Breach fortress 1-shots players

I like playing glasscannon builds and no one can take it off me. Recently i finished my atlas and began to farm T16s only. After you defeat all ~26 waves of enemies in enormously large fortress (could be addressed too), unbalanced location-wide wave just oneshots me no matter what i do :)

I want build variety, anyone who wants to advice playing on something thicker than bow Deadeye should check my character list. If I wanna prioritise clearspeed, I want to be able to do so while still interacting with league mechanic everyone including me, were waiting for so long.

GGG please fix, there's no point even entering the encounter, kinda sad honestly
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Considering how much GGG likes trying to 1shot players, I'm absolutely positive they don't want anyone to be a glass cannon. There's so many defensive layers in the game, and shirking them completely in favor of screen-melting DPS runs counter to that.
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By what? The explosions? They literally tickle me, they are no danger to me at all
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By what? The explosions? They literally tickle me, they are no danger to me at all


I wonder why would your 33k ehp marauder have any problems at all with this encounter
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the idea of escaping the fortress while getting damaged/one-shot is rediculous

im playing a bow build as well and just got one-shot by the fortress explosion, who came up with this <genius> idea? and even if i get it done there is no loot... what a joke
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the idea of escaping the fortress while getting damaged/one-shot is rediculous

im playing a bow build as well and just got one-shot by the fortress explosion, who came up with this <genius> idea? and even if i get it done there is no loot... what a joke


Yea, same. The idea of forcing you to leave the fortress might be okay if it were more controllable or you had at least any control of the situation. For example damageable areas that appear periodically and you can actually see them and dodge similar to boss fights
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I'm not a fan of the escape phase of the fortress either, but getting one shot is just not true.

I'm playing basically the same build u do and those explosions take maybe half of my health. It's alot still, but u're supposed to be fast and able to leech it back immediately. The only tricky part is escaping the middle where no monsters are spawning for u to leech off.

If u don't want to wear more items with life on them, maybe consider some other forms of dmg mitigation for those scenarios, like steelskin ect.

The only thing I really don't like about fortresses is that u don't get any loot if u fail and they already said they're going to change that at least.

/edit: just checked and I think u lack alot of chaos resistance. If those explosions are full or in part chaos damage I could see why u would get one shot.
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Last edited by Sadaukar#2191 on Nov 5, 2025, 7:15:42 AM
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just checked and I think u lack alot of chaos resistance. If those explosions are full or in part chaos damage I could see why u would get one shot.


I suspected it might have chaos damage i got none of chaos res, and in my case I barely can deal with regular resistances cause my build is mostly uniques at this stage, but with that put aside... why the hell there is an escaping stage at all? all the enemy waves are done, like why adding heist style escaping? i find the whole idea <smart>
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Last edited by AlekzZz84#2947 on Nov 5, 2025, 8:13:01 AM
Because it takes less than 10 seconds and punishes glass cannon builds who want to strut around with 3k HP 75 all res, no armor and -60 chaos res.
You should get blood for the waves, lose half of it, if ... you don't make it out. We can say the monk teleported you out with blood magic.

Definitely better after the update. But, besides my op xophgrafts and foul born axe, my rng is horrid for breach rewards. Lvl 89 around tier 13s and still not one exalt or divine? League seems busted.

I feel like blight maps drop more loot, but even there, nothing better than chaos orbs.

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