Chaos damage and why it hurts the game in it's current form.
" It's completely viable, for Default League. |
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" No its not if you keep on dying and cannot level up or beat maps without having to take even 1 HP node. (b) Personal abuse, foul language, inappropriate subject matter, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory or defamatory remarks of any nature ... are not permitted. - PoE TOS. Last edited by bhavv#7360 on Feb 18, 2013, 12:56:20 PM
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" this. what about HP stacking to avoid stun-lock deaths, freezed-to-death-deaths and shocked-by-a-million-skeletons-and-get-insta-gibbed-deaths? ive died to those things but havnt died from chaos damage yet. renting this space - 1 gcp/month
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" Most glass cannon builds that I've seen have needed enough damage to outweigh the possibilities of giving the enemies enough time to even attack, and one-two shotting everything. That's glass cannon to me. If you're an overly offensive build that can't kill more than you're losing in default via experience then that's just a bad build overall. |
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" Chaos resistance on gear is a must-have option if you don't plan on health stacking. It's one or the other. You either stack health, or you don't stack health but you stack on chaos res on items. You just cannot expect to not stack health as well as not stack chaos res on items and expect to survive chaos damage in merci or in maps. As scarce as chaos resists on items may have seemed to be at the start of OB, they're getting much more commonplace now. Considering that the leagues are permanent and will not be wiped, chaos res items will just get more common as time goes on. My character needed that amount of ES in order to have enough ES regen to run RF. I suspect most players won't be needing that much ES. Chaos damage is not the issue for you considering you're going CI. You can still build a pure DPS character, but due to the CI nerf you'll have to invest in either better gear or in more ES nodes whether you like it or not. Then again, due to the fact that the leagues are permanent, it's only a matter of time before you find gear good enough to be able to avoid putting that many points in ES nodes Build of the Week 14
The first Righteous Fire/Non-Shavronne's/Shavronne's HC Shameless self-proclaimed theory-crafting extraordinaire and forum crusader |
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" Part of being a glass cannon means ONE hit will kill you... So, what evs'. If you make a glass cannon deal with it. |
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" " Thats all well and fine, but the game doesnt handle it like that. A character building pure DPS still lacks the minimal required amount of survivability, and still cant kill everything fast enough to overcome this. Whereas a person building pure HP has plenty or survivability, and yet can still DPS well enough to kill things and beat the entire game. (Kripparians HP Templar build is the prime example of this). What I am saying is that the game is too imbalanced and biased in favor of defense. The small health passive nodes give at least +8%-12% health, while small elemental damage nodes only give +6% damage. A glass cannon cannot currently make up for the reduced survivability with enough damage to make it valid. And I dont believe that glass cannon builds shouldnt be able to gain more XP than they lose by dying. That makes no sense and penalizes DPS focused builds far too much. (b) Personal abuse, foul language, inappropriate subject matter, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory or defamatory remarks of any nature ... are not permitted. - PoE TOS. Last edited by bhavv#7360 on Feb 18, 2013, 1:09:11 PM
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" Have you been to the sewers on Merciless yet? Did you know level 91 is the halfway point to level 100? This means that a softcore character dying ONCE at level 85+ can lose many days of progress.
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" If you're dying more than you're killing, xp wise, it isn't punishing DPS focused builds...your build just sucks. lol The same would be said of defensive builds as well. Last edited by Elynole#2906 on Feb 18, 2013, 1:10:50 PM
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" No, no. Don't say that. It isn't true. You need to say "The character I am building is pure DPS..." Because that part's true. You don't know how to get around your conflicts, and make a big deal out of it instead of figuring it out. Now you are wasting a moderator's and an alpha member's time. You will never see a man faking anger, passion and relentless behavior. You will always see a man faking love, politeness and respectful behavior. Last edited by Deceptionist#1813 on Feb 18, 2013, 1:11:26 PM
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