Path of Exile 2: Move Over Ranger, Monk's Turn In The Endgame

[@stalkholm5227]

Path of Exile 2 is the type of game where you look up and suddenly it's 3:43am.

[@rackle1515]

Just a tip, go to settings and enable show life/energy shield/mana numbers. Don't know how people can play without showing those numbers.

[@tomekk.1889]

By looking

[@W1nDs0R]

@@tomekk.1889 Except you don't really know without the numbers because then it isn't clear how much an upgrade is actually increasing your Health pool / ES. This means you have less insight if you're lacking the numbers. It's much harder to tell how an item change is effecting the totals when multiple nodes are also influencing the stat. The full health globe doesn't indicate total max health or ES.

[@headboil]

The values appear up when you mouse over the globes

[@jordan_goes_in4378]

Because hes a noob.

[@artemkoropotkin3047]

​@@W1nDs0RI don't like having those numbers always on, just more clutter on the screen. When I'm upgrading a piece of gear I just mouse over the ES, mana and life pools.

[@dmdiablo4]

Try cold infusion on herald of thunder and lightning infusion on herald of ice. Makes explosion larger and jumps the gaps. Requires you to have good damage but much higher map clear. Glad you’re enjoying it cheers

[@Greeblio]

Chain explosions are the only kind of joy for me that justifies playing melee attacks over Archmage in the current state of the game. I also think way more of the existing melee skills should have the snappy short-range dash animation that Ice Strike has.

[@thezonedoc]

How do i get the herald skills to trigger? I have 30 spirit, but does anything happen?

[@Maldo666]

A tip : in the options (Game I think) you can adjust your minimap transparency. For clarity many people push landscape transparency to 100%, so you only see the outline of the map. You can push that to maybe 50% too, so you can have it as overlay all the time without it being too blocking. But it's a matter of taste also, may be you prefer it this way.

[@upside9485]

The ascendancy is literally my biggest complaint. Pubishment in maps is my second. Try out Rax version of the monk. Very similar to DM, but bigger explosions

[@artemkoropotkin3047]

Pay 35 exalts and get a carry for the fourth ascendency. Takes a few minutes and you get all your 8 points to allocate.

[@lordsincross]

7:05 Very accurate sniper mobs (the spear centaurs) combined with evasive (you don't hit them right), multiple projectiles (several spears per attack) and corpse explosion with you sitting on top of a bunch of them... Those were some very difficult mods for you, which happens to all of us. 😊

[@Hanar_Spectre]

He dashes into the lightning explosion right as it goes off.

[@spencers1485]

Its good to give trade a chance tbh. GGG probably has the most thought out in depth tested design philosophy for arpgs and trade is one of their main pillars to making a good game. It doesnt mean its for everyone but it also shouldnt be so easily dismissed.

[@ryanwidmer5311]

This information is readily out there by most creators, so I assume you know this already Paul, but if you do Trials of Sekhemas, make sure you are using Relics that cap your honour resistance to 75% and you'll have a way easier time. I know most ppl don't find this mode fun, but if you think of it like a proper long-term progression system by doing runs to get better relics, you can gain an appreciation for just how easy it becomes. Monsters telegraph their moves and in melee, they're super easy to dodge. If you get hit, you'll take like 20 honour of your 6k+ because Energy Shield gives you so much max honour. You can get relics that let you scout ahead and avoid the worst afflictions or obtain amazing boons. It takes some work but the systems are there for the mode to become quite easy, yes even for melee.

[@ryanwidmer5311]

This all being said, I appreciate it's not content for everybody and would probably be better relegated to the side like it was in POE1, but even pre-nerf to Sekhemas melee damage, it was quite easy for my Monk, who is playing almost Paul's exact build, to get to the end of Floor 3 with pretty much full honour almost every time. I'd recommend ZiggyD's Sekhemas guide if anyone is struggling with it.

[@Thleepricon]

TIP for Waystone sustainability: You can reforge 3 maps of a lower tier to get 1 map of the higher one, and Map bosses usually drop 3-4 Waystones on death.

[@bigimportantman1544]

I’m REALLY liking the way my shock Witch Hunter build panned out. One thing that actually helps is I have a pure DPS weapon with a skill tree & a defense/utility weapon with a separate skill tree that’s optimized for situational defense, CC, & life leech. I’m not sure if other classes get the same benefit from running a double weapon set build… but I haven’t seen any PoE content creators make builds that actually try to take advantage of the weapon swap mechanic.

[@DreadedLad88]

I enjoy trading as a second activity. Aside from just playing the game, I enjoy learning the trade market and trying to amass as much currency as I can(Which I usually gift to random lower level players when im done with a league, or season in diablo)

[@aronhill6353]

Happy new year Paul, glad you're still enjoying PoE2

[@Hanar_Spectre]

Gotta stay in the fog for delirium. It'll be blowing in a specific direction if you watch it. Breach is just blowing things up. For the trails: Sanctum just look for relics that give you honour res>merchant options/addtl room view. The vaal one.. just hope you get the bird early when you don't have tons of mods. Waystone sustain: Hunt for boss nodes. Nice Herokiller you have there.

[@plyczkowski]

How about delirium fog that does not move? Happens to me sometimes

[@Maldo666]

Ultimatum (Chaos trial) is a hard pass for me. I prefer Sanctum where at least you can influence your run, make them progressively easier, and the bosses suck less.

[@Hanar_Spectre]

@@Maldo666 I find 3 floor sanctum way easier than 10 room ult but 10 room + boss ult way easier than 4 floor sanc.

[@tygravius5]

Yeah in poe1, around lvl 90-94 is when I just accepted it wasn't going to lvl up anymore. There's a point where its just not worth worrying about cause of deaths/-xp. Then of course you're not thinking about it and all of a sudden your a quarter away from leveling up and go full defense mode to squeeze out another level. The game knows when your about to lvl up. Throws the hardest yet juiciest maps at you lol

[@Maldo666]

The fact you're making it to lvl85 and 89 is actually great, especially for a "noob". Most people (even in poe1) don't even get that far. Actually very few get to 100, it's an achievement (well, you can be carried, but let's not talk about that). The way to play is to set your own goals (it could be reaching 100, or killing this or that boss or pinacle boss, or even just reaching high tier maps, which was for a long time the goal for me in poe1 😅). May be you can reach them, or you push a build or a few until it's no longer enjoyable, you're burned out on the game... but you'll be back the next / in a few leagues, and try again 😁 So welcome to POE, exile 😁

[@ejliann]

Happy New Year! Good to see you're still enjoying the game? It's definitely a subjective reaction, but my personal experience is that while PoE 2 is not necessarily a bad game, it is one that feels very much like GGG designed "challenge" by just making everything a chore. Difficulty is not really a big issue with this game since it's focused around learning and understanding. But everything I've done feels like it's purposefully made to be a chore. From levelling to finding gear to crafting. Even the current endgame system feels more like a chore. I know they don't want this game to be easy and something you can accomplish in a few hours of grinding. But personally I find their current design philosophy being one of challenge without considering fun. Obviously "fun" is also subjective. But again I don't know how many people truly enjoys challenge defined by tedium. Which is what I get from this game. I am a big arpg enjoyer. But so far this game feels like "fun" is the lowest priority among everything else.

[@Maldo666]

I agree, and I wonder to what extent it's due to the fact that it's still a new game with, compared to PoE1, little content. We have relatively few endgame systems, the carfting has been gutted, and the archetypes aren't all there. Plus it's obviously early access. So I wonder if they have consciously made the decision to make it tedious to inflate the play time, or if it was just bad design.

[@DrReverendJ]

There was a copy of the same rare, so maybe that one procced corpse explosion on the rare you just killed, or used one of the 2 other explosion effects it had.

[@ryanwidmer5311]

He actually never even killed the first rare. If you watch close enough, you'll see it was just frozen. I do think there are deaths in this game that can be BS but this isn't one of them. He dove into two quintuple-modded rare mobs with clearly a lot of elemental signposts (lightning and chill around them). That should give anyone some caution just by how they look. I know this game doesn't train people to look at mods, but you really should if you want to live particularly when you have multiple intimidating ones like this together.

[@DrReverendJ]

@@ryanwidmer5311 Yeah, you're right I had to watch several times before I saw the first one was frozen not dead. Don't think it was a wrong choice to dive in and try to nuke them before getting nuked, this game punishes you if you don't act quick. Rare/mod clarity should be a lot better than it is, I wish rares glowed or had some other sort of obvious visual indicator that things are about to get rough.

[@ryanwidmer5311]

@@DrReverendJ Those rares literally were electrified and had frost all around them. If people are running in without even taking a gander at their mods, as slow as they are, then maybe that's why I don't die as often as they do. Seriously. I have quite literally been in the situation where I begin to blast rares like that, see some shit happening, and then run the hell away until I can see what they have. He had plenty of opportunity to do that but you know the saying.. overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

[@plyczkowski]

You seem to not be picking up lower tier waystones. You can combine them into higher tier ones at the reforge bench.

[@AstonMartinStig]

Holy shit, never thought Paul would out neckbeard me in a game.

[@B-Str0]

Monk had become my new main and I love it

[@Ascent9]

I think your issue of why you can't blow up bosses as fast is because you aren't using tempest flurry. The additional attack speed that that skill has over ice strike allows you to ring the bell so much faster and it pairs better with charged staff as faster attack speed with charged staff really allows you to do more damage. You can still deal a ton of cold damage by passive skills +5% damage on the passive tree and +10% from your ascendency to allow you to freeze. That paired with the ability to electrocute on your tempest flurry keeps your power charges up with combat frenzy. Just with the current state of the game cold monk with ice strike is worse than lightning monk.

[@RandomFactor]

Love the bell, love to gong it up

[@monkeyjamzter]

Do you have honour resist?

[@tambulee]

Happy New Year 🎉

[@Zainowb]

Looks like you got shotguned by the rare's range attack. He had the additional projectile modifier so when you are standing right in front of him and he throws his spears they all hit you at once instantly killing you. Outside of on death effects this is how alot of people end up dying, getting blown up by overlapping projectiles or abilities. Sucks that you have to read so many modifiers to tell what the rare has, but in this case if he is throwing multiple spears in the cone shape you can figure out he probably shouldn't be firing that many spears normally. Love the videos man keep it up.

[@visserin]

3:41 once a destiny player always a destiny player

[@shivasanjeevmana]

Hp in general is weak in poe2 but 1500 hp in maps is spicy nonetheless.

[@ZonkIsDead]

i still havnt been able to figure out how every content creator has there drops look different and stand out more.

[@brandenbrewer3864]

Loot filters

[@InnerRise]

Always disappointed when we dont get to see you in the videos. 😅😓

[@NinjAsylum]

I just couldnt get into Monk at all. It feels soooo weak in the early game. I'm sure its great once leveled but you die so much early on.

[@Kjarrigan1]

Build diversity is not a thing at the moment, what? I see diversity all over the place, don’t just look up the Main PoE Guides dude I‘m currently playing a Chronomancer with Weapon swap between Spells and Crossbow Skills in T15 Maps, builds are super creative and different if you take the time to look further.

[@Helldive713]

You lied about the black myth wukong exclusively deal with sony

[@MunchenerFrance]

By your name I see you may be a Sony fanboy, therefore not worth the effort to argue with (appart from pure entertainment)

[@Helldive713]

⁠@@MunchenerFranceNothing to argue about only speaking the truth the truth always wins it’s undefeated

[@Butterthanever]

Go play Indiana Jones

[@mattf.5247]

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