Adding a loot filter is something that can help a lot with the visual information and answer your question to if you should be picking up an item. Console players have these options built into the game, but pc players have to add them externally. Most people use filterblade. You can link your account and have it appear in game quite easily. You can change the strictness of the filterr to hide more items. There are even options for selecting your leveling type, like bow. This might be too much info tho, so it may be better to pick the regular filter and only change the colors to your preferences. another tip is you can put steelskin to autocast on cooldown if you have it on your left click ability. It wont interrupt your walking at all.

dashes aren't just for avoiding damage, they also allow you to jump over gaps and elevation changes ^^ so you don't have to run around to find a path up to a ledge

New boots: +53 Life +27% Fire resist +14% Cold resist +13% Lightning Old Boots: +15% Movement speed I prefer to go fast... HAHAHA Crafting is not a option. Love the series

This is such a breath of fresh air! I've been playing Path of Exile since 2013 and this series just brings me back to how it was back when everyhting wasn't "figured out". I love this so much, thank you!

I don't ever comment, but wanted to let you know that I've been enjoying your series a lot, so thanks for that and keep up the great work!

Tip for stash tabs, when you open your stash and right click on top on the name of the stash you can customize them and set affinities, which automatically transfer chosen types of items into that stash

watching this series while I have 4000+ hours into this game just hits different, i can see myself first playing this game back in 2018, it was hard, the amount of knowledge you get after your first completion of the 10 acts is insane, especially if you follow a guide on your next build, this will make you less worried about your wrong choices and never spend more than 10 refund points for the whole 10 acts you're going to go through next time you create a character, plus please don't ever delete your first character or fix it with a guide after you finish your acts, when you get to know the game well you'll get that nostalgia when you go back and see what you did with your first character, it's amazing when you'll feel how much knowledge you gained after some months of playing..

Nice job clearing act 5! :) Good luck with act 6. Glad to see you ascended, that's a good step forward. Innocence and Kitava are definitely the first big harbingers of difficulty in the campaign, nice job pushing through them. If you want to avoid polite advice, ignore the rest of my comment. If you don't mind advice but want to avoid backseating, I have split my comment into the appropriate sections. --- ADVICE Kitava reduced your resistances by -30% at the end of Act 5. There was a message that briefly shows on screen, but its easy to miss. You want your Fire, Cold, and Lightning resistances to all be at 75% or higher. If they are lower, you will instantly die to a lot of things. Chaos resistance is harder to get, keep Chaos resistance above 0% if you can. --- BACKSEATING There are three main ways to improve your Elemental resistances in the campaign that don't involve trading or farming new gear. 1. Use the Crafting Bench in your hideout to add resistance suffixes to your gear. 2. Talk to Lily Roth and purchase Purity of Elements. This is an aura that increases all 3 of your Elemental resistances and makes you immune to Ignites, Shocks, Chills, and Freezes. It reserves a lot of mana, but if you don't have another way to solve resistances and ailments it just works. 3. Run flasks that increases your resistances and pray they are running when you get hit.

Leaving 4 link gloves on the ground while rocking 2 link gloves.... *cries in the corner*

Small note, Orange (Unique) items are just that, unique, and are not always better than Yellow (Rare) items. Your Kaom's ring is not helping as much as any basic rare ring would. Also Scourge Arrow is a "channeled" skill, which gains multiplicatively more damage with hits and ailments when you hold down the button to charge it up before releasing.

The best tip I think I can give you for getting through the passive skill tree with no guide is to use its search bar. When you open your passive skill tree you can type in things like "life" or "damage" and the related nodes will be highlighted. My recommendation here is too look up "chaos damage" and "damage over time" as this is what you'll want to scale for your build it seems like. I hope you have fun with the game, it is quite a challenging thing to do, doing it with no guide. Oh and another quick tip, if you put steelskin on your left click, it'll activate as you move and will have a good amount of uptime, saving you the trouble of thinking about it.

One bit of advice on starting act 6, make sure to do Lily's quest (Fallen From Grace) which takes you back to clear out the undead that have moved into the tutorial zone after you killed Hillock way back. Once you complete it, Lily will become a store that sells (nearly) every skill/support gem in the game and can be placed in your hideout so you don't have to keep going back to a specific town to buy certain gems. I think you'd also unlocked Siosa in act 3 library who does the same thing but isn't in a town, so you have to take the payment you need with you to shop from him, whereas Lily takes payment directly from your stash like all the other town npcs.

Of all the KZfaqrs on this latest trend of trying PoE, this is the series I'm most excited for. Thanks for the continued content. Your chill personality and casual insight are a joy to listen to. Your editor is top notch as well. I hope you'll join us in the Affliction league with a new build.

You might have missed it when you lost to Kitava but your default base resistances for all elements and chaos went from 0% to -30%. Act 5 onwards your resistances start to make more of a difference in your survivability. Alsa Path of Exile is very precise with its wording, so chance to avoid elemental ailments is exactly what it says and not the same as elemental resistance. Love the series and can't wait to see you play through the rest of the Acts.

I hope you're enjoying your Path of Exile time! I wanted to share that one of the biggest step-ups for me in quality of life was activating a Loot Filter in the options. I don't know how that's done nowadays, but loot filters allow you to ignore worthless loot without even showing up in your screen. For example you can filter out "all white and blue items unless they have 4 or 6 links".

Congrats on finishing the first half of the campaign! I am very surprised how well you are doing, both ingame and in understanding the game. Be prepared for a lot of information, because starting now the game will throw a lot more new stuff at you. (Including some of my favorite league mechanics!)

Ballista ballista! Act 6 is gonna be a big check on your setup, especially your elemental resists. You already have a feeling your gems need attention, so you're on the right track. Maximize those 4-links for your more important skills. Your gem preferences should drive your socket color setup, rather than the other way around. Don't forget about Chromatic Orbs and your crafting bench. Good luck in Part 2!

First thing to do after this : check your resistances. That last boss (Kitava) lowered your resistance (you get a permanent debuff), so you need to get higher resistances from now on!

Very nice series Nyx, I look forward to the next parts. I have played this game since back when we had like 2 acts only and always made my own builds. You will struggle and fail plenty on the way to making a successful endgame build by yourself, but all the learning you will do is an amazing experience. There is no shame in making the mistakes you make now and I hope to see you continue to grow more and more, especially with what you can truly do with the freedom this game allows you. Sidenote: so far you taught me to shout 'Ballista! Ballista!' and I thank both you and Frank for that.

Absolutely loving the series, it's awesome to see someone new to the game experience that feeling of 'what would happen if I did this' that made me love the game. You're definitely doing a lot better than I did so many, many thousand of hours ago when I first started playing!

Man in the beginning of your tree theres 2 big nodes you didn't allocate 'primal spirit' and 'heart of oak', will cost 4 points but is very cost effective for mana and life. Second tip is search for mana leech in the passive tree, grab the nearest node with mana leech (4 points to reach), this will help to maintain your mana.

Good videos, realy good and couple advices: 1. you have 2 bars of skills (press ctrl in game to see them) 2. You can apply auto filtration of your stash imput (press right click on a stash tab) 3. Your ressistances was lowerd due to the plot check them 4. Seek the item filter it's just quality of life

One thing you can do, is, Open: Options>UI>Scroll down to "Items" and click the "Always Show Sockets" thing. So you don't have to hold your mouse over the items equipped to see what sockets/links you have. :) Also you can Hold Ctrl to swap skill bars. I usually put aura skills in the second bar so you can focus on the active skills on the main bar. And another thing, you can put your "Steelskin" in the left mouse button slot, so that it'll activate on cooldown when you move around. I'm enjoying watching this series! Hope you're having fun! :)

Thoroughly enjoying your series! It's always fun watching new people try this game but you have such a great blend of comedic value and quality editing in your series that really puts you several steps ahead of the "New player trying PoE for the first time" competition. Can't wait for the rest!

Endgame uber pinnacle bosses in PoE do have one shot mechanics, but unlike with Uber Lilith, if you're enough of a psychopath you can actually tank these. They do enough to kill 99% of characters in one hit, but not so much that it's truly impossible to tank. Gotta build some defense!

6:32 "I need the Orb of Alchemy". 30 sec later 7:03 Leaves Alchemy Orb on the ground 😂😂

It's so entertaining to watch your series. I love your enthusiasm about the game.

My wife kept asking if Ballista Ballista guy has uploaded act 5. Now she can shut up.

Avoid linking support gems to auras because it increases the reservation cost

12:50. You can switch ascendancies. For that you need to click altar of ascendancy (finish a lab) without having ascendancy points allocated (respeccing one ascendancy point is 5 orbs of regret). Since you have access to stash, however, you can go through lab first and then begin regretting everything. And as it doesn't matter which lab you go through, most people do it in normal lab anyway, which is the easiest and shortest one

Man props to you for not only completing labyrinth but the entire first half of the game without a movement skill. That's impressive. You will notice a significant increase in difficulty from here on in though, especially now that Kitava has cursed you. I hope you are enjoying the lore as well, I have over 1000 hours in the game and still take the time to interact with it whenever i can.

Glad you're enjoying this game so much. The Trials of Ascendancy was always one of my favorite places to level up at, and I absolutely love the game's soundtrack. It never gets boring and I would find myself idly standing in an area just to listen to the music. A little tip, though; keep an eye on the items. The ones with green boarders mean that it has a green, red and blue socket that are linked together, and will sell for a chromatic orb, regardless of the item's size. Also, you're about at the point in the game where you'll start finding 6 socket items. Make sure you grab them, because those sell for 6 jeweller's orbs.

Episode 1: i can't believe people pay for those visuals Episode 5: Game is awesome i need to give something back to they creators Same thing happened to me 😂

At Act 6 you can do a quest that will allow you to unlock a shop with all gems in the game (actually 99% of them, some only possible to be obtained by drops). If you want to rethink about your gems. Act 6 will be a good place after that quest, since you can take a look on everything that the game has to offer. And you can respect your ascendancy. All you need to do is respect all your ascendancy points and do the lab again. Then when you reach the ascedancy plate, it allows you to change it.

Keep it up! I love your Path of Exile videos series! Can't wait to see all acts walkthrough! Good luck with part 2

man i really hope you get millions of subscribers. You talk so fluently and engagingly i just love to watch your video.Hope you get growth in your channel.

For Steelskin put it as your left click so it always activates whenever it's not on CD or link it with Cast When Damage Taken Support. For stashes you want to Right click the stash and set their Affinity so you can Ctrl+Click item and it automatically goes to the stash with that affinity instead of looking for specific stash to put it in. "Excel" screen you solve by getting loot filters.

1-try to put Steelskin on the left click of the mouse so it's always get activated while you are walking 2- if you found an item with all the colors that are linked together you can sell the item for a chromatic orb 3- if you pressed right click on a stash tap you can decide what goes there for example in the currency stash you check on currency so it directly send them to that stash 4-i know you have a loot filter but maybe try to put a stronger filter so the white and the blue items doesn't show up on your screen 5-keep playing the game without a build guide at least for the first time so you can enjoy the game and then maybe the second character you can look for a guide if you want

Another great video! My tips for Act 6 would be to remember that you can "farm" zones if you feel your gear is lacking, by control + left clicking on them (either the zone entrance, or the waypoint to the zone) and selecting "new" and the other tip is that Lilly is your friend. Either way, keep up the great work, it's been a blast watching you.

Found you from your Last Epoch first impressions and then had to watch this entire PoE series. I love your style of first impressions/learning a game by playing. Will be watching along with any other games you decide to try out now.

very important note: finishing act 5 lowers PERMANENTLY all your resistances, chaos resistance included, so dont forget to invest more heavily in all that. Also note that it happens again once you complete act 10 and finish the campaign; you will need a higher investment in resistances to have them at the same level as before, especially since the kiddie gloves come off after act 5 and maxing out resistances (bar chaos since its rarer both from enemies and on items) will quickly become very important to survive

Act 5 was the place where I started paying attention to the lore whenever Fall of Oriath launched. It get's really special, it's kinda cool. Also, big difficulty spike on Act 6. Defeating Kitava removes 30% of all your elemental resistances, and most mobs on Act 6 have fire attacks (while also being harder to kill). You'll probably have to take a serious look at your gear to actually do stuff and not be completely miserable.

stumbled on your video (thanks youtube recommended) and I've really enjoyed it. No tips from me; you are doing great! You are experiencing the game the way that I experienced it. I think it's honestly the best way to do it, just as long as people feel ok with trying a new character with the knowledge they gained if they can't continue. The only comment I'll leave is that 'following a build' in this game is different than most games. Following a build is extremely difficult; you basically can't get everything a guide says to get, so you have to adapt with what you find. Sometimes the sockets don't line up so you improvise; sometimes you get a rare unique that's actually better than what the guide suggests. Sometimes you find your own changes that work with your playstyle better. For that reason I've shed my distaste for build guides because they end up feeling uniquely mine by the end anyway. Cheers for the video though, very fun to watch.

PLEASE, DONT MISS THIS: after act 5 you will loose a huge amount of elemental and chaos res. and second time will happen on level 75. the normal cap of eleres is 75%, please make sure you have it full, it's not so difficult as it could look like. it will hugely increase your survivability in future! but, for chaos def.. try to make it at least 0% (not -75%)

The Twist of Similar yet different coming up in the remaining acts was an amazing first experience. The Second half of the acts is a far more modern addition that really expanded the campaign beyond the Normal - Nightmare - Hell Mentality of old. Many of the more modern complex older league mechanics will start to show themselves as well adding to the difficulty of knowledge.

My first recommendation to all new players to Path of Exile is always to start with a character that you spec yourself. Experience the spectacle that is the passive tree and build how you think you should and play until you hit that wall that your build can't pass. That way, when you eventually look up a guide or build on KZfaq of wherever, you can see where you might have made mistakes and most of the time you immediately feel the power difference when you get to that same part where you struggle. Also get used to creating new characters and experimenting with builds and playstyles. It really makes you appreciate when a build just works perfectly. But REALLY enjoying your series so far. It's so nice to see someone who obviously have the ARPG know how, get baffled by things we take for granted now. ⭐

Been enjoying the series! I appreciate that you are 100% throwing yourself in the game and getting a full-blown reaction. It's a lovely series.

OH MY GOD YOU NEED TO DO EPISODES EACH DAY! IM CRAVING FOR THIS CONTENT OF YOURS!

When you talk about pressing z, you can remove the clutter with loot filters. I reccomend FilterBlade's loot filters because they have different levels of strictness for various levels of when you are in the game.

I love this series... seen every part! You can right click on the stash tab and check that bottom checkmark the "affinity" thing, so when you hold ctrl and click on items, it sorts it into the correct tabs like gems, currency etc. Bind the steelskin skill to your left click, so when you move it always uses it :D

I've been playing the game for so long and run through the campaign so many times now that watching you notice all the small things I've passed over so many times is very cool. I never noticed the engravings on the ground and it's cool to see you enjoy them. Keep it up!

Well, your playthrough is way more thought out than my first one was. I am eager to see more of this series.

You can try "Toxic Rain" if you want to keep the poison theme, maybe it will be more fitting than "Scourge Arrow". Also a small tip: chromatic orbs are used to re-roll colours of sockets, you can get some more if you sell an item with 3 connected sockets of diffrent colour on one item, just one item with connected RED + BLUE + GREEN in any order. That way even some white items are worth something.

Ah yes, Kitava. The tutorial boss

You have the best content on this so far man! please keep up the good work. Like the way you play is good and you have fundamental gaming sense that so many miss. It has been so much fun to watch this. I can't wait for the next part.

okay, this one is my favorite episode so far... and yes, Fank adds alot to the series. keep up the good work!!!

You can also use your transmutes and arlterations on flasks to get added buffs on them, so you can make your own good rolls instead of relying on finding them! Awesome series im invested

Congrats on finishing the tutorial (act 5) and welcome to the stress test of your build (act 6), hope you have enough defense. It gonna be a lot more fun now since we are hunting minor and major gods.

You're doing great. I also played without looking at a guide and had a blast. Keep it up.

YEAH i really enjoy the series i would love to see you do more episodes in a week! :)

Love this series. Not going to give you any tips, you'll learn in time. Getting good laughs of the choices you do, entertainment at its peak. New season starts in a week, I hope you'll check it out.

Not sure if you have it equipped or not but try supporting your Rain of Arrows with Chance to Poison support. It'd be a great addition with the ascendancy you just picked. Loving the series so far! Keep it up!

OMG the end is such a cliff hunger damn, your videos inspire me so much to continue to play the game lol, thanksss

Ballista ballista gang :) glad Frank is there by your side. Good luck in part two of the tutorial

I love Act 5. The Innocence fight is one of my favorite fights since there are attacks you actually have to make an effort to dodge. xD And the whole mechanic of hiding behind statues is so dope.

Awesome episode! (7^_^)7 Throughout the tutorial different bosses try to teach the player different lessons, Innocence is really the first movement check hammering home the idea of reacting to the bosses abilities to avoid taking damage. I like how after Innocence you were telling yourself to get a movement skill. Also I noticed halfway through the Kitava fight you started reacting to the X blast but your character was too slow to avoid it in time, if only you had a movement skill. Also the boots which didn't have movement speed you could have crafted movement speed onto them, you unlocked that craft in act 2.

Really enjoyable series, keep up the great work man :D

Hey! Great series so far, I have been enjoying it. Just a tip get a dash type skill (there are few types) asap for mobility such as dodging attacks, avoid traps or scale terrains. Also you can put steel skin or molten shell on your left click so you can move and use them as you move this way you will free up 1 gem slot since you dont need to link cast on damage gem. Cheers! Looking forward for Act 6.

If I may... You said in a earlier vids that you loved lore. Well, POE has the tone of it ! :) If you're interested I'll advise to actually listen/read the dialogue and environnemental stuff that tells stories. And obviously great vid and great serie, can't wait for the next episode :)

Finally bro! Now I am going to roll one and enjoy the show

Another flawless part of the series ♥ As much I understand and like the urge of ppl to help and hint you in all the comments, I just sit back and really enjoy your process and progress of playthrough :) (btw. the community of PoE is the best) o7 It's nice to see your notices and immersion and your experience raising and changing :) huge respect exile! o7

Fine, I've watched all 5 videos you've earned the sub. Loving the content, and long live the ballista!

3:40 when an item has all 3 colors linked (like that Rusted Sword) you can sell those for a chroma. very big find.

This has been so much fun to watch. I'm impressed that you've made it this far! Important non-spoiler notes, though: By the next time you play, the current Season will have ended, and your character and items will be moved to Standard league (aka the Eternal Realm). For you, all this means is that your silver coins and the Halls of the Dead are gone, and you're free to keep playing, but if you want to try the new Affliction content, you'll need a new character. Also, Kitava hit you with an unbreakable curse that now causes you to lose 5% xp towards the next level when you die now, so try to avoid that. Good luck!

Really enjoying this series. I tried POE a couple of years ago but hit a wall in early endgame but was considering trying again for the new league. Your videos have me excited to get started. I learned my lesson, going with a guide but impressed with how well you are 'winging it'. Go Frank!

Was searching up builds for the new league tomorrow and came across this series. I ended up spending the next few hours watching this whole series so far. Love it

Congrats on beating Part 1! Keep in mind that once you get to maps (so, endgame after Act 10), GGG owns your soul. Two things to be aware of: First one is that you missed an optional quest. Im sure you know that it's best if you do all of them. That one in particular is whatever, but under no circumstances skip the one in Act 6 that you have now. Do clear the twilight strand. Second: You might have missed the message after the Kitava fight that said you have now lost 30% elemental and chaos resistances. Also dying now carries a penalty - but I'll leave that for you to figure out. Again, congrats, you have now reached "Nightmare". And some additional fluff: Back in 3.0 - the last big expansion - is when we got the current questing storyline. GGG increased the story from four to ten Acts at a time when players were expecting merely a single new Act. They did this of course by reusing many assets. That's why you're "in Act 1 again". They did this explicitly to remove the repeated grind through different difficulties that Diablo is known for. Before this PoE had three difficulties as well. In fact we had four difficulties before Act 4 when Piety was the final boss. And not to unnecessary dig at the Blizzard and Diablo fans, but this came at around the same time when D3 got one of its big expansions - the Necromancer. Anyways, the important thing is: Difficulties exist in PoE in a way that might not be obvious. Remember that your resistances are now reduced.

Yes, any flask (including health and mana) counts as active, generally as long as that little bar is showing under them.

This is great. Look forward to your progress through act 10

The Labyrinth is really nice, as there's a Stash at every Trial, so you can pick stuff up, and dump it off, then go back for anything else you wanted to grab to sell.

you can use filters to filtrer the stuff you drop so that only the interesting things appear

There are stands near each room that when clicked show you where the door you're going through leads to during lab..it helps to look at those in lab so you're not running around aimlessly haha. Also, mana leech is a thing, you can get it on a piece of gear or there are leech nodes in the skill tree. Then you can drop the mana flask and get a different flask! Edit: also yes get a movement skill. You'll be surprised you've gone this far without one.

great vid again, like the vibes like frank. It will also be fun once you realize what you can do with your currency

This is fkn awesome, good job on trying to get through this with minimal guides. Small tip, as others have mentioned the difficulty goes up quite a bit from here, you'll have to pay more attention to resistance on your gear to try and reach 75 fire/cold/light

You can change your ascendancy, you'll want to look into item filters, and you are gonna lose it when you get toxic rain skill, also you get another bar of skills when you press ctrl that you can use for your auras

Innocence is always some sort of benchmark for me to check if a build works or not that boss ramps up the difficulty a lot (edit: typo)

I'm really enjoying this series, please keep it going!!! You have a great energy and love for lore. Tala Moana, my dude.

I really enjoy that your finding your own way thru the game.

Move only on left click will avoid so many random death and u bind steel skin on left click aswell and move at the same time

Basically everyone's first character is hot garbage unless they follow a guide. There is so much information and interplay between everything in the game. Z key issues are fixed with loot filters and there are millions of free ones available or you can set up your own to show whatever you want.

Love seeing this vids, hope you're truly enjoying the game. Really hope you also plan on playing the next league!

Good work mate, doing some solid job there!! You can respec your skill tree using orbs of regret. Also, you can sell any equipment that you find with 3 slots linked, one of each colour, for a chromatic orb.

For steelskin you can link it with the support gem "Cast When Damage Taken" or you can keybind the skill to left mouse button so when your walking it'll activate on cooldown :)

Btw Scourge Arrow (the main right click skill youre using) is a channeled skill, it does majority of its damage when you channel/ charge it up by holding right click. Dont spam click as youre essentially doing no damage.

Keep it going, you are getting there! great content

appreciate you, you're doing well and making content that is fun to watch. the real fun of this game is the learning how it works and its not straight forward.

"if you are in a country with bad internet you are going to struggle against Lilith" - i've never felt more acknowledged, seriously lilith's one hit kill moves have a larger hitbox the higher ping you get i hope you and Frank the Raccoon continue to enjoy the game, and the not using guides for your playthrough is perfectly fine and the appeal of the series in my opinion

9:00 PoE HAS one shot mechanics when it comes to endgame bosses, but they´re very well telegraphed and intuitive. Except for Uber Uber Elder, fuck Uber Uber Elder xD

I just stumbled on your video, so I just want to say: welcome to Wreaclast, exile. I remember my first time facing Innocence, he gave me so much grief lol

i love this series, i even switch from grayjay to yt so i can write comments xD, i love how you approach the game, its refreshing to se someone who wants to understand the game and not just follow the build and get discouraged