General Discussion - How I feel playing non chaos-conversion Flameblast - Forum

" Geisalt wrote: Guys, 90% of my build deals chaos/poison/elemental damage and i still oneshot myself on physical reflect, without abyssus. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1654356 but even 10% of my damage deals 92K PURE physical. around 12-18K reflect in my ass, i cant tank that. It's a pain in the ass and there is nothing to do to avoid this problem, with multi strike and without abyssus i get oneshot, despites my chaos/ele/poison scaling. 100% chaos is broken and too powerufull, it's the dumbest' ggg idea ever. Or wait. Is it reflect the dumbest idea ever? it forces everybody to convert all the damage in chaos to not die. It was very problematic at the time of the aura reflect packs, but with ascendacy the Damage scaling is far higher and even one strike may kill us. btw keep in mind that most monsters have 20% chaos resistance. So you need more than +20% tooltip to makes the scaling efficient, the reflect immunity anyway is just too good to ignore. So uhm, dont play shit phys poison ? Chaos poison is superiour in almost every way. IGN: PojzonAbyss [3.2] Immortal Indigon Poet's Pen Hirophant - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2129766 [3.1] Yamata No Orochi - Oni-Goroshi Jugg http://poeurl.com/bHB9 [2.4] The True Queen Of The Forest - Poison LA/BR Pathfinder http://poeurl.com/M6u [Retired]	Posted by eragon1111 on May 7, 2016, 8:37:59 AM Quote this Post
Unfortunately, for the damage scaling and survivability you are right. chaos trap oneshots everything, chaos spark volta clears everything. It's beyond op. No drawback no reflect. Thoo i havent seen yet a melee physical poison build that reachs 4 000 000 dps on the forum, mine is the only one that i'm aware of. Could get 6-7 million with a mirrored weapon \o/ But let's not forget about the fun factor and the feeling of accomplishment, i have made my build for this reason. Melee is fun, flicker is fun, frenzy charge management is fun. The actual meta is so powerfull and op that it's not fun at all ( personnal feeling of course) I will never be good but always I try to improve. Last edited by Geisalt on May 7, 2016, 8:58:21 AM	Posted by Geisalt on May 7, 2016, 8:55:39 AM Quote this Post
I think reflect is the issue and it always has been, this is a lazy mechanic that generates damage spikes. They could easily make the game harder while removing reflect. I'm not saying there is nothing wrong with the chaos meta, most monsters have very low resistance to chaos and that's also an issue but for me reflect is a relic of the past and it needs to go away and that's truly the thing they should focus on first. It is true that reflect is easier to deal with now than in the past but it is still here for no good reason IMHO.	Posted by Lordofthedreadz on May 7, 2016, 8:59:51 PM Quote this Post