Damage bypassing Player Energy Shield

Sometimes damage bypasses players' Energy Shield when it shouldn't.

Might be related to the "Extra Chaos Damage" mod that rare monsters can have, but not sure.

See this clip for reference: https://www.twitch.tv/velyna/clip/HilariousCrunchyTortoisePraiseIt-dXoG4pyjD_U8q4Tu

Lost 1200 HP from a single hit, but only about 30 ES. No poison, no bleed, or anything else that should bypass ES under normal circumstances. Definitely a bug, but hard to tell for sure what caused it.

The reason I believe it is related to the "Extra Chaos Damage" monster modifier is because a hit that causes 1200 Health Damage should cause more than ~30 damage to Energy Shield with the "Extra Chaos Damage" monster modifier, doubly so as Chaos Damage should deal twice the amount of damage to Energy Shield by default.

If Chaos Damage acted normally in that clip, the damage dealt to Energy Shield should have been much higher than it was.

TL;DR: Instead of dealing double damage to Energy Shield, Chaos Damage (or all Damage) seems to bypass Energy Shield entirely if monsters have the "Extra Chaos Damage" on them.

Yup this looks to be instakilling me with Chaos Innoculation, fun times.

Just died on hardcore at act 3 campaing. A rare monster in drowned city with magma bubble (idk if thats the name) casted an water spell and the bubble popped. My energy shield was above 1k and I died while still had energy shield up. I have CI passive so any chaos damage shouldnt bypass my ES idk what killed me.

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jojozito#3914 wrote:

Just died on hardcore at act 3 campaing. A rare monster in drowned city with magma bubble (idk if thats the name) casted an water spell and the bubble popped. My energy shield was above 1k and I died while still had energy shield up. I have CI passive so any chaos damage shouldnt bypass my ES idk what killed me.

That sounds like a river hag, and that's their drown mechanic. Unrelated to this, just a trash mob with an awful design.

Wait, so that river hag have a damage that bypass ES? That's a weird design, makes no sense with the rest of the game. Or is it possible that the hit was so high that killed me so fast the game couldn't process the damage on ES? Before this death I was breezing trough campaing

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jojozito#3914 wrote:

Wait, so that river hag have a damage that bypass ES? That's a weird design, makes no sense with the rest of the game. Or is it possible that the hit was so high that killed me so fast the game couldn't process the damage on ES? Before this death I was breezing trough campaing

In think the bubble kills everyone in a fixed amount of time no matter the defenses.

Uhh, I went back to check it out. Turns out that it was actually in fact the Drowning mechanic that kills you in 3 seconds. Sorry for the mess.

This still seems to be a constant thing, I am using the skill that swaps flask to restore ES and Life regens, but the issue that when this is the case. there is several times where I have seen skills like corrupted blood bypass my ES and directly damage me instead of my energy shield. This has caused me several times to die during mapping or bosses and unless I turn off that skill point or have an omen of resurgence (reason I keep them on me at all times now and spend the exalts for them).

I understand that chaos damage does extra damage to shields, but severe damage directly to my HP that no longer benefits from flasks.

This is why they need a review death mechanic because there has been several times where I want to understand WHY I died. This is another reason I won't touch HC until they resolve this issue.

increased monster damage, penetrate elemental resist and elemental weakness with a extra chaos rare mod..

rip