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itspabo

[Discussion]A Question to All Support players: Why do you do it?

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So I'm still relatively new to PoE (first league) so please enlighten me on what it is that draws you to such a unique play style to a game like PoE?

  • How does it even work being a support in PoE?
  • Do you just pair up with a friend and literally pool your currency?
  • Who takes priority on upgrades?
  • Do you actually enjoy playing support? and if so why?
  • What do you get out of playing support?

I'm genuinely interested to see what kind of responses people have. I keep hearing streamers say how "Playing in Duos is the most profitable thing you can do", yet 90% of streamers prefer to solo content and it confuses me to no end.

Posted Apr 6, 2017, 7:18 AM UTC · edited

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LucarioMagicHi I'm Bob•

You become some aura giver that gives them either a huge amount of DPS or ES, this is done by being either a necromancer or guardian.

You join public scum parties on perm allocation, since each player = an iiq/iir buff.

To each his own. Necromancers don't take much funding anyway.

Most supports have a way of soloing content, doing nothing and running around picking loot while other people kill stuff is fine though.

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callout-thepost•

Necromancers don't take much funding anyway.

Well i guess shavs, presence of chayula, 2 energy from withins, and optional united in dream are not considered "much funding" compared to builds with skyforth and headhunter

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NabelnoobAssassin•

You dont need shavs, just get vinctario and the flask that prevents chaos dmg from bypassing ES.

Pressence of chayula is not needed at all

United in dreams is nice to have but you can do without it

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callout-thepost•

oh i actually have some bhc lvl100 support setup saved in path of building who used victarios, yea thats an option

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NabelnoobAssassin•

Not everyone plays HC

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LucarioMagicHi I'm Bob•

There's always the life option. 'Life is technically better than es' kappa.

Anyways, let me correct your words, optional shavs, optional presence of chayula, optional energy from within's and optional united in dream.

It's not like I said auramancer.

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callout-thepost•

What the? I thought we were discussing SUPPORTS, not ci srs whatever

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LucarioMagicHi I'm Bob•

As long as they have Commander of Darkness or Radiant Faith, they are supports.

They are support-type ascendencies after all

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NabelnoobAssassin•

Get as many auras, curses, vaal auras possible with inc effect

Ask/Wait in global 820, add people to friendlist

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Yes, when people tell you you they deal 5 times more dmg you feel useful and without lifeleach you can still have fun evading skillshots while never leaving your allies side

Currency, free breach/guardian kills for archievements, ideas for your next build

The only thing that annoys me is searching for a teammate. In global you can get noobs and whispering people on friendlist is annoying after 5 tries. Most of the time i play other builds and if someone asks for a support i whisper them.

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itspaboOP•

do you have set team mates you group up with mostly? or is it more of a "if they ask i'll jump on" type of scenario? Also why did you make a support to start with? like what was your draw to do it?

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NabelnoobAssassin•

I wanted to play SrS with new Vinctario this league, after 1 week i got bored and corrupted Vinkatrio (cause why not?) and got +1 so i said fuck it and went full support. (I had a shitton of fun deciding on gear/aura setup when i played with this tool

I found 3 guys on global 820 with op gear (headhunter/scyforge etc) when i/they looked for dps/support and added them. When im bored or see they update their statutus to "LF Sup" i write them.

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itspaboOP•

how was the loot distribution set-up like? Was this your first time playing support in poe? and was it more than what you expected in terms of fun/progression?

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NabelnoobAssassin•

Perm allok or share at 10c/1ex and above

Yes

Had no expectations, it was fun most of the time but there was no real feeling of progression

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gazpad•

I played a support char last league in hc because i thought its the easiest way for me to actually reach lvl 90 there. It was actually the first time i made it to 90 :-) What you get from it is usually a full friendslist as people dont want to map without support after they learned the difference with and without. Leveling can be challenging if you start with no currency... After i hit maps i got like 10 whispers immediatly after logging in from people that wanted me to run high level maps with them. Leveling 70-90 was fast and safe but kind of boring if you like to kill stuff yourself from time to time.

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itspaboOP•

did you have set guildies or friends that you played with? or did you shout on global to find parties?

In end game content do you actually just walk around and stay in proximity to other players and your job is done?

Also what was the setup like in terms of who gets drop priorities and such when you're in a group with strangers?

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Allu__Atziri•

To play with a friend

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