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
You need 90% on all your resistances. Try RF Chieftain next time.
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You need 90% on all your resistances. Try RF Chieftain next time.



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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ShadyC#1006 wrote:
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You need 90% on all your resistances. Try RF Chieftain next time.



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.


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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