Flame Wall Support Gems?

[Casul Gamer]

I tried fortress it says it lowers dps when I equip it, but it's only supposed to lower damage of hits and flame wall is damage over time. I'm guessing it's a bug with the tool tip, but I'm afraid to equip it. Are there any other good ones besides lower cast speed?

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Casul Gamer:

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Showing damage numbers would not change people looking up guides. People will ALWAYS look up guides. If there were damage numbers on the screen, people would want to look up guides on how to make number bigger.

OFC it wouldn't stop everyone, but the more obtuse and convoluted you make the system (along with very punishing respec costs) the more likely people will look up guides. It's not black and white.

Nothing wrong with guides. I don't understand why you think guides are bad.

The game doesnt need less guides.

They nerfed the respec costs anyways. It's MUCH cheaper to respec now.

[Casul Gamer]

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Originally posted by Casul Gamer:

OFC it wouldn't stop everyone, but the more obtuse and convoluted you make the system (along with very punishing respec costs) the more likely people will look up guides. It's not black and white.

Nothing wrong with guides. I don't understand why you think guides are bad.

The game doesnt need less guides.

They nerfed the respec costs anyways. It's MUCH cheaper to respec now.

My issue is when a game incentivizes players to use guides. I know people use guides for Diablo 4 too, but no one recommends people to use a guide for their first character in D4.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Casul Gamer:

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Nothing wrong with guides. I don't understand why you think guides are bad.

The game doesnt need less guides.

They nerfed the respec costs anyways. It's MUCH cheaper to respec now.

My issue is when a game incentivizes players to use guides. I know people use guides for Diablo 4 too, but no one recommends people to use a guide for their first character in D4.

I don't recommend anyone use a guide for their first POE 2 character either. best way to learn is by doing.

[Mordecai]

The cool thing about learning is, you can do it a number of ways. You can learn by “doing”, you can learn by “being taught”, you can learn by “collaboration”. Everyone learns differently and to different degrees. Then couple this with time, some people have near endless amounts to say play a game and some have very limited time.

Add to this game complexities, you have to learn a lot to pull a game apart and figure out what makes it tick. Few people have the time and of those that do, even fewer have the motivation to do so.

Guides help fill the gaps, the gaps in motivation, the gaps in time, the gaps in ability. Guides are not going anywhere. If everyone could figure out how to make OP builds the game would probably not exist.

That all said, I love game mechanics and pulling it apart. I do not typically review guides until I do a bunch of work on my own figuring things out. But, I sorted out years ago, I game differently than most.

[5irKawfycups]

Originally posted by Casul Gamer:

It kind of sucks with controller tbh. The circle doesn't even appear around my character but rather several meters in front of me. In some situations that's good, but it's just annoying sometimes.

I noticed this too. If I DID cast a circle around me when I used controller, I'd be more inclined to use it. As it is, I just swapped it out for Mobility, gives me a little more reposition-ability.

Too bad there's no skill toggle to make skills cast on your own feet. That's what Orb of Storms does.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Dr. Rockso:

If Fortress is the one i'm thinking, it's not a bug.

Doesn't really matter on the DPS if you are using it to throw spark thru it. It's mostly for igniting and buffing projectiles so the DPS won't be noticeable.

I believe I went with Cascade but don't recall off the top of my head. It added more flame walls is all I remember which is perfect for spamming Spark thru it.

I used it for that and now I use it to summon raging spirits. Instead of standing still and trying to cast while 5 mobs jump me and the boss drops instakill abilities I can just run around and cast FW and let the SRS do the work.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Originally posted by Casul Gamer:

My issue is when a game incentivizes players to use guides. I know people use guides for Diablo 4 too, but no one recommends people to use a guide for their first character in D4.

I don't recommend anyone use a guide for their first POE 2 character either. best way to learn is by doing.

I disagree.

There's a lot to be learned from *doing it right* - you get to see what works and can figure out why. Playing D4 at the beginning and I had a ♥♥♥♥♥♥, low DPS, sorcerer. Ran a guide build and it kicked arse. Then I could look at what it was doing and figure out why it was working and then apply it elsewhere.

*Then* you can branch out and cut your own path.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Casul Gamer:

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Nothing wrong with guides. I don't understand why you think guides are bad.

The game doesnt need less guides.

They nerfed the respec costs anyways. It's MUCH cheaper to respec now.

My issue is when a game incentivizes players to use guides. I know people use guides for Diablo 4 too, but no one recommends people to use a guide for their first character in D4.

Why is using a guide a bad thing?

Look at it this way - you want to learn how to weld, do you just buy random welding equipment and go to town? Or do you watch some videos, read some articles, and get a basic understanding of what's happening first?

[Casul Gamer]

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Originally posted by Casul Gamer:

My issue is when a game incentivizes players to use guides. I know people use guides for Diablo 4 too, but no one recommends people to use a guide for their first character in D4.

Why is using a guide a bad thing?

Look at it this way - you want to learn how to weld, do you just buy random welding equipment and go to town? Or do you watch some videos, read some articles, and get a basic understanding of what's happening first?

Most games have tutorials...