Good Morning Folks. Yesterday I made the swap over to the Dawnbreaker that I talked about picking up cheaply yesterday and I have to say… it is complete nonsense. Basically I have 100% of all physical damage taken as fire damage, and then that gets reduced by 90% fire resistance. On top of that damage that I take from hits… triggers Defiance of Destiny causing me to recoup 24% of my missing unreserved life before the hit damage is calculated. Then on top of that 20% of my Lightning and Cold damage is taken as Fire… meaning that damage is reduced by my 88% resistance to the base element, then 20% of it is reduced again by my 90% fire resistance. Essentially I feel as tanky as I have ever felt in this game and can pretty much just stand and soak most attacks. Example I took out an Ahuatotli, the Blind at around 180 depth and normally there are two attacks that I would dodge out of… the skeleton thing and the ball of blood and I was able to just stand in both without really taking any damage.
Given that I am gaining a ton of resistance from my permanent flasks… I did the degenerate thing and dropped as much Lightning and Cold resistance from my gear as I could. This means I had to find new rings that only have Fire and Chaos resistance on them. This means I am running around over 450% Fire Resistance which then is getting converted straight into regeneration due to my fire mastery, allowing me to gain back the regen that I lost by swapping shields and dropping my Immortal Flesh. One of the rings was missing a prefix so I attempted a Warlord slam on it, but wound up with nothing special. Basically I am overcapped on all of my resistances to be able to eat an Elemental Weakness and still be perfectly capped, so it is only really minus res and minus regen maps that I have to worry about.
In other more important news… I can stop my constant grind of t14 of better rare maps because as of this morning I hit the 200 map sub-achievement. Now all I need to do is finish my push to level 100 in order to knock out Gear Grinding Goals. As of this morning I think I am 59% of the way through 99 towards 100, and at this point it is all super slow going. I have a tank full of delve juice so I should be able to make a pretty solid dent in that tonight. Mapping is really when the experience gain slows down because I get so much less experience off your average t16 map… and t17s are too rippy to risk taking a death. While I am in delve I can consistently keep up the mob level and gain some decent experience in the process.
This is quite possibly the Righteous Fire variant that I have had the most fun with in awhile. Its initial problem was that it just was not quite as tanky as the Chieftain version. However now that I got 90% fire resistance and got my other elements to 88% all of that tankyness came back. Adding the Mageblood and Defiance of Destiny were honestly overkill, but what else am I going to spend currency on. I admit I am going to be super sad when this character poofs on April 23rd. I assume at that point this character turns into a normal Scion… and Ascendant is not going to have access to the fun toys that Scavenger did. I think more than anything that is what has been pushing me to play quite a bit, because I know that all of this fun is going away sooner rather than later. I wish GGG would simply extend the Legacy of Phrecia event all the way to the launch of 3.26… but they want people to give a shit about their shiny new toy, Path of Exile II.
In other news… Discord continues to be an application that is attempting to gobble up more and more of our attention. They rolled out some shiny new version of the game overlay… and as such force re-enabled it for everyone. This is not the first time they have done this, so fair warning that if you are like me… and disabled that shit ages ago… you are going to have to do it again. This time they want to know WHY you are disabling the overlay… and I gave them what they wanted my truthful reasoning. This might just be Old Man Bel, but I fucking hate when what used to be a simple application… keeps trying to grab more and more of your attention. I use Discord as a chat program. It is a ubiquitous method of communicating between my game playing friends, and also a decent enough way to organize around various topics. I do not want it to be the uber application that consumes all of my time… nor do I want it popping over the top of the games I am playing. I have my phone set to silent for a reason… I hate notifications. Legitimately… kindly fuck off.
Anyways Grumpy Bel over…. I hope you are all having a great day in spite of that admonishment. I am curious to see what GGG announces for Path of Exile II tomorrow, given that it seems like their presentation is going to run two hours.
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