Path of Exile, the actual Diablo III

[Lennu]

In the bloodlines league, I've played 3 characters to lvls 70+. 2 of them are still alive, my "main" character just reached lvl 81. And finally I got my first good drop, drillneck. I'll hopefully be able to sell it for about 4 exalts.


Edit: RIP'd that lvl 81 char  (melee, using static strike)
I was doing a lvl 70 map, with pretty easy mods. Then I ran into that rogue exile that summons zombies, managed to crit and kill all the zombies at once = they blew up on my face and killed me instantly. Silly death now that I think. I could have just switched my static strike into a glacial hammer so I wouldn't kill the zombies and just single target focus down the exile while using enduring cry on the zombies to keep up my immortal call.

I still have my drillneck, so now I just need a figure out a new build. 

[Lennu]

New 1 month leagues start march 24th.  If I understood correctly, the patch that comes with those leagues will give some "quality of life" improvements, like player names on the minimap and stuff.  When the 1 month leagues end, I believe they'll launch another big patch with act 4.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1218688

[BlindGuy]

I got a new rig, ran POE, its a new game.

[Radament]

I got a new rig, ran POE, its a new game.

rig specs plz. i switched to win 64 and added 4 more gb of ram in order to run poe decently but it freezes randomly again.
Don't know if it's an isp issue or not , probably it is but the fact is i can't play hc anymore

[Patoson]

I have a decent rig as well and PoE freezes sometimes, especially when I open a strongbox and lots of enemies appear at the same time (also with visual effects), lasting 1-2 seconds, and, when I alt tab and go back into the game, fps drop a lot sometimes until I zone (like opening a portal and going to town and back; that fixes it).

That plus the desync make me not play HC either. I already lost a few HC characters due to desync.

The game is just not very optimised. I was reading about D3 vs PoE yesterday, and many people claimed that D3 has a solid engine but poor content, and PoE the other way around.

[POOPHAMMER]

PoE is pretty poorly optimized, you will need one decent rig to run it proper. I am gonna be buying a new videocard soon just so I can run path nicely

Peep my latest char, low life Kinetic Blast. It is incredible, I melt everything.

www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1217341

[Bjarky]

Yeah, if u want a nice performance improvement for PoE, get an decent SSD.
It will rid u of the long startup/load times and alot of lag spikes, the game engine is loading tons of data at certain points ingame, where most harddrives or rigs cant keep up fast enough (you'll notice it alot on fx opening strongboxes).
Also most SSD's dont cost much and they are great for anything else power hungry as well.

[BlindGuy]

Yeah as Bjarky wrote an ssd is huge help. also, run a decoy totem or some other junk in a single slot if you aint got minions nor totems, put them near the box, use a transport spell then open box, get pulled away safely. Just have your emergency exits labeled clearly

[SeQuel]

Use to play this game when it first came out but it took a lot of dedication and I could never afford any builds that I actually wanted to play (that looked fun) so I quit. Very good game though.

[Gurnisson]

Me, Lezard, Kenda and Saxon might start up again, with the new league and act coming soon.

[Patoson]

Bjarky, here are my specs:

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i5 3570-K @ 4GHz
16Gb DDR3 @1600 CL7
2x AMD 270x on Crossfire
Crucial M500 240GB SSD SATA3
BenQ XL2411Z @ 120Hz
Windows 8.1 x64

Framerate still drops often and I get freezes that last up to 2 seconds sometimes, and it wasn't any better when I owned a GTX570 and used Windows 7 x64. The game will give you stuttering and freezes no matter what your rig is, I guess.

Still, the game is lots of fun.

[Bjarky]

wow, i have a potato and mine runs mostly smooth

[Lennu]

I'll be making a Animate Weapon build on the new 1month hard core league. Early game is probably really slow with that build, so if you're strating in that league as well lets party up so you can carry me!

Ooke, made a quick test build on that char. Brutus died easily when I just brought some weapons with me: he got swarmed and died almost instantly

[Patoson]

Bjarky, silly me, I had graphics on max except for AA. I decided to leave them at minimum, except for shadows at low quality, and now it's much smoother. Still, I get freezes every now and then. And, when there are too many corpses (+extra gore) and items with Z enabled, damn!

[Senni__Ti]

Decided to try this out with a bud, f2p so why the hell not.

Really liking it, I made a templar and spam lightning tendrals, it seems to be going quite well, but I do struggle on bosses.
Though since my friend plays a ranger, we tend to make it through most stuff.
(We're both lvl 27)

Not noticing the stuttering or freezes, though the fps does drop at times (never below 30/40, so I've never really noticed it).
I do have a pretty high end rig though, which probably explains it (my friend has a similar build and hasn't mentioned anything).

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4770k 4GHz
16gb RAM
SLI 780s
Res set to 4k