Can anyone help me with 5ex on Standard?

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horusray wrote:

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

ya but the frendie is also a girl right, so $$$ its all ok doesnt have a penis give me your money and Ill talk to you which you wont get from internet porn.

WTBeg 6L shavs, I gave mine away, Ive played this game for 15 hours... whoever indulged this shit, shame on you.

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ThorWulf wrote:

Well, i have to say this was a good read.
Too bad you sold your 6l shav. If you won't be able to make the 5ex, then you can no longer offer your shav.
But then again you have skype, a crappy webcam and perhaps another way to make it up?
Reading between the lines was fun in this thread.
Keep it coming :D

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Ixoziel wrote:

Don't mean to be rude, but how exactly are you having problems mapping when you have a 6l shavs?

If the maps are that hard, maybe you should stop focusing on IR / IQ and get some stats that will help your minions.

Furthermore, mentioning that you're a girl constantly makes you look like a gold digger.

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JamieDawn wrote:

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horusray wrote:

Did you really take the time to make an image out of a screen in an indirect attempt to call attention to something that was already brought up quite a few pages ago and that I already addressed?

You really should read the thread before you try the whole "post an image by itself as a reply" thing. Just some friendly advice for you. If you wanted to try to join the rather small crowd of those posting negative replies, take a look at some of the other super witty critics in this thread and learn from them. You won't actually accomplish anything by doing it, but at least you'll be able to vent some of that pent up rage!

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tacotiklah wrote:

This thread has had me in stitches! xDDDD


OP, I'm a girl too so your feminine voodoo won't work on me. :P
(well then again it might because kappapride, so who knows? ;) )


What I CAN do for you though, is give you some good advice. I'll start off by reminding you of the old adage, reworked to be more fitting for this game: "Give an exile an exalt, gear them for a day. Teach an exile to farm exalts, they can fully gear their chars for the rest of their time spent playing PoE."

So with that in mind, here's how I have managed to get 14 exalts to drop this league, and gear up a cospri's discharger, a HOwA lightning striker, and several other characters in this league alone...

1.) Stop asking for loans, and stop asking people for currency. Most won't give it to you anyways, because while it's true that some are greedy tools, most are trying to get you to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.

2.) Stop trying to make MF characters. Honestly, they are the biggest noob trap ever. The only good thing they give you is stuff for the chaos recipe, which is in itself a noob trap. For less than an exalt, you can gear up a firestorm elementalist that can farm higher content at a faster pace, which yields more drops. Which of course, yields more currency. As a person that's tried the high IIR/IIQ route, it's a massive money sink into something that doesn't really pay for itself.

3.) The most obvious way to make money is to play. Don't sit in town, and don't sit in your hideout. MAP! Farm dried lake. If your character is strong enough and able to, charge people 2c each for cruel lab carries. By the time you're level 75-80, you should be able to comfortable carry a full party of people through lab in cruel difficulty. Doing this for a day, even with dummies that don't follow instructions and enter the boss room to get themselves 1shot, I was able to come up with about 100c. You can do A LOT with 100c for gearing your character.

4.) Shame you aren't in the current temp league, because breachstone rotas are the bee's knees for making currency. In your off hand (since you're an INT-based char), equip 2 wands with 3 blue sockets in each one. They don't need to be linked, just blue and 3 sockets each. Go to act 3 in merciless and buy 6 discipline gems. Put them in those wand sockets. Now switch back to you main setup and forget about those gems for a while. Just keep killing stuff. Level those discipline gems up to 20, then use vaal orbs on them. Usually 1-in-4 to 1-in-6 of them will vaal to 21/20. Sell them all for a nice profit. They cost you 6 chance orbs and you're making about 30c to an exalt off of it, just from doing nothing else but playing the game. In breachstone rotas, you're killing so much stuff so fast that you can level up gems very quickly. For 6c and 6 chance orbs, you're making a fast profit.

5.) Make a cheap uber lab farming character. Builds like ancestral warchief totem can be fully geared for uber lab for less than 10c. The divination cards and quality gems that drop from uber lab can make you a crap ton of money. Bring a nice hubris circlet with you when you do uber lab and and farm enchants on them as well. You can make money this way too.

6.) Roll diviner strongboxes when you come across them. Usually you wanna get something on it like "contains x additional items" and "+ x to chest level". I've actually gotten a 'the fiend' divination card (part of a set to get a headhunter) to drop this league. I had it listed for 9ex and sold it in about an hour for 8ex. (btw, haggling is okay and be willing to take less than what you list if you're low on cash)

7.) Wealth of knowledge = wealth of in-game currency. Live on the poe wiki and poeaffix.net websites. Learn prefixes and affixes of items. Know what items are worth money and what items are pure garbo to vendor. Learn what to pick up and what to not pick up while you farm. The more time you spend picking up garbage uniques that won't sell and garbage rares to vendor, the more time you're in town vendoring crap. The more time you spend in town vendoring, the less time you're farming and making actual currency drops and getting good stuff to drop.

And no, NONE of this cash I got was ever farmed with MF characters. It was purely constant mapping, doing map rotas (you can find them by opening the chat box in-game and typing /global820 ) and more. And keep in mind that I'm not in standard, I only play temp leagues. So if I can make five times as much as you're asking for a loan for in two months' time without an MF char, you can do that in standard without too much trouble too. Hell, in standard you have access to stuff that isn't even available in temp leagues that would make a char opieop for farming currency (like some talismans), so I don't get why you're struggling to make cash. The only thing stopping you from making your own cash is yourself.

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The_Reporter wrote:

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tacotiklah wrote:

This thread has had me in stitches! xDDDD


OP, I'm a girl too so your feminine voodoo won't work on me. :P
(well then again it might because kappapride, so who knows? ;) )


What I CAN do for you though, is give you some good advice. I'll start off by reminding you of the old adage, reworked to be more fitting for this game: "Give an exile an exalt, gear them for a day. Teach an exile to farm exalts, they can fully gear their chars for the rest of their time spent playing PoE."

So with that in mind, here's how I have managed to get 14 exalts to drop this league, and gear up a cospri's discharger, a HOwA lightning striker, and several other characters in this league alone...

1.) Stop asking for loans, and stop asking people for currency. Most won't give it to you anyways, because while it's true that some are greedy tools, most are trying to get you to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.

2.) Stop trying to make MF characters. Honestly, they are the biggest noob trap ever. The only good thing they give you is stuff for the chaos recipe, which is in itself a noob trap. For less than an exalt, you can gear up a firestorm elementalist that can farm higher content at a faster pace, which yields more drops. Which of course, yields more currency. As a person that's tried the high IIR/IIQ route, it's a massive money sink into something that doesn't really pay for itself.

3.) The most obvious way to make money is to play. Don't sit in town, and don't sit in your hideout. MAP! Farm dried lake. If your character is strong enough and able to, charge people 2c each for cruel lab carries. By the time you're level 75-80, you should be able to comfortable carry a full party of people through lab in cruel difficulty. Doing this for a day, even with dummies that don't follow instructions and enter the boss room to get themselves 1shot, I was able to come up with about 100c. You can do A LOT with 100c for gearing your character.

4.) Shame you aren't in the current temp league, because breachstone rotas are the bee's knees for making currency. In your off hand (since you're an INT-based char), equip 2 wands with 3 blue sockets in each one. They don't need to be linked, just blue and 3 sockets each. Go to act 3 in merciless and buy 6 discipline gems. Put them in those wand sockets. Now switch back to you main setup and forget about those gems for a while. Just keep killing stuff. Level those discipline gems up to 20, then use vaal orbs on them. Usually 1-in-4 to 1-in-6 of them will vaal to 21/20. Sell them all for a nice profit. They cost you 6 chance orbs and you're making about 30c to an exalt off of it, just from doing nothing else but playing the game. In breachstone rotas, you're killing so much stuff so fast that you can level up gems very quickly. For 6c and 6 chance orbs, you're making a fast profit.

5.) Make a cheap uber lab farming character. Builds like ancestral warchief totem can be fully geared for uber lab for less than 10c. The divination cards and quality gems that drop from uber lab can make you a crap ton of money. Bring a nice hubris circlet with you when you do uber lab and and farm enchants on them as well. You can make money this way too.

6.) Roll diviner strongboxes when you come across them. Usually you wanna get something on it like "contains x additional items" and "+ x to chest level". I've actually gotten a 'the fiend' divination card (part of a set to get a headhunter) to drop this league. I had it listed for 9ex and sold it in about an hour for 8ex. (btw, haggling is okay and be willing to take less than what you list if you're low on cash)

7.) Wealth of knowledge = wealth of in-game currency. Live on the poe wiki and poeaffix.net websites. Learn prefixes and affixes of items. Know what items are worth money and what items are pure garbo to vendor. Learn what to pick up and what to not pick up while you farm. The more time you spend picking up garbage uniques that won't sell and garbage rares to vendor, the more time you're in town vendoring crap. The more time you spend in town vendoring, the less time you're farming and making actual currency drops and getting good stuff to drop.

And no, NONE of this cash I got was ever farmed with MF characters. It was purely constant mapping, doing map rotas (you can find them by opening the chat box in-game and typing /global820 ) and more. And keep in mind that I'm not in standard, I only play temp leagues. So if I can make five times as much as you're asking for a loan for in two months' time without an MF char, you can do that in standard without too much trouble too. Hell, in standard you have access to stuff that isn't even available in temp leagues that would make a char opieop for farming currency (like some talismans), so I don't get why you're struggling to make cash. The only thing stopping you from making your own cash is yourself.

In short, make this 'game' your full time job.

Don't take this advice. Do as you're doing now. You'll have more fun and enjoy a more fulfilling existence <3