Diablo 4 Player Tries Path of Exile For The First Time - Act 5

[@IceDrag0nGaming]

I don't ever comment, but wanted to let you know that I've been enjoying your series a lot, so thanks for that and keep up the great work!

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you! You're awesome!

[@Woah808]

Yes!! It’s so refreshing and interesting to watch. Please keep it up!! ❤

[@hanckeleroux9858]

New boots: +53 Life +27% Fire resist +14% Cold resist +13% Lightning Old Boots: +15% Movement speed I prefer to go fast... HAHAHA Crafting is not a option. Love the series

[@Timmytimmy123123]

Wait... when did that happen?

[@Leocmatias]

Those were nice boots. Crafting is important - Just go to the hideout and make items better at the crafting bench.

[@NyxVellum]

GOTTA GO FAST BRRRR. Yeah I'll go crafting next time haha.

[@Jiggerjaw]

Also when he turned down the two-stone ring quest rewards because he had good rings already. I mean yeah, Le Heup of All is good, but Kaom's Sign not so much.

[@xXBenutzer235Xx]

Most relatable decision honestly. I’ve played through the campaign like 80+ times and would take the move speed any day lol

[@Eryniell]

dashes aren't just for avoiding damage, they also allow you to jump over gaps and elevation changes ^^ so you don't have to run around to find a path up to a ledge

[@MrLeanath]

This is such a breath of fresh air! I've been playing Path of Exile since 2013 and this series just brings me back to how it was back when everyhting wasn't "figured out". I love this so much, thank you!

[@NyxVellum]

Happy you like the series! Thanks for hanging out.

[@diabetickevin]

Adding a loot filter is something that can help a lot with the visual information and answer your question to if you should be picking up an item. Console players have these options built into the game, but pc players have to add them externally. Most people use filterblade. You can link your account and have it appear in game quite easily. You can change the strictness of the filterr to hide more items. There are even options for selecting your leveling type, like bow. This might be too much info tho, so it may be better to pick the regular filter and only change the colors to your preferences. another tip is you can put steelskin to autocast on cooldown if you have it on your left click ability. It wont interrupt your walking at all.

[@kelderos]

You don't have to link your account to anything but the official website. Just press follow on any loot filter that you are interested at and it will appear in the game instantly.

[@WhiskiDev]

Yeah and loot filters just help visually a lot. Unless a million drops are fun to you.

[@ajHikaru]

Filterblade's semi strict (just put it in and never have a problem again.. unless screen gets cluttered again then go to strict..). It's funny how even the loot filter has it's own progression.

[@tearsofglass88]

Yes loot filter helps a ton

[@Verulen22]

There's actually a default loot filter for pc as well, but it's pretty bad. He should indeed use nerversink semistrict

[@regal-27]

Nice job clearing act 5! :) Good luck with act 6. Glad to see you ascended, that's a good step forward. Innocence and Kitava are definitely the first big harbingers of difficulty in the campaign, nice job pushing through them. If you want to avoid polite advice, ignore the rest of my comment. If you don't mind advice but want to avoid backseating, I have split my comment into the appropriate sections. --- ADVICE Kitava reduced your resistances by -30% at the end of Act 5. There was a message that briefly shows on screen, but its easy to miss. You want your Fire, Cold, and Lightning resistances to all be at 75% or higher. If they are lower, you will instantly die to a lot of things. Chaos resistance is harder to get, keep Chaos resistance above 0% if you can. --- BACKSEATING There are three main ways to improve your Elemental resistances in the campaign that don't involve trading or farming new gear. 1. Use the Crafting Bench in your hideout to add resistance suffixes to your gear. 2. Talk to Lily Roth and purchase Purity of Elements. This is an aura that increases all 3 of your Elemental resistances and makes you immune to Ignites, Shocks, Chills, and Freezes. It reserves a lot of mana, but if you don't have another way to solve resistances and ailments it just works. 3. Run flasks that increases your resistances and pray they are running when you get hit.

[@fercocq]

On top of the reduced resistances, I'd add that you'll start losing 5% experience with each death.

[@andrepxt6314]

To add to the "talk to Lily Roth" advice, in act 6 she gives a sidequest that after completed allows you to buy ALL normal gems from her. That's the first thing mostly anyone should be doing in act 6, so avoid the desire to just start with the main quest.

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you for the tips and the kind words

[@kellymiller6737]

Beautifully put

[@gamesguitarsandcars]

Leaving 4 link gloves on the ground while rocking 2 link gloves.... *cries in the corner*

[@Rob-147]

Lyk dis if u cry evertim

[@Ashgan9]

this is why I'm just waiting on POE2

[@duladulaniryan8598]

Righhhtttt???!!!! 😅

[@ifrankenstine8748]

Lmfao 💀

[@ydin9]

and he fonted them :D

[@ILikeShadow]

watching this series while I have 4000+ hours into this game just hits different, i can see myself first playing this game back in 2018, it was hard, the amount of knowledge you get after your first completion of the 10 acts is insane, especially if you follow a guide on your next build, this will make you less worried about your wrong choices and never spend more than 10 refund points for the whole 10 acts you're going to go through next time you create a character, plus please don't ever delete your first character or fix it with a guide after you finish your acts, when you get to know the game well you'll get that nostalgia when you go back and see what you did with your first character, it's amazing when you'll feel how much knowledge you gained after some months of playing..

[@NyxVellum]

Powerful stuff. Thanks for hanging out with me. I really appreciate it.

[@vakko228]

I still kept 2 of my old HC characters :P 1 got to maps, 1 killed Atziri when she first came out :P. It’s not just the nostalgia, it’s also the sheer dedication and love you spent on those digital characters

[@frankcoley1537]

It's STILL hard lol. No matter how much you know.

[@ILikeShadow]

@@vakko228 couldn't agree more.

[@ILikeShadow]

@@frankcoley1537 It's hard, but you can figure it out at some point, it's not the same as when you first started playing the game xD

[@luk9828]

Tip for stash tabs, when you open your stash and right click on top on the name of the stash you can customize them and set affinities, which automatically transfer chosen types of items into that stash

[@Powermongur]

Just to clarify. Item transfer is not automatic, but it will change the tab, if you are on a different tab. So you can ctrl click an item and it will put it in the right tab no matter what tab you are on.

[@Argrene]

​@@PowermongurThere is an option to set, that items will go to tabs without changing current tab - it is in tab option ;)

[@Powermongur]

​@@Argrene You didn't read anything i just said. I said it puts the items in the right tab no matter what tab you are on. You still have to click. There is no auto transfer items.

[@Mriswith2k]

@Powermongur what he said is correct, under stash options there is a "Affinity Auto-Navation" that indeeds makes item go to the correct tab without changing the current tab, it's very usefull since you can simply dump everything into a dump tab without it switching tabs when you input for example currency items.

[@JakeInvest]

@@Powermongur oh i didnt think of it actually automatically transferring your whole inventory into your stash without clicking anything, that would be cool

[@MortalRequiem]

One bit of advice on starting act 6, make sure to do Lily's quest (Fallen From Grace) which takes you back to clear out the undead that have moved into the tutorial zone after you killed Hillock way back. Once you complete it, Lily will become a store that sells (nearly) every skill/support gem in the game and can be placed in your hideout so you don't have to keep going back to a specific town to buy certain gems. I think you'd also unlocked Siosa in act 3 library who does the same thing but isn't in a town, so you have to take the payment you need with you to shop from him, whereas Lily takes payment directly from your stash like all the other town npcs.

[@NyxVellum]

I think I did it!

[@muy904]

Of all the KZbinrs on this latest trend of trying PoE, this is the series I'm most excited for. Thanks for the continued content. Your chill personality and casual insight are a joy to listen to. Your editor is top notch as well. I hope you'll join us in the Affliction league with a new build.

[@NyxVellum]

Thanks for the kind words

[@coolman1789]

The best tip I think I can give you for getting through the passive skill tree with no guide is to use its search bar. When you open your passive skill tree you can type in things like "life" or "damage" and the related nodes will be highlighted. My recommendation here is too look up "chaos damage" and "damage over time" as this is what you'll want to scale for your build it seems like. I hope you have fun with the game, it is quite a challenging thing to do, doing it with no guide. Oh and another quick tip, if you put steelskin on your left click, it'll activate as you move and will have a good amount of uptime, saving you the trouble of thinking about it.

[@themasterofw4295]

Aura res could be nice too :)

[@NyxVellum]

Great tip! Thank you

[@shun2702]

@@NyxVellum one of the things you should check is your chance to poison in the offence menu when you click C, if its below 80-100% when you select scourge arrow you should probably look to get some on the passive skill tree or gems, it should make your build feel a lot smoother

[@unr3alize602]

Small note, Orange (Unique) items are just that, unique, and are not always better than Yellow (Rare) items. Your Kaom's ring is not helping as much as any basic rare ring would. Also Scourge Arrow is a "channeled" skill, which gains multiplicatively more damage with hits and ailments when you hold down the button to charge it up before releasing.

[@NergusFlame]

This is actually a HUGE note. New players always fall into the unique trap. Rares are almost always better than uniques for your build. Uniques are mostly a source of build-enabling mechanics.

[@Csumbi]

well thats just super disappointing, why have uniques if they are just useless? the game makes such a big deal of it when it drops, of course you wold expect that it should be better than anything else.

[@NergusFlame]

@@Csumbi They're not useless. They might be useless TO YOU, but for some build they're absolutely KEY. This is what gives PoE the depth it has. It's also there to stimulate the economy.

[@JustinKoenigSilica]

​@Csumbi they're called unique, not legendary. They have unique mechanics, not legendary utility. It's not that hard.

[@tobygreppellini5960]

also the minion helm...

[@knicklichtjedi]

Congrats on finishing the first half of the campaign! I am very surprised how well you are doing, both ingame and in understanding the game. Be prepared for a lot of information, because starting now the game will throw a lot more new stuff at you. (Including some of my favorite league mechanics!)

[@jarede3724]

Ballista ballista! Act 6 is gonna be a big check on your setup, especially your elemental resists. You already have a feeling your gems need attention, so you're on the right track. Maximize those 4-links for your more important skills. Your gem preferences should drive your socket color setup, rather than the other way around. Don't forget about Chromatic Orbs and your crafting bench. Good luck in Part 2!

[@NyxVellum]

Act 6, has been, indeed, a struggle haha. Video is up on Saturday

[@Daralyndk]

and seriously watch out for resists (finishing act 5 gave you PERMANENT resist penalities) because it is akin of finishing Normal Difficulty in D2 and getting to Nightmare

[@KenjaTimu]

It's painful watching orbs of fusing being used on 3 link items instead of 6 link :)

[@bakyra4683]

I hope you're enjoying your Path of Exile time! I wanted to share that one of the biggest step-ups for me in quality of life was activating a Loot Filter in the options. I don't know how that's done nowadays, but loot filters allow you to ignore worthless loot without even showing up in your screen. For example you can filter out "all white and blue items unless they have 4 or 6 links".

[@NyxVellum]

I am, it's a lot of fun. Filters are coming up.

[@yurivitkowski3787]

You might have missed it when you lost to Kitava but your default base resistances for all elements and chaos went from 0% to -30%. Act 5 onwards your resistances start to make more of a difference in your survivability. Alsa Path of Exile is very precise with its wording, so chance to avoid elemental ailments is exactly what it says and not the same as elemental resistance. Love the series and can't wait to see you play through the rest of the Acts.

[@Gamer9o]

i hope he sees this because ..... theres gonna be alot of fire stuff ahead xD

[@donalddouds6033]

@@Gamer9oand ice

[@oopomopoo]

It's specific until nearby is involved lol

[@maksymisaiev1828]

@@oopomopoo sorry, but nearby is dead nowadays (almost dead, it is still in game, but my guess that it will be changed very fast, as we get mroe and more meters for items):)

[@papiasultana134]

man i really hope you get millions of subscribers. You talk so fluently and engagingly i just love to watch your video.Hope you get growth in your channel.

[@NyxVellum]

I mean... that would be nice. Thanks for the comment!

[@oxothnkanapxnctob3852]

Good videos, realy good and couple advices: 1. you have 2 bars of skills (press ctrl in game to see them) 2. You can apply auto filtration of your stash imput (press right click on a stash tab) 3. Your ressistances was lowerd due to the plot check them 4. Seek the item filter it's just quality of life

[@lanmandragoran8337]

He already has an item filter, seek glasses for quality of life.

[@jasonbuckley4118]

@@lanmandragoran8337 it seems like a basic one that doesn't really do much but recolour things. it's not hiding anything and thats what his concern is "excel sheet" seek open-mindedness before correcting others.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

@@jasonbuckley4118 Its literally Neversink Semi-strict, and he has talked about it several times and said he will take it to Strict or higher when he feels he needs to. Fucking open your ears before telling me to open my mind. Braindead.

[@Akkrima]

It's so entertaining to watch your series. I love your enthusiasm about the game.

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you so much.

[@yoyomama99]

First thing to do after this : check your resistances. That last boss (Kitava) lowered your resistance (you get a permanent debuff), so you need to get higher resistances from now on!

[@deviant324]

I doubt he ever had noteworthy resistances to begin with, any ele res he's had so far was more coincidental considering he took people saying to pick up elemental resistances as picking up elemental ailment avoidance. We'll see a LOT of deaths coming up with act 6, I wouldn't be surprised if some of his resistances are in the negatives now, not just chaos res

[@yoyomama99]

@@deviant324 well he's gonna find out the hard way then! 😂

[@NyxVellum]

I checked, there were a lot of numbers...

[@SuryanshSaini-ee8iv]

lol when i first completed act5 and the penalty was being applied my chaos resistance went to negative 12%or something

[@mainmonkey7759]

Absolutely loving the series, it's awesome to see someone new to the game experience that feeling of 'what would happen if I did this' that made me love the game. You're definitely doing a lot better than I did so many, many thousand of hours ago when I first started playing!

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you for watching my videos! It means the world to me.

[@wumi2419]

12:50. You can switch ascendancies. For that you need to click altar of ascendancy (finish a lab) without having ascendancy points allocated (respeccing one ascendancy point is 5 orbs of regret). Since you have access to stash, however, you can go through lab first and then begin regretting everything. And as it doesn't matter which lab you go through, most people do it in normal lab anyway, which is the easiest and shortest one

[@tindekappa9047]

do you realize how far away 10 regret orbs is for someone who plays an act a week?

[@ajHikaru]

@@tindekappa9047 still won't hurt to give info about it, because the game still solves the problem he's complaining about

[@jasonbuckley4118]

@@tindekappa9047 he is still letting him know though. better than letting him think he is stuck with PathFinder forever.

[@RG32822]

Seeing him decide not to go Raider because the art didn't have a bow was an interesting insight into how people pick classes too, as raider is very generic power. Pathfinder was a good choice though, and a very powerful ascendancy but has those flask stipulations.

[@tindekappa9047]

@@RG32822 I wish I was the type of person who picks classes based on jpegs. I spend hours in pob. It sucks.

[@garudaiv689]

Glad you're enjoying this game so much. The Trials of Ascendancy was always one of my favorite places to level up at, and I absolutely love the game's soundtrack. It never gets boring and I would find myself idly standing in an area just to listen to the music. A little tip, though; keep an eye on the items. The ones with green boarders mean that it has a green, red and blue socket that are linked together, and will sell for a chromatic orb, regardless of the item's size. Also, you're about at the point in the game where you'll start finding 6 socket items. Make sure you grab them, because those sell for 6 jeweller's orbs.

[@tuxotux0]

*7 jeweller's orbs.

[@garudaiv689]

@@tuxotux0 Even better.

[@albert.]

Man in the beginning of your tree theres 2 big nodes you didn't allocate 'primal spirit' and 'heart of oak', will cost 4 points but is very cost effective for mana and life. Second tip is search for mana leech in the passive tree, grab the nearest node with mana leech (4 points to reach), this will help to maintain your mana.

[@gvvozd]

Keep it up! I love your Path of Exile videos series! Can't wait to see all acts walkthrough! Good luck with part 2

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you very much.

[@mambajus]

For Steelskin put it as your left click so it always activates whenever it's not on CD or link it with Cast When Damage Taken Support. For stashes you want to Right click the stash and set their Affinity so you can Ctrl+Click item and it automatically goes to the stash with that affinity instead of looking for specific stash to put it in. "Excel" screen you solve by getting loot filters.

[@gijs7509]

Very nice series Nyx, I look forward to the next parts. I have played this game since back when we had like 2 acts only and always made my own builds. You will struggle and fail plenty on the way to making a successful endgame build by yourself, but all the learning you will do is an amazing experience. There is no shame in making the mistakes you make now and I hope to see you continue to grow more and more, especially with what you can truly do with the freedom this game allows you. Sidenote: so far you taught me to shout 'Ballista! Ballista!' and I thank both you and Frank for that.

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you for the kind words and the tips.

[@Laurcus]

Endgame uber pinnacle bosses in PoE do have one shot mechanics, but unlike with Uber Lilith, if you're enough of a psychopath you can actually tank these. They do enough to kill 99% of characters in one hit, but not so much that it's truly impossible to tank. Gotta build some defense!

[@doro69]

The one shots in poe tend to be very telegraphed and you will inevitably learn to dodge them

[@Laurcus]

@@falsnamae3511 Depends on the boss. Uber Exarch balls for example just deal fuck you damage. They're an untyped skill that does secondary damage, so bypasses all dodge/block/ev/suppression by virtue of not belonging to a valid category. They can still be tanked of course, but the way to do so is via raw DR. Max res, high armour with Transcendence, Eternal Damnation, Fortify, Ruby Flask, preferably with a Mageblood and of course good old fashioned life.

[@nedchirgwin2803]

Man props to you for not only completing labyrinth but the entire first half of the game without a movement skill. That's impressive. You will notice a significant increase in difficulty from here on in though, especially now that Kitava has cursed you. I hope you are enjoying the lore as well, I have over 1000 hours in the game and still take the time to interact with it whenever i can.

[@drone_637]

The lack of blinking around the map drives me a little crazy.

[@thorveim1174]

very important note: finishing act 5 lowers PERMANENTLY all your resistances, chaos resistance included, so dont forget to invest more heavily in all that. Also note that it happens again once you complete act 10 and finish the campaign; you will need a higher investment in resistances to have them at the same level as before, especially since the kiddie gloves come off after act 5 and maxing out resistances (bar chaos since its rarer both from enemies and on items) will quickly become very important to survive

[@dacco9414]

One thing you can do, is, Open: Options>UI>Scroll down to "Items" and click the "Always Show Sockets" thing. So you don't have to hold your mouse over the items equipped to see what sockets/links you have. :) Also you can Hold Ctrl to swap skill bars. I usually put aura skills in the second bar so you can focus on the active skills on the main bar. And another thing, you can put your "Steelskin" in the left mouse button slot, so that it'll activate on cooldown when you move around. I'm enjoying watching this series! Hope you're having fun! :)

[@NyxVellum]

Great idea! Thank you.

[@maciekmaj1601]

Avoid linking support gems to auras because it increases the reservation cost

[@marcocapitani4474]

This. There is basically no support that impacts the effect of an aura except for those that specifically mention modifying auras (and enlighten, I guess...). The only aura that is worthwhile to link with something (maybe) is herald of agony in order to increase the power of the minion. That, though, will also increase the reservation, so it's only good if you plan on using the minion as a primary source of damage.

[@JayeDidAThing]

one exception to this is if you want your build to revolve around one herald, and you are okay with it reserving like 80% of your mana on it's own, or if you want to run something like flesh and stone linked to maim support for a physical build.

[@Syaniiti]

Aaahh, PoE... Avoid doing something unless it's what you're doing for your build, or you are trying to do something specific, or for several other reasons.

[@triopsate3]

@@JayeDidAThing Isn't there also that one passive node that allows you to use your mana shield as mana? You could have a herald take up like the vast majority of your mana and then use your mana shield as mana instead.

[@JayeDidAThing]

@@triopsate3 yeah, but i was moreso meaning that you really cant put like any other auras on your mana pool in a herald of agony/purity/thunder build. Though they usually run lone messenger anyway.

[@MonochromeMemories]

I haven't even watched yet but just so I don't forget by the end, the passive tree has a search box in the top right. It 100% Makes the passive tree easier to digest and understand. Need life, search life. Need one of the damage tags on your gem, search for the tag. It becomes way easier. You just haven't noticed, many don't.

[@corazza1995]

At Act 6 you can do a quest that will allow you to unlock a shop with all gems in the game (actually 99% of them, some only possible to be obtained by drops). If you want to rethink about your gems. Act 6 will be a good place after that quest, since you can take a look on everything that the game has to offer. And you can respect your ascendancy. All you need to do is respect all your ascendancy points and do the lab again. Then when you reach the ascedancy plate, it allows you to change it.

[@eternalpenguin4835]

And try to look for travel skills

[@alidaraie]

I didn't know about respecing ascendancy AND I'VE BEEN PLAYING SINCE 2016 !!!

[@Canadian123455]

​@alidaraie you have to regret all your ascendancy points first, and each one takes 5 regrets.

[@darklourd]

My wife kept asking if Ballista Ballista guy has uploaded act 5. Now she can shut up.

[@Trilusions]

The Twist of Similar yet different coming up in the remaining acts was an amazing first experience. The Second half of the acts is a far more modern addition that really expanded the campaign beyond the Normal - Nightmare - Hell Mentality of old. Many of the more modern complex older league mechanics will start to show themselves as well adding to the difficulty of knowledge.

[@BootlessDave]

Thoroughly enjoying your series! It's always fun watching new people try this game but you have such a great blend of comedic value and quality editing in your series that really puts you several steps ahead of the "New player trying PoE for the first time" competition. Can't wait for the rest!

[@pskirito7968]

1-try to put Steelskin on the left click of the mouse so it's always get activated while you are walking 2- if you found an item with all the colors that are linked together you can sell the item for a chromatic orb 3- if you pressed right click on a stash tap you can decide what goes there for example in the currency stash you check on currency so it directly send them to that stash 4-i know you have a loot filter but maybe try to put a stronger filter so the white and the blue items doesn't show up on your screen 5-keep playing the game without a build guide at least for the first time so you can enjoy the game and then maybe the second character you can look for a guide if you want

[@TheShitpostExperience]

Been playing the game on an off since betrayal, and I never thought about having steelskin on LMB, always had walk on it excert for vortex builds. How am I so dense...

[@ladnil]

4 - yeah, I think he put on the filter labeled "normal"? Semi-strict should be the default for everybody pretty much. Good from level 1 to 90.

[@nikkosmit6985]

UPVOTE THIS COMMENT. Mostly for the steelskin thing

[@akauffman970]

blame other ARPG's/games for not being customizable to this degree until recently@@TheShitpostExperience

[@MartoRoss]

@@TheShitpostExperience Well.. not for Vortex anymore :sadge: for the next league Vortex will have a 0.75s cast time

[@VinceMouse]

If you want to clean up bodies to look at the floor, you can get Detonate Dead in act 1 to blow them up and clean the floor a bit.

[@spiteknight6415]

When you talk about pressing z, you can remove the clutter with loot filters. I reccomend FilterBlade's loot filters because they have different levels of strictness for various levels of when you are in the game.

[@kirascendant]

This has been so much fun to watch. I'm impressed that you've made it this far! Important non-spoiler notes, though: By the next time you play, the current Season will have ended, and your character and items will be moved to Standard league (aka the Eternal Realm). For you, all this means is that your silver coins and the Halls of the Dead are gone, and you're free to keep playing, but if you want to try the new Affliction content, you'll need a new character. Also, Kitava hit you with an unbreakable curse that now causes you to lose 5% xp towards the next level when you die now, so try to avoid that. Good luck!

[@NyxVellum]

Thanks for the tip!!

[@DocSardo]

@@NyxVellum The good news is that you can't lose a level. So, it's always a good idea to level up right before trying some new hard content (like a new boss).

[@leafyr0kr]

Act 5 was the place where I started paying attention to the lore whenever Fall of Oriath launched. It get's really special, it's kinda cool. Also, big difficulty spike on Act 6. Defeating Kitava removes 30% of all your elemental resistances, and most mobs on Act 6 have fire attacks (while also being harder to kill). You'll probably have to take a serious look at your gear to actually do stuff and not be completely miserable.

[@fang_xianfu]

It used to be that act 6 first part the mobs did fire, and the second part beginning with the mid act boss they did lightning. But now they do all 3 and it's kind of a pain.

[@krokwen]

PLEASE, DONT MISS THIS: after act 5 you will loose a huge amount of elemental and chaos res. and second time will happen on level 75. the normal cap of eleres is 75%, please make sure you have it full, it's not so difficult as it could look like. it will hugely increase your survivability in future! but, for chaos def.. try to make it at least 0% (not -75%)

[@NyxVellum]

Thank for the tip!

[@baholete]

​@@NyxVellum40+ ele res is enough for campaign and u can ignore chaos res. If you ever gonna play endgame that's where u need to cap ur ele res and get positive chaos res

[@IpsenOnech]

Episode 1: i can't believe people pay for those visuals Episode 5: Game is awesome i need to give something back to they creators Same thing happened to me 😂

[@NyxVellum]

you called me out! haha

[@seanmartens8740]

I actually always try to buy something each league because I feel I'm getting the value in fun and want to encourage them to keep supplying

[@Thinkingbeard]

It's almost the story of evry poe player, You start and after 20-30 hours you start feeling a robber, you're continuosly saying to you "i'm really playing it for free? this gme is real? and you give something to the devs. This game is pure love.

[@Maususak]

Well that's basically how real players should act. Buy microtransaction even cheapest one once if the game is really fun and free

[@raymondamador1487]

12:42 You can change your Ascendancy. Run the first Lab. Respec your points in your Ascendancy class. Then choose something else. It's done all the time. ☮️

[@Powermongur]

6:32 "I need the Orb of Alchemy". 30 sec later 7:03 Leaves Alchemy Orb on the ground 😂😂

[@agee3698]

yeah i noticed that too xdd

[@phanha9632]

He's been busy talking so ... Kinda slipped

[@RexgarTV]

Another great video! My tips for Act 6 would be to remember that you can "farm" zones if you feel your gear is lacking, by control + left clicking on them (either the zone entrance, or the waypoint to the zone) and selecting "new" and the other tip is that Lilly is your friend. Either way, keep up the great work, it's been a blast watching you.

[@randomdamian]

I love this series... seen every part! You can right click on the stash tab and check that bottom checkmark the "affinity" thing, so when you hold ctrl and click on items, it sorts it into the correct tabs like gems, currency etc. Bind the steelskin skill to your left click, so when you move it always uses it :D

[@rodrigoc.rangel]

I Believe the next step is to download an item filter (recommending 'filterblade' semi-strict) so it hides the awful item-bases and reduces the size of others -also, dont forget to activate the health bars above the enemies and the players head in the options -also also, PLEASE, add a mobility gem (dash, flame dash, the list goes on...) into your build so you can dodge some attacks and move faster in maps -last but the most important one: When you defeated kitava, you lost permanently 30% of your resistances (chaos, fire, ice and lighting). starting in Act 6, things start to hit like a truck, so i would recommend adding some resistances to your gear by changing them, or by adding via crafting bench in your hideout

[@Trinedyy]

Love this series. Not going to give you any tips, you'll learn in time. Getting good laughs of the choices you do, entertainment at its peak. New season starts in a week, I hope you'll check it out.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

I'm hoping he manages to experience some of post-acts before the season outpaces him.

[@Trinedyy]

@@lanmandragoran8337 at this pace, no way. But maybe he could try something else after he is done with this in the new league. Doesn't really need to play at league start when you are new.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

@@Trinedyy He had already finished act 5 at the premier of Act 4...who knows how much he has filmed already. Probably on act 8 or 9 already, just hoping he picks up the pace and gets through the tutorial to see SOME of endgame before he loses it.

[@Trinedyy]

@@lanmandragoran8337 I don't really like the saying that campaign is the tutorial. It's the old endgame of the game. For many people the campaign might be all they do in poe and are happy. I know it's a joke, but at the same time it probably doesn't sound like that to new players. He could be far, but I wouldn't hurry him up for no reason. Just hope he has enough fun that he will continue to the endgame. I'm much more entertained watching him play at his own pace with minimal help than watching someone who is getting backseated to hurry him into the endgame. He might be very stuck at late campaign because he doesn't seem to pay attention to elemental resistances at all. I hope it doesn't discourage him from continuing.

[@TrollyMcGee]

For the fancy tabs you can turn on "affinity" so you can quickly move stuff from your inventory and it will go directly to the correct tab even if you're not on that tab currently

[@Scyte89]

You can try "Toxic Rain" if you want to keep the poison theme, maybe it will be more fitting than "Scourge Arrow". Also a small tip: chromatic orbs are used to re-roll colours of sockets, you can get some more if you sell an item with 3 connected sockets of diffrent colour on one item, just one item with connected RED + BLUE + GREEN in any order. That way even some white items are worth something.

[@funchicko]

Chaos dot and poison dot is differing things. Yes, they do chaos damage but..... Pf has only 2 viable skills to fit poison build

[@xavilian4699]

I absolutely love this series please keep going with it atleast till act 10. There’s so many times where I’ve cringed or yelled at the screen because of choices but ultimately realise, as long as your having fun, it fine One major game feature though is that if you hold down control you get 5 more skill slots, that’s where you should place all your buffs and auras

[@zuliuga123]

Not sure if you have it equipped or not but try supporting your Rain of Arrows with Chance to Poison support. It'd be a great addition with the ascendancy you just picked. Loving the series so far! Keep it up!

[@EspyMelly]

Yes, any flask (including health and mana) counts as active, generally as long as that little bar is showing under them.

[@Nemorga5861]

If I may... You said in a earlier vids that you loved lore. Well, POE has the tone of it ! :) If you're interested I'll advise to actually listen/read the dialogue and environnemental stuff that tells stories. And obviously great vid and great serie, can't wait for the next episode :)

[@MrHungXoan]

OH MY GOD YOU NEED TO DO EPISODES EACH DAY! IM CRAVING FOR THIS CONTENT OF YOURS!

[@BluntDunner]

My first recommendation to all new players to Path of Exile is always to start with a character that you spec yourself. Experience the spectacle that is the passive tree and build how you think you should and play until you hit that wall that your build can't pass. That way, when you eventually look up a guide or build on KZbin of wherever, you can see where you might have made mistakes and most of the time you immediately feel the power difference when you get to that same part where you struggle. Also get used to creating new characters and experimenting with builds and playstyles. It really makes you appreciate when a build just works perfectly. But REALLY enjoying your series so far. It's so nice to see someone who obviously have the ARPG know how, get baffled by things we take for granted now. ⭐

[@nunya4752]

100% agree. I always tell people starting PoE is "play, build, fail, learn, play, build, fail, learn". Then repeat that a few more times. Been 12 years for me, still repeating that cycle.

[@Ashgan9]

Honestly the game has such a burden of knowledge that you can play it for hundreds of hours and still have no gdam clue what you are doing... I enjoy making my own builds but I've only managed to make a small handfull that actually function late game. Part of the problem is certain skills just are potato by endgame and you won't know it without looking it up... Going back to burden of knowledge, certain skills are just extra bad because they are nerfed due to interactions with certain support gems, so if you don't use it with those support gems you may as well not use the skill.

[@solomontetteh4134]

Not everyone has that much free time on their hands though

[@carlopanella5855]

@@solomontetteh4134 this, by the time that new player hits the wall, they might just say fuck it, maybe my time is better spent elsewhere or they just get bored.

[@natecraftman]

Great series! So fun to watch someone try something new :) I will leave one tip: Beating Kitava has "cursed" you so you now have permanent -30% elemental and chaos resistances (aka take more lightning, cold, fire and poison damage). Act 6 and onward has massive amounts of elemental damage monsters and boss’s who will make your life hell if you ignore your ele res much longer (open character page with ‘c’ to look at your defensive numbers. Resistances max out at 75% normally, you want 75% res to all elemental damage). There's also some nasty chaos damage monsters and boss’s in act 7 and onward. You can get elemental resistance on your items, especially by using the essences which give ele res on some blank white items. You can also use purity auras (purity of cold, ect) for more resistances of one element. You will soon have access to all skill gems from a single shop and purity of elements gives +30% all ele res to help offset the -30% you just got. You also can get some elemental resistance (not the same as resisting elemental ailments) on the passive tree. Chaos res is harder to get, best way is Amethyst rings (i know you love your current rings, just know any purple or green colored magic will probably be chaos/poison and kill you fast without chaos res). Good luck on rest of the run!

[@NyxVellum]

OH nooooo, that's why I get killed so fast haha

[@asd316x]

@@NyxVellum yup, i didint realise that until i got to the endgame on my first playthrough (which i also did completely blind)

[@Reapeth]

I love Act 5. The Innocence fight is one of my favorite fights since there are attacks you actually have to make an effort to dodge. xD And the whole mechanic of hiding behind statues is so dope.

[@Rurix48]

I really liked it the first few times. Now it is one of the bosses i dislike the most. The invulnerability time, when he spawns enemies a few at a time is quite annoying to most builds now. Great the first few times though.

[@Reapeth]

@@Rurix48 Agreed, the invulnerability minion phase is definitely the worst part of the fight. Should be shorter, or just not have that phase and have minions slowly spawn throughout the fight.

[@ChimakaGames]

Time 30:38 . Act 5. Dude finally, for the love of god, put a "go to" instead of "attack//goto" on his left mouse. I have painfully watched this so far. I am proud of you! Why? I learned about it after i have done playing my first character the same way, and watched a video on YT where a dude had this movement on left mouse and he said that you can put it there. Was a game changer and life saviour. Before that, being surrounded could in 90% of times lead to death, cause instead of moving out or dashing, the character locks itself into an attack. Subbed and likes one of the first ones. KEEP UP THE CONTENT I have watched these series in a row.

[@holyshiet787]

Ah yes, Kitava. The tutorial boss

[@dieterbohlen7951]

He is a map Boss, come on

[@Johnnyb3g00d]

stumbled on your video (thanks youtube recommended) and I've really enjoyed it. No tips from me; you are doing great! You are experiencing the game the way that I experienced it. I think it's honestly the best way to do it, just as long as people feel ok with trying a new character with the knowledge they gained if they can't continue. The only comment I'll leave is that 'following a build' in this game is different than most games. Following a build is extremely difficult; you basically can't get everything a guide says to get, so you have to adapt with what you find. Sometimes the sockets don't line up so you improvise; sometimes you get a rare unique that's actually better than what the guide suggests. Sometimes you find your own changes that work with your playstyle better. For that reason I've shed my distaste for build guides because they end up feeling uniquely mine by the end anyway. Cheers for the video though, very fun to watch.

[@0Zzl0lzZ0]

Congrats on beating Part 1! Keep in mind that once you get to maps (so, endgame after Act 10), GGG owns your soul. Two things to be aware of: First one is that you missed an optional quest. Im sure you know that it's best if you do all of them. That one in particular is whatever, but under no circumstances skip the one in Act 6 that you have now. Do clear the twilight strand. Second: You might have missed the message after the Kitava fight that said you have now lost 30% elemental and chaos resistances. Also dying now carries a penalty - but I'll leave that for you to figure out. Again, congrats, you have now reached "Nightmare". And some additional fluff: Back in 3.0 - the last big expansion - is when we got the current questing storyline. GGG increased the story from four to ten Acts at a time when players were expecting merely a single new Act. They did this of course by reusing many assets. That's why you're "in Act 1 again". They did this explicitly to remove the repeated grind through different difficulties that Diablo is known for. Before this PoE had three difficulties as well. In fact we had four difficulties before Act 4 when Piety was the final boss. And not to unnecessary dig at the Blizzard and Diablo fans, but this came at around the same time when D3 got one of its big expansions - the Necromancer. Anyways, the important thing is: Difficulties exist in PoE in a way that might not be obvious. Remember that your resistances are now reduced.

[@greggmacdonald9644]

Something important I think maybe you've overlooked: always pick up items (even basic ones) that have at least 3 gem slots (one each of the red, blue, green) since they can be traded in at the vendor for a Chromatic Orb, which is a currency item that'll let you (randomly) change the colors of the gem slots on your gear.

[@damianpanowicz4177]

Finally bro! Now I am going to roll one and enjoy the show

[@thefunkylordwedge]

"Maybe we could tweak a few things." They did, my guy. They did.

[@arcon980]

I am a POE vet, been playing on and off for 8 or 9 years now. I just want to offer you a heads up that not every build can get remotely close to endgame viable. Especially for a new player making their own build chances are you will be able to beat all 10 acts (essentially PoE's version of a tutorial) and stall out in early to mid mapping because your build will simply not be optimized enough to go further than that. Not saying don't do your own thing, just don't expect to progress that far without at least a loosely following a guide. I have brought many friends into POE and around 3/4 of them that wouldn't look at a guide quit the game because their build just wasn't strong enough.

[@norokelt]

Another flawless part of the series ♥ As much I understand and like the urge of ppl to help and hint you in all the comments, I just sit back and really enjoy your process and progress of playthrough :) (btw. the community of PoE is the best) o7 It's nice to see your notices and immersion and your experience raising and changing :) huge respect exile! o7

[@NyxVellum]

I don't know about flawless but thank you so much for hanging out!

[@gabrielsepulveda5853]

You can change your ascendancy, you'll want to look into item filters, and you are gonna lose it when you get toxic rain skill, also you get another bar of skills when you press ctrl that you can use for your auras

[@tearsofglass88]

I would look into putting mana reservation auras on the second skill bar

[@21Nuggets]

I've been playing the game for so long and run through the campaign so many times now that watching you notice all the small things I've passed over so many times is very cool. I never noticed the engravings on the ground and it's cool to see you enjoy them. Keep it up!

[@Ocelot56]

For steelskin you can link it with the support gem "Cast When Damage Taken" or you can keybind the skill to left mouse button so when your walking it'll activate on cooldown :)

[@tabularasa8769]

That's exactly what he did in this video

[@captsnacko]

he did that at 30:10 lol

[@Ocelot56]

Lol yeah I typed this comment before finishing the video XD @@tabularasa8769

[@gianiyo15]

Ive been playing this game since the closed beta, and putting myself in your shoes makes ma understand how overwhelming the game can be. I didnt realize how many mechanics a new player has to learn since for me they came gradually. Keep up the good work man, im enjoying this series very much.

[@nobodx]

Innocence is always some sort of benchmark for me to check if a build works or not that boss ramps up the difficulty a lot (edit: typo)

[@gibarix881]

okay, this one is my favorite episode so far... and yes, Fank adds alot to the series. keep up the good work!!!

[@kyle9401]

There are stands near each room that when clicked show you where the door you're going through leads to during lab..it helps to look at those in lab so you're not running around aimlessly haha. Also, mana leech is a thing, you can get it on a piece of gear or there are leech nodes in the skill tree. Then you can drop the mana flask and get a different flask! Edit: also yes get a movement skill. You'll be surprised you've gone this far without one.

[@sebill5395]

you need to stack MANY sources of mana leech for it to work on poison build tho, esecially on scourge arrow lol

[@kyle9401]

@@sebill5395 Yeah I thought about that after lol. I don't do poison builds really so I wasn't sure if there was much of an option for leech for his skill, like if it actually hits for damage or not.

[@TasKitas3]

It has become a tradition to watch your PoE videos on Sunday, great content. In PoE there are a lot of one-shot mechanics as well, but most of these can be avoided once recognized. For example when fighting "Caesar" he shoots a slow moving projectile which splits into bunch of those little projectiles. The main projectile can be easily avoided, if not, it's a high chance of one shot. As for act 6, from here you'll have lower resistance (Thanks Kitava...) once of the things you can do is to open your stats and check defense tab to see how much resistance you have. You can easily add resistances in your hideout through crafting bench of most of your equipment (it is those recipies you have been unlocking)

[@ineedzsleep]

The fact that he always clicks "M" to open the map in every video has me dead

[@NyxVellum]

It's not logical that's it's u

[@ineedzsleep]

@@NyxVellum real, took me a while to get over that, and I still do it whenever I take a week break or so from the game. Sometimes I feel like GGG intentionally did it to get people into the store lol

[@igli4ko]

YEAH i really enjoy the series i would love to see you do more episodes in a week! :)

[@rolandraasch5546]

"if you are in a country with bad internet you are going to struggle against Lilith" - i've never felt more acknowledged, seriously lilith's one hit kill moves have a larger hitbox the higher ping you get i hope you and Frank the Raccoon continue to enjoy the game, and the not using guides for your playthrough is perfectly fine and the appeal of the series in my opinion

[@ledudequiventleshamwow7518]

First of all, I want to thank you bcz in my 2000 hours of poe, I did not know that Kitava was the statue lmao. Secondly, I want to say you doing great. My first couple of builds (even with guides) I struggled a lot with damage and survivability (the worst part was act 6 for survivability as you will probably see), but youve done very good. Congrats and enjoy this very deep and addicting game :)

[@autoglobus]

Just some stuff about the lore since you seem to enjoy it: you are not in any multiverse , it's the same world just time has passed and your actions have changed the world. You killed Innocence (who as a dick that was leading his cult of religious fanatics, remember the flags) which in turn freed Kitava (who unfortunately is an even bigger dick). You tried to kill Kitava, but failed and now the world is messed up with his followers running around making life worse for everyone. So you are now back to the zone of Act 1 , but the zone is not the same because of what transpired between acts 2 and 5.

[@MJR_heyfunny]

Love the series so far and now realizing you are a soulsborne addict then I know you're in great hands with Path of exile because there's always going to be a sense of accomplishment getting beyond any walls you run up against just like those games. Also I have over 30,000 hours in this game and I have never gotten to max level. It's probably one of the things that makes grinding gear games what they are the mega grind that takes you from a pleb to a gigachad build Its a super fun ride going from zero to Hero and so many ways to get there. Obviously you're not opposed to being punished in a game as long as you can learn there is still progression. ^_^

[@NyxVellum]

I also love the souls! Thanks for the nice comment.

[@tonic446]

Been enjoying the series! I appreciate that you are 100% throwing yourself in the game and getting a full-blown reaction. It's a lovely series.

[@klawypl]

i love this series, i even switch from grayjay to yt so i can write comments xD, i love how you approach the game, its refreshing to se someone who wants to understand the game and not just follow the build and get discouraged

[@tangentkatz]

Found you from your Last Epoch first impressions and then had to watch this entire PoE series. I love your style of first impressions/learning a game by playing. Will be watching along with any other games you decide to try out now.

[@ricksmith7063]

Really enjoying this series. I tried POE a couple of years ago but hit a wall in early endgame but was considering trying again for the new league. Your videos have me excited to get started. I learned my lesson, going with a guide but impressed with how well you are 'winging it'. Go Frank!

[@NyxVellum]

Go Frank indeed! Good luck.

[@loveitleaeit]

You have the best content on this so far man! please keep up the good work. Like the way you play is good and you have fundamental gaming sense that so many miss. It has been so much fun to watch this. I can't wait for the next part.

[@theBlindDeafMute]

3:09 so heart of oak directly near Ranger starting point is one of the most efficient life nodes on the tree. you can easily path through it down to your poison nodes instead of taking the dexterity notes leaving your start position

[@jeromeenriquez7835]

can i just say? THIS IS THE BEST thing ive found on youtube, like this takes me waaaay back, love ur videos and i hope you continue to love POE!, true enough, that u need a way to dodge all those skills from bosses and there are a few dashes or arrow skill that will help you do that, there is also an auction house in the game, tho it is on a browser where in people stash their sellables on the stash and make it public for people to see, you set price to it etc, and the people you will buy from or people who will buy from you will whisper you ig for the items. literally LOVE this series enjoy! and i cant wait for you to create another account wherein you now then try to follow a guide or a build, and then compare it to the one you created blindly which was this one and share us ur thoughts

[@kata_strophee5996]

8:01 i am so hyped to see the video to act 6 after this hahaha. Love the Series and the work that goes into it 👍

[@cemi_3877]

appreciate you, you're doing well and making content that is fun to watch. the real fun of this game is the learning how it works and its not straight forward.

[@Cryoptic_]

if u dont want Z aka show loot to be an animated excel sheet, look into loot filters. for a start, its as easy as going to filterblade, getting the simplest filter, and downloading it, putting it into a folder, and selecting it in game. pretty much 4 steps. trust me, the further u go, the worse it will be to not have a loot filter on.

[@opomyron.]

THIS IS IMPORTANT in the passive skill tree you can search nodes like if you want attack speed or hp

[@krokwen]

some auras do reserve a % of your mana, and some of them reserve specific amount depending on gem level. in some cases it's ok to lock gem level to avoid increased reservation. and you have to get a "clarity" aura (yes, it will also reserve your mana, buy the amount, but it will significantly increase your mana regen) if you constantly run out of mana. You can buy almost any gem since 3rd act, from Siossa in library that you skipped... (it's on NW from Scepter of God), and after act 5 you will unlock Lili Roth, who cal sell you any gem

[@NyxVellum]

Thanks again for the tips my friend.

[@selectselectv5512]

This is very refreshing to watch for someone who played this game alot. Keep it up. :)

[@stevensheppard9287]

Honestly awesome to see your perspective on the game without looking at a guide, from the start I followed a guide and I'm now regretting (a tiny bit) that I didn't go in blind.

[@crypt0gyp5y3]

Ballista ballista gang :) glad Frank is there by your side. Good luck in part two of the tutorial

[@SolidusJake]

Was searching up builds for the new league tomorrow and came across this series. I ended up spending the next few hours watching this whole series so far. Love it