The tree and the skill gems really go hand in hand to determine the success of a build. Some of the gem interactions also are not clear, SRS is a great example of this. I will tend to switch out gems more than rerolling the tree while experimenting with build ideas to trade between damage/defense and qol. That's what I love about the game, so many different ways of building a character, but it is really hard for new players to get used too. I quit on my first play through in act 2… I have a video on srs and building around an item that goes into how I think about these things in more detail. Hope you're enjoying PoE and thanks for watching!
Lets say you have a 6 socket item all linked. If you put two active skills and 4 support gems, will both of the skill be supported by all the support gems? Or is it implied that for a link, there is only one active skill?
Hi Altek2k 😊 I am from Malaysia and it's nice to hear your teaching and also I had learnt about Malaysia was colonized by The Britain 👍❤ I like your accent sir.
0:34 Using the boots as an example, will the top left blue gem be linked to the green one? Or do they have to be directly linked and not just part of the same chain?
They just have to be in the same chain. No connection brakes the chain so if you have R-R-R G Then the 3 reds will be linkes but the green si independanct on a R-R R-G You have two seperate 2 links on the item. Hope this helps and thansk for watching!
@@Altek2k perfect, thank you! Just started the game a few days ago and I'm a bit overwhelmed but all the guides available have been making it fairly smooth to get into it
I try to avoid beginners tip since i dont want to be burden while playing this game, but this kind of tips is a must i think since it make it a lot easier to understand how this game works. I try to build super speed dual wielding leech type of duelist. I dont know if it achieveble or not but from what i see in skill tree i feel like i can do it. Hopefully i can
It really is so central to how the game works and it's not super intuative. Slayer can definately pull this off. The tree is pretty straight forward once you start to learn it. Thanks for watching and glad it helped!
Really great tutorial and im enjoying your gladiator walkthrough. One question do the stats of a weapon or armor only apply to the gems socket-ed in that item? I have a crystal scepter with +40% elemental, +47% spell damage, +23% cast speed, adds 5 to 126 lightning damage, and add 32 to 66 fire to spells, but it doesnt feel different when im vs gold and other heavy monsters. Is only my socket-ed fire storm getting these stats or are all my spells effected?
it depends. flat damage for instance says to spells it will only apply to spells. if it doesn't say spells it only applies to attacks. spell damage and cast speed ar used globally for spells. some stats are local to the weapons. attacks will scale of the weapons damage numbers, spells ignore them. it’s complicated. there are some good if very long tutorials on damage scaling out there. best way to see what is affecting your skills is to use path of buildings stats tab. hope this kind of helps and thanks for watching!
For normal skills no. If you are using a trigger skill like cast when damage taken then triggers will occur following the link from top left to bopttom right each time the trigger criteria is met.
What is this skill used on 1:54 I mean the frost spikes from the ground, I know the movement skill is Frost blink but from where are the spikes coming? Some support game for frost blink? I am new to the game and when I watch video I see ppl are using skills which I do not recognise.
I was having withering steps socakted in a head piece and i was nit getting the phasing effect where yiu phase through enemies but when i put it on my boot i got the effect is this some how related to links? Please help
It's not directly a link thing I don't think. The thing with withering step is it is disabled as soon as you use a skill. It could be that the helmet triggered a skill when you used a socketed skill which could cause it. Hope this helps!
Some skill gems have weapons requirements, whiring blades requires daggers or claws. If you have changed weapons the you will need to pick a movement skill that works with them. Leap slam is a good all rounder if using Axe, sword, sceptre or staff. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
No it can be in any order. The only time order matters is if you are using trigger skills. The triggered skills in that case would fire in the order the are socketed. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
This comment will probably go unnoticed or avoided due to its size, BUT.. YT decided to recommend me the vid, i assume due to me watching an Asmondgold meme video where he dies in the Boss Chamber over and over again - - Still, i clicked on it and as i read the title, i paused the video thinking - "Hol up.. i kinda know this stuff!-....and kinda dont..." I started Path of Exile a couple weeks ago, Again. I remember my first Templar character from 2018ish times, Got up to Act 8 sewers around the Sarn area... Then stopped progressing overall cuz.. well i did not know shit about the game. I remember having 1-2 buff equipped, like Vitality and Purity of Fire or something, having a Legendary? Orange rarity Two-Handed maul type.. weapon and i only used Consecrated Path mainly... Still it was shit! So.. I grew a little, gained experience in other areas of gaming as well and.. learned to actually read the Gems and think a little about the items and what they do and.. what the game shows me. Got an other Templar now, LvL 73, just entered Oriath with a full Pantheon and 2 Labiryrinth Ascendancies gotten. - I got two-three amazing ways to just.. laugh in the face of the game, now that i kinda learned the game on my own.. I say kinda, cuz i looked up a guide on Templar, followed it for.. like LvL 12, then i left it and made my own art. The Righteous Fire got my interest so i worked on it, later on I also got Reap and a handful of other useful offensive gems - as well as four/five Buffs, Vitality, Grace or Haste(depending on need), Purity of Fire, Herald of Ash. Im happy with it, RF deals around 15K fire dmg/Sec, Reap Deals 6K Physical dmg/sec. Sadly i need to somehow work on the Resistances now. Not much, but its honest work! If it does not work out in the end, and i still get stuck, i can spend some time grinding Orb of Regrets, and re-doing the Passive Skill tree, according to an EndGame oriented Tree path to advance. Dont get scared PPL, the game gives you opportunities to correct your Mistakes.. Mostly... Mostly.. so continue to support your local Original Evil! -also sry for a lot, wanted to share this small story, but while avoiding reddit's toxicity.
Thanks for sharing your journey. RF is a great skill early to mid end game, just falls off a litle towards deep end game. I quit in act 2 the first time I played then came back and got hooked. No comment left behind. Thanks for watching!
Coming to this game because everyone says its better than diablo. I see that is true, if you play on pc and can install mods and plugins to help with info. On console this games learning curve is ridiculous..I am level 5 and already beyond confused.
there are not a lot of add ones for pc except for trade as far as I’m aware. I do have a guide to the each of the acts that may help. Thanks for watching!
Skills are independant of character class. If you have the stats, you can use them. This video I think featured a witch and a ranger. Not sure if you have seen my class video or not, but this may help you choose what is right for you ua-cam.com/video/vOXQLKyZlo0/v-deo.html
Some nice help there, thank you.
Glad it helped - Thanks for watching!
they said the skill tree is overwhelming.. I think gem skills are really the one overwhelming
The tree and the skill gems really go hand in hand to determine the success of a build. Some of the gem interactions also are not clear, SRS is a great example of this. I will tend to switch out gems more than rerolling the tree while experimenting with build ideas to trade between damage/defense and qol. That's what I love about the game, so many different ways of building a character, but it is really hard for new players to get used too. I quit on my first play through in act 2… I have a video on srs and building around an item that goes into how I think about these things in more detail. Hope you're enjoying PoE and thanks for watching!
Love how easy you made it. So clear now lol
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!
Lets say you have a 6 socket item all linked. If you put two active skills and 4 support gems, will both of the skill be supported by all the support gems? Or is it implied that for a link, there is only one active skill?
Both skills will be supported. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
this helped me greatly! because of this I have doubled my damage output
Glad I could help. Thanks for watching!
Hi Altek2k 😊 I am from Malaysia and it's nice to hear your teaching and also I had learnt about Malaysia was colonized by The Britain 👍❤
I like your accent sir.
Thankyou for the kind words and for watching!
much appreciated :) really which I know this when I started :P
Glad you like it. Thanks for watching!
Great video for new players
Glad you liked it
0:34 Using the boots as an example, will the top left blue gem be linked to the green one? Or do they have to be directly linked and not just part of the same chain?
They just have to be in the same chain. No connection brakes the chain so if you have R-R-R G Then the 3 reds will be linkes but the green si independanct on a R-R R-G You have two seperate 2 links on the item. Hope this helps and thansk for watching!
@@Altek2k perfect, thank you! Just started the game a few days ago and I'm a bit overwhelmed but all the guides available have been making it fairly smooth to get into it
I try to avoid beginners tip since i dont want to be burden while playing this game, but this kind of tips is a must i think since it make it a lot easier to understand how this game works. I try to build super speed dual wielding leech type of duelist. I dont know if it achieveble or not but from what i see in skill tree i feel like i can do it. Hopefully i can
It really is so central to how the game works and it's not super intuative. Slayer can definately pull this off. The tree is pretty straight forward once you start to learn it. Thanks for watching and glad it helped!
Really great tutorial and im enjoying your gladiator walkthrough. One question do the stats of a weapon or armor only apply to the gems socket-ed in that item? I have a crystal scepter with +40% elemental, +47% spell damage, +23% cast speed, adds 5 to 126 lightning damage, and add 32 to 66 fire to spells, but it doesnt feel different when im vs gold and other heavy monsters. Is only my socket-ed fire storm getting these stats or are all my spells effected?
it depends. flat damage for instance says to spells it will only apply to spells. if it doesn't say spells it only applies to attacks.
spell damage and cast speed ar used globally for spells. some stats are local to the weapons. attacks will scale of the weapons damage numbers, spells ignore them. it’s complicated. there are some good if very long tutorials on damage scaling out there. best way to see what is affecting your skills is to use path of buildings stats tab. hope this kind of helps and thanks for watching!
this really helps me a lot. thank you sir.
glafd it helped. Thanks for watching!
Does the order of the links matter to support the skills?
For normal skills no. If you are using a trigger skill like cast when damage taken then triggers will occur following the link from top left to bopttom right each time the trigger criteria is met.
What is this skill used on 1:54 I mean the frost spikes from the ground, I know the movement skill is Frost blink but from where are the spikes coming? Some support game for frost blink? I am new to the game and when I watch video I see ppl are using skills which I do not recognise.
The skill is frost blink with an MTX added Its actually a pretty stron skill! Thanks for watching!
Much appreciated
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!
I was having withering steps socakted in a head piece and i was nit getting the phasing effect where yiu phase through enemies but when i put it on my boot i got the effect is this some how related to links? Please help
It's not directly a link thing I don't think. The thing with withering step is it is disabled as soon as you use a skill. It could be that the helmet triggered a skill when you used a socketed skill which could cause it. Hope this helps!
Hey i have werling blades on my duelist and it was working but now its not? How do i fix this
Some skill gems have weapons requirements, whiring blades requires daggers or claws. If you have changed weapons the you will need to pick a movement skill that works with them. Leap slam is a good all rounder if using Axe, sword, sceptre or staff. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
Does the Skill gem have to be first in line before the support gems for it to work?
No it can be in any order. The only time order matters is if you are using trigger skills. The triggered skills in that case would fire in the order the are socketed. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
This comment will probably go unnoticed or avoided due to its size, BUT..
YT decided to recommend me the vid, i assume due to me watching an Asmondgold meme video where he dies in the Boss Chamber over and over again - -
Still, i clicked on it and as i read the title, i paused the video thinking - "Hol up.. i kinda know this stuff!-....and kinda dont..." I started Path of Exile a couple weeks ago, Again. I remember my first Templar character from 2018ish times, Got up to Act 8 sewers around the Sarn area... Then stopped progressing overall cuz.. well i did not know shit about the game. I remember having 1-2 buff equipped, like Vitality and Purity of Fire or something, having a Legendary? Orange rarity Two-Handed maul type.. weapon and i only used Consecrated Path mainly... Still it was shit!
So.. I grew a little, gained experience in other areas of gaming as well and.. learned to actually read the Gems and think a little about the items and what they do and.. what the game shows me. Got an other Templar now, LvL 73, just entered Oriath with a full Pantheon and 2 Labiryrinth Ascendancies gotten. - I got two-three amazing ways to just.. laugh in the face of the game, now that i kinda learned the game on my own.. I say kinda, cuz i looked up a guide on Templar, followed it for.. like LvL 12, then i left it and made my own art.
The Righteous Fire got my interest so i worked on it, later on I also got Reap and a handful of other useful offensive gems - as well as four/five Buffs, Vitality, Grace or Haste(depending on need), Purity of Fire, Herald of Ash. Im happy with it, RF deals around 15K fire dmg/Sec, Reap Deals 6K Physical dmg/sec. Sadly i need to somehow work on the Resistances now. Not much, but its honest work!
If it does not work out in the end, and i still get stuck, i can spend some time grinding Orb of Regrets, and re-doing the Passive Skill tree, according to an EndGame oriented Tree path to advance.
Dont get scared PPL, the game gives you opportunities to correct your Mistakes.. Mostly... Mostly.. so continue to support your local Original Evil!
-also sry for a lot, wanted to share this small story, but while avoiding reddit's toxicity.
Thanks for sharing your journey. RF is a great skill early to mid end game, just falls off a litle towards deep end game. I quit in act 2 the first time I played then came back and got hooked. No comment left behind. Thanks for watching!
Why are youtubers and streamers gem sockets like a different shape over just circle sockets? They almost look like star sockets...
There is a colour blind mode that changes the shape based on the colour. Thanks for watching!
Coming to this game because everyone says its better than diablo. I see that is true, if you play on pc and can install mods and plugins to help with info. On console this games learning curve is ridiculous..I am level 5 and already beyond confused.
there are not a lot of add ones for pc except for trade as far as I’m aware. I do have a guide to the each of the acts that may help. Thanks for watching!
Keep playing. It all falls into place. Takes a bit but we'll worth it.
whats your class
Skills are independant of character class. If you have the stats, you can use them. This video I think featured a witch and a ranger. Not sure if you have seen my class video or not, but this may help you choose what is right for you ua-cam.com/video/vOXQLKyZlo0/v-deo.html
thanks ... i do not want to look simp foreeeeever... rolllfff...
PoE has so much stuff to learn. I'm still learning new stuff each league. Thanks for watching!
RIP being colorblind
You can enable colourblind mode which has different patterns on each coloured socket.
@@Altek2k OMG Really?? Next time I log in I gotta find that option. :D :D
It's under UI/Items/Socket Notches, at least on pc. There are 3 options.
@@Altek2k hmm nice I see I can add a pattern type thing to the sockets, now if only I could get the gems to show that pattern too
This video feels redundant. Even 1 year ago. Heck, even 8 years ago.
There were a lot of new players that came in during diablo and I was actualy suprised by the number of likes on it. Thanks for watching!
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