Energy Shield and Life

these adjustments really seem like too much.
i dont get why ES is always beeing compared to LIFE while it should be compared to AR/EV since thats the slot it takes.
it obviously is the best defense of those, but that seems to be because there are no diminishing returns whatsoever on ES while there are on AR/EV.
introducing diminishing returns for ES seems to make more sense to bring it more in line with AR/EV. better yet though i would like to see some adjustments to AR/EV that make them more appealing.
in general ES seems just so much better because mob damage just doesnt feel balanced at all,
they either do no damage or just one-shot you.
vaal pact feels like the worse offender here since it mitigates practicaly every small hit, which in turn gives the game the need to have those huge hits to not have vaal pact be a god mode.

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maxkardinal wrote:

Why people keep saying that without Vaal Pact there will be NO way to regain ES?

Llife leech was not yet removed from the game, so what's your problem? Oh, i think i'm getting it - you won't be able to fecetank everythg that not 1-shots you. In your world tnhat means unplayable? Nice.

Why people keep saying that ES chars can't mitigate physical damage?

Fortify, Granit, Basalt Flasks, Arctic Armour are not yet removed from the game. Oh, that means that you need to replace your precious dps flasks and drop one offencive aura. Thats unplayable, for sure. Thtats fucking unspeakable!

considering your character pool i would say you have no expansive knowledge of endgame. Life leech without vaal pact is not workable in a CQC environment. The leech is plain too slow. Sure, there are some life leech rate + nodes, but they are mostly in the south west of the tree

I have no doubt bow ES will work, since you can dodge most of the damage. In close quarters (melee, some spells) you can't always dodge.

We aren't talking about facetanking shaper beam/slam here. I have never done that, and yet ive killed both uber and shaper.

My lvl 94 raider (HoWA) has about 10k ES, with a decent investment. One could argue the chest is trash, but this is about the ES a high tier chest will get after nerf. So, is she as invincible as you claim? Absolutely not, if I dont pay attention she will die, even just doing regular maps. Do I need vaal pact? I sure do, even when playing as spectral throw, and even more so if i switch to blade flurry.

In the current high damage environment of late maps the changes proposed by GGG wont work for CI characters. This includes both the high nerf to tree ES and vaal pact. However, there are some additions we havent seen (pantheon).

If this is another knee jerk nerf and actually goes through I will probably skip next season. There are some good ARPG (and mods!) alternatives nowadays.

Life users - YAY! =__=)/
ES users - whine, whine, whine >__<)`

BEST Patchnotes in the last 3 years. Where are the new Supporterpacks so i can waste my money !

Bunch of babies crying kek

This is a good change

finally those arrogant ES pricks will be shot down #makeglobal1greatagain

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Current estimates are that a build that balances offence and defence and is well-geared can reach around 15,000 Energy Shield.

How ggg?

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Yamifira wrote:

finally those arrogant ES pricks will be shot down #makeglobal1greatagain

I agree. Path 3.0 will be maybe about communism. Everyone are equal but everyones have a big bag poop.

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Nedfert wrote:

Probabily this game is become the hardest game in the world .This game lose player every day and this is a fact we all know( friend list empty day by day ) and now another brutal nef anouncement, i wonder if we not be able to play decent anymore this game, why we stil play or invest in this game?

1. They´re all rich now and don´t care
2. I´ll stop my support the moment this mindless nerf goes online. Will hold my moneyz for now, that´s for sure.

If these nerfs go live as they are, and especially if I go from 8k to 6k ES which it seems like I will, I'll be asking for a refund on my recently purchased hydra and legacy packs at least. Dunno if they'll give me them, wonder if I'll be man enough to file chargebacks and get my account banned if I have to, but it wouldnt be worth it with how much money I've wasted so far.

HAHAHAHAHA YES YES!!! LET THE BUTTHURT FLLOOWWWW THROUGH YOU!!

Not sure "life builds" casuals will finaly stop crying and to be jealous.