Until melee is fixed, a lot of people will not comeback.

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but you're right we are digressing a bit :(

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Legatus1982 wrote:

I already said why shavs is bullshit:no drawback with really op benefit.

Solaris enables the same builds but has a real drawback. Shavs does all kinds of really op shit and has NO drawback. You can easily be resist capped with other items and even if 900 es was somehow lower than the usual rare item (which it really isn't) you can run discipline on your life plus another aura still while getting extra damage from low life nodes.

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Legatus1982 wrote:

I tried playing my caster and bow some more but I just don't want to play them.

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We'll see how long it takes me to desync rip this time on try #11

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Legatus1982 wrote:

I've always played with an oos and an alt f4 macro bound to my mouse. I played swtor so I needed a gaming mouse. And my game loads most areas in 5s.

As for smoke mine and builds changes, you already know. The only thing I could do for more defense is take no damage nodes which even in hc is dumb. You need a minimum dps output just to clear necromancers

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goetzjam wrote:

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Legatus1982 wrote:

I tried playing my caster and bow some more but I just don't want to play them.

You must enjoy bashing your head against the wall.

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We'll see how long it takes me to desync rip this time on try #11

Well did u bind that oos macro yet\stop trying to smoke mine boxes\upgrade your toaster or improve your build? ^_^

As for @iamstrker the idea of low life was to have the person be put in a dangerous situation and benefit from spell bonuses (like PA) or extra auras.

As for only possible from 2 unique chest, that is kind of the design of the items. I've seen builds that use both, but we typically see most endgame build use shavs considering it provides more stats overall.

I hope you seriously have the gear to support that shavs because it alone doesn't do anything more then what a solaris lorica can do (more stats I know) It is indeed the supporting gear that allows for these powerful builds you see.

I have a 6 link shavs too, once upon a time I thought low life was bullshit and only way to get one was RMT or find one. (i've done neither) I still think the item is powerful and low life as designed in PoE will always exploit something or another, it still adds something that is clearly at the top for players to strive to.

But simply just giving someone this without supporting gear would be pointless:

Not all really powerful unqiues have a significant drawback, hell some really don't have any. Atziri gloves, shavs (bit less es then typical es chest, no armor), volls ammy, ect. If you manage to combine these items into one build you typically achieve godlike status.

Also shavs seem like they are at an all time low in standard, just FYI....

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Regarding low life builds, iamstryker is pretty much correct, the concept of "low life" in POE is broken, its not really the original design premise of low life.

Pre shav, and in most other RPG's/ARPG's, low life builds are ones where the character gets extreme bonuses for being almost dead, and thats relevant to you real life pool (which in PoE includes your ES)

PoE doesn't have real low life builds, every "low life" build in PoE uses a Shav/Solaris and stacks ES. This is hardly surprising, due to how punishing the mechanics are in PoE in regards to defense (there are so many ways to die in PoE, and there are very little mechanics/abilities which lets you deal with that, i.e. counter blocks/shields)

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goetzjam wrote:

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Legatus1982 wrote:

I've always played with an oos and an alt f4 macro bound to my mouse. I played swtor so I needed a gaming mouse. And my game loads most areas in 5s.

As for smoke mine and builds changes, you already know. The only thing I could do for more defense is take no damage nodes which even in hc is dumb. You need a minimum dps output just to clear necromancers

Yeah not saying you shouldn't take damage, but change something up, if even a little bit if you die 5+ times IMO.

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Legatus1982 wrote:

Main thing is that ranged characters are outperforming my melee by leaps and bounds and with much less investment in defense and damage (just any non efficient build)