[3.25] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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Kelvynn#6607 wrote:

Oh boy, did they overdo that boss or what? So many phases with different mechanics! And if he catches you - you are dead. More of Dark Souls than Path of Exile really. I guess that's the impression GGG are trying to make with PoE 2 bosses.

New video: PoE 2 Act 1 Boss

I had the biggest smile on my face fighting that boss yesterday. What an amazing fight IMO. Looking forward to doing it again on my next character with a different class.

I started as Sorc and got lucky that the Act 1 vendor was selling a staff with Level 3 Frost Shards and +2 to level of all ice skill gems. Farmed just enough gold to buy it before the levelup shop reset. Currently just diving into crowds and nuking them with a level 3+2 Frost Nova, and freezelocking rares/bosses with Frost Shards.

Not really a fan of the watered-down equipment and lame crafting, or the playstyle in general. I actually remapped the dodge roll to my usual movement skill key, but it’s a sad replacement. I actually use it to close distance to crowds for nuking way more often than as an actual dodge. I guess we’ll see, but I don’t feel like POE2 is anywhere near being an improvement over POE1.

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Gottwurm#1507 wrote:

still havent found whispering ice though and for some reason the trial of ascendancy are just imposible. no idea how to beat them. we didnt even manage to do them when overleveled.

The POE2 trade search is now available. There is no Whispering Ice shown in the suggestion when you type the search keyword.

coc by winther orb with comet on monk just op) nerf inc for sure

New Video: Act 2 Boss Fight

I think I'm starting to get the idea how GGG want us to play this game. You are supposed to spend time farming each act to craft/upgrade your gear! But with the Ruthless loot model it's far from trivial.

You need to get lucky with Transmutations and Augmentations to get an item with a couple of good mods. There is no Alteration orb! And then you spend Regals/Exalts and hope for more good mods.

And you want to pick up every socketed item and use the hammer/anvil thing to break it into shards that will let you add sockets to the good items you craft. Sockets/runes are how you max your resists.

Did anybody sign up for playing SSF Ruthless? I sure did not. Especially with my limited play time. This is going to take a while...

dont waste regal and exalt during leveling. you can buy everything for gold from the npcs until maps.

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Gottwurm#1507 wrote:

dont waste regal and exalt during leveling. you can buy everything for gold from the npcs until maps.

What do you mean? They sell complete junk with 1-2 random mods, sometimes a rare that's completely useless.

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Gottwurm#1507 wrote:

dont waste regal and exalt during leveling. you can buy everything for gold from the npcs until maps.

I have had tons of luck regaling and exalting my own stuff during the campaign so far.

I played ruthless in POE1, and POE2 is similar to it in many aspects.

For example, in ruthless, the campaine boss will recover 25% hp if you die (not as harsh as PEO2). You don't have any movement skill (POE2 area feels larger). Limited crafting (POE2 doesn't even have alter orb) and drop.

Ruthless also has map sustain issue, I guess POE2 will have similar issue, too.

For my first two acts in POE2, I piled up increased rarity (similar to what I do in ruthless) and had to buy a +3 staff to solve the dps issue.

Not sure whether new players of POE2 will stay.

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Kelvynn#6607 wrote:

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Gottwurm#1507 wrote:

dont waste regal and exalt during leveling. you can buy everything for gold from the npcs until maps.

What do you mean? They sell complete junk with 1-2 random mods, sometimes a rare that's completely useless.

i had a good bit of luck with the random gear you can buy for gold and with some leveling gear from the vendor (+4 to skills staff eg).

also played in group and shared loot.

considering the amount of currency drops, i would save especially exalts for later crafting during maps. might change due to the announced loot increases though. after reaching maps yesterday i sure wish i hadnt wasted my currency at around lvl 40 instead of trying to craft an early mapping armour now ;-).

i found the crafting during the leveling kinda useless.

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Not sure whether new players of POE2 will stay.

i think new players will stay, but a lot of Poe1 players will go back to 1. there seem to be quite a lot of people that really just wanted poe1 with new graphics.