I've been playing Path a fair amount this league, and I have a ton of points left over from back when I was buying supporter packs, so I can equip us with a full set of specialized guild stash tabs (e.g. currency, essence, etc) if there's any interest. Plus, now that they've decided to push next league back to December, we have more time to play this one!
I'm generally online during the US East coast standard workday (though not necessarily available to do more than trade during those hours; sometimes I actually have to work, or at least attend meetings lol), and then again around 10:30 PM Eastern until about midnight to 1.
I mostly run uber lab (the regular one, not the new level 83 one; that one wrecks my poor excessively-movespeed-focused build). Been doing some endless heist lately too (great way to make some petty cash), and working up a minion character (SRS guardian) to hopefully take care of endgame stuff. Got a pretty good amount of in-game currency, so I can help people out some in that arena as well. Only 12/40 challenges done so far; not planning to push for 40 (did that once; never again) but it'd be nice to get up to 38 for the fancy wings, if anyone wants to try and push for that. Would be really cool to get enough people to do some rotas and stuff.
Anyway, if at least a few of you are interested, we'll need to decide on a name for the guild, and arrange for times to meet up in-game, and ideally someone will be up for creating and decorating our guild hideout as well (I can do it myself, but it'll be pretty drab and boring; my hideouts have never been heavily customized).
So to clarify, you're offering to provide a channel on this discord server (for Hexbear users, I take it)? If so I'd appreciate that, thanks! Are there other Path of Exile players on there?
I've not been playing for a little bit, but I've got about 50divs and 30-50divs in unsold stuff (pretty much all bulk stuff, wouldn't take long to sell I think) so I could drop a lot of currency into a guild if people need gearing. Also have a KB MF Champion thats mostly geared out (kinda cheaped out on some mf pieces but I've got a headhunter lol) if people want to try doing absurd MF group play at some point.
I've not bothered with the challenges yet either so that would be something to pursue.
Funny, I just happen to have enchanted a Synthesized +20% item rarity implicit perfect (well, nearly perfect--90% base percentile) dragon's samnite helmet of janus with +75% chance for add'l Kinetic Blast explosion today, actually! Got it listed for 25 divines right now lol
I think you're the second person to express some interest, so I'm leaning towards going for it (we can hopefully get more people over time if we actually get it started). Got any thoughts on the name?
:shrug-outta-hecks: Maybe just something with Hexbear in the name
Yeah I was just going to go with plain "Hexbear"
Might still do that, but I want to see if anyone has a better idea first.
if not a guild then at least a global channel, might i suggest global channel number 1917?
I'm not going to play this league anymore and I probably won't play much next league either, but I have magebloods in standard and points to spend.
Would welcome you nonetheless, comrade! Sounds like you've been quite active in prior leagues; do you foresee that happening again at some point or are you mostly done with the game?
I hope i'm not done with the game, but I don't see them undoing the changes I hated so soon. I'm also starting a new job with a long commute so I can't play as much even if I like the game state.
I have played several dozen hours of PoE over the years. I might be down to play it again and bring somebody else. I don't even know if I have a character.
Should I play with the guild, and if so, how much time would I need to invest in order to meaningfully do stuff with other people? I know it resets all progress in the seasonal mode and then kicks your character to the permanent one, right? Should I wait until the next reset?
So you're right, every so often the challenge league ends and a new one begins, and all the characters and stashes are moved over to the permanent league, Standard. That's apparently going to happen in early December for the current league, so we've got six weeks or so left in the current league. I would generally recommend playing with others, as I find it's easier to play through the game as a group (plus, those of us with more experience have a pretty good idea where to go to complete the quests, which helps a lot). As for how long it takes to meaningfully do stuff, it takes me about 10 hours of game time to get through the storyline to the end-game content (note that this is very slow by most players' standards). From there I'd say it depends a lot on what exactly you want to do and your specific build, but it would definitely be faster and easier with support from others in the form of leveling gear and currency to buy necessary items for build progression, among other things (I can provide labyrinth carry, for instance).
I'm hoping others will jump in here and offer their own perspectives; I think I'm far from the most experienced PoE player on Hexbear.
I would be totally into this but I'm still bummed out by the changes they made to the loot system.
I haven't noticed much difference, honestly. From what Chris was saying in response to that controversy, the changes should only have really affected people who were juicing their maps like crazy, so I suspect it's a bit overblown. Admittedly I don't play too many maps, so I can't say this with total certainty, but it's not like I haven't played any. Lab doesn't seem to have changed at all, and Heist results are in line with what people were saying about it in prior leagues.
I was a juicer I probably spent on average 50-100c per map, I played this league for 3 weeks and I was just pissing money into the wind.
I don't get it, over all these years they built a whole system around making your maps more difficult and thusly more rewarding but then they flushed it? I understand they want to make some changes to make mapping more interesting but I don't understand them nuking a whole playstyle.
I hope maybe they'll find some balance next league, but if they stick to their guns with the loot goblin mechanic I don't think I'll ever come back. :deeper-sadness:
Sorry I also didn't mean to come in here and shit all over your guild idea, PoE is very fun I'm just salty.
Ah, that makes sense. Would be interested to hear more about what kinds of things you were doing to your maps. I never really got into mapping too much, honestly; it's always seemed like a really big chore to me. Sucks that they nuked your whole strategy though.
I do understand, though, and I think they'll probably do some work to fix this. I say this because I quit the game after they did their whole flask rework. They made a series of changes (to flasks, to my beloved Raider ascendancy, to the passive tree, to synthesized belt mods, etc) that just completely wrecked my flask-and-movespeed-centered style, and it was pretty demoralizing. But coming back I've found that they fixed many of the things they broke along the way, and even added some new stuff that makes things even better than they were. My old labrunner build still doesn't really work without legacy items (they killed Molten Strike with that damn jewel change), but I found a new one that does, and it runs about as fast as my old build ever did outside of standard (over 450% increased movespeed), and with similar flask uptime. So they pretty well righted the ship even from my very fringe perspective on issues almost nobody else cares about (though I still miss "reduced flask charges used" belt implicits), and this whole loot thing is a ton more visible and has a lot more players upset, so I have no doubt they're working on it.
In the interim, can I entice you by pointing out that there's plenty of money to be made elsewhere? Heist is good for petty cash at level 60-67, but at endgame levels it's good for a lot more than that!
And the labyrinth is still a great way to make a lot of money, especially if you can keep up with the meta (I can't really--not totally sure how--so every league I kinda grope blindly until I find the big-money helmet bases lol). I think the biggest thing this league is the fact that you can now enchant corrupted items with the divine font if you have a Tainted Blessing, which is a real game-changer when it comes to top-tier enchanting bases. Haven't explored that option fully yet--good corrupted bases are expensive--but I've made some decent money there already.
Also it's totally ok; commenting helps keep this thread "active" and thus more visible, so some conversation is helpful.
PS: It's cool if you don't want to come back--I doubt I would have a year ago--but do please keep replying! Like I said, it helps keep the thread alive lol
I've been playing standard for a couple months now. I'd probably join.
