This game's curve is seriously out of whack...
" Need a lot more life, and a way to sustain that life other than flasks. The energy shield is useless if you are melee and without a way to replenish es in combat. So you are basically doing cruel act3 with 600 hp, which is ludicrous. Edit: Upon seeing your second post, I see that you are woefully undergeared and your build is poorly planned. Your heart might be in the right place as far as the build goes at end game, but you need to pick your passives more wisely getting to that point. Upgrades to your gear would not cost you anywhere near an exalted per piece. I've vendored things that are big upgrades for you. I'd give you a bunch of upgrades for free were you in HC. Last edited by boof#2056 on Mar 2, 2013, 1:28:30 AM
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Hmm, a Lightning Strike crit build? I'd probably try and find a one-hander with better physical damage. You might consider swapping Critical Weakness for Temporal Chains. While you won't deal as many crits, you already have a good chance to shock without critting. Temporal chains will make the shock last 50% longer as well as increase your survivability by slowing down the enemies.
I had a build all made up, but then I forgot that you were going CI. I'm having a hard time coming up with a good build that includes CI. *time passes* Okay, I guess I'd go with something like this with your current amount of points: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYA3ncsRjy9UEKMNhOepJF_xhzcwcXsGMNtoqPB849G0NCboWe97m8dFPrSZp6plXB9T32AVlFg99esmBSwOjA5Urw3Tm1YBwD9F1BMLYIeLUenCLiTTDXjgucLKMXzvt6wEds4G20ZO-Hi96cri3ozdpI4kc_kEQ== ending up with something like this: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYA3ncsRjy9UEKMNhOepJF_xhzcwcXsGMNtoqPB849G0NCboWe97m8dFPrSZp6plXB9T32AVlFg99esmBSwOjA5Urw3Tm1YBwD9F1BMLYIeLUenCLiTTDXjgucLKMXzvt6wEds4G20ZO-Hi96cri3ozdpI4kc_kEevuhEg8jgFvV8k0CpMnN2YspqbrN4Pquiy_9OkMfRB_xp4aMnFNms9DY7cxWPWdxA== Still quite iffy. And being CI, you can expect to take status effects from every hit and stuns from hits 50% of the time because of the way the game calculates how status effects are inflicted. A thread about that. Last edited by StarlightGamer#6805 on Mar 2, 2013, 1:47:18 AM
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" You have ONE life node. Unfortunately the state of the game is you are absolutely obligated to stack life to survive. |
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you have no life on your gear, none on your rings or ammy and none on most of your peices thats why your life is so low
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" Thread title may be misleading, but he's actually looking for help, which is somewhat refreshing. As stated before, you need about double your current life pool. Use the passive tree for build mechanic keystones, and then stack survivability. You can derive your damage from a good weapon and skill/gem synergies. As melee, your life pool is just a buffer that should be constantly being refilled via leech. The amount of life that leech can regen per second is capped based on your maximum health, so again, getting more health will make leech more effective. |
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Too low HP/ES to facetank in act 3, even in cruel.
I'm good in act 3 once I get inside the temple, but the barracks can be ruff if you run into a mob of 4-6 lightning mages using arc. W/ your HP, you need some kind of crowd control like minions or traps unless you got a really good AOE melee skill like cleave or sweep and can take them out in 3 hits before they're in your face telling you a story. In D2, the confuse curse would be perfect. Keep them off you and chop them up. |
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i posted this to help another one but it may help you tp get an idea about needed defense bonus.
" good luck with mastering this learing cliff in this game ;) just make a few chars and reroll if they suck. every new char is more fun because YOU start to dominate the game and not otherwise. Last edited by NomadFX#0730 on Mar 13, 2013, 12:23:19 PM
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OP: To be quite honest, you should leave that character where he's at until you get a full respec some time in the future from the skill tree being reworked. You simply didn't take enough +Life to survive.
Try this guide and build, it will help you understand what's needed: http://www.exilepro.com/builds/shadow/493-shadow-freeze-pulse-tank/build |
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You have zero life nodes around your skill tree. That's why you're so squishy, and, I believe energy shield is not that useful, and I don't think it's even useful when you're actually melee. (Sorry if I'm wrong about the energy shield part)
But, yeah, you have zero life nodes. |
