Hi, new guy here - fricking loving it! Have done shield bash build and shield throw - bash weirdly you dont get any added crit from items (yes I know it’s off hand) but with throw you do - I believe they should both have it. I also think the damage scaling on throw is pretty hard to ramp up to get high corrupts with block being a major contributor. Maybe you could give them both +block chance +block effectiveness as a scaling factor, even nicer still +phys dmg on items would also be nice. I saw some old videos way before pre 1.0 where it was used and got very high corrupt level but now not so much?
Anyways keep it up, I left poe2 for this and love it so few of those tweaks I’ll never leave haha!
Cos today I was on my 52 pally and put on that helm from lightless arbor and my crit stayed at 5% but when I put it on my shield throw dude it went up by 28% or whatever 281% is. I guess im still too new to see the end game scaling - haven’t seen any high corruption vids recently in my google searches the highest i saw was a 0.9 where a guy went to about 1000
As Psojed said, both flat & % increased crit chance affects Shield Bash. Shield Bash is probably easier since it’s melee rather than throwing.
As shield bash is melee it will scale with flat melee damage (ie, your weapon). Shield Throw is a bit harder since its a throwing skill but has a much higher added damage effectiveness % to compensate plus there are a few affixes that add flat throwing damage.
Sentinel is getting a heavy rework with the upcoming Season 2. We can expect a lot of changes and buffs, especially to Pally and VK. FG will even get the ability to wield a 2h+shield.
Yeah I saw the 2H + shield thing earlier, looks wicked hope it doesn’t kill all 1 handers tho like in Poe2 lol! I probably shoulda just waited to post this but glad I did or Id never have noticed that little fricking rune! lmao
Mind you, there’s very little reason to go to 1000 corruption. Despite what some players would like to tell you
The soft cap is currently at 600 corruption, going higher has diminishing returns and the benefits are minimal. Probably only worth it if you wanna challenge yourself.
ActionRPG has a recent shield bash video that can go to 600c, and there’s always room for improvement in his builds.
Ahh ok yeah sorry maybe I got carried away with people yacking + showcases! I like that dude in the video you linked, I’ve watched like 6 or 7 different ones so no idea why the eff this one hasn’t shown up for me. Thanks I’ll check it out tomorrow after I run this other build thru! I love how people are friendly here and don’t all just post “Skill issue” “Git gud” <3
In PoE2 you simply have higher stat requirements to wield 2H weapons. However, they made it so that stat stacking is too good not to use, so there is no point in skipping 2H over 1H.
In LE there are no stat requirements for gear (some gear is class locked, though) and what they do is give you a penalty.
For dual wield you take 9% more damage (not all classes can dual wield and not every weapon can be dual wielded), to use a 2H+shield (exclusive to FG) you will do 20% less damage and have 10% less attack speed, so it should balance somewhat so both options are valid in different builds. And they’ll be watching the data to tweak it if necessary.
Yeah, Aaron’s builds are usually good for beginners because he doesn’t use high-end items like Ravenous Voids or Red Rings.
Maxroll’s builds are also good for beginners, imo, because they do a good job of explaining stuff and have a good progression, even if they tend to be not so optimized for endgame as lastepochtools.com builds.
People will usually give you good advice over here. That’s not to say that some people won’t answer that on some things, but for the most part you can post your build issues here and people will give you good tips on it.
And if you don’t want build spoilers (for example, you want to figure things out on your own and don’t want guides), people will even just give you pointers on what to improve, rather than simply tell you what you should change.
Hahah love it! Yeah I was just running builds to get used to the game quicker as I know the new content/league starts soon otherwise I would have tried harder to learn. I think so far since I’ve only played sent and some ritualist I’ve got an ok handle and an idea of what I want to do on the 17th. Hope the rework doesn’t throw a spanner in that too much!
The rework will likely change a lot and your Sentinels will require redoing when it launches. We’re expecting lots of passive changes, as well as skill tree changes. Volatile Reversal is being completely redone (it used to be a mandatory skill for any Sentinel).
As for gameplay, most of the impactful changes will be in deep endgame, so that shouldn’t change your experience much for now.
I’d say there’s no need to worry about high corruption or about the new season. You can simply continue playing your current character and see how far you get.
When the new season starts, you’ll get a passive tree reset so you’ll simply put the points back in. I’m pretty sure the skills will still work the same way as they work today.
I haven’t touched that volatile skill due to hearing it was changing. Oh so theres no seperation of current characters to a ‘standard’ and then you make new? You can just carry on?
There is a separation between standard (called legacy in LE) and season. But for now EHG is adding core content, meaning that all the new stuff gets added to both of them at the same time. For now, there’s no season exclusive stuff, so you won’t miss out on anything by staying in legacy. At most, some of the pinnacle content like uber Abby will not be available in legacy until it’s been killed in season or a week has passed, like they did in 1.1.
So the only real reason you have for playing a seasonal character, for now, is if you like the fresh start and fresh economy (or you want to compete on the leaderboards). Everything is available in all modes, including true offline (LE has 2 offline modes, one where you connect to the servers and even have chat, and one where you don’t connect to the servers at all).
Ahhh gotcha! I do like the fresh start and being on par level / end game for parties and stuff so I’ll probably do that since working from home being my own boss means I can put in some good hours lol
