I really dont understand how defences work in this game

I have 90% evasion,all resistances capped and 30% chaos resistance and I'm still getting one tapped by a white mob.Can somebody enlighten me with this "vision".

no energy shield?
"White mobs", specifically the mages have some nasty abilities that cannot be evaded unless you move out the way because they're AoE.

Are you geniunely puzzled or just wanted people to agree with "the vision" slander?

Sometimes off-screen and didnt know what hit me.So you saying that with that defences white mob can still one-shot.So dodge is the best defence?

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TedLeilaCarl#4921 wrote:

Sometimes off-screen and didnt know what hit me.So you saying that with that defences white mob can still one-shot.So dodge is the best defence?

I don't know how much HP you have, you didn't mention energy shield so...

Basically, your evasion stat is great and elemental resist but there's a roadblock when you get to Tier 6+ maps and you need more than 1 defense prioritization ideally, unless you've got a neat offensive playstyle.

You need energy shield or armor or something that offers damage reduction (like swapping to a parry buckler/shield spec) additionally with your evasion.
Slams, AoE spells and spells that follow you like the Chaos/Fire balls from rare monsters are the real danger moves.

If you don't learn to appreciate defense and don't enjoy the passive tree fully, you won't like this game much because it demands you be nerdy over it and the only thing offensive only players can do is build a Lightning spear huntress and spam spears for now (until its nerfed ofc).

Dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, PLINK, dodge, dodge, dodge, Take 85% health in one hit, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge.. Until you log out.

Evasion does nothing for you when you get hit so you need enough effective hit points to withstand the hits that do get through

Capped elemental resists means reduction only for elemental damage

They do nothing for physical damage, for that you need armour, phys as ele damage, ES, life+regen, block, other forms of DR

Consider investing Spirit into Blasphemy + Enfeeble + Temporal Chains.

they dont work. nothing really works. its just slop tossed together and were expected to beg for more while never saying anything bad about it. the devs live in a hugbox. watch their interviews they only listen to positive feedback. nothing negative is allowed at all.

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TedLeilaCarl#4921 wrote:

Sometimes off-screen and didnt know what hit me.So you saying that with that defences white mob can still one-shot.So dodge is the best defence?

If it hit you from off screen, how do you know it's a white mob?

Also if it was a spell, there's no evading it. If it's an AoE, there's no evading it. Those MUST be manually avoided.

People, two or three different people in this thread have explained how to survive the situation and you're still saying "it's the dev's."

This is a game about BALANCE. having a relatively high health pool is a form of mitigation, but you wouldnt be sitting here saying "I don't get it, I have 6000 life and no defenses and i die a lot because you know that you still need some form of defence right? Defense, evasion, ES, or resists alone do not prevent you from dying. This isn't Diablo 2. You have to stack the resource you're trying to prevent from running out and have ways to back up the main preventative defense...

You can even do this with other ways of mitigation like stuns, freezing, electrocution etc because if they cant attack, they cant damage you.

But DPS and one defensive stat alone wont cut it on the top end.