Being a mediocre player gets you nowhere in POE
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You don't need a level above 91 for anything and the rest is rng...
More than manual skills you need to know gear to be sure not to miss anything good for sale if it drops. By playing the game and instantly incoming loot you can buy a few good items. Let's say you drop 2-3ex through the league + some prophecies/uniques/rare items. Of course chaos recipe with Incursion provides lot of currency right now. Dodge with movement skills, hit and run and you'll manage to kill any boss in this game with semi-decent gear, even dying few times is fine. You have 5 portals, right? Dying in this game is easy, so I wouldn't care. It's like worrying that you die in Dark Souls, part of the game. No need for 6l or mirror-worth items as well level 95+ to clear whole content. Maybe except Hall of Grandmasters, but yeah... meta helps, but now with OP elder/shaped and special gear from the Incursion the regular rares should be cheap and with luck you can get yourself a 6l gloves or something. Last edited by Gosen#5296 on Jun 11, 2018, 5:49:03 PM
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" Lol OP has 15+ ex in gear already. Currency is not a problem for him obviously. His problem is an awful suicidal build that will get quad cursed and one shot by t5 white mobs. |
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" I finally bothered to look at the profile - given the gearing this early in league, that is a lot of currency spent - But that does explain a bit - focusing too much on certain aspects and having nothing left to address gaping holes. I'd much rather run a 5l with 20/20+ than a 6l soul mantle to build up more currency for later. Yep, totally over league play.
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Whether rmt or not doesn't really matter - its feasible for someone to liquidate currency and the like this far in.
I don't think rmt is really cheating either - I just personally think its silly to spend real money on fake goods, but that's more a gaming ethics decision from my experiences of the industry. But maybe I wasn't so clear, but what I was trying to point out that OP was focusing so heavily on the gear and not nearly enough on the content of said gear and how they interact with each other. I don't like soul mantle because I don't like running out of flask charges in extended fights (and running out of curse immunity). If atziri's reflection wasn't rarer than mirrors, I'd totally consider building around it and soul mantle. Hell, I didn't even realize the cons of having immunities in health/mana flasks for quite a while, since at the time I thought charges and more available uses were more important. Yep, totally over league play.
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" Interesting observation. And likely true for the most part. Of course, I wouldn't post a reply if I didn't have a "but". I have found particular success in my career by challenging just about everything, and always asking why. And yet in PoE I typically find myself opening a guide and following it rather than min/maxing on my own. Mind you I tend to adapt most builds to best fit the gear I acquire but I still like to let someone else do the synergistic planning. Isn't that strange? |
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I look at the guides for a few reasons. Given the age of the game and me lacking years of experience with said game - it doesn't make sense for me to try and reinvent the wheel.
But following a guide blindly tends to create players that lack any actual mechanical knowledge - ie do this because it prevents this, or don't do this because this bad stuff happens etc. The biggest revelation for me between abyss and beastiary was learning the difference between how increase/decrease and more/less interacted with damage. Yep, totally over league play.
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" just play a GC totem hierophant very item independent, can play extremely safe, clears maps decently fast, kills bosses super fast |
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" Mark disagrees. Alva: I'm sweating like a hog in heat
Shadow: That was fun |
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I'm mediocre at best. I just look at the game like it has s soft cap. For me that soft cap is low. It doesn't bother me though. The way I look at it, content in this game that I'll never play is no different than content in another game that I won't play at all. Out of thousands of games out there, I might play 0.01% of them. I only concern myself with the content that I do play, and ignore the other 99.99% of it.
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Well... initially I had some sympathy for the OP, but I didn't look at his gear before making my first post.
That's ah, some gear there. I don't tend to do all that well in the game, I get into the mid to upper 80's, I do White and Yellow maps and that's usually where I get stalled. But I do know why: I'm a casual player, who (foolishly) likes SSF play, hates following the herd, and likes designing my own builds. I'll play around with PoE-Planner, but Path of Building ... meh, I lose interested in min-maxing to that degree. So, my gear pretty much always sucks. I'm not running a "speed clear" meta build, and I'm pretty slow and careful usually when it comes to maps-per-hour. I'm also old, my reflexes ain't what they used to be. Not complaining mind you, just stating facts. I could play in the trade league, and follow the herd as far as build went, and probably do better. But I wouldn't have as much fun. 'A Balrog,' muttered Gandalf. 'Now I understand.' He faltered and leaned heavily on his staff. 'What an evil fortune! And I am already weary.'
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