Path of Exile?

[HallucinationMushroom]

Yammering wall of POE text.

The new patch has breathed life into my old marauder, and I actually had some fun with him for the first time in a long while. I couldn't afford a multistrike gem for initial day prices of 1 exalt+, but the price ought to drop as the days wear on based on the old supply/demand formula I was supposed to have learned somewhere.

Melee splash is cool, however. I had respecced from Axe user to pretty much non-specific high life and resists ground slammer... SNOOZE. Now my heavy strike is up front again. I changed out my gain life on hit for melee splash and went from 4000 dps to 3450 single target damage after leveling the gem a bit, but watching the packs fall around me makes the glad not to have to slam, slam, slam, slam, slam, ... ...
..........

I might try out infernal blow tonight. I was good to myself and had stockpiled a decent number of passive and respec tree points for if and when I ever got any direction for this guy. He's level 64, in middle of merci act 2, ~2900 life, resists close to 80. IGN: Axbeard. My ranger, The_Red_Baroness, is 60, and is a horrible mess. She was fun through Cruel, but now pretty much broken. She used Maligaro's and Death's Harp and Crit Weak curse to get lots of critical hits.

[MadeOfBees]

Ive been having great fun with an armor/evasion/block/reflect melee guy. Basically nothing can hit me, and when it does, it hurts the attacker quite nicely.

[Narvius]

Kind of like a swarm of bees, then.

[MadeOfBees]

Mayyyyyyybeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

[HallucinationMushroom]

Gloat:
I found Thunderfist right after the patch deployed.
End-gloat.

I'm running a cookie cutter ele-cleave templar ala VicDoom's guide. In two more clvls, I'll be losing a lot of survivability for lots of wiggins as I'm also wearing Wake of Destruction.

[MadeOfBees]

Damn, you found thunderfist already? Lucky you.

[HallucinationMushroom]

Incoming huge patch! Full respecs for everybody, and a major reworking of the game system to, hopefully, improve melee.

Damn, how will I sleep for the next few days? I will be seeing passive nodes everywhere I go.

I've got a 72 templar, 65 marauder, 60 ranger, 47 shadow. Oh man oh man oh man.

[Magnate]

Incoming huge patch! Full respecs for everybody, and a major reworking of the game system to, hopefully, improve melee.

Damn, how will I sleep for the next few days? I will be seeing passive nodes everywhere I go.

I've got a 72 templar, 65 marauder, 60 ranger, 47 shadow. Oh man oh man oh man.

Full respecs? Fantastic. I've been enjoying the offline passive tree tool and now I can enjoy planning my skill trees all over again. My duelist just hit 54 killing Piety on Cruel - I got halfway to 55 in A1 Merciless and then got killed several times by that vicious boss on the Medicine Chest quest (the one that freezes). So I'm back to 0% ...

My next highest level char is a Witch in her early 30s and a Marauder at around 29.

[WildKhaine]

Just started playing this yesterday. Messing around with a ranger, they're pretty fun. Have to say it's a really good game so far, especially since it's free

[HallucinationMushroom]

Cool! I got my full respec for all my characters, but haven't spent the points yet. It's fun just playing around with the points on the website's passive skill tree tool. I'm leaning toward a Bringer of Rain super manly Conan guy. I've got an 8 exalt budget since I sold most of my best gear. If you get in the neighborhood of 60+ levels, and are in Default league, give me a shout here.

[WildKhaine]

Got through Act I. Having a lot of fun. Really enjoy the skill system with the gems. Allows for a good deal of versatility. Plus with the large passive skill tree there is a lot of different builds you can make. Be fun tinkering around with it all.

[WildKhaine]

Been messing around with a few different builds/classes. In Standard I got a lvl 35 physical/crit Ranger and a lvl 16 Marauder (in your face melee build, lots of fun). Made a couple characters in the Onslaught league for fun, another physical/crit Ranger but HC version at lvl 24 and a Templar that's lvl 12 (LS/physical tankish build). Have a lvl 11 Witch (Cold dmg for now but gonna be more of an EK build later) in Anarchy to see what that league is like.

Really want to try out the Shadow and Duelist classes but can't seem to think of a good idea for them yet. Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions?

[HallucinationMushroom]

Have you been to Exile Pro? They haven't updated a new build in months, but the existing ones there are, or were, considered very good, or maybe even, the best. I built my elemental cleaver off of VictorDoom's Elemental cleaver and it was the best character I ever had. My home-grown's sucked, though they might've been better with the new melee buffs since they were all physical based. http://www.exilepro.com/builds

If nothing else, they can give you some interesting ideas. For shadow, specifically, I was trying to make one of Invalesco's super dagger crit CI awesomeness of oh-god-that-looks-so-awesome... but, believe it when he says it's not easy to get there... it is sooo not easy to get there. I burned out trying. But, the video footage of it working... amazing. Or, amazeballs, as Debo puts it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CHGLWhMunM
The build is on the forums and at exile pro as well.

I still haven't respecced yet. I did a vaults of atziri and sort of called it game over for a while.

[WildKhaine]

Yeah, checked out Exile Pro already and been browsing the forums on the Path of Exile website too. Not too many builds on the Exile Pro website but the Leap Slam Aura tank Duelist build looks interesting. I'm using a build by that VictorDoom guy too, a pure physical ranger which is pretty fun though people say it's a hard one to do. Damn, that Shadow does look pretty neat to play.

[HallucinationMushroom]

The SaintVitus physical ranger by Vic? I did that exact same thing with my Ranger, and it was really quite fun... up till I got to Merciless. I was lucky to have found Maligaro's Virtuosity with a previous character, so I bought a Death's Harp for 1 gcp and Broadstroke for a chaos. The criticals were rolling and rolling hard. Good times. However, I made the mistake of going on my own path about halfway through cruel to worship damage instead, and eventually got too glass, and also not enough cannon. The Elemental Cleaver he lays out actually works quite well, though I think his physical ranger is not on Exile Pro for a good reason. The ranger was fun while it lasted.