Question on reaching resistance cap

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yuriWasRight wrote:

Luckily enough I ran some T3s this morning and was able to get my resists to around 60% (35ish for chaos) so it's a slight improvement.

Don't worry much about chaos resistance to begin with. It's more of a stretch goal to max out one's chaos resistance, and many builds don't even bother. You'll find that at max chaos resistance most chaos damage (apart from a few endgame encounters) is a joke, as the game is balanced around players having low or even negative chaos resistance. Focus on getting your elemental resists up to max more, as those are expected to be maxed by the time you start mapping. If that means losing a bit of your chaos resistance, so be it. 75% elemental resist is treated by the game as a baseline, but not so for chaos resistance.

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Exile009 wrote:

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yuriWasRight wrote:

Luckily enough I ran some T3s this morning and was able to get my resists to around 60% (35ish for chaos) so it's a slight improvement.

Don't worry much about chaos resistance to begin with. It's more of a stretch goal to max out one's chaos resistance, and many builds don't even bother. You'll find that at max chaos resistance most chaos damage (apart from a few endgame encounters) is a joke, as the game is balanced around players having low or even negative chaos resistance. Focus on getting your elemental resists up to max more, as those are expected to be maxed by the time you start mapping. If that means losing a bit of your chaos resistance, so be it. 75% elemental resist is treated by the game as a baseline, but not so for chaos resistance.

Oh that actually makes a lot of sense. A few rings I found would have given me more resists but I was hesitant to let my current chaos resist go. Maybe I can still find those in the stash somewhere.

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Exile009 wrote:

You'll find that at max chaos resistance most chaos damage (apart from a few endgame encounters) is a joke, as the game is balanced around players having low or even negative chaos resistance. Focus on getting your elemental resists up to max more, as those are expected to be maxed by the time you start mapping. If that means losing a bit of your chaos resistance, so be it. 75% elemental resist is treated by the game as a baseline, but not so for chaos resistance.

It used to be that way but chaos resistance has become more important in the current meta and I would aim higher.

yuriWasRight Having all flasks life (white) is a typical mistake.

Usually 1-2 life flask is enough and the rest should be some utility flasks.
Ÿou can also craft your flasks (just using some basic currency on them -- orb of transmutation, alteration and augmentation) and add one prefix and one suffix on them.

Check some utility flasks:
https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/Flask?so=search#Utility_Flasks

You want at least Quicksilver Flask to move faster and maybe Jade flask to improve your evasion.
You can have some useful mods on them that will help you to remove bleed, freeze and other negative buffs ...

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Rakiii wrote:

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Exile009 wrote:

You'll find that at max chaos resistance most chaos damage (apart from a few endgame encounters) is a joke, as the game is balanced around players having low or even negative chaos resistance. Focus on getting your elemental resists up to max more, as those are expected to be maxed by the time you start mapping. If that means losing a bit of your chaos resistance, so be it. 75% elemental resist is treated by the game as a baseline, but not so for chaos resistance.

It used to be that way but chaos resistance has become more important in the current meta and I would aim higher.

For a good build, yes. For a beginner, I'd argue him getting his elemental resists maxed out should take priority, even if it means losing some chaos res. Keep in mind that chaos res also takes a suffix slot, of which there are only 3 - and there's 3 ele resists to cap out. Sure it can be done but I wished to keep things simple and cheap for him. I'd rather he focus on getting more life on his gear and upgrading his weapon than chasing after chaos resistance. Pretty sure he'll die more often because of just not having enough HP or taking too long to take down a boss than he would cos he was lacking in chaos res, even today.

Agree on the flasks. In fact I can't recall the last time I had more than 1 life flask lol. Usually a Divine life flask. And yeah, flasks are craftable. Also be sure to apply Glassblowers Baubles to them BEFORE transmuting them as quality currency has greater strength on white items than it does on magic or rare items (plain / white items get 5% quality per bauble / armourers scrap / blacksmiths whetstone / cartographers chisel, magic / blue items get only 2%, rares / yellow as well as uniques / orange get 1% - with a normal max of 20%)

You can see all the possible modifiers you can roll on them, as well as their weightings and the required item level to roll them here - https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Flask#Flask_modifiers

You can also automate their usage to save your wrists using Instilling Orbs, or make them stronger but less frequent using Enkindling Orbs. The former can also be done via the crafting bench if you don't want to gamble on getting the condition you want.

Oh, and if you haven't heard of 'item level' before, it basically governs what mods can roll on items when crafting them, as well as how many sockets that item can possibly have. Here's the page on it - https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Item_level

Be sure not to throw away all your currency on an item that can't even get the mods or sockets you're after. That can be a painfully expensive lesson lol.

First off, Happy Holidays and welcome to PoE!

Exile009 is definitely one of the better peeps to listen to for advice.

One thing I noticed is the movement speed you have crafted on your current boots.....raises a question in my mind. Do you realize that there is a crafting bench recipe for the tier 3 movement speed craft next to Helena in the NW corner of Oriath? That can be helpful when looking for cheap(ish) boots with tri-res and life. (Movement speed is a prefix.)

Hey guys, figured I'd check in on this again. I made some great progress. Managed to ascend fully and hit level 90. I can run all maps too. Thanks all for the advice.

@Rakiii

I'm actually working on my third utility flask right now. I'm debating on a quicksilver flask but since I already have 70+ MS it's not too high on the priority list. My passive tree also gives me some protection against the ailments you mentioned

@Exile009

Managed to get some better(ish) gear per your suggestion but it's still a work-in-progress. Also maxed out all 3 res. I am also working on automating my flasks.

Yes I have heard of item level. Basically at this point my next goal is finding a 6 link bow so I can stop using my tabula. I'm still working some things out but I'm very pleased I can play all maps now (albeit cautiously)

@Bjorn

Thank you for the tip on the MS crafting, I probably missed it. I'll grab it ASAP.

You can trade level 20 gem with 1 GCP to any vendor for level 1 but 20% quality gem
Although for Caustic arrow I would use just GCP to improve quality (if you can afford though)

small tip: You can level gems on alternative slot (swap) --- any six gems (usually gems you need such Caustic Arrow in your case or gems you can sell to other players for profit).

I am sure you can get nice boots with movement speed, life and some resistances very cheap.

Quality your white life flasks and craft them with mods (use orb of alteration, augmentation and transumation) till you hit some decent mods (usually remove bleeding, curse and such).