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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

I just watch an ES character doing +3 Xesht. EVERY SINGLE ONE of his big hits would kill a pure evasion character, and nearly kill OR kill a pure armour character. She could facetank 3 of them in a row without much of a problem.

But yeah life regen protects against ignite lmao.

ES is the BEST defense in the game by far with plenty of additional options for layering. Int players complaining about defenses is a meme.

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

I just watch an ES character doing +3 Xesht. EVERY SINGLE ONE of his big hits would kill a pure evasion character, and nearly kill OR kill a pure armour character. She could facetank 3 of them in a row without much of a problem.

But yeah life regen protects against ignite lmao.

ES is the BEST defense in the game by far with plenty of additional options for layering. Int players complaining about defenses is a meme.

Then list these options for layering. It shouldn't be so hard with plenty of them.

You know, I wonder if you know how "Evasion" works.
If you go in with your "Evasion-based" character and get clapped by Xesth's hands and stuff, you probably think it's weak or something.

It's actucally not. The thing is, for stuff like that, you need "Acrobatics" because these hits are AoE and with normal "Evasion" not evadable.

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

I just watch an ES character doing +3 Xesht. EVERY SINGLE ONE of his big hits would kill a pure evasion character, and nearly kill OR kill a pure armour character. She could facetank 3 of them in a row without much of a problem.

But yeah life regen protects against ignite lmao.

ES is the BEST defense in the game by far with plenty of additional options for layering. Int players complaining about defenses is a meme.

Then list these options for layering. It shouldn't be so hard with plenty of them.

You know, I wonder if you know how "Evasion" works.
If you go in with your "Evasion-based" character and get clapped by Xesth's hands and stuff, you probably think it's weak or something.

It's actucally not. The thing is, for stuff like that, you need "Acrobatics" because these hits are AoE and with normal "Evasion" not evadable.

I listed them already. You have access to shields, MoM, CI, convalescense, Atziri's Disdain and Lich ascendancy for 25% pure mitigation, temporal chains aura.

Now, i can get a solid +8k energy shield in SSF.
To get a decent evasion with acrobatics i need so much investment that i could instead get 20k+ ES and then i wouldn't need to bother with the endgame since i'd facetank the Cataclysm.

There's a reason why top 7 characters in HC on poeninja are all either pure ES or evasion/ES, and i don't think there's a single pure evasion character up until 50th or somethings.

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

I listed them already. You have access to shields, MoM, CI, convalescense, Atziri's Disdain and Lich ascendancy for 25% pure mitigation, temporal chains aura.

Now, i can get a solid +8k energy shield in SSF.
To get a decent evasion with acrobatics i need so much investment that i could instead get 20k+ ES and then i wouldn't need to bother with the endgame since i'd facetank the Cataclysm.

There's a reason why top 7 characters in HC on poeninja are all either pure ES or evasion/ES, and i don't think there's a single pure evasion character up until 50th or somethings.

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

There are no pure INT-based shields, but let's assume you use a DEX/INT or STR/INT shield, where are the "Block Nodes" in the INT-Based area?

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"Mind Over Matter" gives you a bigger hit pool, that's true, but I am not talking about and asking for "Hit Point Increases", it's about the effectiveness of the hit points.

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"Chaos Inoculation" is obviously great against "Chaos", but something not every INT-based character can just slap on and has downsides.

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"Convalescence" is a recharge tool. This does not affect your EHP, the slightest. The same "Life Flasks" do not change your EHP.

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"Lich" ascendancy is an ascendancy

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"Temporal Chains" does not reduce the damage you take from hits.

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The point is, I am not talking about a few tools, like you listed, to deal with specific stuff. I am talking about defences that increase the efficiency of your "hit points" as an INT-based build in a general sense.

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Motherpigeon#1697 wrote:

I can agree with some points, but you are incorrect in so many others that I cannot give you a high five. As let's not lie to each other previous patch was much worse, every special lad playing temporalis and fapping not crying that it reached such a price peak that it was a meme. Now, when we have a challenge, we can clearly see who the RMT lad was all the way (poor streamers).

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

You get around 40%+ block chance with an % increased block chance on a shield itself and the +30% block chance passive isn't far from the witch starting point. But yeah it's gonna be hard (though not impossible) to get 75% block chance so i guess you can't have everything can you?

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It's a defensive layer. Yes it gives you a bigger, scaleable hit pool with fast regeneration ON TOP of your already massive hit pool. Well apparently you want that massive hit pool to ALSO be more effective.

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Yeah it's a choice with some downsides but, like, it makes you totally immune to chaos and bleed, do you really expect it to not have downsides?

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Again it's a defensive layer in the same sense as life regeneration. Except life regeneration needs massive investment to be useful beyond being able to run maps with burning ground.

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So is Smith of Kitava but you keep giving it as an example of how overpowered STR characters are.

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No it simply reduces the amount of hits you take. Again, it's a defensive layer.

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You already have the biggest hit pool in the game, making it even more effective doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Like yeah an armour character can have increased effectiveness against SMALL PHYSICAL HITS and higher resistance caps, but go ahead and try to break 4k life threshold. I couldn't break 3.5k life threshold on SSF. So yeah, STR builds have some access to increased hit pool effectiveness as they should.

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ShaDarkLord#6528 wrote:

TL;DR:[Removed by Support], since that’s literally the only thing left in this dumpster fire.

Alright, boys and girls,[Removed by Support] let’s talk about why 0.2 is an absolute disaster of a patch.

Endgame? DEAD.
There is NO endgame. Zero. Nada. Everything that used to matter has been gutted, trashed, or made irrelevant.

Trials? Worthless – Adorned, Shields, Soul Cores: deleted.

Breaches? Pointless – Metamorphosis and HoWA: deleted.

Altars? Who cares – Belt: deleted.

Sehemas? Don’t bother – Temporalis, Timelost, Grand Spectrum: deleted.

Arbiter? Why even try – Regalia’s a joke, and Prisms of Belief are 99% vendor trash unless you're playing one of the three working builds (hello to LS Amazon ladder).

Wanna do expeditions? Cool, maybe you’ll get your useless Tragedy or a garbage flask at 30 run.

Delirium? Good luck not dying on T4, and if you do survive 150 runs, enjoy your garbage megalomaniac (because yeah – flasks are dead).

All that’s left? Mind-numbing mapping for base items and gambling at the bench like a degenerate. Amazing design.

Builds for Peanuts (No Progression, No build versatile)
Because endgame is nonexistent and like 90% of classes are nerfed into oblivion, every build peaks at 100 divines. That’s it. After that, it’s just sad attempts to squeeze out 1% more damage.

There’s no real scaling, no depth, no progression, no versatility.


Huntress or Busted (aka The Diversity is Lie)
Unless you’re playing Huntress, your build is hot garbage. Don’t believe me?

Pathfinder? Crushed.

Infernalist? Buried six feet under.

Kitava? Act-only meme.

Sorcerers? Completely lost – spell skills are a graveyard.

Almost 90% of players are stuck on Amazon, rotating between the same 3 goddamn builds. Everyone else – Deadeyes, Legionnaires, Liches – are dragging their sorry asses through “endgame” praying for divines.


Zero Defense mechanics
There is literally one form of defense left: offence

Whoever designed evasion, block, and armor was either high.

Armor? Doesn’t work. At all.

Evasion? Works... sometimes.

Block/Parry? Absolute joke. Good luck “parrying” 50 charging mobs in a T16 Breach. (Yes, Jonathan, go ahead and show us how it’s plays on high end content)

MoM? Half-baked. CI without MoM and Grim Fist? You’re just asking to die.

They removed life nodes. So now you’re forced to build ES/evasion hybrids on literally every class. Nothing else functions.

Thresholds Are a F*ing Joke
What kind of dev team looks at barely-working threshold mechanics and goes, “Yeah, let’s nerf that”?

Infinite stuns?

Permanent freezes?

FUN, RIGHT?

There’s NO counterplay.Charms? And when those run out? Enjoy your 150% buildup affix maps and get ready to alt-F4.

Passive Tree = Cluttered Trash

The tree is a bloated, unreadable mess. Most nodes are garbage. Want to get to anything useful? Good luck pathing across the entire solar system. They even not bothered to fix damn search. 0.1 was a mess but there is was more usefull passives because alot of techs worked. For now, well, if GGG decide to delete left side of passive tree no one notice that.

The only thing that works is crit. That's all.

Removing sockets killed dozens of unique jewels and nuked countless builds. And don’t even get me started on the warrior tree. It's like GGG has an actual vendetta against melee players.

Difficulty? Don’t Make Me Laugh.
Standing still for a full minute to kill a white mob is not difficulty – it's mental torture.

The acts? They're a 25-hour tutorial that teaches you nothing, where:

Mobs take 10 years to die.

You have no gear.

No skill gems.

And your class might be an unplayable gimmick.



Tell me again where the “challenge” is. I see trash design, plain and simple.

So go on, fanboys — let’s hear your excuses now.
How are you gonna spin this one? Patch 0.2 is a disaster, and y’all are out here clapping like trained seals