gets too difficult

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Cniva a écrit :

more ppl=money

In most cases that statement is true but not in PoE. why?? That is simple if they attract more people to the game by making it easier all the core players who came here looking for something somehow challenging and different then casual game will leave. And core fans are what keeps that game alive.

PS
i'm not someone playing a lot to be honest but i still find harder content more enjoyable

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Chefkey a écrit :

I know waa waa waa cry baby but it gets annoying. I get killed all day at work, I just want to come home and "relax" with a nice rpg that has good gameplay and storyline. I don't have patience for a game that is overly challenging. I just want to enjoy the gameplay and story retire to bed to get ready for the real world again. There is nothing fun about dying or clicking non stop to try to avoid death and then still die. I don't see the fun in that. I mastered games like Diablo 2 and Nox. I could go through standard difficulty on either of the games and other than bosses like Diablo or Mephisto I never died. I would play to have fun and relax and enjoy the gameplay. This dying crap gets boring real fast and I stop playing. Peace out guys and yeah I know WAA WAA WAA but it doesn't make the game any more enjoyable.

I'd like to give my very personal advices to you

I'm not a no lifer 10k hours of play per month guy... but i play by 2 years now and according to my exp there are 3 killer things:

1) the stupid habit of GGG, in the even more stupid idea that difficulty=big numbers (=damage that comes too hard in an instant), to give you single immensely powerful blows. Many times, even if so much friends say that the killer is elemental damage, the real killer is PHYSICAL damage (=enemies attacks often more rapidly than they cast, player physical defense more hard to get respect to elemental one, melee mobs far more mobile than ranged ones and easier for them to surround you in narrow spaces etc). And reaching, say, an extimated physical reduction equal to elemental ones (75%)... well good luck, between Lightning coil, taste of hate, endurance charges.... an annoyance!!! So my advice for big hits is....

>PLAY ENERGY SHIELD. I know i know, is a bit more annoying to level etc etc. Many says "Ehy, ES gear costs a lot"!!! FALSE. With around 30 chaos orbs, you can buy ES gear that tops you well over 8.000 ES without sacrificing damage. A big help here are a couple of unique jewels "Energy from within" posed in the slots at the lower left and lower right of the witch start

2) the damage comes from 2323220869085689068096 sources all at once. Like if you are alone fighting the whole chines population all at once.... My advice for this

>PLAY REGEN. Many overlook the power of regen, but if combined with a large HP pool, it is like being constantly under the best recovery flasks available. This helps a lot against normal hits, and even against damage over time (burning, bleeding etc). ZEALOTH OATH

3) the GGG's raging boner for machine gun mobs (titty bitches, rakangos, plummed chimerals etc). Here regen possibly fails, so my advice is...

>HAVE SHIELD ALLIES. A stone golem, cast when damage taken summon skeletons, animated guardian.... in a nut shell.... HAVE ENEMY DISTRACTIONS. And nerf the enemies, nerf them hard (Orb of storms - Increased area of effect - Curse on hit - Enfeeble.... very fast to cast, great range, in a nutshell is an immortal cursing totem)



Edit: here, i have prepared a very basic but decently safe ES build for you, in the case you will have the curiosity of trying ES.

Is a very simple bladefall build (Bladefall - Spell echo - Concentrated effect - Controlled destruction - Added chaos damage) with only mid-low damage (damage that you must improve with +% spell damage wand and shield, and with a rustic sash)

Is focused on having large amount of ES (2 energy from within jewels near Quinck recovery / Melding) and regen (regen from tree + vitality aura if you like)

Is well suited with 2-3 "chemist" (=usable 2 times each in case of "-25%" flask charges used") basalt flasks

Here, tell me if you manage to see the tree

http://www.poeplanner.com/AAAABAMBAd-wghCPpkSrVa4snBEtfIPr7prgRZ1TUhzcjxqnCJ2uGmz3wbiTKPpXyQ18N4Om6yymN2Y0Cuq6kNaESOL3AW9ca8Nti3rYJDbFgsf56Gh02mIYVjwtg1_Grgthr2xo8nwOp1VboK4-Z5vkUZtYMft_418_9kjEWAxfHKdTpd-K6QJLrm0Z2VsbJRFQNbmnK76KoS-TJ--I-TfXz0mxf8YRlgcelS7w1UlRDki3MOhaJohd8isKES_rY7VIj_pcQFS9Fe2Wi9W57BgsvxXXhq5WYzzvGF3a3X5ZIvRsC63xwGYy0UVH

Hope that you will die a little less with my help

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Chefkey a écrit :

I know waa waa waa cry baby but it gets annoying. I get killed all day at work, I just want to come home and "relax" with a nice rpg that has good gameplay and storyline. I don't have patience for a game that is overly challenging. I just want to enjoy the gameplay and story retire to bed to get ready for the real world again. There is nothing fun about dying or clicking non stop to try to avoid death and then still die. I don't see the fun in that. I mastered games like Diablo 2 and Nox. I could go through standard difficulty on either of the games and other than bosses like Diablo or Mephisto I never died. I would play to have fun and relax and enjoy the gameplay. This dying crap gets boring real fast and I stop playing. Peace out guys and yeah I know WAA WAA WAA but it doesn't make the game any more enjoyable.

IMO in order to get yourself unstuck from whatever is blocking your progress i.e. deaths, you need to use the Path of Exile Wiki. There's quite a bit of game mechanicss in PoE that would be unfamiliar to any newbie or veteran to ARPG.

To me reading the PoE wiki was/is as optional as reading X3: Reunion's manual when I first started. Not optional.

If you are not willing to read the Path of Exile Wiki, then I do agree that the right thing for you to do is to "Peace out".

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Wispo a écrit :

I'd like to give my very personal advices to you

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He is stuck at level 44, somewhere in Cruel, has never finished Cruel. His problem is not that he isn't running ES gear. His problem seems to be that he doesn't know how to properly link his skills. And possibly lacks some other knowledge as well.

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Char1983 a écrit :

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Wispo a écrit :

I'd like to give my very personal advices to you

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He is stuck at level 44, somewhere in Cruel, has never finished Cruel. His problem is not that he isn't running ES gear. His problem seems to be that he doesn't know how to properly link his skills. And possibly lacks some other knowledge as well.

Yes i know, but because already other friends had adviced him to "make some study" on wiki etc, i have thinked to "complete the advices" and make to him an example of a safe build (for the "future") :)

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Chefkey a écrit :

I know waa waa waa cry baby but it gets annoying. I get killed all day at work, I just want to come home and "relax" with a nice rpg that has good gameplay and storyline. I don't have patience for a game that is overly challenging. I just want to enjoy the gameplay and story retire to bed to get ready for the real world again. There is nothing fun about dying or clicking non stop to try to avoid death and then still die. I don't see the fun in that. I mastered games like Diablo 2 and Nox. I could go through standard difficulty on either of the games and other than bosses like Diablo or Mephisto I never died. I would play to have fun and relax and enjoy the gameplay. This dying crap gets boring real fast and I stop playing. Peace out guys and yeah I know WAA WAA WAA but it doesn't make the game any more enjoyable.

Well, the game requires you to put up some though into it. It's not that hard, but you need to think about your actions before acting. The tree requires planning, you need resistance, a lot of life, you won't die if you build to not to. It is not a pac-man game, it's a complex game, if you don't want to think, what i can say... you will die a lot.

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Cniva a écrit :

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I_NO a écrit :

This isn't your game then.

Wow. nice answer <.< it's actually a problem for some people, there are ppl that works a lot and don't have time to calculate and bla bla bla, write an advice instead of saying "this isn't your game then", it's not a good thing, ggg needs to improve the poe community, because POE isn't the game only for nolife players or people that actually play 6 hours at day that is A LOT for some people that work and like to go out with friends ecc..

PS: more ppl=money

No the games fucking easy as it is it's a great answer like if you can't handle the game right now then it's not your game end of story. You don't need to be no lifer to be decent at this fucking game like not even remotely.

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Char1983 a écrit :

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Wispo a écrit :

I'd like to give my very personal advices to you

[...]

He is stuck at level 44, somewhere in Cruel, has never finished Cruel. His problem is not that he isn't running ES gear. His problem seems to be that he doesn't know how to properly link his skills. And possibly lacks some other knowledge as well.

I'm not stuck at level 44 I just got annoyed at running in place and going nowhere. I can move the character forward and I decided to play my witch tonight and she is now level 46 and picked up some new attributes. There are still some other annoyances though that I would call glitches to the system. A big glitch for me is gear built in attributes to help use other gear. I need some extra dexterity to use certain gems and or gear. I found these good gloves that had some decent attributes and sockets and the necessary dex I needed. I then found another pair of gloves that has better attributes but was just a bit lower in dex. I found that when I did the math I still had enough dex to run the other gear and spells so I went to switch them. When I tried to switch the gloves everything else went red with dex deficiency and I couldn't put anything on again. So I had to go to my stash and take out an amulet with dex and use it temporarily to rebuild my gear so that I could use the new gloves. When everything was back on the body everything worked as I suspected but the glitch not just being able to swap the gloves was ridiculous. If I didn't have that amulet I would have been stuck.

Even when i am with you that dying gets boring and its really biased for no lifers with legacy items and some builds, this game is made for everyone to die.

In order to prevent that, just keep farming zones you know you wont die and buy some good gear. Caped resis and life are the most important thing in this game. I halved my dps with my lvl 92 oro's flicker char but i added a lot of life nodes, resis and armor in order to keep going. Suddenly i found myself doing stuff i could never do.

Dont give up, just keep playing and you will get good stuff, eventually. Remember that resis, armor and life is everything (and other ways to survive ofc).
This game is PURE farm and grind, find your way to make it funny.