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M_atrix wrote:

Just did my first Simulacrum.

Managed to complete 15 waves. Died 6 times on waves 15-16.

But what the actual F. The arena is so small. A dozen of bad modifiers which buff monsters and completely diminishes your resistances. One of the bosses has big AOE which can hit you easily even if you don't see where he has landed. I can't imagine a single HC character completing this thing on the first try without dying.

The rewards are good, but man Sirus looks like a toddler compared to this whole encounter. Oh and of course: small area + hundreds of monsters spawning at the same time = fps drops to single digits.

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And I don't know why, but this league it's nearly impossible to get T14-T16 maps to drop (running T16 maps drops me T11 ones on awakening level 6 with 132/154 completed bonus objectives, wth...). Even though 75% of the time I run rare maps with +80-100% item quantity - maps are not dropping. *Sigh*

This league is 0 fun. I guess they don't want players to play SSF.

Dang M_atrix!

That sucks. I love hard games that really need to be earned, but I've heard that it's pretty insane...even with the recent changes they made. I wish I've had the time to play more this league so I can experience what you're taking about.

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dmitriyh25 wrote:

Any ideas on anoitments?

For damage mitigation i'm using the Jinxed Juju amulet. Chaos res is nice also, and it improves survivability. Raise spectre gem instead of Elemental army. 3 Heretic Guardians with prox shields.

Hey dmitriyh25! I agree with Gravepact for sure! I also really like Golem Commander.

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

I hear you M_atrix!
Good points. The shocking is a wonderful thing. Do you find you have Vaal Arc often enough for your liking?

Yes. You can usually cast it every 2-3 groups of monsters (depending on the clear speed and monster density)

But the best example is Legion encounters. I always do it like this: cast Vaal skeletons, pop the monolith and then cast Vaal arc. The whole screen lights up. You break the legion enemies and once they become alive - you have your Vaal Arc back and you can cast it once again on the moving enemies. This way I can pop more enemies and kill them more quickly when they start to attack.

So in other words - you can basically cast Vaal Arc every 12-15 seconds, more or less.

Vaal arc is EXTREMELY good in temporal incursions. You go through Alva's portal, run to the architect, pop vaal skeletons and vaal arc, kill everything much more quickly and you will always have the time to fully clear it and unlock the doors you want.

Just wanted to say this build has been good,on console especially^^. Though I did "tweak" it a little. Skeletons,carrion golem for the main damage-both with feeding frenzy and triad grip used as well. End result-shield charging skeletons,that cut down everything XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u28oXZK1HuA

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

Nice job unlocking Chaos resist. I think your major issue is life. Most of your gear has either really low, or no, life rolls. You've done well following the tree! But with the exception of your amazing chest piece, I'd focus on getting higher life rolls first. Having a low life pool will hurt you everywhere in-game. It's hard though. You have to take what the game gives your, both in gear and currency. You've done a great job tinkering with your gear so far, so I'm sure once the proper gear drops you'll be all over it.

I know life is my Achilles Heel right now but it was either life or resists, so I decided for resists.

But I adapted my play style a bit and it's going a lot better now. I also acquired my bone armour today, merciless lab was a lot easier than I thought due to amazing minion damage on Izaro. So I'm back on track now!

Has anybody experimented with cluster jewels on this build and can give some recommendations?

I'm a bit stuck. I just got to the end of the story A10 and due to killing the boss (Kitava or whatevcer it's called) my resists are terrible:

Chaos: -40%
Light: -39%
Fire: -13%
Cold: -19%

I have prioritised getting items with the right sockets/colours for the gem links so my gear is mostly white/blue.

I added a couple of affixes for resists where I could and I upgraded my gloves from magic to rare, I could add another affix.

But the problem is I don't really know how to progress from here. Do I just run white maps? Delve? Or do I need to trade for some new gear or maybe do some crafting?

I found the crafting in this game... well, it's a lot to learn.
I accidentally burned a lot of currency when I was clicking the Craft button thinking that it wasn't working grrrr...

Anyway, I'd be grateful for any advice on how best to progress from here. I have about 140 chromatic orbs and 4 chaos orbs now.

Is there a good guide on crafting? Easy to follow? The ones I found via Google were not an easy read - too many decisions that seem to rely on knowledge I don't have.

Hi SpontaneousCombustion!

You'll not survive with the missing resists.

You should not look for socket colors because they are easy to craft with chromatic orbs. I'm sure you picked up some essences on your journey? With those you can upgrade a white item to a rare with a guaranteed suffix. You should also have picked up a number of jewellers orbs, which you can use to craft more sockets onto an item. Three or four sockets are very easy, six sockets are really hard to get and 6 links (orbs of fusing) are extremely costly to achieve. I that case buying is better. But don't look for the perfect rolls, they are expensive. I bought a white 6 link and crafted it with my highest level greed essence. I got lucky with mine, can't promise you get as lucky. But definitely better than a white or blue item with no useful suffixes on it.

I wonder how you only have 4 chaos orbs, which level are you and did you run deliriums? If the item levels of your rare drops are 60 and over, you can exchange a whole set of unidentified rare armour (2 rings,1 amulet, 1 belt, 1 chest, 1 gloves, 1 boots, 1 helmet and either one 2-hand or two 1-hand weapons, can also be shields) for 2 chaos orbs per set. Last league I might have made around 500 chaos that way. You can also run Harbor Bridge for delirium back and forth. It's linear and short and you can earn quite a bit of currency there. As you can in the delve, if you picked up some sulphite.

Do have a look at the vendor recipes on the wiki, useful stuff: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor_recipe_system

Don't forget to add some mods to your items at the crafting bench, it's very good to find more resists. If you have blessed orbs, you can reroll prefixes and make for example 13% chaos resist up from 9% on an amethyst ring. But do that only if you like the rest of the stats already.

I agree that Poe crafting is overwhelming and I'm by no means an expert! But I did learn some tricks on YouTube videos. And got advice here on the forums. I'm not sure if I solved any of your problems or if I only gave you more questions. Do keep asking in that case because it's a steep learning curve.

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SpontaneousCombustion wrote:

I'm a bit stuck. I just got to the end of the story A10 and due to killing the boss (Kitava or whatevcer it's called) my resists are terrible:

Chaos: -40%
Light: -39%
Fire: -13%
Cold: -19%

I have prioritised getting items with the right sockets/colours for the gem links so my gear is mostly white/blue.

I added a couple of affixes for resists where I could and I upgraded my gloves from magic to rare, I could add another affix.

But the problem is I don't really know how to progress from here. Do I just run white maps? Delve? Or do I need to trade for some new gear or maybe do some crafting?

I found the crafting in this game... well, it's a lot to learn.
I accidentally burned a lot of currency when I was clicking the Craft button thinking that it wasn't working grrrr...

Anyway, I'd be grateful for any advice on how best to progress from here. I have about 140 chromatic orbs and 4 chaos orbs now.

Is there a good guide on crafting? Easy to follow? The ones I found via Google were not an easy read - too many decisions that seem to rely on knowledge I don't have.

Hi SpontaneousCombustion!

You'll not survive with the missing resists.

You should not look for socket colors because they are easy to craft with chromatic orbs. I'm sure you picked up some essences on your journey? With those you can upgrade a white item to a rare with a guaranteed suffix. You should also have picked up a number of jewellers orbs, which you can use to craft more sockets onto an item. Three or four sockets are very easy, six sockets are really hard to get and 6 links (orbs of fusing) are extremely costly to achieve. I that case buying is better. But don't look for the perfect rolls, they are expensive. I bought a white 6 link and crafted it with my highest level greed essence. I got lucky with mine, can't promise you get as lucky. But definitely better than a white or blue item with no useful suffixes on it.

I wonder how you only have 4 chaos orbs, which level are you and did you run deliriums? If the item levels of your rare drops are 60 and over, you can exchange a whole set of unidentified rare armour (2 rings,1 amulet, 1 belt, 1 chest, 1 gloves, 1 boots, 1 helmet and either one 2-hand or two 1-hand weapons, can also be shields) for 2 chaos orbs per set. Last league I might have made around 500 chaos that way. You can also run Harbor Bridge for delirium back and forth. It's linear and short and you can earn quite a bit of currency there. As you can in the delve, if you picked up some sulphite.

Do have a look at the vendor recipes on the wiki, useful stuff: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor_recipe_system

Don't forget to add some mods to your items at the crafting bench, it's very good to find more resists. If you have blessed orbs, you can reroll prefixes and make for example 13% chaos resist up from 9% on an amethyst ring. But do that only if you like the rest of the stats already.

I agree that Poe crafting is overwhelming and I'm by no means an expert! But I did learn some tricks on YouTube videos. And got advice here on the forums. I'm not sure if I solved any of your problems or if I only gave you more questions. Do keep asking in that case because it's a steep learning curve.

What a superb response. Thanks for taking the time.

I knew of some of the recipes but I wasn't sure that's what I should be doing. Your post helped just by knowing that doing some of the things you suggested are not "the wrong things" (in that I'd be wasting what currency I do have).

Good to know re the chromatic thing (I never tried it because it sounded like it could make things worse). And yes I did some delirium on the way - assuming that's just doing the mirror thing - but ignored some as well but they never got much out of them even when I followed the fog for a long time so I stopped (I'm level 72 atm). I must have been doing something wrong, there seemed no way I was getting any chromatic orbs dropping.

I guess I'll start farming the rare recipe (I always identified the jewellery because mine was bad - and those item types don't seem to drop very often - so I gues I need to stop identifying stuff). Is there a way to get more rare rings/amulets to drop?

I'm sure I'll have more questions! Thanks again, off to the crafting bench!...