Path of Exile: Strength Stacking and PC Troubles

The new video covers the PoE update and struggles with setting up a new PC for streaming, causing delays and challenges for the content creator.

### Path of Exile: Early Game Strength Stacking Chief T Static Strike Build
* ⚔️  The player shares their early game experience with a new **Strength Stacking Chief T Static Strike build** in Path of Exile's latest league.
* 🛡️  At level 57 in Act Seven, the character already has **3.1k life** and **solid damage output** with a unique weapon, **Brutus' Lead Sprinkler**.
* 🌩️  The build uses **Static Strike and Shockwave Support** for a "**Melee Auto Bomber**" playstyle, which doesn't rely on **attack speed**.
* 🌲  The passive tree focuses on **life, strength, and some crit nodes**, with the Nagamah's Flame's Advance ascendancy for **strength and fire damage conversion**.
* 💰  The player also shares their experience with the new league mechanic, mentioning **minor issues** but overall **enjoying the gameplay loop**.
* 🖥️  The video creator encountered challenges setting up a new PC on league start day, **delaying their streaming schedule and gameplay progress**.
* 🎮  Despite the PC setup issues, the player plans to transition to the new system for **improved streaming quality and content creation**.
* 🤔  The creator expresses a mix of **frustration and determination** to balance PC setup with **in-game progress** during the league start.

[Music] Hey guys, and welcome to new video. Today, the first update after League starts. Yesterday at like 1 p.m. my time was leak start. Hi, I've been having actually a great time when it comes to the PoE aspect, but not so great time with everything else. So, this video is going to be split into two parts. The first part cover the PoE stuff, and then we talk about the stuff that happened yesterday with the new PC and trying to set everything up and nothing is working and being completely delayed on leak start and so on and so forth. So first of all, let's talk about PoE. So as I said, I was about to leak start strength stacking, and that is exactly what I did. There is just one single change that you might see here. We are now Chief T, and yes, I know I said that I'm going to do Jer, and there was only one case scenario where I would say Chief Tain would probably be better, and that is if you play static strike shock.

wave okay, and this is what this character is currently. So if we take a look at the gear, as I said, level 57, we're currently Act Seven, like start of Act Seven, something, and this is what it currently looks like. I'm running Static Strike, Shockwave Support, Pulverize, and Fortify as my four-link damage link. And then we just have like, what is it, like Precision, Vitality, and Herald of Ash, nothing more. So it's super easy to melee. Buffs are actually insane. I think nobody really had like a bad experience with melee besides being like Act One or early Act Two. This is like when it starts to become rough, right? But once you get it going, the damage is just insane. As I said, start of Act Seven, I already have 3.1k life. My skill tree is pretty much, yeah, almost like life resistance kind of like thing, a little bit of AOE cluster here, my strength cluster. So I technically have like one crit thing, which I think this early is

like kind of like useless, but the thing is, like, at the moment, I don't struggle at any point. I have good damage. I haven't died on this character yet. I'm just browsing through, so why should I change something, right? So let's go back to the start. I know there's usually highlight clips, but based on the part two of the video, you're going to understand why I just didn't have the time. I should be streaming since 5 hours already, but I'm still not streaming, so yeah, there is that. So Brutus let sprinkler. I actually found a chaos in Act 2 somewhere, and I saw that the Bruce Le spring CLS are going for like three to four chos at this part. Then I just put on the auto search. I'm going to actually show you that so you can actually see that. I don't even know what they're worth now. I haven't really checked anything yet. So they're now at 1 K, but when I started, it was like 3 K.

so if you go to your filters and get here and say to buy out price, you say chaos maximum. That's what I did. One um, and then I just had them on life search, and you know I was just like browsing through act 1, and there was one popping up for one chaos instead of three chaos, and I just instantly bought it with the chaos that I found. So even before level 28, I already had my Brutus Le sprinkler, and once I hit Level 28, I was respecing um, a bunch of these points that I had located for this like two-handed play style, right, with the um currency exchange here, at least like with the fers respecialization, and I just paid gold for it, right, so the respecing was super easy, not too expensive, something that I really like, that you can just play around, you know, and just Respec without feeling bad about, without losing regret orbs and stuff like that. So this is the current tree, um, and once I said I have the Brutus let's sprinkler, I want.

to either try out infernal blow. I want to try out like Cyclone, shock wave, or maybe static strike, shock wave, or maybe anything else that is kind of like Melee because we do have a maze or a scepter and both of them can be used with the Shockwave support because it only works with Maces, Scepters, and Staves, not with Axes or anything like that. And I started to just funny if that is even a word try out static strike with shock wave. So what static strike is you attack like it's kind of like very slow at the moment because we don't really have attack speed, but this skill or this combination of skills doesn't need attack speed, right? So it's kind of like you hit one single time and I do have an attack Master here with the additional strikes. It is like my Ancestor Call support, basically, right? You hit once and then you get a buff and this buff is like a Herald of Thunder and so it shocks nearby enemies and these shocks

are actually melee hits that are triggered in the shock wave support, and I found this so relaxed playstyle that I said, you know what, I'm just going to stick with that. And this was the only option where I said if I'm doing static strike, um, I'll show you here. So I'm just attacking one single time, and you see that the saps are going off, the um, the shock waves are going off, and you're basically playing like a Mell Auto bomber. You just activate it once and you run around, um, and the buff lasts for a couple of seconds that can be scaled with increased duration, and you're basically having a Mele Auto bomb. And I found this to be so enjoyable to play that I just said, you know what, I'm not even going to try infernal blow or anything like that, and I'm just going to stick with this theme of having like a Mele Auto bomber. And since this doesn't require attack speed, um, to function because both of these like skills, the

the beam frequency of the setic strike and the shock wave are all like cool down based, and not attack speed based, right? So, increasing your attack spein doesn't do anything um for your shock wave. But this is basically how I'm playing character right now, and that's also the reason why I ended up going Chief tank CU. I don't need the undeniable attack speed uh for this kind of setup. The rest of the tree, at least my first Atlas point or ascendency point, and the only one so far, is nagamu Flames Advance, which basically says non-unique Jewels cause small uh and notable passive skills in large AES to Grant plus three strength, and also com um convert the physical damage into fire damage, which plays good in uh like is pretty nice with the birds let's sprinkler, giving us a lot of flat fire damage. So, what does this node even do um? Basically, a normal Jewel here, and this is yeah, I know it's dual Wheeling, it's just like I just SOL cell phone style.

any Jewel that works, and this one had strength, right? So it's a normal Jewel. I throw it in here, and now it becomes a radius. And this is coming from this. So, um, basically, if you unplug this, this gives like 18 rest, and this gives like 18 cold rest. You put it in, and now they all give like three strength. Like every single note in radius gives you plus three strength. So just by adding a socket that we go from 568 to um 6 um 33. So that is actually pretty pretty good. And it's not like a lot of effort, you know. I just plucked in any freaking jewels that I found, and you know just live with the extra strength that I'm getting, right? And I think later on, um, these two are just resistant stuff, and I think that's going to be maybe problematic once you start mapping because you know when you finish the first part of the campaign, minor 30 resistance. You finish the second part, another minor 30. And at the moment

don't feel the need of actually using these defensive layers to get maximum resist and stuff like that. So I guess the second note, um, I guess will actually be the sence Suns Roar with the war cries have infinite power. And then try to automate some war cries, you know, that would basically be used with the red blade Banner. So we have that slot open and just use, um, this note here to gain maximum power. And then maybe play around with a couple of, um, what is it, uh, war cries. So that is about the build. The PO of the current version is in the description below. If you want to check out, um, my profile is public, you can check anytime what is the current standing. So let's take a look at my, um, my what is it called West March Kings March something. Basically, I did as much as I could. I was just upgrading everything. I did hire a lot of workers. One thing that I want to note here, if you have low workers, which I currently don't have, you just kick them out and

then you hire workers, and then you see you want to get higher ranks. Rank three, I have a couple of rank Force already, which are just um, I think like just being more productive, getting more stuff going, and that's basically it. I upgraded everything as far as I could. I'm doing my uh, my mind thingy here, so everything here is sorted with like um, level three or level four workers. Uh, cost like 200 gold per hour right now, and this cool, this a cool feature, treasure empty in. So basically, before I locked off yesterday, I just put deposited all my gold that I have into this treasury. Gold, I said like, I go offline now, I'll let my workers do their stuff, and we should actually have like a freak ton of resources since I wasn't playing for the last like 10 hours. My ship, um, was like sent back or at least sent forward once I, uh, before I logged off. So let's check what did we get. We are actually [Music] getting, uh, a bunch of random stuff.

don't think there is anything cool so we just I guess. I mean I'm not going to check the items cuz at the moment like I don't know. It doesn't look any cool at all. No felink, no uniques. Uh, this quite nice to have, but you know, know. It's just my gear is just like life resistance, a bit, a bit of strength, some crafted modifiers. Absolutely nothing besides like the Brutus Le sprinkler right. Is this diff card rain of chaos. I think I picked it up before. Yeah, so nothing, uh, too special. I'm just wondering, can I quickly sell this like stuff here, pick the rest of the shipment rewards, take all. And since I have so high workers here, like one rank two and the other rank three, you know. I can literally just go ahead, put it wherever I want, want. And then, um, get the shipments. I just blowed it up like completely. And you see that even though I'm having like 18,000 resources. There is almost no risk because of the higher

level workers, as well as like upgrading the shipment thingy. I'm not going to go too crazy here. I'm just going to go like somewhere in the middle part, like close to 10,000, which is actually insane, right? The shipment value, let's do like 10,000, done, set sale. And while I'm editing the video and trying to get this online, probably back when I start streaming, then uh, my stuff will be back. And this is basically how I treat the leak mechanic. So far, the only complaint that I have right now is that the gold pickup radius could be bigger. That's so far the only issue that I have the leak mechanic in the sounds when you actually get the resources unlocked. Super fine, super good, everything works as intended. I'm enjoying going back here, check my shipments, check if my workers are doing stuff, upgrading stuff. I really, really like this so far, um, but I'm not as far yet, you know, still in the campaign. We're going to see how things.

go forward okay part two of the video. Um now let's talk about what happened yesterday. So the original plan was, you know, the classic Friday, you know, clean your apartment, go buy food, wash your clothes, just trying to get the time over until finally the league start and going like 7:00 p.m. or something, right? So all of a sudden, uh, yesterday the doorbell rang and my new PC got delivered literally on the league start day. And I was like, it was like 2 p.m. So I said, like, now I have 10 hours time to get the new system running, make all the stream, download all the games, get OBS ready, like trying to figure out everything beforehand, right? I didn't even had breakfast yesterday whatsoever. All I want to do, I want to try to get this stuff ready. And there just were some issues like shipment, um, like shipping issues, um, some parts were loose, I got like, um, freezing screens and nothing really worked. And I tried so hard to make this work. In the end of the day, the

long story short is I have already some Specialists uh looking at the problem, and we the last 3 4 hours we already uh try to fix everything, and it's now currently booting. So after this video goes live, I'm going to unplug my old PC, try the new setup, because the good thing is if the new setup works, and I don't need two PCS. What I'm currently running, I'm running a gaming PC and a streaming PC, but then I can finally stream to YouTube as well without audio tracks, or at least like without music tracks, so that my YouTube content doesn't get flagged and stuff like that. It would be a huge Advantage for everybody um to enjoy, but at like half an hour before leak start 21:30 or something, um you know I started the stream, and PC crashed, and then I was like okay freak you know put this new pc at um um on the edge, and then on the corner basically plug in the old system, and just Tred to stream right, so I was like streaming wise like 3

hours late my old gaming PC didn't have Poe updated. I was in Q 66,000 or something. It took like half an hour to even get into the game, so everything thing worked like was awful yesterday, right? Same as today. First thing I'm awake now since like I don't know 5 hours, pretty much right? And I spent like three hours trying to get the new system running with the boys helping me out. So thanks for that, you know, bio setting, clock settings, RAM things. I'm not a specialist, you know. I just do whatever they say. Um, and instead of like streaming and actually progressing and enjoying the leak start, I'm just trying to get the new system running to just have finally a better experience. And this is not only for me for playing games, but it's also for you for multiple streams and just better stuff overall, right? So I said like at the moment recording on the old system right now, trying to upload the video so I get some kind of progression, then unplugging everything, get the new system.

hopefully it works this time. Trying to set up a stream, and in the best case scenario, stream on both YouTube and Twitch at the same time. And then finally be able to leak start, you know it's like leag start is so nice man, but I just have this constant like hey I need my new PC running and it's finally there. I waited for like a month and stuff. I just focus on this PC stuff so hard that I cannot really enjoy leag start at the moment, right? So that's why it's kind of weird. It's Satad today. It's the day where I would stream like 15 hours and just progress into maps and stuff like that. But this time it's just going to be slow progress, which is not the worst thing ever because slower progress means that people can just follow up easier. All right guys, thanks for tuning in, thanks for watching, and hopefully see you later on stream. [Music]

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Update on Path of Exile Gameplay and PC Troubles

The video is divided into two parts, with the first covering the Path of Exile (PoE) gameplay and the second addressing the issues with the new PC setup.

The player is currently focused on strength stacking with the character Chief T, using Static Strike and Shockwave for damage.

Despite the initial plan to use Jer, the switch to Chief T has proven to be more effective.

The video also mentions finding a valuable item, Brutus' Sprinkler, in Act 2, which was initially worth 3-4 chaos but has since decreased in value.

Efficient Early-Game Character Progression in Path of Exile

Finding a Brutus' Lead Sprinkler early on allowed for easy and inexpensive respeccing to a two-handed playstyle.

The combination of Static Strike with Shockwave support provided a relaxed and enjoyable melee playstyle without the need for attack speed.

This approach served as a unique and effective early-game strategy, eliminating the need to experiment with other skills.

The Effect of Attack Speed on Shock Wave and Strength Boosting in the Character Build

Increasing attack speed does not impact the shock wave, as its frequency is cooldown-based.

The "Nagamu Flames Advance" node converts physical damage to fire damage and grants strength, significantly boosting the character's strength with minimal effort.

The build focuses on using war cries and the "Red Blade Banner" to maximize power, while not prioritizing defensive layers for resistance.

Maximizing Efficiency and Profits in the Game

The player has upgraded their workers to level three and four, allowing for higher productivity and resource collection.

By depositing gold into the treasury and upgrading the shipment process, they are able to maximize their resource gains with low risk.

The player is satisfied with the game mechanics but wishes for a larger gold pickup radius.

The original plan for the day was disrupted by the unexpected delivery of a new PC right before a scheduled gaming session.

The new PC had issues, leading to a stressful and chaotic process of trying to get it set up before the gaming session.

Despite the challenges, the goal was to have the new PC running in time to potentially streamline the streaming setup.

Struggling to Upgrade My Gaming PC for a Better Streaming Experience

The speaker's old gaming PC caused significant delays and frustration during a gaming session.

They spent three hours trying to set up a new system with the help of others, hoping for a better streaming experience on platforms like YouTube and Twitch.

The struggle to get the new PC running has made it difficult for the speaker to fully enjoy the planned gaming session and League start.