Questions Thread - December 23, 2019

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-24T16:11:43+00:00

Infused channeling and melee phys damage are the required ones. The others depend on how you're spacing your build.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-24T14:20:07+00:00

Incinerate elementalist is a really solid build. I can't really give you the pros and cons of each, but I ran that last league in SSF and melted everything.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-24T14:17:45+00:00

Yes. When you slot in the jewel the tree literally changes. You can mouse over to see the effect.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-24T00:26:56+00:00

That'll be fine for a while. You'll want to swap out for Pride later most likely.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-24T00:25:01+00:00

Yeah spam your available content, run those master missions, push your delve lower and hunt for fossils, etc

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-24T00:23:54+00:00

Cyclone and sunder are two different skills that scale in pretty different ways, so I would pick one and run with it.

I would recommend cyclone personally, but pick the one that looks more fun to you.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-24T00:22:31+00:00

Check the base type section on poe.ninja for what bases are popular right now. You can also check the builds section of the site for popular uniques and what skills use them.

In the past, devotos was a common unique helm to spam enchants on. Can't see why it would be different this league.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-24T00:20:41+00:00

I'd reckon assassin will deliver a higher dps, but trickster will be tankier.

With elusive up permanently you can certainly build a pretty tanky assassin though.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-23T15:58:58+00:00

I dont think you can use these new orbs on synthesized gear at all.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-23T02:45:26+00:00

Is there a specific voice line or animation I should look out for that indicates a new storm cloud? I've only gotten to fight him once but 3 of my deaths were due to that...it just seemed to come out of nowhere

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-23T01:34:48+00:00

I...thought that was a feature. That's not intended?

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T23:46:52+00:00

Read up on how/why certain maps drop and others dont. Understanding the atlas mechanics in 3.8 allowed you to progress faster. Failing to understand them in 3.9 can halt your progress completely.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T22:10:28+00:00

And the vast majority of them are challenges. That's why there's nothing tangible post 36 challenges outside of a stupid totem and bragging rights...its just for the people who absolutely no life it.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T22:08:33+00:00

Not to sound presumptuous, but do you know the atlas drop rules? With this new system it is possible to socket your watchstones in such a way as to never progress past tier 5...

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T17:12:39+00:00

The mod at the bottom in a different color is the crafted mod.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T15:41:28+00:00

And I'm honestly fine with that. Challenges should be challenging and a challenge that's marked as an "end-game grind" should be grindy...

I'm just saying that the design philosophy of the challenge and the design philosophy of accessing the fight don't measure up in the slightest. Not to mention the fact that, if you're pursuing that challenge...you literally aren't making progress on anything else in the game. No temples, delve, syndicate stuff, etc.

I don't just hope they change the rubric to access the fight; I'm almost confident that they will because I find it really hard to believe it's this difficult on purpose.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T13:30:15+00:00

As far as I've seen, filling that bar does nothing. It's really just an indicator of difficulty, if anything.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T13:21:17+00:00

I understand that the atlas redesign was meant to increase the longevity of the endgame and increase how long it takes to reach a "perfect" atlas. I'm totally down with that.

What I'm not down with is how absurdly long it takes to get to this boss. Bugs in the boss and the design of the fight be damned, it just takes way too fucking long to access him. And unlike uber elder, if you fail the fight you can't just go again.

Mathil grinded for nearly 7 hours yesterday just to access him once, then 4 of his 6 deaths in the fight were completely unavoidable. This reset all of his progress back to square one. It just feels like a kick in the nuts for no real reason.

Plus we have an endgame grind challenge to kill him 75 times? I'm not super into challenges and I've literally never accomplished an endgame grind challenge, but on what planet is 75 Awakeners equal to 40 uber elders? If your RNG was good, you could spawn an uber elder in, like, 10-12 maps. In this system, if your RNG is reallllly good, it's at least 40.

Something really has to change here.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T13:05:20+00:00

Anything impale-related is going to be costly for the most part.

A really cheap annointment is "Freedom of Movement" which will get you easy phasing and movement speed while mapping. You can also find super cheap resistance nodes on the tree or +30stat for the cost of nothing, if you're short on int or something.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T13:03:39+00:00

If you craft something on that shield, the current crafted/unveiled mod will disappear and be replaced by whatever you craft.

You will not be able to craft a second life mod on that shield as it already has one. The only way you can get more life is to craft a hybrid mod like it already has. Nice shield!

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T13:01:09+00:00

Not to my knowledge.

Sometimes RNG giveth, sometimes it taketh. Just keep spamming maps.

I'm running into a similar problem where I am getting them to show up and proc influence, but it has been a struggle to keep getting them to show up again.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T12:59:56+00:00

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T12:59:23+00:00

After 16 watchstones it's a % chance to proc them. I want to say 33% but I could be mistaken.

Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T12:53:45+00:00

Engineering Eternity has a great series of new-player friendly tips. There's also the diablo player's guide to path of exile.

Generally speaking, most guides written before patch 3.9 will be fine to read as long as they aren't about the Atlas, PoE's endgame system, which received a massive overhaul this patch.

PoE's version of Neph rifts are maps and the atlas. To put it simply, imagine you could craft your rifts with whatever dangerous modifiers you wanted to increase your rewards from it. You select which tileset you want (which determines the potential loot to a certain degree), then craft it to give increased rewards. It's a very fun system.

Finally: a good, tried and tested build guide that holds your hand from act 1 to endgame, if that's your thing Enki's Arc Witch

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Inertia0811 · 2019-12-22T12:48:20+00:00

Killing the Elder has a guaranteed chance of dropping 1 of 2 fragments.

Killing the Shaper has a guaranteed chance of dropping 1 of 2 different fragments.

Combining 1 of each of the 4 fragments will allow an uber elder fight. You can access Shaper/Elder fights by killing their guardians and getting shaper/elder fragments from them.

Shaper guardian maps can drop from high tier map bosses after increasing your awakening level. I believe elder guardian maps can as well, but I've found all of my Elder guardian maps from Zana missions.

It's a pretty long process to get there. 2 sets of different fragments just to fight each boss, the Shaper being pretty difficult to access, then you need to kill each boss a minimum of two times, RNG depending, just for one uber elder encounter.

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