New to POE

[Ninefinger]

Im new to the POE could never get into the first one and this one I cant stop playing.

After 130 hours I finally made it to Act 2 in HCSSF and completed my first Ascension trial.

I have been focusing pure strength and block and armor but now that I am reaching this point I am starting to look at trying to layer some defense using evasion but the problem i am having is the fact that both the gear and the skills I am using for my weapon require me to split my stat priorities and i was wondering how big of a deal it is to split stat priority and how much should I be focusing on each one.

I was hoping that there is enough stats to be able to fulfill stat requirements for my max level mace skills along with max level dex gear to maximize my evasion and so I have access to ghost and wind dancer and would like to have some energy shield to allow ghost dancer to work and i just dont know how much of each stat I need and can realistically expect to get.

I currently have max resistances in everything but no chaos for both sets of gear I have and I am sitting at just over 40% armor and 55% evasion and 70% block and before I switched gear I had 50+% armor and 0 evasion so I am thinking the trade off of 10% armor is worth 57% evasion.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Armor is an absolute worthless stat right now.

Focus on evasion or energy shield.

[Ninefinger]

Originally posted by Pure Havik:

Armor is an absolute worthless stat right now.

Focus on evasion or energy shield.

but the mace requires me to focus strength for the skills so armor is my only go to unless I split stats

[TyresTyco]

You can get the minimum str required by attributes on gear and passive skill tree and the rest for int for example for energy shield.

That said.. with the current tree.. it's really not that great to wander to the ES nodes since you need tons of points to even get there. They will 100% change it at some points and give us waygates in the tree to get to the other side easier but thats in the far future.

You can get the ghostwrithe unique chest. That converts hp to energy shield. That alone will give you a HUGE amount of ES.

[Shade30Seven]

Block, life regen, life recoups, and hp on all gear! Armor still has value it’s just not as good as the other.

And I see it getting patched real soon!

[TyresTyco]

Life recoup btw is utter garbage. It takes 8 seconds until you get the hp back. 8 bloody seconds. Thats useless. Life regen however.. if stacked is okay.

Nothing there helps with oneshots in t15 maps tho.

[Ninefinger]

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

Life recoup btw is utter garbage. It takes 8 seconds until you get the hp back. 8 bloody seconds. Thats useless. Life regen however.. if stacked is okay.

Nothing there helps with oneshots in t15 maps tho.

well I am hoping to test turtle charm with 100% block with as much evasion I can get so I can also take acrobatics if possible so with the combined ability to both block and evade all hits I am hoping I might survive as a noob.

[Fluffy Bunny of Despair]

Attributes are really hard to fullfill currently. Specially in SSF it can become quite a nightmare.

Juggling all that and resists as well is ... hard. With runes you can't replace >.<
I did well with armor + block while stacking strength. But i did switch to corrupting blood warcry after my 2nd ascend. Since it was such a safe playstyle compared to the melee playstyle.

But as Warrior that is currently the best you can do. I don't think it will be too easy to weave in evasion / es in ssf

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

You can get the minimum str required by attributes on gear and passive skill tree and the rest for int for example for energy shield.

That said.. with the current tree.. it's really not that great to wander to the ES nodes since you need tons of points to even get there. They will 100% change it at some points and give us waygates in the tree to get to the other side easier but thats in the far future.

You can get the ghostwrithe unique chest. That converts hp to energy shield. That alone will give you a HUGE amount of ES.

He clearly stated he played HCSSF ... how is he supposed to just "get" a unique item? :D
And good luck getting your 650+ strength requirement for giants blood 2 hand weapon stuff while also satisfying int stuff for hybrid armour / es stuff >.<

[Drake]

Armour has exactly the same mechanic as in POE 1. People just need to build using the same method as in poe 1.

You need at least 3 means of defence. You can focus on armour for small hits, you just need to get something for the big oneshots. Liek some energy shield and block. You could also invest in life leech. You'll also need high life too.

[Fluffy Bunny of Despair]

Originally posted by Drake:

Armour has exactly the same mechanic as in POE 1. People just need to build using the same method as in poe 1.

You need at least 3 means of defence. You can focus on armour for small hits, you just need to get something for the big oneshots. Liek some energy shield and block. You could also invest in life leech. You'll also need high life too.

Amour is currently up to 2 x weaker than in poe 1

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hln20p/poe_2_armor_formula_testing_and_estimates/

At least current testing seems to support that.

[Drake]

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny of Despair:

Originally posted by Drake:

Armour has exactly the same mechanic as in POE 1. People just need to build using the same method as in poe 1.

You need at least 3 means of defence. You can focus on armour for small hits, you just need to get something for the big oneshots. Liek some energy shield and block. You could also invest in life leech. You'll also need high life too.

Amour is currently up to 2 x weaker than in poe 1

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hln20p/poe_2_armor_formula_testing_and_estimates/

At least current testing seems to support that.

The overall mechanic is still the same. It works better against small hits but doesn't stop oneshots.

Plus the balancing is not the same in poe 1 and 2. Mobs in poe 1 hit a lot harder, so armour has to be more effective.

The main issue really is that you can stack too much ES compared to life. Once that gets nerfed armour will show its use.

[Fluffy Bunny of Despair]

Originally posted by Drake:

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny of Despair:

Amour is currently up to 2 x weaker than in poe 1

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hln20p/poe_2_armor_formula_testing_and_estimates/

At least current testing seems to support that.

The overall mechanic is still the same. It works better against small hits but doesn't stop oneshots.

Plus the balancing is not the same in poe 1 and 2. Mobs in poe 1 hit a lot harder, so armour has to be more effective.

The main issue really is that you can stack too much ES compared to life. Once that gets nerfed armour will show its use.

I don't think es in a too bad palce.

Grim feast on the other hand is an issue. But 8 - 9 k es if es is all you have still feels VERY squishy in my opinion

[GaviJa]

Originally posted by Drake:

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny of Despair:

Amour is currently up to 2 x weaker than in poe 1

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hln20p/poe_2_armor_formula_testing_and_estimates/

At least current testing seems to support that.

The overall mechanic is still the same. It works better against small hits but doesn't stop oneshots.

Plus the balancing is not the same in poe 1 and 2. Mobs in poe 1 hit a lot harder, so armour has to be more effective.

The main issue really is that you can stack too much ES compared to life. Once that gets nerfed armour will show its use.

Once they nerf ES, they will realize their whole defense system is hot garbage because armor doesn't protect you for ♥♥♥♥ vs big hits and evasion is absolute worthless because of pity hit system.

[TyresTyco]

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny of Despair:

Attributes are really hard to fullfill currently. Specially in SSF it can become quite a nightmare.

Juggling all that and resists as well is ... hard. With runes you can't replace >.<
I did well with armor + block while stacking strength. But i did switch to corrupting blood warcry after my 2nd ascend. Since it was such a safe playstyle compared to the melee playstyle.

But as Warrior that is currently the best you can do. I don't think it will be too easy to weave in evasion / es in ssf

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

You can get the minimum str required by attributes on gear and passive skill tree and the rest for int for example for energy shield.

That said.. with the current tree.. it's really not that great to wander to the ES nodes since you need tons of points to even get there. They will 100% change it at some points and give us waygates in the tree to get to the other side easier but thats in the far future.

You can get the ghostwrithe unique chest. That converts hp to energy shield. That alone will give you a HUGE amount of ES.

He clearly stated he played HCSSF ... how is he supposed to just "get" a unique item? :D
And good luck getting your 650+ strength requirement for giants blood 2 hand weapon stuff while also satisfying int stuff for hybrid armour / es stuff >.<

To be honest.. I actually forgot about the HCSSF thing... because I wouldnt even dare to think about playing that lol xD.

But in this case he could gamble a lil bit with chance orbs and these arent sooooo bad to get.. well at least shards.

Originally posted by Ninefinger:

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

Life recoup btw is utter garbage. It takes 8 seconds until you get the hp back. 8 bloody seconds. Thats useless. Life regen however.. if stacked is okay.

Nothing there helps with oneshots in t15 maps tho.

well I am hoping to test turtle charm with 100% block with as much evasion I can get so I can also take acrobatics if possible so with the combined ability to both block and evade all hits I am hoping I might survive as a noob.

Can work.. still dangerous in HC.. I'm not even sure if 100% block is possible.. there might be a cap. Block and Evasion is decent but it's all a gamble.. thats why people like energy shield so much.

Not a huge fan of acrobatics since getting more than 70% evasion is hard af. And I rather have 93% evasion for attacks and projectiles and dodge roll the rest.