Mutated Growth, Cobalt Jewel

Bonus XP items aren't worth anything unless you are getting carried just map faster and more safely

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adghar wrote:

You can comfortably clear any content the game has to offer with a character at Level 90.

Oh, believe me, it is far from truth.
In my age, i have lost all reflex velocity and i couldn't kill the shaper using my first character (92 level) - i could just decrease the shaper's health down to 70%
Using my current char (91 level) (the second char) i reached 50% of life of the shaper.
Alone possibility is to level up to 100 and accumulate big amount of exalted orbs to buy super expensive watcher's eye for 60 exa to increase energy shield that can help me to survive against the shaper.

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mark1030 wrote:

Well what do you expect? They aren’t just going to give you an easy way to get bonus experience. Your price is using items that take the slots of the better items you want to use.

"Well what do you expect?"

I didn't expect anything - i know that i should play POE until Poe stops give me enjoyment

I know that there is a build (cyclone) that has 2 millions of DPS (instead my 50k) and it's quite easy to kill the shaper but i don't wanna use it coz this cyclone build is boring for me so i try to kill the shaper using my own build until i lose interest to it

"Well what do you expect?"

I didn't expect anything - I have no any complaint... POE is the best game nonetheless

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Staglaitor_ wrote:

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adghar wrote:

You can comfortably clear any content the game has to offer with a character at Level 90.

Oh, believe me, it is far from truth.
In my age, i have lost all reflex velocity and i couldn't kill the shaper using my first character (92 level) - i could just decrease the shaper's health down to 70%
Using my current char (91 level) (the second char) i reached 50% of life of the shaper.
Alone possibility is to level up to 100 and accumulate big amount of exalted orbs to buy super expensive watcher's eye for 60 exa to increase energy shield that can help me to survive against the shaper.

Believe us some extra levels won´t help you much.
Changing some of your gems connected with Essence Drain would help you a lot though.
You want to scale DoT part of the skill´s damage but the gems such as Faster Projectile or Faster Casting just boost initial hit (not the bigger DOT part).
Btw getting Melding and putting Energy from Within to the socket nearby would be more efficient.
I would also prefer more damage -- sometimes more DPS = more survivability bcos longer fight let you make more mistakes.
Path of building would help with better pathing.
HF:)

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Rakiii wrote:

Believe us some extra levels won´t help you much.
Changing some of your gems connected with Essence Drain would help you a lot though.
You want to scale DoT part of the skill´s damage but the gems such as Faster Projectile or Faster Casting just boost initial hit (not the bigger DOT part).
Btw getting Melding and putting Energy from Within to the socket nearby would be more efficient.
I would also prefer more damage -- sometimes more DPS = more survivability bcos longer fight let you make more mistakes.
Path of building would help with better pathing.
HF:)

Thanks to your help

"Believe us some extra levels won´t help you much."

You are not attentive - i talked about money accumulating to buy more effective gears in aspect of survivability and DPS and about leveling. This two things should work together. Money and leveling.

"Believe us some extra levels won´t help you much."

If i will kill the shaper using your help it would be the best but you should understand that the player before you have said that it is comfortable to "kill the shaper" having just 90 level. This means that i should have possibility being as a full newbie - having just my fist character - and not addressing for help from POE experts like you COULD kill the shhaper easily.

It is not possible to assert such thing coz i couldn't kill the shaper even with help from many POE experts like you.

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adghar wrote:

You can comfortably clear any content the game has to offer with a character at Level 90.

This means that a newbie player can kill the shaper comfortable on its own having 90 level of the char without massive help from POE-experts. It is not the truth. I exerted myself tremendously to kill the shaper using POE expert's help and already play with the second char and nonetheless i couldn't kill the shaper.

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adghar wrote:

You can comfortably clear any content the game has to offer with a character at Level 90.

It can't be the truth.

"Btw getting Melding and putting Energy from Within to the socket nearby would be more efficient."

Unfortunately i couldn't translate this thought.

"Changing some of your gems connected with Essence Drain would help you a lot though."

Can you propose at least one such gem. Thanks.

You're spending a lot of time and words trying to outline why something should be that isn't.

The best way to beat shaper isn't finding a way to accrue more wealth and levels at 90, it's to learn how to beat shaper.

Look at the forums for guides to shadow (trickster) and witch (occultist), to look for some of the more popular essence drain builds. Look at the gems they use, and read the descriptions of how to use them.

Volley is not needed with essence drain. Faster Projectiles is not needed with essence drain.


There are quite a number of problems with your gem setup, which are easily fixed, but are also readily described in a number of already existing guides.

Once you've done that, you should also go and watch some videos of people killing shaper if you don't want to spend the time accruing currency and resources to practice yourself, which I understand.

Most importantly: You could be granted the best gear in the game and level 100 today, and you still won't kill shaper if you don't improve your understanding of the game.

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Pathological wrote:

You're spending a lot of time and words trying to outline why something should be that isn't.

The best way to beat shaper isn't finding a way to accrue more wealth and levels at 90, it's to learn how to beat shaper.

Look at the forums for guides to shadow (trickster) and witch (occultist), to look for some of the more popular essence drain builds. Look at the gems they use, and read the descriptions of how to use them.

Volley is not needed with essence drain. Faster Projectiles is not needed with essence drain.


There are quite a number of problems with your gem setup, which are easily fixed, but are also readily described in a number of already existing guides.

Once you've done that, you should also go and watch some videos of people killing shaper if you don't want to spend the time accruing currency and resources to practice yourself, which I understand.

Most importantly: You could be granted the best gear in the game and level 100 today, and you still won't kill shaper if you don't improve your understanding of the game.

Thanks to your reply

I remove volley when i go against the shaper.....

Unfortunately i reject all your thoughts coz i know all this information, coz i discussed the shaper many times, coz i remaked my build many times, coz i thought of the shaper many times, coz i tried to kill the shaper 25 times during 3 months among grinding and trading

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Staglaitor_ wrote:

Unfortunately i reject all your thoughts coz i know all this information, coz i discussed the shaper many times, coz i remaked my build many times, coz i thought of the shaper many times, coz i tried to kill the shaper 25 times during 3 months among grinding and trading

I realise that English isn't your first language so I'm going to assume that you don't intend for what you say to come out as hostile as it does, however I hope you can be dissuaded from thinking that getting more levels is a magic bullet for beating shaper.

Assuming you actually fix your tree and gems now to be efficient, getting the extra 10 levels would leave you with a very small amount of extra damage or survivability; somewhere in the realm of 5-10% total. It's not unreasonable to get a couple more levels, but it starts getting really grindy in the mid 90s, and somewhere around 97-98 is only halfway to 100 in total (that is to say, it takes as long to get from 1-98 as it does to get 98-100).

There are of course improvements to be made to gear, but your gear is already extremely good, and definitely much better than the vast majority of people who kill shaper in temporary leagues.

Anyway, to answer your original question, the answer is no - there is no real way to dramatically increase your leveling speed (besides getting much better at the game, realistically). You can build characters that level dramatically faster with appropriate supports, but essence drain is the opposite; it is very lackluster in group settings.

As disheartening as it might be to hear it, the best thing you can do to kill shaper is reread guides, follow them properly, and keep triyng. Get a few levels under your belt, get some better gear, but know that neither of those things will have anything like the impact as actually increasing your knowledge. You say you have read and engaged on shaper, but I doubt you are actually taking it in if you're struggling as hard as you say you are with the character you have.

Well maybe you shouldn’t be rejecting advice because some people can do him just fine with not great gear by knowing the mechanics of the fight.

This guy did uber elder at level 36 so obviously level 100 is 64 levels of overkill: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/ajziy8/level_36_deathless_uber_elder_kill/

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Pathological wrote:

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Thanks to your reply but i know all this information. During last 3 months i have developed super stategy to kill the shaper. And reached 50% of the shaper health playing the second character instead of 25% playing the first character. Alone reason why i can't kill the shaper is my age - 45 years old - as i said many time in this forum. Reflexes are slow. My build have no significant mistakes and my stategy is perfect!!!!!

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mark1030 wrote:

Well maybe you shouldn’t be rejecting advice because some people can do him just fine with not great gear by knowing the mechanics of the fight.

This guy did uber elder at level 36 so obviously level 100 is 64 levels of overkill: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/ajziy8/level_36_deathless_uber_elder_kill/

"This guy did uber elder at level 36 so obviously level 100 is 64 levels of overkill:"

As i said: - "My build have no significant mistakes and my stategy is perfect!!!!!"
It absolutely doesn't matter that some young person (that has good reflexes regurds to its age) has killed uber elder at 36th level. This game is intended - for the most part - for young people. When i was just 30 years old instead of 45 then i also was very quick and very energetic!
If GGG wants to earn more money then they should adapt POE to adults or even for the aged people.

My build has no significant mistakes and my stategy is perfect!!!!!....