Endgame Help
I'm sitting at level 80 on my main with a few alts at lower levels. I'm feeling a bit lost. I'm doing maps (Map tab sale when?!) and some of the other activities but I still feel lost overall. Loot management is becoming a nightmare and I need to buy premium tabs soon but that will just open another can of worms with trade. I've started looking at builds but then I lack certain items which makes things even more complicated. I love Diablo 3 but I'm done with it and I really enjoy PoE but every time I come back I get hit by this wall.
Basically I'm asking for some advice or links to videos/guides. I've had a look but it all seems to be out of date. This must get asked daily but between Reddits crap search function and stuff being out of date it's been a struggle.
Edit: I just want to thank everyone here. I was expecting a bunch of replies with "git gud" and maybe one helpful one.
Posted Sep 15, 2020, 10:56 AM UTC · edited
stash tabs sale is usually after a week or so of the new league, keep an eye out for that. Currency tab is the best one, map tab is prob next, then things fragment / div etc are very useful. If you havent done so, the first blood deal is quite good
Loot management is a game in itself, try to not hoard unless you know the items is good. Pricing items to sell is very hard, and it can be very difficult to 'teach' as the situation is always fluid. The best way to learn what is good is to play a popular builds, then you learn what stats those builds want. There are some third party tools for listing items for sale without premuim tabs. Premium tabs are easier (but cost), but picking prices is hard. You can try selling currency/fragment stuff thats much easier to price, as well as some unique items- https://poe.ninja/ is your friend here. This, along with currency you pick up should let you buy some good items from the trade site. Rare items are harder to price, but you will learn that by buying them. I recommend that you buy some good, cheap items (eg. life+resist rings etc) to give a good base to your build when you hit maps. At 80, your gems will be low level, and your gear is most likely terrible - there is a large amount of power to be gained from both as you play.
In terms of up-to-date resources, Zizaran is currently putting out 'PoE University' content https://www.youtube.com/c/Zizaran, which generally addresses all the issues that block newer players progressing. Enki-witch is the go-to forum guide https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1147951, as it goes through the fine details for new players. When looking at guides, keep an eye out for highly detailed levelling sections, as well as detailed guides about what items/stats are important, and how to progress gear, and in which order the priority of gear upgrades are. Look for builds that don't requie specific items to work, or high power items. Cheap uniques are OK, anything that costs 1c or less is going to be very easy to find/trade for. Also lots of streamers do good content for all levels of play, just watching someone like mathil play and develop a build as he goes will teach you a lot about the process. Zizarans 'play with me' are also ideal to get you effectively to maps.
link you profile and make it public, we can then see what obvious mistakes you have made that will instantly make the game way easier to play (i.e. gear and tree).
This is a big issue just now. I have only four basic tabs and they are pretty much maxed. I have currency, cards and essence tabs. I was actually a kickstarter or whatever it was called supporter way back in the day so I had some points to spend.
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Hellfire0
Edit: I'm watching his How to know when your items are good video are it's a struggle. Half the time he may as well be speaking a different language.
Looking at your gear, dump every item in the stash - its trash! Don't collect gems, rares in general need lots of resist+life, but at your level and later in the league no rare you find will be worth keeping (since you are not using it)
OK, its pretty clear why you are struggling here - but there is way too much stuff to cover so I will stick to some [really important] basics to start. I can see how many deaths you have, since you haven't hit 80 yet but have Lvl19 gems - you have played alot, but constantly dieing to all content is holding back your progression (and I assume enjoyment) [gems don't lose xp when you die, or suffer xp penelties based on level differences]
Ever item you have is bad for your setup. You 100% NEED to have 75% resistances capped for fire/cold/lightning (chaos is nice but lower priority). You will get chilled instantly by any cold damage, which is getting you killed way to much. Get as many gear pieces with resists and life as possible. 1.4k life + 1.2k ES with bugger all MoM mana is pretty low. https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Victario's_Charity is a good unique shield to use, and cheap. Life+resist helemt (+minion gems later, maybe pushing to something with supproted by minion life+damage when you have enough to afford it) and maybe life+resists+movespeed boots would be better, life+resist gloves. Only 2 gear slots have life on them, you want 60+ in each slot as a minimum (unless its a unique you need). Baron is bad until you stack strength to 1000 - and you should have a 4link (use jewelers/fusings it cheap on 4 links) minion setup in yout hat as it has +2 socketed minion gems - all your damage somes from gem levels + links.
Speaking of links, you have 2 4-links - neither of which contain you damage setups (zombies or skellies), those should be 4-linked by before the end of act 4. If you want to know what are the best links, checkout any summoner build. This one is OK, but not so beginner friendly https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2642810. You are a minion build, you don't cast spells youself, you have stuff to do the killing for you. Contageon and fireball are not of use. Let zombies follow you around (use a convokation gem to bring minions to you), then cast skellies to kill tougher enemies. Pride is a good aura to use, since you minions do melee physical damage. Basic skill gems to use: zombie - melee phys - minion dmg - multistrike: skellies - melee phys - minion dmg - feeding frenzy (this can be on either minion to get the buff, or the golum if he stays alive - then use maim instead): flame dash / dash with second winf for movement (or use shield charge + faster attacks + fortify): convokation: golom+minion life+meat shieldorfeeding frenzy: Pride aura or skitter bots, then use either dread or war banner both work, don't need to plant them, just leave them reserved. Purity of elements is OK to get more resists allround, but not needed with better gear and you may need to take the reduced mana reserved nodes to fit it in.
Flasks. Have a granite and jade flask, get curse +freeze immunity on them, cast them on cooldown - along with a quicksilver and roll movement speed on it (you will move around much more quickly). Go blood aquaduct (start of act9), get a divine life flask and roll it to have bleed immunity, with an instant prefix (bubbling or seething). This will instantly apply the life regen - damage comes quick, so you need quick healing. Last flask can be quartz or basalt (defensive), but you might find it hard to keep 4 flasks to often, but 3 is not too bad - especially as you don't need to be attacking due to using minions.
Now, the tree. You have made the most common new player mistake of picking most point near the start. You are trying to scale multiple damage types and scale both ES, life and use mind over matter (not a good idea for new players). Focus on life only. Focus on minion damage only, not spell damage. Nodes near the start are generally not very good 'value', you should only ever take one path away from the start - here you take the minion nodes, spell nodes, plus the [bad] ES nodes. You have full loops of skill points (almost always bad), which you should avoid where possible. Damage buffs to you generally don't count for your minions, the golom nodes for example are not useful. Minion instability is something you build around - its not really doing anything useful for you here. Remove Mind over matter, minion instability and all ES/mana nodes. Get all life you are near. The jewel socket you get is more expensive than others (eg straight above lord of the dead) and the jewel is a waaste of the points to get it. Something like below will triple you life on the trash gear, pushing to about 4500 life with 60 life on each peice of gear. https://poeplanner.com/ABUAANkAFTMAAGnfiukCJbJihp69bRkI9GpDvOpr20yzBAeD21XGOlgtH5UgwfMkmq1IGh1yxSycES18g4t2Vi466R4I6-6nCI9Gvkke2otlm6HMvE25hWCqxJrgRZ1TUjLRRUfAZgSzogDwH4hAKpimrKqpkDMdFPrSFm_jamaeoOZncUqfYvRxsjrGcg9Z8xo4kFUnLySqNulo8q9sC2HT-1qRqH1qrOyKxq48LYPMtz7-Cti9NZL-j03jplc64fJFg1_E9q-nHM4rUA3N_lTsg9OPR4X-gdleOQsAAAAAAA==
Jewels are very powerful, look into that when you get the hang of the other gearing stuff. There are plenty of other things to look at (eg. offering, desecrate, curse in a trigger wand), impale, cluster jewels, strength stacking for baron, elemental conversion and elemental overload, block/glancing blows, raise spectres/animate guardian buffing minions, 6 link chest + elder minion helmet. These will push your survivability and damage by orders of magnitude, but don't worry about it until you are comfortable with the other things listed.
Try a bit of this out in standard this week, see how much it helps. Find a really good guide (eg enki witch) to follow in heist, try to understand what items to use and which gems setups are important. You will progress much more easily simply by imporving a few areas of your build, and the game will be much less frustrating to play!
Thanks for the advice. It's a lot to take in to be honest but it's appreciated. I honestly don't know if it's encouraged me or made me feel worse!
its fine, every new play does the same things as you (usually much worse in fact).
Main things to takaway - cap resists, get life+resists on gear (as much as you can) - life + damage on the tree, only scale one type and use 1 or 2 well linked damage skills that scale the same damage (e.g here minions). You can follow a guide for the rough tree and gems links to use, and as long as it doesn't need specific mechanics/uniques to work, you can fill out the rest and you will be fine (at least upto red maps if you get a 5/6 link).
Use some regrets on the tree, maybe buy a couple of life+resist gear pieces and sort out you gem links and you will see what a difference it will make. The rest is just refining on that solid base.
Damn son, that kiwi badge.
I buy probably ~6 new tabs each league because of my growing hoarding issues 🙃. Take his advice.
I guess that's a pretty rare things to have these days!