SO FUCKING LONG LEFT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ryder Hall
Since you decided to attach a meme picture to the OP regarding ethics, I felt it was my duty to remind new players what "ethics" in the context of PoE means.
"Ethical builds" refer to builds that reject the idea of abusing whatever exploitable mechanics that are unfair by nature and expected to be nerfed/removed by GGG in 3.0, including double-dipping and CI+VP Vinktartanking, in order to progress.
Example of ethical builds: a traditional summoner Necromancer, an Essence Drain Scion, a Righteous Fire Chieftain. Those builds rely on simple, effective concepts that are not reliant on double-dipping or instant leech.
Example of unethical builds: an ignite Flameblast Elementalist, poison BV Pathfinder, Blade Flurry Assassin. Those builds rely on unethical double-dipped damage, or trivialize game content through instant leech abuse.
The decision of using ethical or unethical builds is up to personal choice (very much like the choice of good or evil in real life), self-respecting players will use ethical builds, while honorless power-craving "players" are quick to jump from fotm build to fotm unethical build, as long as their personal advancement is ensured without regards for game balance.
Hope that cleared things up.
Asher Flores
I can't decide on a fucking build for 2.6 SSF. All I know is it's going to be a bow build. I have yet to choose a skill and whether it will be an Assassin or a Slayer. Will Ice Shot be viable with the buff or is it a noob trap? Also since it's SSF the build can't rely on uniques.
Jackson Scott
>free >free >free
Julian Jackson
is a perma leech capped melee slayer ethical
Anthony Peterson
Sure, you're not exploiting a gamebreaking mechanic, merely building around your ascendancy's defining trait. Improved leech is ethical, VP is not.
>read racing goals >rush goals nobody else is doing >farm points >get a demi >"i'm so good at this game"
>someone tells me broken interaction >i make a build that exploits it and take full credit for it >"wow i'm so good at this game, watch my stream and sub to my yt"
Dominic Bennett
fuck you
Chase Martinez
FUCK YOU!
Austin Bailey
i guess you are that guy who posts; time spent farming =/= skill; in hack and slash threads
Adam Morris
>mfw got to Ngamahu's Flame and "DoubleBF"CWC way before Mathil >everyone thinks he came up with them
I think I need to start posting my builds to reddit.
Tyler Moore
Post max block w/o rumi's build >probably another red nightmare build
Noah Carter
max block is not hard at all..
David Rogers
getting 78/78 as a Gladiator is trivial, Red Nightmare only saves you some points
are you stupid?
Hudson Long
every fucking thread the same maxblock shit
Colton Jones
no, i just want you retards to realize that racing doesnt take skill and your meme streamers arent as good at this game as they're making it look like
Nicholas Clark
if you want game that take "skill" go back to csgo or dota shitter
Oliver Clark
friendly reminder that whispering ice is the most redpilled ssfhc build
Christopher Watson
Starcraft is the only game that takes skill
if you play mobas or arpgs, you're basically at the bottom tier, a trained monkey could do your job just as well
Landon Long
>waaaaaah stop exposing the shitters pic related, it's you
Logan Richardson
I can think of 68% block that's reached with BoR, 30% shield, Tempest shield and convenient skill tree nodes.
>wearing Anvil
Aaron Thomas
Sounds reasonable. Might go LA then. What are the good physical bow skills, Barrage and Tornado Shot, right?
Justin Martin
>no matter how hard I try, this glacial hammer build is still absolute garbage It's draining me
Grayson James
I guess I'll try it again in 3.0 but in 2.6 there's just no fucking point when I could be double dipping and having some effective defences...
Luis Howard
unethical players should be put down
Jaxson Nguyen
If you're gonna think like that it loses the fun. I just do meme builds, and if they and up being shit so be it.
I did a lacerate build on breach that would be a hell of a lot stronger if I went for poison bullshit, but I made it phys damage only.
Isaac Long
>tfw no good builds that use uniques in every item slot just
Cameron Cox
>he plays ethical builds
Andrew Roberts
is 100% phys to ele conversion + inquisitor unethical?
So I've been mapping for quite a while now (last one was T13), and I've killed two of the breachlords. This entire time I did not realise I had misunderstood how resistances work.
The merciless penalty to resistances I was aware of, but what I didn't know is that your hideout doesn't take difficulty into account (I assumed it did, since Navali gave me merciless prophecies while I was in my hideout). My resistances, that were all above 75% while I was tinkering with my gear in my hideout turned out to be below 30% while I was out mapping (without me realising).
TLDR: The resistances displayed in your hideout do not take difficulty into account. Make sure you actually have 75% after the reductions from difficulty.
Angel Anderson
There's actually one
Jaxson Murphy
whispering ice
Josiah Wood
Where did you find this?
Luis White
Tbh these mechanics make perfect sense of you understand all the other game mechanics
Xavier Young
Is Whispering Meme actually good? I'm always wary of 'storm abilities.
Leo Campbell
Isn't that what he is complaining about? you need to know the entire game before doing anything
Juan Sanders
Haha "DAMN SON, WHERE'D YOU FIND THIS?"
Tyler Bennett
No you don't
Andrew Lopez
it's good but expensive
Tyler Nelson
>it makes sense that gems get extra hidden tags from jewels even if you don't have those jewels equipped if you say so...
Lucas Walker
There are plenty of build that don't make use of those mechanics You can do lots before know the entire game
That's just another layer of mechanical depth that you push into as you begin to learn even more about the game
>being wary of some of the best skills in the game
This is without Red Nightmare, Red Nightmare lets you save some points dough
Cooper Morris
Yes you do
You have little to no way of knowing what you are getting into
Lucas Bailey
>whispering ice the only all-unique build that isn't shit i doubt this but something else isn't coming to mind
Elijah Gray
But that's wrong
Grayson Powell
I don't think it has any effect when the jewels AREN'T equipped? How does that make any sense?
Colton King
burning arrow doesn't explicitly have duration tag, but it actually does because there's a jewel that would add a duration effect to that gem. Which is why less duration support works. It's retarded if you ask me but maybe I just have to git gud.
Andrew Taylor
Its not
all the game techies you is how to equip skill gems, everything else is up to you to learn
Nathaniel Long
what juggernaut build do i make
Caleb Robinson
But the less duration support only has an effect if you're using the jewel I thought?
William Mitchell
no it works even if you don't have that jewel equipped.
Oliver Brooks
Believe it or not, that's actually an appealing side to the game for some players, games where your hand is held from A to Z and no mistakes can be made are comparatively a complete snoozefest
Grayson Gutierrez
How would that actually work mechanically then? You're not creating burning ground, so the less duration has nothing to affect.
The notoriously inaccurate tooltip might show an increase, but I doubt it actually changes your DPS.
Aaron Bailey
it simply adds (10-19)% more damage without any drawback since you don't care that your nonexistant burning ground lasts less.
Or at least that's what I understood from the vid.
Kevin Morales
who are you quoting?
Parker Green
eq
cyclone
is that even a question like lmao?
Charles Walker
>new league starts tomorrow - get hype!!!!!!!!!!
nigger, WHAT?
Austin Wright
>getting baited this easily must be a sh*tcrow
Lincoln Walker
resident autist I think OP meant it to be an epic troll
Nicholas Lee
>ED + Contagion Trickster or Scion (I want it life based) >Pizzablast for shits and giggles >Le Incineratable ray with fireballs
wat do
Angel Ross
a slayer one
Dominic Carter
scorching pee is overrated
blight cwc vortex is the only good channeling build
Jayden Adams
>t. dragonsroc
Mason Wilson
Scion or Necro are the only sensible choices for life-based ED imo, Trickster is kinda iffy and hybrid won't work well in Legacy
Jeremiah Cook
I was thinking the same but my friends are fucking idiots and keep telling me that ED goes with CI.