Content Update 2.1.0: Talisman Challenge Leagues, New Skills and more!

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1453R wrote:

So as a total rookie loser guy...this is why I'm increasingly fond of this game.

Rapid Decay sounds kind of amazing. I'm looking at a lot of these new gems and just drooling. Quicker-acting degen is awesome for clearing enemies before they clear you, and given how rapidly most PoE skills can be applied...well. I see no reason why one would not want their decay to occur rapidly on any degen skill I can see. Fire Trap > Rapid Decay > Inc. Burning > Trap Damage in that new Kongming's Stratagem - fast offense that is also defense (which is clearly the best kind of offense) on a super-mobile character with an awesome Monkey King fan. I only wish I had the faintest chance in hell of ever seeing that fan to try it with.

As a long-time (Diablo II long-time) softie for archers...I want mah bow skills. Shrapnel Shot screams Point Blank, or at least experimenting therewith, and Siege Ballista may be my first attempt at an Ancestral Bond build. Seriously, though...that Shrapnel Shot is more enticing than it should be. Free megadeeps from Drillneck if I understand Drillneck correctly, and one of the rare skills that can handle both mobs and bosses well. Blast Rain I want to see in play (for more than a second :P) before I decide if I want to run it, but I'm already considering ways to try and make Shrapnel Shot murderous.

This frequent updating and expansion is one of the best parts of PoE, it really is. I know everybody gets all hot to trot over the temp leagues and fresh economies to ruin, but I'm here because this game is better than everything else I play at offering endless build tinkering options and ways to make something really cool and interesting. I can't trade worth a spit so I'm forever plebe, but I really don't care. Keep on a'going, Grinding Gears. I may duck out for a while, but I'm fairly sure I'll always be back.