The MedianXL 2017 v1.3 SP Miniguides Compilation

Valkyrian wrote:What happened to Legion Commander? I can't find the mini guide anymore. I was following it and went back to it for reference and it's gone.

Think it got replaced by the M2017 holy gladiator guide, seems better all around.

I recruited a follower called Raldin (from this guide https://forum.median-xl.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=574 i think he is a Necrolyte. I dont understand what weapons I should give him. I dont get it why only? 1h swords work, and nothing for casters)

Is there another place (other than http://docs.median-xl.com) to learn about crafting. There it lists mostly the changes from previous version, not an idiot guide (for me)

Or should I just experiment ingame

Should I care about crafting later? I am only in A5 normal now

PS: can you explain this mod on some weapons: % chance to reanimate as. ?
My favourite build in PoE is animate weapon. I know there is a sorc melee here with that but I also wanna know about that mod.
My boots have also: 1% chance to reanimate as dark templar :-8

Cheers

fitsu wrote:Hi, i'm new to median xl (having never really played it before) and wanted to try it since the 2017 patch.

I'm looking for a noob friendly melee build that's able to kill decently fast and doesn't need huge amounts of gear (as I currently have none ). I've already made a barb following your "Die Hard" build although due to the patch and things being moved about I don't know if it works the same (for instance you recommend using thunderslam to stun packs but that skill is both moved and requires axes now) so if it could be a barb one that would be awesome but if there is another ud recommend I don't mind rerolling. Any advice would be much appretiated .

the barbarians have suffered the most changes , therefore they will require the most work to be done for updating . Die Hard will also be re-adjusted to the new patch due to the new uberskill that grants that huge chance to block + the skills re-arrangement . I estimate to start updating the barbarians somewhere in Jully and will probably take me at least half a month since the compilation includes a big number of barbarian builds + probably untill then we will have a new balacing patch coming out and i don't want to waste time working twice on the same thing . For now you may use the info i gave to Aciros on page 60 .

Vyvanne wrote:Thanks so much for your guides, I remember following some way back many years ago and always found you to be very helpful and with some great builds. I did have a question for you regarding your Xena melee sorc. You go with Lightning/ice , how do you feel a Fire/ice build would work? I've been playing around with Living Flame/Firedance and have been really liking it so far. Does the avoidance and armor bonuses outweigh the flat life and damage bonus?

during it's existance (since about 8 years) Xena suffered a lot of changes as new patches came along . It had all possible skill trees combinations untill now . Every combo is viable , and now that the fire tree got a bit boosted i'm sure it's worth a try (it was actualy a fire-lightning build when it was first created ) . in order to survive well in the hard ubers , Warp armor is a "must have" . if you skipp that and go for the cold tree instead , you will need to focus a bit on your summons (gear) and have them arround for extra tanking .

Valkyrian wrote:What happened to Legion Commander? I can't find the mini guide anymore. I was following it and went back to it for reference and it's gone.

as i wrote on the previous page , the holy melee builds (Legion Commander and Maximus) have merged into one miniguide , as the skillplan was updated to be the same for both and they were only a bit different on gearing . Maximus is the one who stayed , the updates on him will be finished in 1 or 2 days . The prophet might suffer a similar faith as the Legion Commander , but for now it will stay where it is.

wasabimousse wrote:I recruited a follower called Raldin (from this guide https://forum.median-xl.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=574 i think he is a Necrolyte. I dont understand what weapons I should give him. I dont get it why only? 1h swords work, and nothing for casters)

Is there another place (other than http://docs.median-xl.com) to learn about crafting. There it lists mostly the changes from previous version, not an idiot guide (for me) Or should I just experiment ingame

Should I care about crafting later? I am only in A5 normal now

PS: can you explain this mod on some weapons: % chance to reanimate as. ?
My favourite build in PoE is animate weapon. I know there is a sorc melee here with that but I also wanna know about that mod.
My boots have also: 1% chance to reanimate as dark templar

Cheers

i would recommend replacing the Necrolyte with a Bloodmage as it will prove himself more usefull . either option you choose to use , make sure to equip them with gear that provides extra %spell damage / -enemy resistances / life after kill + socket perfect gems in their sockets to boost their max resist in order to survive longer .

you should start caring about crafting once you can do terror fauztinville easy enough to farm it for shrines , as you will need a lot of shrines to get a decent craft .

the chance of reanimate as "x" makes refference at killing crowds and using their corpses to reanimate as what your gear sais it will reanimate . they are decent for tanking , if the build you use can't tank well enough by itself and it is also not using minions . They can be quite strong actualy (check this topic here for more info viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1827 ) . If you play as necro or use

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Amulet
Required Level: 110
Item Level: 110
+1 to All Skills
+50% Bonus to Poison Skill Duration
-(20 to 30)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+1 to Sacrifices
Poison Length Reduced by 50%

you can acces Sacrifices for having bodies arround any time you want in order to get reanimates .

there is also the Reanimatrix miniguide here that uses reanimates to tank

I see that last patch killed xbow necro "cos no Buckshot = no main attack (multihit) skill. Yes, sMAX Flamatail shot as main attack seems pretty good on 10 pierce rockets on 1 attack with some nice proc on hit, but it really sucks In comparison on killspeed with bowzone or now throwbarb. And the levelling is terrible & hard as fuck until you cannot find some cool gear. :-|

yes , the xbow necro build will have to be updated too , but i'm not sure if i will have the time to update the Necro builds in June .

Just noticed that build #39 has Necro Skilltrees instead of Traprat

it looks fine in my browser . clear your memory cache and try again .

o.O Didn't have to do anything and it's fine now. Thanks for the guides tho

Hi,

Im following the Xena build.
Im having a hard time keeping the ice elemntals alive.
The aura is nice but its hard to keep up....
Any tips?
Poison instead of cold?

Terror act 4 now

as said in the miniguide , you only need 2 or 3 arround to benefit from their aura .you don't need them for tanking like other builds do as you tank well enough by yourself . if you want to skip them entirely , go for the fire tree or the poison tree . all tree combinations work fine .

this build will have to be revised too , but i'm afraid it won't happen very soon . i planned to updated the sorcs and barbarians last .