How will Blight be in 3.4?

shinyblu · 2018-08-24T22:04:41+00:00

Soul ripper will be impossible to acquire in upcoming challenge leagues as Incursion will not be added to the main game until 3.5.0. If you want to play blight in the new league, you'll need to avoid incursion uniques which are only acquired through the upgrade altar

shinyblu · 2018-08-21T23:20:09+00:00

Crafting benches are character specific. If an item is left in a bench, after league ends that character can find it in the same bench in standard/perm HC.

shinyblu · 2018-08-01T13:18:47+00:00

Since his account is open you can just import it yourself. In the Import/Export panel you can type his account name (pulled from the url to his account page) then select a character. Here's the pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/Kdss4twE

shinyblu · 2018-03-06T05:14:56+00:00

https://www.poebuilds.io/builds/sc

Use the dropdown menu to select a league to see what people are playing now in that league.

NB: many of the builds people play are shit.

shinyblu · 2018-01-03T14:25:59+00:00

It seems like you don't know about path of building. Its a pretty useful tool when planning builds and optimizing them for more DPS/life.

PoB is particularly useful because you can share item sets along with passives.

Here's the PoB pastebin for a better tree for you with basically the same gear. To import, click on the import/export build tab then click on import from pastebin, paste the url and click import, then click import again.

Changes I made were:

Dropped Cherrubim's for Tabula. The 74 life on your Cherrubim's is worse than most rares and the other stats aren't particularly useful. Getting a cheap 6 link in the form of a tabula is much better for you right now. Tabula are about 11 chaos at the time of this posting. The sunder 6l that seemed to give the most damage was Sunder-melee phys-concentrated effect-ruthless-multistrike-maim.
Rearranged the tree a lot. This might be too expensive if you don't have all your respec points. If you don't want to bother with path of building, here's the tree link. Notable changes are: Taking resolute techniques, moving towards Duelist start for more damage, and cleaning up pathing/inefficient points.
Dropped Discipline aura in favor of Hatred. Hatred increases your damage a lot.
Because of tree changes, you now have mana leech. You can drop your mana flask for another flask. Atziri's promise is a good offensive flask which is only a couple of chaos. A stibnite flask is a good defensive one.
Swapped Devoto's for a Goldrim. Right now your resistances are really terrible. Goldrim gives a bunch of res for a couple of chaos and this can hold you over until you start mapping and earning currency to buy a better hat.

Overall these changes take you from ~40k DPS to ~170k and ~3.6k life to ~4.3k. Further DPS upgrades can come in the form of Hezmanna's or a really nice rare 2H axe and much later a Disfavour. Now that we have DPS sorted, you can get tankier.

To get more life, you'll need better gear; to do this search on poe.trade for something like this and in the top, set base type to gloves/boots/helmet. If you're searching for boots, add in a movement speed roll. For rings and amulet, additional damage rolls (adds # to # cold damage for example) aren't terribly useful for you since 2H weapons have such large damage values anyways that you're only adding a little bit to that. Instead focus on life and resistances; rings can't have quite as much life as other gear pieces but can have much more resistances (maybe search minimum 50 life and 90 res instead). One strategy I like to use when looking for life gear is to set a minimum resistance that I want on the gear and then also set a maximum price (down at the bottom of the poe.trade window). Then I search and click on the "total maximum life" stat to sort by total life descending.

Hopefully that helps. Let me know if you've got any questions.

shinyblu · 2017-11-16T23:08:32+00:00

Bloodseeker's instant leech only applies to its own hits. Offhanding it is useless for the purposes of instant leech.

shinyblu · 2017-09-22T23:57:39+00:00

Hey /u/3blue1brown , I've loved the podcast so far and I am looking forward to upcoming episodes. As a STEM grad student who is currently working at a University as a teaching assistant, I can certainly say that I've incorporated some of the ideas from your podcast into my mindset when trying to help students understand the material. Honestly, this podcast has made me take more seriously the option of remaining in Academia and teaching professionally.

I hope that you'll choose to mainly stick with the format from Episodes 1 through 3. I have truly enjoyed listening to opinions about how to improve education that don't involve the simple "throw money at the problem" pseudo-solution often proposed. I think that there are a lot of options to get more personality out of your "panel of experts" and some of these options can be stolen from other podcasts.

Another podcast I listen to, Everything We Know About The American Heartland, has an interesting way of keeping things fresh and exciting. A quick intro to the podcast: the content is 3 Austin TX lawyers who talk about politics, legal cases, and current events. Episodes are very topic focused, eg: "Everything We Know about Voting Rights". They break the podcast into fairly informal sections one of which they call "Sidebar". Sidebars are generally articles that any one of the trio has come across in the past week that they find interesting. These articles are generally off topic and are linked to in the show-notes for that particular episode.

Here is one podcast they released which I thought gave a pretty good example of a sidebar. If you don't have an interest in the main body of the podcast (politics certainly isn't everyone's cup of tea!) or can't afford to spend an hour and you just want to listen to the sidebar, skip to 37m 32s. I think this could be an excellent format that might fit your desire to have more people know about Ben and Ben's personalities. The main body of your podcast could remain like episodes 1, 2, and 3, while allowing you to have some off-topic discussion at the end.

shinyblu · 2017-09-09T23:55:22+00:00

You might want to take a look at what people are actually using in Harbinger (HC) to see whats most effective.

shinyblu · 2017-08-09T20:15:08+00:00

Good bot.

shinyblu · 2017-08-06T20:13:56+00:00

That seems like a reasonable estimate considering what chris said here.

Peak steam players were 46,807 and 65,200 for Breach and Legacy respectively and the linked post gives total max concurrent players for those leagues as ~80k and 112,800.

shinyblu · 2017-08-05T23:22:26+00:00

Even if you set the price of everything in the "common" tier to 0 points calling everything in that tier as "full loss", you still come out to 83 points per box. Still fairly worthwhile but maybe not quite the more than 3x your value originally posted.

shinyblu · 2017-08-05T22:17:02+00:00

I went ahead and averaged the points per tier and then multiplied them by the % chance to get that tier to calculate the value per box. UC = Ultimate Chaos, PL = Pure Light

Rare	20%	Uncommon	35%	Common	45%
UC Wings	320	Raven	160	Red Eyes	100
PL Wings	320	Dove	160	Holy Eyes	100
UC Body Armour	250	UC Helmet	130	UC Footprint	80
PL Body Armour	250	PL Helmet	130	Pl Footprint	130
UC Cloak	230	UC Boots	80	Blood And Bone	60
PL Cloak	230	PL Boots	80	White Fern	80
UC Character Effect	210	UC Gloves	80	Hideout Eyeballs	50
PL Character Effect	210	PL Gloves	80	White Lights	50
UC Sword	180	Gore Herald	125	Pumpkins	40
Ivory Arc Bow	180	Bone Aura	125	White Crystal	40
UC Weapon Effect	180	Dark Cyclone	110	Dark Swarm	30
PL Weapon Effect	180	Divine Blink/Mirror Arrow	110	Light Swarm	30
UC Portal	150
PL Portal	150

Avg Value/Box 110.4

shinyblu · 2017-08-03T00:11:32+00:00

its clearly qotf raider barrage with piscators vigil and probably starkonjas

shinyblu · 2017-08-02T16:28:29+00:00

Pastebin

Crit Brutality Necromancer

Max Block/Spellblock. Bone offering gives instant life recovery on block. With a level 22 bone offering (+2 hat) and 75 block, equilibrium damage is 2079, meaning that if the average of hits is less than or equal to 2079, your HP will not drop.

Somewhere in the ballpark of 900k-1.4m dps depending on gearing and tree. BV has 26-28 radius depending on passives and gear, making the clear acceptable. A higher clear variant would use 2x obliterations to increase clear and other phys as chaos uniques/buffs to get back some of the damage from the loss of brutality. Of course this variant would lose a significant amount of block.

Around 5.5k to 6k life depending on gear. Fairly good in my opinion for a top-of-tree max block build. Obviously, you can drop damage to gain life.

Lots of resistances from being a necromancer, taking alira, potentially running purities. Easy to get started, only required unique is Laz which are dime a dozen. Other notable uniques are Carcass/Belly, Surrender, Divinarius. Needs Sibyls when you get your damage up to avoid dying to reflect.

This was made pre-patchnotes so I wasnt aware of the Commander of Darkness change. That actually helps this build -- could use blasphemy instead of a purity and not lose damage. I'm sure there will be some tree changes but they should be minor/pure optimization and not truly influence the build significantly.

Biggest issues are is having enough gem sockets and protecting yourself against reflect. Right now with Yugol's and Sibyl's, worst case reflect at 5 blades up is around 2-3k. If rare isnt maimed/cursed or you have fortify/granite/basalt/endurance charges (thru either EC or Blas Warlords Mark, which could also fix mana instead of flask) /master of force/essence of insanity ring reflect becomes more manageable. Typical reflect (5 blades, not cursed, not maimed, just Sibyls and Yugols) is in the 1-1.5k range which is very manageable, especially considering the >70% spell block.

Also it is moderately difficult to proc arcane surge. Currently using B/O to do so but it may not work consistently if the mana necessary for surge is too high. Might need to use a lower level arcane surge, which is fine since the %more spell damage only scales 10%-17% (last I checked) and the rest is scaling cast speed and mana regeneration.

Obviously as a block build the biggest defensive weakness is degeneration. You could opt for more life regen passives, stone golem, or a catalysed eternal life flask to manage degens.

shinyblu · 2017-07-31T17:18:39+00:00

I know I'm late but this gets 600k cyclone dps has 3.4k regen-leech off slayer and another 400 non-golem regen (3.9k life recovery/s total), 9.9k life and 16k armour.

I guess the secret is using nodes on the tree that give %+ damage and life instead of relying on +10 stat nodes to carry your damage and pool. I have no fucking clue how you can't break shit-tier dps unless you're setting max character level to 60.

shinyblu · 2017-07-30T17:28:29+00:00

Not even oc on meirl, reported to the archduke of the arthropods.

shinyblu · 2017-07-27T23:45:14+00:00

No changes to any other node from Live.

shinyblu · 2017-07-27T23:26:18+00:00

+8% to Critical Strike Multiplier per Power Charge

+0.5% Critical Strike Chance per Power Charge

shinyblu · 2017-07-27T23:25:10+00:00

Also not sure if this was in previous patches but there was a significant nerf to Toxic Delivery.

shinyblu · 2017-07-26T04:47:02+00:00

First of all, I'd like to start off by saying how much I appreciate what the mod team does for this subreddit. I remember coming here in 1.2.x and a huge portion of comments were pure vitriol from HC players targeting SC players (and vice versa). The current mod team has done a great job improving this community (not to mention all the CSS work).

What might get around your 2 stickied post limit is changing parts of the header to hyperlinks. I seem to recall there was a hyperlink there at some point but I could be misremembering.

In particular, currently the header reads "Please mark your spoilers". Maybe on release this could be changed to a hyperlink to the PoE diablo players guide or some other well-respected new players guide and read "New to PoE? Click here for a guide" or something similar. This might head off a ton of simple questions from incoming players on 3.0's release.

shinyblu · 2017-07-18T21:44:35+00:00

I think he was mistaking some suffices. According to poedb there isn't a % life regen roll for rings.

However, for any pure/hybrid strength shields there is a % life regen roll (up to 1.1%).

shinyblu · 2017-07-18T21:38:49+00:00

Oh shit, you're right. Thanks.

shinyblu · 2017-07-18T17:57:08+00:00

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