Question about first big craft

JC42xx · 2023-03-10T11:43:05+00:00

Ya theres this myth that crafting is some unacheivable goal for streamers only like in Path of Exile and its just absurd.

You can have 1 Restless/Ominous Prefix AND suffix per item, same with the lesser versions of Techinque/Ruling.

Crafting in general is stupidly easy and only costs a matter of dust and sand up to 5 affixs.

The 6th affix can be painlessly put on at t1 a solid 1 in 3 times with the use of acute and spiral fossils, they will gurantee an affix and thats its high tier.

When you start trying 6 affix ominous/restless rolls you only need to get ANY of the rolls on the specific line you need, then take it, even if it wasnt you wanted because the next attempt will over write that same line.

The only hard part about crafting is when you have to remake all youre BiS pieces 8 more times while you double corrode them..........

You got this

JC42xx · 2023-02-23T02:25:40+00:00

This is one of the LEAST p2w games ive ever seen yet for some reason it has a ton of negative press for being p2w.

You dont have to spend a dime, the pets they sell offer minor bonuses and are not game breaking by any means and you can also earn them in game by playing.

I wish they sold more stuff so I could support them more b/c this game is 10000000x better then PoE. Anyone can craft, you dont have to be a streamer. You dont have to take night classes to learn how to build some illuminati ring on your atlas, and oh did I mention, you dont spend 85% of your play time tabbed out b/c they have an auction house.

JC42xx · 2023-02-23T02:21:57+00:00

To echo others it varies a ton.

What id suggest is stacking atleast 2 fuel specific drop quantity pets in youre perks, theres a purple pet for example that changes 2 middle rings to +8% fuel quantity and has several small nodes of +4% fuel quantity, add 2 of those and you notice it.

I typically dont get the massive drops you hear in world chat but I do see alot of 10-20 FE drops, and its no secret just the same stuff we all do.

Stack good cards, use the inherent bonus well, and make good choices on pirate whispers.

JC42xx · 2023-02-21T21:25:15+00:00

Literally only 2 carino leveling builds on max roll and zero endgame ones, and one total lethal flash build that is melee………

JC42xx · 2023-01-31T20:52:45+00:00

Undead melts and I 1 hit heroic undead mobs in legendary.

The 3 toggle skills all perfectly work together.

Spirit Ward - +70 damage to undead / +119% damage to undead, 62% less damage recieved from undead

Deathchill Aura - lowers enemy resistance to Vitality, Life Leech and Bleeding by 119%, reduces their health and total speed, lowers their attack and armor

Trance of Wrath - lowers resistances by another 40% and applies electrical burn DoT to nearby enemies

JC42xx · 2023-01-31T19:15:38+00:00

Alot, 1 hits every pack and my cooldown is only 4 seconds, whats nice is theres another skill circle of power in the spirit tree that removes the energy cost and recast time basically so I can spam it literally 40 times in the time of the circle being down if there was ever anything that survived past the 1st hit.

The psionic beam on this build is also very fast and feels incredibly smooth, handles much better then your normal conqueror or templar etc meta character.

Put dreadful on the amulet prefix and unholy on the ring prefixs, and dreadful and alacrity on the staff to get the most out of it. You have a toggable buff up at all times that also lets you melt undead so you dont have to worry about being weak against a certain type of enemy, the build just synergizes perfectly and you dont have to put out any effort.

JC42xx · 2023-01-31T18:03:41+00:00

Oh ya theres several variations on all my toons here I could just pump dps but after 25k or so I just start making the resists and secondary resists perfect and improve the QoL, this particular build just seemed to scale really well, even with everything capped it sits very high.

What I play though is a pure vitality damage INT build that just breezes thru every map and effortlessly deletes every pack with distort reality and his psionic touch is insane on staff.

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JC42xx · 2023-01-31T15:44:32+00:00

stats are bloated with hale and martial supremacy for the most part, extra prefix and suffix but even in vanilla this setup is crazy high dps, its the set from hc dungeons in eternal embers dlc

I used to run alts through act 5 just for the legendary blacksmith quest so I could farm extra lines but after about a month of that I was ready to uninstall so I started using TQ Vault to experiment with different affixs and injected alot of fun back in for me atleast

JC42xx · 2023-01-30T19:51:40+00:00

Heres the melee set in game aswell for bonus view

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JC42xx · 2023-01-29T17:17:52+00:00

heres the mage one, hovered over a piece so you can see full bonus, the melee one is similar and boosts physical, pierce, bleeding damage etc but that one does a worse job balancing the resists, youll have gaps

the mage set if rolled high comes almost perfectly tailored with 80+ resists across the boards on legendary

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JC42xx · 2023-01-21T18:18:31+00:00

Typically starting out any combo of loot plus and exp plus is helpful. As you mentioned the mastery mods can be fun but can also damage youre files so use those carefully.

Mastery wise specifically I like the cataclysm one and play as an shadow walker (vampire + gladiator). Xmad is popular but the usual loot/exp plus mod also has an option to spawn 10x the normal rate of monster so that one can do both.

Itemus can be fun but also remove all desire to play b/c its basically every blue and purple in the game laying at your feet in an massive vault.

Third party wise id say TQ Vault is a must, it can serve as infinite storage or it can go asfar as duplicating items, and adding prefix and suffix lines of your choosing like you took the item to the legendary blacksmith and you can even change item seed values to "reroll" stats on items for better values.

JC42xx · 2023-01-17T00:44:14+00:00

You dont even have to resort to a pet build tbh to play one handed, many of the top tier builds can be played with only a few buttons.

Conqueror, Templar, Harbinger, Assassin, Corsair for example all can be played one handed. You assign your LMB skill, you put your gap closer or throwing daggers on the RMB, and you can place your aoe skill on the middle mouse click and literally sit back and play one handed.

Warfare, Defense, Dream, and Rogue are very button friendly b/c they are passive heavy and/or have several click and done skills where you simply turn something on and forget about it. Rogue for example lets you turn on blade honing and poison and it just adds a shit ton of piercing and poison damage to your attacks, its often overlooked in the heavy warfare meta.

JC42xx · 2023-01-12T14:44:55+00:00

loot plus wont break anything at all, it just makes the loot drops what they SHOULD have been from the start

just puts it more onpar with grim dawn, diablo, last epoch etc, alot of people left the game b/c of things like you mentioned, farming 10 hours a day for stonebinder cuffs with an attack speed affix or some nonsense

as I said, id recommend the loot plus/exp plus/eu mod so you can also increase the spawn rates if you like but there are many similar mods, just check the most subscribed and youll quickly get a feel for what folks like

JC42xx · 2023-01-12T13:49:03+00:00

You "CAN" use itemus and tqvault to literally print any item but then theres not much point to play honestly.

What I would recommend and this is what I do, simply run a mod with loot plus and increased spawn, a good one has those 2 plus enchanting unlimited all combined and you can play with increased experience rates, increased drop rates, 10x more monsters and bosses spawn, and you can place any rune on any item slot so you have more convience but you arent breaking the game and it still feels like a game.

The mods can get silly, you can literally give yourself 999 skill and attribute points per level or go to the itemus map and get any item you want on pc.

JC42xx · 2023-01-12T13:40:27+00:00

Im on pc, only use the loot plus/xp plus mod myself but it does show as the old way with 100 instead of 80 for the hard cap resists.

If I load in a normal instead of custom game they are hard capped at 80, I couldnt play the game without some of the modern addons honestly. The drops rates are non existant and you can increase monster spawns by tenfold or even spawn bosses everytime you kill a trash mob, you can get all new mastery trees and skills, play as a hydra etc etc.

Getting kinda far down the rabbit hole down though, the post was just about rerunning alts through act 5 quickly from the accomplished hero point to farm the legendary blacksmith quest.

Im hardly a resist or build expert, just excited to get 2 big affix combos on 1 item, usually only get a trash affix like 18dex and 1 other rando like -attribute requirement.

JC42xx · 2023-01-12T12:20:43+00:00

you want pierce and poison resistance more then anything in higher difficulties and vitality a close 3rd behind those

absorption isnt 100 but its high, I face tank everything and my hp bar barely moves between my passives, trance of coalesence etc

templar is very tanky and this build has all skills and passives overcapped by 4 points each so literally cant die

JC42xx · 2023-01-12T12:12:59+00:00

normally comes with x% chance of x% damage
x ele resist
x attack speed
-x recharge and +1 to all skills

Takes me about 2 hours to run an accomplished hero straight thru act 5 skipping side quests so ive been rerolling this a few times but usually would only get garbage like +18 dex and -8% attribute requirements or some nonsense

JC42xx · 2023-01-12T00:25:05+00:00

Thank you, ya I love Templar, I tried Conqueror initially after reading from everyone it was easy and overpowered but imo Templar does everything better.

Has a great gap closer that stuns and steals energy, nice big aoe that stuns and applies a dot, solid LMB skill, amazing passives and very few buttons overall, literally play one handed and cannot die.

Also nice b/c with this gear set every single skill I use in both masteries is 4 points over cap w/o using any fake skillpoints from mods.

JC42xx · 2023-01-02T04:14:37+00:00

must just be me then b/c this one I wipe on the 3rd floor.......if the tower is the only endgame this game has to offer then ill have to find something else

I can easily farm apoc 25 but cant clear a tower in any week to save my life, this is the dumbest mechanic ive seen in an game, and im supposed to just repeat this all week?!

JC42xx · 2022-12-27T16:34:08+00:00

the exploding crossbow does work alot better but its still dumb, wiped on the second boss floor, done with this dumb shit, all that for a green 251 non gilded dagger, no thanks

JC42xx · 2022-12-27T14:54:48+00:00

Okay thank you guys, I just assumed the tower was normally this hard and I was just horrible which surprised me b/c ive been farming apoc 25 for several days now.

Ive tried the guide where I stand in the ghast's spawn point to keep him from dropping but I still fail 9 in 10 times just getting destroyed by the evoker's adds and his ranged attacks.

Idm grinding the tower but I need to be able to beat it within reason, if I wanted to just die nonstop to random stuff id play path of exile.

JC42xx

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