me a "kill boss witin time limit touching lodestones to increase time" mission. Then the Crematorium portals popped up and I figured, hmm I really should skip the boss here.

Anyway decided to punt my lvl 94 XP on it (not HC ofc) and it turned out to be a lvl 79 map. Was running thru the first level and couldnt work out why these normal mobs were smacking me so hard...ofc I hadn't taken notice of the two curses on me. So tabbed and quickly scanned the map mods, elemental weakness and Vulnerability (yeah i know i could have seen these icons but sorta didnt occur to me given i was flying)...SHITE! So quickly turned off HoA and turned on PoF Anyway against my better judgement, kept rushing to lodestones. The mobs were those undying evangelists, fire golems and those damn demons that I think do RF...can't remember their names.

Anyway somehow, no idea how, I got to the boss room without dying. 28 secs left on the counter so ran to boss and kited like crazy. Almost ripped three times (must have gone below 10% life each time i got touched), but thought I'd failed. Only to get the 'return to master' msg...must have killed her with only half a second left, if that.

Absolutely amazing experience! Makes me wish for some kind on gameplay replay, like those racing games have where you can replay a race (consider this a suggestion)...would have loved to watch it.



PS:

I love it when that happens, or something similar. Know exactly what you mean. I want an instant replay.

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cdchi1 wrote:

Absolutely amazing experience! Makes me wish for some kind on gameplay replay, like those racing games have where you can replay a race (consider this a suggestion)...would have loved to watch it.

Ahh, just reading about your experience is satisfying. +1. Sounds sweet. Definitely what POE is all about :)

(It kinda reminds me of the feeling when you clear a high-lvl map with Beyond and a whole bunch of other mods on it without dying.)

Oh, and moments like these? Yeah, that's why some people like to record themselves playing.

And all you got for it was a freaking Orchard map!

GGG should really do something about map drops on the bosses. They said they wanted to give players more incentive to kill the bosses instead of skipping them. This right here is the exact opposite of incentive.

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AxxiusEQ wrote:

And all you got for it was a freaking Orchard map!

Well luckily when i reentered the other levels to clean up the mobs, I managed to get a Necropolis and Springs map to drop. But yeah it would have been nice to get a +1/2 map drop from boss...been back to POE for a couple weeks now but despite running countless 77/78 maps have hardly had any 79+ maps drop, think about four. To put it in perspective, I've had five exalteds drop (did they buff the drop rate on those or something?).

I think they are releasing a manifesto on maps or something this week? Hopefully this is addressed.

My favourite moment was killing Tunnel Trap in my first try with a Melee Evasion Shadow and a rare dagger with the same DPS than a Mightflay.

you could use nvidia shadowplay if you have the appropriate geforce card in your pc.
let it record in the background and if you had a memorable experience in poe you can
save up to the last 20 minutes you played before its getting overwritten again so you
don't have to save endless videos and sort through them but only keep those nice moments.

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Astir wrote:

you could use nvidia shadowplay if you have the appropriate geforce card in your pc.
let it record in the background and if you had a memorable experience in poe you can
save up to the last 20 minutes you played before its getting overwritten again so you
don't have to save endless videos and sort through them but only keep those nice moments.

Cheers will check that out, have an Nvidia card so probably do have that installed. But an inbuilt map replay feature in POE, that would be awesome for me!

Well, since we are sharing fun stories here... This has just happened to me:

Necropolis map, rolled with Sea Witches + Beyond + pack size. My all time favorite combo! Crapload of spawns, lots of Beyond bosses popping. I'm not afraid of any of them, it's all good. Enjoying the awesome xp. Joy and happiness.

The main dungeon is clear, only the boss area left. I enter the sarcophagus and say 'Hi' to Merveil. She's a bitch, but I have my Wanderlust and sapphire flasks with me, it's all good. She has a pack of sea witches with her, as usual. I jump right in and kill them. And guess who pops from it? Of course it HAD to be Haast the Unrelenting Frost! Of all the possible Beyond spawns, what are the chances? Murphy's Law in action.

I can handle Haast solo. I can handle Necropolis Merveil just fine. But the tag team of the two of them... OUCHIES!

XP loss wasn't too bad after all the xp gained clearing the map. But I found this funny as hell that Haast would spawn to aid Merveil. It's a match made in heaven.