Everything posted by Kaylon
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Persistence vs Rain of Godagh Field Damage Test
Another question... You said the tank had 18DR - but was the general DR or the pierce DR? Because what matters is the pierce DR... However it's possible that speedbuff + fire lash vs very high DR give an edge to the Rain of Godagh Field. PS. Also since the ranger has very few means to increase his ranged damage (besides might/weapon enchantments) there's a reason you don't use the Stalker's Torc or the cloak with 10% ranged dmg? Also you should consider Apprentice's Sneak Attack too...
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all PoE "random" item & day checklist
Can anyone tell me where this box is in the map? Thanks. I think it's in the hidden room
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Persistence vs Rain of Godagh Field Damage Test
Might is more important than dex because of the way DR works and wounding damage increases exponentially with might. Do the same test with 27mig instead and see the differences...
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Persistence vs Rain of Godagh Field Damage Test
What was your might during the test?
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Question about Endless Paths of od Nua
Wait for lv13 when you get Sacred Immolation and then you can advance very fast. It's possible to continue even at lv10 of course, but you need very good equipment and it's time consuming...
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Best hunting bow for ranger?
Before 2.0 accuracy was very hard to boost and bosses very hard to hit... Lenas Er was superb, had rending and the stacking defense debuff which were considered all very good enchantments. It's true however that people (included myself) weren't aware about all the game mechanics and about the way wounding worked... At that time I tried to kill the adra dragon with a hatchet (and decided I had to use scrolls to be able to do it solo) and only later I discovered the power of Drawn in Spring...
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Best hunting bow for ranger?
Well, at least it has some logic this time - if you can't damage something you can't make it bleed. (I didn't test lately, but I remember my video against the adra dragon when I had to switch my Drawn in Spring to my pistol because I wasn't able to damage some blights...)
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Best hunting bow for ranger?
Well, the Wounding Shot damage is indeed calculated after DR, however the wounding enchantment is applied like a lash before DR.
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Best hunting bow for ranger?
Persistence can be legendary, durgan enchanted and can have also a lash. For single target damage Persistence is clearly the winner. The nice thing about Stormcaller is the proc which is triggered pretty often with Twinned Arrows and Driving Flight. PS. Beat by Boeroer... PPS. Unfortunately wounding (same as lashes) does nothing vs targets immune to pierce...
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potd solo wizard - the glass way (3.03)
If you cast confusion at the start of the fight you can avoid being targeted and you have the time to cast all your spells without being interrupted.
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Solo POTD Rogue build
Riposte with 2 weapons under Defensive Mindweb is huge...
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[3.03] Defiant Resolve duration unaffected by Intellect
I don't know if all that is intended or not, but the scroll of confusion has also a fixed duration now.
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Questions about PotD 3.3 party (mostly Cipher related)
As a cipher you should always start the fight with a firearm (arquebus, pistol,...) and then switch to a bow or an implement. Warbows are good but the damage is greatly reduced vs enemies resistant to thrust. The best weapon to complement your war bow is the Engwithan Scepter (does crush/slash damage and has a speed enchantment) and can be obtained as soon as you start ch.2. While the Golden Gaze does slightly better damage because it fires 2 low damage projectiles, it suffers from the same problem as the blunderbuss vs high DR targets (enemy's DR will count twice in its case) and it's slower than a scepter. PS. Golden Gaze is best used by your wizard who can trigger Expose Vulnerabilities often thanks to his Blast ability.
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weapons: dr vs speed
HoF also has -5acc penalty and affects the area around your target, while Vengeful Defeat affects the area around you. The drawbacks with Spelltongue are it lowers the output dmg of HoF and it can increase also the duration of some debuffs...
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weapons: dr vs speed
HoF just gives 25%dmg. Only Barbaric Blow gives crit dmg bonus.
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weapons: dr vs speed
But if reach wm1 you can get one hat that gives -2 to int and reach 1 And isn't there a drug that gives you -4(?) INT? Blacsonn ? Or the new Carow Golan? I saw something... Hmm, you'd think one of them does, I'll check tonight. And perhaps even better, one might give an INT penalty as drug crash. In combination with the WM1 hat that should indeed get the job done, gives a nice MIG and CON bonus too. And the Dandy Hat of the Diseased Yak, pre-Stalwart... it'll be glorious! Though I'd have to use a hireling for this of course, he'd be to dumb to speak so not much of a protagonist. Of course this is contingent on the possibility of stats even becoming negative in the first place, can they? 1 is the min you can have for a stat.
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weapons: dr vs speed
Wrong thread
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weapons: dr vs speed
Death Usher and Bloody Slaughter trigger under 10%end (and Bloody Slaughter does nothing for grazes...). Which means you don't need them if you can already remove 10% of the enemy's endurance with a single hit (you'll just see bigger hits which just overkill your target). 90% of the enemies have under 300end and maybe 1% have over 500end (a few very high level creatures). My barb, for example, was dealing 50dmg with carnage (without counting the damage from Combusting Wounds) wich means he could finish anyway a monster with less than 500end if they had only 10% left. Also Fighting Spirit (+helmet) is hard to beat for a barbarian - +15%dmg/+7acc for HOF&Vengeful Defeat is huge... Drawn in Spring is close to sabres but still behind Bittercut, Resolution or Purgatory when you compare the dmg per hit... With Drawn in Spring my barb would do, on average and before DR, 33slash+10corrode+13raw per hit, while Bittercut does 51slash+15corrode per hit (and Bittercut will have higher dmg if targets are weak to corrode). From a dmg/hit point of view the order is Legendary Bittercut > Legendary Resolution > Legendary Purgatory > Exceptional Slaying Sabre > Legendary Drawn in Spring.
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weapons: dr vs speed
It's not possible to have 50+ wounds on a single enemy because with Tidefall you can hit an enemy maybe 6-7 times on average. Also if the hits are done at the same time the dots can't all be displayed since they tick at the same time, but they should be there and they all stack.
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all PoE "random" item & day checklist
The loot should be the same on all difficulties. However I remember it already happened when some people, for some strange reason, had different results.
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Do marking weapons work with carnage?
You can test it, but I think the bonus applies only to the enemy you target, not the ones who take damage.
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weapons: dr vs speed
I don't know, it has to do probably with the fact that it's based on a percentage of the weapon's damage. Wounding Shot and Runner's Wounding Shot don't have their damage affected by INT either (however their wounding percentage is applied to the final damage, after the DR - probably the devs considered the damage too high if it worked like a lash)
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Two character party for 3.0 (PotD)
The left door is larger and it's not possible to block them there reliably (only if they have pathing issues) - you better go into a corner. My first attempts were also on the left side because the initial idea was to split them and on that side you have more space to run. Also I was fearing that once I attack Raedric all the doors will open and guards from other rooms would aggro me, so I thought the most isolated place was the best choice. But once I understood I had to fight only the guys in the throne room I tried to find the best place to fight them...
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weapons: dr vs speed
INT doesn't affect the damage of wounding, only its duration - in fact it's better to have only 3INT because the dmg is dealt faster. However MIG affects the wounding damage twice (first because it's based on the total damage dealt by the weapon and secondly because each tick is again affected by might) - that's why wounding is even more effective with high MIG.
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Two character party for 3.0 (PotD)
Here's a video I made a while ago on how you can solo Raedric with a paladin, maybe you'll get some new ideas... https://youtu.be/5K0kDxZpRsw