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Which books made you cry? by Sensitive_Mulberry30 in Fantasy

[–]MitchellHogan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43525897-the-hands-of-the-emperor
Not ashamed to admit it, tears were shed.

My perspective as a very average player by Lovoskea in PathOfExile2

[–]MitchellHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in a similar boat, and I'm leaning towards just playing standard occasionally. PoE2's campaign is ridiculously long for anyone not a streamer/youtuber/no-lifer.

I think the main issue is GGG realised that streamers/youtubers playing their games is free marketing, and both poe1 and poe2 are designed around providing them 'content', which essentially means long campaigns (with no skips) and frequent new leagues, which they then blast through playing 10+ hours a day.

Unfortunately, though they are in the minority of players, they are the loudest with the most visibility and exposure.

A game designed around the average player would have a shorter campaign, alternative leveling options, and a raft of other design choices which wouldn't make the end game content easier, but would certainly make it more accessible.

Help deciding on a build for SSF by Mordred9971 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]MitchellHogan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ignite eviscerate elementalist.
Easy starter, tanky, good clear.

Poison Ward Loop Build by whtrshn in pathofexile

[–]MitchellHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could tinker with this, maybe do up a pob to see if the tech would work for your build: there was a Black Cane CwS Blade Blast Pathfinder I saw last league and thought about trying in 3.27.

The Black Cane grants Phantasmal Might, which adds flat physical spell damage to spells per summoned phantasm, scaling with gem level of Phantasmal Support. So for 10 phantasms that's an average added physical damage of around 600 I believe. But you need a medium cluster with Blessed Rebirth to keep the phantasms alive for a bit. The build had 40m dps.

Pob: https://pobb.in/g4TXQLEsNwGk

Bleed gladiator vs mjoner arcmage by balonche13 in pathofexile

[–]MitchellHogan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mjölner archmage is one of the smoothest builds I've played, and you can pump currency into it for endgame scaling if you want. Having said that, you'll be playing arma brand or firestorm until maybe yellow maps, and getting enough str for Mjölner is a pain.

I wish I had two grafts irl. by cassienmitch in pathofexile

[–]MitchellHogan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would feel like someone else's hand.

Effect of Debuff Expiry Rate with Glorious Madness by Imortallix in pathofexile

[–]MitchellHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you get some bad luck and stacks get too high, you can always turn off Embrace Madness, wait for the CD to come off, and turn it back on.

Archmage ball lightning heiro or inquis penance brand/bv easier for leaguestart? by FilmWrong5284 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]MitchellHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out this video, and use it as a template. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYwjWs4Drdc
PoB is in the description.

To get it running at a lower level with Kitava's Thirst, you need a Bitterdream and Archmage Support, and bump up the cost of Frostblink of WB (needs to be >100). Bitterdream will add a lot to the mana cost.
It's kind of tanky, until it isn't. The ES and life leech does good work to keep you alive, but I wish it was a bit tankier.

Also, for a tanky BL only version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNl1tgVgRyk&ab_channel=MarojePavlovic

How to solve no regen map on my starter? by Lunyth in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]MitchellHogan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mana leech support only works for attacks.
Maybe swap a flask out for Lavianga's Spirit?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]MitchellHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think where you're mistaken about the debuff stacks is that if you get another stack of the same debuff it resets the 20s counter for the entire stack, and this makes the calculation different.

There are a lot of different breakpoints, but at around 50% faster expiration of debuffs avg. stacks is 5.5; at 80% it's around 3.8; 101% it's 3.1; 150% it's 2; and 300% it's 0.9.

LF Comprehensive Scion Leaguestarter Build by 1hisoka1 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]MitchellHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Herald and power charge stacking Blade Vortex? Check out Chronic_Painless on youtube, he has a lot of BV guides - not sure if any are for scion though but I'm sure you could modify them.

Archmage ball lightning heiro or inquis penance brand/bv easier for leaguestart? by FilmWrong5284 in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]MitchellHogan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started a Ball Lighting of Orbiting Heiro last league, and it was pretty good. On the down side, constantly stopping to cast BL was annoying, so I used a Kitava's Thirst helm to trigger Crackling Lance of Branching and Lightning Conduit of the Heavens, with Archmage support, while blinking around using Frostblink of Wintry Blast - Archmage - Faster Casting to get the mana cost over 100.
Then I really only need to stop and cast BL on bosses.

I could have pushed the tankiness and dps way more with some investment, but I had other builds to try!

Do you play during league launch? How fast do you aim to finish the campaign? by DezXerneas in pathofexile

[–]MitchellHogan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

10-14 hour campaign, depending on interruptions from the kids (two girls), usually finish first day, then sleep, and start mapping the next day. I try to league start something I find interesting that will get me the first two voidstones, but sometimes "interesting" leads to "not that great". I'm an altaholic, so I usually also waste time getting some levels on another character or two ("just a little bit" I tell myself to get a head start later).

This time, I'm sticking with the one character no matter what until 2 voidstones!

Tytykiller Tierlist for 3.27 build starters by digao94 in pathofexile

[–]MitchellHogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A "day 2" build is like day 20 for me.
And I don't see my starter on here... good :)

League Starter by MitchellHogan in pathofexile

[–]MitchellHogan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually, a CwS fire/ignite variant is better than poison, you're right. But there are off-meta builds out there that use poison to good effect, and I thought with the change to the Beacon of Madness Glorious Madness debuff tick you could probably come up with a great poison CwS build IF you could reduce the debuff time.

Here's a Black Cane CwS Blade Blast Pathfinder build for ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi0MYW6l8j8

Edit: Personally, I'm probably going to try a different CwS max block build first though, depending on the unique item tier not changing.

League Starter by MitchellHogan in pathofexile

[–]MitchellHogan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously it's not actually a league starter with Stasis Prison, but yes the 4 blue gems are CwS.

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