Guide to Blight Towers

It seems i've posted the guide in the wrong forums by accident... there goes a smooth launch. Thankfully moved by GGG already.

Anyway, i wasn't joking about much to be done with the guide. There's plenty of annointments to test and Lightning Storm / Smothering tower to crack. However i honestly need a break from testing. Sitting for hours finding right material that's easy to observe and counting amount of chains in arc at 0,25 speed or sitting with WSplit measuring duration/recharge can be a bit boring. I would like to play the game for some time.

I'm looking for feedback regarding the images. It feels to me that guide is too "image heavy". It looks awesome and does it's purpose when all spoilers are unwrapped. I might actually remove tower spoilers for that reason, the category ones will stay. Also the initial images feel too flashy. I wanted to showcase the towers a bit on them but in some cases it's kinda.... impossible to look more grim?

To finish - if there's anything you want me to check, let me know. I'll try my best to find it out.

According to this: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1733474

double meteor anointment doesn't work :)
It seems hilarious that probably most popular upgrade that ppl claim is by far the best doesn't actually do anything.

So all the praise i've heard about the upgrade was... placebo effect? I personally didn't test the annointment, but how it was phrased was quite obvious and therefore i valued it highly. In case it worked like repeat like the annointment cost suggests... well, that wouldn't be very consistent with other wordings. I'll get to test everything eventually, SSF or not.


Side note, i got some drive to test more stuff. First of all i did few tests on 2x 25% increased effect of Empowering towers and it's a bit inconsistent in how it works. Obviously it does increase the aura effect and the stats it gives, but in some cases it doesn't do that.


Basically it seems there's upper limit in some cases, but also the recharge is quite weird. More and thorough tests it is.

I've also tried some towers in actual encounters after i've learned how Emp III is good, and some are definitely better than it seemed at the first glance. Flamethrower tower actually melts things. Freezebolt tower can be good, but it desperately needs annointments. Without them it's not consistent enough. Lightning Storm tower seems completely inferior to Arc in all situations. I didn't play enough to test out other towers will do soon.

It's been 2 months since i created the "guide". The Blight league is about to end. Meanwhile i finally motivated myself to update the old data dump into actual guide. It should've been done around 1,5 month earlier when i finally figured out optimal strategy. Good news is that Blight goes core, so my effort won't go in vain. So, what's new:

November 21th, 2019 - Actually a guide now
NEW: General Tower Guide
* Contains basic info about general tower mechanics and tower specific.
* Has extra commentary, including viability and logical conclusions.

NEW: Strategy Guide
* "What am i supposed to build?" section.
* Contains extra info about monsters.

Tower Data Section
* Rewritten commentary to be more useful and straightforward.
* Annointments changed to mention only the ones worthy to be used.
* Added tower's role (technically it's here for long time, but i never said it officially)


I'm quite happy how it turned out. Formatting is still something i could improve, but not right now. I should be working on much more general and useful guide instead that i have in mind for a long time. This league is a perfect moment to create it.

If I'm in standard, what anoints should I get on my 2 rings ?
I'm a mf tornado shot build, with mostly lightning and a little cold dmg, and on high tier maps sometimes I fail blight encounters.
And I don't care about cost, ill spend whatever is necessary.

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Scarab_Dodger wrote:

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If I'm in standard, what anoints should I get on my 2 rings ?
I'm a mf tornado shot build, with mostly lightning and a little cold dmg, and on high tier maps sometimes I fail blight encounters.
And I don't care about cost, ill spend whatever is necessary.

Based on what you're asking for i'm wondering if you read the guide at all. It's really not that big. Ah, whatever.

Silver + Opalescent - "Your Chilling Towers freeze enemies for 0.2 seconds while they are affected by chilling beams"

Assuming you're using the strategy i described here, this should help you complete any hard encounter. Should give enough time to let you or your towers to kill all incoming monsters. It's an overpowered annointment, for real.

very excellent guide.

I didnt notice it mentioned, but imbuing tower. Is this specifically players, or can it affect allies (i.e. player minions)?

Also was the meteor enchantment fixed? I tried looking at the post mentioned above, but couldnt see any reference to it (so assuming it was removed from the pending/current issues section).

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Asmosis wrote:

very excellent guide.

I didnt notice it mentioned, but imbuing tower. Is this specifically players, or can it affect allies (i.e. player minions)?

It's clearly stated in detailed tower mechanics:

* Only players receive the buff. Other allied units (like minions or towers) are not affected by the Imbuing tower.

Thanks, missed that line.

Also was the meteor enchantment fixed? I tried looking at the post mentioned above, but couldnt see any reference to it (so assuming it was removed from the pending/current issues section).

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Asmosis wrote:

Thanks, missed that line.

Also was the meteor enchantment fixed? I tried looking at the post mentioned above, but couldnt see any reference to it (so assuming it was removed from the pending/current issues section).

It was fixed long time ago. Every annointment should work now i believe.