What league are you playing in hardcore or softcore? CI is late game maps territory which is lvl 70+ depending on your gear. Be patient with summoners although end game they are beastly they can be difficult to level up mid game. Stick with EK and make sure your leveling up the necessary gems at the same time. Stack life nodes, and try to get gear with life and resists. The idea is that you level up take the life nodes along the way until you reach end game. Once there you get the gear you need then make the switch to CI, and respec out of life to CI/energy shield. You get a lot of respect points by the time you reach end game and you can always buy regrets if you need them.
New skill - Flameblast - is outstanding and not because of stage 10 OP damage, but because casting is so fast that it makes kiting very fun!
I'm already thinking about making a build with as fast cast speed and max crit just to use it at its 2-3 stage but as an instant spell
I've made a short video
http://youtu.be/Ge5yEVYI2nU
), and it works.
Crafting is not really viable for getting "what you want" unless you're filthy rich, it's a pretty lousy system based on RNG that just caters to people in endgame. At the most you can use some transmutation/augmentation/alteration orbs on a piece of gear, or alch it just to have something a little better than a magic item.
I got a guild invite like a week ago. And I've been kicked. Even had recent date in my status
As someone who has a lv81 pure evasion spectral thrower...I would not advise you that
After all the percentile-based modifiers, you will lose out with a straight 15-20% dodge chance.
If you're evasion-based, you need to be running Grace. I think that with my Tabula and Grace, I get around 42% evasion rate or somewhere around there. I also have Acrobatics and the dodge nodes for 40% dodge. With just this I have no problems at all.
I am running grace. Can't recall the level but I think it gives me 1712 evasion. I'm at 45/40/30 plus 35% block. My resists are 66/80/75 with my current chest and something abysmal like 26/65/54 without it. So tabula Rasa is out of the question for now. I'm gonna look for resists on other pieces, or just buy a new chest with 1000+ evade and all 3 resists and try to 6l it lmao.
Your evasion seems fine, especially given that you have block. You need to keep in mind that the evasion system isn't entirely %-based like in most games, where 95% evasion means only 5% of attacks get through. It works on a system where you're guaranteed to get hit every few number of attacks, though things like Dodge and Block will break things up a bit. You can read about it here:
i've got something like 2700 hp right now at lvl 69. dunno if i'm taking any more hp nodes.
Way too low, and you'll only get slaughtered faster in higher-level maps. I had probably around 2700 also when I was getting killed left and right. Just going over 3000 made a difference.
FYI: GGG will introduce 4 new summoner skills next week.
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/766533
What is interesting is that they, once again, managed to radically shift the metagame with this....
Now, I plan on building a character around Summon Raging Spirit.
No upper limit to the amount summoned... let that one sink in. I will either try purecasting them, OR use a "cast on crit" variant with a fast hitting high critter, power charge-enabled build.
Flameblast goes down to 0.15. With +crit chance, and with 4-5 power charges, I could summon 2-3 raging spirit per second. Dunno. Or Ice Spear +Cast on crit instead?
Oh, all the possibilities....
