Destroyed by Chaos in Merciless

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fsg wrote:

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saj14saj wrote:

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ybexdcbl wrote:

Im with -60% chaos ressistance with 2,5k hp and im doing fine.. But I can cap my other ressists when i need to.. Btw merciless is merciless, it's there to own you..

I bow before your amazing hit points. You are obviously a superior player. Since I have only about 800, that makes you in excess of three times better.

Do you have any advise or information that might actually help?

are you retarded?

i love asking that question

You started by beating your own chest and measuring your own e-peen instead of giving helpful information, and then when I called you on it, you ask insulting questions.

Perhaps you should look to yourself.

It is this kind of behavior that spoils the community.

Seriously. Get health. I usually have 800 HP in normal act 3.

Could get one of those to help ya some but your still gonna seriously need a ALOT more hps/es if you wanna get anywhere in Merciless. If your having that hard of time in Prison then you definately need a whole new gear/passive tree rework. If not then your just gonna get slaughtered in Act 2 with Snakes then again even worse in Act 3. Use pots and play smart granted my main is a full on Summoner so alot more minions in front of me but i have no ES as i play a EB Build with it and i have no problems whatsoever with Chaos dmg but thats cause i have 2800hps (which is still low) and use resist pots to counteract the low resist i have.

Think the "issue" has been determined as being puncture rather than chaos damage, in which case OP should more or less have all the help he needs :)

OP with a big ego.
HP is everything in this game. Glass cannon don't work

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dima_dunedin wrote:

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oBLACKIECHANo wrote:

That is information that helps. Almost every mob in the game that deals chaos damage is ranged and their attacks can easily be avoided.

You can avoid melee chaos monsters being ranged or dual totem caster. But I have no idea how are you going to avoid every ranged attack, catching arrows and bombs from the thin air by hands or what?

If you have chaos res you don't need to avoid every attack. For the most part, though, you can avoid a lot of the ranged chaos damage by using totems, and moving.

chaos damage is the counter to energy shield characters
chaos resist is the counter to chaos damage

you built an energy shield character and didnt invest in any chaos resist

gee why does my scissors keep losing to rock?

I can sort of sympathise. I had a cold-crit witch with ~800 HP in Merciless, and maybe 1K ES at A1 start. Very glass cannon. Differences were, I knew all along I was going CI (so didn't take any +HP nodes), and only ever ran in party and not solo. Also entirely group-found on a separate account so no hand-me-downs from shared stash.
I also levelled a summoner with added fire (firestorm not fireball), also CI throughout A2/A3 Merc but think I had nearer 2500ES when I switched and had taken many ES passives including the Templar and central ones. And not much in the way of fire passives because a summoner doesn't need so much DPS, that's what minions are for (Flame Sentinels... mmm...).

With a pure summoner build, farm until you get better ES, perhaps 2K - it'll come (keep dying so you don't out-level and you'll get more currency...). Lose some spare sockets to do it if you have to: 4L is fine on a chest, I didn't get better until 70+ and was mapping. Save up 4 passive points. Then I recommend going CI once you turn west (left) in A2, or even for Chamber of Sins: get CI and the nodes behind it in one go for the ES boost. But put all your passives into defence for a long while and not damage unless you are happy with frequent deaths.
Don't forget to run Discipline fully levelled. You should be running Clarity to maintain mana regen so won't need a large available pool anyhow.

As you're not running a pure summoner ES is even more important. Get to 3K by A3 Merc, whether CI or not. My summoner has ~120K HP of zombie meatshield at all times, plus 50K+ of skeles; and ~4.5K ES. If you're not on the path to that then you need more personal defence. The other witch I mention is now lvl76, and well over 5K ES. Still not got better than a 4L but can cope fine (if carefully) with maps up to 68 solo.

<edit> and if it is Puncture you're dying to, since there's no chaos in the Prison, same applies. Get more ES farming the Ledge until you have a decent 4L chest and better surrounding gear. No other way to do it without ultra-slow clear and frequent deaths. You'll need a fair amount to survive if Brutus catches you, even once...

Also be sure you have skele's on a totem (ideally with faster cast. It may be your only non-line-of-sight damage... the totem can go in reach of danger so you don't have to.

Finally I just checked your build... um. Not enough minion or defence nodes and too much DPS. Half-and-half toons don't make it. Here's mine at lvl 83: she still has plenty of fire damage but has minions (especially sentinels) to do more of it.
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAuMFWwdjEVAR2xVQFdcabBzcHRQfAiSLJ6kpTyqYLJwsvzbFNtg4GzrYO-E9D0NjRtdI50kbSbJNuU3YVmNXK1j1XcZgbWaea9ttGXFNc1N8u30Yfll_xoIQgpuDOIVghq6HZYhAi4yMdo9GkDOSOJMnms-boZwtnYCdrp3EoqOmrKcIpyuqxK-3tQS3MbiTu9a_l8HFwfPDbck9zLzQ0NeG2CTZC9rd3fPfsOFz4vfkIuaB7BjsOOxV7IrtIO988WzyHvNx99f6gPrS

You really shouldn't be having problems with chaos damage until the second half of act 2 in merc.

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saj14saj wrote:

My main is a witch using fireball behind enough minions to keep the enemies from hitting me. This has worked fine until now. I am at the beginning of Merciless, in Act I, just hitting the Prison. I think I am somewhat over leveled at 58 and can do Ledge and Rising Path easily.

However, the chaos/poison damage from the creatures in the Prison is slaughtering me. I have lost half a level, with a chaos resistance of -36.

I have taken all of the chaos resistance passives I can find. Chaos resistance on equipment seems very rare, and even if I find it, loosing my slotted gems would be catastrophic.

I don't dare go CI because I have only about 800 energy shield.

How do witches survive the chaos damage? Any advise would be welcome.

Link to my build:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAW8C4welCPQRLRVQGmwdFCqYLJwtHzLRO-E8jj1fRUdG10jnSRtMs1AwUlNVrlcrXcZfKmBta9ttGXNTeQN65nyDfVOCEIKbhEiHZYhAi3qOvo9Gj6aQM5LBmK2boaaspwinK6-3tQS2hriTwFTB88360NDUfNkL217d89-w4vfkIudq6-Tr7vF2-oD9zw==

i give u tip

use totem

to tank

cast totem b4 entering a room

you are welcome.

everyone saying USE POT USE CHAOS POST USE POT ARE NOOBS

just use totem to FACETANK and wreck them with fireball

have u guys not played this game???

LOl!