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The Medicine Pool was much more a pre-IOs thing. I can't fathom finding room for it on a build now.

Just a quick general observation. Nothing should require 2 End. More so using level 50 IOs as that's near 3 SOs in terms of numbers. A single target attack should be 1 acc, 1 end, 3 damage, and maybe 1 recharge. Multi-target attacks do 2 acc, 1 end, 3 damage. Dehydrate needs acc. Geyser, Whirlpool, and Tidal Forces slotting is all sorts of no. They are attacks. Slot them as such. You don't really want to slot Def Debuff into Stream Spray unless it is a proc. More power to you if you can get to 50 without a travel power, but I can't fathom doing so. You need the Defender IOs to help with Ranged Def as that will be the easiest to cap.

To add, Kin is built for speed. Propel's animation time is long. If you need to pop a quick Transfusion while using Propel, you are stuck waiting. Wormhole comes late and has KB which Grav doesn't default into controlling so you need an IO for it since Kin really doesn't like KB on average. I think Grav could use some tweaking regardless of what it pairs with, but more so if you want to pair it with /kin.

As stated, WP being on a melee type with a bigger HP pool is going to offer more regen and thus be better. Just note Spin on a Scrapper has a shorter recharge than any other AT. Picking an AT for Claws is mostly about how offensive versus defensive you want to be.

Whatever tin foil.

The game hasn't been around for 20 years. Certainly not with an actual dev team. I wouldn't call the horde of bugs this game has as anything else. Hell, I play another game with an active dev staff for over a decade and that game has bugs rather easy to see. Saying fixing bugs is anything to do with the devs trying to nerf farming is straight up tin foil hat wearing.

You found one that hadn't been posted in 3 weeks, So...

I highly suggest never playing Path of Exile.

Generally speaking. 1. This is not a normal situation. A normal situation is where we are playing on an actively licensed product paying whatever the cost the publisher is asking for. 2. What happens in a normal situation by no means says it needs to happens here. Doing things for the sake of tradition can be and certainly has been bad practice. More so in the current era. At some point it helps to read the room. The internet in general, social media, etc has greatly altered what is expected interaction. 3. Correct, this is their server. If they wish to do something to the server, then by all means, they don't need to keep me up to date with their changes. This is not, however, their game. 4. HC at this point is far more by the fans for the fans. Doing a dev's log isn't exactly radical. Neither is doing a AMA, Any interaction with the devs here get huge positive reactions. I mean, see the link for what Path of Exile did for power changes. Is that asking that much really? I also backed a KS for a board game. The publisher did numerous polls asking the backers what they wanted in the final product. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3228807 5. I'm fine with not agreeing to the reasoning of a change. I sort of don't get removing AE from Atlas although it should have never been there in the first place, so bygones. What irks some of us is simply making changes without telling us why. Again, Burn was bugged. We know this. But why the recharge change? Was it still a bit too uber even after the bugs were fixed? (shakes Magic 8-Ball) "Try again later."

I know the procs and such were bugged, but was Burn's recharge really that bugged?

Good luck with them leaving bugs in.

This requires taking RofP. In farming builds it wasn't being taken because people weren't looking to farm with a build which was ideally faceplanting. I'm just glad I all but retired from dual boxing before Page 4.

Rad/fire Brutes got hit rather hard. A bit justified due to the bugs, but yeah.

Also, my first farmers didn't have capped Fire Def. I just used purples as needed. I've made three farmers across live and HC, and in all honestly, I would likely pull up the auction house 99 times for every time I farmed. I vastly only farm to dual box these days.

I would point out Ice melee because it is awesome, and it offers control for the Fir Blog mission so many hate. I've done IM on a Brute and working on a Stalker as that's where it is best.

The game is not officially legal. The Homecoming team has talked to the publisher numerous times to enable what you see as being a thing. There are other groups of people doing similar. As long as these are done for non-profit, the publisher has no qualms with what is being done. There is a team behind this site and effort and it is their responsibility to make sure 2-3 go smoothly. Honestly, I'm not sure I have seen a spam post, or at least one in ages. I've used the download link three times across different computers including a work one, so yeah, I trust the link. Thousands of people have downloaded this version of the game. Roughly 1k of people play on the most popular server on a daily basis. The biggest impact for playing the game will be having a dedicated graphics card. You can do so without, but certain maps and situations will raise issues if you are using an integrated card.

Except an at range Claws would also be skipping Spin which I would consider the build to be gimped. At least a Stalker gets AS instead of Spin and that version still sucks. No FU and Spin? Are you trying to do anything but tickle a mob?

There are a number of Controllers who can lead depending on how you play them. Ill and Dark can send in pets. Plant has Seeds. Mind and Elec can use Sleeps to lower alpha strike. I find Controllers to be some of the most versatile ATs the game has. Outside of that, the Epics/VEATs would win out. I love my Fort and all of the stuff he can do.

A slower but hefty attack set like War Mace might be easier since it will offer less clicking. The only con there is you would want to lean on a Primary with +recharge.

Stalkers getting /stone pretty much got rid of the argument for certain ATs logically not having certain powersets. StJ feels like a 'fixed' version of SS. Also, if Scrappers got SS, Stalkers should as well, and lordy FS while Hidden and Stalker ATOs.

Outside of theme, Power Sink + Short Circuit is a good way to drain a mob so there is synergy in the pairing as well.

There have been times where I wanted to just say what level I was and leave it at that. HC is so neutral to any specific AT I just have accepted unless specifically stated, your AT doesn't matter. If someone says level doesn't matter, just send a tell asking for an invite.

Two PBAoEs, no self heal, and no +end. You can proc Health and Stamina to get some HP back, but that's also partly impacting how much end you recover and the two PBAoEs are going to push you to want a lot.

This is very dependent on who you are fighting. I do believe it was Nosferatu who humbled one of the better builds.

One of the fastest to faceplant situations I have seen was on one of my /fire brutes, and they weren't using a farming build. I base this off of any map and as high of a diff setting as I can deal with solo.