Face Tanked Kole. Took No Damage. (Video)

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Nephalim wrote:

Wow, this is kind of awesome.

Why wasnt blind abuses/utilized like this before?

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Xdevore wrote:

mercy kole is a joke...do it in colonnade with some decent map mods...

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

Wow, this is kind of awesome.

Why wasnt blind abuses/utilized like this before?

Folks were stupid and too quick to dismiss evasion in favour of the hard numbers of IR, of course. Anyone who is serious about evasion has been Blinding ever since Z gave it to us. 'Facetanking' isn't our style but a blind melee enemy is a dead one as far as an evader is concerned. Normally I throw in Temporal Chains rather than Enfeeble but to each their own. This is how I 'tank' Brutus in Cruel and Merciless with nothing but viper strike.

Thing is, it isn't abuse. It's not overpowered. Because it still takes a lot of sucking at earlier levels to reach this level of untouchability. And you're STILL weak as shit to casters, which is why when GGG re-balanced skeleton magi I almost wept for joy.

The moment an evader gets blind is the moment an evader becomes viable. Everything before that is a gamble almost not worth the risk. It shits me to tears that Blind is not a reward until Cruel, given it's a level 24 gem and would make many an evader's life bearable during Normal Act 3. But at least it is there.

All in all, I think anyone who is surprised by this video has not considered that evasion rating is part of the puzzle, not the only piece.

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Agent956 wrote:

The bigger hits wouldn't hurt too much more compared to someone who has armor. Getting surrounded by a lot of mobs would probably be more annoying. Getting punctured probably suck too.

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Agent956 wrote:

The bigger hits wouldn't hurt too much more compared to someone who has armor. Getting surrounded by a lot of mobs would probably be more annoying. Getting punctured probably suck too.

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jsn006 wrote:

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Agent956 wrote:

The bigger hits wouldn't hurt too much more compared to someone who has armor. Getting surrounded by a lot of mobs would probably be more annoying. Getting punctured probably suck too.

I think they would hurt much more actually, armor is effective the more you got, unlike the cliche that its crap, and yeah punctures and lots of mobs, have fun XD

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Agent956 wrote:

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jsn006 wrote:

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Agent956 wrote:

The bigger hits wouldn't hurt too much more compared to someone who has armor. Getting surrounded by a lot of mobs would probably be more annoying. Getting punctured probably suck too.

I think they would hurt much more actually, armor is effective the more you got, unlike the cliche that its crap, and yeah punctures and lots of mobs, have fun XD

Armor is less effective the bigger the hit is. Even with 20k armor, you mitigate very little damage from hard-hitting bosses, such as the Colonnade boss, or the flicker spider boss in Overgrown Shrine. With enough dodge/evasion, you should be able to create enough of a buffer such that, provided you have a big enough HP pool, you won't die in 1 shot and will have enough time to regenerate your life before you get hit again.

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Rumthorp wrote:

20k armor (without granite flasks active) is actually really beefy. But, as was stated, it melts when it comes to a kole smash. The damage mitigation comes out to 10%, maybe 20% reduction against hits like that.

As an evader with basically no armor I don't have that extra buffer but I do have 5 endurance charges and enfeeble. I'm not that far behind :)

Tanking bosses only requires that you get enough HP to not get one shot as an evader. Thanks to the entropy system it's essentially impossible for you to get hit twice in a row as long as you have enough avoidance stats. When you do get hit you have plenty of time to leech it back or pop some potions.