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Zizaran i just recently started playing the game sentinal will be my actual second league of playing the game so while following this walktrough i found out that in the end XD i dident died a single time which previously was like 5-10 times before mapping i am not even kidding the tips and tricks here and there and showing us how to do certain things with our armor and crafting receps helped alot also the way you make the quests and than returning by relogging on certain points litrally will save me hours at the new league later xD it took me previously like 10-12 hours to do acts and i took notes of it -> the hard part would be finding equipment with the amount of slots which was not easy -> what i personally hated was splitting steel and halix was alot beter for me than splitting steel after the swap to bow and ea i almost dident have enough sockets but it somhow worked out resistance was not a problem after the trans to ea everything went also alot more smooth i like the bow playstyle as for the following bosses untill mapping after the ea swap was a breeze with max resistance and the amount of damage i did with the survivability but early on before act 2-3 i could say a totally new player could use vitality untill the build is a bit more activated besides that no complains
Just to say, a great way to show the difference between More/Increased is "Faster Projectiles" vs "Slower Projectiles" as 20% increased is less DPS than 10% more damage
@Zizaran I wish I had your loot luck.. I'm now lvl58 and my armor is only 1200 because I don't get good gear with right sockets, my resistances are bad also for the same reason.. have to wear just whatever has the right sockets, also I never run in to those essence monsters, not one excavation event has come up and only one delirium and I am in the same part with you right now about summon the ship that takes you to the brine king.. please wish/give some loot luck thanks lol!!
Hey Ziz, I'm totally new to PoE, I hadn't even seen a video of it before watching this the whole way through. I watched this, then watched some other stuff and consulted the reddit discord a fair bit. I just got to act 6. I think the video overall is really good, but at one point you kind of talk about how you wouldn't script an 8 hour video. Duh, who would. However, I think some of the really barebones stuff like getting resistances maxed and a breakdown of how the really common early game currencies work WOULD benefit from having a 10-20 minute script written from them that you slot in once it makes sense with how far into the run you are. You do a good job of explaining things extemporaneously, but there is SO much information that sticking to "mini-scripts" for brief windows once you meet "xyz" conditions might really help. Examples of where this approach would have helped me: -At the beginning of the run, discussing exactly which moments you have to stop and talk to NPCs to progress or interact with characters in town etc. You talk about how nice it is that you don't have to do this like a lot of other games constantly, but knowing roughly what zones/acts I need to stop and check for these and I could write them down. That way, you're not outpacing the new players trying to play the game (which you will inevitably end up doing through no fault of your own) AND simultaneously screwing them a little bit by being so far ahead you, do the necessary interaction and I forget, because it happened an hour ago or something. -Capping resistances. -I'm not sure if the POB portion at the beginning was scripted, but I think a little more could have been done there. I don't think the items tab needed to be reviewed at the beginning, but it would have really helped me if I was told a little bit about the skill tab. Maybe one way to think of it would be to group topics like that, figure out "how could I present that content inside of an 8 hour stream in a way that it could almost be a standalone 10 minute YT video for totally new players." Just a thought. Anyway, this is still really helping me, thanks for the video.
@@danielfauchier9355 the thing I'm most worried is what comes after the campaign, ziz says multiple times in the vid he makes an endgame video with this same character, showing the gearing up and skillpoint allocation etc but he didn't, the next video is just a 1 hour long slideshow about the map system which is appreciated for sure but, as a console player I have mo access to that POB system so I have to quess where the rest of the skillpoints go, not good.. also, you lose another 30% of your resistances when you kill the last boss of the campaign.. where am I supposed to get them resistances then? My loot luck is horrendous so I have to wear the gear with the right sockets and links so my resistances, armors, evasion etc are bit crappy already..
For other newer players like myself- Don't forget to have fun! My first league (Ultimatum) I set the goal of just going slowly through act 1-10 and trying a bunch of stuff. Last league I went faster to endgame and played a bunch in maps. This league I'm looking to start doing some endgame bosses! There is no pressure to play the game faster or slower if it isn't fun!
Kinda Newbie here with some feedback: I’m about 3 hrs in and thank you for this! I’m learning a lot and I like the longer form so I can understand things before the next topic starts and see how it flows in a play through. One suggestion, maybe hover over items a little longer when explaining things, for example when you got your first unique item, you hovered over it for a millisecond before vendoring it. You could have shown us what it looked like, what made it unique and why it was a bad unique item. The same thing happened with your first divination card. (You spoke more about the div cards butI guess I like to see things visually too as a newbie :-) ) Just an idea, looking forward to watching the rest, thank you again! (For context, I played the first time last league but used no guides or builds, just played the story and got a bit overwhelmed around lvl 70 when my character was kinda a mess. Ive come back to this league with a build and want to do end game this time so im trying to learn more about the game)
I managed to pause the video at that point (2:40:53) -- the item was a Kaom's Sign (a unique Coral Ring), and it would have given him +22 maximum life; +12 strength; +3 life gained for each enemy hit by his attacks; and +1 maximum endurance charges.
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At about 4:25:00 you made a comment that changed my life: “Here’s Path of Exile - get fu**ed, kid”. Pretty much sums it up. Seriously, this is a great vid. I’m in for about 150 hours in POE right now, and there must have been about 25 “aha” moments in this so far.
uninstalled within the first 20 minutes of watching this video, downloaded it and didn't even load it up to play it, started watching this and quickly made me realize i do not want to play this game. this may seem like an insult or somehow annoying to say, but i can tell you love this game and don't wish to say anything bad about yours or anyone else enjoyment of it, just that you did a good job of making it clear to me that this isn't a game i want to play. thanks!
Zizaran has lots of great vids for POE. first play POE like 5 yrs ago. not really having a good time and stop. decide to give it a go like 3 months ago. Always had problem with boss and maps until I learn the importance about resistance and life. When I play other RPG I always goes for glass cannon and clear every zone fully. your vids (especially the university) change my play style and helps me understand so much better. Still can't move as smooth as you do during boss fight but definitely surviving much better. Thank you very much
Completely new player looking to start this season, friends have been playing for a while now. This video is exactly what I was looking for. Only 2.5 hours in, but I like the drawn out, explain things as they become more important. Too much info early and out of context is hard to retain, more so because it's out of context and it's all just more words I don't understand talking about other words I don't understand. So far this has been perfect.
Dude this is a great guide, i never had played poe before only watched and got confused as expected, but following this i managed to do pretty much a act or 2 per day, this is looking to be a 10-12 first time play through, the best thing is not even learning the build but actually the fact i'm begging to make sense of the mechanics and how to use them, i had the same problem in act 3 (not having a 4 link) and i managed to it with 3 and adjust my sockets to be abble to use all the gems, i'm closing act 4 as i wrote this so big thanks, i would love for you to keep this as a series
2 things,you will get more gear links sockets etc just by progressing,thats why people speedrun acts in like 4 hours,and mechanics,imagine poe is scrooge mcduck simulator ,you want to get rich and pretty much every mechanic is just extraloot,thats usually specific or just extra.
Thanks for the guide! I decided to try to play POE again. I never made it much further then starting maps at the end game before my build fell apart and I lost motivation. The explanations along the way were great and not to over whelming. The below info I found very helpful and helped me from getting randomly 1 shot. - Prioritize on getting max resistances. - Stats being local vs globle. I can stop down grading items because them seem better by stats. -Armor only being able to stop x amount of damage regardless of % reduction. I was able to swap gear for % physical damage taken as elemental dmg. This helped a lot on meaty hits. -Using the Quartz flask to pass through enemies since a lot of the physical hits taken is from getting stuck on mobs. Now for the video on mapping.
Zizaran as a new player getting into this game, your guides are fantastically helpful. I feel like if I can break into this game and really learn all the systems there's a ton of fun to be had and this type of walkthrough is great for me. It's like the game provides just text dump instructions for players, while this is like an in-game tutorial which is vastly more helpful for cementing understanding. I also appreciate the approach of metering out information as the player needs it so it can be absorbed a little at a time
One small bit of feedback, as I am trying to play the game with this video running in the background, it would be great if you could vocally say what locations you are going to as you go to them, so that I can better keep track of where to go without having to stop and look at the video all the time. Thanks again for the great tutorial!
If you enable Quest Tracker, once you find the first Laborint Trail you will get notification on the Quest Tracker if there is an Laborint Trail in the zone your in. Love the idee of explaining on the go !
Hey dude, I know this is old now but I just want to say thanks. This was the perfect tutorial right ahead of a new league. Ran through 4 hours of it, and now I'm absolutely decimating packs in Act 5. I think I'll try something different for my league starter in a couple days but this was the PERFECT way to learn this game. Thank you!
Well clear of 10k hours, Beta backer, Alpha contributor, and I'm in here following along as attack builds have never been something I've taken the time to master and this is set to be such a strong leaguestart given the fears of Ashes being moved to the ubahs and needing something that can farm it in SSF without needed the amulet to do so. Thanks, and huge respect to you and all the collaborators on the PoE Univeristy project for the time and effort you invest into making PoE a more approachable game for new and old players alike.
Working my way though this video since I've been playing mostly the same cold build forever. Picked up new stuff even not being 'new'. I know its hard to balance the time dedicated to the video but it would help me a lot if you slowed down and hovered over things a little longer, especially on gems equipped. I had to backup the video about 10 times and set it to half speed when you moved everything around to start explosive arrow and several other times later on. I had keep going back to it since I didn't have the currency to buy all the gems at one time. I did have a nice 4 link bow and a good quiver :) Absolutely 100% thanks for doing this content!
One thing that I thought might be useful to mention in regards to looting that Ziz seemed to overlook is all those seemingly innocuous pieces of equipment that drops with full grey backgrounds. Each of those pieces has a red, blue and green socket, and therefore equals a Chromatic Orb when sold. You can stack up a ton of these if you pick them all up during the leveling process. Edit: Seems you explicitly mention this at 5:04:36. Nice job! Fantastic guide too. I'm relatively new and have learned a ton.
Just wanted to let you know, this is exactly what I needed to get me over the initial trepidation I felt, and get me playing PoE. I've been following this guide down to the letter, and it's incredible to me that you do one of these every three months! Thanks for this great guide!
POE has always been in my game library but felt too intimidating to play, but the urge to play another ARPG game after "finishing" D3 continued. A full hand holding walkthrough like this definitely helps and much appreciated. I think any game that wants more players should do these- lifesaver for sure.
Thank You! I have always wanted to try this game but was too intimidated to start from scratch. Your goal of not "over-explaining" made this easy to follow, informative, and an excellent intro to POE. I now feel like I can pick up one of your other build guides and start from scratch while taking in the story. I did find it very frustrating to follow you through each map, because mine always looked different. I think at some point you mentioned this mechanic, but it might be helpful to say it at the beginning of the run. It actually allowed me to level a bit faster which helped in the end. Can't wait to keep going with this build in the next video! Also, I was definitely that "new player" you mentioned that "picks up every item and identified it". That one made me laugh.
As a completely new player I really really want to enjoy this game and dive into it but, as everyone knows, it’s incredibly overwhelming but looks like a ton of fun so I took the plunge last night. Thank you so much for your guides and videos. I can’t explain how comforting it is to have stuff like this to watch and reference.
If it helps, I've probably put 2k+ hours in the game and I don't think I've ever beaten all the main content. Each season I usually get to maps, eventually hit a road block, and then I end up quitting. Just because I have crazy ADHD though and something else grabs my interest. This game is great and I have so many hours but literally still don't understand half the older league mechanics. It takes a lot of dedication to get to real "end game." I'm trying this league but already getting distracted lol. If you have questions lmk and I can maybe help.
@@PropurtysChannel I think my main issue right now is finding builds. I find a guide but they dont explain anything a new player needs to know when leveling, such as in what order do I follow the skill tree, what gems to use when etc. The only video ive found that explains everything I need is an arc witch build but the guy shows him using the build from level 1 all the way through act 10, so I know how to follow the tree, and what gems to get and start using etc. I want to play around with a few different builds and level them but I just dont understand these build guides and how to level with them.
@@Shupra94 Don't over think it for now. Focus on enjoying the campaign etc. Eventually you'll be blasting through it anyway. But the path of exile forums where builds are posted is my favorite place. Most of them have a leveling section in the guide telling you what to use etc. Also go get the path of building community edition program. Paste the build into path of building, using a tutorial vid if you need to. A good new player build will have skill trees and gems set for certain levels. So you click a drop down and it might say "level 33 skill tree." The build creator will have these tiers so you can better see what your skill tree will look like around that level. Hope that makes sense. For example I am lightly following a Raider Flicker Strike build. Called Blooming or something like that. But in it there are trees for lvl 33, 45, 55, etc. There is also an online version of path of building. But the community program is way better. Once you learn it, you can create your own builds far easier. But for now don't worry too much about it. They changed leveling recently so the campaign is harder. Used to leveling was super easy with most skills. But now it can really depend on the skill. Since I am doing a ranger build I went with poisonous concoction skill to level with. It is actually really easy and felt good to level with. But that's up to what you want. You likely won't complete the end game content this league, so instead try to take time learning all the past league mechanics etc. When a new league happens you will be way more prepared for it. The start of leagues are always really fun anyway. I could be wrong and you are a pro. But I probably will end up quitting before endgame even though I'd really like to get there. Mostly because I lose focus on what I am doing. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this video. This not only helped me learn everything, but helped me not brick a build and have to start over. I’m now sucked in big time and see me playing this game for a long time to come. Thanks to you
I’ve played this games couple of times, just following a build and one time I reached the Atlas stage and got completely overwhelmed. I’m around 2 hours 50 in so far and I can’t wait for league start I’ve learned so much! Vending, crafting, how to progress through the maps. I’ve learned so much! There are only 2-3 things I’ve seen so far that I feel like were skipped, I’m not sure if you are looking for feedback but I can edit with time stamps of where I really was questioning something meant.
I'm a new player and I learned a lot from the video but I did want to emphasize something. When you are teaching something complex refusing to repeat yourself makes it so that you would have to rewatch this video to get that information again if it's important make sure to repeat yourself during the video it's OK to say the same thing 3 times. As a specific example if you're pressing a key to open a submenu that you did at the beginning of the video saying I'm pressing control or I'm pressing alt will help reinforce that in a new player's mind.
EXCELLENT guide! Thank you Zizeran! This has been great to start my fourth league, but has been a few leagues since I last played. I'm at level 77 and enjoying all content thanks to this build/guide. I got a 6 link short bow, but haven't gotten enough shrieking Ess of Dread to level it. Until then, I'm running Quill Rain Short Bow that dropped for me. Insanely fun and fast clear!
I'm brand new and ran into this video looking for someone doing exactly this with well explained but not too complex points on everything. Followed the build and very happy with it. Holds up well, even in Crucible, a couple leagues later. And I feel like I have a good base for understanding how to level a character and get through the start of a league. Thanks for the 7 hours (plus I am watching the next video as well). Pacing was good. Probably a bit fast if it wasn't pause-able (poor stream watchers). But overall, great help.
Hey, I appreciate this. I learned a lot watching you play from the beginning because I was struggling with crafting but seeing you craft from the very beginning made crafting make more sense. So thanks!
Love the video, have 1500+ hrs in Poe and still learned a ton. My only request would be do the next video after 3.19 patch notes and after you have made your starter videos using one of the starter builds.
hard part for newbies keeping up with new items throughout the acts...like In act 1 ziz picked up the karui chopper 2hander weap, once grey and bit later a blue one with some IAS+phys dmg, makes big dmg difference early game especially as phys/melee/projectile based. Hard to know which base is worth getting for weapons throughout the acts to boost damage. ex 1:24:10 to 1:24:20 he wants to buy a ilvl 17 2h weapon but he decides to wait til lvl 24 because thats new weapon ilvl base upgrade from vendors/world drop.
This is extremely helpful! I have definitely improved my game play watching this. I didn't follow the same build, one of my favourite things to do is try my own ideas, but this walk through was still helpful. I am interested in learning more about armour and damage; Also how passives and skills work together. Just more about how everything works together as well as knowing if something is over stacked and useless because of that. Thank you so much!
Tbh. This is just a good video in general for anyone. Ziz has much more knowledge than even more experienced players and just putting this up on the side while working on a league starter is nice. Especially for comparing the way you normally do something to what Ziz does or recommends
first time player here. this guide is great and i love the build. i'd be totally lost without this guide, thanks Ziz. also, i equipped a quiver with penetration and was frustrated, you explain at one point that fire and penetration are a no-no. so i unequipped it and suddenly became a lawn mower
I really appreciate this video. I started playing a few days ago, and pretty quickly realized there was a lot I wasn't understanding - such as the importance of resists, how to spec, etc. I do wish there was more discussion about what makes a good build vs a terrible build though, you emphasize life a lot but don't seem to take many life nodes on the passive tree (for example).
I absolutely loved this. Not only does it give me something to listen to while I play, I also learned a few tricks. I've got a good five hundred hours, but it's been a long time since I've played. Plenty to catch up on and needed the refresher.
dude this is great and the best content in this game. having said that you fly way to fast through selections and decisions you make on gear and passives. Go watch any guide for Elden ring then redo this for current content and it will be way better. I literally couldn't keep up with half the shit you were talking about. You said this was for beginners but you are talking to your veteran friends using acronyms and making very quick selections.
This guide has been super helpful to me! I think if theres anything I think could improve the experience it'd be a written checklist to follow to make sure you haven't missed anything along the way. something akin to the kay summoner html build guides. My biggest issue with that one was feeling like I was kinda lost to the wind to a degree so somewhere inbetween the two would be perfect. plus if people ask if you'd covered something they could just check the list.
Thank you for the content!! I tried to play PoE last few times and dropped it the first few minutes in. Finally giving it a fair shot and it looks like a great fucking game. What sold me was the devs did controller support. I developed an RSI while PC gaming/Reddit/UA-cam/learning how to code. I can't game on PC while having it. This, and a few others are what I've moved to. I will for sure keep checking out the channel
Listened to the whole thing (Idk what drops enabled means but I'm glad they will be! /s), but tbh this long form of just seeing someone do the thing helped me understand the expectations the game has of it's players. There is a lot of knowledge that's expected of the player, and you've done quite well to balance those expectations. This has been an awesome experience with the game and now in act nine after three days because FUUUUUUUUUUUCK are you fast. Improvements that could be made is some sort of auditory call as each zone is entered. This was done pretty often, and I don't think any more often would have helped a ton, I'm just being not picky because this a lot of work for you to put in, and you're asking for feedback so there it is. I know that the zone is in the top right, but I have many things open, not just this video (I was following a different build guide so maybe this was just a me issue!). This is probably the only thing that got semi-annoying at times because of how fast you are, and not realizing you answering two questions means you're probably already two zones ahead of me. Lastly, if there are specific things that break the build you are playing (I know from the video that adding fire damage ruined it) I'd suggest putting the "obvious" ways one might fuck up in an overlay. Just the one or two things are critical to avoid. Because it just so happens that while I wasn't playing this build, I did fuck up in a similar way that felt innocuous. My first character experience - to new players that might be thinking about playing: I didn't follow your build and I feel like I learned a ton. I wouldn't say it's paramount to follow the example while playing along, but it *_IS_* paramount you have a guide. I missed a part in my guide where I actually need to STOP leveling certain gems because well, there wasn't room in the passives for raw stats. I wrecked my build, and for a whole act I struggled INCREDIBLY hard. Went from no deaths to entering Act 7, and died about 30-40 times, and made very little progress in hours of playing. Vitality, steelskin had shut off entirely, but flame dash didn't shut off until a few levels into me going mad with why I was sucking so much. Soon as it was gone, I noticed the build had crumbled with my toon writing checks with life that it absolutely had no business trying to cash. I barely even looked at my life prior to this point just because of how OP I'd felt a few hours before. Pay close attention to instructions. Literally even overleveling a skill (several in my case) can cause a lot of headache. lol
I have 300+ hours in the game, and I did learn something from this video. Mostly how to get through the acts fast. I have never followed a build guide and I never will, simply because the challenge of coming up with a build myself that will make it to tier 16 maps is my idea of fun in PoE (I do use other external resources, I'm just not copying builds 1:1). But having to spend days on the acts always bothered me. Now I won't waste my time anymore :D
Just started the video, but thank you for this, i tried PoE (a couple times) prior, by trying to somewhat following a build guide, but my general understanding of PoE was soo lacking i rather quickly dropped it, as i just couldn't get warm with it. Especially how long it took me to get anywhere. Seeing someone experienced do an actual walkthrough like this on a VoD is quite helpful from how i understand it a new league is coming within a month tho, so i'll likely wait for that one to drop to give the game another try
These may sound like stupid questions but I'm relatively new >50 hours or so. 1. Do you need to follow a build to do all the content in PoE? I understand following a build is great since it takes away the stress of the skill forest but is it actually needed? 2. How do you farm for currency/gear? Is it something that will come naturally or are there any specific areas/tricks to farm? 3. Is there any helpful guide as to all of the vendor recipes? Such as the jeweled rings and so forth.
Now this is not a Be All End All to the questions, but I'd wager it's a good start =) 1. No not really, you can forge a new build and have it be completely viable, but the recommendation is to follow a build until you fully grasp the intermingling layers of complexity for both damage and defenses, Meaning -> go with a build that's interesting for you and play it, after you get accustomed to it then fiddle around a bit with it and try to do small improvements on your own, if you feel you are grasping the mechanics of a build then try making a variation on it (best done in Standard where your league currency and items go after it ends), **or** if you're feeling very bold about a concept for a build, Simply Try making it in Path of building, is it survivable enough? is it enough Damage? if both are "yes" then try making it ingame be warned though.. it might end up being either a Fantastic build or a horrible one (hence why it's recommended to follow builds until you either have a lot of time to try them out, or fully grasp how the interactions work for building a viable character. (even if it seem like a really good build in theory crafting ,does not mean it will translate to a good build ingame) 2. This question is a big can of worms, Short answer, it comes as you play naturally, BUT there are strategies/builds that will increase the amount you get per hour played, although as a new player i'd recommend that you should forgo the deeper ways of making currency fast, as they require both knowledge and experience in the game to be fully effective, good easy suggestion: Find a mechanic you like doing and keep running that and currency will come naturally with it, good starter currency in a league is usually Heist/Expedition for lots of basic currency (up to exalts if yer lucky), or if you trade the things dropped Delve/Betrayal, ofc there's others also that are good currency, *try em all and check what you like running* it's usually the most important part of this equation. 3. Yes as a matter of fact there is!, On the Poe wiki you have a full section on Vendor recipes that ("Should") contain them all (if new ones come in a league it might take a lil bit before they are added), otherwise usually in the builds that are made more towards Newer players the Path of Building Notes section tends to contain the "Relevant" recipes for leveling that build
For new players, veterans sometimes do hardcore (when you die, your character dies and is a game over). So sometimes on the video Ziza will say "on hardcore", but i recomend people to try and learn the game, see if you enjoyed and then if you like a more challenging "challenge" you can look for especific videos on how to carry on with the hardcore mode of the game.
Awesome video! I watched this over time because there was no way I was watching it straight through lol I did pick up a few tidbits here and there. It would be awesome if you did something like this where once you finish the acts, explaining how our mindset should be with upgrading gear. It may be a difficult ask, but that is by far the most difficult part for me. I've learned quite a bit from playing with people, but I still feel that I'm missing something. It could be from lack of knowledge in crafting, which I'll be focusing on learning in the coming league. I've always been sort of intimidated with advanced crafting though. Anyway, great video for beginners. I wish I had something like this when I started.
Ooh, interesting! I first tried to seriously play PoE in 3.15 and your PoE University was helpful, but I felt like there were times when you would refer to things or gloss over stuff that I had to search for separately. Not a big deal, but I think this approach makes more sense: Explain as much as you can while you're playing. I'll watch through to make sure I remember everything for 3.18 🤔 Also, I didn't realize your door stopper was part of your camera. I was watching on my phone earlier and spent like 5 mins trying to clean my screen lmao
One of the things that almost made me stop playing, as a new player, was only finding youtube videos catered to existing players. I had a hard time finding videos explaining basic things. So I really appreciate this video, and im excited to keep playing.
This game is complicated enough that several beginner guide videos combined still might not be enough for you to continue the game comfortably. These live walkthroughs is what makes the difference though. Wish there were video like these for strategy games I gave up on due to not getting it back then lol
Got my Champion to lv 96 in 3.17 gave all my stuff yesterday to a new player ^^ Loved 5 Auras in Body Armour with enlighten 4, was a reall blast. I will play EA champion again, maybe try something different like getting Haste in for more Qol, and again hunting Mageblood.
Commpletely new player here, so far your video is really helping me to understand the game (in Act 4 currently). One thing i think is missed was when you switched to Explosive Arrow, i first could not equip Flamedash because i had not enough Inteligence. To be able to equip all your recommended gems i then crafted some Intelligence on my equip, because i thought that was the only solution. If there is any other way to get the Intelligence consistent at level 28-32 please let us know in your next video :D. Otherwise very good video, really appreciate that you try to get into the mind of a complete beginner, even with your amount of hours spent in the game :)
I always keep my exile updated, but i totally can see a 24hours video of you anytime. My comment to say is not so long of a video for people really enjoying it. Keep the good job!
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Regarding phys mitigation they should just stop with the estimated reduction, and only show the actual reduction (from % physical damage reduction Stat). And then generally I think the Stat screen would be helped by having tool tips, so you can hover over various stats and get a brief explanation of how they work (especially armor and evasion). For res they could explain that the percentage in parens is the amount you have disregarding the cap, and that the cap for maximum res is 90%.
There are a few things that Ziz did in the first hour of this video that I didn't know as a player with hundreds of hours. This game is endless learning.
I appreciate the attempt for you to play within the boundaries of a new player, for the sake of your own sanity though I would allow yourself a currency tab, I bought it from Act 2 and it's so much more convenient.
I would like to see your way of leveling and more precisely - i mean layouts. How you find your way to the next location that quickly, are there any rules? I know only one rule - the bodies show the way in The Grain Gate at Act 8, but I'd love to see more of them!
Most of the areas have some tricks to finding way. E.g., submerged passage in A1 - exit is always past the bridge, and way to miniboss is before that bridge, in A2 area with Alira (forgot it's name) Alira and spider cave spawn at top-left and bottom-right corners every time (although what appears where is random) etc. Pretty sure there are some guides to explain layouts somewhere, pics included.
Karvarosku has pretty detailed guides on layouts, but generally people recommend getting your overall speed up before doing that and if you don't want to go fast, there's no real point. Getting efficient in your leveling process overall is gonna do more for you than layouts.
Thank you so much for the video! great overall explanation it is more useful than your last "walk with me video". As a new player its hard to get into the game and im lovin it.
Bro I been watching this video for nearly a week, I pay for YT premium and I know you get big cash $$ from that. I am happy to give you $$. Thank you so very, very much for this content. I'm only half way done but I really hope you plan to make another 8 hour leveling video like this. You probably will get twice the amount of viewership from me because I been rewinding it constantly to review. I do plan to be donating and I also bought the supporter pack.
That was great. Only think I would add, as going to be sei when u r entering a zone or adding a skill point. That because when u r a noob like me, it is pretty hard to keep up with booth screens, so if I hear that u r putting the skill point I can pause at that time to check.
I'm playing along and found it very informative. I've paused at act 7 for the patch, but I'm feeling a lot more solid than I ever have just by taking on a few bits of your advice. I will definitely use a few of these tricks in the campaign in the future. I am curious though, where is a video of your day in maps? I see a lot of leveling guides, but I'm really curious how you actually progress something like this further.
people complain about 7 hrs and i just read title, everything explain and ziz told that will have a short version too. 😂 Sometimes I feel like to watch a long vids, thanks for the guide ziz.
Hey Ziz I can’t thank you enough for doing this type of Poe for dummy guide lol. It really helped me advance my builds to the next level. I’ve been playing for a year now and this is by far the best build I have ever made to date. Thanks professor Ziz. Keep up the great content like this each league start would be nice.
Hey Ziz. Thanks for the great vid. Some feedback, I would've liked to hear more about totem management. Like where to place them in boss fights, how often to spawn them, and what things affect the totems stats (weapon damage? Life? Dex?) As a new player I was able to follow your guide very well and it helped me alot, but I was very confused how the totems work. Keep up the great work. I'll be checking out your guide next league too.
First "mind blown" moment comes at 34:52 I've been playing for about 300 hours selling Alteration orbs for 4x scrolls. I just now found out I can do the same with transmutes? I'm pretty near to crying.
Thanks Zizaran for nice walktrough. I do have 1046 hours of playing game even so I consinder myself a kinda new to it, so i have learned a lot of things wich will help me to enjoy a game early on. Thank you once again!
After playing for the first time 30+ hours through the story with a with a build guide (that was in text form and not very detailed so hard to follow for me) I ended up at mapping, stuck with a squishy build, with 250+ deaths and no idea how to advance from here to the recommended gear/gem setup etc that looked promising at first (it was a really squishy stormbrand build alot of people had the same problem with, I never read the comments before tho). So I'm gonna watch all 7h and start over^^
Wow! I wanted to give PoE a go.. was very intimated by how deep and confusing in a sense this game is.. I watched your video in its entirely and have to say.. amazing job. You got me going, I'm having a blast! Subbed. Thank you so much for this video and all your content
2:55:45 What did you mean when you said they're going away? They're going to get rid of sockets altogether? They're going to make it so that they're already all linked? Can be modified without currency? You breezed right by that, so I'm super interested in what you meant there.
Might’ve been good if you mentioned the ascendancys on character selection screen bc nearly all guides call the character by the ascendancy rather than the class. I’ve played a decent amount and I still don’t know all of them.
Hello thank you very much for the video I being searching for a long time a guide like this one. Most of the time is a specific aspect of the game and it tends to be overwhelming.
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Zizaran i just recently started playing the game sentinal will be my actual second league of playing the game so while following this walktrough i found out that in the end XD i dident died a single time which previously was like 5-10 times before mapping i am not even kidding the tips and tricks here and there and showing us how to do certain things with our armor and crafting receps helped alot also the way you make the quests and than returning by relogging on certain points litrally will save me hours at the new league later xD it took me previously like 10-12 hours to do acts and i took notes of it -> the hard part would be finding equipment with the amount of slots which was not easy -> what i personally hated was splitting steel and halix was alot beter for me than splitting steel after the swap to bow and ea i almost dident have enough sockets but it somhow worked out resistance was not a problem after the trans to ea everything went also alot more smooth i like the bow playstyle as for the following bosses untill mapping after the ea swap was a breeze with max resistance and the amount of damage i did with the survivability but early on before act 2-3 i could say a totally new player could use vitality untill the build is a bit more activated besides that no complains
Just to say, a great way to show the difference between More/Increased is "Faster Projectiles" vs "Slower Projectiles" as 20% increased is less DPS than 10% more damage
@Zizaran I wish I had your loot luck.. I'm now lvl58 and my armor is only 1200 because I don't get good gear with right sockets, my resistances are bad also for the same reason.. have to wear just whatever has the right sockets, also I never run in to those essence monsters, not one excavation event has come up and only one delirium and I am in the same part with you right now about summon the ship that takes you to the brine king.. please wish/give some loot luck thanks lol!!
Hey Ziz, I'm totally new to PoE, I hadn't even seen a video of it before watching this the whole way through. I watched this, then watched some other stuff and consulted the reddit discord a fair bit. I just got to act 6. I think the video overall is really good, but at one point you kind of talk about how you wouldn't script an 8 hour video. Duh, who would. However, I think some of the really barebones stuff like getting resistances maxed and a breakdown of how the really common early game currencies work WOULD benefit from having a 10-20 minute script written from them that you slot in once it makes sense with how far into the run you are. You do a good job of explaining things extemporaneously, but there is SO much information that sticking to "mini-scripts" for brief windows once you meet "xyz" conditions might really help.
Examples of where this approach would have helped me:
-At the beginning of the run, discussing exactly which moments you have to stop and talk to NPCs to progress or interact with characters in town etc. You talk about how nice it is that you don't have to do this like a lot of other games constantly, but knowing roughly what zones/acts I need to stop and check for these and I could write them down. That way, you're not outpacing the new players trying to play the game (which you will inevitably end up doing through no fault of your own) AND simultaneously screwing them a little bit by being so far ahead you, do the necessary interaction and I forget, because it happened an hour ago or something.
-Capping resistances.
-I'm not sure if the POB portion at the beginning was scripted, but I think a little more could have been done there. I don't think the items tab needed to be reviewed at the beginning, but it would have really helped me if I was told a little bit about the skill tab.
Maybe one way to think of it would be to group topics like that, figure out "how could I present that content inside of an 8 hour stream in a way that it could almost be a standalone 10 minute YT video for totally new players." Just a thought. Anyway, this is still really helping me, thanks for the video.
@@danielfauchier9355 the thing I'm most worried is what comes after the campaign, ziz says multiple times in the vid he makes an endgame video with this same character, showing the gearing up and skillpoint allocation etc but he didn't, the next video is just a 1 hour long slideshow about the map system which is appreciated for sure but, as a console player I have mo access to that POB system so I have to quess where the rest of the skillpoints go, not good.. also, you lose another 30% of your resistances when you kill the last boss of the campaign.. where am I supposed to get them resistances then? My loot luck is horrendous so I have to wear the gear with the right sockets and links so my resistances, armors, evasion etc are bit crappy already..
For other newer players like myself- Don't forget to have fun!
My first league (Ultimatum) I set the goal of just going slowly through act 1-10 and trying a bunch of stuff.
Last league I went faster to endgame and played a bunch in maps.
This league I'm looking to start doing some endgame bosses!
There is no pressure to play the game faster or slower if it isn't fun!
I killed Black Star and Infinite Hunger first time this league myself
Kinda Newbie here with some feedback: I’m about 3 hrs in and thank you for this! I’m learning a lot and I like the longer form so I can understand things before the next topic starts and see how it flows in a play through. One suggestion, maybe hover over items a little longer when explaining things, for example when you got your first unique item, you hovered over it for a millisecond before vendoring it. You could have shown us what it looked like, what made it unique and why it was a bad unique item. The same thing happened with your first divination card. (You spoke more about the div cards butI guess I like to see things visually too as a newbie :-) ) Just an idea, looking forward to watching the rest, thank you again!
(For context, I played the first time last league but used no guides or builds, just played the story and got a bit overwhelmed around lvl 70 when my character was kinda a mess. Ive come back to this league with a build and want to do end game this time so im trying to learn more about the game)
couldnt agree more !!
Me too. I agree 💯%.
hope your league start went well!
I managed to pause the video at that point (2:40:53) -- the item was a Kaom's Sign (a unique Coral Ring), and it would have given him +22 maximum life; +12 strength; +3 life gained for each enemy hit by his attacks; and +1 maximum endurance charges.
Add me to play, im new, hit me up
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Notices that it is 7 hours long: panik
Realises that it is made by Zizaran: no panik
Notices that it is merely a first part series : panik
This is the only long one! The following episodes are short.
@@Zizaran Short?…..So only 3 hrs? 🤔
At about 4:25:00 you made a comment that changed my life: “Here’s Path of Exile - get fu**ed, kid”. Pretty much sums it up.
Seriously, this is a great vid. I’m in for about 150 hours in POE right now, and there must have been about 25 “aha” moments in this so far.
uninstalled within the first 20 minutes of watching this video, downloaded it and didn't even load it up to play it, started watching this and quickly made me realize i do not want to play this game. this may seem like an insult or somehow annoying to say, but i can tell you love this game and don't wish to say anything bad about yours or anyone else enjoyment of it, just that you did a good job of making it clear to me that this isn't a game i want to play. thanks!
I was absent like 10 leagues and things are so different now.
Thx for these guides, Ziz, really helpful to get back in the action
10 leagues isnt that like 3 years ?
@@xarmanhsh2981 yea something like that
Zizaran has lots of great vids for POE. first play POE like 5 yrs ago. not really having a good time and stop. decide to give it a go like 3 months ago. Always had problem with boss and maps until I learn the importance about resistance and life. When I play other RPG I always goes for glass cannon and clear every zone fully. your vids (especially the university) change my play style and helps me understand so much better. Still can't move as smooth as you do during boss fight but definitely surviving much better.
Thank you very much
Completely new player looking to start this season, friends have been playing for a while now. This video is exactly what I was looking for. Only 2.5 hours in, but I like the drawn out, explain things as they become more important. Too much info early and out of context is hard to retain, more so because it's out of context and it's all just more words I don't understand talking about other words I don't understand. So far this has been perfect.
Dude this is a great guide, i never had played poe before only watched and got confused as expected, but following this i managed to do pretty much a act or 2 per day, this is looking to be a 10-12 first time play through, the best thing is not even learning the build but actually the fact i'm begging to make sense of the mechanics and how to use them, i had the same problem in act 3 (not having a 4 link) and i managed to it with 3 and adjust my sockets to be abble to use all the gems, i'm closing act 4 as i wrote this so big thanks, i would love for you to keep this as a series
2 things,you will get more gear links sockets etc just by progressing,thats why people speedrun acts in like 4 hours,and mechanics,imagine poe is scrooge mcduck simulator ,you want to get rich and pretty much every mechanic is just extraloot,thats usually specific or just extra.
Thanks for the guide! I decided to try to play POE again. I never made it much further then starting maps at the end game before my build fell apart and I lost motivation. The explanations along the way were great and not to over whelming. The below info I found very helpful and helped me from getting randomly 1 shot.
- Prioritize on getting max resistances.
- Stats being local vs globle. I can stop down grading items because them seem better by stats.
-Armor only being able to stop x amount of damage regardless of % reduction. I was able to swap gear for % physical damage taken as elemental dmg. This helped a lot on meaty hits.
-Using the Quartz flask to pass through enemies since a lot of the physical hits taken is from getting stuck on mobs.
Now for the video on mapping.
Zizaran as a new player getting into this game, your guides are fantastically helpful. I feel like if I can break into this game and really learn all the systems there's a ton of fun to be had and this type of walkthrough is great for me. It's like the game provides just text dump instructions for players, while this is like an in-game tutorial which is vastly more helpful for cementing understanding. I also appreciate the approach of metering out information as the player needs it so it can be absorbed a little at a time
One small bit of feedback, as I am trying to play the game with this video running in the background, it would be great if you could vocally say what locations you are going to as you go to them, so that I can better keep track of where to go without having to stop and look at the video all the time. Thanks again for the great tutorial!
If you enable Quest Tracker, once you find the first Laborint Trail you will get notification on the Quest Tracker if there is an Laborint Trail in the zone your in.
Love the idee of explaining on the go !
Hey dude, I know this is old now but I just want to say thanks. This was the perfect tutorial right ahead of a new league. Ran through 4 hours of it, and now I'm absolutely decimating packs in Act 5. I think I'll try something different for my league starter in a couple days but this was the PERFECT way to learn this game. Thank you!
Well clear of 10k hours, Beta backer, Alpha contributor, and I'm in here following along as attack builds have never been something I've taken the time to master and this is set to be such a strong leaguestart given the fears of Ashes being moved to the ubahs and needing something that can farm it in SSF without needed the amulet to do so. Thanks, and huge respect to you and all the collaborators on the PoE Univeristy project for the time and effort you invest into making PoE a more approachable game for new and old players alike.
"are there any complete beginners watching?"
yeah me, i only have 1k hours so i literally just started
Working my way though this video since I've been playing mostly the same cold build forever. Picked up new stuff even not being 'new'. I know its hard to balance the time dedicated to the video but it would help me a lot if you slowed down and hovered over things a little longer, especially on gems equipped. I had to backup the video about 10 times and set it to half speed when you moved everything around to start explosive arrow and several other times later on. I had keep going back to it since I didn't have the currency to buy all the gems at one time. I did have a nice 4 link bow and a good quiver :) Absolutely 100% thanks for doing this content!
One thing that I thought might be useful to mention in regards to looting that Ziz seemed to overlook is all those seemingly innocuous pieces of equipment that drops with full grey backgrounds. Each of those pieces has a red, blue and green socket, and therefore equals a Chromatic Orb when sold. You can stack up a ton of these if you pick them all up during the leveling process.
Edit: Seems you explicitly mention this at 5:04:36. Nice job! Fantastic guide too. I'm relatively new and have learned a ton.
I love queuing these up while I work. Learn so many new things in each.
A 7 hour tutorial sums up POE.
Consider he only covers about 10 percent of the game. POE never gets old cause I always learn new things
"part 1" btw
Just wanted to let you know, this is exactly what I needed to get me over the initial trepidation I felt, and get me playing PoE. I've been following this guide down to the letter, and it's incredible to me that you do one of these every three months! Thanks for this great guide!
POE has always been in my game library but felt too intimidating to play, but the urge to play another ARPG game after "finishing" D3 continued. A full hand holding walkthrough like this definitely helps and much appreciated. I think any game that wants more players should do these- lifesaver for sure.
Thank You! I have always wanted to try this game but was too intimidated to start from scratch. Your goal of not "over-explaining" made this easy to follow, informative, and an excellent intro to POE. I now feel like I can pick up one of your other build guides and start from scratch while taking in the story. I did find it very frustrating to follow you through each map, because mine always looked different. I think at some point you mentioned this mechanic, but it might be helpful to say it at the beginning of the run. It actually allowed me to level a bit faster which helped in the end. Can't wait to keep going with this build in the next video! Also, I was definitely that "new player" you mentioned that "picks up every item and identified it". That one made me laugh.
As a completely new player I really really want to enjoy this game and dive into it but, as everyone knows, it’s incredibly overwhelming but looks like a ton of fun so I took the plunge last night. Thank you so much for your guides and videos. I can’t explain how comforting it is to have stuff like this to watch and reference.
If it helps, I've probably put 2k+ hours in the game and I don't think I've ever beaten all the main content. Each season I usually get to maps, eventually hit a road block, and then I end up quitting. Just because I have crazy ADHD though and something else grabs my interest. This game is great and I have so many hours but literally still don't understand half the older league mechanics. It takes a lot of dedication to get to real "end game." I'm trying this league but already getting distracted lol.
If you have questions lmk and I can maybe help.
@@PropurtysChannel I think my main issue right now is finding builds. I find a guide but they dont explain anything a new player needs to know when leveling, such as in what order do I follow the skill tree, what gems to use when etc. The only video ive found that explains everything I need is an arc witch build but the guy shows him using the build from level 1 all the way through act 10, so I know how to follow the tree, and what gems to get and start using etc. I want to play around with a few different builds and level them but I just dont understand these build guides and how to level with them.
@@Shupra94 Don't over think it for now. Focus on enjoying the campaign etc. Eventually you'll be blasting through it anyway.
But the path of exile forums where builds are posted is my favorite place. Most of them have a leveling section in the guide telling you what to use etc. Also go get the path of building community edition program. Paste the build into path of building, using a tutorial vid if you need to.
A good new player build will have skill trees and gems set for certain levels. So you click a drop down and it might say "level 33 skill tree." The build creator will have these tiers so you can better see what your skill tree will look like around that level. Hope that makes sense. For example I am lightly following a Raider Flicker Strike build. Called Blooming or something like that. But in it there are trees for lvl 33, 45, 55, etc.
There is also an online version of path of building. But the community program is way better. Once you learn it, you can create your own builds far easier. But for now don't worry too much about it.
They changed leveling recently so the campaign is harder. Used to leveling was super easy with most skills. But now it can really depend on the skill. Since I am doing a ranger build I went with poisonous concoction skill to level with. It is actually really easy and felt good to level with. But that's up to what you want.
You likely won't complete the end game content this league, so instead try to take time learning all the past league mechanics etc. When a new league happens you will be way more prepared for it. The start of leagues are always really fun anyway.
I could be wrong and you are a pro. But I probably will end up quitting before endgame even though I'd really like to get there. Mostly because I lose focus on what I am doing.
Good luck!
@@PropurtysChannel very good advice. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it to me.
This guide is very helpful! It has made me really love the game and ive been following along while playing. Thankyou!
Thank you so much for this video. This not only helped me learn everything, but helped me not brick a build and have to start over. I’m now sucked in big time and see me playing this game for a long time to come. Thanks to you
I’ve played this games couple of times, just following a build and one time I reached the Atlas stage and got completely overwhelmed. I’m around 2 hours 50 in so far and I can’t wait for league start I’ve learned so much! Vending, crafting, how to progress through the maps. I’ve learned so much! There are only 2-3 things I’ve seen so far that I feel like were skipped, I’m not sure if you are looking for feedback but I can edit with time stamps of where I really was questioning something meant.
I'm a new player and I learned a lot from the video but I did want to emphasize something. When you are teaching something complex refusing to repeat yourself makes it so that you would have to rewatch this video to get that information again if it's important make sure to repeat yourself during the video it's OK to say the same thing 3 times. As a specific example if you're pressing a key to open a submenu that you did at the beginning of the video saying I'm pressing control or I'm pressing alt will help reinforce that in a new player's mind.
EXCELLENT guide! Thank you Zizeran! This has been great to start my fourth league, but has been a few leagues since I last played.
I'm at level 77 and enjoying all content thanks to this build/guide.
I got a 6 link short bow, but haven't gotten enough shrieking Ess of Dread to level it. Until then, I'm running Quill Rain Short Bow that dropped for me. Insanely fun and fast clear!
I'm brand new and ran into this video looking for someone doing exactly this with well explained but not too complex points on everything. Followed the build and very happy with it. Holds up well, even in Crucible, a couple leagues later. And I feel like I have a good base for understanding how to level a character and get through the start of a league. Thanks for the 7 hours (plus I am watching the next video as well). Pacing was good. Probably a bit fast if it wasn't pause-able (poor stream watchers). But overall, great help.
Hey, I appreciate this. I learned a lot watching you play from the beginning because I was struggling with crafting but seeing you craft from the very beginning made crafting make more sense. So thanks!
I started in metamorph league, and I've learned a lot, but never knew how easy it was to be res capped through the campaign, thanks for that.
Thank you. I absorbed so much more information than the normal university courses. Going to beat the game for the first time ✊
Love the video, have 1500+ hrs in Poe and still learned a ton. My only request would be do the next video after 3.19 patch notes and after you have made your starter videos using one of the starter builds.
hard part for newbies keeping up with new items throughout the acts...like In act 1 ziz picked up the karui chopper 2hander weap, once grey and bit later a blue one with some IAS+phys dmg, makes big dmg difference early game especially as phys/melee/projectile based. Hard to know which base is worth getting for weapons throughout the acts to boost damage. ex 1:24:10 to 1:24:20 he wants to buy a ilvl 17 2h weapon but he decides to wait til lvl 24 because thats new weapon ilvl base upgrade from vendors/world drop.
This is extremely helpful! I have definitely improved my game play watching this. I didn't follow the same build, one of my favourite things to do is try my own ideas, but this walk through was still helpful. I am interested in learning more about armour and damage; Also how passives and skills work together. Just more about how everything works together as well as knowing if something is over stacked and useless because of that. Thank you so much!
I would very much like to see what you have created, dont sleep on that, if you believe to have a good build or something to share, put it online :D
Tbh. This is just a good video in general for anyone. Ziz has much more knowledge than even more experienced players and just putting this up on the side while working on a league starter is nice. Especially for comparing the way you normally do something to what Ziz does or recommends
first time player here. this guide is great and i love the build. i'd be totally lost without this guide, thanks Ziz. also, i equipped a quiver with penetration and was frustrated, you explain at one point that fire and penetration are a no-no. so i unequipped it and suddenly became a lawn mower
Fire is fine if you're building for it. If you're not though you're going to find yourself smashing your head against a wall repeatedly.
I’ve played POE for some 3 k hours. And I have learned new stuff today. Thank you.
I really appreciate this video. I started playing a few days ago, and pretty quickly realized there was a lot I wasn't understanding - such as the importance of resists, how to spec, etc. I do wish there was more discussion about what makes a good build vs a terrible build though, you emphasize life a lot but don't seem to take many life nodes on the passive tree (for example).
I absolutely loved this. Not only does it give me something to listen to while I play, I also learned a few tricks. I've got a good five hundred hours, but it's been a long time since I've played. Plenty to catch up on and needed the refresher.
You can see from the comments how much this is helping new players, thank you for taking the time to help us filthy casuals.
dude this is great and the best content in this game. having said that you fly way to fast through selections and decisions you make on gear and passives. Go watch any guide for Elden ring then redo this for current content and it will be way better. I literally couldn't keep up with half the shit you were talking about. You said this was for beginners but you are talking to your veteran friends using acronyms and making very quick selections.
This guide has been super helpful to me! I think if theres anything I think could improve the experience it'd be a written checklist to follow to make sure you haven't missed anything along the way. something akin to the kay summoner html build guides. My biggest issue with that one was feeling like I was kinda lost to the wind to a degree so somewhere inbetween the two would be perfect.
plus if people ask if you'd covered something they could just check the list.
This for real feels like a real course I'd take at uni and I am SO about it. The time and dedication this must have taken is amazing!
Thank you for the content!! I tried to play PoE last few times and dropped it the first few minutes in. Finally giving it a fair shot and it looks like a great fucking game.
What sold me was the devs did controller support. I developed an RSI while PC gaming/Reddit/UA-cam/learning how to code. I can't game on PC while having it. This, and a few others are what I've moved to.
I will for sure keep checking out the channel
Looooove long form videos like this because it’s something to listen to other than music at work
this was fun !! i started and lvled with you i really hope you do these more !!
Listened to the whole thing (Idk what drops enabled means but I'm glad they will be! /s), but tbh this long form of just seeing someone do the thing helped me understand the expectations the game has of it's players. There is a lot of knowledge that's expected of the player, and you've done quite well to balance those expectations. This has been an awesome experience with the game and now in act nine after three days because FUUUUUUUUUUUCK are you fast.
Improvements that could be made is some sort of auditory call as each zone is entered. This was done pretty often, and I don't think any more often would have helped a ton, I'm just being not picky because this a lot of work for you to put in, and you're asking for feedback so there it is. I know that the zone is in the top right, but I have many things open, not just this video (I was following a different build guide so maybe this was just a me issue!). This is probably the only thing that got semi-annoying at times because of how fast you are, and not realizing you answering two questions means you're probably already two zones ahead of me. Lastly, if there are specific things that break the build you are playing (I know from the video that adding fire damage ruined it) I'd suggest putting the "obvious" ways one might fuck up in an overlay. Just the one or two things are critical to avoid. Because it just so happens that while I wasn't playing this build, I did fuck up in a similar way that felt innocuous.
My first character experience - to new players that might be thinking about playing:
I didn't follow your build and I feel like I learned a ton. I wouldn't say it's paramount to follow the example while playing along, but it *_IS_* paramount you have a guide. I missed a part in my guide where I actually need to STOP leveling certain gems because well, there wasn't room in the passives for raw stats.
I wrecked my build, and for a whole act I struggled INCREDIBLY hard. Went from no deaths to entering Act 7, and died about 30-40 times, and made very little progress in hours of playing. Vitality, steelskin had shut off entirely, but flame dash didn't shut off until a few levels into me going mad with why I was sucking so much. Soon as it was gone, I noticed the build had crumbled with my toon writing checks with life that it absolutely had no business trying to cash. I barely even looked at my life prior to this point just because of how OP I'd felt a few hours before.
Pay close attention to instructions. Literally even overleveling a skill (several in my case) can cause a lot of headache. lol
I have 300+ hours in the game, and I did learn something from this video. Mostly how to get through the acts fast. I have never followed a build guide and I never will, simply because the challenge of coming up with a build myself that will make it to tier 16 maps is my idea of fun in PoE (I do use other external resources, I'm just not copying builds 1:1). But having to spend days on the acts always bothered me. Now I won't waste my time anymore :D
Love your mic setup - well done!
Just started the video, but thank you for this, i tried PoE (a couple times) prior, by trying to somewhat following a build guide, but my general understanding of PoE was soo lacking i rather quickly dropped it, as i just couldn't get warm with it. Especially how long it took me to get anywhere.
Seeing someone experienced do an actual walkthrough like this on a VoD is quite helpful
from how i understand it a new league is coming within a month tho, so i'll likely wait for that one to drop to give the game another try
I'll watch this during poop breaks hopefully I finish before PoE 3
I’m pooping right now!
@@JaySouth3 @Unixtreme How were your poops? were they long and firm? did they give any trouble coming out?
These may sound like stupid questions but I'm relatively new >50 hours or so.
1. Do you need to follow a build to do all the content in PoE? I understand following a build is great since it takes away the stress of the skill forest but is it actually needed?
2. How do you farm for currency/gear? Is it something that will come naturally or are there any specific areas/tricks to farm?
3. Is there any helpful guide as to all of the vendor recipes? Such as the jeweled rings and so forth.
Now this is not a Be All End All to the questions, but I'd wager it's a good start =)
1. No not really, you can forge a new build and have it be completely viable, but the recommendation is to follow a build until you fully grasp the intermingling layers of complexity for both damage and defenses,
Meaning -> go with a build that's interesting for you and play it, after you get accustomed to it then fiddle around a bit with it and try to do small improvements on your own, if you feel you are grasping the mechanics of a build then try making a variation on it (best done in Standard where your league currency and items go after it ends),
**or** if you're feeling very bold about a concept for a build, Simply Try making it in Path of building, is it survivable enough? is it enough Damage? if both are "yes" then try making it ingame be warned though.. it might end up being either a Fantastic build or a horrible one (hence why it's recommended to follow builds until you either have a lot of time to try them out, or fully grasp how the interactions work for building a viable character. (even if it seem like a really good build in theory crafting ,does not mean it will translate to a good build ingame)
2. This question is a big can of worms, Short answer, it comes as you play naturally, BUT there are strategies/builds that will increase the amount you get per hour played, although as a new player i'd recommend that you should forgo the deeper ways of making currency fast, as they require both knowledge and experience in the game to be fully effective,
good easy suggestion: Find a mechanic you like doing and keep running that and currency will come naturally with it,
good starter currency in a league is usually Heist/Expedition for lots of basic currency (up to exalts if yer lucky), or if you trade the things dropped Delve/Betrayal, ofc there's others also that are good currency, *try em all and check what you like running* it's usually the most important part of this equation.
3. Yes as a matter of fact there is!, On the Poe wiki you have a full section on Vendor recipes that ("Should") contain them all (if new ones come in a league it might take a lil bit before they are added), otherwise usually in the builds that are made more towards Newer players the Path of Building Notes section tends to contain the "Relevant" recipes for leveling that build
For new players, veterans sometimes do hardcore (when you die, your character dies and is a game over).
So sometimes on the video Ziza will say "on hardcore", but i recomend people to try and learn the game, see if you enjoyed and then if you like a more challenging "challenge" you can look for especific videos on how to carry on with the hardcore mode of the game.
Awesome video! I watched this over time because there was no way I was watching it straight through lol I did pick up a few tidbits here and there. It would be awesome if you did something like this where once you finish the acts, explaining how our mindset should be with upgrading gear. It may be a difficult ask, but that is by far the most difficult part for me. I've learned quite a bit from playing with people, but I still feel that I'm missing something. It could be from lack of knowledge in crafting, which I'll be focusing on learning in the coming league. I've always been sort of intimidated with advanced crafting though. Anyway, great video for beginners. I wish I had something like this when I started.
Ooh, interesting! I first tried to seriously play PoE in 3.15 and your PoE University was helpful, but I felt like there were times when you would refer to things or gloss over stuff that I had to search for separately. Not a big deal, but I think this approach makes more sense: Explain as much as you can while you're playing. I'll watch through to make sure I remember everything for 3.18 🤔
Also, I didn't realize your door stopper was part of your camera. I was watching on my phone earlier and spent like 5 mins trying to clean my screen lmao
One of the things that almost made me stop playing, as a new player, was only finding youtube videos catered to existing players. I had a hard time finding videos explaining basic things. So I really appreciate this video, and im excited to keep playing.
This game is complicated enough that several beginner guide videos combined still might not be enough for you to continue the game comfortably. These live walkthroughs is what makes the difference though. Wish there were video like these for strategy games I gave up on due to not getting it back then lol
Truly enjoyed this video, will watching the end game one! Thank you for you time and a lot of work putting this together.
This is immensely helpful thank you ziz ! (1 hour in and still watching while the game is downloading)
This is the perfect movie to watch on mother's day, I'm going to show it to her; thanks Ziz
Got my Champion to lv 96 in 3.17 gave all my stuff yesterday to a new player ^^ Loved 5 Auras in Body Armour with enlighten 4, was a reall blast.
I will play EA champion again, maybe try something different like getting Haste in for more Qol, and again hunting Mageblood.
Commpletely new player here, so far your video is really helping me to understand the game (in Act 4 currently). One thing i think is missed was when you switched to Explosive Arrow, i first could not equip Flamedash because i had not enough Inteligence. To be able to equip all your recommended gems i then crafted some Intelligence on my equip, because i thought that was the only solution. If there is any other way to get the Intelligence consistent at level 28-32 please let us know in your next video :D. Otherwise very good video, really appreciate that you try to get into the mind of a complete beginner, even with your amount of hours spent in the game :)
How is your building going?
@@kingerlander1404 Fine so far, figured out how to get inteligence on my gear now :D
"Keep an eye out for a short bow. Damage doesn't matter, all we want is attack speed" So... Quillrain :D
I always keep my exile updated, but i totally can see a 24hours video of you anytime. My comment to say is not so long of a video for people really enjoying it.
Keep the good job!
Regarding phys mitigation they should just stop with the estimated reduction, and only show the actual reduction (from % physical damage reduction Stat). And then generally I think the Stat screen would be helped by having tool tips, so you can hover over various stats and get a brief explanation of how they work (especially armor and evasion). For res they could explain that the percentage in parens is the amount you have disregarding the cap, and that the cap for maximum res is 90%.
There are a few things that Ziz did in the first hour of this video that I didn't know as a player with hundreds of hours. This game is endless learning.
That is a Fact
I appreciate the attempt for you to play within the boundaries of a new player, for the sake of your own sanity though I would allow yourself a currency tab, I bought it from Act 2 and it's so much more convenient.
I would like to see your way of leveling and more precisely - i mean layouts. How you find your way to the next location that quickly, are there any rules? I know only one rule - the bodies show the way in The Grain Gate at Act 8, but I'd love to see more of them!
Most of the areas have some tricks to finding way. E.g., submerged passage in A1 - exit is always past the bridge, and way to miniboss is before that bridge, in A2 area with Alira (forgot it's name) Alira and spider cave spawn at top-left and bottom-right corners every time (although what appears where is random) etc. Pretty sure there are some guides to explain layouts somewhere, pics included.
@@hitofuuki What appears where is dictated by the side of the road the waypoint is on
@@SeanyBeyy oh, I never noticed that. Thanks!
Karvarosku has pretty detailed guides on layouts, but generally people recommend getting your overall speed up before doing that and if you don't want to go fast, there's no real point. Getting efficient in your leveling process overall is gonna do more for you than layouts.
Now that I’ve killed the feared on ssf, it’s a good time for me to learn the basics
Play RF Inq and you never will have to learn boss mechanics.
Thank you so much for the video! great overall explanation it is more useful than your last "walk with me video". As a new player its hard to get into the game and im lovin it.
This is amazing Finally everything all in one video. Thank you so much
Watching this while playing my first league, so helpful!
Thank you @Zizaran for making such useful content for newbies - it's massively helpful for the community and the game growth itself!
First time back in PoE since Delve League. So much has changed lol, and melee is actually viable now :O
Thanks for the video, very helpful!
Goings into my first new league! My only experience in this game is just running around so this will help!
I hope they learn, and make respecing easy in PoE 2.
One reason PoE is below Grim Dawn on my ARPG list is because of how hard they make respecing.
This video has got me into this game. This is just what i was looking for to understand the game.
Bro I been watching this video for nearly a week, I pay for YT premium and I know you get big cash $$ from that. I am happy to give you $$. Thank you so very, very much for this content. I'm only half way done but I really hope you plan to make another 8 hour leveling video like this. You probably will get twice the amount of viewership from me because I been rewinding it constantly to review.
I do plan to be donating and I also bought the supporter pack.
That was great. Only think I would add, as going to be sei when u r entering a zone or adding a skill point. That because when u r a noob like me, it is pretty hard to keep up with booth screens, so if I hear that u r putting the skill point I can pause at that time to check.
I'm playing along and found it very informative. I've paused at act 7 for the patch, but I'm feeling a lot more solid than I ever have just by taking on a few bits of your advice. I will definitely use a few of these tricks in the campaign in the future.
I am curious though, where is a video of your day in maps? I see a lot of leveling guides, but I'm really curious how you actually progress something like this further.
its part 2 up on the channel
people complain about 7 hrs and i just read title, everything explain and ziz told that will have a short version too. 😂
Sometimes I feel like to watch a long vids, thanks for the guide ziz.
Hey Ziz I can’t thank you enough for doing this type of Poe for dummy guide lol. It really helped me advance my builds to the next level. I’ve been playing for a year now and this is by far the best build I have ever made to date. Thanks professor Ziz. Keep up the great content like this each league start would be nice.
Hey Ziz. Thanks for the great vid. Some feedback, I would've liked to hear more about totem management. Like where to place them in boss fights, how often to spawn them, and what things affect the totems stats (weapon damage? Life? Dex?) As a new player I was able to follow your guide very well and it helped me alot, but I was very confused how the totems work. Keep up the great work. I'll be checking out your guide next league too.
First "mind blown" moment comes at 34:52
I've been playing for about 300 hours selling Alteration orbs for 4x scrolls. I just now found out I can do the same with transmutes?
I'm pretty near to crying.
Incredibly thought out and informative video especially after not playing for 6 months. I thank you kindly Sir and Be Well.🙏☀️🙏
love the long video ty
Awesome vid, thanks for taking the time to explain the game. I'll get so much more out of it thanks to this.
Thanks Zizaran for nice walktrough. I do have 1046 hours of playing game even so I consinder myself a kinda new to it, so i have learned a lot of things wich will help me to enjoy a game early on. Thank you once again!
every 2-3 acts could u go over gear choices overall and what upgds to aim for?
That is very specific yo eacu build and also depends on changes in the league both to classes item drop rates etc,and your rng.
I've never watched a PoE university, but I have the time to watch the full thing now and I want to be ready to go this league.
After playing for the first time 30+ hours through the story with a with a build guide (that was in text form and not very detailed so hard to follow for me) I ended up at mapping, stuck with a squishy build, with 250+ deaths and no idea how to advance from here to the recommended gear/gem setup etc that looked promising at first (it was a really squishy stormbrand build alot of people had the same problem with, I never read the comments before tho). So I'm gonna watch all 7h and start over^^
Loved it. Thanks so much.
Wow! I wanted to give PoE a go.. was very intimated by how deep and confusing in a sense this game is.. I watched your video in its entirely and have to say.. amazing job. You got me going, I'm having a blast! Subbed. Thank you so much for this video and all your content
2:55:45 What did you mean when you said they're going away? They're going to get rid of sockets altogether? They're going to make it so that they're already all linked? Can be modified without currency? You breezed right by that, so I'm super interested in what you meant there.
Might’ve been good if you mentioned the ascendancys on character selection screen bc nearly all guides call the character by the ascendancy rather than the class. I’ve played a decent amount and I still don’t know all of them.
What gets me off PoE 90% of the time is when I have to run through all acts again. I just hate it, been there, done that..
I took a break and this is super useful. Thanks for the information dump
Hello thank you very much for the video I being searching for a long time a guide like this one. Most of the time is a specific aspect of the game and it tends to be overwhelming.
This takes so much effort. appreciated
How do you recommend new players determine what builds to choose from, what builds are still currently relevant, and different playstyle pro/cons?