I know you can check the tooltips of your abilities but they're probably not 100% accurate with all of the extra things they can do. Otherwise the character sheet is really in depth but I don't think there's a singular number that you can look at to see like an average.
Well I can get more into the details next time I log in but essentially at the moment I’m going for poison damage and leech. The majority of my leech is coming from my passives though. I’m playing a Lich and my skills are Wandering Spirits, Hungering Souls, Death Seal, Decay Aura, and Reaper Form. This is working fine for the majority of the time. I specced all my skills into poison. I get healing from decay aura so I can stay in Reaper Form for a long time, and it heals me enough that I don’t need to turn it off when I’m out of reaper form. But once reaper form drops I need to play more cautiously until it’s up.
I know my resistances need to be higher and defensives in general probably need to be better but where I’m struggling in general is sort of what you mentioned with damage over time. There’s spell damage which should apply to everything other than Reap, and Aura of Decay, Poison damage which applies to all of it in some way but technically Reap still does some necrotic along with Death Seal (they’re mostly for the other benefits though and can poison.) There’s also damage over time and possibly others I’m not thinking of.
It’s hard to know what to focus on. More broadly, I have a shaman that I started leveling but probably won’t get back to until I finish up the story with my Lich. I want to go caster but they can do so many different elemental effects. I switched everything I could to lightning damage but I’m starting to think that isn’t strictly necessary since there’s also spell damage as an affix.
Like in general I guess it’s just how do you know which affixes to focus on for damage. I think I understand the defensive things more. Get all your resistances to 75%+, Get health (% and combined are most important), endurance and movement are good to have, and armor can’t hurt.
But for offense do I just pick one thing? Like spell damage, or lightning, or poison? Since I’m mostly doing damage over time is it fine to just get one? Since I can take multiple does it matter? Should I just get any that are an improvement? I gave you examples if it helps you with my current confusion but I’m trying to learn what to do in case I change my build or create an alt. I know you can’t give hard and fast rules but the fact that things scale with so many different tags actually makes it hard for me to know which ones to focus on. Which would give me more spaces to fill with defensive affixes.
Thanks those tips are great! I just got into I think the last act. Had to pick between the bazaar and observatory. My build is working fine so far but now I'm really struggling between things like resistances, health, specific damage (poison in my case) or just spell damage. Like I went all in on poison because I figured picking one element and sticking to it was best but I'm realizing that I'm also (almost) exclusively using spells so I'm wondering if I needed all that instead of the more generic things like spell damage.
And of course all those extra stats like defensives, endurance, leech, etc.
For now I'm flying through the story and enjoying it so I must be doing okay but I'm always worried I'm going to pass up something I should be trying to forge into something for me later once I start into monoliths and later levels. Or things I should be shattering for later. I'm hanging onto most of the uniques and set pieces though in case I change my build or level an alt.
Yeah, everything I've seen says it's balanced enough to do what you want at least until you get further into the endgame. And that's true for me so far. I only tried one build that kinda failed. I think for me having not played something this complex before the crafting and what I'm aiming for is a little tough to wrap my head around so far. But hopefully once I'm just focusing on the endgame stuff it'll start to be a bit more clear.
Hey, just picked this up finally a few days ago and I'm loving it so far. I've played Diablo and a bit of Torchlight but never PoE. So there's a few things that are a little confusing to me but I'm enjoying it. I'm near the end of the campaign or at least I think I am. Playing a lich so far, I've tried out a shaman, paladin, and runemaster. But lich and shaman are my favorite so far.
I'm trying not to follow any guides so far. I've looked at a few to get ideas but I'm trying to just enjoy the leveling. I think I respec too often though. I keep running out of money trying to shatter things, respec, and buying stash tabs.
I don't have much more to say just saw the community and it was pretty quiet so I figured I'd make a post, see if people are around and maybe find some people to ask questions to if there's anyone watching the community here.
The league are almost all quite competent as well. If Bruce needs to put some pieces together then he probably trusts most members of the league to at least get the information they need. It's moments like these that I love about DC heroes. When they show the importance of the people and not just beating up bad guys.
Game looks pretty cool, and I never played it when it came out. Sucks that it doesn't have modern net for it.
Just adding that I have the same problem. Whether I try to enable or block NSFW content it won't save. I can only change it if I log into the web interface
Yeah I absolutely loved sea of stars. I thought it was great the whole way through. Fun characters, and solid combat.
To be fair English has a lot of German. The "teen" sound almost certainly comes from the sound "zehn". It's pretty easy to hear how fünfzehn und sechszehn eventually become fifteen and sixteen. We're more or less saying five ten just kinda mushed together.
I'm really worried about the new dragon quest. It's possibly my favorite series and I'm concerned that 12 is going to be action and not turn based.
Just watched this, I think it's a good new format. Anytime there's a new best of the worst though it's good news.
Turn based rpgs, the sort of thing with just enough challenge to be fun but not too quick or difficult. Like I love dark souls but when I just want to chill give me something like dragon quest. Sadly it seems to be dying out as a genre.