TTV.RLE.NINJA - Harvest League - Chief Shockwave, Thane of Flames

WELCOME TO THE HARVEST LEAGUE!

It is a pleasure to be streaming Path of Exile: Harvest League LIVE for all you on Twitch and Facebook Live. Please join us as we stumble and bumble our way through POE's latest and hottest league and tackle oodles of lag and disconnects.

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Twitch - https://ttv.rle.ninja

1. First Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/655639749
2. Second Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/656200395
3. Third Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/656356188
4. Fourth Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/656457972
5. Fifth Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/657053835
6. Sixth Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/657917914
7. Seventh Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/658203210
8. Eighth Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/658876753
8. Eighth Stream (2) - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/658915045
9. Ninth Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/659141954
10. Tenth Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/660116397
11. Eleventh Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/660833181

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1. First Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/209893540103931
2. Second Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/1123917117994903
3. Third Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/253120152647251/
4. Fourth Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/260481468385739/
5. Fifth Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/3499631016726041/
6. Sixth Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/944408939339428
7. Seventh Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/2550766861853735
8. Eighth Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/194332401898498
8. Eighth Stream (2) - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/2819024531653578
9. Ninth Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/2859775000817063
10. Tenth Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/263019621694047
11. Eleventh Stream - https://www.facebook.com/RLEgames/videos/296481258064854

BUILD

The First -

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We're going to be running a Chieftain with as much life, block chance, and armour as we can manage. Damage will be converted primarily to fire on both offensive and defensive fronts. Let's hope this works.

Skill Tree:

We're leveling up pretty well and got our hands on Chainhook, too. Tethered to Shockwave support, it's clearing mobs quite nicely, although we don't have anywhere near the number of skill nodes allocated to boost it to the sky.

Some things we would like to share about the launch day:

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1. We were 50,000+ in the queue to enter the server at 1:30 p.m. (GMT +5:30). The gentlebeings ahead of us in the queue got to run far ahead in the race to be first (at everything).
2. The server kept not-responding so regularly, that we had to re-login several times to continue playing. That wasted about 1 hour cumulatively out of the 4 hours we streamed on launch day.
3. In the second broadcast too, in every map, it seems we have to re-login or go back to town and re-enter the map for the monsters and the server to recognise us and let us progress smoothly. It's weird and slows us down a lot.

About the Seed Garden:

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1. It's a great Harvest Moon-esque mechanic and we are enjoying it.
2. With regard to dispensers, there seems to be a problem in dispensing the necessary condensed life force to the higher level seeds.
3. The dispenser doesn't connect to the generator that contains said life force.

We're having fun this league, regardless of the server problems. Join us on our stream and have fun with us, too.

With the seventh stream of Harvest league coming up, Chief Shockwave, Thane of Flames is coming into his own. Chain Hook and Shield Charge's damage values are scaling up and the Chief is extremely tanky, with elemental resistances well over 140% uncapped, a block chance of 46%, and physical damage reduction above 60%; all of this at level 48-49. We've kept well within the levelling zones and are now in Act 5.

One problem remains and this has been reported in the Technical Assistance forums. The game continues to freeze occasionally, catching up with queued actions after minutes and rendering the game unplayable. This was a problem with the Lord's Labyrinth, where we had to restart the Labyrinth THREE times, because the character froze before and in the final trial.

With 90% of our physical damage being converted to fire damage (which we will showcase in the seventh stream), we're dishing out 1.6-1.9k DPS, as per the tooltip. With a six-link equipment, we ought to be able to scale this up further. Reckoning and Vengeance counter-attacks are dishing out close to 1k damage now, too. All this with the primary weapon damage being 60-130-ish.

We sincerely hope that GGG fixes the character freezes and instance crashes, so that we don't lose a lot of experience post-level 60. Barring that, the league is really enjoyable and the seed garden is a ton of fun, too.