i have about 50k armor and i die easily from regular monsters
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Defences is a big lie in this game. Thats why most players head for DPS builds. Ofcourse caps only for defences and not DPS! That's a unfair treatment from GGG.....
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" Personally, I would say that the biggest problem will be low HP. Armor with low HP without additional defense layers such as block, evasion, or transformation from physical to elemental will always be at risk of a one-shot kill. Personally, I would focus on increasing HP for your build. In addition, the 90% reduction tooltip is quite misleading, as the reduction is calculated based on the size of the hit, see https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Armour. So the bigger the hit, the smaller the reduction. It will also depend a lot on what mods you have on the map, as some combinations can be really deadly. Personally, I play a melee build https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/abyss/character/Gryzzex-3752/Garryen and deliberately avoid certain mods such as minus max resistance and the like. I haven't been oneshot by mobs from the map in a long time, but I can easily be oneshot by bosses like Big monkey. And of course, the best defense right now is damage; if something is dead, it can't do damage. Last edited by Gryzzex#3752 on Oct 10, 2025, 7:09:14 PM
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Yea looks like armor is still the worst protection layer in game even after buffs and elemental armor.
It still only applies to hits only (while es applies to everything but poison/bleed) and for some reason it still only protect from small hits, where recovery also works. And the best you can do is just stack "some" armor and invest more into just hitpoints. Well i only hope this issue will be adressed any time before 1.0 and strength where most of melee resides will actually become the toughest way. |
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You have 2.35k life theres why.
Like I get you have a lot of armour, but at a certain point you need to grab other defenses. Armour applied to ele does help, but in the end. You have no health cushion. And youre playing titan as well, so there really is no excuse for sub 3k, crossbow or not. You are not going for defenses sadly with what I am looking at, the trampletoe and the ryslathas tell us otherwise. And several pieces of gear focusing on damage prefixes over a single life roll.... Few things to fix: 1) Rings, should have at least 100 on each. You have none on one of them... 2) Gloves have no life on them. 3) Armour has 0 life on it 4) Helmet has barely any life on it 5) None of your gear has... any strength on it(life as well) 6) Amulet get %increased health with a life roll for cheap... Use life catalysts on your jewelery after these changes.... and youll be over that value. Also Iron Reflexes is barely doing anything for this build. Youd probably get more value from a survival standpoint by just not taking that node. Also going a bit too hard on accuracy with precision I believe? As well as the noob trap of vital II. Pick up time of need and vital 1 honestly. Anything is better than a single spirit gem equip that you have now.... You can probably use extra points (especially since you are a titan with 50% nodes) to get yourself beef and its surrounding nodes (strength/life)  Id build this thing you have here with more left hand side than right hand side, but I hope this helps a bit. Armour is useful up to a certain point and you are WAYYYYYY past the life/armour balance and are completely sending armour at the moment. Mash the clean Last edited by Mashgesture#2912 on Oct 10, 2025, 7:02:27 PM
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Also your runes can probably start subbing in life over the iron ones. Im not talking about the $$$$ percent life, just the 40 life ones. You just have way too much armour.
Mash the clean
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I have less raw and effective health and I'm not sure I've died to normal monsters since Act 2: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Kerchunk-7797/character/Rodynasty
Like at some point people making these posts really need to clip some footage because I just straight up don't believe that you're dying "easily" to normal monsters with those stats. |
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This game has a serious calculation problem and they refuse to address it.
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After I became aware of how armor is calculated, I've pretty much written off any defense that isn't ES. I'd rather have 14k+ combined life and ES than armor that, at best, mitigates chip damage and still 1shots you on anything heavier. The downsides of ES such as recharge delay, no leech or flask usage are more than okay tradeoffs for being able to eat hits that 1shot other defense archetypes.
No, the solution here isn't to nerf ES, not without nerfing the ways that you can get unfairly 1shot first anyway. The solution here is to make armor and evasion actually strong enough to stand on its own without having to depend on a ton of defense layers such as block. PoE players: Our game has a wide diversity of builds. Also PoE players: The [league mechanic] doesn't need to be nerfed, you just need to play a [current meta] build! And the winds will cry / and many men will die / and all the waves will bow down / to the Loreley Last edited by Pizzarugi#6258 on Oct 10, 2025, 8:34:04 PM
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" I would check the map mods. That is likely the culprit. Multiple damage mods combined with - max resist and/or penetration on a single high tier map and I can die in a few hits as well, and that's with nearly 4.5k life, lots of armor/elemental defense and max block. There is no way to effectively defend against extra nasty maps that I have found. Otherwise; some tips is maybe to try padding your HP with damage taken from mana before life and/or maybe try increasing your life leech. But ultimately what I'm saying is the best way to defend your character is to be smart about which maps you do or don't do, depending on the affixes. Last edited by Berylstone#2209 on Oct 10, 2025, 9:38:15 PM
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pure armor won't help you
i would go for some recoup probably - but I don't play armor based characters so I'm not sure if this is correct Last edited by tdonov5#2743 on Oct 10, 2025, 9:42:21 PM
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