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[Aklyon]

Its a boomeranging projectile melee attack (not a spell, cast speed does nothing for it and it has normal attack accuracy) you get as the first gem a scion gets. Can be boosted by weapon damage, phys damage, and non-bow projectile modifiers, but has no fork or chain chance due to 100% pierce chance. Higher attack speed throws it out farther.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Neat, my stuff hasn't been wiped.

[nenjin]

Game looks so much nicer than it did the last time I played. I finally threw them $20 and bought out all my custom stash slots. I figure after all the hours of entertainment I've gotten out of the game, I owe them.

[nenjin]

So, I think I'm in love with my Scion.

Maybe it's just the comparison between last playing my Merciless character and then going to Normal but....

Oh my god she is a BEAST. I grabbed all the good passives around the center so she's a balanced spellcaster/melee atm....

And I'm just demolishing. Put her in mail (Armor/Energy Shield), have a crap load health regen, life on hit, clarity, increased duration and aoe, melee splash attached to Heavy Strike, Increased Projectile Speed for Spectral Weapon......(which actually not only makes it fly faster but also go FARTHER as well....), Ice Nova, Firestorm....

So basically every single one of my attacks is AoE. Bound to my left mouse button, AoE Heavy Strike just flattens whole packs of guys in one swing. Spectral Weapon chews through incoming waves like a lawn mower, flying so far I can hit mobs off screen in large numbers. Animate Weapon lets me have weapons following for up to 60 seconds at a time (in which case I can get about 6 of them going) Firestorm for when things get really out of hand....

I mean, she's like Joan of Arc on steroids, she does it all. Ranged, Melee, Magic, Tanking. Piety is in for a world of hurt.

I'm sure the honeymoon will end short once I start Cruel, but right now I don't think I've kicked this much ass with any character, not even my Life On Hit Cyclone Marauder.  At this rate, I don't even feel like I want to play my Witch character anymore, other than for having a dedicated Fire Mage casting Firestorm. Kicking myself that I started my Scion in the Domination League, as it will be months before she can rejoin my other characters/play with my other friends.

[CognitiveDissonance]

I've been playing PoE ever since you could purchase beta access. Such a good game. I've been taking breaks not to be burnt out... and to be honest, when playing hardcore characters, you NEED a break after a while


I downloaded it on Steam now that it's available, and made a new character. And damn, I am impressed with how far the game has come. Everything looks better, and the game is so damn responsive. It even handles lag fairly well, which is important for hardcore.

I mean, she's like Joan of Arc on steroids, she does it all. Ranged, Melee, Magic, Tanking. Piety is in for a world of hurt.

I may have to try the Scion; I don't know anything about her yet, but it's hard to break my addiction to speedy speedy bowgirl.

[Aklyon]

Also somewhat important for hardcore, Cognitive: /oos if you think you're desynced.

[CognitiveDissonance]

Also somewhat important for hardcore, Cognitive: /oos if you think you're desynced.

Is that option enabled again? I remember it being disabled due to server stress ages ago.

I haven't had that issue yet. I mostly play POE and similar ARPGs in short bursts nowadays, so that may be helping.

[Astral]

I've been slogging through Normal with a summoner/witch, mainly due to the fact that this game's equipment customization reminds me heavily of Diablo 2 Median XL, and summoners are decent first characters due to not being as gear dependent.

The only issue I've encountered so far is the lack of a Summon Skeleton or Spell Totem drop, so I may need to see if some friends have these, as my zombies die fairly quickly, and the revenant I grab can't last very long without something tanking for it.

Of course, I do have Wrath and more recently the Conductivity curse, which made things easier for a while, but I feel I need something that doesn't require corpses in order to tank for me better and progress a bit further, especially on boss fights.

[Aklyon]

Summon Skeletons is a fairly early quest reward, I think you get it from Brutus?
Spell Totem, I have no idea where it is and if it drops or not.

[aristabulus]

Summon Skeletons is a fairly early quest reward, I think you get it from Brutus?

Yup, reward from Brutus for Templar/Shadow/Witch/Scion in Normal.

Spell Totem, I have no idea where it is and if it drops or not.

Available as a quest reward from Merveil in Cruel, for Templar/Shadow/Marauder/Witch/Scion.

Data grabbed from ze wiki on Curse's network...  Standard caveats apply for a community-maintained wiki just after a major patch.

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Astral, which league are you in with your Witch?  I have a tidy pile of stuff in Standard, I may almost assuredly have toys to spare.

The Median XL tones are not a coincidence....  Brother Laz was involved with some unique item stuff for sure, maybe more.

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Has anything happened on the guild discussion?  Is we gonna do dis?  ?

[Aklyon]

I'd certainly be interested, I've got quite a few bits of stuff in normal too.

Domination on the other hand, seems to really like dropping gems on me that I don't want

[kcwong]

I also have a bunch of spare gems saved up in Standard. Used to have more, but I gave away 1.5 pages of them shortly after release.

You need character name instead of account name to add friends; recently I've been playing as Yves_TaleChaser, a Scion summoner.

[Astral]

I'm in... Domination, I think it is? Where monsters get shrine effects before you pop it, making it a little more fun when you find out that there are 5 special mobs and a rare, named one camping around it. That's in the America servers.

I had a point where I didn't notice the summon skeleton shrine nearby, and it kept spawning stuff on me until I died, noticed it as I was wondering what the hell happened.

I know I saw Summon Skeleton somewhere around the early levels, but I figured I'd do better with Firestorm, having some AoE to help my minions out. And I was mostly right, I think, because I wouldn't have made it past the Act 1 boss without a lot of kiting around a wall into my Firestorm.

I wouldn't worry about it too much at the moment though, as I've gotten into a Battlefield 4 obsession with the release. Maybe some other time.

[Aklyon]

Firestorm is pretty awesome and I'd agree with using it, but you need to get summon skeles if you're going to do summoner. Otherwise you lose about half the use of all the minion passives you pick up.

As for domination, I have very few things there, but Alterixia the Scion is there if you want backup. I'm Aklyon in standard.

[kcwong]

I know I saw Summon Skeleton somewhere around the early levels, but I figured I'd do better with Firestorm, having some AoE to help my minions out. And I was mostly right, I think, because I wouldn't have made it past the Act 1 boss without a lot of kiting around a wall into my Firestorm.

Shock is the most powerful among the elemental statuses; it amplifies damage from all sources by 30% (was tuned down from 40% on release, but it's still awesome), and can be stacked 3 times. There's a notable called Static Blows in upper left that give you more chance to shock for all lightning attacks/spells you use.

Get Static Blows, use Arc and Spark with Elemental Proliferation, then your minions will do a lot more damage.