It's IMPOSSIBLE to finish any build in these conditions

Hi all.

After some deaths by offscreen one shots, and by MANY lags, with my high es/zealoth oath witch, i have decided to hear the advices of some forum friends and have gone tankier with another witch. 99% of friends adviced me to take a Lightning coil because it's the best phys reduction piece, they say...

So i picked up a witch "in stash" with still non re-allocated points and, for not going always incinerate (good but BORING spell), i have returned to my old love: Arc!!!!

Lvl 82 now (FROM PRE 2.0 -.-) and not only with the es incinerate witch, but even with this life arc one, it's IMPOSSIBLE to go further, because that goddamn shit DEATH PENALTY.

Today i have got.... do you manage to assume? ONESHOTTED FROM OFFSCREEN (for the 500th time in my life here) -.-

Ok yes, i have only 3.5k life for now (still have to find better life gear to go near 4.5k), but i wear that famous LIGHTNING COIL that EVERYONE, probably more for repeating like parrots an heared fable, than for having actually tried personally, was suggesting me as the panacea against physical damage. And not a normal one, and with 75% lightning res, oh no. A LEGACY one, and with 81% res. So more or less a damage reduction of 33%

I was killing, and having a lot of fun, those blue electric spiders in merciless dried lake (NOT an high level map with difficulty mods... DRIED LAKE!!!). Then, from nowhere, i hear the scream of a spirit. Then, FROM OFFSCREEN, jumps in an instant on me... A BIRD!!!! Yes, those acqueduct birds you now, those that reaches you in 3 milliseconds like is they are on warp speed. DIED -.- ONE SHOT -.-

Now.... is it MY FAULT EVEN THIS TIME? -.- I have weared a coil, so AT LEAST i would expect to be oneshotted by a MAP lvl 80 VOLL, not by a merciless BIRD -.- 3.5k life gone in an instant with coil on, means that the possessed bird does around 5.5k damage in one hit -.-

What do you say GGG? CAN WE TONE DOWN, AND A LOT, THE MOB'S DAMAGE, OR MUST YOU LOSE HALF PLAYERBASE FOR RAGEQUITS? -.-

Enraged like a beast, and after "un-gently calling out" all the female saints in paradise and their "sexual habits" (Pope Francis came to my home after 5 minutes to personally banish me from a possible afterlife in heavens), i re-entered dried lake and killed the bird.

But strangely, after the kill, the game has started to run around 5 fps, CONSTANTLY!!!! And, cause of this low fps, i nearly got killed another time (copying archer)!!!! Only "seething" flasks saved me!!!
Game closed

IMPROVE THE SERVERS!!!!

For effect of servers and death penalty, you are enraging an entire playerbase ggg!!!! For us, movng to another game is not a problem, but FOR YOU this IS aproblem!!!!


Until you tone down the mob's damage (ridicolous, expecially in conjunction with BAD SERVERS), remove the death penalty or at least halve it (5%)!!!!!

With the (naive) hope that THIS TIME you will hear me -.-'''

Funny, I've finished two builds in "these" conditions, one voltaxic rift char and an ice spear self caster in the one month league(which FYI is way harder than standard). The latter character has the lowest defensive investment I've done in a long time and can stroll through merciless dried lake like it's nothing because there isn't a mob there I can't freeze.

It sounds to me like your characters need work. If you aren't tanky and can't clear fast, freeze, or stun, your build will falter in merciless and maps. You have to be able to neutralize threats, one way or another.

What is your gear except for your LC ? How much armor do you have, how much life left with mobs damage before being hit by the bird ?

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Vesuvius079 wrote:

Funny, I've finished two builds in "these" conditions, one voltaxic rift char and an ice spear self caster in the one month league(which FYI is way harder than standard). The latter character has the lowest defensive investment I've done in a long time and can stroll through merciless dried lake like it's nothing because there isn't a mob there I can't freeze.

It sounds to me like your characters need work. If you aren't tanky and can't clear fast, freeze, or stun, your build will falter in merciless and maps. You have to be able to neutralize threats, one way or another.

There is not work to do, because in these 2 years i have had some defensive chars

a totally block one (slayed by block randomness, so 693899654 hits in a row)
a totally regen one (slayed by lags, because a good server cost too much to people that gains the best money in the world)
a totally EC/saffell/purities one (slayed by offscreen crit oneshots)

"There s not work to do", because "you" (me) can have 75% block/spell block (first toon), or 13k es + 1.3k regen + enfeeble + granite + decoy + leech (second toon), or layered defenses, but sooner or later (RNG!!!) will ALWAYS happen something

For not talking of the lags... yesterday a gentle friend has adviced me "Ehy wispo, abandon lockstep mode, go predictive, now it's great"!!! I have done so... and now i have BOTH lags AND desync -.-

Still i have to understand WHY i must lose MY WORK if the death ISN'T MY FAULT (lag it's NOT a fault, NOR is an offscreen death..... and, 3 days ago, a poor boy complained that map voll with +80% damage oneshotted him from offscreen with over 5k life... HE have done the work but, with all evidence, in this game the work

1) IT'S USELESS
2) it's NOT rewarded, but it's instead PUNISHED.. PoE it's the only game that doesn't encourage you to play, but instead punishes you for playing

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Necronus2828 wrote:

What is your gear except for your LC ? How much armor do you have, how much life left with mobs damage before being hit by the bird ?

I have an agnerod south (i go full penetration), a bloodgrip (i hate puncture), 2 elreon rings, and self found life / res gear. All capped res, armour around 500 only (coil was sufficient for not dying to even 2 charged voll blows in a row). My life was full... i was slaying like a god all the content... before the bird -.- C mon, a damage like this it's just stupid, let's not always try to found player's faults for defending a shit of a game

Moving to diablo 3 now, the rage has reached immense levels (and the mechanic of rage is EXACTLY as described in the first post here https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1217342 )

There is HARDCORE for who wants to be a masochistic one. What necessity is to break the balls of players with a death penalty that hit you even when the death it's not your fault (lag/offscreen?)

Another player lost, good work GGG

Can you set profile to public.
Im realy intrested to see how do you thinkering skill tree when you get one shot in dried lake.

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

Can you set profile to public.
Im realy intrested to see how do you thinkering skill tree when you get one shot in dried lake.

Actual tree

https://poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgMAghDfsFWuRKuPpiycdhEQWDI05OwEBx8CVcaD236vEQ_djNlf4BKNGR2DlYeslzBbf8Z-WSY8FvMvnZMnoS--iow2-_W0OOUZRXyXlyaVYeJVSxa_JNjVgYVt2CQ2xRvx5YudrqcIfsc26Rps42oWbySqU1JFnZrg6-6PGhzcogAEs8BmaPLwH5o74XOCm-081abkIm0ZIvRsC2pDwFQI9O_rOw3sOFugp1V8DkPIUzVQQpBVGjgnLzrY0B9Msyep2t08Be98vOofxyt4LYs=

And now, try to found faults in me. I have already the reply ready (=there is not enough armor and life in witch zone)

Even my glass cannons don't die in 1 fucking hit in dried lake, Whatever you're doing it's well obviously not working.

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I_NO wrote:

Even my glass cannons don't die in 1 fucking hit in dried lake, Whatever you're doing it's well obviously not working.

What part of

WAS
A
RARE
BIRD
POSSESSED
BY
A
GHOST

is so difficult to understand?

What part of

I
WAS
WEARING
A
LEGACY
COIL
WITH
81%
RES

is so difficult to understand?

FOREVER accusing people, but NEVER your preferred game, eh guys? Forum friends ALWAYS do wrong, game NEVER right? Ok, game is more perfect than G0d, got it -.-

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Wispo wrote:

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

Can you set profile to public.
Im realy intrested to see how do you thinkering skill tree when you get one shot in dried lake.

Actual tree

Spoiler

https://poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgMAghDfsFWuRKuPpiycdhEQWDI05OwEBx8CVcaD236vEQ_djNlf4BKNGR2DlYeslzBbf8Z-WSY8FvMvnZMnoS--iow2-_W0OOUZRXyXlyaVYeJVSxa_JNjVgYVt2CQ2xRvx5YudrqcIfsc26Rps42oWbySqU1JFnZrg6-6PGhzcogAEs8BmaPLwH5o74XOCm-081abkIm0ZIvRsC2pDwFQI9O_rOw3sOFugp1V8DkPIUzVQQpBVGjgnLzrY0B9Msyep2t08Be98vOofxyt4LYs=

And now, try to found faults in me. I have already the reply ready (=there is not enough armor and life in witch zone)

Well thats the thing.
Life and damage.

You got all that mana reg and 1. point MoM, is it hard to take a jewel+3 mana reg 10 ele dmage and clarity, artic armor a granite flask?

You got this nice helm also


and similar to make mana invesment to minimum.

You got no defence just life and damage, people run 15k armor 6 endurance charges, fortify, AA, CWDT artic bret, IC, Flasks, life regeneration, vengence +life on hit, invest in armor and evasion node.
You got litle Life and loot Damage, see the problem?