campaign a bit hard? or is damage just far too low

Just curious what the intention is here. i'm at 23 hours on huntress and presently seem to be walled on viper nepuatzi currently. boss before this took me 2-3 hours to kill.

edit: my first playthrough by this point I was already in maps. and the nerfs that I saw at least to builds that I played wouldn't have had this dramatic of an influence. the health seems to have been ramped up to some pretty high values.

my damage seems to be non existant.

weapon - lvl 40 weapon (i'm 43) with decent rolls. not phenominal. phys dmg, cold damage, life per hit, and a little mana leech

gloves - 15% skill speed

defensives - 55% evasion so not horrific but not perfect. and some res's.


skills - Lightening spear | explosive spear | storm lance | barrage | Companion supports are all damage modifiers and what others have shown and suggested.

tree - outside of a detour for a lot of dex since I seem to be locked behind needing so much dex and str I can't actually get very many notables. the ones I do have are all damage and skill speed.

gold? well don't really have any gold now. gambling to get a weapon, and needing to respec some to get a little be more output. but doesn't seem to matter, bosses just get tickled by nearly anything I do. fights end up 3-5 minutes or longer. depending on how much dodge rolling i need to avoid even skills that only take 1/3 of my health. because fights last so long I run out of health pots if those land.

I think your early skill tree needs to be extremely tight.

There's such a tiny amount of loot that your skill tree and gem levels end up being like 90% of your character's power.

If your skill tree is mostly travel nodes and your gear is bad... you're gonna have a bad time.

You can probably double your dmg with a cheap uniq spear or rare one for like 1ex.

Bosses with those skills you might want to grab primal strike, use scattershot on storm lance explosive spear to det it and primal strike inbetween. Lightning spear has dogwater single target dmg.

I have been actually feeling like huntress is quite strong actually, almost to the endgame and for the most part pretty much breezing though it, maybe like 3 tries max on end act bosses, but besides that just melting everything else!

Haven't played 2 recently but from what I remember it wasn't so much as hard just very one dimensional. Every mace build needed mace strike. Also loot was atrociously unrewarding. You'd get a fair number of runes in the latter part of A1 and then all of A2 is basically not covering your needs.

But some or all of this may have changed since I bothered.