Path of Exile Talent Competition

I've seen many very good pictures and I wanted to participate too... but I can't paint.
That's why I used MS Paint!

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Hello, my attempt at Path of Exile art. It has been a long process but I truly enjoy the design and style. I love all the Breachlords, must see more of them. Here are my submissions.
Be gentle with me this is my first post.
I hope you all appreciate this, and best of luck to all.
The dimension is 1920x1080 so you can download them if you want to.

Xoph


Tul


Uul-Netol


Esh


Chayula
Exile, the strongest one who fight for self
who was betrayed and almost dead
but found strenght to keep the battle
with Death herself he must've haggled.

The path unclear, but faith is strong
and enemies, they wont last long.
His weapon is the shining sword.
His skill is stronger than a word.

He dominates and overcome, the one
who keep in fear, pain and struggle
put weak in grave and spread disease.
we whisper name in fear "Beast"...

Exile, you will only be the one,
forever, always, like a sun,
that shines and give away the light
in this dark world with only lies.
Pain and struggle he must overcome
And then he will open his eyes,
To see the place that he would call home
His brothers with him will arise.

Once again in the battle he bursts.
Fight the evil, and bashing the darkness.

Ending the reign on the land that was cursed
Xandro Blooddrinker wont stop him.
In one more battle diving like his last trial
Lonely but not alone -
Exile.
Some fun video 6 links with only one fuse
https://youtu.be/Yn8_RZMlESI







I actually made 3-4 video guides for gamers from russia over talent competition, now i have 100 subs and more then 10k views
ty ggg for motivation
Hi,

I've painted a necromancer with chaos animate weapon for the talent competition!

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE

The idea of a unique a talisman.



Proof

This is a short fanfiction I wrote in Italian. My friend itaShadd took care of the translation.

English version:
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Dreams

My days of rest are spent between the roasted meat of my preys and the grass-smelling flesh of Tora’s thighs. It took me a while to draw her away from that idiot Vagan, too dimmed by his love for duels to notice that of her glances. He and his followers should take a leaf out of Elreon’s rotting books, so full of words only my templar friend would care for, and what of Haku, the Karui always guarded by his speaking stones and his lust for the word of his ancestors. Vorici is best left unmentioned: every time I bring him up, Tora flees from my tent in ire. Whatever could he possibly have done to her?
«My dear huntress, isn’t it time for you to close your eyes shut and call it a night?» Tora’s voice quickly reaches my ears. The desire to turn around and fill my eyes with her body caressed by the warm deer pelts is immediate, enthralling.
«I don’t know, Tora. What do you think they’re still discussing out there?» I ask, as I feel her hands clasping my haunches. «Come on, not now!»
«Alright, you rhoahead...» she mumbles, glancing outside our tent.
Zana and my mates are gathered around the campfire, descanting over the artefacts we found throughout Wraeclast. I see the little witch that so reminds me of Catarina, far from the warmth and sight of the others, talking to the butcher, his sardonic smirk always present on his face.
The duellist from Theopolis, the Karui and the templar hang from Zana’s words as bears to the beehive. But I can’t see the posh blond lass; why would she, of all people, evade this nightly conclave, her sleep always so troubled?
«I’d bet the blondie is busy with the nightmares she always frets about.» Tora giggles, nuzzling my back.
«You took the words out of my mouth...» I grin. «I want to go listen to them, it might be interesting...»
«You didn’t even clean yourself up,» she reminds me.
«Since when do you care to hide our scent? Keep your mind away from those fools’ world.»
«The student has become the master!» A slap on my buttock punctuates her quip.
«As if I’d ever seen you do anything yourself...» I retort as I leave the sealed tent behind me; her mumbling riposte goes unheard.
I reach the campfire, witnessing the zenith of the discussion. Zana keeps blathering about the strange runic tablet she holds in her hands:
«We must investigate! Doesn’t all this trouble you at all? Isn’t travel between worlds an alluring idea? I could teach you!»
«Keeping my limbs well attached to my body is more alluring an idea,» scoffs the man from Theopolis. «The arena is one thing, but we don’t know what we’re dealing with here.»
«If Zana needs us with such fervour, it is righteous to follow her! We must, in the name of all that is holy, purify every realm from evil!» I would expect nothing less from the old man.
Everyone turns silent, only the crackling firewood breaking the lull. Suddenly, the elegant, agitated voice of the blondie scratches our ears:
«The hooded man! The hooded man... Zana, he’s looking for you!» drenched in sweat, she shambles towards us, but her eyes are lost in the darkness of her dreams.
«Enough with this nonsense! We’ve done enough for this wretched land and its people!» erupts the little witch, appearing from the dark. She wrests the rune from Zana’s hands and throws it into the fire: «there you go.»
An abrupt flash of light engulfs us. I can hear Tora screaming our names, my friends get swallowed by a blue breach in the sparkling flames. Someone speaks within my head, his voice echoes between the walls of eternity:
«Welcome, travellers...»
Next to me, Zana gazes into the darkness, tears wetting her face as one single word escapes from her lips:
«Father...»


Original Italian:
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Sogni

Spendo i miei giorni di riposo tra la carne cotta delle mie prede e quella profumante d’erba delle cosce di Tora. Mi ci è voluto molto per allontanarla da quell’idiota di Vagan, tanto orbo e concentrato sui suoi duelli con i miei compagni, da non notare il modo in cui Tora lo fissava. Dovrebbero prendere esempio da Haku, il karui, circondato da ammassi di pietra parlanti e dal desiderio di ricongiungersi ai propri avi; magari anche da Elreon, immerso in quei tomi marcescenti dai quali ricava informazioni di cui solo il mio amico templare può beneficiare. Vorici è proprio meglio non nominarlo, ogni volta che lo faccio Tora si infuria e scappa via dalla tenda. Che gli avrà mai fatto?
«Mia cara cacciatrice, non è il momento di chiudere gli occhi per oggi?» la voce di Tora mi raggiunge rapidamente, la voglia di voltarmi e guardarla muoversi tra le calde pelli di cervo mi rapisce, immediata.
«Non so, Tora, cos’hanno ancora da parlare secondo te?» le chiedo invano, sentendo le sue braccia attorno alla vita. «Dai, non è il momento!»
«D’accordo. Hai propria la testa di un rhoa tu..!» borbotta lei, scrutando fuori dalla nostra tenda. I miei compagni e Zana sono attorno al fuoco, discutono animatamente di alcuni reperti ritrovati in giro per Wraeclast. Vedo la strega, che tanto mi ricorda Catarina, assieme al macellaio dal sorriso sarcastico, che se la discutono in disparte lontani dal fuoco e dalla vista degli altri. Il duellante di Theopolis, il karui e il templare, ascoltano Zana come se fosse la portatrice di grandi verità. Ma non vedo la nobile biondina, possibile che non le interessi partecipare a questa riunione notturna? Proprio a lei, con tutti quei problemi a dormire!
«Scommetto che la bionda è a contorcersi tra quegli incubi di cui blatera continuamente...» ridacchia Tora, accarezzandomi la schiena.
«Mi hai tolto le parole di bocca...» sogghigno. «Voglio andare ad ascoltare, potrebbe essere interessante.»
«Non ti sei neppure sciacquata,» mi ricorda, puntuale.
«Da quando ti interessa coprire il nostro odore naturale? Tieni la tua mente lontana dal modo in cui vivono quegli stolti,»
«L’allievo che supera il maestro!» mi da una pacca sul sedere.
«Già, come se ti avessi mai visto fare qualcosa...» le dico, pungente. Mi chiudo la tenda alle spalle e la sento borbottare qualcosa.
Quando raggiungo il focolare, i miei colleghi avventurieri sono al culmine della discussione. Zana continua animatamente la sua predica su quella strana roccia runica che regge tra le mani:
«Dobbiamo investigare! Non siete anche voi turbati da tutto ciò? La possibilità di viaggiare verso altri mondi è allettante, io posso istruirvi...»
«Tenere tutte le parti del mio corpo ben salde, quello è allettante,» sorride l’uomo di Theopolis. «Un conto è l’Arena, ma qui non sappiamo a cosa andiamo incontro.»
«Se Zana dice di avere bisogno di noi con tanto fervore, è giusto seguirla! Dobbiamo, in nome di tutto ciò che è sacro, purificare ogni reame esistente dal Male!» non mi sarei aspettata di meno dal vecchio.
Tutti restano muti, solo lo scricchiolio della legna che arde rimane a farci compagnia. All’improvviso, la voce elegante ed euforica della nobile biondina allerta tutti:
«L’uomo incappucciato! L’uomo incappucciato... Zana, ti sta cercando!» è madida di sudore, arranca verso di noi ma i suoi occhi sono perduti nell’oscurità del suo sogno.
«Basta idiozie, abbiamo già fatto abbastanza per questa landa e questa gente!» tuona la piccola strega, sbucando dal nulla e strappando dalle mani di Zana la runa. La getta nel fuoco accesso: «Ecco fatto...»
Un lampo di luce subitaneo ci acceca tutti. Sento la voce di Tora che urla i nostri nomi, tutti i miei amici che vengono risucchiati da un varco azzurro tra le fiamme brillanti. Qualcuno parla nella mia testa, la sua voce riecheggia tra le pareti dell’eternità:
«Benvenuti, viaggiatori...»
Accanto a me Zana guarda il vuoto, le lacrime le rigano il viso e una sola parola le scivola via dalle labbra:
«Padre...»
My work: http://inq-sparker.ucoz.net/start.html
Sources: http://my-files.ru/o4hqtd
Sorry for my bad inglish.
My talent, if I have one, is to detect problems and find a solution to improve one's quality of life. In this case, I'll make a suggestion to try to make the master leveling experience even better.

It's a known fact that leveling your masters yourself is extremely hard and time consuming for a league, and since I leveled all my masters to 8 for the first time doing master rotations, I found the following problems with the experience:

- To find a group you need to pay attention to Global 820 waiting for people to make a group, the problem with that is that a not all players know that channel, the channel is having problems (Connecting players that can talk in the chat but not receive messages) and that people can miss groups for the masters they want to level because of timing and chat spam;

- It's incredibly hard to find some rotations, not even considering the game's huge player base;

- Losing dailies because of slow connection/computer and people not waiting for you;

- People forgeting they've done the mission the day before;

- Having to link items to prove your master's level;

- It often takes too much time;

- Scammers.

How can we use assets already in the game to make the experience better and more inclusive to new players?

Using the Event Noticeboard. An mostly unused asset with the potential to make the master leveling experience better. There could be a tab in the Event Noticeboard for Masters, and in that tab there would be options for each master (including an option for all masters), and clicking in one of those would allow you to enter a group for master rotation from level 5 to 8. It would also show you how many people are in the currently open group. You wouldn't be able to apply for a group if your master isn't at the required level or if you've already done their mission.

With that you could enter a group and go do something else while the group isn't full and whenever it's filled, you get an alert and choose if you're ready to do it or not and can communicate with your group to explain to them why you're not ready yet, for example. If someone takes more than 1 minute to get ready after the rest of the group is ready the player will be considered AFK and get kicked from the group. And if anyone takes more than 2 minutes to get ready after the group is full, being the group ready or not, they would also be kicked. If a player is kicked before the rotation starts, the group would become open again to fill his spot, if a player is kicked after the rotation has started, the player would lose his daily and the group would go on without him, unless he comes back before the group finishes the rotation. A kicked player can come back and join the same group once again, but if kicked again, he would be banned from that group. And if a player gets kicked 3 times in a period of 1 hour, for example, he wouldn't be able to join any groups for the next 3 hours, for example.

Whenever the group is ready, they would be teleported to the master's mission map. In case someone disconnects, their daily would still be used by the rest of the group, but the player would be able to login and join again if the group still exists.

Since the last update made your own daily give you more reputation, the last mission could be the one to give extra reputation to everyone, as a bonus for completing the rotation. It wouldn't matter if they failed the first missions to get the extra reputation, only if they fail the last one.

You would still be able to open your daily in your hideout as it is now to share it, do it alone or whatever else.

This would change considerably the experience of leveling masters, but I think it would change to better. This suggestion can be shaped to best fit the game. And I hope the GGG team likes this idea :)
Last edited by MrReynolds on Jan 11, 2017, 8:02:09 PM

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