General Discussion - Since league is playable again, share your blighted maps stategy - Forum

" Miská wrote: " DemigodParadox wrote: Blight maps are a monumental dps check because the bears from physical portals are nearly unaffected by your chill towers, unaffected by your stun towers, ignore your minion towers, and ignore you or your minions standing in their way. Some of the unique monsters also ignore minion towers and anything else in their way. Portals also can and will spawn adjacent to the core with almost, or actually 0 travel distance. Now, minion portal monsters will also ignore minion towers as well. If you do have low dps (2 million shaper dps or less), you should try to have a few ice cage towers near the core and just try to upgrade every tower on your screen to whatever you think you need. Towers are very underwhelming though and your build is the only thing actually holding them back. The problem is still the portals that spawn right next to the pump. That requires you to sit on them till the end of the map and you wont be able to move to catch bosses etc. That is if you even get a chance to defend from a portal right next to the pump. The idea is pretty cool, but functionally it's terrible. EXACTLY. One Portal right next to the pump and you are screwed. And no, I just did one AFTER the patch, and they still spawn right next to the pump. They also need to highlight the pump on the map much, much, much bigger; because toward the end of the map so much is on the map its very hard to see where the pump is. Blight maps are a great idea, but very poorly executed. Last edited by Menysk#7455 on Sep 18, 2019, 11:29:28 PM	Posted by Menysk#7455 on Sep 18, 2019, 11:12:55 PM Quote this Post
My strategy for blight maps is still the same, don't run it, since i can't run what never dropped anyway...	Posted by SaintLucifer#5963 on Sep 18, 2019, 11:57:13 PM Quote this Post
>league is playable again Hi from the dilapidated Texas server which is once again a rubberband fest.	Posted by DiabloImmoral#7632 on Sep 19, 2019, 12:10:09 AM Quote this Post
my goal for the league is done and I believe you should run them if you have them.. my advise is pick map mods wisely unlike your normal mapping cycle. "Parade your victories, hide your defeats. Mortals are so insecure." Once you break the cycle of fear no angels or demons can whisper you their sweet nothing words. poe0.2/10. Nuff said. Last edited by Xystre#4581 on Sep 19, 2019, 12:12:30 AM	Posted by Xystre#4581 on Sep 19, 2019, 12:10:19 AM Quote this Post
" DiabloImmoral wrote: >league is playable again Hi from the dilapidated Texas server which is once again a rubberband fest. I play on the Texas server and haven't had any problems. It's likely either your connection or some craptastic server your connection is being routed through. You should try the stuff posted here https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/361292	Posted by beaniac#7060 on Sep 19, 2019, 12:44:33 AM Quote this Post
Use 3 Amber Oils for -60% Tower Cost. Spam Meteor and Temporal Towers. Worked for me for now until T11. Will try a T13 Today. Cobra Lash btw :)	Posted by Roflhammer#1058 on Sep 19, 2019, 2:10:20 AM Quote this Post
3 maps - 3 fails so far.	Posted by MightyG_#4843 on Sep 19, 2019, 2:38:47 AM Quote this Post
" keepwalkingnothintoseehere wrote: Lvl 93 caustic arrow here. Huge dps, huge AOE. Tried 4 blighted maps before patch - all failed. Just tried t1 and t3 blighted - both failed. Absolutely ridiculous. ' not rly that huge if u cannot even kill t3. [3.9]Hasunic's Toxic Rain Trickster: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2712106 [3.7]Voidforge Flicker Strike Slayer: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2532214 [3.7]Oni-Goroshi Fire Vaal Reave Zerker: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2583978	Posted by Hasunic#5732 on Sep 19, 2019, 3:01:41 AM Quote this Post
" Roflhammer wrote: Use 3 Amber Oils for -60% Tower Cost. Spam Meteor and Temporal Towers. Worked for me for now until T11. Will try a T13 Today. Cobra Lash btw :) omg you can use the same oil? /facepalm at least reading this thread was worth it :p even -30% mob speed would be really important. My strategy is fireball towers in all filler slots, Arc+ slow on major junctions and a damage amp empower wherever enough areas overlap. It works pretty well but as I was telling my friend who was struggling half the blight maps you get you are very heavily weighted to fail. If you get a close portal with no detour you are probably gonna fail, if you get the wrong uniques piling out of a close one you are probably gonna fail. Be interesting to see if their patch changes help at all but i'm definitely gonna try -60% cost towers!	Posted by Draegnarrr#2823 on Sep 19, 2019, 3:25:28 AM Quote this Post
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2642719 works for me so far. My tactic: - use 1 damage aura tower in center - meteor tower spam - a few minion and temporal towers - afk-park aurabot/summonbot near pump - don't roll or reroll defensive mods for enemies on map The aura's increase your (and minion) damage by ~425% while mob life is only increased by 50-100% (party penalty). The zombies, golem and animated guardian can fight bosses (if needed) and summons from towers seem to never die. Parking an aura/summoner near pump feels rather cheesy though. Last edited by silverdash#0964 on Sep 19, 2019, 3:31:25 AM	Posted by silverdash#0964 on Sep 19, 2019, 3:30:20 AM Quote this Post