Elites with crit: A no no

What were your resists at btw?

Edit. And how were you planning on dealing with chaos damage?

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SL4Y3R wrote:

What were your resists at btw?

Edit. And how were you planning on dealing with chaos damage?

Most chaos damage I've encountered was range based, so I just avoided it. If any melee NPCs had it, It wasn't enough to notice, though I haven't finished merciless yet.

My tanky duelist(then turned into dual wield) died by a pack of viper spiders
it hurts

I can't believe it took you that long to figure out that there is absolutely no sense in making an armor based character in this game.

Try it in PvP, it sucks even harder.

I wish POE would change it around but frankly I don't have any constructive suggestions for that. I've simply given up on "tank" based characters. They are inferior in every way in this game.

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muknowti wrote:

I can't believe it took you that long to figure out that there is absolutely no sense in making an armor based character in this game.

I started off going all out damage with mostly evasion passives. By the time I found out it wasn't feasible, I was already at the end of the second difficulty level and didn't have enough respec points to undo the damage. Then came the patch day skill reset, at which time I happily switched all into massive armour passives.

Now I guess I'm just screwed until the next reset, at which point I will discover the other stat that is completely useless.

I make it sound worse than it is though. I've played about half an hour of merciless, and me and the friend I play with got kind of bored of moving through an entire area, gaining like 5 xp bars, and then dying and losing all of it, which happened like 3 times. If dying once every ten minutes means you can't get any XP, then I have better things to do for now. We could have avoided death in most cases, but it would just take too damn long.

So much mis-information being thrown around....

Have you tried using enduring cry. Granite flasks with % Armour mod?

I'm not saying armour doesn't have issues. But being a tank is possible. I think Zakaluka has made one. Might be one of the other HC folks though.

And I fail to see how a tank could ever tank could ever be good in PvP (which the game is balanced around)

Well. I was one of the people who stacked armor for DR. Ima have to look into these claims. I just assumed when i got 1-2 hit with 900-1k life.. its cause my res were garbo. I did think it was a lil off i could just face tank a mob of small guys. Then randomly my life would start plummeting.

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Imbalanxd wrote:

Due to the very nature of critical strikes, they cannot be predicted, and in almost all cases, unless you are avoiding all damage entirely (which is an infeasible requirement), it cannot be avoided.

POE has no stat for avoiding critical strikes, and actually has the opposite, since armour does less the more damage you take (in my opinion, a very poor design choice).

You are actually wrong in this case, PoE does have a stat for avoiding critical strikes. This stat is called evasion.

Evasion is much better for bosses and hard hitting enemies, which is something that armour isnt suited well for (which I think you already picked up on). The downside to evasion is you need HP to back it up, but the same think goes for armour too so you are at no real disadvantage. Using armour as your only defense isnt really enough, that rare bear your were talking about could have had other mods, such as deal extra lightning damage, and if you were crit with that you would need lightning resistance as well.