It's IMPOSSIBLE to finish any build in these conditions

But when you start complaining about 95-100 you lose all basis in reality. OP is 82 and even in Diablo 2 dying at 95+ was a massive setback. Unless you did nothing but baal runs you could still sometimes get destroyed by a pack of conviction + added cold archers or something even if you were a 3k hp werewolf. Everyone seems to forget that when complaining about the death penalty.


I still hate it and think it needs a rework, but "Yeah dying at 95+ is shit" doesn't really add anything to the discussion. It's meant to be painful.

the death penalty is there for a reason- at high levels when you build is fleshed out and youre just grinding for the sake of grinding levels, a death is supposed to be very punishing. the focus of PoE is was on survivability when it first came out, and even thought there was a huge power creep, 2.0 put it back where it belongs. the goal is to not die, NOT to slay 2131238931823091283 monster and gain a level. death penalty was already nerfed down to 10% from 15% (imo quite unreasonably) and is in a pretty good spot.

sure, death penalty at level 99 will hurt. as it should. the road to 100 shouldnt be easy (it kinda is right now with maps going as high as 80 and 82, but thats another convo)

this is what the road to 100 should look like. a grueling grind where only a few reach the destination

If you ask me, his build look fantastic to newbies, to me it look like a level 30 build and not level 82.

Thos who dont play some realy specific complex build should not ignore MoM, no exceptions.

Resorces menagment in that side are ES, Mana, Mana regeneration and damage.
You need to use them and whats best then MoM?
One form of defence is never inaff.

Basicly:
invested a loot in damage = he do loot of damage
invested litle in life and make no resorce menagment = he got low efective life
NON invesment in defence att all = he get ravaged
If this is not clear then GL.

Efective life have nothing to do whit how % life you got.

Physical crits can shock you with a lightning coil, no?

id like to see the gear used and maybe a screenshot with defensive tab

i honestly do not believe that Dried Lake is capable of killing a properly built character and even bad ones should be able to survive it with flasks

it is most probably 'an operator's error'

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mark1030 wrote:

Physical crits can shock you with a lightning coil, no?

Boy can always lend Fairgraves his hat if he is so fond of LC.

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Wispo wrote:

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.

Well you got a point there. Hype + parrots = WIN!

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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

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)

After looking into your skill tree I noticed that most of what you invested into is just life and damage. It's not the game that's the problem, it's you that's the problem. You focus too much on the damage and not enough on sustainability. Not enough life and armor in the witch area? That would defeat the whole purpose of who the witch is. Yea don't mind me while I have a witch with 4.5k life and 15k armor because who needs marauders now right? You could have gone Zeloth Oath + ES + CI + MoM. You would have had at least a good 4k ES then. Or even just having MoM would have also been just fine. Just because you have a legacy coil does not mean you won't take massive damage every now and then. Even if you don't get 1 shot to death, you would have (sooner or later) taken a massive spike of damage then. You have nothing besides lightning coil to make up for your lack of taking damage, compared to others that won't cut it in merciless. All you have us just a complete glass canon build and a mind set of "I can blow things up so I shouldn't die" I highly suggest that you rework your skill tree

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sidtherat wrote:

id like to see the gear used and maybe a screenshot with defensive tab

i honestly do not believe that Dried Lake is capable of killing a properly built character and even bad ones should be able to survive it with flasks

it is most probably 'an operator's error'

Unless you can afk without taking any dmg in the middle of a pack, there's always a chance to die in this game.

There are always outliers of damage even though wispo seems to have a knack of getting hit by them, still i just levelled in dried lake with a tabula, unwavering stance and phase acro so im taking 60% of phys hits if im around, saw my health drop from 4500 to maybe 1500 with lazy play a few times and its the easiest levelling in the world. At the beginning I was making 150,000,000 xp an hour no wonder more players are in maps then ever before.
So its easier to get to say lvl 85 then ever and your build should be largely finished at this point.