Hi, everyone!

Since Cohh's GuardianCon charity stream went so well and the Pokemon game goals were met, we'd like to hear which games you think he should play. ^_^ Let us know in this thread. Please also note which platform/system.

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Thanks to our wonderful community, Cohh has met (and exceeded!) his original charity goal of $20,000 and has raised $62,557 for St Jude!

The goals:
$5,000 - Getting Over It (2hrs)
$10,000 - I Wanna Be the Boshy (2hrs)
$15,000 - Life Is Strange (2hrs)
$20,000 - Barbie Dreamhouse (2hrs)
$25,000 - Doki Doki Literature Club (2hrs)
$30,000 - Return of the CohhHawk
$35,000 - Community-voted Pokemon game
$40,000 - Cat onesie for charity games
$50,000 - Goromi-chan cosplay for Kiwami 2
$55,000 - Danganronpa (2hrs)
$60,000 - Second community-voted Pokemon game

The community also voted YES via a donation poll for Cohh to play Kingdom Hearts. ^_^

Thank-you everyone so much for participating. The support from our community has been overwhelming. For the kids!

The first charity stream will be July 22nd; he will play Getting Over It, Be the Boshy, Life Is Strange, and Barbie Dreamhouse! Join us then!

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On Saturday, July 8, 2018 from 8AM to 12PM (noon) EDT Cohh will have a GuardianCon charity stream. He'll be playing a few fun games for the event and would like to know what some of the games the community would like to see him play are.

Our current list of potential games for the event:

Barbie Dreamhouse
Danganronpa
Doki Doki Literature Club
Getting Over It
I Wanna Be the Boshy

If you'd like to see him play a particular game, please post here. ^_^

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Welcome everyone to the NEW Cohhilition Website!

Hopefully everything is still in the right place after moving everything around a bit!

If you do have any issues with the forums or website in general, please make sure to file a report a help section. And if you have any feature requests or ideas the Site suggestions is for you!

Known issues at the moment

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Hopefully we'll get most of those fixed soon!.

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Hi everyone! A new PoE league means a new build but with the all the changes to Ascendances this time around we didn't have enough time to see what would still work this league and make a forum vote like last time. So, instead, we've worked around a base totem build that we've modified/improved where we felt it was necessary.

(For reference the original build can be found here : https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view- ... 074/page/1 , thanks to the OP : Orion72! )

This time around Cohh will be playing a Dark Pact Totem build!

- Dark Pact is a fairly recent skill added with 3.0, the premise of the skill is using a portion of your life (or in this case your totems life) and skeletons near you or the targeted location to deal Chaos damage accordingly, plus a base of chaos damage. So the more skeletons you can summon, the more damage you'll output per totem, this will be important later on for bosses.
- The goal of this build is to focus on pure Chaos damage and scale it up as much as possible.

The skill tree
Let's get right into it : the "final" tree will look like this Tree at level 93
Path of Building link : https://pastebin.com/ZGvus3jf

The leveling progression goes like this :
- Start by going straight to SANCTITY, going through the mana and life node of Templar starting zone. We then head to RETRIBUTION, taking all the nodes on the way. Next stop is Mind Over Matter and the mana nodes after it. (If you have mana issues, hold on MOM until you are comfortable with using it)
- The aim now is to reach Ancestral Bond, which should be around level 28; for that we take LIGHT OF DIVINITY then go up to PURITY OF FLESH and finally head to ANCESTRAL BOND. DO NOT take Ancestral Bond until you get your Spell totem gem with Dark Pact.
- Now we grab AMPLIFY and take all the nodes we need in the Witch area of the tree : OCCULTIST's DOMINION, grab the spell damage nodes going down to the witch starting point, HEART AND SOUL, DEEP WISDOM, go up to BLAST RADIUS and then up to CRUEL PREPARATION and DEEP THOUGHTS.
- Get QUICK RECOVERY and head down towards straight down to TOTEMIC MASTERY.
- Next go toward TOTEMIC ZEAL and SENTINEL (hold on taking all the life nodes on the way unless you really need more life)
- At this point it's a matter of preference, life, mana, damage, jewel sockets. Pick whatever you need from what is left on the tree. Keep in mind that the goal while using MoM is to keep a ratio of about 2/3 of your life as mana

Ascendancy
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The Gems links
- Our main link with this build will be: Dark Pact > Spell Totem support > Added Chaos damage support (added Cold damage until level 31) > Controlled Destruction support > Void manipulation support > Concentrated effect support(can eventually be swapped to Faster casting for map clearing).

(While leveling and prior to eventually getting an Apep's Rage at level 62 you can use Dark Pact >Spell totem>Added lightning>Added Chaos (added cold until 31)>Controlled Destruction>Faster Casting(Concentrated effect for boss) and take advantage of +elemental damage gear).

- 4 Link: Flame Dash>Faster Casting>Arcane Surge>Inc duration (can use shield charge/whirling blade>faster attack prior to using Apep). Make sure to keep Arcane Surge level low enough so it can be triggered with every cast of Flame Dash.
- 4 Sockets/ 3 Link: CWDT(fully leveled)>Stone Golem>Molten Shell and Decoy totem on the fourth socket
- 3 Link: CWDT (lvl 1)>Immortal Call (lvl 3)>Inc duration

Then we have a couple options :
If you want more mobility :
- 4 Link: Summon Skeletons>Faster Casting>Spell Echo>Minion Life
- 3 Link: Despair>Wither>Faster Casting
Or if you're fine with a more static and a bit less complex version :
- 4 Link: Wither>Cast While Channeling>Summon Skeletons>Minion life
- 3 Link: Despair>Increased Area of Effect>Faster Casting


The Gear
This build can work with a very small budget using mostly rare gear and only an Apep's Rage and a 6 link rare armor or even a Tabula. That being said there are also great unique items options that can add both to damage and survivability.

We'll split this section in two parts: First the gear we're aiming at for this league, and then the other options that can be used while leveling or while waiting on currency.

End game gear goal :

- Weapon: Apep's Rage
- Shield: Atziri's Mirror and ultimately the new Fated version Atziri's Reflection
- Body: Soul Mantle
- Helm: A good rare helmet with Dark pact damage/cast speed enchantement
- Belt: If/When you find one a good rare Stygian Vise
- Gloves: Fingerless Silk Gloves are the best base overall, you can also craft rare gloves using Essence of Insanity
- Boots: Rare boots with speed, life, resists and mana.
- Rings: Two Kikazaru while waiting for Atziri's Mirror/Reflection if you start using the Soul Mantle
- Jewels: Clear Mind , Self-Flagellation

Other options or while leveling :

- Weapon: Shimmeron , Brightbeak , Divinarius or crafted a rare spell dagger
- Shield: Trolltimber Spire or any rare Spirit Shield focusing on life, spell damage, cast speed, resists, mana
- Body: Tabulla Rasa is probably the best while leveling, The Covenant , a good rare Carnal Armor for great defense. Other options Carcass Jack , Cherrubim's Maleficence
- Helmet: Eventually Devoto's Devotion for speed in lower tier maps, be aware of the Dex requirement though
- Belt: Any rare Belt with life/resist/mana
- Gloves:
- Boots:


Some leveling tips
Bandits : For the bandit quest we kill all of them for the skill points. (Helping Alira can be an option while leveling and eventually respec'd later).

Level 1-27: While levelling you can start by using dual spell damage wand (or spell damage dagger if you find some), when needed switch one to a spirit shield.

Pick your favorite aoe skill, anything will do, use what you're most comfortable with. Once you've dealt with Brutus you can start using and leveling Spell Totem.

An example of what you can work with then :
Firestorm>Arcane Surge>Added Lightning Damage
Spell Totem>Firestorm>Added Lightning Damage

From level 28: From now on you can start working with Dark Pact. If you can find one get a Tabula, but you can start with any 4 links rare chest as Tabula will probably be rare and expensive on league start.

You can eventually use Hrimsorrow gloves, Berek's Grip and Berek's Pass for flat spell damage increase but it's not an obligation at all.

At level 49: This is when you can start equipping the Soul Mantle, you'll need the 2 Kikazaru rings for that though, to limit the effects of the curse affecting you. You can also use a Self-Flagellation jewel, that'll compensate for some of the dps you may lose from the curse

At level 62: In a perfect world this is when you'd start using Apep's Rage, but it's probably going to take a while to find one when the league starts

At level 68: This is when you can start using the Atziri's Reflection, this will probably be very hard to procure so don't sweat over it.


We hope that you have fun if you follow this build, and if not, that you find a build you do have fun with. ^_^

Hey, everyone! You've been asking and we finally have it: Cohh's anticipated games list for 2018! A ton of great games are coming this year; here's a short (changing) list of what Cohh wants to play ON OR BEFORE their release dates. These dates may change if we get early copies.

March
Far Cry 5
Ni No Kuni 2
Sea of Thieves
Surviving Mars

April
Battletech
God of War
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire

May
Detroit: Become Human
State of Decay 2

June
Vampyr

October
Red Dead Redemption 2

Sometime 2018
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Anthem
Code: Vein
Darksiders 3
Days Gone
Kingdom Hearts III
Metro Exodus
Shenmue III
Skull & Bones
Soulcalibur 6
Starship Theory
Wargroove
We Happy Few
The Last Night
The Wolf Among Us: Season 2

Unknown Date
Barbie Dreamhouse
Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil 2
Beyond Two Souls
Heavy Rain


Please keep in mind that things can change at any time; things might be added, some might be removed, we'll see. Join us for a fun-packed year of games!

nuu ^_^

The December 20, 2017 episode of Dropped Frames was their Top 10 lists; this is Cohh's list:

Cohh's Top 10
1. Divinity: Original Sin 2
2. Nioh
3. Prey
4. The Evil Within 2
5. Horion: Zero Dawn
6. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
7. Darkwood
8. Thimbleweed Park
9. Resident Evil 7
10. Assassins Creed: Origins

Click here for the lists from the whole show. Thanks to Alysante for compiling them for us.

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Help Cohh pick his next Path of Exile build! Vote on which build you think he should use. ^_^

Ball Toss Berserker (Cyclone & Molten Strike) YouTube
Maybe on a budget, not even requiring a Brutus Lead Sprinkler or Xoph’s Blood amulet! Or perhaps you just like to douse your enemies in hot magma balls that spill from your weapon! If this is the case, you will most definitely want to check out this Ngamahu’s Ball Toss Berserker, utilizing the Ngamahu’s Flame unique axe.

^ Alternative guide with small changes and as a duelist ^

Flameblast Totem Inquisitor YouTube
Flameblast charges up while you channel it, increasing in damage and AoE the longer you hold it before releasing. Traditional Flameblast builds have struggled with the awkwardness of standing still for such a long period of time. This build does away with that by having totems do it for us, letting us run around at our leisure while our totems blow up the whole screen.

Frost Blades YouTube
This build focuses on high attack speed to unleash a series of chaining projectiles with 86% cold pen, high crit chance and amazing attack speed in a almost 360 radius around you , killing everything that dares come close.
The weapon range increases with each level of Frost Blades , so even if it is a melee skill , with good positioning , you will be out of harms way most of the times you`re in a fight.

Wanderfinder YouTube
This Build has the perfect Synergy of Defense, Offense and Movement Speed, Using Queen of the Forest as the Core Item.

Spectral Throw YouTube
Very fun and engaging build to play
Spectral Throw MTX (buzzsaw or reaver) both look amazing! (Hope to get Lunaris boss from act 8 MTX at some point!!)
Very fast pace build
Incredible movement speed with whirling blades

Glacial Cascade Inquisitor
This build uses crit with multiple sources of added damage from physical, 100% elemental conversion, and several cast speed boosts to achieve over 700,000 PoB DPS fully buffed. Since Glacial Cascade hits twice per cast over most of its range.


If you'd like to check out the spreadsheet with all this info, click HERE.

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Cohh will be playing Path of Exile again and is looking for a new build; anything BUT ranger; he's done with bows and arrows.

If you have a good suggestion, post it here along with a link to the build.

Thanks!

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We are excited to announce that our Limited Edition 2017 Holiday Shirt is now available! This design will never be printed again, so if you'd like one, get one now while you can here: www.cohh.tv/store . ^_^