Cant pass Izario on merc

Izaro is mostly physical. You have next to no physical mitigation. There's your problem.

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Mythabril wrote:

Izaro is mostly physical. You have next to no physical mitigation. There's your problem.

While this is absolutely true i think when he has those golems in the room with him and if you dont kill them and they carry over into the last fight those golems give him some elemental damage buffs i believe but im not 100% sure on that but yeah if you go in with a perma IC build or even semi Perma IC you will litteraly take no damage at all. even with vuln totems in the room.

Thus again why End Charges and Fortify is Key here as well as to any Melee build. Pretty much all my Melee builds run these setups...
3-4L Leap Slam/WBs+Faster Attacks+Fortify+End Charge on melee stun or EC
3-4L Vengeance+End Charge On Melee Stun+Stun+EC or Melee Phys or Leech or if you dont need stun support COH+Curse of your choice.. This works well if you have AOE nodes on the tree on your build.
6L Skill
4L CODT+IC+ID+ Molten Shell or Enfeeble or WM or my personal favorite Phase Run

And that will pretty much cover anything you need. You will still have all the damage you want and all the utility you will need to go with it. And if 2H you have another 6L setup of your choice and if 1H+Shield then you have 2 more 3-4 Links left for whatever you want still. You have everything melee needs to get the job done and its still flexable to where i can work in other options for different variants or other options like Block, Curses via COH or Blasphemy, Totems, Golems, Minions for meat shields Litteraly ANYTHING anyone could ever think up you have options still available for.

so, you all guys think situation when character who can easy clear almost all endgame maps (few maps - not easy, but possible) must completly rework all build for pass midgame part of the game - its normal? act 3 lab isnt engame content and its not someting you can just ignore like uber atziri "ookay, too hard for me, i just forgot bout that".

no.
we say that it is just proof that maping is too easy and ability to run white maps/easy mods makes builds that are 'not there yet' look viable when in fact these are mostly glass cannons

if we couldnt reroll maps our builds would be way better - less dps but well thought out defences and playstyle.

currently dps and dps alone is enough to clear everything

and ofc allows people that are not willing to learn to 'succeed' anyway

btw show us the build that fails to kill merc izaro with 7k hp..

So you have a full DPS build + life pool sponge, but almost no armor, no endu. charges, no block, no evasion, no fortify, no utility flasks, no regen... okay :/

I highly doubt you clear "almost all endgame maps" bosses with that char. Izaro does a ton of phys. damage and you have no mitigation vs it, that's that. Adapt yor build or skip Lab.

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currently dps and dps alone is enough to clear everything

just cuz retarded mechanics "kill that boss in 2 sec, or he will oneshot you" looks like core of that game. Ofc there tonns of glasscanons. So i can make 50k armour and 10k hp for still getting 80k crit from rare colossal skeleton?
Anyway, this is different theme for another thread, dont wanna flood bout crit of exile mechanics there. I just wanna my ascendary points.

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no regen

hey, my regen almost instant.

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but almost no armor, no endu. charges, no block, no evasion, no fortify

look at this:

guess what? Izario oneshoting him.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1737989
Yup. talking bout uber lab, but if uber izario just ignoring 40k armour i think no reason trying to obtan 5-6k against merc.

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HoloPaladin wrote:

guess what? Izario oneshoting him.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1737989
Yup. talking bout uber lab, but if uber izario just ignoring 40k armour i think no reason trying to obtan 5-6k against merc.

It all depends how buffed he was and if it was (prob.) an elemental buff. Without knowing that, there's no point in specualting. You are also supposed to manually avoid heavy hitting telegraphed attacks.

In your case of Flicker + multistrike it also means your char is on "auto-pilot" most of the time. You have less chances to react in time. And having Leap Slam without faster attacks is worthless, you might as well not have any escape skill. Use Leap + faster attacks + fortify & jump away into ads to reset fortify.

A "sponge build" works when you have 12k ES, it obviously works less well when you have ~6k life and almost no other mitigation.

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hey, my regen almost instant.

You have no regen, since you have vaal pact. You have to hit things if you want to replenish life, so that puts you into a position where you have to facetank Izaro. You cant play the encounter more tactically - move around, avoid him, wait for ES/life recharge, replenish flask on ads, etc..

if you took time to learn about izaro mods youd know that only two of these buffs are NOT elemental. 40k armor does nothing vs izaro with essences or idols or other ele-based boosts.

second issue is - his windslash is telegraphed and targeted. how one is getting hit by this stuff? lag?

merc izaro is piss easy for people that take their time to learn a thing or two about him. poelab has great info about mechanics. i suggest you read these.

as for the endgame maps.. doing twinned no regen colosseum on a 4.9k hp guy no problem. but i have some defences. life and life alone is ok for 15k ES CI sponges. there are no 80k crits from skeletons.

but your build will die horribly in maps i run on a build with 4.5k hp and proper flasks. check this stuff up. currently you repeat theories of others and are playing their game. whenever i see 4 life flasks i know that this player has a lot to learn still

its not d3 you know? "pick these list of skills, got that stats, stand here and press exactly these buttons" I dont wanna this situations again. There is tonns of facerolleverything900kpdswhileAFK builds on forum, but i want someting different, for fun. I just wanna slow easy playing, not foking tryhard-touhou-style-arcade "MOM, MOM! LOOK! BIULD FROM FORUM CAN KILL MOBS"
But now i got "7k hp and instant full heal from lifesteal? Haha, no, you can get 60 lvl, then delete this shit and level character with OUR skills and stats for playig our game"

Your build is not entitled to success.