Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen
Hey Folks! On April 13th of 2014, we recorded the very first episode of AggroChat so last night the stars aligned just perfectly for us to be recording on our ten-year anniversary. We start the show by discussing a few different AFK games, namely Gnorp Apologue and AFK Journey. From there Bel talks a bit about the new Fallout TV Series and how it nails the setting and tone of the game. Kodra and Thalen talk a bit about the latest Bluey episode Ghostbasket. Kodra and Tam discuss their experiences playing together in Helldivers 2 and then Kodra and Bel talk some more about the Path of Exile Necropolis League.
Good Morning Folks! I find myself starting to feel that old familiar itch… the one that involves me leveling a second character. I have no clue what I actually want to make but that isn’t important. What is important is that I know before long I will wind up chasing some new character and trying to make it work. That is not to say I am not still having a heck of a lot of fun on Righteous Fire Chieftain, and would honestly probably keep playing it for a while. I just always end up starting several other characters during a league and then trying to make them work. I would love to see a redemption arc for Volcanic Fissure of Snaking, but I am not sure if I want to roll another Marauder in this league. It has been a few leagues since I have played Toxic Rain, and bows are dirt cheap due to the corpse-crafting meta right now.
Remember me talking about going all in on my sceptre yesterday? Well… about that. I had this fractured +1 fire gem base that I had been tinkering with for a while. Essentially I had been spamming all of my alts at it hoping to roll the ideal setup… and then survive the regal. Yesterday I had farmed up another stack of alts and threw them all at the weapon… and happened to land a pretty optimal setup. Which then prompted me to spend my last to Divine Orbs to meta-craft this the rest of the way to completion. Now I am back farming blue juice from Harvest so that I can shift this to an alternate quality setup for elemental damage and do the 30% corruption beast again. At that point… I think maybe just maybe I will have the final form of my weapon.
Some “new tech” from this patch that I have been playing with is The Perandus Pact Prismatic Jewel. This is a grave crafted item that can be influenced to roll with a specific stat package on it. I did not do this thing, I just bought mine because the “6% Increased Fire Damage” version is apparently not the sought-after version. Essentially allocating this in my tree gives me a ring that includes 18 passive tree nodes that each gain +6% for a grand total of +108% Increased Fire Damage. I had already planned on picking up the Sanctum of Thought node to push myself up to 90% reduction to critical damage, which will give me another +18%. This seems really good and it would be significantly better if I were building something on the right-hand side of the tree with much tighter clustering of nodes. Alternately I could have gone with +5 life per node, but I wasn’t sure if that would matter as much in the grand scheme of things.
I’ve gotten deep enough into Delve that I am starting to see a few survival issues, so I decided to try something. I was out perusing POE.Ninja as one does… and noticed a Korean player running RF Chieftain with Vampirism allocated on their amulet. This seems really good because it would give me another source of recovery that is not entirely dependent upon my regeneration rate. The big problem is diving into packs of mobs while waiting on an explosion to proc, and while that is going off I would be getting both life on kill and some life recuperation from damage taken. Thankfully Golden Oils are cheap this league so if I want to go back to my Damage Over Time setup that I had been running it would be easy enough to do so.
I picked up another crafting project, that has frankly already cost me around 150 Chaos Orbs of potential value. I found this chestpiece for 10 Chaos Orbs and while I do not care in the least about the level of socketed curse gems… I am a huge fan of that 5% reduced Fire Damage Taken. I am running a lot of beyond on my maps and as such finding quite a bit of tainted currency so essentially as I find tainted fusing I am throwing them at this item. All I need is one to hit with a favorable result. When I fail I go back to the bench and craft 4 linked sockets… restoring me back to the state of just needing one fusing to six link it. Like I said I have made 3 attempts, each attempt with a value of 50 Chaos… and sooner or later I am going to hit it and then swap over to this chest piece and likely sell my RF-colored six-link Cloak of Flames for a bit of a profit.
The last bit of findings is that I actually managed to hit some T4 Harvest Beasts and wound up pulling Bear’s Girdle which is a key component for a Cleave of Rage build. Again it is something that I have wanted to play with, but I am not sure I want to make a second marauder this league. It isn’t like the girdle is worth a ton on its own, but I was happy to get it nonetheless. I’ve never fought the actual harvest endgame boss and keep wondering what is involved in doing so. I guess I should look that up at some point because I know there is a league achievement the includes them as one of the options. I should probably make some general strategy around finishing enough achievements to get my sad little totem pole again. Right now I am mostly working on Maven witnesses so I can attempt to take her down for a voidstone.
How has your league been going? Are you still trucking along or have you moved on already? Drop me a line below.
Good Morning Folks! Things continue to truck along happily in the post-patch Necropolis league. The only real problem I am having right now is that there are too many things that I would like to be doing. Normally speaking I tend to focus hard on a single mechanic, and more often than not that is Delve. I am down around 230ish depth and having a grand ole time… but also I find myself really enjoying mapping this league more than normal. Having access to three Atlas trees seems to have made all of the difference in the world because I can shift things up depending on what I want to run. The shocking winner for this league is the tree that I have focused hard on Einhar, Beyond, Rogue Exiles, and Ritual. It ends up creating some extremely rippy maps but they are also ridiculous loot bonanzas.
When you have a large number of red beasts, corrupted rogue exiles, and beyond packs spawning… your screen often looks like this. I have a lower-density magic find filter that I occasionally swap to, but more often than not I just toggle off items entirely while I am fighting and then run around the room picking things up after the battle is over. The biggest problem that I have with a more restrictive loot filter is that there are things that I still want to pick up. For example, I am not going to pass by a stack of Jewelers Orbs or Chisels because I hate dealing with currency trades. I would instead rather have a full vault of that sort of stuff for when I potentially need it later down the line. The magic find ethos is to ignore anything that isn’t worth a lot of money and then buy the things you need… but I still enjoy looting normal stuff occasionally.
There is a nonsensical strategy where you essentially force every rogue exile to drop a unique, and then do some shenanigans with allflames and scarabs in order to force hundreds of them on your map. I’ve done some of this and it is truly silly. I am not chain-running it as a mapping strategy because I hate buying resources… but when I get the right scarab drops and the stars align I will run one of these maps. I think the challenge I have when it comes to making currency in Path of Exile, is that I can’t ever bring myself to grind the same thing over and over save for Delve. When I am mapping I like to shake things up a bit because it gets extremely tiring running the same map over and over under optimal conditions in order to maximize your profit margins. Instead, I would greatly prefer throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks and then being pleasantly surprised when something pays off.
I am still seeing the occasional raw divine drop and I am still occasionally moving random items that I chuck in my trade tabs. I think the league mechanic is adversely impacting my normal money maker, aka Delve Resonators. Though I have to be honest there are some things that it seems like are a massive pain in the ass to craft with corpses. I’ve mostly had complete failures myself each time I tried to craft anything. I’ve also seen a lot of failed craft videos out there, so I think at some point… good ole tried and true fossil crafting will win out and there will be a significant spike in prices. I am not willing to sell delve goods at the prices they are currently going for, so instead I sit on my mountain of stock in the hopes that eventually the prices will turn around.
I decided to go ahead and commit to the scetpre that I have currently and took it to 30% quality with an alternate quality harvest enchant. It is not a bad weapon, but a couple of the stats only really benefit fire trap and not both of my abilities. I have a project weapon with fractured +1 fire gems on it but have currently run myself entirely out of alts from spamming to try and get t1 Damage Over Time Multiplier or Fire Damage Over Time Multiplier. I managed to get this once… but failed on the regal and then failed again on an annul. Basically, I need the regal to add a prefix or be able to annul off a suffix for it to work. If I ever get the craft to work it should give me a significant upgrade, at which point I will do the alt quality harvest craft again and then beast craft corrupt it to 30% quality like I did this one.
Over the weekend I bought the three maps that I needed to finish out my Atlas. Thankfully they are all pretty cheap this league, but I realize this was a deeply selfish thing to do rather than sharing the love and inviting folks in to get credit. The thing that sucks is right now something is going on with my machine and Path of Exile and every time I attempt to run ANY maps with anyone I crash to the desktop. As a result I made the decision to go ahead and knock out my maps rather than spend the currency and risk not getting credit, with the thought that the moment I unlock these maps the sooner I get additional copies of them. For example, I have already gotten another copy of Coward’s Trial for the guild bank, and hopefully, folks who are not crashing out while doing multiplayer content can group together and run it. I’m hoping to see the other maps soonish so I won’t feel quite so bad for going ahead and knocking them out.
That has been a point of frustration for me ever since they started integrating the POE2 tech into the game. My performance has gone to shit, and every time I have tried grouping with anyone I end up without fail crashing out. Last league I attempted a number of Blight maps with Kodra and in every case I ended up losing one or two portals because I would crash when trying to group together. The other night I tried to bring along Ric to farm Black Morrigan and risked missing the capture because I bombed out right as we were fighting it. For now… I am just going to solo and feel slightly bad for being selfish with maps. My hope is that I will be farming up enough of everything else to make up for it.
Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Tamrielo, and Thalen
Hey Folks! This week we are down a Kodra and a Grace but carry on with a short list of topics. First, we talk some more about playing Secrets of Grindea in its final form. Tam has ventured forth into Helldivers 2 and talks a bit about what makes the gameplay so infectious. Thalen introduces us further into Chants of Sennaar a game that he has decided is the spiritual successor to Loom. Bel is amazed at what a difference a few percentages make as Necropolis League in Path of Exile was saved by a very early patch. Finally Tam talks about the current event taking place in Star Citizen.
