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A few ways to scale damage: There isn't much damage nearby on the tree till you start getting up by Templar -- Once you do, don't ignore the Divine Judgement, Spiritual aid and Holy fire rings or Templar starting area though. Also, a good chunk of your scaling is from -res (flammability, fire...

I'm actually doing RF jugg this league (its horrible at the league mechanic, but otherwise has been good). The boots are nice but not critical (just a cheap way to get some extra damage via scorch and clear speed via the explosions which is why it so popular). Seems like all you really need to...

The one exception to flat hp on block not being high enough IMO is the surrender (though its not cheap, it gives a flat 250 hp per block). The anvil gives a bit as well (though if you are using that, its primarily for the max block usually). On the es side of things, the other standard unique...

If you run the math, I've always thought that glancing blows is only really worth using if you have things that trigger on blocks (the biggest one is anything that gives health or energy shield on block, but also like reckoning, etc). For pure damage mitigation, glancing blows effect is...

Oh yeah, I totally agree on the global phys boost being relevant with all the new phys gems that may be popular. Wasn't totally connecting the low-life changes with it though -- you may be right. Given the fact that you can't easily scale most of the new gems well via ele conversion, I suppose...

Yeah, was going pure evasion on that character due to one with nothing/hollow palm scaling so well with dex (to the point of even running a couple of str -> dex jewels -- fluid motion). Not sure how accuate the POB file I found of that char was (might not have been exactly how it ended), but...

This past league, I had what was probably my tankest character ever (let me actually do Sirius at awakening 8 for once). Chieftain base and only really has specific needs for torso, helm (sorta), one aura and flask so you could prob do any melee build that works with chieftain with it (I was...

For Zeal, one idea I've seen is frostbolt-spellslinger-gmp + frost nova as your primary spell -- aka use attacks to push out the frost bolts+get fanatic charge, then self cast the novas on the frostbolts with the buff since that has always been a two spell combo. Other than that your best bet...

Its been a while since I ran a bow character but you probably want to consider a second 4 link for killing bosses (and possibly yellows). Depending on how you are building, this could range from one of the two fire bow skills or elemental hit (if you are focusing on elemental boosting...

On staves in POE: There can be a couple of reasons to want to use a staff in POE (as a caster). One is that there are some nice crit and charge nodes in the passive tree (theres a circle in the upper left that has a decent chunk of both global crit chance and global crit mult that works with...

Kohan is only ~18 years old now, that also counts as "relatively new" right? Man that game was great multiplayer (though the AI wasn't amazing).

A few extra comments: Yeah, a 4 link for your main skill should be sufficient up to the end of the story (and I usually actually aim for setting it up in something like boots, helm or gloves, a piece that you don't need to update as often while leveling but this is just personal preference). 5...

Other PoE advice: If you are using a melee weapon (for a caster probably staff, elemental mace or dagger), an attack movement skill + fortify support can also help (depending on your weapon choice, you are probably looking at the shield dash attack (blanking on the name - needs a shield)...

I'm more worried about it in the balance sense. Normal undead under this are able to be controled by death III, living creatures are able to be dominated. Scions are immune to both? If you argue that they are logical and have freedom of thought, then why are they not vulnerable to...

Just a minor complaint: Scions being immune to every anti-undead spell means they get all the advantages of being undead(immunities, etc), with none of the disadvantages. As you do say though, you intend on them just being more resistant to some of them, which would be ok(perhaps you could...

Python might be able to handle it if it merely kept track of in arrays whats avail(and removed that when it was bought). Then you could slowly(probabilistically) add to the arrays units with promotions each turn based on features/terrain around a city+city size/buildings/[techs of the...

One option would be something like the expanded merc mod for ffh(not sure what state thats in, but the idea sounds cool). No reason why they couldn't be avail from some sites on the map as well as from guild of the nine shenanigans(I think he changed it so that everyone could build the guild in...

Not sure if you still need it, but attached save has the Duriel school bug(can't build fol school in a city with fol--could build runes,oo and lugus). It also has a wierd score bug-- When I switched from a religion(runes) to no religion my score messed up, it no longer has the alignment, but...

Just a fyi, I'm pretty sure they try to balance stuff on normal first(and marathon being as far as you can get from that is sorta like a poor 2nd world country at the moment). If at some point new feature addition slows to a trickle, they might actually worry about truely balancing other game...

On Marshes--At least its possible to remove them. I remember at one point there were both swamps and Marshes and it was impossible to remove the marshes at all :). That being said, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to drain them, but I'd argue that it should either take a long...