Beginner/Inexpensive/Farm build...?
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Anybody had a really good experience with a guide on this forum that they want to point me towards? I have spent a fair amount of time searching, but in all honesty I have no idea what to look for and I can get a varied answer from each different person. Ranged build that has a good clear time without having to over invest in the character (this will be my first in the league). I am more into functionality of the build and overall effectiveness than what skill it is or how it plays (just be ranged). If this isn't enough info lemme know I will respond, I am spamming F5 on this thread because I want to get started!! :D
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" look at my sig... my build works even in endgame content + atziri... only downside you have to like the playstyle :D |
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" What is to not like about the playstyle? I will give it a read. Appreciate you taking the time to respond. Works in hardcore? Last edited by Neflak#1621 on Jan 12, 2016, 4:47:01 AM
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" something like magic rare hp monsters with the extra life mod requieres kiting... otherwise the endgame variant is rly op in terms of party play... if you like to map with friends just switch contaigon with abyssal cry... |
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For a first char with the purpose of farming gear while being as independent of gear restrictions as possible, dual totem is still the best option.
[2.1 VIDEO GUIDE]PoE Beginners Build: Dual Flame Totem, BM [Atziri & HC/SC Viable] |
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Don't think you're going to find a character that can compete with the stuff you see streamers pulling off without investment. It wont happen. Instead, set more modest goals and see what you can find at that level. You might pick tier 4 or 5 as a farming level. Stick to that for a while and you'll have some pretty good gear to develop a second character around.
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The word "farm" is a really broad statement in this game, as there are multiple methods of farming. First you want to narrow down what exactly you want to farm:
1. Normal MF (magic find: increased item rarity and increased item quantity stacking) 2. Atziri (and eventually uber Atziri. Note outside of temp leagues this is not very profitable) 3. Maps (Focus on clear speed and survivability, income comes from selling good finds and high tier maps)
Summary of Farming Types
If you choose to go the standard MF, which is the most consistent method of farming currency, you live your whole PoE life in Dried Lakes as you will optimally be low life to get the most out of Wondertraps. The downside to this is you will have low ES, and extremely vulnerable to chaos damage, meaning you will live your whole PoE career farming Dried Lakes (which I personally find relaxing, others despise the zone). If you choose to go with Atziri, your biggest goal in new leagues is to be one of the first to be farming her. The market saturates extremely quickly, to a point that only Mortal Hope farming is your ticket to currency. This is also the reason as stated above that it is not a great choice on Standard, as those markets are insanely saturated with Atziri/Uber drops. You may hit a Mortal Hope your first run, or you may go 100 runs without one, leaving this wildly inconsistent, but with huge payouts if RNG is on your side. Eventually in temp leagues, if you want to get really wealthy, your goal will be to push doing Ubers first - making beaucoup bucks. Again, this gets saturated fairly quickly, and without a ton of practice (leveling, gearing, and then killing Uber with sub-optimal gear) on Standard, then you will not compete with the guys who have doing this for many leagues. Right now it's most likely too late to make any kind of great returns on Atziri farming, however if you want to do it next league, I would commit 100% of the remaining Talisman time to killing Atziri... then kill her again slightly worse gear on the character, or lower leveled gems, or level a fresh alt and kill her while timing yourself and constantly improve on your speeds of getting to the level to be able to kill her. Even with that much practice, you still will be behind the first people by quite a ways unless you get extremely lucky while leveling your first character in a new league. And lastly is map farming, which is pretty straight forward. Don't focus on IIR/IIQ gear, only on clearing maps. Get to them fast, and climb the tiers fast. Sell any decent yellows early on in the league, as they sell quick and easy for a short period (first week or so) and decline quickly as more people get items listed. Your main goal is to push into iLvl 83 gear so you can sell white bases to people for them to craft. Don't waste currency rolling them yourself, it is a huge money sink and is like playing scratch offs. Let other people try to get lucky, you just keep the income coming in from selling the white bases. With that, you need to learn which white bases are worth picking up, and which aren't, as only certain ones are actually worth anything to people. This method also involves a ton of practice, almost all of which is plain leveling speed. Finding a solid build is easy, but getting the discipline to sit and actually play enough to make it profitable is pretty demanding. So with Talisman being a month in, Atziri is out of the question for the most part unless you want practice, but it is going to be by far the slowest money maker right now. That leaves IIR/IIQ stacking, and mapping. For an MF farmer just go with dual totems for a first character. They can stack rarity and quantity by far the easiest, as their totems do all of the work. Flame Totems are going to be the most popular for this. And then for a mapping character, your options are really endless. You wanted a ranged build, so you may as well go with one of the more OP skills. With that said, Bladefall comes to mind - it hits like a truck with very little investment. Voltaxic builds are insanely strong, as is normal phys crit bow builds (tornado shot), but they require a lot more investment (especially Voltaxic builds). In reality the list is enormous with what is viable at the moment, but if you want solid damage and don't have any, or very little, startup currency... I would probably just go Bladefall. Hell, even Bladefall Totems if you like the totem gameplay. Or with that, you can just go Shockwave Totems. But like I said, the list for this goes on and on. Remember though that we still have two months of league play left, so really your best bet would be to level a few characters and see what kind of gameplay style you like best, that way you won't feel the need to have to research and ask as much for the next league - you'll already know what you like to play, and that's the hardest piece of the puzzle to get down in this game. IGN: Emfx
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" I can second this as this is the build (and guide) I've done this league. Excellent build, seems to compete at endgame so far, if you do have difficulty you can just cheese and stay off-screen while your totems do work, and the recommended uniques are cheap as hell. Cons: Super boring until endgame. You face-roll everything and pretty much just use totems. At endgame, however, you have flammability, flame totem, lightning warp, and enduring cry in your active toolkit. |
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Flame totem / incinterate totem still a good way to go as bada bing said.
Another option for solo farm is caustic arrow MF. Or you can just run any char with few IIR on it and a good clearspeed on maps it will do the job aswell :) Hf :)
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My most successful characters (I play solo self-found) have all been totem casters.
I actually find dual Freezing Pulse totems to be superior to Flame Totems right now, at least as long as crit continues to reign supreme (my Tovi character uses this build, which I haven't written a guide for because of time and still more testing needed; ignore the Iron Will gem, it should be Increased Critical Damage, but I had no 6L with the right colors on hand, and didn't want to spend hundreds of chromes on this particular chest). Another build I'm trying out in HC right now is Lighty's Bladeful totem build (here). It does superb damage with very low requirements (but scales well with great gear, too). You may not be able to run Clarity/HoA/Hatred together, at first, but Clarity + either HoA or Hatred will work just fine. My Bladefall gem was only at level 11 when I started mapping with the build, and damage was good. Overall I like Freezing Pulse totems better for the extra safety they provide (everything's frozen and shatters, no corpse explosions, no resurrections), and it has minions (which I think could be done with lighty's build too: just grab one minion HP regeneration node and swap one CWDT setup for zombies/minion life/minion-totem-resists + either golem or raise spectre, but it's less effective since monsters aren't frozen). |
