Diablo 4 Player Tries Path of Exile For The First Time - Act 7

[@Sometuy11A]

The popularity of this series is crazy. It's a fun watch as always.

[@1MarlonMs]

I hope he start streaming

[@Sometuy11A]

@@1MarlonMs now THAT would be fun.

[@FubzyMC]

Because PoE is the best ARPG ever, period.

[@TheTickyTickyTicky]

@@FubzyMC Not really, it's because D4 is dogshit.

[@Iamconnorlee]

@@FubzyMC grim dawn p good too, just a little simpler

[@mindget]

I wish this series would never end! Love it. Don't care so much about us: In the end we all wanna see you have fun exploring the game we love.

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you! 🫂

[@Johnnyb3g00d]

100%! It’s a ton of fun

[@zswarog]

it ll never end it is act 7 and he miss the league. new leage come and if he want to try it he ll nead make new one

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

He can just do second run with different character, build and class

[@Insane-Saint]

@@Zemlja_je_ravna well thats how it goes anyway with your first charakter ^^

[@DrakeManastorm]

26:46 Einhar is there because when Ancester league ended your character was migrated to Standard league. Since you never played in standard before all the quests with the masters are unstarted. Niko in act 4 will be in a simular situation.

[@NyxVellum]

Ahhhhh, thank you

[@devaryamadhukar8803]

It’s quite unfortunate cause the standard economy is quite stale and it’s generally not advised to play in it unless you have been playing in it for a really long time, I suggest that u finish the campaign do some maps and then start a affliction character that follows a build guide .

[@maudjito]

But if you're a slow and persistent gamer I recommend you to play standard with your old character so you go further in the game

[@masonnelson6710]

@@devaryamadhukar8803 You say this as if Nyx has been going ham into the 'economy' side of the game when I don't think he has even learned about the auctioneering/trading side yet. Given I doubt he will dabble in that, the 'stale economy' or whatever of standard is absolutely moot!

[@bloomleaf8310]

@@masonnelson6710. Does not matter if he wants to go ham with trading or not, Idk how familiar you are with the game as a whole but let’s say he ever wants to do a respec 40 of the items used to refund passives coast $23 in affliction league and 50 in standard, you have virtually no buying power starting in standard, whereas in a league environment saturation is almost never hit on currency like chromatics, jewelers, fusings and regrets.

[@alecsv3906]

Regarding the item management, don't feel pressured to return to town to sell the items, the currency you get back is very VERY inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, you'll get lots of it later in the game as regular drops. If you pick up an item, identify it and find you've no need for it just drop it back on the ground!

[@jethrolionheart182]

This is true however right around the 31 minute mark dude just leaves a six socket item on the ground just my opinion but you should always grab a six socket and vendor it

[@TheDailyRuck]

@@jethrolionheart182 I agree 6 sockets and red-green-blue linked sockets I always pick up. Incase Nyx looks at this selling 6 socket items gets your 7 jewlers orbs and selling the red-green-blue linked items gets you a chromatic orb.

[@TheDailyRuck]

I pick up way too much stuff in the campaign myself and I know I do. IDK why but I feel like I have to pick up and sell every rare haha. That said, buying stash tabs is a great functional use item supporting GGG. I don't care much for cosmetics but I'll buy the hell out of different stash tabs. If Nyx sees this you can buy huge premium tabs, I have about 3 of them, that hold an enormous amount of items you can use as "dump tabs" so when my pack is filled just return to town and dump them in the huge tabs that I've labeled "dump tab" and I just come back to it maybe twice an act. I'll have tons of items but I can generally get through all of them in about 15 minutes. As you said this is probably unnecessary right now but may become more useful for him at end game.

[@jethrolionheart182]

@@TheDailyRuck Yep the chaos recipes may not be worth it anymore but I always grab up anything that gives me chromes or Jewelers

[@Joudas]

​@@jethrolionheart182 Chaos recipes can still be great around act 8-9-10 in a new league. Just stop IDing stuff, do un-id'd chaos recipes, and end up with 40 or 50 chaos by the time you get to maps, that you can use to fix your gear. Much more efficient (IMO) than trying to piece together some worthwhile shit by IDing and scrutinizing drops.

[@cznoobik]

7:49 just about heist: its up to you if youre slow or fast, each chest you open will give you some % of alert, so you need to plan which chest you wanna open, and which not... (you can see what is inside, before you open it) and last item will always give 100%

[@Scheckler27]

How do you see whats inside it? Or do you mean the ones with the icon?

[@trnovsky33]

@@Scheckler27 yeah with icons you know but these regular you do not know it is random

[@randomdamian]

Ye the best way is to try to get like 99% alert and open the last big chest... if you open the big chest (i think its always a red stash icon) the alert will always go 100%

[@VinceMouse]

@@randomdamian You can actually get 99% alert, then open one more chest near the end, then quickly snag the final item before the alarm goes off fully. It's tougher, but it lets you snag that very last chest if you're lucky.

[@josephstafford7741]

Also you don't even have to max out alert level. You can go out before it hits max alert level and stash everything you got to drop. This will fail the contract but you get to keep everything.

[@MartoRoss]

* In your Hideout you can put Lilli as an NPC so you don't have to travel back an forth to act 6, she will also take your sets of divination cards. * Your passive tree while "acceptable" you're "wasting" points, since you are connecting 2 "branches" from your starting point, using several passive points while in reality only need 1 o 2. * Not all skills need to be optimized or used with multiple supports (steelskin for example). * Poison Damage, while its an ailment its based on the initial hit (30% of the combined physical and chaos) same goes for Ignite (fire) and Bleed (physical), but Poison can stack multiple stages at the same time, so you're looking for BIG HITS and FAST Attacks, good supports for Scourge Arrow are: Void Manipulation, Vicious Projectiles, Faster Attacks (for comfort) Swift Affliction, Efficacy. Remember that you need to charge it not "spam" it * Elemental Damage can't poison (under normal circunstancies) so any modifiers to elemental damage are "useless" * Check out your elemental resistances, they need to be at least 70% (keeping in mind the -60% res and that you'll get upgrades later) after Act 10 * If you press Ctrl you have a second action bar, I recommend that you put your auras there so its easier to re activate them when you die. * Heist (the steal league) each Rogue has an specialization to do a contract (each type of contract has a different reward) * Expedition (the explosion one) you have 4 npc which each do their thingy, the encounter revolves around exploding things and making mobs or chest more "lucrative", Big Heads are big mobs (the most important ones) the pillars give modifiers to the explosion (and the next ones in the remaining chain) they stack so watch out, the chest markers are.. well chest they come in 3 tiers, white, yellow, orange (orange>yellow>white) * The special Icon items are fractured items, the come it 1 affix locked and you can craft as you please and that affix wont change

[@sidian4257]

When you reroll the socket colors of an item with a chromatic orb, the requirements for that item influence the chance to get certain colors. E.g. having an item with a high dex requirement and nothing else will most likely result in 4 green or 3 green and 1 other socket, sometimes 2 green and 2 other sockets, and very unlikely just 1 or even 0 green sockets. On the boots you tried to get 3 red and 1 green socket, you would have needed an average of 227 chromatic orbs for that to happen. If the boots required strengh instead of dex, you'd get these colors with just 4 chromatic orbs on average.

[@amberle01]

though there is a crafting method to get off colour sockets on such 4L items (greens on a STR basis for exemple), just through the crafting station : first, get 2 sockets on the item, then make them green through the crafting station, then chose 3 sockets on the crafting station, if you get a green socket, then it's good, if not, go back to 2 sockets and retry .... same process for the 4th socket, it's usually way less expensive than crafting with chromas since it only takes jeweller orbs which are wayyy more common than chromas.

[@diaaway]

Hope he reads these two comments, a game changer when it comes to fitting your gems on off colour sockets

[@vuinx]

Some quick advice: For your inventory management problem, not everything that the loot filter shows is good. In fact most of it is probably garbage. I there's something that works on your build (i.e. a bow, rings, amulets, etc.) then you can pick it up, identify it with a wisdom scroll and if it's worth keeping then put it in your inventory or equip it, otherwise just drop it. Another thing you've probably heard a lot by now, your resistances are seriously important. Most of the content in the game is balanced around your resistances negating 75% of the elemental damage you're taking. If you have it any lower, then you're taking a ton of damage that will almost definitely kill your character so make sure they're at 75% at all times, except chaos resistance which you should just try to keep above 0% Hope you have fun with the rest of the game :)

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you for the tips!

[@noxyoshi]

I agree, you are the ultimate filter when it comes to POE. Diablo kind of created a bad habit that you must loot everything. In POE you want to loot things that's worth your time, otherwise your losing time from progressing/farming. Also, for the *pacing* of the game, your doing fine. Eventually you'll find out some quests you can skip, and others you won't have to interact with npcs unless it's necessary. POE's questing continues as long as you remember and know the steps that is required for each one, and you just talk to the npc to get the quest reward. All and all, best to have fun, and learn as you go. Took me a bit of time to progress in POE to the point i am and there's always so much much more to learn.

[@Bigfootuss]

@@NyxVellumAnother thing about the resistances is spell suppression as well. Spell suppression basically halves the amount of damage you take from spells and most of the elemental damage that you take is from spells. In order for spell suppression to be truly useful, then you will need 100% spell suppression in total, which you can get as a modifier on either boots, gloves, helmet, body armour, or a shield, so keep that in mind! Also, in order for an item to be able to roll spell suppression as a modifier, it needs to have evasion on it, so if you are going for spell suppression, then make sure that you have at least above 90% in order for it to be useful, or if you find a way to make it to be 100%, then you will really feel much tankier than you do now. If you combine spell suppression with capped resistances, then you will literally make it so that a spell does 12.5% of its damage instead of the original 25% when you have capped resistances at 75%. Hope this helps and keep up the good work!

[@sandorvas3954]

@@NyxVellum the filter goes crazy for items with 4-6 sockets or 4-6 links. If you identify those you can get a whole orb when selling them.

[@voidroad]

@@Bigfootuss nah this isnt HC , 70-75% spell suppress and lucky suppress mastery is way more than enough until endgame

[@RepileKing]

Unique(Orange) items are mostly build enablers and very situational. Rare(Yellow) items are usually a lot better while you're leveling as their stats are a lot less restrictive compared to many uniques, although there are a few exceptions. As many people have already said; focusing on getting 75% in all resistances except chaos, and as much life as possible, is the way to go during the campaign. Also, the rainbowed colored currency item in your stash lets you reroll the socket colors on your items.

[@NyxVellum]

Thanks for the tips!

[@mustdy7177]

An important thing regarding the filter - its universal. Regardless of your build, it will show you minion wands with a separate colour. But there is no reason for you to pick them up in such low lvl areas if you are not playing with minions. In addition, the most valuable items during campaign (apart from good levelling uniques) are. 4-5-6 links but filter does not know if you already have 4-link gloves and will highlight all of them. So in a nutshell, even with Filterblade filter, you do see way more stuff than you actually need. Every player eventually will come to the understanding that “there is no reason to pick that up” or even “I do not really need 1-4 quality gems, it is not worth it”. After it is also normal to go and tweak filter for yourself, or pick someone’s already adjusted. I personally have 2 filters - for early league, when it is still worth to check some stuff and collect some divcards for example, and a strict lategame one. Eventually inventory management will be quite easy and swift.

[@LEDit0ut]

A tip for item management. Identify items on the spot. If you won’t use it or deem it trash just drop it back on the ground. You should only be vending the 6 sockets, smaller RGB sockets, and small items like rare jewelry.

[@NyxVellum]

Thanks for the tip!

[@mooncrosser]

Without spoiling anything, the story does not end at act 10. It's just another beginning. There's a lot more to see at what people call "the endgame".

[@kylerocco7467]

I can't wait for his Mind to be blown when he sees how massive the end game is.

[@NyxVellum]

Can't wait!

[@faellyss]

Yeah, the acts are a warm-up XD, the only purpose they serve for many is just to speed-run them XD

[@salihkizildag]

@@NyxVellum man, this has probably been said hundreds of times already, but acts are actually the tutorial and not even 2% of the game.

[@sloesty]

My proudest non pvp gaming achievement of all time is completing all the atlas objevtives. My goodness those end bosses are a joy the first time. Had to try maven 5 times and she is quite expensive to try. I also died too much on my first uber elder run, but he died while i was dead lol. I got the achievement but didnt realize that the map dude picked up my reward so i ran around without the atlas stone for a while lol.

[@kernoleary1394]

As others have said about heists, the alert level goes up every time you open a chest. With the last item always setting off the alarm and locking all the remaining chests!

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you!

[@Stiermediagroup]

This series is fun to watch! You’ve done way better than I did my first run and I’ve been playing for 2500 hours!

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you!

[@Ashgan9]

putting up a portal in maps works slightly differently by changing the entry point. This will be semi useful later.

[@NyxVellum]

Thanks for the tip!

[@SeyrenSamin]

Alright! As a person who plays path of exile there are some tips i want to give you right now, mainly the passive tree. 34:03 by going off of this second, the noticeable passives you should get are as follows: _Charisma_ (above where you start) it gives you mana reservation, which means auras cost less(ps: the aura i mainly use is grace) which means more room for mana and so, less problems. _Revenge of the hunted_ ( right of charisma)solid choice for any person who starts as a shadow, evasion rating and life. _Heart of oak_ (below charisma) good cheap choices. _Swift venoms_ (below herbalism) INSANE DPS. _Multishot_ self explanatory. _Intuition and Quickstep_ doing both together cause of the same purpose; suppress spell damage(something a shadow wants). _Blood drinker, Blood siphon and Clever thief_ good reliable defenses. (Only if you have the regrets, refund constitution. It’s alot of points wasted for things that are a little closer to you.) ASCENDANCY 💫💫💫 you should go for your next ascendancy after gaining access to the ‘blood aqueduct’ in act 9, and doing the ascendancy after that one after mapping a little bit(but idk if you wanna go that far) but pick _Nature’s adrenaline_ it’s ridiculously strong. 🔥🔥🔥extra stuff to worry about!!! Use your crafting bench. You have a decent idea whats best for your armour and you’re getting crafting recipes for your hideouts crafting bench. Sell transmutations for quick scroll of wisdoms. You don’t have to pick up every rare that you see, only pick up bows, quivers and maybe boots and gloves. The orange items are ‘unique’ and are named and have broken stats for the acts. Press ‘C’ to look at all your stats. Click on a custom stash tab and click affinities for it, if done correctly, you’ll get an insta-handy-item sorter(by pressing control and left click) Idk, that’s pretty much it! But this is a super fun series so please continue!💫

[@korenn9381]

"You wouldn't think about putting a heist mechanic in an ARPG" - I'm looking forward to when he encounters Blight! No spoilers! :D

[@Illumina_Blade]

So Volatile Dead is a fire skill. Poisons require Physical and Chaos damage.

[@boniedwa]

Its fire spell, so attack mods won't affect it.

[@RmZD]

What they mean is only physical and/or chaos damage can inflict poison. They don't by default without any chance to poison ofc tho. But even with 100% chance to poison, fire/cold/lightning damage will not apply poison. (unless you have something that says "all damage can poison" but thats an very uncommon thing to find) This rule stands true for all ailments, with ignite only coming from fire damage, shock with lightning, chill/freeze with cold, bleed with physical. Notably physical can apply both poison and/or bleed Lets say you do fire and phys and chaos with one attack with a 100% poison chance, the poison stack applied will only be based on the phys/chaos part of the hit. But the hit COULD apply both ignite and poison, if for some reason you had ignite and poison chance.

[@NyxVellum]

It says 'Dead' in the title. I've been bamboozled

[@evaluator8906]

Hey there, I have two really good tips for you : 1- When you recolor an item using Chroma orbs, the item will get the colors more accordingly to its stats. For example, since your Goldwrym boots are Dexterity boots, you got a lot of greens while rerolling. So getting 4 reds on that boot would be extreemly hard (I don't remember the chances). There are some items with dex/str or str/int stats, which makes them equally likely to hit their according color, the 3rd one less likely. There is another way to do this, which is to craft colors/sockets/links on your crafting table. Generally those are cheaper, but sometimes people would like to try their luck (especially with 6 linking their items, because it really pays off if they hit it) 2- In your stash screen, when you right click the stabs at the top, there should be some options to what type of item can be stored there, also another toggle for that stash tab to instantly recieve the item you Ctrl + left click on (I forgot what this option was named, but there should be a single toggle on there iirc). This way, you wont need to go to that specific tab in order to drop your items. Just set them up correctly, and spam ctrl + left to dump your stuff. Hope this helps!

[@Johnnyb3g00d]

Fantastic episode! It's a lot of fun watching, this series has become one of the things I genuinely look forward to the most. I have a simple/fun suggestion for mana if you are interested. If you take a mana potion, you can do what I call 'blue goober crafting' by using Orb of Alterations on a magic (blue) mana flask. What you'd be looking for is the 'enduring' mod, which says "Effect is not removed when Unreserved Mana is Filled". This way the mana potion just slowly and constantly fills your mana back up after you use it for the full 6 seconds or whatever the time is on it. It's a great way to mess around with the crafting system to solve a problem. You can even try it on a flask you already have!

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you for the kind words

[@kubakutyna7633]

@@NyxVellum you can also look for mana leech on your passive tree. Even little amount makes wonders.

[@josephstafford7741]

Also incase no one has told you, you can lock your skills gems. This prevents them from leveling up. The benefit being that the higher level they are the more attributes they require, or it may cost more mana to cast them. In certain cases you dont want to level certain gems past a certain level. So if a gem for example has a dex requirement of 120 but you only have 116 you can lock it to prevent it from nulling your gear. It will still gain exp to the next level but won't level up until you unlock the gem. If you let it level up anyway without having the correct attribute requirement your gear will turn red and all of its effects and gems will be null. Meaning you get none of the stats on the gear, and the gems you have socketed can't be used until you fix it. You can decrease the level of a gem by taking it to a vendor and adding a skill gem you want to decrease the level of and 1 orb of scouring and it will give you that skill gem one level lower.

[@OneEliteGeek]

General Tips: Search for "leech" on your passive tree. Many people with similar builds use leech to manage mana. Unique (Orange) items are just that; unique. They have modifiers that are special or not usually able to be on that piece of gear. Unless the unique is specifically doing something for you, a Rare (yellow) item will be better. For example, the Skullhead helm is for minions/necromancers so the only positive it is giving is the +10% elemental resistance. Because there is no "gold" system, if an item stinks, just drop it on the ground and keep moving on. Going back and forth to town to sell is not really a good use of time. The items you get in return are of very low value. 7:30 - Opening chests raises your alert level 18:20 - Sniper's Mark and Mark on Hit should be linked. Steelskin is often slotted the same armor piece since is doesn't using get linked with anything. It has no effect with the other gems. 21:20 - Try to stay further away from enemies. Use your Dash. Arrows can fly your full screen length so you should not try to tank any hits. Your defensive layer is evasion which is either a complete miss or a complete hit on you.

[@robertbentley2897]

These videos legit make my day every single time. Loving the journey you're on and can't wait to see what comes after!

[@muy904]

Watching you tinker with skills and experiment was me 10 years ago. That really hit a nostalgia trip. Thank you for continuing this great series. Looking forward to next week.

[@mainmonkey7759]

23:26 in the options menu you can customize the keybinds for all your skill slots to make it easier to use all the skills you want. Also, by holding ctrl you can see that you have more skill slots. I like to set all my auras and reservation skills on my ctrl slots to free up space on the normal skill bar.

[@matthewwilliams431]

Really enjoying your series. You are doing a great job going in blind. Most of my friends that did the same had to give up and use a build guide after the first couple of acts! I love the fact that you are trying new things that seem cool to you even if they dont always work out! My only advice is to keep in mind that most of the damage from your skills comes from the level of the gem itself, so when you are swapping and trying new things out, the gem level will be lower and that is why they don't seem to do a lot of damage initially. Good luck with your journey exile!

[@MrKSCHNOOR]

I must say, i love your series. I play Poe since 4500 hours and it feels like i play this gem for the first time again. Thanks dude

[@LordKilmir]

The content after the campaign is.. extensive. It's far beyond anything any other arpg offers. If you like the game, you can easily triple the "first impressions" episodes once you hit that.

[@NyxVellum]

Oh lawd

[@chemicals8582]

@@NyxVellum On the bright side, it's set up so that you can pick the content that you want to do. Like since you liked heists, you can choose points to make more heists appear. You can also disable the stuff you don't like doing; disabling some content makes everything you disabled appear more frequently.

[@MrBorisMakarov]

Dunno if youll see this or have been told about this, you can set your tabs in your stash to be dedicated to certain item categories i.e. currency, flasks, gems. One of the main things i do is go to the currency tab, right click the top of the tab, select currency, hit the check mark to save. Once thats done when you ctrl + click currency it auto goes to that tab. Repeat with other tabs with preferred settings.

[@PanSurtido]

You might want to try clarity aura, i doesnt reserve that much mana and it gives insane mana regen once you level it up a little. love the series!

[@MrBlind-kr4vq]

Btw you can press ctrl and you can access a 2nd skill slot for your skills instead of hovering for your mouse to replace a skill

[@zombiebear15]

in terms of gear the things that mostly matter during campaign, capping your resistances (75%) lightning , fire ,cold. max life on gear as well. other than that kinda just lookin for colors and links you need! love the progress btw!

[@ydin9]

this is series should be preserved in a museum, taught at programming schools on how other peoples intuitive doesn't translate when implemented. An experienced arpg player at ACT 7 doesn't get the skill linkage game means it wasn't explained very well. You don't know how much I wanted to scream and laugh all the same time when you finally figured the chromatic orb and link gamble and right after it, you sell the bow with 6 sockets. Good lord :D - oh and you need to active the pantheon skills if you want them active, this one I learned on my second character while mapping :D

[@SephonDK]

Always looking forward to these. The excitement is palpable. I love when you're like "what, there's ANOTHER system!?" and then you see a whole thief's town and start doing heist and I can hear you smile in the recording. This game has so much stuff you can do... Won't talk about it ofc. Like to see you discover it yourself. Even the start of the video with you exploring all of Lily's skill gems was amazing. Oh and yea all the skill gems from that shop are bought at lvl 1. So it can be hard to tell which work for you. Some suck at lvl 1 but scale very well, especially in combination with other gems. Looking forward to see what you end up focusing on as you go through the campaign!

[@_Nenn]

I absolutely adore the series - the glee when you tried heist was great; that's what gaming is all about! I've tried to compile a few concepts I've learned myself below - I hope the information isn't too invasive: a. Gems bought from Lilly start at Level 1; a great place to get hard-to-get gems, but they will only be very effective once they level up. Those purchased from gem vendors prior to Act 6 have levels. b. Pieces of gear with many linked gem slots mean a lot! Many players forgo any old gear for a 4-, 5- and especially 6-link. c. Language in this game is exact; for example: 'Can Poison' does almost nothing if you have no 'Chance to Poison' as well. d. Crafting is very powerful at any point of the game; finding a linked piece of equipment, throwing an essence on it, and popping on some resistance or life from the crafting bench is a great way to stay alive! e. You can survive through any attack in this game, given the proper defenses; they usually start with 75% Cold, Lightning, and Fire resistances - Chaos, too, if you're able, and life/energy shield! f. Don't pay too much attention to the game's red, green, and blue colors; they don't directly conform to the normal warrior, rogue, and wizard roles - everyone can find good in anything. g. Better Mana Potions can be bought at vendors or upgraded if you sell three of the same kind to a vendor. This 3 -> something new works with many elements in the game. h. The filter you use has many strict-ness settings - you can up it by a notch from the website if the loot is overwhelming. Some would disagree with doing this this early. i. Focusing on one aspect, such as your poison, is an excellent tactic in the game. Get some 'Chance to Poison' on the tree and then get some 'Increased Chaos Damage' or '+ Choas Damage,' and you'll be set! Anyhow, no matter how you choose to play, thanks for a great watch!

[@loadinggood]

Good work on exploring this game. Hover over "Chance to poison support" and press Alt. Works on many things Compare weapons by checking "Posion damage" on character screen (and things like "change to poison" too) Craft a mod on every of your items with Crafting bench

[@Dreznin]

When you talked about never using Dash, it reminded me of something I meant to post on your last video - you can change the keybindings of the skills and there is also a second row of skills that you can see by holding left CTRL. I personally have one of the second row skill bindings changed to use my spacebar and that's where I always put my utility skill so that I can hit it without moving my fingers off the QWERT/12345 area.

[@NyxVellum]

I put in on Mouse 4 and it's great now!

[@nicolascoral8470]

I love your series. It's amazing seeing you discovering so many systems we take for granted after so many hours of game. It's kind of refreshing and in a way, it's also self satisfactory. You make a lot of mistakes in your gear, tree and gems, but it just puts into light how the learning curve is so great in this game. You always learn things, even after 10 years of playing it. And already I guess you see that you're learning the game hour after hour. I do hope you'll stick around after this series as PoE is such an amazing game.

[@Alex_-_Yu]

People probably mentioned this but the general rule of socket colors is simple: red is armor (str), green is evasion (dex), blue is energy shield (int). If you have for example both evasion and energy shield on your gear piece red color has lower chance to appear while green\blue have higher chance. It can take a lot to get 3 "wrong" colors on 4 sockets gear piece, even worse for 6 sockets. For weapons it's what attributes they require. If you have tight gem setup and you really need right colors, there is a trick with crafting bench that can bypass rng, many people use it and you will need 20+ jewelers orbs (better watch it on yt): bring gear piece to crafting bench, scroll down and find option add 2\3\4 etc sockets to your item, try to have only one socket to begin with (or two but try to get one color that you need before you start) and add 2 or 3 sockets, if new socket has wrong color revert back to 2 and add 3 again, then 4, if no back to 3 and go back and forth until you get it.

[@NyxVellum]

Great tips. Thank you

[@moersertrupp]

14:40 poison in poe is a bit complicated, but the gist is: everything that does either physical or chaos damage can do poison, if you have chance to poison on your gear, the skill or support gems. So you could for example use Seismic trap, that does physical damage, have Herald of Agony for 20% chance to poison, add a poison on hit support for 40% and skill 25% on the skill tree on the far right (the notable is called Fatal Toxins, the 2 small ones before that give poison chance) and you get to 85% chance to poison with each hit. The way poison deals damage is that each hit gives a stack of poison and it deals more damage, the more stacks it have, so to scale the damage of poison you want to hit more often (to get more stacks) , more physical and chaos damage (as the poison does 30% of the hit it applied per stack), damage over time multiplier as a damage multiplier, and increased duration (so the stacks last longer and deal more damage that way)

[@que5650]

Love your vids! Hope you will play next league as well. Would be fun to see you try out a build and interact with trading. Though Softcore trading is a bit much to deal with some times. Keep up the good work!

[@Asin24]

It's good to note you can set stash affinity for something like the stash locker or your stash in general. In the stash locker there is a checkbox in the bottom right that if you click it will cause whenever you control and left click on an item at your stash it will automatically move and store heist items to the Heist locker. Same goes for the Expedition. It can work as well for your stash tabs in your bank if you right click on the tap and click what affinity you want to set it to so that it automatically stashes it in the right tab. Having that set up greatly speeds up your time in town.

[@lowlevelaesthetic8831]

loving this series, I am a lifelong arpg player and playing through POE for the first time while I watch this. Also with no guide, takes too much fun out of it with the guide in my opinion. As I was playing during this act I found boots you would love, they trigger level 5 rain of arrows when you attack with a bow!

[@RmZD]

Heists are very cool, love to see you enjoy them! The rewards from some of the bigger heists are very unique.

[@duke2772]

Here's my small tip: remap the T skill to Space, then use that slot for Dash, it'll help with not being able to use it often

[@NyxVellum]

Good tip!

[@theBlindDeafMute]

I love watching this series as it really shows the places where ggg needs to improve or smooth out the new player experience. Im also liking going through the comments. Theres a lot of good advice in here and its all generally positive. The community as a whole is really the best onboarding system ggg could ask for.

[@Powermongur]

You will first find Alva (Temple) in 'The causeway' - Act 7. You will find these small temples and connects doorways and upgrade and chance rooms. Once you played all the small temples you can the run the temple you put together. Btw you don't have to go back to town every time you find something. Just ID it and throw it on the ground. You will find a lot of the same currencies just by killing monsters that you get by selling items in town.

[@pascaltremblay4249]

Great Continuation! I look forward to these videos every week :) You are at the start of Act 8! which is the point you should be completing your 2nd Lab before moving forward! looking forward to it. But your defenses look a bit scary, better to visit the tip below and use your crafting bench to fix your resistances where you can add a suffix or + life as a prefix. I saw an ''Orb of Binding'' in your inventory, they are an amazing ressource in act 4+. They take a white item that you can buy at the vendor and transform it to Rare WITH 4 LINKS!. Its the cheapest way to 4-link a new piece to replace an item that you equipped early. We can see in this video for the first time that your damage is starting to lag behind which is probably a good reason why you feel the act is so long. At this point almost all your items have at least 4 links as they should which is great, but you are not really utilising those 4 links, i see your main damage abilities using 2-3 links., which is a good reason why. Another easy way to ddip your toes with some entry level crafting is using those essences you have at the bottom of your currency tab on act8 white gear and accessories to hope for an upgrade. Keep up the good work! It was so wholesome seeing your reaction to your first heist

[@DexTheNord]

OK, some information about changing colors on sockets on items. When changing socket color, you need to know that the type of defensive the item has will determine what type of color is most likely to roll on the sockets. When you use a Chromatic orb on an item with Evasion, you get mostly green sockets, On armor you get mostly red, and energy shield you get mostly blue. So the boots you were trying to get red sockets on were evasion rating boots, which means that all the sockets have a WAY higher chance of rolling Green. There is however a little fun trick that not many people know about with the crafting bench (This DOES however require quite a lot of JEWELLERY ORBS), When you use the Crafting bench and place the item in there, in "other" crafts you get the option to craft "two socket", "three socket", "Four socket" and so on, using these crafts the correct way will give you a less pricy way to get "Off color sockets" (An Off color socket is a color which the item does NOT have a high probability of rolling, such as evasion boots rolling blue or red sockets) 1. Use "Two socket" craft on the item you want to color in off colors. This will force the item to have 2 sockets. 2. Use "At least two (Color) sockets" craft to guarantee the 2 sockets to have a certain color. 3. Use "Three socket" craft to force a third socket onto the item, this does NOT re-roll the colors of the 2 sockets already on the item. 4. If the color of the socket was not the color you wanted, use "two socket" craft again to go back to the original 2 sockets. 5. Repeat until you get the correct socket on the third socket. 6. Do this again with the "Four socket" craft, and go back to "three socket" if you do not get the correct socket color. repeat until done. This is something i get to help my friend with every league even tho they have 4,000-5000 hours, it's just soo much in this game to learn so this is something they keep forgetting haha... Hope it wasn't too confusing of a read. Hope you're having fun mate.

[@drakovar2526]

Hey ! Great series, having a blast watching it ! Since backseating is encouraged, here is my part: at some point you where reforging the colors of your new boots, and always getting mostly green sockets. Thats because the colors a weighted (?) towards the attributes required to wear the boots. These were agility boots, so you will mostly get green sockets. Il you want red an green sockets, there are hybrid strenght/agi boots (that give armor/ evasion, also a link between attributes and armor/evasion/energy shield). Anyway, its always good to look at the type of armor you wear, you can deduce the colors the sockets are (mostly) going to be

[@Joudas]

You might have figured this out and just not mentioned it, but I feel like you'd really appreciate making the connection. In act 2, you were tasked with killing the 3 bandit lords. One of them was northeast of the Act 2 town, and the bandit was at a broken bridge. In Act 7, the town is on that broken bridge. Later in act 7, you went through the chamber of sins (which you also explored in act 2), and exited through a tunnel in the bottom, after which you came out through a cave. This cave is where you fought the bear for a side quest in act 2. Following that, you went to a little fort and fought Greust. That fort he was in was the Act 2 town. After that, you followed the same zones you went through in act 2, southwest of the act 2 town, except instead of exiting the act through the vaal temple as you did in act 2, you proceeded past it to Arakaali's temple. Act 8 takes place in the same town you were in in act 3, and if you pay attention to the areas, you'll notice a lot of parallels between act 8 and act 3 in the same vein as the above.

[@NotForAnimals]

*Some stuff I can tell you to improve QoL:* - If you want a better mana / life flask, you can sold 3 of the same flask to a vendor (like 3x colossal mana flask) and it's gonna give you the next better flask of that lineup. In my example, you would get a sacred mana flask. Just watch out for the level requirement. - The best way to deal with mana problem early on (imo) is to get an Enduring mana flask. The Preffix is : #% Reduced amount recovered, Effect is not removed when Unreserved mana is Filled, Effect does not queue. Mainly the mana recovery doesn't stop when when you have full mana again and it's gonna keep going until the end of flask's effect. You'll need some luck but the best way to do this at your level is to use an Orb of Transmutation on a regular mana flask to get it to magic rarity and then use Orb of alteration on it until you get the right mods (Enduring in the name). - You should fix all your flask with the method mentionned above (Orb of Transmutation + Orb of Alteration, enduring is just for mana) until you can get some nice mods on them. RNG can be a pain so don't waste to much time on this because you'll be upgrading / changing your flasks regurarly still. - At some point you're gonna find Instilling orbs. You can use them to enchant your Utility flasks (Flasks that gives temporary buffs, not mana or life flasks) so they'll trigger automatically under certains conditions. For example : "Used when charges reach full" (combined with "Gain # charge when you are hit by an enemy" is really good but harder to get) or "Used when an adjacent flask is used" are pretty nice and useful enchants. - My way of playing Path of Exile (keybinds) : I like to use my mouse buttons for all my major flasks (quicksilver + life/mana + 1x Utility), my right click for my primary skill, Q-W-E-R-T for my other skills (depends on build) and I don't know why but I really like keeping my 'S' key for an emergency flask (like a life flask with the Seething mod --> Instant recovery of X amount of life). I ALWAYS set my 'W' to a travel skill (dash). In my head it's like a "go forward" stuff in a lot of games so I like it that way. - Theres a few different ways to color sockets on an item but you have to remember that the socket color is linked to the item base stats : * Green for Dexterity (Evasion) * Blue for Intelligence (Energy Shield) * Red for Strength (Armour) So the boots you were trying to color at 10:41 were most likely to have green sockets as the outcomes and less blue or red because it was evasion based. If it was, for example, Evasion and Armour based, then green and red would be more likely to be the outcome (compared to blue) - Also don't forget to check out the crafting bench. It's the easiest way to get the colors / sockets you want on an item. There's a better way to color sockets on an item with Jeweller's / Chromatic orb and the crafting bench (to get off-colors) but it's a bit more advanced and there's plenty of youtube videos on that topic explaining it better than I would. (I know you don't want to look for a guide but just saying hehe) - Better the quality of an item (upgraded with Amourer's scrap or Blacksmith's Whetstone), better the outcomes when using an Orb of fusing. - You can hold shift while applying an orb many times on an item so you don't have to select it every time :) - Main skill should be 4x linked at this point, some comments have pointed out some nice tips for your build. With all that said, man you are phenomenal for a first timer on PoE. First when I played on 2013, I made it to Act 2 and wasnt able to kill the boss (I think there was only 3 Acts at the time instead of 10). I've stopped playing and only came back in 2018. Doing all that progression only with Discord / YT comments, it's quite the achievement ! Amazing series.

[@poodlemeister22314]

Watching you explore the new mechanics definitely gives me a few "d'oh!" moments, but in the end, you're having fun, and I'm having fun, and you're exploring a game we all love and giving it a fair shake and goodness, I feel once you get to act 10 and redo the campaign with a new character, you'll appreciate SO much more Also your trial and error of gem combos is so much in the spirit of POE it hurts, I love it PS: Make sure your tabs have the correct affinities! You have a gem tab, make sure the affinity is correct (right click on the tab) and all gems will go to it, no matter which tab is open in your stash! Also welcome to "Fractured items" in crafting! (the 'special' icon items with the blue stuff)

[@nKaero]

Seeing Rogue's harbor be effectively empty made me do a double take - though I guess I am used to doing the seasons and being absolutely blinded anytime I go there.

[@here2RobUNow]

it was right before new league launch so server was empty for realm shut down and also on standard. that's why

[@raven_knight_076]

Honestly not much different from the rogue harbour in ssf on console

[@JasperMoneyshot]

There's a little tip regarding item sockets that might help you out: When re-rolling socket colours the required stats of the item dictate the percentage chance of each socket colour rolling, so an item which just requires x dexterity has a very high chance of rolling green sockets and a very low chance of rolling blue/red. Same for strength with red and int with blue, if you get a hybrid item (for example str/dex requirement) the high chance is split between both colours (red/green) and it has a very small chance for blue. The colour is worked out for each socket which is why you may often see 1 or more sockets which correspond to stats which the item doesn't have, but for example if you had a 6 socket dexterity chest it would be pretty easy to roll 6 greens and extremely difficult to roll 6 of either other colour (thousands of attempts).

[@manifesto1989]

About a inventory managment: - Pick up only rare bows (use wisdom on it, if bad drop it to flor) and armor what you can use and you need to change - Pick up currency - don't pick up blue, big 2h weap, STR armour - pick up all rings and amulets

[@benjaminrosiek5007]

"I don't want to finish the campaign." my guy, I'll tell you a secret. the campaign? it's the tutorial.

[@NyxVellum]

So I've heard

[@DDDHunter]

@@NyxVellum Just be careful and gear up before post campaign. You get another -30% to all resistance debuff once you beat the final quest of the campaign

[@UnsoberIdiot]

@@NyxVellum So you've been explicitly told. Why do you think you get new mechanics and things every act? In maps, there's everything you've been exposed to, and more. And once you've done your first map as the requisite of the tutorial, the hand-holding stops. At that point you're expected to know how to play and how the various mechanics work. (Though tbh they could do a better job explaining the various things you find in the atlas, I assume it's fairly complex if you only use in-game guidance)

[@josefplacek4200]

10:50 So one small tip. Dex(green) items favor Green sockets, Int(blue) favor blue sockets and Str is red. You are less likely to get colors that dont normally appear on such item. ( items can be like 50/50 Str,Dex so U will get both colors there )

[@NyxVellum]

Thank you for the tip!

[@ezechielamigorena4]

hey i've been playing a lot for the last 3 seasons (like 1000h total) and i still feel like i discover a new thing every time i play. it's great to see you discover everything by yourself and seeing you have as much fun as i had, hope you like the end game

[@MariusBurger18]

man oh man, 7 year veteran and you make me miss the days I started playing. 10k hours into poe and wish i was you. busy playing path of exile while watching this and regularly finding myself watching more than playing and dying because i am watching, this is such a good series

[@vaultdweller2811]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but more is totally different from increased, simplified damage formula goes roughly like this (base damage X increased multiplier) X more multiplier = damage Same goes for reduced and less. increased and reduced are super common multipliers but more is much rarer and stronger

[@jogadorjnc]

Btw (a x b) x c = a x b x c

[@Gerix55-w4g]

About the filter part at the end: you can set the "strictness" of your filter on the website, which means how much stuff it should hide. If you sell a full unidentified rare(yellow) gearset to a vendor, so helmet, body armor, gloves, boots, belt, rings/amulted, and either 1 two handed, or two one handed weapon, you get chaos orbs based on the item level. Chaos orb is the gold of poe, and at the start of the season this free chaos orb is really valuable and gradually switch to more profitable methods and force your loot filter to hide the random gear drops And the items with strange icons were fractured gear: one random modifier(or stat) is baked into the item and can't be changed by any means. Endgame gear is based on fractured items with good baked in mods as you have one less mod to worry about for a perfectly rolled gear

[@garudaiv689]

I just wanted to give a quick tip that I wish I knew when I first played this. When doing an excavation, make sure you scroll over the icon and read it over. Along with seeing what kind of rewards you can get, the enemies that pop up will get different buffs, like drain mana on hit and immunity to physical damage.

[@ArcDragoon]

To answer what else could go with your Steelskin. You can link it with Second Wind, which will lower the cooldown, for more uses. Link Steelskin + Second Wind + Dash. This way Second Wind will support both skills.

[@raven_knight_076]

27:45 those are fractured items, the difference between them and normal items are that one of their stats (noticeable by the different text colour) cannot be rerolled, which can be very useful for item crafting.

[@Niviuz]

this is amazing

[@NyxVellum]

Thanks, will do!

[@Abaddon28]

More i need so much more 😢😢 Found you by chance got me to play the game again love your commentary Keep it up🎉🎉

[@theBlindDeafMute]

So regarding your tree- Try adding Chance to Poison Support to your scourge. Poison is a stacking debuff, so the more stacks you add the more damage you do. Scourge arrow is great at stacking it quickly because of all the arrows it creates from its spores. Above your starting point near the Shadow starting location are a ton of notes that increase your chaos damage and damage over time. That area would be a great place to look at for scaling your damage. Additional projectiles has anti synergy with scourge arrow, as they dont increase the amount of spores scourge arrow creates.

[@BalbazaktheGreat]

Re: socket colors So, something that might help you to know is that the chance of getting sockets of the color you want is dependent on the type of armor/weapon in question. A pure DEX weapon (such as a bow) will favor Green sockets over Red or Blue sockets. Similarly, pure DEX armor - like those boots you were trying to mod - will also favor Green. You can tell which type an armor is by the requirements and defenses on it. So, if you want a piece of armor that favors both Red and Green, you should look for one that is DEX & STR (ie, gives Evasion and Armor Rating). You can also use the crating table to guarantee rare combinations of colors to a certain extent, though you'll need to save up chromatic orbs to do it.

[@A_Shovel_Wielding_Guardsman]

If you link manaforged arrows with any bow skill (like frenzy), you will use that skill when you spend a certain amount of mana.

[@Illumina_Blade]

his crafting bench sitting abandoned in his hideout.

[@Insane-Saint]

together with the beastmaster behind the tree^^

[@Liwet.]

You can make your stash work more effectively for you by setting affinities for certain tabs (open a tab and click the name of the tab at the top; be sure to click the checkmark when you're done setting affinities). Affinities will allow items to go into specific tabs when you control-right click the items in your inventory while your stash tabs are open without needing the specific tab to be open. You've got a bunch of non-currency crap at the bottom of your currency tab for instance.

[@Murnerr]

Great Series! Love to watch you enjoy one of my favorite games. Heist is definitely one of my favorite mechanics in POE. It feels like it could be it's own stand-alone game to me, if i had more contracts/blueprints i would live in rogues harbor. Second favorite is probably Delirium :)

[@deceitive3338]

This series has been great man, started playing the game not long before you and it has been fun to watch your journey discovering everything as I did! Re: the filter showing too much, I have made a custom loot filter for bow based ranger character that hides all weapons/armor aside from bows, quivers, and armor pieces that are good for building around (will also show some items good for selling like 6 socket / RGB sockets). If you'd like I can point you towards it, just let me know!

[@RobertCsala]

For better flasks: you can trade in 3 of the same type / same level flasks for the next level one at any vendor. In fact, looking up "Vendor recipe system" is a great idea. Another thing I realised quite late was that you can make a flask magic with the alteration orb, or whatever it's called.

[@joshuapassorelli5246]

I have never looked forward to POE content before, but this series is just so special! It makes me wish I could play POE again for the first time...

[@axzantos4968]

About the itemfilter, you can define your filter to your liking and you can also make it a bow lvling filter with one click, wich will hide all melee and caster gear(red item is melee and blue items is caster gear) wich you dont need to pickup. its just something that comes with expiereince over time whne you keep playing you will learn it eventually. but a good filter will negate your con, but thats something you have to dive into when you want to continue playing this game.

[@MarceloCamargo1]

This series should be 2 hour long per episode

[@touchthesun]

Quick crafting tip: If you have a stack of currency (e.g. alt, chromatic, jewelers etc), you can shift click the item you're crafting and that will continuously apply the crafting currency every time. This saves you having to constantly click back and forth.

[@Deloiz]

You can click the affinity button on stash tabs and heist/expedition locker to have the associated item automatically go in that tab when you ctrl click them from your bag

[@BuzzaB77]

regarding the colour of sockets: they aren't random, the likelihood of a colour is based on the attribute requirements. So evasion boots (dex requirement) will roll mostly green sockets. Armour = red etc etc. The higher the attribute requirement (requires 200 int etc) the higher the chance to roll that colour.

[@Nemorga5861]

Great vids, I had a lot of fun watching it as always. I really hope you'll give map a shot in one way or another, there are a lot of new mechanic to discover in end game :)

[@NyxVellum]

I'm really glad you liked them, thank you.

[@Redbeak94]

Eyy, i caught up with this series. Been playing since closed beta myself. Dropping some pointers: - The "chance to poison" and poison status mechanic can traditionally only apply to physical and chaos type damage. (there are unique items which allow exeptions, like: fire damage can apply poison, but its a rare thing.) - Chaos is a damage type and poison is a seperate mechanic. Do not confuse the two. - Generally for leveling, elemental resistances and some form of life sustain are your go-to mechanics. Experienced players usually sit around 75% elemental resistances during leveling because theyve learned how to filter through the loot and craft items when in need. As someone who has studied game design, i can say it would not be a stretch to say the game has been designed (especially later) around you having 75% fire/cold/lightning resistance.

[@brunoscotto4549]

@nyxVellum : Just so you know, Alva, Einhart, Niko and most of those character are RANDOM , and will spawn randomly after reaching a certain point (Act 7 for Alva for exemple). You can encounter them in act 8and more and also on maps

[@TheNoxmage]

Really good editing, watched all Poe episoed in one sitting. All i ask is more!

[@NyxVellum]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@exzilis4714]

Glad pros and cons are back. Your POV makes for more interesting takes.

[@TrippyRiddimKid]

A quick tip that might help you in doing your own thing while still fixing issues in your build... Most of the bosses are "checks" on your character. The spider, that was a chaos resistance check. Killing innocence was a DPS and fire resistance check. Brine king was a cold resistance check. If you encounter a boss which gives you trouble, identify what part of the boss fight is giving you a problem and look to your gear and stats to see if anything is lacking in that area. Since the spider killed you so many times, you probably need to look for chaos resistance on your gear upgrades, try to get it to at least 0. Later on in the game (endgame bosses) are where the real mechanical skill checks start coming in, so until then, any content giving you issues is likely something you can fix on your build. Also, put your dash on right click, since you left click to move, right clicking to dash should feel natural and youll remember to do it more.

[@saviourself687]

To apply the same currency repeatedly (ie. changing colour sockets), right click the currency, hold shift then click it on the item. If you keep holding shift you can use orb after orb without going back to the stack and right clicking again. ;)

[@HoTeK100]

Another funny and interesting episode, i cant wait for next one. The funniest part is your high level of engaging with Heist mechanic, which in POE community has really 2 sides of the conversation. Some people love it , and the other hates :) Advice below about colours of sockets in armour: Colours on armours are depend on thier base ex. If you have base that have armour - it has high chance to roll Red(armour)socket and low for Green(envasion)/blue(energy shield) If your base has armour and energy shields, same concept- high chance for Blue and Green low for red. I hope i didnt spoiled, GL HF

[@kimmeren1]

This is one of my favorite series to watch, i look forward to every episode. As you're nearing the end of the campaign if you intend on continuing to play poe, you're faced with two options, either try to progress through the map system, which will be much harder than the campaign, or restart on a new character in the new affliction league and try to apply what you've learned so far. personally i'd recommend the latter, you can start with a new blank slate and try to not make some of the early mistakes you made and have a new and better foundation for your next character.

[@SonoLQ]

Tidbits that hopefully don't spoil but help >_

[@cemavci3961]

i'm sure somebody told you before but anyway, when you vendor 3 colored and 3 linked(at least 3 is must) item you will recive chromatic orb (item socket color changer) when you vendor 6 socketed item you will recive jeweller orb (item socket count changer) when you vendor 6 linked item you will recive orb of fusing (socket link changer) Most important of all you need to use crafting bench in your hideout. Click crafting bench and you can drag your item in blank space between golden wings (above craft button) so you can add prefix or suffix your item if your item has any empty slots for them

[@Gmee_]

Really liking the series Wanted to say that your hp isn't bad at all. Usually people follow this rule: ending an act with 300hp * actNumber But you're ranged so you don't need it that bad, you're just 300hp under the recommended

[@NyxVellum]

Slowly but surely.

[@FernandoNSalgado]

I made a coment some time ago but now I could finish the video, and I have a tip: The base item filter that you download is reavealing itens that serve to a vendor recipe. There are many, and one of then is sell one of each item that a character can equip (except flasks) for an special orb (chance, chaos or regal, deppending on the level of the itens). You mostly can ignore the itens on the ground OR you can change the item filter for a more restrict. PS: As I'm writhing this comment, the new league has rolled in, and there is an new ascendecy class that everyone can get that give you an extra bag on your inventory. Fits 2 bows and 4 rings, it's not huge but it's good.

[@Kun_Jutsu]

On full inventory: The only currency you probably ever have to carry are the 2 types of scrolls. You will be able to pay items at vendors with currency out of your stash, without having any of it on you. If you want to craft items, there is a slot in the middle of your currency stash tab, where you´d place your "patient" just for that purpose.

[@weertangel7231]

Good to see that u are still having fun with the game, the thing with damage is that its best to focus on 1 type, in your case Poison. As for bosses, u might wanna look into getting a good single target skill to deal with those, Scourge arrow is mainly AoE and its something u'll really need going forward. As for Heist, u simply did things out of order, same with Einhar, they give u a introduction run so u get to know how it works but u just skipped that so it just stays in your quest log till u complete it. for the rest have fun and enjoy it!

[@sean78745]

So every item base is for evasion, armour or energy shield. Theres also bases that have 2 of each. It takes a little time but once you start learning item bases that fit the build youre running currently you only pick up certain items. You can fit the filter for this as well. Having said that the really effecient people just blast through most acts and start picking up items at like level 60 or so

[@VinceMouse]

Doing streams of your Heist missions could be good content. Heist is also a good preview of end-game gameplay.

[@NyxVellum]

Good to know, thank you!

[@Generiname]

You can have both a minor pantheon (lower several) and a major pantheon (top 4) active at the same time. The items with the circle item next to their name are called 'Fractured Items.' They have an affix that is permanent and will persist if you reroll the items mods. While there is a little visual variation between gear, and some unique items have special models, most visual differentiation comes from MTX.

[@nero526]

Some advice as well for survivability; If you check your character screen you can pull up a detailed list of statistics for your character. This is extremely useful for balancing your defences as it will list your "Elemental Resists" from fire, cold etc. You can use your crafting station to add the elemental resistances you are low on to make up for the gaps. All elemental resists should be at 75% excluding chaos resist or as close as you can get to that. Starting in act 5 your resistances take a massive hit, they get subtracted permanately by 30% and those numbers can also go negative which can severely impact your survivability. One last thing, but next time you have 3 of the same size flask, try selling them all together at any vendor! There are Vendor "recipes" and there's WAY too many to cover but hey, it's another thing to wonder about.