Energy Shield and Life

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Roji wrote:

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mopeskie wrote:

so lets just fuck es because a small percentage of players are able to get 22 k es ?

thats daft ....

would love to know why u think ur average playerbase is that rich in game cureencey ?
thought this game was aimed as cAsual players was it not ?



rip new player base

The average player base was getting 20k+ Energy Shield with extremely high DPS vs the hardcore rich playerbase getting about 9k life with high dps. Life is basically almost useless as it is right now and armor is inferior to evasion and ES and is esentially worthless because you can't get the armor level up to a point of meaningful damage mitigation as ES provides far more eHP and evasion provides the ability to not take damage. Almost every build either recommends a CI build, or has a CI alternate build usually based on either ES, Evasion or ES/Evasion gear. Combine the fact that you can life leech circumventing the fact that you can't use a life flask and it makes Life/Armor pretty useless.


Just because you wanted to keep your OP easy street build doesn't mean it's BS.

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NoDiscoSisqoOrCalypso wrote:

I think it´s amazing that they are brave enough to make a change like this.
Life deserved a buff for the longest.

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Lunartuna wrote:

My girlfriend plays a 9k ES whispering ice build, so now she will have 5500 es? lmfao what? April fools is over bro's!

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NoDiscoSisqoOrCalypso wrote:

I think it´s amazing that they are brave enough to make a change like this.
Life deserved a buff for the longest.

read again, life got NO BUFF.

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Savorrow wrote:

Holy shit, talk about a bunch of fucking crybabies on the thread. "Well there goes all my fun builds" really?

Can anyone crying honestly say that these are unnecessary changes? Can you sit there and say truthfully that ES wasn't overpowered, and cast a huge shadow over life characters?

Good god, these changes are amazing. Also people saying shit and posting meme's about GGG not knowing what "balance" means.... I don't think the people making these comments know what balance means, because the changes being made are exactly what it means to move towards creating balance between life based and ES based builds.

If you are gonna cry about shit, go play D3. Luckily GGG doesn't listen to shit-filled-diaper crybabies like blizzard does.

EDIT: Also... These are the beginning of the changes. "WHUUU?! MY LIFE WONT BE OVER 20K?!" shut up and let things get ironed out. Nobody has even tested shit, but everyone is making assumptions. Just.Wait.For.Testing. After that, propose changes like a mature adult that GGG can read and take into consideration. For now.... shut the fuck up.

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Galadedrid wrote:

I suspect you may have overdone these nerfs just a little bit.

The buffs to life are nice, but the combined massive enormous ES nerfs will essentially kill the spec for everything except Ice Spear and non-combat supports.

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Roji wrote:

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mopeskie wrote:

so lets just fuck es because a small percentage of players are able to get 22 k es ?

thats daft ....

would love to know why u think ur average playerbase is that rich in game cureencey ?
thought this game was aimed as cAsual players was it not ?



rip new player base

The average player base was getting 20k+ Energy Shield with extremely high DPS vs the hardcore rich playerbase getting about 9k life with high dps. Life is basically almost useless as it is right now and armor is inferior to evasion and ES and is esentially worthless because you can't get the armor level up to a point of meaningful damage mitigation as ES provides far more eHP and evasion provides the ability to not take damage. Almost every build either recommends a CI build, or has a CI alternate build usually based on either ES, Evasion or ES/Evasion gear. Combine the fact that you can life leech circumventing the fact that you can't use a life flask and it makes Life/Armor pretty useless.


Just because you wanted to keep your OP easy street build doesn't mean it's BS.

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Hilldrake wrote:

Since they just said that a well rolled/crafted character can still reach 15k~ish ES, I'm fine with that. But I'm a bit sad that no buffs/changes were made to Life =( I was expecting some changes to how Life works/sustains itself. But well, I'll have to wait for the beta to see it =)