Path of Exile (catchier than "free-to-play Diablolike")

[Macheath]

Okay, so here's something else I want to try. Follow along with me here.

A Marauder. Right? A Marauder dual-wielding wands. Is that amazing or what?

[Macheath]

Also, I just realized that if you count the frames in the Tibetan sequence at the very end of video #2, and take into account that I was capping at 29.97 FPS... it was less than 1/3 of a second between the instant that yellow Mammoth Plate appeared on the screen to when Drewbie scooped it up. Bravo!

[Gnorlin]

From what I've read you pretty much don't use wands once you get to higher levels. so you could probably do it but it wouldn't be that great.

[Macheath]

Even if you're dual-wielding them, and you have all the wand damage/accuracy/etc. powers? I don't buy it, mister.

Actually, I suspect you don't really get to shoot two wands if you're dual wielding them. You probably just get the stats from two wands -- which, while way better than a wand + focus, is probably not worth traveling across half the map and expending a ton of skill points.

I just have this vision of a huge burly barbarian guy clutching two tiny wands and firing off mana-free concussive blasts at an incredible rate, and it won't get out of my head.

[nynnja]

The "Noisy Cricket" was your favorite gun from MiB wasn't it.

[Macheath]

Wasn't it everyone's?

[Macheath]

I had no idea how power charges work, but this thread clears things up. There's a skill you can get called "Power Siphon" (I don't think I've ever seen it) which, if you use it to hit something with your wand, will give you a power charge. You can stack two power charges at any given moment, they last for a finite number of seconds (10?) and then fade away, and they each boost your crit chance with spells. So I guess you'd use Power Siphon a couple times, then cast spells, then mix in another Power Siphon or two periodically to keep your stack at 2 and your crit chance maxed.

[Macheath]

Also, I just realized you can load up your character's equipment, inventory, stash, and build through the POE website.

[Gnorlin]

You can increase the number of power charges using your passive tree. I think I've seen 3-4 of them for each "class" of power charge (there's one for strength, one for int and one for dex) they have different names and have their own trigger skills, but I think their function is the same.

[Macheath]

Guess who's level 14 and striking a blow for gender equality in her hilariously oversized helmet?

HAMMERWENCH!