3:52 what hit you there is one of the most notorious mechanics in PoE. The monster type was a revenant and they can detonate corpses. Corpse explosions in PoE deal a portion of the exploded corpses HP as flat damage, normally as fire. In this case if you squint really hard you can see the monster summoned small red spires in proximity to where you were standing. I think this act 4 tile set is the second time they show you the mechanic, and the telegraph is not very good. Keep having fun!
Hehe I am starting to see that the gems/spells I get… the enemies get them too! So unfair 🤣🤣🤣 I probably need to turn down the spell area effects option a little (I do LOVE the big explosions though) to see the telegraphs from enemies a bit better! I will see about it for later in the game, cause I am definitely noticing the difficulty ramping up a bit, so knowing the telegraphs from enemies will be important! I got toasted with an aoe bleed earlier in this act but eventually noticed it so I could get around/out of it 😁 Figuring it all out! But yeah I am having THE BEST time! This game is peak fun!
Oh one more thing about curses/hexes that came to mind. Since you are not using a lot of auras right now, you could consider using the blue gem "Blasphemy Support" availabe, again, at Clarissa in act 3. This gem transforms every hex linked to it into an aura with 35% mana reservation (the same as for example Merry & Pippin). Using this will make your mere presence curse nearby enemies with your hex of choice and you wouldn't need to cast the hex at all. That would make your already hard-hitting WoC hit like a truck and while using Flammability it would even raise Holy Flame Totem's damage as it deals half its damage as fire. (also remember to check Multiple Totems Support at Petarus & Vanja ) And hey, what's a sassy Witch without a little blasphemy? 🤘
Yeah I just have the Clarity and Vitality atm. BUT I did get a stack of 4+ gem slot gear and am hoping at least a couple work out as upgrades, so then I have more slots for supports and auras. Omg… I could literally be a human curse! Brb, off to the shop 🤣 I have literally woken up like 1 minute ago but I want to boot up the game right now 🤣 You should see some of these new gems in the vid after next! Hehehehe I feel like you know my little witch. She is definitely the blasphemous type.
I definitely feel like flat health works well for me since I am so squish 🤣 it’s just all of the REST of the decisions that are going to be difficult 🤣
think about making your poe profile public and sharing a link, that way, people can check out the gear your character is wearing and give advice based on that.
@whypick1_ I took notes from your comment earlier about the nodes, what is more/less useful :) Thank you as always for the advice, it’s absolutely invaluable!
I was going to comment you didn't have to reupload the video just to fix my name, but then you deleted the video, and welp. And good, because I didn't want to repost all that.
@@whypick1_ I wanted to get it right. I have the habit of shortening everyone's names (I think its a real Aussie thing), but your advice has been so valuable to me that I wanted to make sure you knew that. Reupping the vid so it was fixed is the least I could do to show my appreciation tbh.
Allrighty then.... 1) What almost killed you at 3:52 is part of one of the most dangerous and quite frankly annoying things in Path of Exile: On-Death Effects. Those white circles (there are also blue and red ones) are well telegraphed but there are a lot of other effects that can be VERY deadly. You should always wait a little moment before rushing to your loot or you _will_ find yourself asking wth just killed you over and over again. 2) About flasks. It's more of a more experienced player/viewer thing. Once you have completed the campaign over and over and over again you tend to just want to get it over with. It is so engrained that we automatically want to go go go as fast as posible and it can be frustrating to watch someone take their time. _HOWEVER_ , this is your very first playthrough so take all the time you want and don't get "bullied" into picking up the pace. When you don't use you flasks be it because you forget, don't want to or whatever, then simply don't. It is indeed an endgame thing and once flasks do become important, you also will have the ability to automate them and not care about actively using them (except life/mana flasks of course). 3) Don't worry about aliens... yet. ;D 4) The +50 Life Mastery is an excellent pick and every build, that focusses on Life uses it. Get as much life on the tree than reasonably possible. 5) You don't need to skill curses on the tree but you should _use_ one. Recommendations: Flammablity or Elemental Weakness for offensive curses or Enfeeble or Temporal Chains for defensive curses. All four are available at Clarissa in act 3 and you do not have to spam those on every monster. Just use them on tough rares, essence monsters and unique (act) bosses. 6) You can enable Stash Affinities. Open you stash and click on the cogwheel icon in the upper right corner of the stash menu and check "Enable Tab Affinities". Now right cklick on your currency tab registercard (you can even change the colour there and rename the tab) and check the box next to "Currency" at the bottom of the window. When you now ctrl + leftclick on a currency item in your inventory when the stash is open, it automatically goes into the currency tab even if you have another stash tab open. You can do that with lots of different item types if you have purchased the according stash tabs. It's not a big deal now, but if you ever have many different stash tab types it can save a LOT of time and hassle to just auto sort all that stuff. 7) Although I too recommend thinking about slowly retiring Holy Flame Totem, if you really want to keep using it, return to Petarus and Vanja in act 4 and buy the red support gem "Multiple Totems Support" (hm, I wonder, what that does when linked to Holy Flame Totem) and thank me later. ;)
Thank you so much for the break down :) I have definitely noticed some ground effects and that I rush into them too quickly 🤣 I just have to learn to take my time a bit better! I do intend to use the flasks as much as I can, I just REALLY do forget and yeah I know it must be frustrating to see me go through so slowly when you’re all used to powering through. I just hope you guys can enjoy being along for the ride. Omg aliens for real???? I can’t tell if you’re pulling my leg or not 🤣 I am hoping to direct myself around to a couple life nodes cause I think they could be very helpful with me being a bit squishy right now! Ohhhhhh okay a curse is recommended, I WAS interested in them right at the start (you probably don’t remember from like when I first started that I was curse curious), but I think knowing which one would be the best is helpful! I think I do have Flammability actually! I don’t think I read about that being a curse. I will read into them when I log on tomorrow. Stash Affinities sounds super interesting, gotta check that out too!!! That will be handy! I am only able to slowly build up my bank stash spaces at the moment, so it’s going to be very handy. A lot of people have recommended to ditch the totem, so I will keep it in mind to either get a better/more powerful one or ditch it. I am sure I will come across some more powerful spells. Maybe if I beef up my golem, that would be a good replacement… I like having a little minion and the totem really has filled that space. Food for thought! Thank you as always for the advice and I hope you didn’t mind the shout out at the start.
Just to expand on a couple items for Cass: 5) You'll see the terms "Curses", "Hexes", and "Marks". These are not exactly interchangeable. Hexes (normally) apply a debuff to all monsters in an area. Marks are a debuff that can only be applied to a single monster at a time. Both of them are Curses, although lots of people will refer to Hexes as Curses as before GGG made the distinction between the two (...jfc) 4 years ago there were just Curses which were all the current Hexes. By default, a monster can only have 1 Curse on it at a time, and until you get better ways of applying multiple curses on a target besides manually casting them (they are _slow_ to cast), it is not worth increasing that limit, so stick to just one (which should probably be Flammability). Like OP said though, don't need to spam it on every pack, just the tougher monsters. 6. There will be a couple mechanics you encounter in the back half of the game that come with their own stashes. They can have affinities set on them too _if you remember to do it_. This means you can Ctrl+Click an item from your inventory with your main stash open and it'll go straight to that other stash. Renaming and Recoloring tabs can only be done with Premium tabs. Besides those functions, the only other thing they enable is that Premium tabs can be indexed by the Trade API so you can list items for trade from them (regular tabs can still have item affinities assigned to them though). The 4 tabs that were in your stash when you first rolled into Lioneye's Watch are regular tabs, as are the "Extra Stash Tab" items in the store. Everything else is Premium.
awww my name there, so lovely!! also it's great to see you're having fun doing it your own way, that's what matters ❤
You have given me some valuable help and support! I really appreciate it ❤️
3:52 what hit you there is one of the most notorious mechanics in PoE. The monster type was a revenant and they can detonate corpses. Corpse explosions in PoE deal a portion of the exploded corpses HP as flat damage, normally as fire. In this case if you squint really hard you can see the monster summoned small red spires in proximity to where you were standing. I think this act 4 tile set is the second time they show you the mechanic, and the telegraph is not very good. Keep having fun!
Hehe I am starting to see that the gems/spells I get… the enemies get them too! So unfair 🤣🤣🤣 I probably need to turn down the spell area effects option a little (I do LOVE the big explosions though) to see the telegraphs from enemies a bit better! I will see about it for later in the game, cause I am definitely noticing the difficulty ramping up a bit, so knowing the telegraphs from enemies will be important! I got toasted with an aoe bleed earlier in this act but eventually noticed it so I could get around/out of it 😁 Figuring it all out! But yeah I am having THE BEST time! This game is peak fun!
Oh one more thing about curses/hexes that came to mind.
Since you are not using a lot of auras right now, you could consider using the blue gem "Blasphemy Support" availabe, again, at Clarissa in act 3. This gem transforms every hex linked to it into an aura with 35% mana reservation (the same as for example Merry & Pippin). Using this will make your mere presence curse nearby enemies with your hex of choice and you wouldn't need to cast the hex at all. That would make your already hard-hitting WoC hit like a truck and while using Flammability it would even raise Holy Flame Totem's damage as it deals half its damage as fire. (also remember to check Multiple Totems Support at Petarus & Vanja )
And hey, what's a sassy Witch without a little blasphemy? 🤘
Yeah I just have the Clarity and Vitality atm. BUT I did get a stack of 4+ gem slot gear and am hoping at least a couple work out as upgrades, so then I have more slots for supports and auras.
Omg… I could literally be a human curse! Brb, off to the shop 🤣 I have literally woken up like 1 minute ago but I want to boot up the game right now 🤣 You should see some of these new gems in the vid after next!
Hehehehe I feel like you know my little witch. She is definitely the blasphemous type.
+ 50 hp is a wise choise solid as rock
I definitely feel like flat health works well for me since I am so squish 🤣 it’s just all of the REST of the decisions that are going to be difficult 🤣
I like that your ears match your background tapestry :)
Hehe that’s why I choose them so often! I LOVE the match!
AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY LETSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Haha shout outs for your CONSTANT optimistic support, my friend! Always brings a smile to my face!
think about making your poe profile public and sharing a link, that way, people can check out the gear your character is wearing and give advice based on that.
Oh I didn’t know I could do that! Thats great advice! I will make it public and link it in the videos!
@whypick1_ I took notes from your comment earlier about the nodes, what is more/less useful :) Thank you as always for the advice, it’s absolutely invaluable!
I was going to comment you didn't have to reupload the video just to fix my name, but then you deleted the video, and welp.
And good, because I didn't want to repost all that.
@@whypick1_ I wanted to get it right. I have the habit of shortening everyone's names (I think its a real Aussie thing), but your advice has been so valuable to me that I wanted to make sure you knew that. Reupping the vid so it was fixed is the least I could do to show my appreciation tbh.
Allrighty then....
1) What almost killed you at 3:52 is part of one of the most dangerous and quite frankly annoying things in Path of Exile: On-Death Effects. Those white circles (there are also blue and red ones) are well telegraphed but there are a lot of other effects that can be VERY deadly. You should always wait a little moment before rushing to your loot or you _will_ find yourself asking wth just killed you over and over again.
2) About flasks. It's more of a more experienced player/viewer thing. Once you have completed the campaign over and over and over again you tend to just want to get it over with. It is so engrained that we automatically want to go go go as fast as posible and it can be frustrating to watch someone take their time. _HOWEVER_ , this is your very first playthrough so take all the time you want and don't get "bullied" into picking up the pace. When you don't use you flasks be it because you forget, don't want to or whatever, then simply don't. It is indeed an endgame thing and once flasks do become important, you also will have the ability to automate them and not care about actively using them (except life/mana flasks of course).
3) Don't worry about aliens... yet. ;D
4) The +50 Life Mastery is an excellent pick and every build, that focusses on Life uses it. Get as much life on the tree than reasonably possible.
5) You don't need to skill curses on the tree but you should _use_ one. Recommendations: Flammablity or Elemental Weakness for offensive curses or Enfeeble or Temporal Chains for defensive curses. All four are available at Clarissa in act 3 and you do not have to spam those on every monster. Just use them on tough rares, essence monsters and unique (act) bosses.
6) You can enable Stash Affinities. Open you stash and click on the cogwheel icon in the upper right corner of the stash menu and check "Enable Tab Affinities". Now right cklick on your currency tab registercard (you can even change the colour there and rename the tab) and check the box next to "Currency" at the bottom of the window. When you now ctrl + leftclick on a currency item in your inventory when the stash is open, it automatically goes into the currency tab even if you have another stash tab open. You can do that with lots of different item types if you have purchased the according stash tabs. It's not a big deal now, but if you ever have many different stash tab types it can save a LOT of time and hassle to just auto sort all that stuff.
7) Although I too recommend thinking about slowly retiring Holy Flame Totem, if you really want to keep using it, return to Petarus and Vanja in act 4 and buy the red support gem "Multiple Totems Support" (hm, I wonder, what that does when linked to Holy Flame Totem) and thank me later. ;)
Thank you so much for the break down :) I have definitely noticed some ground effects and that I rush into them too quickly 🤣 I just have to learn to take my time a bit better! I do intend to use the flasks as much as I can, I just REALLY do forget and yeah I know it must be frustrating to see me go through so slowly when you’re all used to powering through. I just hope you guys can enjoy being along for the ride.
Omg aliens for real???? I can’t tell if you’re pulling my leg or not 🤣
I am hoping to direct myself around to a couple life nodes cause I think they could be very helpful with me being a bit squishy right now!
Ohhhhhh okay a curse is recommended, I WAS interested in them right at the start (you probably don’t remember from like when I first started that I was curse curious), but I think knowing which one would be the best is helpful! I think I do have Flammability actually! I don’t think I read about that being a curse. I will read into them when I log on tomorrow.
Stash Affinities sounds super interesting, gotta check that out too!!! That will be handy! I am only able to slowly build up my bank stash spaces at the moment, so it’s going to be very handy.
A lot of people have recommended to ditch the totem, so I will keep it in mind to either get a better/more powerful one or ditch it. I am sure I will come across some more powerful spells. Maybe if I beef up my golem, that would be a good replacement… I like having a little minion and the totem really has filled that space.
Food for thought! Thank you as always for the advice and I hope you didn’t mind the shout out at the start.
@@CassKGamingLet's just say there are Eldritch Horrors lurking in the darkest corners of PoE...
@bewn2465 I can’t wait to pledge my allegiance to the eldritch horrors 🤣
@@CassKGaming The funny thing is... you kinda do, actually 🐙
Just to expand on a couple items for Cass:
5) You'll see the terms "Curses", "Hexes", and "Marks". These are not exactly interchangeable. Hexes (normally) apply a debuff to all monsters in an area. Marks are a debuff that can only be applied to a single monster at a time. Both of them are Curses, although lots of people will refer to Hexes as Curses as before GGG made the distinction between the two (...jfc) 4 years ago there were just Curses which were all the current Hexes.
By default, a monster can only have 1 Curse on it at a time, and until you get better ways of applying multiple curses on a target besides manually casting them (they are _slow_ to cast), it is not worth increasing that limit, so stick to just one (which should probably be Flammability). Like OP said though, don't need to spam it on every pack, just the tougher monsters.
6. There will be a couple mechanics you encounter in the back half of the game that come with their own stashes. They can have affinities set on them too _if you remember to do it_. This means you can Ctrl+Click an item from your inventory with your main stash open and it'll go straight to that other stash.
Renaming and Recoloring tabs can only be done with Premium tabs. Besides those functions, the only other thing they enable is that Premium tabs can be indexed by the Trade API so you can list items for trade from them (regular tabs can still have item affinities assigned to them though). The 4 tabs that were in your stash when you first rolled into Lioneye's Watch are regular tabs, as are the "Extra Stash Tab" items in the store. Everything else is Premium.