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RE: Path of Exile: I finished Act 1!
You took her down. Nice :)
Act II is probably my favourite. I suggest leave town by the upper/Northern exit and clear out some stuff there before heading into the Western forest by the lower/Southern exit.
You'll get some aura options as quest rewards. I'm trialling Herald of Purity, with my necromancer character at the moment, seems like a really cool option; but you do you.
That's the joy of it :)
You’re giving me too much credit in understanding map orientation.😛 I think I didn’t go the way you suggested. I just ran around until I found an exit. I started with hanging out with Einhar, I like him. Just finished hunting with him and was checking out his beastiary.
My first impression of Act 2 is that all the foliage makes it hard for me to see what I’m doing! The animate weapon is kinda spastic too, but I’ll try that some more before I judge too harshly. As for the aura, I have a healing one I think, not used that yet.
My problem after reviewing my gear and reconfiguring some stuff is the lack of strength and dexterity naturally. So I’m working my way along the skill tree, refunded a point when I noticed I can passively get some dexterity and still work my way to extra zombies. :)
Really need to find some builds to check best path.
Animate Guardian is much better. You make a friend. Armour, shield, helmet; whatever you cast it on gets added to your ghost friend. Great way to recycle stuff that's left on the ground.
Animate weapon isn't great unless you can have some other event trigger it (this happens much later in the game). Its too laborious spamming the cast button, I find.
Animate Guardian?! I get ghost pals and dress them up with gear?! I better go hunt down how I get that. I’m actually looking for all the dexterity and strength points on the tree now that puts me nearer to all the minion skills. I’ve become too reliant on having minions. I also don’t like having to ‘equip’ for dexterity or strength. :( As you said, switching gears makes a mess of everything.
Yes, on the laborious casting. After some experimentation, I’m just not quick enough to use a lot of the abilities. I basically rely on fireball or ethereal knives and then the raising zombies that also gives me the phantom wraith like creatures.
I died again. 😭. I’ve gotten too cocky with the life regeneration, and then got surprised when the syndicate caravan dude got me. Always leaves me with a bad feeling to die.
Anyway, it’s past 4am, I’ve not achieved much in Act 2, but the MIL takes our twins away for 3 days tomorrow, so I will get more gaming time!
Nice. You've probably done more than you realise. I haven't used ethereal knives before. I tend to just make my necromancers defensive and let the summons do the smashing.
I only used the ethereal knives this evening. I had my left mouse button set on the default attack, but I never used it anymore, deferring always to my fireball spell (RMB). Now I actually use the LMB once I switched the knives in.
I wasn’t so hot on the ethereal knives initially, but after seeing Einhar’s spray attack, I thought maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea to use the ethereal knives for the increased spray. When you add the 6 zombies with the knives, it seems to clear an area much quicker.