This League is EVEN BETTER THAN EXPECTED! - First Impressions

Zizaran shares his thoughts after his first session of Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur.

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[Chumgo]

PSA: If you're still in early maps and don't have capped chaos res/freeze immunity yet, block ritual. The affliction mobs are hitting really hard and will slap you six ways from sunday with chaos hit damage and cold damage tracking orbs that will freeze lock you.

[Some_Awe]

something i really like, that i kinda missed before, having a functional place to go walk around in that feels part of the world, kinda like the delve area and menagerie. im more invested in the mechanic seeing the farms work and ships come and go.

[amrcombs]

Day one?
Most would consider a full days play as like 8-12 hours
31 hours later...

[slobrat]

I hope this goes core in poe2, I love building my own city up. Haven't had a divine as a drop yet, but got a divine from a shipment.. which is wild to me

[psychokevv]

Melee still sucks, the numerical buff and removal of totems helps with simplicity, but the big dmg builds are all gimics and never really available from just having good stats, the biggest problem with melee still exists, and it's that melee, specifically strike skills, are limited by 2 different forms of accuracy, 1st is the numerical accuracy that pretty much is a necessity on the passive tree, because most other stats don't matter if you can't hit your target, and 2nd is physical accuracy, actually being able to connect your weapon to the enemies hit box, the reason why it's still bad is because if you don't have an insane amount of attack speed, the enemies will just move out of the way before your swing connects, coupled by the fact the the player is forced to remain stationary while attacking is what makes melee bad, from what weve seen in poe2 ggg, has addressed this issue to a degree, but only time will tell, in the mean time, stick to aoe

[foxdavion]

Like I said before, best state the game has been in 5 years. With that said, there is a really big bug, but Ziz likely hasn't encountered it yet. There is also occasional massive lag spikes in Kings Landing (Sorry, Kingsmarch - it's a meme get over it) which causes low end computers to crash the game (all it does to high end machines is freeze the game for a few seconds).

[PPG]

This game is so damn amazing its not even fair to any other games in the genre. The only downside I have is I went trade cause of the market but wish I woulda just stayed in SSF I guess I'll just try to push my build to the limit as this is my 1st trade league

[Claxeius]

I’m not a huge ARPG player and only got to act 2 of the few leagues that I played it. But with what they added in 3.25 I’ve been hooked and currently on act 4. I can’t wait to finally get to maps.

Edit: I know everyone says follow a build guide. But me personally I’m kinda following one and putting my own twist on it and running a Cyclone Juggernaut.

[ThorgrimGrudgebeare]

i love poe and i love this league but ffs for so many ppl the performance is so bad. like i cant do blight, legion, deli.. anything that spawns a lot of monsters. All of this is getting worse and worse from league to league and it seems like GGG has just given up at this point. They are not even responding to forum posts anymore. And this goes for ppl with good pc's too not just the ones with old rusty buckets. just drives ppl away from poe

[Jroflsburg]

The leveling this league was really fun. I felt like I always wanted to go back to town or my hideout to upgrade some new piece of gear I got with currency that I didnt feel stupid for using (chaos orb, alchs, etc. Maybe I got lucky with currency drops but it felt really nice having a little bit of pressure to not waste it, but not so much that you feel like an idiot because you wont see a chaos orb until maps if that makes sense. Good times!

[TropeHatComics]

"my gear is pretty bad"
I feel that, i am in yellows and i am still wearing a Stone of Lazwar i dropped in act 2 (mind i am a ice Nova build so the cast speed is nice)

[xarius]

I don't know what game you're playing but this isn't good at all.
Every decent BASE craft item is being gate-keeped and kept at extreme prices that most average players can't afford JUST FOR THE BASE.
The flippers and crafting base gate keeps have ruined this game worse than any exploit ever could.
They need a 3-7 day trading block on any gear items traded between players. Something to stop all the flippers and gate keepers from playing Path of Economics instead of path of Exile.

[tubinauta]

Remember, today people get caught farming thousand divs per hourwith exploit, another league ruined in economy, ssfor clown :(

[bennym]

Good video and build. Will any changes you made be updated to POB/Maxroll ? Plan to play this once I can get into game...

[anthonylowe]

I agree best league I’ve played in a while. And it feels like there’s a lot of options for builds and different playstyles this league especially. GGG has blessed us yet again.

[Aelwyn]

Others have said it, but, just in case GGG sees these comments - I REALLY hope this season mechanic goes Core.

[methos]

I am following your guide, although making some adaptations of my own, it feels good but I feel I need more damage still. The currency exchange is the best thing ever, most of my gear I was able to craft just by selling/buying stuff there, also the city is hard to keep running but it provides a consistent flow of basic currency and some useful items from time to time

[Bmacthesage]

Im a delve main, and Settlers definitely feels like a mechanic i can semi focus on and get good currency out of it. Ive not really been able to make high amounts of currency before with other leagues, so hopefully this will be able to give me enough to get to the bosses this time.

[dairiskuznecovs]

i really like the league
but the 1 in 3 chance for the game to freeze completely on loading screen is painful af

[MrArbaras]

On my Glad, I tried out eviscerate and imediately shifted plans to a retaliate build. My first ascend became 50% block, I began oneshotting entire screens, and got the retaliate ascension nodes. There is a little clunkyness to the skill as a main damage option, but with the chance to not go on cooldown it feels so awesome