Desecrated Ground is the worst part of 0.3

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Blaze#0005 wrote:

This update brought so much to the game, then desecrated ground is a just a big middle finger to melee builds.

I can kill them with my melee character if we're fighting one-on-one. I roll away, hit a flask, then attack again. It takes a couple minutes, so it's consistent with meaningful combat and I don't mind. (Also, it's why I use a life flask with charges per second; it drains the flask more than fighting a boss.)

What makes me nope out of Abyssal Depths is when a shroud walker is surrounded by other annoying things, the most "fun" being river hags.

I think if they treated shroud walkers like dangerous boss encounters, it would make for better gameplay.

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Pruone#0468 wrote:

Desecrated Ground overpowered as hell. Even with almost 10k recouperation it kills me almost instantly. Here's video for the proof: https://youtu.be/LGx8usnp764

I think you died especially quickly cuz you have the build that hurts itself, when your red mana goes overboard. Normally you would quickly recover that lost ES back, but since this ground disables any health/ES recovery you end up helping the monster to kill you.

Cool build, by the way, nice to see Demonform working.

Not much you can do here.
I would probably just always assume that this monster IS there, when fighting abyssals.
Do some scouting around without casting much, while having a dodge roll ready.
Try to lure this bastard out. And after you are sure he isn't there, then go brrrr.