This is probably the most time i've spent on a video to date, hope everyone that sees this finds it helpful. I'm by no means the best Path of Exile player, but I believe i'm knowledgeable enough to share what I know in a constructive and useful manner & would love the opportunity to continue to do so. If anyone has questions for me that I don't end up answering here, hit me up on my discord or on my livestream www.twitch.tv/eravin
That trade site video will be great. Every time I learn how to use a new search tool, I end up finding great gear for cheap. The weighted sum tool helped me find some crazy good breach rings that go super hard with the breach catalysts!
That’s fried. Playing hardcore streamer mode is the weirdest thing 3% of people do. You lose xp on death and lose the map you were in so there is already a very hefty fine for deaths without hardcore. You’ll never level up if you don’t learn defenses and hardcore is gonna result in mostly alot of time wasted for pretty much anyone
@@Barewell I honestly love it, after I played al the classes in the game, nitt picked their mechanics and those of the game itself I start to experiment with hardcore characters, build on from there. It's the ultimate challange mode of the game and if the game has solid mechanics this is where the game truely shines for me. It really tests your knowledge and intuition and when you finaly do beat the game on hardmode it feels like you truely masterd the game. It doesn't need to be on stream but for many people it is pure joy to get a glimps of how and where a game truely shines. But even without the exposure, excitement and achievement it can be a very exciting and fulfilling experience.
AFAIK Armor damage reduction depends on incoming attack strength (damage), it's not flat reduction. Trash mob damage might be reduced by 60%, but boss damage will be reduced by 20% (these are only example values, I don't remember the exact values).
i'm cold res capped and still dying constantly to freeze, i don't think the thawing charm works either it only activates after you've been frozen and prevents you from being frozen again. I could be wrong about that but it seems to work that way to me, im honestly considering putting an anti freeze passive on my amulet.
use a thawing charm with extra duration, you have a couple seconds to deal with the source of the freeze and you'll otherwise be frozen again. Being out of charges its also going to not prevent it.
Playing SSF and my rolls on lightning resistance have been absolutely terrible 😬 fire and cold ok but lighting is like -20% as of getting to endgame. Gonna need to socket some runes in by the looks of it
You need capped res. Less than 75% of chaos is unacceptable. It may even be good to go to 80% or CI. Get good at using the shitty trade site. Having a way to gain 10-15 ele res over cap makes a negative resist tribulation acceptable and those elemental weakness maps runnable.
@@EravinVTchaos porcupines used to 1 shot me. The only reason this works on your build is because mobs die before they get on screen. Especially since their damage isn't any lower than equivalent fire porcupines and they deal double to ES. Doesn't matter how good ur movement is.
I have not played this game. But have been following content. Appreciate yours, General Eravin. But when it first came out all of the poeple had weak abilities and combat looked so good. But that high level the lightning spam on the screen. Ugh its so offputting it makes me glad i didnt get it. Again appreciate and will watch your stuff on it for if and when i do. Anyone agree? Its obviously a personal preference thing. Reminds of of that line from Ready Player One "we can take up 80 of the screen space before we induce seizures".
All the ridiculous effects on the screen can be annoying, that's why I never touched Diablo 4 after the campaign. It's not nearly as bad here though. Some characters are pretty bad about it like sorceror and witch and maybe ranger. I've been having a blast with monk though, everything is clean and crisp and I can always tell what's going on.
I will say (feel free to wait for full release, which I believe is free to play) that these are optimized builds meant for post game content. You can absolutely have a blast and challenging experience making your own character, and honestly even with an optimized build path it takes a very long time for the game to look this spammy. The campaign has limited tools and will likely replicate the experience you're after
its because there's no baseline gameplay to balance things against. they let you juice up the maps with tons of extra monsters and enemy effects that make them completely unmanageable if you aren't spamming them back even harder. if you want a well thought out experience go play a darksouls game, this is a loot piñata.
I like the video, but what I don't like that much is that almost every guide says go to trade and buy xyz equipment. I kinda don't understand the appeal or point of playing a game like this to just buy whatever stuff I need vs finding it
Crafting gear basically makes 0 sense at fresh endgame compared to buying it unless you’re SSF and it’s out of scope for the purpose of the video especially halfway through the league
It is poor practice to consider evasion(dodge chance) as a means of hp pool multiplier. It is still very nice and important to have. However, it does not mitigate. When you get hit, eversion does nothing.
Your Evasion example is quite wrong, it is not an effective 16k health pool. if you just miss one evasion, you are dead. No way to drink a potion or anything.
You missed the word “average” you will on “average” take 16,000 damage worth of projectiles compared to someone who doesn’t, every time you get one shot, you’ll not be one shot three other times on average . Meanwhile the person with no evasion is one shot 4/4 times. Is it the same as having 16k actual HP? No, sometimes it’s worse and sometimes its better depending on the scenario, but it’s a pretty realistic way to look at it on “average”
Evasion is a trap and is worse than armor. "You have a 15% chance to immediately die if you get hit by any attack from any monster" isn't a reliable way to clear content.
Well you use Energy Shield and evasion and just play a monk like a Doom game (kill them first) you’ll be fine. Also get chaos resist and 3 charm slots before you shit on evasion.
My solution is to not beta test unpaid for a game with no purpose, intent, or desire to entertain. After 100 hrs, I’m officially over all things PoE and GGG. Get lazy, get complacent, lose those who work hard to play harder. They can enjoy their vacation while their half baked product failes like many game developers in recent times.
This is probably the most time i've spent on a video to date, hope everyone that sees this finds it helpful. I'm by no means the best Path of Exile player, but I believe i'm knowledgeable enough to share what I know in a constructive and useful manner & would love the opportunity to continue to do so. If anyone has questions for me that I don't end up answering here, hit me up on my discord or on my livestream www.twitch.tv/eravin
Solid video with no fluff that gets straight to the point. Thumbs up!
ty for watching!
I subscribed because you used a soundbyte from League of Jhin saying “Four!” Great video man!
sometimes I say 3 by accident when recording and it's a good opportunity haha
This should be required watching before endgame for all players. Great stuff here and definitely helped a PoE noob like me.
Thanks for the video, helps me as a new player. Well organized and informative. Also, I'm mimicking your lightning build.
thanks for watching!
Great video. Really appreciate your format- and thoroughness.
That trade site video will be great. Every time I learn how to use a new search tool, I end up finding great gear for cheap. The weighted sum tool helped me find some crazy good breach rings that go super hard with the breach catalysts!
We’ll see how this video is received, I like to be thorough, but thorough takes hella time. Love to do similar videos for all kinds of PoE2 topics tho
Love your content, very educational and to the point, thank you
This is great content for new players to Poe and arpgs
Ty
You have great taste in games my dude.
came here from your breach guide - leaving a comment for the algo
So you're telling me my favorite helldivers youtuber, also plays PoE, my other favorite game? You have great taste in games bro
thanks haha
Doesn't matter what amount of resistances you have all it takes is a corpse exploding mob to end your mapping even at low levels
that is exactly what resistance matters for
Explode them first
Thanks for all the information and videos. Just started mapping yesterday. Cant wait to get exploded.
Thanks for watchin
Great video! Straight to the point, funny, and with a lot of good advice. I think the content police will approve 😂
think it be hilarious if she saw my artistic rendition
@EravinVT very life like 😂
Wish I saw this before I got to the maps! A bit rough since I wasted some of those nodes on the maps by dying but I'm sure I can recover.
Incredibly efficient.
OK but how do I get a 1400 evasion 500 energy shield chest like Elon's Tusk?
Quality content here!!
I love that Eravin is making POE content. I hate that to have a shot at endgame you have to trade for your gear ☹️
You don’t have to trade, but this deep into the league you absolutely should, decent stuff is incredibly cheap because it’s all hand me downs
@@EravinVT i’m definitely still gonna watch the trade video. It’s intimidating AF for a new player.
@@SafetyFooT dont really have to trade just stack rarity on gear and do little lower maps from all the info im gathering thats the way to do it
"glittering gold, trinkests and baubles....paid for in blood"
BAUBLES jumpscare is my favorite timestamp
Thanks for the guide(s)! Your energy ball ranger build looks awesome but i think it would explode my pc lmao
The best way to stop dying is to play Hardcore.
Actually true, hardcore characters never die
The best way to stop playing is to die at Hardcore
Mooooorrreeeeeee fun than ever!
That’s fried. Playing hardcore streamer mode is the weirdest thing 3% of people do. You lose xp on death and lose the map you were in so there is already a very hefty fine for deaths without hardcore. You’ll never level up if you don’t learn defenses and hardcore is gonna result in mostly alot of time wasted for pretty much anyone
@@Barewell I honestly love it, after I played al the classes in the game, nitt picked their mechanics and those of the game itself I start to experiment with hardcore characters, build on from there. It's the ultimate challange mode of the game and if the game has solid mechanics this is where the game truely shines for me.
It really tests your knowledge and intuition and when you finaly do beat the game on hardmode it feels like you truely masterd the game.
It doesn't need to be on stream but for many people it is pure joy to get a glimps of how and where a game truely shines.
But even without the exposure, excitement and achievement it can be a very exciting and fulfilling experience.
I wanna see someone do a comparison video to show how good things are against others like full evasion vs evasion/ES and others
8:13 I was NOT expecting the Ancestor there.
Nobody ever does xd
AFAIK Armor damage reduction depends on incoming attack strength (damage), it's not flat reduction. Trash mob damage might be reduced by 60%, but boss damage will be reduced by 20% (these are only example values, I don't remember the exact values).
Sounds even more useless then I expected
i'm cold res capped and still dying constantly to freeze, i don't think the thawing charm works either it only activates after you've been frozen and prevents you from being frozen again. I could be wrong about that but it seems to work that way to me, im honestly considering putting an anti freeze passive on my amulet.
use a thawing charm with extra duration, you have a couple seconds to deal with the source of the freeze and you'll otherwise be frozen again. Being out of charges its also going to not prevent it.
Very good video
thanks for watchin
love it!!!!
Thanks for watchin!
Dying is just one part of The Great Filter, only the worthy can get to the T15s... i die a lot. lol 🙃
lol
Playing SSF and my rolls on lightning resistance have been absolutely terrible 😬 fire and cold ok but lighting is like -20% as of getting to endgame. Gonna need to socket some runes in by the looks of it
Oof
You need capped res. Less than 75% of chaos is unacceptable. It may even be good to go to 80% or CI. Get good at using the shitty trade site. Having a way to gain 10-15 ele res over cap makes a negative resist tribulation acceptable and those elemental weakness maps runnable.
If you’re playing hardcore or your character movement is terrible sure
@@EravinVTchaos porcupines used to 1 shot me. The only reason this works on your build is because mobs die before they get on screen. Especially since their damage isn't any lower than equivalent fire porcupines and they deal double to ES. Doesn't matter how good ur movement is.
Yeah I'm also thinking to overcap resistance since when yoy have resistance debuff ways tone you have to basically play without ever getting touched
1:57 that literally just happened to me! Changed my gloves and walked into a super juiced map with 43 light res. 😭
I have not played this game. But have been following content. Appreciate yours, General Eravin. But when it first came out all of the poeple had weak abilities and combat looked so good. But that high level the lightning spam on the screen. Ugh its so offputting it makes me glad i didnt get it. Again appreciate and will watch your stuff on it for if and when i do.
Anyone agree? Its obviously a personal preference thing. Reminds of of that line from Ready Player One "we can take up 80 of the screen space before we induce seizures".
All the ridiculous effects on the screen can be annoying, that's why I never touched Diablo 4 after the campaign. It's not nearly as bad here though. Some characters are pretty bad about it like sorceror and witch and maybe ranger. I've been having a blast with monk though, everything is clean and crisp and I can always tell what's going on.
I will say (feel free to wait for full release, which I believe is free to play) that these are optimized builds meant for post game content. You can absolutely have a blast and challenging experience making your own character, and honestly even with an optimized build path it takes a very long time for the game to look this spammy. The campaign has limited tools and will likely replicate the experience you're after
its because there's no baseline gameplay to balance things against. they let you juice up the maps with tons of extra monsters and enemy effects that make them completely unmanageable if you aren't spamming them back even harder. if you want a well thought out experience go play a darksouls game, this is a loot piñata.
As a Jhin main wasn't expecting a random 4 LOL
Neither was I but I accidentally said 3
I like the video, but what I don't like that much is that almost every guide says go to trade and buy xyz equipment. I kinda don't understand the appeal or point of playing a game like this to just buy whatever stuff I need vs finding it
Crafting gear basically makes 0 sense at fresh endgame compared to buying it unless you’re SSF and it’s out of scope for the purpose of the video especially halfway through the league
How did you know I was grinding maps in poe2 and not diving for freedom 😮?
I just know
It is poor practice to consider evasion(dodge chance) as a means of hp pool multiplier.
It is still very nice and important to have. However, it does not mitigate. When you get hit, eversion does nothing.
Glad I picked a witch for my first toon. This game isn't an easy one 😂
Very much so
How to not die: Step 1, dont pick a giants blood, dual great club wielding blood witch for the lols.
True
This is my build but ignite/bleed
Elemental damage? What's that? Laughs in chaos inoculation with original sin
Lol
6:21 meanwhile the worst class in-game of merc where it's a armor/evasion mix, and you don't have access to es without killing passive tree lol
Number one don’t play melee and that’s a great start
True
Dem some spicy burritos
Indeed
8:24 I havnt had much use for flasks as an armor/life Warrior. If I get hit, I just die. lol
Lul
7:00 I don’t get it
The knees
@ I saw that it was a pair of knees dressed as a cop. I just didn’t get it.
The levelling up In this Game Is a joke
Your Evasion example is quite wrong, it is not an effective 16k health pool. if you just miss one evasion, you are dead. No way to drink a potion or anything.
You missed the word “average” you will on “average” take 16,000 damage worth of projectiles compared to someone who doesn’t, every time you get one shot, you’ll not be one shot three other times on average . Meanwhile the person with no evasion is one shot 4/4 times. Is it the same as having 16k actual HP? No, sometimes it’s worse and sometimes its better depending on the scenario, but it’s a pretty realistic way to look at it on “average”
@@EravinVT some people never got past geometry and it shows.
Four jumpscare?
Ye
Evasion is a trap and is worse than armor. "You have a 15% chance to immediately die if you get hit by any attack from any monster" isn't a reliable way to clear content.
@@helgenlane Yep, Energy Shield is just too good in comparison to the alternatives. I really hope they don't nerf it too much.
Not at all how that plays out, but obviously ES grim feast is busted in comparison
Well you use Energy Shield and evasion and just play a monk like a Doom game (kill them first) you’ll be fine. Also get chaos resist and 3 charm slots before you shit on evasion.
My solution is to not beta test unpaid for a game with no purpose, intent, or desire to entertain. After 100 hrs, I’m officially over all things PoE and GGG. Get lazy, get complacent, lose those who work hard to play harder. They can enjoy their vacation while their half baked product failes like many game developers in recent times.
Over 400,000 people are playing their game, somehow I don’t think their product is going to fail.
When I see videos like this from Path of Exile at a high level. I don't want to play this game:)) this is a complete mess!
There are definitely more tame playstyles but yeah it’s cluttered
Using trading is a cop out cope. You absolutely shouldn’t need to use trading. Stopped the video right there
Cool 😎
Check this guy out with all his principles
PoE2 and Helldiver 2 🫂
I love you 😘
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