[Feedback] You fucked up chaos damage and low life.

Tier 5 map poison cloud on dead zombie with 40% positive chaos resistance outdeals

- 21 lgoh/8 attacks per second
- 200 life regen per sec (1200/6 seconds life flask)

I can't even begin to imagine what this stuff is going to do in high tier maps with damage increased modifiers and damage multipliers on the mobs themselves.

Making shavs a reasonably easy unique to obtain should not imply non-shavs low life is out of the question now.



I'm probably going to push my chaos resistance up to 75% anyway, but considering the damage output on a tier 5 map from these suckers i imagine that's gonna mean jack shit on higher tier maps.

Peace,

-Boem-

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Flask effectiveness alone ain't enough, it is really easy not to notice instantly the life decreasing, there are many sources of chaos damage and a too small remaining life buffer is just suicidal.

I haven't played my hybrid FB witch since 2.4 ( not exactly low life but 55% life reserved, and I will be extra careful I guess from now on ).

Now, why a sacred life flask and not something better ? :p

PS : you need imho, use it, love it <3

edit : I have no idea how you can survive with such low life, any higher level strong chaos hit will destroy you :S

My unreserved life is 720.

And yes i am planning on using coruscating elixir, this build is just a mash-up in progress currently.

As to how i survive, paying attention to map mob composition.

Chaos snakes deal roughly 100 dps in tier 10 maps (white mobs)

vaal constructs deal a similar amount and chaos degens from non-beyond sources are "okay" except for degen zombie's on dead clouds which deal a ridicules amount in comparison.(on par with beyond degen sources)

I run blasphemy poachers mark for lgoh and my 8 attacks per second outheals most chaos sources the game throws at me.

Considering the investment i made towards chaos resistance i think it should cover all of them.

Uh and map bosses yeah good times in the burial map where alira spawns chaos degens and has soul eater which keeps increasing it's damage. I take here down, but that's retarded design when considering non-shavs low life.

I used to facetank jungle valley's Chaos EK with 600 life and 20 chaos resistance. Now the arachnids nest boss with chaos EK takes me down to 0 with 40 chaos resistance and 720 life.(same tier same attack)

Guess they simply tuned all damage upwards without considering chaos is suppose to be a novelty damage source and countering it a novelty investment.

They must have ignored their old stance of "chaos" and simply resolved to using it to kill players in the absence of other threatening mechanics.

Peace,

-Boem-

edit : @entropic, flask effectiveness is a bottom passive tree attribute and would be a waste on this build. I will link my passive tree in a sec.

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Next step is beacon of corruption from merciless lab for another 21 chaos resistance. And i can easily grab another 12% in the passive tree if needed.(or find a jewel with minion damage + chaos resistance, which is probably more point efficient)

Ah good times, just noticed i still have dominion at the witch start, time to respec that point :)

You're playing a LL build without Shavs, Solaris Lorica, or capped Chaos resist, and wonder why chaos damage is wrecking you? This is essentially like standing on burning ground with 40% fire resistance, and complaining that you are taking damage. If you play LL without Shavs/Solaris, then you need capped chaos res, just like you need capped elemental resists.

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Docbp87 wrote:

You're playing a LL build without Shavs, Solaris Lorica, or capped Chaos resist, and wonder why chaos damage is wrecking you? This is essentially like standing on burning ground with 40% fire resistance, and complaining that you are taking damage. If you play LL without Shavs/Solaris, then you need capped chaos res, just like you need capped elemental resists.

Somebody never played low life non-shavs before this patch and found the need to comment while being ignorant.

#Check.

Peace,

-Boem-

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Boem wrote:

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Well I have pushed my Sweetbreaker to level 90 ( its in my sign, outdated tho ), and .... 720 really won't be enough, it would not have been enough in 2.0 either.
It's a vaal pact character too.
edit : just did a very quick update on the thread.

"Enemies poison on hit" mod will wreak you pretty hard, any crit with this map mod can become very dangerous, vulnerability map will be awful, some bosses ( arachnid nest indeed ) will be just a no go.

You forgot undying Alchemist too, or some beyond monsters that leave a painful chaos cloud behind them.

And there will be moment where you just notice a tiny bit too late that a very violent chaos cloud has started and the 700 life will basically be gone already,

The only way I would see this work with less than 1000 life :
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Corrupted_Energy

The only time I tried a Non Shav low life build I made sur to have 75% chaos resist and shit tons of regen to counter chaos spike.

Then I realize it was a gimmick build and there is not much reason to play low life anymore with all the nerfs done since 1.2.

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Boem wrote:

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Docbp87 wrote:

You're playing a LL build without Shavs, Solaris Lorica, or capped Chaos resist, and wonder why chaos damage is wrecking you? This is essentially like standing on burning ground with 40% fire resistance, and complaining that you are taking damage. If you play LL without Shavs/Solaris, then you need capped chaos res, just like you need capped elemental resists.

Somebody never played low life non-shavs before this patch and found the need to comment while being ignorant.

#Check.

Peace,

-Boem-

What does that even mean? Are you saying that I have never played a LL build without Shavs? What does "before this patch" have to do with anything? Even since the current patch, I have not played a LL build without Shavs... Sorry for weighing in on the topic. Just because I haven't played your build before means I cannot understand the mechanics? I know that chaos damage is balanced differently than elemental damage. You act like chaos damage should be balanced around non-shavs/lorica/elixer LL builds, like they are a popular, normal thing to run. Sorry your hipster build is having a hard time.