Are you going to be playing the new PoE expansion Sup Forums?

Are you going to be playing the new PoE expansion Sup Forums?

here's the patch notes for the curious

The Atlas of Worlds:
The Atlas of Worlds lets you track your progression through Path of Exile's map endgame. You can also use it to upgrade maps and add mods to the Atlas. It indicates which maps are connected to each other.
The map drop rules have been changed so that connected maps and maps you've previously completed can drop from the area you're playing. As you progress towards the center of the Atlas from the four corners, the tier of maps increases.
There are four tier 16 maps that contain the Guardians of the Void. As you defeat them, you'll earn fragments of a key that allows you to challenge the Shaper himself.
As you complete more types of maps, you unlock a cumulative map tier bonus that is displayed on the Atlas.
You can upgrade white or yellow maps by five tiers using a Shaper's Orb, which can be earned by completing bonus objectives on specific maps.
You can add temporary mods to the Atlas itself using Cartographer's Sextants.
Your progress, upgrades and mods on the Atlas of Worlds are shared between all characters on your account in that league.
We've added thirty new maps and dozens of new map bosses.
There are thirteen new base item types that can only be found in specific areas of the Atlas.
Most existing maps have been revamped to have more balanced monster composition, layouts, boss fights and rewards.
You can trade 20 Cartographer's Chisels and 5 Orbs of Regret to a vendor for an item that allows you to respec the Shaping of a map.
You can trade 5 Cartographer's Sextants (of a specific colour) to a vendor for an item that allows you to respec the completion of a map of that colour.

and the new league

With 2.4.0, there are Standard and Hardcore variations of the Essence challenge league available. They have the same core mechanics and items.
In the Essence league, you'll occasionally encounter groups of monsters trapped by mysterious essences. Each type of essence imbues the monsters with different powers, which you'll have to face upon freeing the monsters from their prison. If you are strong enough to defeat these foes, you can claim an essence for yourself.
These items aren't just a trophy - their effect is similar to that of the Orb of Alchemy. Using one on a normal item will upgrade it to a rare item but with one predecided property. Each of the 25 essences types guarantees a different power, some of which have never been possible on items before.
The top two essences of each type also act like a Chaos Orb.
While it's tempting to use your essences to craft items, you can also upgrade your spare essences to their next power level by combining a group of three identical ones at the vendor. The 25 types of essences have between three and seven tiers of power level depending on when they occur in the game.
One special type of essence called the Remnant of Corruption isn't used on items, but on the trapped monsters themselves. Its Vaal influence can create many possible outcomes, including special types of essences that can't be created any other way.
Each additional player in your party adds a chance for an additional random essence to drop when the monster is killed.
Essences ignore master metamods when crafting items.
The new challenge leagues include a set of 40 new challenges. When you complete 12 challenges, you receive the Essence Footprints Effect. At 24, you receive the Essence Back Attachment. When you complete your 36th challenge, you receive the Essence Portal Effect. These microtransactions are only obtainable in this league.
From the 19th challenge onwards and for every third challenge after that, you receive pieces of the (1/2)

(2/2) Essence Totem Pole decoration to display in your hideout. The Totem Pole permanently showcases how many of the Essence challenges you completed during the league.


Engine Multithreading:
This patch introduces the new multithreaded engine features that should significantly improve game performance for most users. They were previously an opt-in beta test.
To disable this feature, change "Engine Multithreading" in the Graphics Options to "Disabled". It is automatically disabled if your CPU has less than four hardware cores.
Frame rate increases are most significant when there are a lot of entities in the scene. This means situations with large amounts of combat should have much more stable frame rates. Do not expect significant increases in frame rate in non-combat situations.
If you are GPU-bound, you shouldn't expect significant increases in frame rate.

yeah but there's a portion of people that read and not /vg/ that might be interested to know there was a big update

>implying poe threads pop up here all the time

/poeg/ is probably one of the worst generals on /vg/ i'd even go as far to say its worse than moba generals.

>Stop discussing video games on Sup Forums
ABSOLUTELY
AMAZING

Waiting for my brother to download it so we can play. Hopefully they patched the shit performance too.

They did, see:

>Playing Path of no Content when Diablo 3 exists

All of /vg/ sucks shit.

I'm probably gonna make a raider archer since I hate bow characters and it's pretty much the only ones I haven't played to death.

What you all gonna play?

crit arc witch here

Dota2 and Dark Souls general are pretty civilized.

is cast on crit viable this patch

I heard melee builds were supposed to get buffed this patch. Did they get buffed at all?

Iron Commander Siege Ballista cus sentries are fun man.

lol

glacial hammer got 6% more damage!

Probably Flicker but I can't decide on 1h shadow or 2h Duelist Slayer. Little bummed they nerfed Slayer's AoE but it shouldn't be a problem.

I think I played a grand total of 3 hours of PoE before I quit. The game wasn't for me.

Voltaxic LA transitioning into Tornado Shot when I get a Reach.

They all got minor damage buffs. So no. Static strike looks okay, but the rest got pretty much dickall. EQ was nerfed.

>friend wanted me to play this with him a few weeks ago
>we played maybe 2-4 hours each day during the weekends, didn't really get anywhere
>suddenly he doesn't want to play any more because the "league is over"
>wants me to make a new character today that is going to get abounded yet again after a while

someone care to explain why autist can only play during the league and then have to make new characters?

No, Path of Exile is a shit game.

I like the game but to be honest the beginning is absolutely awful and slow. It took me 4 tries to get into it and I almost quit that to,e too. Game starts to get fun when your build gets a lot stronger and you clear maps quick.

No.

Melee skills in Path are fundamentally bad on a level no amount of buffs can fix.

Even if Glacial Hammer had a 300% base damage multiplier people would still use earthquake because Melee Splash sucks so much ass.

They need to rework each melee skill to have an AoE component.

Why haven't they released any proper story expansions since act 4?

>Nerfing one of the few viable melee skills
>Giving melee skills more damage when damage is not even their main problem
God fucking dammit GGG.

Summoner.

2.69 gigabyte.... this better be good!

i played titan quest yesterday and then I got a huge desire to play an arpg like diablo 2

what

Nigga its 2016, 2.69 gigs is fucking nothing.

Hello R*ddit

>game gets updated
>it's nothing

Of fucking course CoC isn't viable with half a goddamn seconds cooldown you retard.

>new leagues
fuck yeaaaah time to make another easy $3000 from orbs.

yeah, normal is a fucking slog and it doesn't really pick up until you get to merc and the mob density's higher

Yes, but not in the old way it was.
>100% chance on Crit to cast a spell
>Only one spell can be cast at a a time
>50 ms delay between casts
Shield Charge CoC Discharge is looking pretty good with that %More Modifier.

Is this a bot or do people actually multiquote like this?

>They need to rework each melee skill to have an AoE component.
That solves nothing. Having a bunched of ranged bastard skills that use your weapon instead of gem level doesn't solve melee, it eliminates it.

>Summoner.

why would you torture yourself like that?

No, but only because I'm balls deep in Legion. This will be the first league I miss but at least there will be shit to do when I come back to PoE in a few months.

>discharge does 30% LESS damage if triggered

Cause it's fun.
No really, Victario's Charity Necromantic Aegis is fucking awesome.
I'm also planning a Hierophant of some description.

>he doesn't know the pleasure of animate weapon totems

I'm going to try out a chaos innoculation build, hopefully i don't fuck up like last time like with my summoner witch

How do I have fun with this game? It's so slow on the normal difficulty and then you get to the harder stuff and realise you've fucked up your build. And following a cookie cutter build is tedious and boring.

uhhhh what the F*CK???

500 ms, not 50

Follow a guide. If you fucked up your build you don't understand the game enough to theory craft working builds yet

Melee builds also need better defenses that don't rely on lifesteal. Fortify didn't really help melee builds and only made ranged builds tankier since they're not on the monsters faces at all times. They need to introduce shit that is exclusive to melee builds and actually helps with survivability.

follow a special snowflake guide, plenty of those around

Time to try self cast Fireball for once.

The game is insanely accessible now, making builds is easy as shit. Just pick one form of defense and damage and balance your points between damage, that defense and life. Use whatever fucking skill you want, they're not all viable, but you'll get to yellow maps with fucking anything.

Without frostwall?

What if I don't want to use literally one skill all the time?

join /poeg/ on /vg/ if you aren't a softcuck

guild is

b-but muh clearspeed


i tried playing summoner once, it was painful

I played Diablo 3 and enjoyed it.
Is this game all free, even the expansions?

Then regret you didn't start playing it earlier before the power creep got out of hand and casting more than once was required if you wanted to clear the screen.

Then make a build that use more than one skill?

The only paid things are cosmetics and a better stash system.

yep

Friendly frost walls won't collide with projectiles.

But that's the thing, I suck at making builds! Game is too hardcore for me!

CoC has been the most efficient build for about 3 years now

/poeg/ is the worst general I've ever been into.
Even reddit is better.

super free
only meaningful thing you can buy is stash tabs which you don't really need. If you feel like you do need them you can make mule characters

Impact was shit anyway so no loss there desu,

go back to your contaminated board

coc speed got nerfed but mjolner got a buff from 30%->100% so go mjolner

>free

If I buy stash tabs, do they carry over to new leagues or whatever?

>PoE meaning anything other than "Power over Ethernet"

If you aren't in IT, then it's time to get out.

no

yes, stash tabs are account bound

Is blade vortex viable in atlas?

>block nodes give phys damage and IASP
>gladiator gets +3 billion % block and 100% spell block conversion
>AND 2 nodes with %less damage taken
>juggernaut gets double chest armour, %less elemental damage taken, fortify effect, more endurance charges and endurance charge generation
There's some good ones. Of course it doesn't compare to one point wonders like a necro capping block with 1 point, or the blind wand or anything like that, but you can do any retarded shit you want ever since ascendancy. And the ascendancies have only gotten stronger.

You get them in every league
once a temporary league ends you get everything from those tabs in the permanent league as Remove Only tabs

does poe have an auction house now?

I see /vg/ has invaded the thread.
How are you today, Freeposter?

poe.trade

more or less

its an auction house removed by 1 step

>/vg/
get the fuck out

maybe. poe got really boring for me.

getting kind of conflicted info here.

But it seems like, I buy a stash tab right now, I will have it forever, even if new leagues show up?

the game is so easy now that every skill and every build is "viable"
if you mean comparative strength, then yes blade vortex is strong

I sure hope so, since that's what my build is going to be
It got a massive buff to mapping speed and a relatively minor nerf to bosskilling (previously had completely rediculous bosskilling)

can we discuss how abysmal the PoE community is? why does everyone look and sound like a retarded version of the souls community?

...

?diablo 3 has content


nigga they literally stopped putting out content patches and have had nothing to show now for over a year. unless there is a new xpac at blizzcon this game is fuckin dead. at poe is getting new shit.

Yes, that's correct.

yes, every league, including future ones

>only 20 stacks
>63% more base damage
>20 stacks=32.6 stacks
It's a straight buff unless you wanted to run some retarded added elemental damage build.

What class though?Witch,shadow?

Show me the Harbinger.
I need the Harbinger.

Literally any ranger, witch or templar ascendancy. Ranger for clearspeed/ease of gearing, necro for becoming fucking invincible and templar as always to be some sort of cheapskate hobo motherfucker.

I'm going Pathfinder for that sweet Flask chugging

>Working from home for months since my office building burned down
>Have nothing to do since I can finish my work in 2hrs and I still get paid for 8
>Tfw I want to get into this game but I don't really comprehend the meta and what skills to pick where

Someone give me the most retardedly noob build for Atlas and I will commit 500 hours on it and post results.

Or at least tell me how to navigate the skill tree.

Why would anyone not play a murderhobo i never understood.