Explanation of some changes in 0.9.13h

Boosting hybrid armors was really necessary, the sum of their defense values was equal as a same level normal armor, but when calculating equivalent protection you don't sum it. That was probably the main reason of hybrids sucking.

Example:
You got 20% DR and 20% EVA, that's not 40% of total mitigated damage but 36%.

I am glad to see the shield block balance. At least for evasion/block builds I was not even considering shields with lower than 30% base block. And Crest Of Perands was THE shield, hands down the best for evasion/block. 1650 evsion 36% block shield provided noticably less survivability than the unique. Although we'll see if it's possible to get decent survivability with shield ranger now.

I'm pretty much getting used to the fact that I'll probably have a total of 5 alchemy orbs drop over my playtime come open beta. This rare matching thing is probably the only way I kept my hands on any.

I'm beginning to dislike having to rely on RNG purely across this game. This is depressing. Not gonna lie.

Considering open betas tend not to last more than 2 weeks, thats quite a practical quantity to assume, depending on how long you decide to farm ofc.

If open beta is going to be in Dec, and there's a closed beta race on 9 Dec, then

10 Dec > OB > 31 Dec

which is only a 20-day period and very, very tight in what I imagine is a development schedule.

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Joshmans90 wrote:

Considering open betas tend not to last more than 2 weeks,

I dunno, but I think POE's open beta might last quite a bit longer than that...

As for the storm, heck if there was a supporter pack that included access for closed-beta only players I'd be seriously tempted to get it.

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Xendran wrote:

Anyway, the whole My Games/Path of Exile thing is stupid. Now i can't save screenshots, because my OS partition doesn't have the room. I have all my games installed on my D drive, i don't want shit saving to my C drive, ever.

Anyway you are a bunch of whiner newbs! If you play on non-standard settings then live with non-standard consequences. Also applies for other "image location whiners". Read below for solutions.

Also NTFS supports JUNCTIONS and you CAN map drives as folders.

So you have 2 options:
* make a small partition and map it as documents/My Games (and move the contents of that folder to the disk)
* create a junction

How to create a junction? In windows xp you need to download a small program called junction from sysinternals. On windows 7 (and probably vista) you have a command mklink... start cmd as admin and write mklink to get the help you need. And remember to create a junction, symbolic/hard links I think work only for explorer. Just tested and it makes a junction to another hdd just fine.

It will take a lot of time for the devs to implement useless stuff like this so you shouldn't burden them with little useless details!

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Also VAAL OVERSOUL IS BROKEN AND NEEDS TO GET FIXED. Fighting him is just not fun. He uses a totally alien skillset. And getting oneshotted even when you stack a ton of life is just insane.

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namad wrote:

I think the whole design of rare matching might be broken, in theory. the whole point of selling tabs was supposed to be to make it easier to sort things nicely, maybe make one whole page for swords, one whole page for blue gems, etc... just a nice little useful usability issue... not buy 30tabs and then run a 3rd party script that prints money for you.

I totally agree. I have a program that I wrote that logs into the website with all of my different accounts, downloads and parses the rare items and matches sets of 2 and 3 for alchemy and regal orbs. I'm literally about 5 minutes of code away from turning it into an automated currency dispenser (which I haven't done for ethical reasons).

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Joshmans90 wrote:

Considering open betas tend not to last more than 2 weeks

I played Battlefield Heroes which was a relatively early, free to play model, third person shooter, it went open beta 3.5 years ago, I don't know that they've ever left "open beta" and were still open beta when I left the game roughly a year ago. Food for thought.

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Chris wrote:

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TehHammer wrote:

Also would like to hear if map drops are going to get any love in the patch. Silent nerfs probably get answered with silent buffs, but when you nerf it as bad as you did, you should really say something.

Every change to map drop rates has been discussed in patch notes. Comments about them being more or less common than the last patch are based entirely on perceiving patterns in randomness!

Could you double check that? Perhaps something is broken or not functioning properly because there's no way these are the same map drop rates as before. Other notable end-game players feel the same way, it's way harder to progress higher than level 65 or so.

The last patch note that says anything about map drops was 0.9.12o, in which map drops were increased and getting higher level maps were made easier. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Chris, It's not possible to quote you now.

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We've changed the vendor recipes related to matching rares that have the same name. It's still possible to get Orbs of Alchemy and Regal Orbs, but is more complex and costly

20% quality? :)

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Xendran wrote:

CB members should get a 60 second headstart on OB so we can get on before the login server crashes.

Because a year+ headstart to play the game wasn't enough.

I'm already resigned to the fact that it is very likely that we'll have problems logging onto the Open Beta at launch.

That's why, if I didn't already have it, I'd be pulling teeth and posting like a mofo and maybe even asking directly to get alpha access. It may well be the new Closed Beta, effectively.

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Neikius wrote:

Anyway you are a bunch of whiner newbs!

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Neikius wrote:

Also VAAL OVERSOUL IS BROKEN AND NEEDS TO GET FIXED. Fighting him is just not fun. He uses a totally alien skillset. And getting oneshotted even when you stack a ton of life is just insane.

Pot, kettle, black, etc. Please don't call other users 'newbs', especially when that other user is Xendran, who is not a newb, even if he may wax whiny on occasion.

This thread is not for requesting general, unrelated-to-0.9.13h fixes -- that and there are a bunch of threads in the other boards discussing the Oversoul.

Thank you, and...

Moving along.