just dl'd it.

any suggestions? I'm thinking about just doing a ranger build like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWo-dvWYV5I#t=07m42s

but if there are more fun or zergy/sploity builds people know I'd love to hear it

I hit level 7 last night with a buddy, he went necro I went ranged. Super fun so far. I don't love the isometric, and it's hard to leave the truly 3D movement of DDO combat behind, but since they wont make DDO fun anymore I don't have any real choice.

harharharhar wrote on Aug 9^th, 2017 at 11:22am:

Ooh, another protip, keep a second set of trash three-link weapons in your secondary weapon set, and fill them with gems you're using, as they will level up as well. 

A level 20 gem + one Gemcutter's Prism = lvl 1 20% quality gem, which is much cheaper than using 20 Prisms, especially at the beginning, and then you have a second gem to use while you re-level the now 20% quality one.  Also good for having backups for your main skiss when you want to try to Vaal Orb the skill gems for the chance at +1 level or up to 23% quality.

Once you level up Haku, he sells weapons that add + to socketed quality, which is great for levelling the three support gems that gain +xp/quality, Enhance, Enlighten, and Empower, which take forever to level normally and do absolutely nothing at first level.

harharharhar wrote on Aug 9^th, 2017 at 6:26pm:

Highly, but you math guys will love the details and customization.

harharharhar wrote on Aug 9^th, 2017 at 7:27pm:

Quick guide on getting started:

Pick up:

-Superior items: Quality that adds up to 40+% for the same item will give you an orb of the respective type at a vendor; Armourer's Scrap for Armour, Blacksmith's Whetstone for Weapons, Glassblower's Bauble for flasks, Gemcutter's Prism for skill gems, Cartographer's Chisel for maps.  You can start to skip the weapons and armour after you have a hundred or so of each orb, but Prisms and Chisels are quite valuable right into the endgame.

-Red/Green/Blue sockets, linked on one item will give you a Chromatic Orb.  You will likely need tons of these.

-Six sockets will give you seven Jeweller's Orbs.  Six LINKED sockets will give you a Divine Orb, but you're sometimes better off selling the base item to a crafter.  Items can drop with six sockets at item level 50.  Five-link stuff is worth picking up too, but hold on to it to sell or use.  Only body armour, bows and most two-hand weapons can have five or six links.

Tips:

For building, pretty much everything stacks.  Abuse it.  They WANT you to come up with new and interesting ways to kill shit as quickly as possible.

Identify every magic item you're selling.  Alteration shards are higher up the chain than Transmutation shards.  The only time you shouldn't is early on in the game, as you should just sell the Transmutation shards and orbs for scrolls.  I generally stop picking up anything but rares and uniques (unless they are the base I want) after a certain time, when I start getting enough scrolls dropping that I don't need to sell orbs to keep up anymore.

Vendors and Masters can sometimes sell items with Quality and valuable socket combos for the same price they would sell the normal item, and you can sell it right back to them for the actual value.  You can hold ALT to see the sockets of everything on the page, but you have to mouseover the items to see if they have quality.

Vendors change their stock as you progress through the story, but Masters only change their stock after they level up, or after you do their Daily Mission once you have a hideout. 

Get a hideout asap (need a lvl three master) and invite the two that jive best with your build.  You can eventually have all the masters once you have one at level 7, and they level up much more quickly doing daily missions than they do just finding them in the wild.  Masters sell skill gems with quality, and very rarely sell the drop-only gems.  Once you max them out they also have a 25% chance of selling a random unique after every daily mission.  It is possible to get some decent high-end items this way.  Hideouts and master XP are shared across characters in the same league.  Daily missions reset at 8pm Eastern time, no matter what time you last completed them.

I HIGHLY recommend buying a few points, and getting AT LEAST the Currency Stash Tab and a couple of extra regular tabs.  Tabs go on sale every month or so.  Premium tabs can be used with third-party apps for trading (this is not something I've looked into much.) The Divination Card and Essence tabs are handy, too, but not so much until later on.  You will probably need extra tabs more than extra character slots (you get 24 char slots to start, I think) although there don't seem to be any restrictions on multiple accounts to use as mules.

Hope this helped!

Addendum:

The game, at certain points, seems to be balanced around you having a "GTFO" skill, aka a Movement skill.  Leap Slam, Whirling Blades, Blink Arrow, Lightning Warp, whatever.  Find one that synergizes and learn how it works.  Add faster attack/faster cast.

Find a Vaal skill that works well with your build and save it for "OH FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU-" moments.  I can't tell you how many times Vaal Detonate Dead has saved my ass.

Vorici's crafting bench (once you get him in your hideout) is probably the most useful, even if you don't intend to do any serious crafting, as it lets you spend Fusing and Chromatic orbs to get a guaranteed result.  It costs more than you might spend in most cases, but it beats the hell out of spending half an hour clicking orbs.  Great for getting socket colours that are rare on a particular item (red on an Evasion piece, for instance.)

harharharhar wrote on Aug 10^th, 2017 at 11:16pm:

once in your hideout click on them and there will be a daily mission that you can select.

...aaaaand the Tabs are on sale right now (for the weekend, I think.)

http://www.pathofexile.com/shop/category/daily-deals

Try their CS.

Say you didn't know they ever went on sale.

Might get a refund, might get told to go screw, worth a short, anyway.  Let them know you're new.

Fuck evasion/dodge builds.  Fuck 'em right in their blistered anus.

Flicker strike, though... holy fuck, what a good time.  Akin to having the invincibility star in Super Mario Bros.

I just hit 25 on my first toon, jsut a straight up dex/evasion ranger. Really fun and feels totally OP at this point, tho I know it's early in the game.

I got lucky with some stuff running a 4 slot red-green-green-green rare bow with puncture, lesser projectiles, pierce and bleed support in red. It's absolute beast. Lightning arrow with lesser projectiles and pierce extra targets is also insane all the trash just dies and it hits like 20 mobs at a time.

As of Act 3 I am starting notice more incoming damage from stuff so I'll have to start figuring that out. I hate the build forums for POE tho they are such a mes and the color scheme is garbage

one thing I want to know is when I should consider trying sell/trade a rare item I pull instead of just vendoring it.

Any sort of abbreviated list anyone has?