/trade 101 : dedicated to help new comers with the game. Answers/Tricks/Mentoring

I saw this dude asking for a mentor and I got the idea to have a channel dedicated to answer new comers with questions about the game and also to help them find a "big brother" that will help them with their playthrough and take them under their wing.

/trade 101


Erudits that want to share your POE knowledge?
kind souls that wants to help people?
Newbies that have it all to learn and want to learn

welcome!

No poll? Reported

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raxleberne wrote:

No poll? Reported

very smart... guess we cant count on you for the channel

 Isn't this what ZiggD-tv:The Path of Exile Beginner’s Guide Series is all about.

 I was shocked a little to hear Chris state yesterday in the State of Exile episode 51 that about half of all new players that try Path of Exile quit at Normal Brutus because they think he's too hard to kill. If nearly half of the new players stop playing at that early boss then either they should never be here in the first place (this is not the arpg they are looking for) or are completely clueless as to how to play an arpg. Either way it's a horrible statistic and thus we who have been into PoE for a very long time (me and Bob, my pet Kiwi) should try to figure out a way to help newbies over the first PoE hurtles. We were all newbies at some point in the past and had to learn how to survive in Wraeclast the hard way (by dieing frequently).

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Arrowneous wrote:

 Isn't this what ZiggD-tv:The Path of Exile Beginner’s Guide Series is all about.

 I was shocked a little to hear Chris state yesterday in the State of Exile episode 51 that about half of all new players that try Path of Exile quit at Normal Brutus because they think he's too hard to kill. If nearly half of the new players stop playing at that early boss then either they should never be here in the first place (this is not the arpg they are looking for) or are completely clueless as to how to play an arpg. Either way it's a horrible statistic and thus we who have been into PoE for a very long time (me and Bob, my pet Kiwi) should try to figure out a way to help newbies over the first PoE hurtles. We were all newbies at some point in the past and had to learn how to survive in Wraeclast the hard way (by dieing frequently).

maybe but a video cant answer your live question

especially when its about something very precise

 PoE Basics #1: Make sure you have the right hardware and good Internet to play PoE 

 This seams like a no-brainer but even today as the many rage posts about Perandus mobs causing total screen freeze-ups attest it isn't understood by quite a few players. Rather than repeat myself here I'll refer everyone to my previous post: Are Perandus mobs killing your frame rates?.

 To determine if you can get under 100 ms pings to your closest PoE realm you need to run Internet communication latency tests (how fast can a packet of data go from your computer to the PoE game servers and back to you). To do that you can use the built in Windows command prompt PING command or use a utility such as WinMTR to run the Internet speed tests. Here's my own test from my location in SW Florida: Testing your Internet connection to the PoE game servers. The different PoE game server realms are listed here: MTR and Connectivity Issue Primer. My test is to Dallas Texas at "us.login.pathofexile.com" so substitute your own closest realm or try different ones to see which has the lowest latency. It's always "the lower the better" for playing PoE best. Unfortunately if you are way out away from any PoE realm and have way high latency then PoE won't play very well and will frustrate you into quickly quitting so it is best to find out now if you are good to play with your hardware and Internet speed.

I like the idea of a qa style chat for discussing game mechanics, build advice etc but I worry it would degenerate into giz me free stuffz.

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ladish wrote:

I like the idea of a qa style chat for discussing game mechanics, build advice etc but I worry it would degenerate into giz me free stuffz.

lets hope not
when everything is handed to you, you dont learn shit

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ladish wrote:

I like the idea of a qa style chat for discussing game mechanics, build advice etc but I worry it would degenerate into giz me free stuffz.

There are the 7 classes/builds forums for discussion of a million types of builds. That is way beyond the scope of a PoE 101 discussion for new players. We can talk about things that all new players need such as finding boots that have increased speed, getting resists on gear as fast as possible, especially cold resist before taking on Normal Merveil the Siren, basics on evasion kiting ranged builds or face tanking melee builds, common recipes that all beginners should know and save items for such as 40% recipe, etc.

 I guess the first thing to understand is why new players hit a Normal Brutus boss battle wall and just quit playing. Is a first time player's death at the hands of Brutus a shocker to new players? Is a new player going straight into hardcore and quickly dieing? Are new players trying to race through and find that Brutus isn't a quick face roll (experienced players yes, new players no)? Just what difficulties are the new players running into in their first forays into Wraeclast?

 Of course discussing this means new players will have to use the PoE forums and find this thread.

Edit: Hmm... maybe new players haven't yet learned by the Brutus battle how to use the flasks sparingly and effectively and how they only refill by killing monsters. If a new player just tries to spam them like we did with health pots back in D2 they'll get used up fast and not get refilled until the skeletons drop in and are killed.

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ladish wrote:

I like the idea of a qa style chat for discussing game mechanics, build advice etc but I worry it would degenerate into giz me free stuffz.

lets hope not
when everything is handed to you, you dont learn shit

 Good point. Are new players expecting to breeze through Normal without breaking a sweat? Do they want everything we learned the hard way handed to them (entitlement)? If so then we must inform them that PoE doesn't play that way.