Glass cannon is best. No reason to build defense.

Better to just go glass cannon and ignore all the mechanics they want you to experience. I've found that if you just burn down all the content its much more enjoyable, as the game balance and monster effectiveness is just not tuned properly. Maybe in 0.5 the balance will be better, but as of now if you are starting just ignore the fights, as they are not designed well, and build full damage. More fulfilling experience, rather than trying to play the fights out on something that is tankier. Too many bugs once the fights drag on.

Step 1: Build glass cannon
Step 2: Cry about being oneshotted by everything

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

Step 1: Build glass cannon
Step 2: Cry about being oneshotted by everything

Step1: Build armour or evasion character focused on defense
Step2: Still get oneshot

I think they want to get out all the classes first with skills, there is no hard focus on balance now, since this is basically a test ground for them, AKA Early Access.

But I think they should already have a class, with specs and skills that would represent final vision. My guess is that melee are closer to that for now.

However, I tested playing as melee even without damage nods, and the problem with that is that the mobs are plenty, and you either end up kiting around, or just deleting everyone in huge aoe, there is no this tactical fight, where you start and see 5 enemies, 2 caster in the back, 1 tank coming and 2 rogue like, and you need to maneuver past tank, slow rogues and save power to kill the casters, for example, and them slowly work around the rest of the pack. The packs are usually uniform, sometimes with 1 caster maybe some ranged. So clearly, there is a work to be done beyond just adjusting numbers here, because if they were to simply adjust numbers, the game would feel not right, too meaningless and uninteresting fights.

I'm interested how they going to navigate this and get to the point where combat is interesting and not simply AoE clears.

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Slart1bartfast#0332 wrote:

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

Step 1: Build glass cannon
Step 2: Cry about being oneshotted by everything

Step1: Build armour or evasion character focused on defense
Step2: Still get oneshot

Yeah, but number of 1shots is significantly reduced. You are not supposed to tank everything with high defenses.

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

You are not supposed to tank everything with high defenses.

*checks my 14k ES lich facetanking everything except arbiter*

i'm not?

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

You are not supposed to tank everything with high defenses.

*checks my 14k ES lich facetanking everything except arbiter*

i'm not?

ES-spreso. What else?