my character name is AntonChigurh

hit me up if ya want

Make sure and check out the passive tree on the website to help you plan, it's massive.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree

You can easily make to level 8 or so without assigning any passives to give you a chance to figure it out.

http://i.imgur.com/FI1Xh.jpg

I'd rather experiment with it and not look at it. Anywho. My names are Dawnic, Yonic, and Brutic.

I'm sure I'm gonna mess up my build and have to start over, but that's half the fun lol

I rolled a marauder, been going down the +10 strength and melee damage tree.

Finished act 1 as a templar, had to open the game to the public for help with merv. Love the flasks oh and one more time **** Jay Wilson!

Merv is harder than most

I am downloading this.

Add Spellshocked to my list of characters.

Kicked out of game and chars not showing up, they need to add more servers to deal with the demand.

Back after about 5 mins, hate that I lost about 5 mins of gametime as well..rather annoying.

If anyone comes across any good yellow gear for a witch, hang on to it and we'll see if we can flip some gear to each other. I've got some low level gear for melee if you need it.

Apparently they are having some issue with someone who crashing the game.

Maybe a hacker trying to dupe or something?

I guess they figures it out and are going to patch it.

they have a twitter feed

They should have money for more servers ... last i checked they have pulled in over 2 million on beta starter packs.

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What classes is everyone playing?

I'm thinking about starting out as a Duelist.

Going for a 2h mace Marauder.

I realized that I better decide on what weapon to use now with this skill tree.

I'm pretty impressed with this skill tree. I already used 2 respec points and I think I messed up too. But I figure I'll just re-roll once I know whats up.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...-ezacwwQTG2Pe-

but ya, I messed up lol

I went for that lifesteal because thats whats hot on Diablo 3, lol. Stupid.

got the Act 1 boss on first try, on to Act 2!

Im ranger.

I made a Marauder too.

This is where I'm at so far... http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...XP567vDvcy-0U= I'm going 1her + shield. I need to start picking up some resists, though. The skeleton elementals in Act 2 are kicking my ass.

Lifesteal is trash early. It's based purely on how much damage you are doing and in the early stages you aren't doing shit.

Templar here.

Ya I died by those skeletons a few times then I found a new tactic, kill them before they kill me. So far it's working. :D

the skeleton casters are tricky. the best thing to do is load up on cold resist gear. cold doesn't do much damage to you but, if you get frozen the other casters will wipe you out. Watch out for the lightning bolts too. one isnt bad but it will put a shocked state on you. once you are shocked everything that hits you will do extra damage. the shocked state from lightning is multiplicative too. so if you get hit by lightning several times in succession, you're going to take double, triple, or quadruple damage. its best to just back off long enough for the shocked status to wear off or use a flask to remove it.

I have to go in, whack them a couple times, and then speed flask out.

The worst is when there's one of those guys that raise the dead and you have to dive into the middle of every skeleton to kill him.

Templar, Marauder, Duelist. I'm going to go 2H Templar with a balance of magic and str. See how that goes.

I use corpse explosion just so they can't be resurrected.

I just found that gem last night. Haven't socketed it yet because I don't have the right color.

yep, don't level the gem up either so it stays cheap and you can spam it.

Most of the time i didn't even have it equipped until i went into the areas with Necros. For melee characters a couple of necros in the same place is death without corpse explosion.

Not much time to play today, but templar is act 2 lvl 24.

Have fun on the Act 2 boss.

Hope you have plenty of portal scrolls inventoried. I killed him on the first try but I probably portaled maybe 20 times and the fight lasted maybe 30 minutes.

always good to drop a portal at the beginning of an unknown map to save time having to run back. Especially mini-boss maps.

Anyone playing right now?

Add me. Spellshocked

And update the OP please

Im liking my int/mana regen lightning mage so far.. want to do ICE but i cant find a gem for it :/

also, has ANYONE figure out how to zoom out more? I feel like my character can only see 2 body lengths ahead and im zoomed a shell in with a terrible FOV

act 2 boss on top of stairs kicked my ass, not sure if thats the main boss or not.

got some play in just now with Sofa King.

I do have a few concerns about the game, and together, if they aren't improved, will likely keep me from playing the game much.

1. The FOV is way too low. I generally play 3rd person games at max or near max zoom out. even at max its terribly up close.

2. You cant move when attacking, in general this is an OK mechanic, but in POE there is a relatively long delay after attacking before I can move again in this game.

3. Overall, the animations/movement/mob movement seems clunky. needs polish, needs to be more fast paced

4. The map system is a bit clunky as well... there is no way to bring up a FULL overview map of the zone you are in. You can get a small map in the corner, and an expanded map view that overlays your entire screen (gets in the way even at low opacity) but no true FULL screen map.

Now that I have said that, there are some things I like.

1. The entire gem system and how the gems (active skills/supporting skills) intertwine. Very original and mix and match options are endless.

2. The passive skill system, again, implemented in a unique way that have me looking forward to exploring the endless options. Both systems combine bring an unprecedented amount of character customization.

3. A true global chat system, which breeds player interaction, and of course, its fully optional, as you can turn it off if you wish.

It is.

If you leave like 2 or 3 of his minions alive he doesnt respawn them and then disappear.

I just ran around in circles and hit him when he was doing his spells. Had to use a ton of portal scrolls to recharge my flasks.

You do know that you can move the expanded map with the arrow keys, right?

Not even Diablo had a full map.

Diablo had the same map. You had to move it with the keys.

hmm.... been a long time since diablo 2 for me. Well, I didnt figure that out intuitively, but thanks for the heads up. Still mad about the FOV and the move delay mostly~

I'm like level 32 now and I think I'm going to remake my dude because the whole building damage thing aint workin.

I went through the tree and and hit up every life and shield block I could get and came up with this... http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...b2SPcr-6r-Cv6P

ya I already know I'm gonna re roll. I'm pretty sure everyone or almost, will mess up their first build. But that's part of the fun. I would hate if this game had easy respecs

My main complaint is that I get DC'd a lot. disconnected.

All of the time. It's getting old. Hopefully its a problem on their servers and will clear up.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...jUj-8O8i_z3fe-

this is what I got going on now, I love the 100% chance to hit, I figure I'll save a respec point if crit matters end game. But right now it's awesome. I def ****ed up a few things tho, at the beginning I could have saved 2 points right off the bat.

Add me to the list.

Evoldo

So i take it fire witch's aren't very common.

I agree with Hometeam that I wish I could move the FOV out further. You can scroll in more but you start at the max and it's a bit constrained.

The thing that really bothers me is the hitbox. I was doing a witch at first and constantly missing with my wand. I decided to try Marauder and that helped me learn you have to target the mob. I know that sounds obvious but a lot of games like this you can just hold down the key in a direction and it'll whack any mobs that get near you.
Those little shooting scorpions are still a PIA to hit though.

I love the way potions work. The passive skill tree is a bit overwhelming. It's really fun for a free to start game. I think I'll try a few more classes before I go too far

My Char name is:


Vlod_Drock - lvl 26 Templar

This a new thing ... didn't use to have problems at all.

It is strange people are attacking this game.. I have a feeling it is disgruntled Blizzard/Diablo employees fearing getting fired..

LMAO true

got DC'd 4 times in the past hour

Same. I remade my character and just killed Brutus and when I went to exit the prison it was lagged out and I was getting "Error: failed to enter instance." Then it crashed and I have to clear it all over again.

Good thing I'm not paying for this game or I'd be a little more upset.

Just tried to login a few mins ago and i'm only number 10149 in line to make a game.

well I'm only #20,875 in que

$2million doesn't buy as much as it used to.

I was 9000 something in queue. Took maybe 5-10mins to get in and then instantly disconnected as soon as I loaded. Put back in queue at 5000.

Anonymous has gone too far....

hope the Diablo 3 fanbois get bored and go away

My favorite part of the game is porting to town to go afk for a bit and then coming back to your portal being gone and having to start your progress all over.

portals are temporary

don't know who long they last now but it used to be only about 10 minutes

I realize portals are temporary. Doesn't make it any less stupid.

Woot. Just killed Brutus for the 2nd time. Port to town to sell items and then port back in... kicked from the server. Have to kill him for a 3rd time now. This is not getting annoying at all.

Yeah i just killed a boss in act and got booted. Had some items on the ground yet. Gay.

How much did you pay for the game? :p

Game is starting to lose me already.. good concept, but execution and polish lacking. For me it seems like its going the way of other games along the same spirit. D3, Darkfall, Mortal Online, Planetside 2, etc. I may check back after a few patches. Until FOV/move delay is fixed I just cant get into it

Time is money and I'm stuck in Groundhog Day!

just played for 5 hours straight. no disconnects, no queue to join, no noticeable lag. some of you are just having some bad luck, i guess.

Maybe you should slow down a bit. I needed +20% run speed boots and 5 quiksliver flasks just to keep up with you, quests be damned!

You were playing the beta, bro. Has the release date been set yet?

I think the game is great and has tons of potential. Knowing this is early open beta, they're gonna be working on this game for a long time. I like the combat and the FOV. I just dont like the disconnects and I dont care for levels resetting every 15 min, but I guess that adds to the difficulty.

I simply go on waypoint runs, get to the next waypoint then take a break. Still like the game although I feel like a Ranger in a Templars skin. Mainly using a badass bow/quiver with the rain of arrows rune....me likey.

True, but for all purposes its launched. Gonna dive in again and try a different class see how it goes.

I personally wouldn't say that. It's launched when you actually have to buy it, IMO.

Dont believe you ever will. Its f2p

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/vie...d/72316/page/1

OK. Bad example. How about it's released when you can buy items and actually get to keep your character (or do you get to keep your character through beta and into the release build?).

there will never be another character wipe...

Just finished act 2, what a bitch the end boss was....don't forget to portal as soon as you enter the room. I died about 12 times but thankfully was always able to recast the portal. Fun game for sure, I won't be putting it down anytime soon.

Yea man.. the cash shop is open and there will be no more wipes, as I said, for all purposes it is released. Every MMO nowadays has 'open beta' where they release the game before its ready and then fix stuff as they go, not like POE is doing something out of the ordinary with this release.

Started a shadow last night and seemed to fair better, still really annoyed by the movement delay after attacking.

You cannot be too mad.. It is a f2p, and for some reason people are trying to crash it..
These people created a game Diablo 3 should of been.. It is not like they are a big company and know how to defend themselves from all of these attacks..

It is stupid people are attacking it, it does nothing but stop new developers from gaining power..

Ah, im not mad, in fact after changing characters I'm getting a better feel for it... Still have my main two complaints but overall I am feeling better about it.

this is why they are attacking it imo

combination of bored hackers who just want to screw with anything because they are dicks and DIII fans who are taking their frustration about 'their' game sucking out on a game that people are saying this is what DIII 'should of been'.