Is syndicate grossly overtuned?

I dunno if it's overtunned or not.

But I'm trying to run a Ranger build and thus have to rely on Evasion to save my butt. And I'm just skipping over the lab fights and the forts. Anything that pins me down just gets a skip.

Now I'm a noob, I haven't even gotten to Yellow Maps. But holy Zen, I'm debating about going back to Maradur/Duelist for Armor, Regen and Leech. I haven't even gotten to act 6 yet with the -30% resistance drop, which is gonna just murder me.

Again, I'm a noob. But this is probably the first league I've had that made me want to restart a build so fast.

I got 5,5k hp, 2k mana ( MoM ) phase accro, 40k evasion. and still get one shotted by intervention on white t$ maps without any mods.

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ashanae wrote:

I got 5,5k hp, 2k mana ( MoM ) phase accro, 40k evasion. and still get one shotted by intervention on white t$ maps without any mods.

I have <5000 health, no MoM, no phase acro, <20k evasion, no other defensive layers, and I am not getting oneshot by intervention in white t4 maps. :)

Lucky you.

Different builds and play styles have hard time with different Syndicate members. For me, It That Fled is a massive pain; if I get hit by his smash, I die instantly. Some others deal pretty high damage as well, but no other Syndicate member of any rank comes even close to It That Fled.

A friend has similarly hard time with Tora, while I don't think she's all that difficult.

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Peterlerock wrote:

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ashanae wrote:

I got 5,5k hp, 2k mana ( MoM ) phase accro, 40k evasion. and still get one shotted by intervention on white t$ maps without any mods.

I have <5000 health, no MoM, no phase acro, <20k evasion, no other defensive layers, and I am not getting oneshot by intervention in white t4 maps. :)

Why aren't you, then?

The hyper aggressive teleporting gankers and the potential for unavoidable caravans (see: Act 3 Solaris and Lunaris Temple) make me dread the day where I level up enough and start losing xp for my deaths.

GGG it's fine if you want to balance the game around fotm meta builds, but you shouldn't put the unwashed plebeians in a position where they can't avoid your league content until they're strong enough to attempt it. It's something that's made me both love and hate this league. It's great to get revenge kills and interrogate/remove the most dangerous offenders, however.

Just to make it clear. Im lvl 91 and farming T15 maps, killed guardians and working on shaper and uber elder, my build is very good, i have insane dps and good survivability.

Ah and i have 3000+ hours played on POE so im a very experienced player, but im constantly skipping the Betrayal encounters in T10+ maps because i actually couldnt get past lvl 90 trying to do forts. i have like 50 deaths on the char, and around 45 of them is because of Betrayal League mechanics.

I think its a bad balance and league mechanic if you have to skip Betrayal encounters even with a reasonable charakter who is capable of doing all high end content.

Considering the risk/reward you get here it is atroucious and just not worth.

Still i love POE and the league so i just ignore Betrayal

The reason you're able to do Shaper and whatnot is because you've learned the fights. You're able to avoid most of his damage.

You can do that with Betrayal too... just have to learn the fights. If you're not up to it, I get that. Wait until the streamers post their "how to" videos and act like you figured it out for yourself.

This would be better if the interception branch did not agressively try to murder you. Right now the rewards are simply too little for the tremendous risk they pose. It is ok for content to be as hard as guardians in T12-T15 maps but have some reward for it.

Syndicate members with any damage mod become harder than the majority of bosses in the game and do not have the fairness in being a well designed and contained encounter like atziri, uber, elder, hydra, aul, literally every good boss in the game.

The ramp up from 1-50 also makes it so only meta chad with their BV and Arc could feasibly engage with much sucess. Look at the skill and class distribution. It is not okay to balance early game on these power house skills and adjust league content accordingly.

https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds