Four month challenge leagues are a great opportunity for a fresh start. All your old characters and items are still present in the Standard and Hardcore leagues, but you're encouraged to join the new economies, complete challenges and climb the ladder!
The new challenge leagues include a set of eight new challenges! If you complete all of them, you'll receive an exclusive Domination/Nemesis challenge shirt. 61 players completed all the challenges in the last pair of four-month leagues.
Domination: A variety of powerful Shrines now spawn throughout Wraeclast, surrounded by large groups of monsters that are influenced by their power. These monsters receive substantial bonuses or are protected by their shrine's effects in some way. If you are able to tag the shrine, you receive these powers for a short time. It's often very risky to run in and try to claim the shrine, but it is a gamble that can pay off. One of the new challenges is to tag each of the shrine types.
Nemesis: Nemesis is a Hardcore league (characters who die are coverted to Standard characters). Rare monsters have one guaranteed mod from the Nemesis Pool, which makes the fight substantially harder. One of the challenges is to kill a rare with each of the Nemesis mods.
I'm at work breh.Yeah, driftwood clubs, broken and rusted swords, whalebone rapiers, splintered shields, etc. The old plate vest used to re-inforce this as well, as it looked like two slabs of metal barely beaten into something that fits a human being. The new design has sculpted abs and looks much fancier now. Don't really understand what the point of that was.
I like how the art really highlights that you're an exile who washed up on shore nearly butt naked. You get some mixed up ugly bum gear, then slowly go from flabbynsick to a badass motherfucker. A lot of the armor in later levels is pretty nice.
Created a Scion and it's pretty badass, and I can tell it'll be insane once I find a faster weapon. Spectral Throw...That one is GMP + LMP. LMP is more than enough. ST is really fun, enjoying it a lot.
(http://i.imgur.com/hf2vkSB.gif)
(looks like it that has Greater Multiple Projectiles support gem, but mine is pretty damn amazing even at lv9)
how do you like grim dawn.. i really loved titan quest so im eager to try it out
how do you like grim dawn.. i really loved titan quest so im eager to try it out
You'll love the shit out of it. It's basically the TQ engine with a newer, prettier skin over it.
Killed by Tentacled Miscreation boss. :shaq2
Substantially rebalanced Invasion bosses, including changing their abilities. Many of the more extreme ones are now easier and some of the weaker ones are harder. We've changed the behaviour of bosses that used to be able to kill you before you saw them. Some Corrupted Secret Area bosses were updated in this process also.Too late for my character, but oh well...
The limited respec is a bit of a screw-up, tho... :yeshrugYou don't devote hundreds of hours to a failed build. You'll know after 10 or 20 if you're screwed. The worse you fuck up, the earlier you know. That's a ridiculous amount of time as far as video games goes, but I've probably put a hundredfold of hours into the game. It evens out.
I mean you have a FFX-like skill system and let people "explore" but you want them to devote hundreds of hours to builds that may not be viable and then go "LOL TOUGH?" :comeon
I want to like this game. But please, explain how forcing someone to play through the beginning of the game repeatedly (when combat IS clunkier and worse, there's no denying that) is anything other than a sop to the "hardcore" wanker crowd like Kripp, who want games to be hard because it makes their e-peen bigger. I beg you, please someone explain this to me. Because you can't, because it's bullshit and retrograde game design.Oh fuck off with that nonsense. Leveling has nothing at all to do with the e-peen mindset and you know it. Doing it extremely quickly and efficiently, yes, hence the races, but the hardcore stuff lies in conceiving of a build that shreds the content. Poopsocking to level 100 is a measure of sadness, not skill.
First of all, :umadI only respond in kind. :yuck
Second of all, I am not ignoring leagues and races at all. I enjoyed them a lot when they first came out... until I realized I was running the same boring ass content all over again and again and again with just small wrinkles thrown in. Leagues and races in PoE would be great... if at the beginning of the process you weren't stuck playing an underpowered, slow, clunky combat character every single time. I feel that's ABSOLUTELY a valid criticism of PoE. I too enjoy these games as a process, but you're advocating a method of playing that I feel runs DIRECTLY into one of PoE's glaring weaknesses, in that until about mid-game (lv 40 or so) most builds feel clunky and don't perform very well.
Again though, as you pointed out, either this sort of thing appeals to you or it doesn't. I don't find it rewarding so I choose not to play the game. I really like the skill tree, but find the gameplay less than rewarding. *shrugs*
You don't devote hundreds of hours to a failed build. You'll know after 10 or 20 if you're screwed. The worse you fuck up, the earlier you know. That's a ridiculous amount of time as far as video games goes, but I've probably put a hundredfold of hours into the game. It evens out.
Also, you'll only fuck up once or twice, after that you either learn to pay attention, because outside of having no frame of reference for just how much defense or offense is enough, building a character is a sane process; skill descriptions alone give you all you need to know to build a competent character. If all else fails you do some simple research. Or do some light trading for re-spec orbs if you've used up the re-spec points that you can earn through optional quests.
Yes, limited re-spec is pretty backward. Especially because it turns away the more casual players. That said, people who are prepared to play this for a long time will feel that least of all. Which is why it doesn't bother me. Plan the fucking build or follow a guide. It's not the end of the world. If you like the game you'll survive the time where you don't know what the fuck you're doing, as with any other game.
Lv40 is a gross exaggeration. Depending on your class it can great once you get near lv20.
I'd also disagree about racing feeling stale. The leagues almost always make it feel new, simply due to the difficulty. The Nemesis and Invasion leagues threw a lot of interesting wrenches into the game's flow, specifically once you got into less open areas where accidents could lead to death.
My PoE fix would be to simply increase attack speed and accuracy across the board. I'm fine with starting as a weak Marauder, but missing hits while using a 1.1 speed maul isn't a great fucking way to introduce your game to the public.
"So research builds!" Yes, like I've been doing since Diablo 2. That's fine, but then why give a FFX-like skilltree? At that point you might as well lock classes into pre-set "trees" a la Diablo 2 and have people do the math and say "this is the best build for this function for this class for this patch. So far."No. Fuck, no. I get your issue on some level which I will get to, but it's largely pedantism at this point. Sorry.
Lots of builds will utilized the full amount of respec points they have compiled to shift things around quite a bit once you hit that signature node.The fuck are you talking about? :what I have never once done that across the two dozen or so characters I've played. That's min-max shit for people who play a completely different build just to level. The only thing that comes close was when I re-specced my Spectral Throw Scion out of ranged damage nodes into additional sword damage nodes, because I noticed that I could get a couple percent more damage (and life) that way.
Players in the Beyond League will have to deal with a race of extradimensional demons invading Wraeclast. When you kill monsters in close proximity to one another, small portals start to open; get enough of those open together, and a larger portal opens up, spawning more powerful monsters. If those happen close together, an even larger portal opens up, complete with a unique boss that's designed to be extremely difficult to kill.
Intuitive Leap allows any passive within the radius to be allocated without previously being connected in the tree. This means, given a suitably placed jewel slot, that you could take powerful nodes like Infused Shield or Mortal Conviction without needing to take the keystone they’re gated behind. Worth noting is that while the passive can be allocated, it does not act as a new starting point for the tree.http://www.gamepedia.com/news/688-path-of-exile-the-awakening
Vigilant Strike and the new Fortify support gem give melee players a much needed survivability boost, providing a way of generating a temporary 25% damage reduction.
With the expansion we are adding a Deterministic Lockstep mode to Path of Exile that will have no desync. Bear in mind that this means that when you click you will have to wait for whatever your ping time is before you start to move or do a skill.http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/324u94/rewrite_of_netcode_with_a4_to_reduce_dsync/
This works the same way as you would see in strategy game like Starcraft or a MOBA like Dota.
Because this requires a fairly low latency to feel good we are still supporting the old mode for high ping players, however, we have a lot of improvements there too.
It's not quite finished yet and we are working out the bugs, but I'm optimisitic that we will be able to get it done before the beta starts, or otherwise a week or so into it.
We are also adding a bunch more servers to new locations in order to reduce latency so expect to see East and West coast of America servers, as well as more locations in Europe like London.
Quite a game changer for hybrid builds.Yeah, I've had some pretty rare shit drop, but I've played more than 1k hours too... I hope I don't have to grind the chaos recipe to afford one, should they be difficult to get.
My only question is...I wonder about the jewel availability. I assume some will be quest rewards, maybe even master awards, but damn I hope the unique ones aren't too hard to get. I've long wanted some type of increase in quality drop rates.
:brazilcry
I wonder if they've upgraded the trading system btw. Chris Wilson said they were working on it during the FM expansion.Nothing on that so far that I've seen. I think he said the expansion would bring changes some time ago, but I could be wrong.
So we haven't actually nailed down the specifics on any of those questions since it's still in development. The threshold is probably going to be something like 150ms, but that is just a default so that the average player who starts the game doesn't have to know about it. You will be able to set the mode in the options if you like.
The mournful music of the strings,
The creaking arch, the arrow sings.
A choking cry, a rattled breath,
The Reaper's Song, the Harp of Death.
Having proved your mettle in the Trials of Ascendancy, you earn the right to enter Izaro's Labyrinth. Centuries have passed, but its traps are as dangerous as the day its doors were first opened.
With an entirely new system for generating sequences of random areas, the overall layout of the Labyrinth shifts every day, uncovering new puzzles and secrets.
Ascendancy Classes
Nineteen souls survived the Trials of Ascendancy. Nineteen men and women stood at the gates of the Lord's Labyrinth. Nineteen challengers whose exceptional martial and mystical talents still linger long after their death.
There are 19 new Ascendancy classes, each with its own additional Ascendancy Skill Tree to master.
Enchantmentshttps://www.pathofexile.com/ascendancy
Izaro's power can also be used to infuse items with powerful magic.
These enchantments trigger specific skills and effects to occur on certain conditions. Each time the Labyrinth is completed, you may add one of these enchantments to an item.
So, does the new trade system make it to where I basically don't have to interact with other people to trade? Cause that's my sticking point with this game. Fuck other people.
The new Incursion league is best league ever
:rejoice