America also now,got kicked out and when I tried reconnecting it just stood at contacting servers,had to CTRL ALT DEL back to my desktop...that's on the Legacy league,not sure it's the same server as the free weekend?
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Path of Exile - Open Stress Test Weekend!
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America also now,got kicked out and when I tried reconnecting it just stood at contacting servers,had to CTRL ALT DEL back to my desktop...that's on the Legacy league,not sure it's the same server as the free weekend?
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Technically you can use any weapons. You just need to travel really far in the skill tree. You can do some crazy stuff if you plan it out right.
My game crashed going back to town in act 2 like 30 minutes ago, now people are saying the servers are down. Looks like they found their limit. Around 7500
My game crashed going back to town in act 2 like 30 minutes ago, now people are saying the servers are down. Looks like they found their limit. Around 7500
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Easy way with marauders is either hammers or axes, one handed or two handed. Sword gets a little tricky but you can do it too.
Claws, daggers, bows, wands, sceptres and staffs take major effort tho.
On release no, maybe post release in expansion or smth. They would need to redone many animations just for different genders and they just dont have manpower for that.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I'd be eternally grateful for a full beta invite key. I've already logged in like 7 hours starting last night. Here's my karma resume:
~ Gave away two DotA 2 beta keys to fellow gaffers a few months ago when they were a $uper hot commodity
~ That's all I got
~ Gave away two DotA 2 beta keys to fellow gaffers a few months ago when they were a $uper hot commodity
~ That's all I got
Just got to Act 2. Really enjoyiing it!
was a bitch to kill though, playing as a witch that is. Got my first support gem aswell, although it just increases my spell's critical damage by 58%. Firstorm is the death to all!
One thing I found odd though is when ever my raised zombies get hit by ice or any element attack that sustains (like burning and etc) they get this slight blue checked texture over themselves. Not sure if it's a bug since it is subtle.
Merveil
One thing I found odd though is when ever my raised zombies get hit by ice or any element attack that sustains (like burning and etc) they get this slight blue checked texture over themselves. Not sure if it's a bug since it is subtle.
So, I got to Act 2 as a Duelist, really enjoying it so far, started another character to play with a friend and found that your stash is shared! All my currency, items and skill gems I'd put into my stash on my duelist showed up on my new character. Hadn't seen this posted anywhere, but I think this is a pretty awesome feature, as it would help you to farm for skill gems and such for a new class.
That is, if it is a feature.
That is, if it is a feature.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I've been playing a duelist since the legacy move as well.
Going sword/dual wield, that's the quintessential duelist build lol. Can't be more vanilla haha.
Going sword/dual wield, that's the quintessential duelist build lol. Can't be more vanilla haha.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Which class and build is the most pure fun to play? I am just spamming 1 skill and it can get boring but the loot helps with that.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
I'd say using Ice spells is the least boring. You have to use a lot of different spells to be effective.
GhostRidah
Member
I have been playing a hybrid of summoning zombies and skeletons, with doing mass electric aoe, and some ice bolts for single target, pretty fun.
I've been going dual weild swords on my duelist as well. Using Flicker Strike, Leap Slam, and Dual Strike as my two main abilities. So much fun Flickering around the battlefield destroying everything.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Flicker Strike is very powerful.
I'd suggest you get hold of cleave, for tightly packed enemies it works amazingly well.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I think that's a combination of the low challenge of early difficulty levels and lack of knowledge about the game, specifically what skills are available.
To give you an idea, on my Avatar of Fire staff templar I was using Infernal Blow as my main damage dealing skill, Leap Slam for mobility and getting away of tight spots, Ground Slam as safe DPS (huge area so you can hit them from far and it stuns; great for difficult packs), Molten Shell as additonal DPS, Warlord Cry (i think it's called that, it generates tanking charges that reduce incoming damage) and a curse that reduces fire resistance for fire resistant mobs.
Every class
[except dual welding focused] It just starts slow with first char, because You dont have skill gems ;]Dual welding sux now, because there are only like 2-3 skills for them and most are single target. It will get better when they'll introduce new class though ;p
My very old gameplay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbqkIB4LcFw
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Thanks for the replies. One other thing I wanted to mention is how cool the website is. You can click your character and see all of your current equip, inventory, stash, skill tree, everything. And mousing over the items shows their stats. They put a lot of work into it and it paid off, good stuff.
Btw Thanks Staab for the beta key today!!!
Btw Thanks Staab for the beta key today!!!
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Sorry, how does the closed beta work? what is legacy and such? Do I have to make a new character (no biggie, I want to try the other classes) or does my open weekend beta character go over to closed when the weekend is over?
You can even drag those items into Your posts on the board to show them to other people
You will be able to trade items through boards in future.Dunno how this legacy will work, but earlier ones were just like ladder and non ladder games in Diablo 2, when Your ladder resets they are moving Your chars to non-ladder, it was the same with Legacy few months ago.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Whenever devs want a fresh start for feedback, they move all current characters to legacy league.
No one plays legacy tho...
Ok got this email that i'm in beta. I am a full beta member or only weekend ?
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Someone have spare key ?
So far i love it.
+ potions, system is wonderfull. Not only flasks are diffrent but also can be magical. Also you can't spam them and replace since they refill only in camp or by killing monsters.
+ passive skill tree. Damn it's awasome. It's FFX sphere grid system -spheres.
+ Active abilities. I love that those are gems. Materia anyone ? Thanks to this you can really create crazy classes.
+ Graphic. This is how Diablo3 should look like. Not only that whole fighting system is superclose to D2 but UI is superclean like D2 one. As of UI it's almost a copy of D2 (it's + not -)
+ Intersting barter type economy. Gold in D2 was useless, as portal scrolls, identification scrolls and many other things. In this game i sometimes wonder if my 3 srolls of wisdom are worth bartering for a ring.
+ You feel those hits by your weapons. Torchlite and many other D2 clones didn't really feel fun when my hammer hit somethin. Only D1 and D2 menaged to have this feeling and PAth of Exile is another one.
+ Animations. Those death animations are wonderfull.
- no mini-mini map. There is one D2 esque but it covers whole screen. In D2 there was small minimap in corner. They should add it.
- it's weekend beta and it ends today
edit:
Someone have spare key ?
So far i love it.
+ potions, system is wonderfull. Not only flasks are diffrent but also can be magical. Also you can't spam them and replace since they refill only in camp or by killing monsters.
+ passive skill tree. Damn it's awasome. It's FFX sphere grid system -spheres.
+ Active abilities. I love that those are gems. Materia anyone ? Thanks to this you can really create crazy classes.
+ Graphic. This is how Diablo3 should look like. Not only that whole fighting system is superclose to D2 but UI is superclean like D2 one. As of UI it's almost a copy of D2 (it's + not -)
+ Intersting barter type economy. Gold in D2 was useless, as portal scrolls, identification scrolls and many other things. In this game i sometimes wonder if my 3 srolls of wisdom are worth bartering for a ring.
+ You feel those hits by your weapons. Torchlite and many other D2 clones didn't really feel fun when my hammer hit somethin. Only D1 and D2 menaged to have this feeling and PAth of Exile is another one.
+ Animations. Those death animations are wonderfull.
- no mini-mini map. There is one D2 esque but it covers whole screen. In D2 there was small minimap in corner. They should add it.
- it's weekend beta and it ends today
did you get PM about beta ?
Ive been playing a Witch with frost spells and summoning zombies (up to 5 lol..). Makes the game super easy.. May try something else for a challenge.
lol I've been summoning zombies (4), spectres (3), and skeletons (10)
rollin deeep! rofl
Ok got this email that i'm in beta. I am a full beta member or only weekend ?
edit:
Someone have spare key ?
Supposedly they're going to have a way to donate to get into the closed beta after the stress test weekend is over or something. The GM mentioned that the donation would give you microtransaction credits too. I might just do that
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Its a challenge when you go into a new level and don't have any summons.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Ok got this email that i'm in beta. I am a full beta member or only weekend ?
edit:
Someone have spare key ?
So far i love it.
+ potions, system is wonderfull. Not only flasks are diffrent but also can be magical. Also you can't spam them and replace since they refill only in camp or by killing monsters.
+ passive skill tree. Damn it's awasome. It's FFX sphere grid system -spheres.
+ Active abilities. I love that those are gems. Materia anyone ? Thanks to this you can really create crazy classes.
+ Graphic. This is how Diablo3 should look like. Not only that whole fighting system is superclose to D2 but UI is superclean like D2 one. As of UI it's almost a copy of D2 (it's + not -)
+ Intersting barter type economy. Gold in D2 was useless, as portal scrolls, identification scrolls and many other things. In this game i sometimes wonder if my 3 srolls of wisdom are worth bartering for a ring.
+ You feel those hits by your weapons. Torchlite and many other D2 clones didn't really feel fun when my hammer hit somethin. Only D1 and D2 menaged to have this feeling and PAth of Exile is another one.
+ Animations. Those death animations are wonderfull.
- no mini-mini map. There is one D2 esque but it covers whole screen. In D2 there was small minimap in corner. They should add it.
- it's weekend beta and it ends today
The ignorant comments about D3 in chat and in forum posts like this are smh-worthy. Some of the stuff you here in global chat is just unbelievable.
Yeah but frost spells are pretty over powered in the first place. Stops most mobs in their tracks. Only thing I ever have to worry about is if theres a ton of ranged attackers.
I do wish they gave you a bit more control over your minions. Sometimes my zombies just go crazy attacking everything in the area while I am moving forward.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Those of you complaining about challenge need to hit ruthless and merciless ;D
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
I've finished Act 1 with a dual wielding duellist and I quite enjoyed the game. However I've burned out on it due to the fact the 2 skills I got at the start (dual strike & cleave) have been the only ones I've been able to use. I really wish there was more of a sense of progression with the active skills in the game.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
And then maelstrom of chaos, haha. people will start giving up, guaranteed.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Its about connecting those skills with support gems, but I agree. They are going to be adding a lot more skills in the game as it goes on.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Also, he's only played act 1 of the first difficulty. But yes, more skills are going to be necessary.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Dual wield builds have the less amount of skills available... the last class is supposed to be the dual wield specialist and will debut with new dual wield skills.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
For a 14-man development team making a F2P game, I'm impressed.
I ran through Act I twice and half of Act II and I really enjoyed myself. I definitely plan to play it when it releases and when I'm not busy playing Diablo III.
Hopefully the stress test weekend and the fact that the beta is sitting at 0.9.8 are indicators that it's almost done. I'd love a few weeks of PoE before DIII's release.
I ran through Act I twice and half of Act II and I really enjoyed myself. I definitely plan to play it when it releases and when I'm not busy playing Diablo III.
Hopefully the stress test weekend and the fact that the beta is sitting at 0.9.8 are indicators that it's almost done. I'd love a few weeks of PoE before DIII's release.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I'm at Act 2 of Cruel difficulty and still have the same issue with my Ranger (bow). I forget what lvl, around 32-34. I use the same offensive ability for the past like 30 levels. The other ones aren't as good. I put a couple support gems adding multiple arrows and pierce but it's still the same thing. Just spamming the same ability, occasionally using a curse on yellow unique monsters, while having your fingers on the number keys to use potions. This is a key issue that needs to be of the highest priority on their to-do list.
It's also exactly why Blizzard did what they did with D3 in re: the skills and progressive skill rune system. Many of the runes are basically like new skills entirely, they change the original that much.
Still, for an 18 man dev team PoE is a fantastic accomplishment.
Thats the plan. There will be more skills [50+] and more support skills that changes skills drastically.
Still i'm amazed that You are using only one skill, i was using frenzy [for frenzy point generating], split arrow [as a spam skill] and damage skill like rain of arrows/explosive arrow for bigger and stronger packs + blood rage/phase walk for buffs and curse for debuffing and also sometimes corpse explosion when i was kitting. If i had more keys for skills i would use even more
But to be clear, PoE skill system wont be probably as active as Diablo 3, more like upgraded D2 path.
Ps. I wont get any new keys for now from Chris, because they want to use microtransactions and test how it will work, and those will grant keys.
My witch is around lvl 10 ish on normal difficulty and I'm starting to find it a challenge. I don't use any summons though, kind of playing her as a mage. I'm probably gimping myself that way but I'm enjoying it.
I love
the prison level.
ok, the Warden
Lol, so my opinion is smh worthy ?
Dude a lot of people hate how Diablo 3 looks. There is a reason for that.
As of global chat, do you really care? Seriously.
Well, one can point at the first third of Act 1 of normal difficulty in D3 beta, and we can already see that you have far more skills to play around with in those first 2 hours than in the first 2 acts of Path of Exile.
kiunchbb
www.dictionary.com
join the tenbux club
I am so giving them my 10 bucks. When is the planned full release anyway?
GhostRidah
Member
Yea I am in on that donation, just got to act 2 but wont have time to play today.