OT: The SPF Path of Exile Thread

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Done for today. Things went alot better. Found some nice items and getting a better understanding of how things work.

Managed to finish the first act. Got into little trouble up until the final boss. She was quite a hand full. Went down anyway. In the skills i got to a skill that added both dex and int so i got some more gear options open to me now. Also cleaned out my stash cause i kept a lot of things that seemed useful at the time, but turned out to be utterly worthless.

@coju: Thanks for the answers. If you'd consider joining Europe i'd be happy to play with you ;). Although getting online at the same time might pose a problem.

Finishing off with another question that popped up in my head: Read somewhere that drops increase with a bigger party, are drops still open for anyone to be picked up or does everyone get their own drops? (in other words if i play with strangers do i need to be really fast picking up good items or can i do so at own convenience)
 
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Attributes becomes a bit of an issue early on. Try patching those gaps with rings/amulet. If you're worried you won't be able to use a skill after switching some gear around, try not to level that skill (spells for you)

I'm also going to start a character later today, actually. Firestorm/cold snap to see if I can get that to work.

Yes, exiting trade/global chat won't affect your party/whisper messages.

Mumble is a text/voice chat that a handful of us from the SPF use. You should totally join us :) (details in his sig I think)
 
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TheNix said:
Ok I've been playing for a while, I have a marauder at about level 21 and I suppose things are going ok. The problem is I've got my stash full of mostly unidentified magic items that I have no idea what to do with, a left over from playing D2 I suppose. Should I just sell the lot? What mods are worth keeping? I've created two other characters (ranger and witch) to give me space in my stash, but I just keep filling up with crap.
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I rarely pick up blues, +life and +res are the mods you are looking for. I would save wisdom scrolls for rares.

Cyrax said:
Found out that i have a huge lack of dex and int. Plenty of strength, but i have several items that i'd like to wear but can't because i don't meet the requirements. Found the part in the passive tree that could fix that but i'm quite far away from it. Next point will go to resist all (since i was going for that and i'm only 1 point away from it). After that i'll be going for dex/int.

Some questions, maybe some are easy, but i haven't looked into all the aspects of the game yet:
- Reading TheNix' comment i'm wondering how items can be transferred between your chars. Is it a shared stash? And does it become bigger with more chars?
- Kestegs mentioned i should get on mumble. Is that used for ingame chat or is it more like hamachi is for D2?
- If you've silenced the trade channel and whatever the channel you're in is called can you still receive messages from people?
- I suppose you need to be in the same gateway and league to be able to join games with one another?

Surely there'll be more questions later, but this is enough as i'm gonna start up PoE to play some more!
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If you are using dex/int skills with marauder you won't be able to keep up with requirements when you level up your gem, unless you plan to go into teplar or duelist part of the tree right away.

There is a basic 4 tab stash for each league you play in, for example all chars in standard league use the same 4 stashes, and similar for other leagues. You can't transfer items from standard to HC, but you can from HC to standard if you die with the HC char, then equiped stuff goes to standard and you can play that char on standard. However, you can buy (for real money) more stash tabs from microtransaction shop on official PoE pages. Alternatively, you can obviously create up to 24 chars and use them as mules, or you can create more accounts for more space.


I'm playing the Onslaught league, currently leveling Lighning Strike Duelist, I'm planing on getting IR, US, RT and EB keystones and run 3 40% auras and max level Arctic Armour. :)
 
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You don't need to be in the same gateway to play together. If coju and Cyrax play together and Cyrax creates the instance (area) it will be an european instance. Coju will be "transferred" to that instance when he joins and will be playing on the european gateway for that instance. When he's starting his own instance he'll be back on his "home gateway". Same happens when Cyrax joins coju's instance. Cyrax will be playing that instance on the US gateway. So everybody can play with everybody in this game.

Loot allocation has 3 options now. FFA, short allocation or permanent allocation which the party leader chooses before entering a map. Permanent means 5 mins (I believe) or until the person that got the item allocated leaves the area. Everybody sees everything that drops.
 
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Good to know. That's not something you're likely to figure out by accident.

Are there any known bugs regarding the clearing of areas? There's one that i thought i cleaned out twice, but didn't get the all clear sign. And now i just had the same in a different area. The first area was wide open meaning easy to miss one straggler, the other area was more with chambers. (Had a third area where it almost happened, but there i found one itsy bitsy spider that was still crawling around)

Also found my first unique! Not useful, but still fun. Cage of the gods or something like that (it's a staff).
 
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Use the /remaining command to tell you number of remaining monsters. Rogue exiles don't count towards that number, BTW.

Open up your challenge list (H I think) to see the list of named areas. You'll notice in some areas that there isn't a separate challenge for it. These are lumped in with others.
For example, in act 1 the upper prison includes Brutus as a monster (who is in the warden's chambers or something above the upper prison). I didn't realise this for awhile. Same applies to Merveil in act 1, Vaal in act 2 and piety in act 3.

Sometimes you might be able to hear the monsters if you're using headphones from what I've heard.
 
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Cyrax said:
Good to know. That's not something you're likely to figure out by accident.

Are there any known bugs regarding the clearing of areas? There's one that i thought i cleaned out twice, but didn't get the all clear sign. And now i just had the same in a different area. The first area was wide open meaning easy to miss one straggler, the other area was more with chambers. (Had a third area where it almost happened, but there i found one itsy bitsy spider that was still crawling around)

Also found my first unique! Not useful, but still fun. Cage of the gods or something like that (it's a staff).
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I've had that also. I think sometimes the announcement is bugged. Check /remaining and if it's 0, check your achievements. It will show as completed there even though you didn't get the annuncement. Took me half an hour running around like an idiot in lower submerged before I checked achievements....
 
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I had noticed that some areas were lumped in with others. Only problem is that the one i'm in IS in the list, so you can't see if there's an unlisted area to go with it.

Did remember to check the achievements, but that is still open for those areas. If it's only to pop-up that occasionally has a bug then i'm still missing some monsters.

Didn't know about the /remaining command, that should come in handy. :thumbup: Are there any more of those that are useful?
 
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/oos will resync you with the server. Lots of people use macros for that or exiting the game (but that cheesy imo).

/itemlevel while having an item in your cursor will tell you the item level. ILvl50 to be able to get 6 sockets on an item.

/global # and /trade # will direct you to a specific channel
 
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Itemlevel is also important for crafting, just like in D2 affixes have ilvl requirements.

/passives is also a command. I think it shows which skill points you have got, so yu can find missing ones from quests (like forgetting to collect the two from killing Piety or not doing some side quest).

I have a question too. What is the best way of getting more mana as a life based build when you lack reduced mana, blood magic and absolutely need to run two auras? There's no int node near my dumpster build either (ROA ranger, messed up). I can kill with ROA as it has mana leech, but everything else is a problem. /rant
 
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Didn't know about passives. Does it just give you a total number, then?

Umm, probably the best way is to get 2 rare rings with mana as inherent and additional modifier. You could just alch some rings you shop, or something like that.
 
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I haven't used it myself, just seen it on stream. It was not a total number, more like a list of where you got your skill points from.

I was just ranting. I need to find a blood magic gem to BM my ROA. And also a reduced mana gem for my auras. That's the fix for my problem right there. Just that it isn't that easy to get them when you play self found. ;)
 
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Moar said:
I haven't used it myself, just seen it on stream. It was not a total number, more like a list of where you got your skill points from.

I was just ranting. I need to find a blood magic gem to BM my ROA. And also a reduced mana gem for my auras. That's the fix for my problem right there. Just that it isn't that easy to get them when you play self found. ;)
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I think both of those are rewards, but I'm unsure of ranger rewards. The wiki will be able to tell you.

Also, you can get gloves with mana leech ;)
 
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Both are strength gems and I think they are only available in cruel for Templar and Marauder. I have a hopeless Marauder somewhere around lv 45, so he might be able to get that BM gem. Have to check the wiki. Gotta check out when the reduced mana is available too. Might be to late in cruel for that Marauder to get to it. He's really crap.

I found Aursize (sp?) with the char and am wearing them. Trying to get some IIR here and there. Mana leach is ok since I have it as a support for ROA. It prefer to remove it for faster attacks though, but that would mean BM and a 5 link which I don't have yet. Reserved mana is the main problem. Not enough mana to cast bear traps and curses reliably.

As I said, I was just ranting. I would like a lot of stuff, but I can still get by. Char is lvl 59 and just got to Fellshrine which she will be running a bit. Need to find a bow upgrade (DPS is horrible) and some better life/armour/Ev/res gear. Mana is just not a priority, so struggling we will be. ;)
 
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Moar said:
Both are strength gems and I think they are only available in cruel for Templar and Marauder. I have a hopeless Marauder somewhere around lv 45, so he might be able to get that BM gem. Have to check the wiki. Gotta check out when the reduced mana is available too. Might be to late in cruel for that Marauder to get to it. He's really crap.

I found Aursize (sp?) with the char and am wearing them. Trying to get some IIR here and there. Mana leach is ok since I have it as a support for ROA. It prefer to remove it for faster attacks though, but that would mean BM and a 5 link which I don't have yet. Reserved mana is the main problem. Not enough mana to cast bear traps and curses reliably.

As I said, I was just ranting. I would like a lot of stuff, but I can still get by. Char is lvl 59 and just got to Fellshrine which she will be running a bit. Need to find a bow upgrade (DPS is horrible) and some better life/armour/Ev/res gear. Mana is just not a priority, so struggling we will be. ;)
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Good luck! I played "solo" (2 players who didn't trade/MP with others) and I got to lvl 79 and managed to get all but 3 maps, so solo is doable but yes, very hard. I haven't had a 5L, yet :/
 
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That remaining command really helped. Cleared the area again and was missing 2. After lots of running around i stumbled upon 2 of those rock monsters. Must've passed them fairly closely judging by the bodies that were already there. Third time was a charm.

The area next to that also got cleaned with the exception of 2. First straggler was found quickly. The other i had to run around the entire area twice to find him.

What recipes are useful and what do people use them on when you're around 27?
 
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Don't use currency that early. You will need it later. A transmute, augment and alteration here or there won't hurt, but don't even think about jewellers, fusings, alch and chaos before you get above lvl 50. Chromatics are also ok to use as they are plenty to find.
Don't roll your flasks before you got hallowed. No point there since you will be switching them out a lot.
 
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Recipes I look out for are chromatic (any item with all 3 colours linked) and ofc sell any non-useful 6os item as that will get you 7 joolerz (1.75 fusings).

40% total quality through weps, OR armor, OR gems OR maps (or a single 20% quality item) will sell for the related quality boosting item (armor scrap for 40% total armor quality, etc. )

There are other more difficult recipes but I would just google vendor recipes for those.
 
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Also save superior flasks. Selling a combined +40% will get you a glassblower's bauble.
Same with gems. Combined +40% will get you a GCP.

And you can upprade your flasks. Three of the same level will give one of the next higher level.
 
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