I noticed you still don't have any defensive skill gem setup.
Cast When Damage Taken + Immortal Call + Increased Duration is almost mandatory.
As the name implies, it makes you immune to damage for about 1 second upon receiving X-amount of damage.
You can level the gem to increase that X-amount, I think level 11~12 is good which is around 1500 damage.
The reason why you don't want it to trigger too often is because of the 3 seconds cooldown, so you want to save it for BIG hit.

This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Mar 6 2018, 07:45 AM

yaya, i saw all pro have this, last time you have mentioned this as well and i still new that time, not really understand what that mean, thought CWDT is 4 gem combination

make sense to have this i notice couple of time i dying because get stun. i will setup this tonight.

Well you can link as much as you can. In fact you can have as many CWDT as you want
For example I currently running 2 CWDT:
CWDT + Immortal Call + Inc Duration + Cold Snap (to freeze enemy)
CWDT + Ice Nova + **Curse on Hit + **Enfeeble (weaken enemy)
(** must be higher gem level than CWDT to function)

You can try other defensive stuff as well, eg: Blind***, Molten Shell, Phase Run, Frost Wall, Temporal Chain****, or whatever other funny not-so-useful spells
(*** must be paired with a spell ****must be paired with Curse on Hit)
Instead of wasting socket & links with useless gems, it is best to spent them for these extra defensive. I'm sure you aware that losing 10% exp on death at your level is really sucks.

This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Mar 6 2018, 07:29 PM

T1 accu, T1 atk speed, T3 physical % // 1st exalt orb earned Not including 7 exalt worth of other loots and trades
Well, I've been enjoying this league (not because of the league mechanic).
This first few days has been infinitely more lucky than previous few leagues...



This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Mar 6 2018, 10:56 PM

i really dont know to read those whether Tier 1......3..... i picked many item rare then just sold to vendor then i started to check item i wanna scrap at poe trading area, if sell for fusing or below, i scrap all.

but some item i no see ppl selling, not sure is too lousy or too good.

if i want to corrupt item, should corr on white item, orange item, or yellow item? if corr on white 6 socket item, will it turn to rare item?




Attached thumbnail(s)

- if you turn on "Advanced Mod Descriptions" in Option > UI, holding ALT while hovering on item will tell you the tier.
But I'm not sure if they are fully correct right now, as previously when it was introduced there was a bit of issue showing wrong tier number.

- use TradeMacro to check or predict item price, see an item with suspiciously high number? Hover on that item and press CTRL+D
https://github.com/PoE-TradeMacro/POE-TradeMacro

- normally we corrupt an item that is already very good, in hoping to make it even better. We don't do it for everything, but specific few items. Don't get obsess with it, REALLY.
Most common, quiver, some useful unique accessories, 6-linked armor hope for +1 gem level..
The most common usage is level 20 quality 20 gem, where you hope it get lv21+ or quality 21+. That 1 or 2 levels extra provide shit tons of dps boost.
Also corrupt red map to finish the bonus objective, as well as corrupt map to finish "complete map with 8 mods" challenge.
I tried to corrupt half a dozen of Tabula Rasa last week, all fail. Either get nothing, get shit, or turn into shit rare item. The only aim for armor is to get +1 gem level corruption.

Properly setup loot filter can helps to reduce time wasted in identifying bad rare items, the following code is consolidated from several popular loot filters:


This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Mar 7 2018, 12:33 AM

i tried install AHK, change game window to windowed. then run the macro file, then window do not know to open it, i browse it to AHK64, then pop error. then after close that error somehow the macro is initial and runnning, i change it to standard league, and check few items, seem all very cheap. i reconfirm price check on quiver i buy for 20chaos, it show for 1 chaos or below so right now not sure how true it is?

about corrupt, i got 1 quiver with 99 life yellow item, think to corrupt it, i corrupt other yellow item seem no change by just added 'corrupt' word lol... as u say before, if chest with 6L, if corrupted, it will be hard to change the socket colors, is this correct? mean corrupt quiver/jewelly/gem much more safe bcos no have socket (change color).

yesterday night i only able to setup 1 defensive spell with cold snap, other one ice nova not able setup bcos the glove you given to me, cant turn into 3 red 1 blue after that too confident and straight dying 5x. i stay at level 88 way too long

TradeMacro not always correct though, I got some trash item predicted several exalts... But it's better than nothing. +1 arrow 20 chaos is correct.
It also include other handy shortcut like CTRL+mouse scroll to navigate stash tabs, if you have a lot of tabs, is very nice function.

>if chest with 6L, if corrupted, it will be hard to change the socket colors, is this correct? mean corrupt quiver/jewelly/gem much more safe bcos no have socket (change color).
Correct. Non-socket item is easy to corrupt with no need of concern about sockets.

Your dps should be good enough to clear contents isn't it? Consider remove Herald, and use Blasphemy + Enfeeble to weaken enemy instead.
That curse weaken enemy reduced accuracy, reduced damage, reduced critical is very good for defense.

This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Mar 7 2018, 09:20 AM

Stupid me put Ice Nova / Cold Snap on my CWDT setup, when I can't even deal damage myself due to "Ancestral Bond" totem passive.

Gotta deal minimum 3% of enemy hp damage to actually freeze them.

anyone have potato PC while playing PoE?

i have i7-4th gen GT755m and yet i get < 10fps in maps during fights
Graphics all set to lowest
DirectX 9
v-sync off
multi threading disabled

using HDD tho.

i have no problem weeks before Abyss end. just when Abyss league ending, the performance getting bad to me.

i am using i3, gtx 550 ti and its still fine.

Just guessing, did the driver accidentally switched to integrated intel GPU?

Well, your's is Desktop GPU, mine is Laptop. so it is fairly weaker. begin to suspect HDD is dying soon. 4 years laptop

Don't think so. PoE option there still shows my GPU detected.

Download the tool CrystalDiskInfo, it will show you the health status.
If it says good then it's fine.
http://crystalmark.info/en/download/

thanks. will try when i got back home.

not sure if these macro and resized window to borderless lead to game crash on startup loading xxxxxx\dxd11\xxxx line 308 error; it still can play and just happened suddenly yesterday night, constantly unable go to menu. luckily i did system restore back to 3 March and fixed this shit

i wonder how people able to get 6L chest or weapon i watched a video yesterday night, that guy spent >1500 jewelry and few hundreds of fusing (he spent 200-300 chaos to trade for fuses) and also few hundred of chromatic orb (depend on luck) only managed to move chest from 3 socket to 6 socket with desire color and link them all i remembered you mentioned item level 50 above can have 6 sockets, meaning i can buy cheap Death opus (eg: 5-10 chaos) then upgrade it thru this method with ton of jewelry, fuse and chromatic orb if not must farm Exalt to buy them and this event not possible.

my dps now 40k based with hatred on (but lower resis 30-70%); if high resis (70-50-75%) sacrifice belt and dps reduce much. can clear level 6x-7x creep, some corrupted creep need 2-3 hits. but at level 80 in party and above is totally different story, creep is hard to die; i fight level 6x-7x boss still dying, last dying fighting boss did arrow rain fall (75% life) + stun then hit = dying

now using enfeeble (replaced my assasin mark) + curse on hit + hatred + green gem (cant remember); bcos i unable to make 3 blue color to add blasphemy

This post has been edited by jimlim007: Mar 8 2018, 01:23 PM

Had been having some DX11 error since previous league. Unlikely TradeMacro's fault. Maybe just have something to do with borderless window. No way I gonna play the game in actual fullscreen anyway because constant needs of accessing the web, wiki, trade site etc.

6-linking is mere luck if you want to gamble for it. There's something called "PRECISION CLICKING" where you click on where you want the link to appear. I really dunno if that is a joke or real deal...
1500 fusing is quite a lot tbh. No way it only costs 200~300 chaos, it's over 800 chaos on Standard as of now. That's 7~8 exalt, no different than actually buying an already 6-link item.
You really think you can cheese the economy?

At mapping, we don't measure things by "level" anymore. It just mentioned as map tier. Once you do the map boss one time to complete the bonus objective, they are pretty much optional afterward. Don't risk it when you don't need to. ALWAYS PLAY IT SAFE, fall back if you have to, run away if you have to, ALT+F4 if you have to, don't do contents or map mods you cannot handle...

This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Mar 8 2018, 03:59 PM

hahahaha so poor, must think something to get 6L bow

this is what i saw previously




Attached thumbnail(s)

If I were you I'd fix the other items first before thinking about GG weapon.
Current dps: 62k buffed. Improvements in other items as follow, DOUBLE your dps.
It really won't took over 1 hour if you have the currency to purchase all those items.
It is insanely vital you have a diamond flask when playing cold-crit build, it allows you to freeze almost everything, frozen enemy = safer situation for you.
Suggest replace "added cold damage" gem with "Cold Penetration" instead, will works much better on boss.


This post has been edited by digitalifelesss: Mar 8 2018, 10:55 PM

someone said that as well in their built, but remove added cold dmg support dps dropped to 22k (from 36k) may be before enter arena swap gem lol

btw, where i can know the market trend for 1 chaos to jewelry, etc items? i just sold 180 jewelry for 20 chaos, not sure fair or rugi

This post has been edited by jimlim007: Mar 8 2018, 11:46 PM