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| Earlier in the league |
20200918:
I played the first day of league but only for about 4.5 hours.
20201002:
Today I was excited about crafting a 7% increased maximum life Viridian Jewel with 9% increased damage and 8% increased attack speed with bows. This was good for the Pathfinder Scourge Arrow build I was following.
20201020:
Today marked the first exalted orb drop of the league (a little over 90 hours into the game).
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| Heist Blueprint |
20201109:
Yesterday I hit level 95 by joining some Beachhead runs. Today I fought A3 Sirus (Awakening Level 3) but I wasn't able to defeat him.
20201204:
Took a break from Heist League and played Mayhem (a Path of Exile event league).
20201205:
Today I hit level 50 in Mayhem. Time played on the character was 7 hours 17 minutes 20 seconds.
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| Heist loot drops on death and can't be recovered if the alarm has already triggered |
Gameplay Log:
Got to level 50 in Mayhem League.
Defeated Kitava Act 5
Hitting level 50 unlocks a free chest. Unfortunately, I unlocked an MTX which I already owned (sunrise footprints).
Resumed Heist League.
Hit A6 and ambitiously tried A4 Sirus, but failed.
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| Later in the league |
20201208:
Today I attempted A3 Sirus and I was able to defeat him using the 5th portal - he was very low after the 4th.
20201213:
Recently I fought A3 Sirus again and was able to defeat him using the 2nd portal. Being able to use both a hybrid flask and Forbidden Taste were likely the biggest factors in the difference between this attempt and the prior attempt (20201208). The best drop was a 1/10 (level/quality) Awakened Melee Splash Support. In any case, today I tried to fight A4 Sirus and defeated him on the 5th portal! The best drop this time was a Hands of the High Templar. I bricked it after seven Vaal orbs.
Remark: future me here noting that I instead could have just sold two A8 Sirus's for a couple of exalted orbs
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| Near the end of the league. |
The above entries were added on 20210326.
20210326 Comment:
A lot of people didn't like the Heist mechanic, but I enjoyed it. There was an entire meme about opening doors which was indeed an annoying aspect of Heist. However, I liked the characters and story that came with Heist - even though the mechanic should have worked by leveling particular rogues as opposed to essentially having to level all the rogues. Separate from the league itself, I enjoyed the Pathfinder Scourge Arrow build and was able to invest a decent amount of currency into it.
Speaking of currency, this league I did noticeably better. In my Harvest league post, I made a table of purchases and a table of sales with a minimum cutoff of 40 chaos. This resulted in six purchases and eight sales. But in this post, you will find a similar number of purchases and sales (seven and six, respectively) using a much higher cutoff.
The following were my purchases involving at least 100 chaos or 1 exalt:
| Item | Price | Comment |
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| Thicket Bow | 100 chaos | The average cost to craft is 47 c in 5 tries and 103 c would buy 11 tries. A 6L Thicket Bow was selling for 6 ex |
| Large Cluster Jewel | 1 exalt 25 chaos | (1 ex is 37 c) |
| The Embalmer | 1 exalt | (1 ex is 90.1 c) |
| Assassin's Garb | 1 exalt | (1 ex is 103 c) An extra 192 fusings (~62 c) were spent to fully link it (6L) |
| 6L Darkscorn | 7 exalt | (1 ex is 107 c) Earlier in the league I purchased a 5L Darkscorn for 60 c. |
| Mechalarm Belt | 1 exalt | (1 ex is 107 c) |
| Viridian Jewel | 200 chaos | 7% inc. max life, 6% AS w/bows, 3% AS. Bargained down from 2.5 ex (~275 c). |
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| Messing around in Standard (testing a summoner build) |
The following were sales involving at least 100 chaos or 1 exalt:
| Item | Price | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 21/20 Corrupted Fork Support | 2 exalt | (1 ex is 98.3 c) |
| Replica Emberwake | 1 exalt | (1 ex is 100 c) |
| Jewel | 1 exalt | (1 ex is 105.4 c) |
| Abyssal Jewel | 1 exalt | (1 ex is ~107 c) |
| Jewel | 2 exalt | (1 ex is 110 c) |
| Inspired Learning | 1 exalt | (1 ex is 112 c) |
With respect to hours played, I put more hours into the game this league compared to last league. Even though the league lasted a month longer than the average league, I barely played during the extra month. In fact, my pattern of play this league appears to be much different than that of Harvest. In Harvest, I put a lot of hours in at the beginning and played less over the course of the league. This league, however, saw a much slower start with a huge sprint in early December (30 hours a week for three weeks) during which time I thought the league might end.
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| Note: the chart excludes time spent playing Mayhem, time geared towards blogging, any standard play time, and an outlier with respect to idling. |
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| First Exalted Orb drop this league. |
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