Characters of mine that got one shot today:
4500 HP with 30k armor and 60% reduced crit damage taken. (No shock effect.)
11k ES with about +300% buff effect from Chaos Golem. (No shock effect.) 10k ES, zero extra damage from crits. (No shock effect.) 2000 unreserved Life, Petrified Blood + 5k mana Mind Over Matter, 8k armor with some extra added phys reduction... and resists over 80. (No shock effect.) Dude I'm so over this game, lmfao. One of my one-shot sessions was against Baran. He would insta-zap the ground underneath my feet, and legit one-shot any of my characters if they weren't already casting Flame Dash. (Not even preemptively strafing sideways with +50% move speed was sufficient enough to avoid the blast.) Last bumped on Jan 19, 2025, 3:25:37 AM
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You need 90% on all your resistances. Try RF Chieftain next time.
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" Yeah, I think that's insane, man. Where did this inflation come from??? This game feels so inaccessible. I have pretty good gear, and a pretty normal, solid build. But somehow my numbers are all just too low. I can't even get past a BARAN checkpoint now??? (What even happened? I've killed him in the past, many times, with weaker characters.) Playing a "balanced" build in PoE feels dead. You either need 500 million instantaneous long range DPS to obliterate everything before they can attack, or you need to have 99.9999% global damage reduction. I'm over here with a "measly" 4.5k Life, 80 resists, 30k armor, multiple ~40% additional reductions, status immunities, etc... and I can pull over 1 million DPS. ... And that's all seen as noob numbers now. It's absolutely insane. It's expected for every piece of my gear to have 6x tier 1 ideal affixes, synthed, god enchanted, master crafted, and worth 1000x Mirrors each. (Literally. You could do a trade search for some random slot like boots to have 40+ of each resist, no other criteria, and you ACTUALLY might be looking at 1k Mirror prices.) I have no idea what I missed in the years I haven't been playing. But it doesn't really matter, because here we are regardless. Shit is crazy. |
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" You most likely rolled bad Baran Maps. Decrease of aura effects, phys as extra are really cancerous overall in PoE. Better make a good regrex and reroll maps until you hit favourable mods. |
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