Early Access Feedback - I still have no idea what kills me half the time and am so sick of random 1 shots with a meta build. - Forum

" DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote: " Echothesis#7320 wrote: Your deaths are decided by RNG, not skill, not strategy, not price of your gear, and not time spent. Scaling is so wild that you WILL meet something that oneshots you, matter of time. The OP is dying because of lack of Blind. The exact numbers that the OP posted, plus 200% Blind effect, will create a character that is near immortal to attacks, except boss red attacks. OP, spec into Blind, and make sure your Wind Dancer has Blind II and Knockback. (If you don't have Blind on Hit, it's worth reducing your damage to slot Blind II into your main attack skill.) I wish to believe you're right, I do. My friends have more patience for poe than me and had tried it all. One of their characters could afk sirus fight, but still got killed in maps occasionally. So, irrelevant, completely. You shore up ehp a bit, it means you'll die a little less often on average. But you will die.	Posted by Echothesis#7320 on Jan 31, 2026, 11:44:59 PM Quote this Post
Blind, specifically, does nothing against ground dots for example. And dps on those will only grow with time.	Posted by Echothesis#7320 on Jan 31, 2026, 11:47:27 PM Quote this Post
" Echothesis#7320 wrote: You shore up ehp a bit Like to 80k. Effect of Blind on my character previous league was +240%. That's how you can push Deflection close to 100%. You can facetank a lot. 0.4 SSF: Gemling Minions: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/DistributedAutomaton-5739/character/CrystalController 0.3 SSF: Evasion-only melee challenge character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/119e9	Posted by DistributedAutomaton#5739 on Jan 31, 2026, 11:52:30 PM Quote this Post
" Echothesis#7320 wrote: Blind, specifically, does nothing against ground dots for example. And dps on those will only grow with time. There's an MMORPG saying: "Don't stand in stupid." 0.4 SSF: Gemling Minions: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/DistributedAutomaton-5739/character/CrystalController 0.3 SSF: Evasion-only melee challenge character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/119e9 Last edited by DistributedAutomaton#5739 on Jan 31, 2026, 11:53:35 PM	Posted by DistributedAutomaton#5739 on Jan 31, 2026, 11:53:20 PM Quote this Post
" DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote: " Echothesis#7320 wrote: You shore up ehp a bit Like to 80k. Effect of Blind on my character previous league was +240%. That's how you can push Deflection close to 100%. You can facetank a lot. How long did you play that character after finishing your build? And how many deaths were there?	Posted by Echothesis#7320 on Jan 31, 2026, 11:57:22 PM Quote this Post
" DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote: " Echothesis#7320 wrote: Blind, specifically, does nothing against ground dots for example. And dps on those will only grow with time. There's an MMORPG saying: "Don't stand in stupid." Dots can be spawned before you react, or you can be slowed at the moment. Or dots can be part of other attack. Secondary damage like corpse explosion ignores EV. There will always be a threat which cuts through selected defenses.	Posted by Echothesis#7320 on Jan 31, 2026, 11:59:29 PM Quote this Post
" Echothesis#7320 wrote: " DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote: " Echothesis#7320 wrote: You shore up ehp a bit Like to 80k. Effect of Blind on my character previous league was +240%. That's how you can push Deflection close to 100%. You can facetank a lot. How long did you play that character after finishing your build? And how many deaths were there? I don't know exact numbers, but I can give you this: I have never been off-screen one-shotted on any PoE2 character, ever. If you think like a hardcore player, deaths are rare. 0.4 SSF: Gemling Minions: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/DistributedAutomaton-5739/character/CrystalController 0.3 SSF: Evasion-only melee challenge character: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/119e9	Posted by DistributedAutomaton#5739 on Feb 1, 2026, 12:30:15 AM Quote this Post
Or just build defenses properly in general. Mash the clean	Posted by Mashgesture#2912 on Feb 1, 2026, 12:35:27 AM Quote this Post
Thank you, I will try this!	Posted by RubyRhod#3073 on Feb 1, 2026, 5:27:52 AM Quote this Post
" Mashgesture#2912 wrote: yea thats like no defense. You should think about what you're saying before giving the player incorrect instructions. 78% evasion isn't low, 1900 HP for a ranger isn't low either, and 2900 Es isn't low for a ranger either.	Posted by Kaiserblade42#2817 on Feb 1, 2026, 5:45:10 AM On Probation Quote this Post