Path Of Exile

[Mr. Laz]

How does a Melee character survive Chaos damage in merciless?

most the passives are too far away to take
if you commit chaos resist equipment you lose a ton of other benefits

[Bump]

ah, nm

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

How does a Melee character survive Chaos damage in merciless?

most the passives are too far away to take
if you commit chaos resist equipment you lose a ton of other benefits

IDK, I died in the 60's on Merciless and called it a day.

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by Pants

IDK, I died in the 60's on Merciless and called it a day.

I've given up on caring about hardcore. Started playing again and died at 40, again. Just gonna finish up on the scrubcore side.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by jd1020

I've given up on caring about hardcore. Started playing again and died at 40, again. Just gonna finish up on the scrubcore side.

how is HC that hard?

I died once at lvl 37 on my first try, but that was only because I was stupid and TP'd back into Piety. Then my client crashed and loaded back up into default. But they have doubled the invulnerability timer at least, since that same thing happened to a lvl 88 streamer luckily.

Then I rolled a bow marauder, super easy. At lvl 61. Bored with that build. So now I'm on a lvl 43 summoner, which is just sickening how easy this is with no gear and 1100 life in Act 2 cruel. Easy mode.


I know, lvl 61 isn't really impressive, but as long as you stack life as much as you can, getting to 60 is easy. resists only seem to be important once you get to merci.

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by Bump

how is HC that hard?

I died once at lvl 37 on my first try, but that was only because I was stupid and TP'd back into Piety. Then my client crashed and loaded back up into default. But they have doubled the invulnerability timer at least, since that same thing happened to a lvl 88 streamer luckily.

Then I rolled a bow marauder, super easy. At lvl 61. Bored with that build. So now I'm on a lvl 43 summoner, which is just sickening how easy this is with no gear and 1100 life in Act 2 cruel. Easy mode.


I know, lvl 61 isn't really impressive, but as long as you stack life as much as you can, getting to 60 is easy. resists only seem to be important once you get to merci.

It's not hard. It's just, unlike you, I didn't roll the cookie cutter faceroll builds, and I don't want to because like you found out... they are booooooooooring.

Shooting arrows at offscreen mobs that chain and just obliterate packs of mobs you cant even see or sitting in a horde of minions isn't fun to me.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by jd1020

I've given up on caring about hardcore. Started playing again and died at 40, again. Just gonna finish up on the scrubcore side.

I hope "scrub"core kills you every 5 seconds until you cry.

[Shogun]

Anybody playing this still?

I just started again since the full game came out and I'm having a good time.

[hometeam]

I downloaded it the other night and played for a while.. still couldnt get into it

[Shogun]

Finished act 1 last night

Thoughts :

The Story doesn't feel like it is going anywhere, just a bunch of tasks with no real meaning yet. I hope it gets better

I like the fighting system. Reminds me of d2 somewhat.

Not a huge fan of the currency yet, stuff costing my scrolls and orbs, which is fine but I didn't find a whole lot of them in act 1. This will probably get better in act 2.

Bosses too easy to kill. I run a Maurader and I absolutely just rolled through everything in this act, im at level 15 or 16 right now and 200 DPS, I have a decent armor setup and the only thing that really owns me is fire damage.

Havent quite gotten the hang of the skill gems or skill tree yet to use to my advantage, but I think that just takes time.

[Mr. Laz]

unless they have changed things, bosses get significantly harder later

[Shogun]

Thats good, It was making me bored quicker.

I also don't like the severe lack of cinematics in the game. I know they couldnt afford the diablo 3 tier cinematics which i thought were beautiful, but at least throw something in there

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Shogun

Thats good, It was making me bored quicker.

I also don't like the severe lack of cinematics in the game. I know they couldnt afford the diablo 3 tier cinematics which i thought were beautiful, but at least throw something in there

I'm not a big fan of cut scenes and cinematics so it didn't bother me.

really try to get into crafting, it's a major part of the game

1st act is easy mode where you can survive regardless of your build or equipment. Later on you will hit the Diablo II Hell Wall ... where if you have screwed up your build, you're boned.

haven't played it in a long time so i'm assuming the game as remained similar

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Shogun

Thats good, It was making me bored quicker.

I also don't like the severe lack of cinematics in the game. I know they couldnt afford the diablo 3 tier cinematics which i thought were beautiful, but at least throw something in there

Make sure you play HC only. Makes the game way more intense, especially once you start hitting Act III in Merci.

Once you start playing HC, your priority #1, #2 and #3 are HP (unless you do that one thing where it makes you immune to Chaos but makes your HP cap at 1).

The game has one purpose - to get the best gear possible for your build. There is no story whatsoever.

I liked the game quite a bit and played for a long ass time. After that last death I suffered, I just didn't have it in me to start over though.

[Shogun]

Yeah I just found out that once your HC character dies, it changes to standard mode. Which sucks. I WILL start a character on HC, I Just wanted to get a feel for the controls a little better and the skill tree before I dedicate that sort of time to a HC character.