Energy Shield and Life

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kompaniet wrote:

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Jimbeii wrote:

I dont understand the nerf on the rings tho.

I would imagine that is to lower the total energy shield on a charachter.

Yes, but at the same time it makes Master's even more worthless.

Ok, so those 25k ES builds you are talking about, I would like to see one of those beeing valid.
We´ve seen some few builds like this over the years, with mirror worthy gear, that i´ll give you.
But the problem aint there, if i Mirror things, i sure deserve to be overly insanly overpowerd compared to some avarage Joe.

Besides, i bet my left nut on the fact that 98% of those "25k++ ES builds" you are talking about, WERE ALL GUARDIANS AND/OR HAD A GUARDIAN WITH THEM.


I do agree that ES was an easy choise for most builds, and how easy it is to obtain ES compared to life right now is awfull.

But nerfing it to the grounds just proves the old point: That you people have no idéa on how to balance for jack s)=#".


Goodbye beloved low life builds. You will all be missed.




Sincerly.

Fuck you.

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MrJimo wrote:

oh well time to go back Life Build ? Yay :(

Life is unplayable in the current meta.
And it doesn't look like it's getting buffed.

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Zevalex wrote:

As an SSF-HC focused player it might be very
I'm also willing to bet I will still not have a 900+ Regalia even after 5000+ hours of PoE.

That's because you're a noob.

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Meliorus wrote:

Exciting! Looking forward to trying this out! I've always liked life builds more; it'll be nice to be able to play them and still compete.

That's not what these do. These didn't make life "competitive". Life is still shit. ES is just also shit now.

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Torayuu wrote:

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Gubert wrote:

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Torayuu wrote:

There is a very small buff to life, via crafting mods, but not enough IMO. Even a 1-2% buff to some (or all) life nodes would go a long way.

Where did you see that? My interpretation is that that prefix which adds life can't be crafted together with the +life prefix if it is already on that item

I'm not seeing how you're interpreting it that way. They said the were adding new life+defenses mod, not that they would be restricting it in that manner. It would be very dumb if they did that.

Well they did not say such a thing, but when you think about it, it is indeed a restriction, as they are allowing you to roll slightly more life, BUT at a cost of another prefix aka defense mod. Just as the suffix mods they are adding will only serve as restricting your resists.

RIP vaal Pact

Played ShieldBased Charatcers from open beta on and

the struggle for having elemental casters and reliable leech on ele builds without and before vinktar was outraging me, but i enjoyed it. Even I died a thousand times testing stuff.
(The red socket is for lifeleech)


Leveling in lategame with preatlas was a real tough Thing, but we all enjoyed it.

To survive this we were crafting stuff, grinding maps, gathering Knowledge and sharing our resources.

i never had a character with more than 13K ES and this was on std after recombining gear
from all the leagues i played.

All the builds i have build over the last 4 years are dead now. and i dont want to Play earthquake slayer or something.

I love Trapper, Caster, Summoner und other 'inefficient' and not OP asF characters for supporting my Team with some Magic find not having the best defence, cuz i traded movement for IIQ or IIR and often it felt like: why I do this?

It was to build up currency for crafting good, nicely rolled ES gear. U once nerfed my first 6 Link Vaal Regalia from 800+ to a 750 when base values where resetted. Same with a decent and nicely rolled selffound EVA chest from 2K+ to 1900. It is a Thing with the Beauty of numbers. When it Comes to aesthetics u have to learn and care about scaling and numbers. U know how shitty the best Crit Ring in the world Looks with a 0.x leech? Compared to the Godtier WED roll on it or an Essence crafted T0 Phys roll on a steelring leech Looks awkward still.

Did I mention that im not interested to be forced to trade and be interrupted by stupid asf Traders scamming all day Long not enyoing anything but Money?


And look at shavronne's wrappings, what have u done? Compared to 980Er Vaal Regalia beeing on CI, lowlife felt ridiculous to grab. U drop 50% in base ES from a chaest, beeing vulnerable to chaos and no boost from CI.
I understand u had to balance life based and shied based builds. OK. D'accord.
But why u exclude ES build now from the Option to leech with vaal pacT? Force those builds into the new era of life now? how u should build a hybrid char with leech?

ANd if i got it right all ever rolled GODTIER ES stuff keeps untouched to build up the crappool of OP legacy items making Players desire a Thing they cant obtain in the current game from anywhere. I Play leagues only since 2.0 for some reason.


Can someone toss a Shahrazad into the round? End of turn?

Any life based build needs additional mitigation to survive, while ES can be viable just due to sheer nubmers.
The problem is that all other defense mechanisms in this game are utter shit.
To build a decent phys mitigation you'd need a lot of armor, 5-6 endurance charges, basalt flask and preferably something like Taste of Hate.
Evasion requires to stack dodge, spelldodge, block, spellblock and some phys mitigation on top.
The problem is that these builds, while viable, are what can be described as TANK builds, since defense takes up to 80% of all available investments.

How about changing those shitty mechanics, which nobody uses t give players a broader choice of what to play? It's not okay when a freaking blue mod deals 3k damage on basic hit, bosses deal just gazilion damage and you are forced to spend all the space on your build for defense.
Nah, i just gonna switch to a summoner if that shit will happen. They are the only freaking good mechanics you got left in this game.

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coolchrisTV wrote:

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Meliorus wrote:

Exciting! Looking forward to trying this out! I've always liked life builds more; it'll be nice to be able to play them and still compete.

That's not what these do. These didn't make life "competitive". Life is still shit. ES is just also shit now.

Yup, pretty much

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Life is unplayable in the current meta.
And it doesn't look like it's getting buffed.

Stop talking about things you don't know. You are talking like a scrub.
Life builds are very powerfull.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1533986
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1867849


There are too much noobs on this game, maybe it is time for you to go elsewhere.

*KAPPA*