Dealing with chaos damage...?

I have seen Chaos Resistance on quite a number of items. I´m currently using a pair of rare boots that dropped somewhere around lvl 15 I think.

with 10% resist.

Even though I´m still on normal difficulty with my shadow.
I think you can get enough CR from items to survive merciless. But the fact that it becomes so desireable makes rares with a decent amount of CR very hard to find items you would want to interchange with your CR gear.
On the one Hand I´m thinking. it`s GRINDING gear games, so after all you just have to grind your stuff together to be able to deal with it. On the other hand I´m thinking that reducing dealt chaos damage or reducing the CR penalty in Cruel and merciless to maybe -15% and -45% would be a good choice to keep more items interesting for the game progress.

I am act 1 cruel and I found 2-3 blue items with 6-20% chaos resist. Not a single rare...
But there is no way playing with blue items - if I wear these items I would loose so much life and/or other resist.
Chaos resist nodes are pretty hard to get for a lot of builds and also pretty low.

These "-% chaos resistance after each difficulty" changes make CI even more OP than before the CI ES nerf. The additional ES never was the problem. The immunity to chaos dmg was the thing that made CI OP and now it is even worse.

Take your time and farm guys. Don't rush through the content. Rushing doesn't pay if it means you keep dying and losing exp. Farm fellshrine. Safe area, friendly mobs, nice exp, chance of finding nice items. Drink some lemonade while doing it too

Yea, Chaos resist is kinda rare, that's why you get Alchemy Shards for selling items with that mod on it. Had quite some trouble with the snakes in the "Pools and Streams"-area on cruel difficulty. Was tanking everything else up to that point with high armour and 80% all resists (thanks to Elemental Adaption), but a group of these snakes there? Wow. Thankfully I found a Faster Attacks gem shortly before and then went Groundslam with it, but that's not quite what I wanted to use as a melee skill. >.<

Yeah, it's pretty hard to deal with. In merciless you're going to be looking at -60% chaos resistance. This wouldn't normally be a problem, but it seems like in act three they went "Hey, you know how we can make this new content more difficult? Give ALL THE THINGS chaos damage. -42% chaos resist currently, with 2500 life as a ranger(found a pretty good chest with 18 chaos resist on it) and the little snake things in act 3 that shoot the arrow looking things will ABSOLUTELY DESTROY ME. Alchemists in the sewers? Don't even get me started on those. This seemed like a really unneeded change. Chaos damage was already scary without having any way to reduce it, now with resists, and, resist penalty, it's just.. retarded.

Agree.
What i dont get is why where are so few Chaos resist nodes on the passive tree, and the few there are are pretty much clumped up in one spot.

This makes it pretty much impossible for any build around, exept that you MUST use chaos resist gear, all you can possible get your hands on. even if the item itself is crap otherwise.

Why is the big 16% node just next to chaos innoculation? Makes no sense.

Im currently playing melee Marauder on merciless.

Personally I haven't had an issue running maps with -50% chaos, the most dangerous thing I see is alchemist bombs and even if one goes off near me I can still run out of the cloud well before dying. The alchemists have very low health, too

I play ranged and run with ~3k hp and a ton of regen though, ymmv

Monsters that deal chaos damage definitely tend to be less threatening though: if I tried to run maps with, say, -50% cold damage I absolutely would get oneshot by some attacks

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Aezurr wrote:

Give ALL THE THINGS chaos damage. -42% chaos resist currently, with 2500 life as a ranger(found a pretty good chest with 18 chaos resist on it) and the little snake things in act 3 that shoot the arrow looking things will ABSOLUTELY DESTROY ME.

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