[3.4] The DarkRunner - 1HP "pacifist" build with damage immune option

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yemanlp540 wrote:

Do you know if it's a bug that you can tank 5k stacks? I assumed 5k stacks would be doing 2500% of HP even at max dark res, which would be 2500 damager per second, exceeding our flat regen.

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lallalaus wrote:

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yemanlp540 wrote:

Do you know if it's a bug that you can tank 5k stacks? I assumed 5k stacks would be doing 2500% of HP even at max dark res, which would be 2500 damager per second, exceeding our flat regen.

I honestly was thinking about it and it's right what you are saying. On the other side, I personally do not know (and I'm not sure if it's something pubblicly known) how DoT and regen are actually calculated and applied in this game.
There's definitly something wrong at first glance, but it might make sense having access to the code. It makes even less sense when you start using MoM; without MoM I was able to survive up to something like 2.5-3k stacks, while using it I'm able to reach 5000 stacks, which obviously doesn't seem correct.
When you are dealing with really small time frames, things get very messy in this game; for example any item with an internal CD (Mjolner, PP, Cospri's) has serious problem related to their proc rate, which is impossible to achieve under most circumstances (e.g. they have 0.25s of CD, but you cannot proc them 4 times/sec even if you have precisely 4 attacks/sec). It's also iconic the whole "on full life" problem related to degen skills (blood rage, RF), which has been completely bugged for most of POE history and got fixed pretty recently (and we do not know if they actually fixed the underlying problem or they just found a workaround for few specific istances).

In the end, yes.. There's something wrong, but I'm not sure whether they are actually able to fix the problem, without massive time/coding investments (Mjolner is a very old item, PP is one of the most used unique and they are very aware of this problem, but they haven't been fixed yet as far as I know). Even then, we should be able to sustain 1500+ stacks, which is more then enough to farm the darkness without any problem.

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phirefor wrote:

Is there any possible way to make an HC-viable variant? As in, you're able to reliably tank 1 hit if you mess up somehow while still being able to stay in the darkness forever?

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foster21 wrote:

The monsters seem to not ignore me as much as they should, assuming I have all the gear and the tree filled out (9 extra points) what should I be looking into more?

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duabijitelur wrote:

i still have to gather the sulphites to run the delve cart to explore the darkneaa for loots right?

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yemanlp540 wrote:

Do you know if it's a bug that you can tank 5k stacks? I assumed 5k stacks would be doing 2500% of HP even at max dark res, which would be 2500 damager per second, exceeding our flat regen.

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yemanlp540 wrote:

I realised this calculation was wrong, at 5k stacks, we take

5000x0.5% of HP = 2500% of HP

2500% x 1 HP = 25

Much lower than the 2500 previously calculated. Not sure if this means we can drop a lot of our expensive regen gear, haven't got a character to test it yet ):