Notes from Turmoil lvl 100 (#3 Raider)

OP, thanks for sharing! :-D

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WayTooFrosty wrote:

- Currency accrues pretty quickly when mapping aggressively

Indeed. If you're always 4x chiseling then alching your end-game maps, the nice drops are much more frequent.

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WayTooFrosty wrote:

- Bloodlines, Breach, and Beyond seemed to give the best xp/hr

Towards the end I'd skip Breach due to buggy invisible-mobs-hit-you-beyond-edges, since losing 10% xp is brutal at that point. Bloodlines and beyond are two of my favorites for XP grinding. For the third I normally threw in Warband too.

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WayTooFrosty wrote:

- You do not have to clear maps completely (leave packs that would require back tracking)

Yup. To grind XP I just clear larger groups along the way to the boss.

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WayTooFrosty wrote:

- Should have made or found a better loot filter (though Neversink’s Uber strict worked)

Running popular, pre-made loot filters is hyped too much. Using your own is fine provided you keep it updated with every new release that adds items. For newbies I always recommend Neversink's but for those who know the game well, it's overkill. I for one don't need a million different colors and sizes of items popping up. I just need the good stuff bigger with sounds, the decent stuff visible, and trash completely hidden. When I run through maps to grind, I don't care about recipe bases and all of that crap. When I'm playing to relax, I switch to my other filter I made which shows a little more.

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WayTooFrosty wrote:

- Should have figured out a long music playlist before starting

LOL! Yeah, I used to play MMOs and ARPGs with my own music, but sort of gave up on it after years of doing that. Too much work to keep it fresh and entertaining.

Always like to read things like this...

Congrats on 100, well done.

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G0rr wrote:

Always like to read things like this...

Congrats on 100, well done.

Me too, I find them helpful. Thanks!

Would be nice if there was a compendium of them to go back and browse.

Hardcore?

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kogle6 wrote:

Hardcore?

Nope. In hc you have 1 life/1 death only :) Oh man, how many chars i lost in HC Legacy, and HC Turmoil.... meh.

Congrats OP, 100 is nice number, for me yet to reach :) in 3.0+ maybe

This was my first 100, and my first real race. Not sure I'll do either again!

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- Learned how useful 3rd-party programs/sites are (e.g., poe-racing.com, trade macros)

umm are trade macros even allowed? Would be very careful using such things (unless you mean the pricecheck one, that one almost always only find the scammer price anyway :P )

Any tips on maintaining map pools? Every league I end up stopping because I keep running out of maps and I cant afford upgrades because im sinking all my currency into maps.

How I normally do it..

whites - Orb of Transmutation and go
low yellow - Alch and go.
high yellow - alch, roll packsize.
red - alch, roll high packsize.

anything you see that I should change?

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blitzballer2201 wrote:

Any tips on maintaining map pools? Every league I end up stopping because I keep running out of maps and I cant afford upgrades because im sinking all my currency into maps.

How I normally do it..

whites - Orb of Transmutation and go
low yellow - Alch and go.
high yellow - alch, roll packsize.
red - alch, roll high packsize.

anything you see that I should change?

I think how your atlas is shaped is the most important factor. The easiest way I have found to sustain is to unlock everything T9 and lower, including
all unique maps. I shaped Dunes and Strands. I would only alc Dunes and Strands and roll to avoid map mods I couldn't run (e.g., ele reflect).

Generally trading is important to supplement the map pool. I would trade, including currency, for chaos and buy dunes/strands in bulk when I started running low. Pretty easy to do this if you aren't blowing currency on other things.