Looked for a thread, didn't find one. Anyone else play? Let me know if you do or if you're down to start. Looking for some people to play with.
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It's a neat little Dungeon Crawler, like Diablo- but made better by all the lessons learned by the genre since then. I'm currently playing a Duelist, which is essentially (from how I read the class) a dodgetank/dps hybrid. I should post screens of my skill tree, come to think of it.
Lots of neat little touches, like the fact that you don't have to go out and buy potions from a store or anything. They just recharge when you kill dudes! How neat is that? I think it's pretty neat, anyhow.
EDIT: my skill tree is attached.
Lots of neat little touches, like the fact that you don't have to go out and buy potions from a store or anything. They just recharge when you kill dudes! How neat is that? I think it's pretty neat, anyhow.
EDIT: my skill tree is attached.
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I watched some dude (Mrllamasc) speedrun Diablo II on AGDQ 2016 in January. Then I found his YT channel where I watched him play D2 some more. That made me recall that apparently Path of Exile exists, is free to play and is reportedly quite good.
So I started playing it this February. It's definitely confusing in the beginning, with no traditional currency and no tutorials of any kind, as if it assumed you were a Diablo II veteran. Things like potions recharging on killing enemies are very nice.
I'm a witch now. I resorted to using some guide to make sure I don't mess up my passive skill forest too much. Figuring out the gear and skill gem placement on my own is enough work already. The passives detailed in the guide orient me towards using exclusively totems to deal damage (I use a keystone passive that literally makes me unable to deal damage in any other way). And most of the points go into strength, which makes sense to me, because in Diablo II you would dump most of your points into vitality to boost your survivability. I even picked up a passive that gets rid of all my mana and makes me cast spells from hit points, which is cool because I no longer have to worry about mana.
The gameplay is pretty fun, but I feel like the game may be too easy. I only died about 3-4 times on normal difficulty, and I believe not once in the final act. That must be because I use a ranged character with good mobility, so most of the time I'm out of enemies' reach. And even when you do die, you respawn with all your gear at the start of the area. I'm sorry, but that's just making things too easy for players.
I'm currently in Act 3 on Cruel difficulty without a single death on that difficulty. Hopefully Merciless will be tougher. So far I haven't met any enemy that would be completely immune to any single element.
So I started playing it this February. It's definitely confusing in the beginning, with no traditional currency and no tutorials of any kind, as if it assumed you were a Diablo II veteran. Things like potions recharging on killing enemies are very nice.
I'm a witch now. I resorted to using some guide to make sure I don't mess up my passive skill forest too much. Figuring out the gear and skill gem placement on my own is enough work already. The passives detailed in the guide orient me towards using exclusively totems to deal damage (I use a keystone passive that literally makes me unable to deal damage in any other way). And most of the points go into strength, which makes sense to me, because in Diablo II you would dump most of your points into vitality to boost your survivability. I even picked up a passive that gets rid of all my mana and makes me cast spells from hit points, which is cool because I no longer have to worry about mana.
The gameplay is pretty fun, but I feel like the game may be too easy. I only died about 3-4 times on normal difficulty, and I believe not once in the final act. That must be because I use a ranged character with good mobility, so most of the time I'm out of enemies' reach. And even when you do die, you respawn with all your gear at the start of the area. I'm sorry, but that's just making things too easy for players.
I'm currently in Act 3 on Cruel difficulty without a single death on that difficulty. Hopefully Merciless will be tougher. So far I haven't met any enemy that would be completely immune to any single element.
Necroing this thread because it's criminal a game as good as Path of Exile doesn't have more discussion. I've never played a game where the devs manage to impress me every 3 months. Every league is good, which is surprising. Some are more forgettable than others, but they're all fun. It seems like the devs have accepted that clear speed meta is not going away and they're not completely destroying the top builds every league. Now they just shift what build is optimum for each league. This time around they revamped some of the older skills that just couldn't keep up with the new ones and redid traps. Also, the build-your-own-dungeon is a nice touch and the Temple of Atzoatl is really fun. Boss is a little easy compared to the difficulty of the dungeon in general, though.
Path of Exile: Legion Official Trailer and Developer Commentary
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New League, Melee is getting reworked. holy shit we're back, boys.
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I used to play many moons ago (witch was my character) but got gradually bored with hack and slash games. It was definitely one of the better ones out there, and easily the best ftp game I was into at the time. Might just reinstall it again and fuck around. See if the updates have changed much. Really loved the skill system in it also
Using a caustic arrow build I pinched from http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2077932
Working really well. The game didn't click for me until end game, at which point its become a total obsession.
Working really well. The game didn't click for me until end game, at which point its become a total obsession.
Just started playing again after a hiatus; rolled a phys melee marauder w/ sunder.
Since I used to play what was an (poor) attempt at totem templar, being able to facetank feels real good.
Anyway, if anyone wants to group up or whatever feel free to shoot me a pm.
Since I used to play what was an (poor) attempt at totem templar, being able to facetank feels real good.
Anyway, if anyone wants to group up or whatever feel free to shoot me a pm.
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