Well, there are still two weeks to play my main before new league alt-itis.
Because it's my first char on the account, I don't have any good currency to buy the good uniques, yet, only about 19c. Any tips on what I should do next to either farm currency or improve my gear would be appreciated.
Guide:
https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/poi...
PoE Planner Export
https://poeplanner.com/b/D3C
It's the only public character on PS4, account Mixolyde, if you want to import yourself.
Thank you for looking!
Jumped back into PoE with the new league. I’m running an Righteous Fire Juggernaut, which I went with based mostly on how much material supporting/explaining the build is out there. Finally got Righteous Fire online and have to say it fits my old-man click-challenged play style pretty nicely.
Jumped back into PoE with the new league. I’m running an Righteous Fire Juggernaut, which I went with based mostly on how much material supporting/explaining the build is out there. Finally got Righteous Fire online and have to say it fits my old-man click-challenged play style pretty nicely.
I have heard that it's the perfect build for that. I think I am going to try one of the many minion army builds when the new league hits console in 4 days.
BTW, the PoE Vault Discord server is very newbie friendly and helpful.
Started a toxic rain ranger yesterday, haven’t hit the league endgame stuff yet but the weapon skill trees are pretty cool and hopefully becomes a permanent fixture.
I'm messing around with Spark and Firewall, and some skellies although later on I'll probably change to the screaming skulls. (When projectiles pass through a fire wall, they gain fire damage, then you can have modifiers that split them, add cold and poison and chaos... See where that goes? Ferret taught me that build.)
SRS seems to be a very popular league start build. There are a couple flavors of it.
Doing a poison SRS build. Haven't switched over yet so I guess it's just SRS for now but it seems to be the build I always gravitate towards.
Jumped back into PoE with the new league. I’m running an Righteous Fire Juggernaut, which I went with based mostly on how much material supporting/explaining the build is out there. Finally got Righteous Fire online and have to say it fits my old-man click-challenged play style pretty nicely.
Check this out for a 6 hour video of acts 1 - 10 as RF Jugg.
Clumber wrote:Jumped back into PoE with the new league. I’m running an Righteous Fire Juggernaut, which I went with based mostly on how much material supporting/explaining the build is out there. Finally got Righteous Fire online and have to say it fits my old-man click-challenged play style pretty nicely.
Check this out for a 6 hour video of acts 1 - 10 as RF Jugg.
Already have, that and all the other great stuff on pohx.net is what I meant when I talked about the supporting material for the build.
anyone know what a voidkey is for? my loot filter makes it seem very important if not valuable
A Voidborn Reliquary key? Sell it. It opens an area with a chest containing a fancy item that Whales want to get their hands on before anyone else. A few days ago they were going for 2.5 Divines.
But what's in the mystery box?
Clumber wrote:Jumped back into PoE with the new league. I’m running an Righteous Fire Juggernaut, which I went with based mostly on how much material supporting/explaining the build is out there. Finally got Righteous Fire online and have to say it fits my old-man click-challenged play style pretty nicely.
Check this out for a 6 hour video of acts 1 - 10 as RF Jugg.
Started playing this regularly after D4 beta ended, bounced off it multiple times before as it felt way overwhelming. First character that stuck was a Marauder just taking every 2h weapon dmg boost I could find in the tree.
Started working on RF build now that I have slightly better idea how things work, and just got RF online last night at lvl 25. Tried getting in going prior to that but would constantly be draining health despite being capped on Fire Res, had to get the Recovery Mastery 50hp regen to stop that from happening.
It's so great the first time you even partway make use of the synergies and begin to understand what makes a decent character. Suddenly the game is an intriguing puzzle, rather than a terrifying black box. 
the new tree structure makes RF MUCH more friendly than before. I've tried it before myself and could never reliably get it online and have survivability. This time around it's a beast.
Thinking of getting back into this.
What was the tool to plan out what you want? (Assuming the skill-up tree hasn't gotten any simpler.)
Path of Building. But you can look at the PoE section of Icy Veins (or many other similar sites) to find builds laid out and categorized as to expense, ease of use, type of endgame, etc. So you don't have to do it on your own.
POE Vault also has some very nice build guides updated for 3.21 and a great Discord community that helps players.
I couldn't think of that name while I was posting, but Mix is absolutely correct.
Also, you can use the poeplanner website, and import pob builds from pobb.in into it, if you want to avoid installing something.
I finally made it out of Act 2, and have made it as far as Act 4. Managed to complete the first Labyrinth thing and get my Ascendancy (Elementalist Witch).... and boy howdy do I not really know what I'm doing. So far, this hasn't been a big challenge (though the Azureite Mine crawler thing... well, I clearly don't have the survivability to handle that with what I'm running).
I'm playing SSF for now, and it does feel like I've gotten more legendary drops (though I've had it drop the SAME giant 2h axe within 10 min of running through an area... which was weird).
It really is amazing how much content there is for free!
I doubt I'll persist with a lot of endgame type activity (sometimes the number chase wears thin), but I do think I'll make it through the rest of the campaign, at least.
So I have this installed on my PC and my XBox.
Given the complexity and the sheer amount of loot that drops, would playing it on my XBox be unnecessarily complicating things for me?
I mostly play on PC, but I play on PS5 a bit with a friend of mine who doesn't have a gaming PC.
I honestly can't recommend the console experience if PC is an option: the UI just wasn't built for controllers: dealing with large amounts of items will be a form of torture, it is difficult to use more than a few skills actively (since any past 4 will have to have a modifier key to access), and some skills don't work very well without a mouse cursor to aim with (console doesn't provide a cursor, it just aims things at nearest enemy / where you're facing depending on the skill.)
Tyrian, SSF is intended to be more challenging than the usual League play, since you can't squirrel away useful gear that you find for another character type. This especially applies to currency and Epic items. I'd advise playing the vanilla League setting in the future, rather than SSF, Hardcore or Ruthless. At least until you have a good feel for the game.
It is without a doubt the richest, most content full ARPG in existence, and yes, it's all free. Pay for extra storage (you don't need much, the vast majority of what you find can be burned into currency) and for cosmetic effects, if you are moved by enjoyment to support the devs. But its not at all necessary, making this an awesome choice for people on a budget. I'm about 1300 hours in and just beginning to feel really comfortable with character building. Before that, I spent a few years playing without even looking at a build and even got to the endgame before the characters failed. But when I finally started digging into builds in order to understand them, my enjoyment went way up. The fact that you've gotten this far with your first character shows that you are doing very well.
Most of the folks here have supported me at various times, answering questions and the like. We also have a guild, and there is a guild bank which is used sometimes, and sometimes not, but that lets people share their spare gear with others without having to hit the marketplace (which is external to the game). If you would like to get into the guild, send me the character name of one of your characters and the League its in, and I will send you a guild invite. We are small but mighty! (Well... Really we are just small... But we're nice!)
Tyrian, SSF is intended to be more challenging than the usual League play, since you can't squirrel away useful gear that you find for another character type. This especially applies to currency and Epic items. I'd advise playing the vanilla League setting in the future, rather than SSF, Hardcore or Ruthless. At least until you have a good feel for the game.
Since the trade system/marketplace seems to mostly take place outside the game, I have turned off chat, and decided I'd go solo-self found just for the heck of it. I don't mind a challenge. I found a recommended build-path for the skill / spell I mostly use, and It's been fine so far. I can apparently convert to regular league with this character at any time, so I guess it's possible to abandon it if I want to.
It is without a doubt the richest, most content full ARPG in existence, and yes, it's all free. Pay for extra storage (you don't need much, the vast majority of what you find can be burned into currency) and for cosmetic effects, if you are moved by enjoyment to support the devs. But its not at all necessary, making this an awesome choice for people on a budget. I'm about 1300 hours in and just beginning to feel really comfortable with character building. Before that, I spent a few years playing without even looking at a build and even got to the endgame before the characters failed. But when I finally started digging into builds in order to understand them, my enjoyment went way up. The fact that you've gotten this far with your first character shows that you are doing very well.
Well, it's not like I haven't died a bunch. The penalty for doing so is fairly minimal (so far?), and some of the fights were slogs (sooooo manyyy things in that Act3 encounter).
My thing about builds is that I tend to shy away from needing multiple activating skills to succeed. I like being as close to 1 button, or maybe 2-3 if absolutely necessary. Give me lots of passive effects, and i'm a lot happier!
Most of the folks here have supported me at various times, answering questions and the like. We also have a guild, and there is a guild bank which is used sometimes, and sometimes not, but that lets people share their spare gear with others without having to hit the marketplace (which is external to the game). If you would like to get into the guild, send me the character name of one of your characters and the League its in, and I will send you a guild invite. We are small but mighty! (Well... Really we are just small... But we're nice!)
Do I have to drop SSF to join the guild? I didn't think so, but wasn't sure.
Lyranna - 45 Elementalist - SSF Crucible League is where I am right now.
Just killed Kitava, made it through all ten acts with relatively few deaths so am pretty happy with the RF juggernaut build. Definitely a low stress build. As a bonus, I just did a bestiary mission to craft a chest piece and a tabula rasa dropped.
Tyrian, it's the League that matters, I think, not the sub-type. But I can always start a character. I'll check.
Edit - Invite sent.
I mostly play on PC, but I play on PS5 a bit with a friend of mine who doesn't have a gaming PC.
I honestly can't recommend the console experience if PC is an option: the UI just wasn't built for controllers: dealing with large amounts of items will be a form of torture, it is difficult to use more than a few skills actively (since any past 4 will have to have a modifier key to access), and some skills don't work very well without a mouse cursor to aim with (console doesn't provide a cursor, it just aims things at nearest enemy / where you're facing depending on the skill.)
I mostly play PS4 and sometimes Xbone because my PC is garbage, but I would largely echo Ferret. If a skill requires precise targeting to be most effective, you're gonna have a bad time. Corpse targeting for Raise Spectre is also annoying, but hopefully you don't have to do it often. Mapping skills to face buttons is a pain, but not something you should have to do often either. PoE is designed toward buffing up 2-4 main skills, and then maybe having some auras or something that are just left on after you set them. So once you get the face buttons and shoulders set how you like, it's not so bad. When staning over a large loot pile, use the right stick to move the pickup cursor between things on the ground. There are lots of little tricks like that to make the controller easier to use, but it takes a while to learn them. There are no GWJ guilds on console that I know of, and I am notoriously difficult to schedule with due to family and chores, and play rather slowly.
It's doable, and maybe worth it if you really prefer the couch experience, but not ideal.
Speaking of which, Crucible finally landed on console last night, and I started a Minion Witch in it and learned very quickly to not tackle the Crucible content in Mud Flats. Ouch.
A Voidborn Reliquary key? Sell it. It opens an area with a chest containing a fancy item that Whales want to get their hands on before anyone else. A few days ago they were going for 2.5 Divines.
ended up getting 70c for it
Speaking of which, Crucible finally landed on console last night, and I started a Minion Witch in it and learned very quickly to not tackle the Crucible content in Mud Flats. Ouch.
Oh good I'm not the only one! I remember saying "Let's take a look at this league mechanic" and quickly getting stomped into the ground.
Currently at 77 with my RF Jugg. He's a blast and super tanky. Not sure why in all my years of playing I never played a Jugg. Not sure I can go back now!
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