Tips for a non-minmaxer casual?
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Hi, guys. I have played Poe on and off for many years now, but don't be fooled by the age of my account, because I'm a total newb. Reason being that I'm not really interested in learning all the fine details of the game and min-maxing everything. I barely read guides or the wiki, and normally I just prefer to play and do random stuff, discover interactions, stuff like that. Needless to say, the result is that my characters are VERY suboptimal.
That being said, I'm really curious about which things I'm doing that are REALLY bad and could be improved on. I have currently a Necro on SSF and if you guys could take a look at it and give me some pointers that would be great (I think you can see it by entering my profile?). I was told people on the official forums are nicer and more helpful than on reddit/steam, so that's why I'm coming here. Thanks everyone and have a nice evening! EDIT: I have just switched to Queen's Decree and that's why my Cold res is tanked. When I log on again I will try to fix that Last edited by btonasse#0859 on Sep 18, 2019, 11:47:34 AM Last bumped on Sep 18, 2019, 12:35:24 PM
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I will strike my reply as I have no knowledge of specters or animate guardian.
Sorry I will wear your ghost and you will die twice, against me and for me. That is some cold blooded shit to say... Last edited by GrunkleBob#2230 on Sep 18, 2019, 10:56:08 AM
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" Done :) |
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I haven't made a Necromancer yet so i can't go very indepth on that but the first thing striking me as i look at your char in POB is that your Cold and Lightning resists aren't capped. That's definetely something you should fix, you aren't missing much but there is still quite a damage difference between 60% and 75% resists.
Your HP is decent overall with 4k life and 2k ES but could surely be improved with better gear. The liferolls on your gear are rather low at times or in case of 1 ring, there aren't any liferolls to begin with. With some grinding you should be able to find better stuff, even in SSF. Tree looks ok as well, i am not sure if the life cluster near the Scion starting Position was a good idea overall, getting the Cruel Preparation and Written in Blood Clusters would have given you similar life but with added all res and ES bonuses and with less traveling. But that's really optimizing and not a big mistake. So yeah, aside from the resists, nothing i can find in terms of bad mistakes. Just stuff to optimize. |
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" Thanks for the tip. The uncapped res you've seen is because I have just found Queen's Decree and I'm currently tinkering with it. I will fix the cold res when I log back on :) EDIT: LOl I just realized I quoted myself Last edited by btonasse#0859 on Sep 18, 2019, 12:40:46 PM
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Hi and welcome here.
Your character seems decent at first look. There´s nothing too bad. You can make some improvements here or there though. Nimbleness passive cluster does nothing for you. Minions don´t profit from your passive tree unless specifically stated for "minion". Minions should be tanky enough so Decay ward seems a bit of luxury but nothing too bad. You would invest these six points to smth else. I think you should drop Mind over Matter. It might give you an extra "life pool" but you can´t have any aura and you need to invest to mana nodes (or take Eldritch battery + ES) which you didn´t. You might take an extra damage aura(s) for your army. i.e. Anger. You have many different minion gems but they will do only a little damage without proper links / investment I mean Animate Guardian will probably die too easy without links. You can put him together with Carrion golem and some defensive gems - meat shield / minion life (fortify) You can try flame dash linked with faster casting as movement skill instead of Frost Blink Use your crafting bench to add stats you need (Life on Eagle Circle ring) Your minions could profit from Elemental Equilibrium buff. You should trigger it with different element that use your Spectres (auras) i.e. Solar Guard + Anger aura --- you can boost their damage by triggering EE with lightning damage (Arc is fine) Lvl 1 ball lightning + Curse on hit + Curse (damage or defensive) + GMP eventually will work perfectly. Last edited by Rakiii#5559 on Sep 18, 2019, 12:00:39 PM
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" Solid advice all around. Thanks a lot! I have indeed been using Solar Guards. Hadn't thought about elemental equilibrium. I'm just worried because usually my spectres snipe things way before I can hit them with my spell, so in the end EE might work against me? |
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Minions can´t trigger EE so no problem here:)
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" Nice! Time to spend some more of those respec points :D |
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