OT: The SPF Path of Exile Thread

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yes except that blessed orbs have the most variation in value. Some ppl claim they are pretty abundant and value them much lower as in that table.
Exalted orbs, GCP, Chaos are the three most common used orbs for payment. Sicne these are the three most wanted orbs in this early stage of the game. I expect alterations to become much more wanted in some time due to the need in maps rerolling and endgame crafting. And GCP to lose its value when everyone has his maingems at 20% quality.

endgame crafting:
1. get an ilvl 74 item>roll 100 alterations until you got the perfect magic item
2. regal it to hope for perfect 3rd affix, then if failed use scouring and go back to step 1.
3. if succesfull, use exalted orbs, if these suck, scouring and back to step 1.
4. if succesfull>finished.

Blessed orbs are completely unneeded in this endgamecrafting, since you would only start step 1 with an item that alllready has perfect implicit stats.
 
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Okay, thanks for the help!

I'm trying to get my hands on a cheap Searing Touch, but I'm not sure how to do it. I guess I should just make a post on the official selling forum, and list my gems. I have a chaos orb for instance. But I dont know the value of the Weapon.

EDIT:The trade chat ingame doesn't give me much of a response as to what the value is for a bad Searing Touch. If any of you guys have any idea, please share:)
 
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Trading is still very confusing to me, but I'm getting there. Thanks for the values chart, I've been looking for that for the past few days.

Well, I finally suffered a death. To the act 2 boss. Got a little too cocky and thought I could just face tank him. Went fine once I stated using some strategy though.

EasyG: what uniques are you using besides the shield? Trying to figure out how people are getting block up to cap and how you get more elemental block.
 
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Now that I've set a goal to get that Searing Touch, things are looking mighty addictive over here!
 
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Im using stone of lazwar to block spells.
my blockrate is 34% from shield, 5% from tempest shield (4+1 from inner force passive) and the rest comes from passives.

Trading
What I do when I look for an item is use one of these 2 websites and check the offers:
http://poe.xyz.is/
http://poetools.com/market
The second website is a bit better since you cna also look for better rolls at unqiues, but the first website gets updated more often.

Here you can check all offers, see what ppl bid for them and that way learn the value of the item, when you find an offer you would like to bid at, then bid at it and leave your in game name so they can contact you, or if they have their ingame name listed then you can contact/friend them yourself.

Personally I have never traded for rare items and also dont waste any alch's chaos anymore at rares, since I believe soon there will be higher level items and nowadays rares will be useless. I only traded for my aegis aurora and a perfect stone of lazwar. Now im looking for high quality gems, listed in priority: Iron will, molten shell, flammability, improve quantity, improve rarity, tempest shield, rain of fire, others.

Trading for a searing touch
a 6 socketed searing touch, like this one is very expensive, other versions, considering there are 150 for sale, should go max for 1 chaos, but are actually just trash.

So assuming you dont want to pay for a 5 linked 6 socketed one, I searched for minimal 25% fire dmaage and 45% spelldamage with the searchmachine and found this one to be the best offer: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/144314

so you could offer 1 chaos, then he will tell you he wants 2 chaos, then you say you dont have 2 chaos and then you buy it for 1 chaos or 1 chaos +1 alch.

some random info about burn damage
First thing to know is that item rarity and item quantity bonuses dont work when monsters die from burndamage, this is still a bug and pretty sad for fire based champions.

Second thing you want to know when you focus at burndamage is that burndamage doublescales from monsters resistance:
example you hit a monsters with 0% resistance for 1000 damage and proc burn damage. The nuke will do 1000 damage and the burn will do 1000*1.33=1334 damage for a total of 2334 damage
Now you hit a mob with 50% resistance. The nuke will do 500 damage and the burn 500*1.33*.5=333 damage for a total of 833 damage.
Now if you hit a mob with -100% resitance, the nuke does 1000*2=2000 and the burn 2000*1.33*2=5333 damage, for a tota of 7333 damage!

This is why you want to use fire penetration and both flammability and elemental weakness curse with burn based fire nukers, you can do two curses by taking the passive needed to do so, or by getting the windscream reinforced greaves that also allows you to use 2 curses.
Windcream is one of the better uniques and very hard and expensive to trade for.
 
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I now has meatshields, like any self-respecting bow wielder (found a raise zombies gem). Had no blue sockets, so had to shift things around a bit.
 
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Sorry for the double post.

I finally got my Searing Touch! It costed me 1 chaos orb and 1 orb of alchemy. It has 37% spell damage and 31% fire damage. And he threw a gem for chance to ignite and a gem for flammability into the mix. I think it was a okish trade.
 
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For the time being, yes I am. Split Arrow with Fork support gem (looks very cool). Backup skill is (forget the name of it) whatever the OW-like projectile skill is, with increase crit multiplier.
 
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That sounds pretty cool.

I'm going to switch to using the fork support gem, when I start using fireballs. Right now, I'm just spamming firestorm and it seems to just insta kill everything.
 
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Progress is slow. I don't think I've upgrade any of my gear in the last 10 levels and most of it in 20 levels, including my weapon. At the end of act 3 cruel but I don't think I can clear the last area in my current state. I may go back to the crematorium to farm a bit as it's the highest level so far and it seemed okay the first time I went through it.
 
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Aaaaaand now I'm stuck at Piety.

Maybe I have just been playing for too many hours, but she almost insta kills me. I can't seem to kite her and hide behind the pillars enough for it to matter. She always gets me.

EDIT: Enough doubleposting. I went the easy route and beat her with a party.
 
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You talk about piety in crematorium or the true piety?

Once you learn how piety fights, she becomes much more easy. Half the time she does nothing and she has 4 skills:

-When she does nothing, hit her as much as you can.

-When she walks towards a blue portal, she will transform into an archer and teleport to a random other blue portal. She does huge cold damage split arrow, these arrows might freeze you and deal insane damage. Use quicksilverpotion to dodge the arrows and try to find a pillar, when you are behind a pillar she will move to a different place from where she can hit you, so you are still not safe. If you are very close to her you can run circles around her with succes. Next time I will try to count how often she launches her arrows. To make a quicksilverflask of heat, get a white or superior flask, then use 4 baubles to make it 20% quality and then reroll it. I made an Ample quicksilver flask of heat that has +20 max charges giving not only runspeed but also freeze immunity for 6 seconds.

-When she walks into a red portal she will transform in a melee monster dealing high fire damage attacks at you, its not possible to evade this, but in my opinion its not very lethal. You could use an iron flask.

-Sometimes she summons monsters, those deal mostly cold damage but are really not dangerous at all, like vaals summons are. Aoe them or ignore them.

-Sometimes she shoots a slow ball of lightning, it looks very dangerous but seems to hardly deal any damage at all.

If you are having big problems with either the blue or red transformation then you can kill her portals so she cant use them. Those portals dont have a lot of HP.

The massive amount of HP piety has combined with the energyshield will make the fight allways pretty long. Dont forget to make a townportal each time after you visited town to replenish your flasks.

My char in its current state can just facetank any attack merciless piety does, including the cold arrows, I usually kill her without using any flasks :D. But well Im lvl 76 and piety only 66, so not very fair.
 
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:) Thanks for the advide. It will be put to good use, next time I face her. (the real one)

I've been thinking of upgrading my gear. Right now I have this awesome weapon and the rest is quite bad. I mainly focused on getting some resist and mana reg. And ofc some decent sockets and links. Not sure where to start though. Might just need to browse the trading forum.

Oh, and I'm in desperate need of a molten shell gem..

EDIT: btw any chance that I could add you in the game EasyG?
 
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sure add copia

I am planning to rebuild my character including the cannot be stunned node, so I will need my low lvl molten shell, but maybe i have a 3rd gem lying around, ill check.

this is going to be the skilltree, I plan and I might start hardcore until i die:
You might wonder how im going to go without any mana with a skill that costs like 100 mana. Well the answer to that is I took 4.4% health regen and plan at blood support gems to use health instead of mana for my mainskills. The build lacks terribly in damage but well that s ok with me :D I just want immortality :P. Even though i have not any specific fire damage passives I would still take firestorm as secundary skill. It is simply the msot damaging spell of the game as long as you keep monsters in the radius, which is easy with a tank.
 
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Well, been making some nice progress lately. I finished up all the quests in act 1 merciless this morning and made it to fellshire. It was pretty safe and easy as long as I played smart. The only real reason I ever died was to desync. Well, I did die to brutus right away, but that was because I wasn't using any strategy :p

Been using heavy strike:faster attacks on left, cleave:blood mana/melee damage/life on hit on right, and shrieks charge on middle for utility.

I run the armor and tempest shield aura with reduced mana attached. I'm only 2 nodes from getting unwavering stance now, which will be good I think.

I might hang out in fellshire for a few levels, as I'm only 55 and the areas in act 2 are all at least 57.
 
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Been playing a bit. It is really a nice game, but I think that they should work a bit on the graphics for Chars and monsters, as they seem a little flat compared to the very beautiful landscapes. The same goes for the spells, that could be a little more creative. I shoot with a wand now, and it is a little too harry potter-like for me ;)

I like the gameplay it is really tough. I am playing a Shadow that I play as a Necro. Zombies gives nice damage, but die very easily. Overall for a free game, I like it so far :)
 
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For anyone who reached merciless at default, feel free to check my shop and I can give you some nice armor for free, especially the lordly plate has been used to lvl up allmost all my chars. Sadly I can no longer give away twinking gems, since I decided to clean my stashes and vendored 90% of my gems.
Inspired by Nermind and highly sponsored by Nerminds twinking gems and items I took the challenge of hardcore last week. Im proud how far I came but also a bit sad, I had to die at the very last mission to guardian. Died at lvl 65 in Lunaris temple lvl 3.
add me in game: Imolt
 
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