Don't nerf Syndicate encounters

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Only the fortify will help you in this case against one shots. You can have 3.5k life with 3.5k regen every second, wont make a lick of difference.

Fortify: 20% reduced damage taken from hits

Enfeeble: Cursed enemies have (18-37)% reduced Accuracy Rating
Cursed enemies have 25% reduced Critical Strike Chance
Cursed enemies deal (21-30)% less Damage
Cursed enemies have -(21-30)% to Critical Strike Multiplier

Malediction: The Malediction debuff on curses enemies applies the following:
10% reduced Damage Dealt
10% increased Damage Taken

Blind: A debuff that lessens the chance to hit of the affected target by 50% and lowers the light

If this isn't enough to survive T2 encounter, then something is definitely wrong.

You said long range, the enfeeble might not have affected it.

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Johny_Snow wrote:

You said long range, the enfeeble might not have affected it.

Enfeeble on hit.

Curses are much weaker against unique enemies. Don't forget it.

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rus9384 wrote:

Curses are much weaker against unique enemies. Don't forget it.

I'm an Occultist (15% increased curse effect). There is nothing like an ineffective curse or hexproofing.

Also, the ads (white and rare) killed me, not syndicate. I also have another 30% curse effectiveness from the tree.

aaaaaaand it's another tabula user.

and maybe you changed things, but enfeeble is on blasphemy.

so again... low hp, virtually no defenses, way negative chaos res, multi proj map... what's the problem?

Finally a league with fun adrenaline filled mechanics and people want it to be nerfed. Sad. I've been dying too, then i stopped being lazy, build stun avoidance, heavy CC and 8k ehp and it was fine, no oneshots. Maybe conversion stuff can be nerfed with preserving same damage and that's it. Also Leo, Cameria, Guff, Jorgin, Korell and maybe Vagan need buff, they are as unnoticeable as usual rogue exiles.
I see this situation as counter to powercreep, we have insane amount of power now but like 5 years we were ignoring chaos res and layered def. So we should adapt and get rid of damage to have def instead or just die.
I really hope syndicate will not fall to nerfs like other fun things (abyss bats, EMP) did previously.

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sixtysan wrote:

3.5k EHP in Tier 2 map.

Occultist with Enfeeble, Fortify, Leech, regen, Blind, Block, and long-range skill + minions and capped resists.

-Glass Cannon.

Not a single curse effectiveness node from the tree (while pathing right nex to it), 2 inc AOE nodes only ... you're not really investing in curses, you are not even using that extra curse you got from your ascendancy ...
And on top of that, you are not cursing on hit, which means that range ennemies are just not affected by it at all, most likely.


You are also leeching from a ... zero dmg support winter orb ? really ? And you think it's actually increasing your survivability significantly ?
Your block is just your base blok on the shield.
You have what ... 3% life regen total ?
Blind ... only ennemies that you or your relic hit (so pretty much not range monsters) might be affected by it, and you are not using Stibnite.
Your only defensive flask is Atziri's promise, which is only defensive against chaos.

Yes, glass canon.
Your buffer enough makes the build a glass canon because you have nothing to actually really mitigate incoming damage but fortify.
You could easily get better gear to increase your buffer significantly to be honest.

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Fruz wrote:

So, continuing to beat the exact same strawman right after I point it out ?
hahaha
l2read dude (or stop trolling ... or other things).

And your next post .... yep, exactly the same, it seems like you just can't read.
oh well.

Would you mind looking up what straw manning means? Because you don't seem to understand the concept of it, but here, let me help. A straw man argument happens, when someone is criticizing you for things you didn't say, or not in that context. Ie. you say people need more defences, and then I say something silly like "oh, so severyone should have a resistance shrine running 0-24???? hahaha yeah right!!!!!!!!!!" - this would make you look silly, but you never actually said this, so I would be just straw manning.

This is not happening here, as I stated two things:

1. A question about how can defenses be too low, when people are having issues with Syndicate members, but have no problem tanking bosses from 3-4-5-etc. tier higher maps. This is a paradox none of you seem to accept, because you know you have no good answer t othis. Either syndicate is badly balanced, or the whole map system is flawed.

2. You did not even finish the campaign. I totally understand why you get defensive about this, because it's really on the level of stand-up comedy that one of the players who lecture others about how to handle rippy Syndicate encounters on maps has never even touched a map in this league. This is what called being an armchair expert/general.

You are simply unqualified to have that tone you are using towards the many people who have issues. Stay humble, finish the campaign (good luck btw), play your first maps, give is your impressions, go back, play some yellow maps, give us your impressions again. We can take you seriously then. I wish you the best, I hope you cruise through whites and yellow with ease, and tell us the methods you did so. As of right now, we really don't care that much about someone's opinion who is currently overleveling in ssf hc so he won't have issues with act 10 Kitava lol.

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Volband wrote:

Would you mind looking up what straw manning means? Because you don't seem to understand the concept of it, but here, let me help. A straw man argument happens, when someone is criticizing you for things you didn't say, or not in that context.

WOW.

so you know what it means... and yet, repeatedly just make strawman via false accusations over and over and over... and then pretend otherwise?

remember the numerous times i asked you/albino to cite any instance of such? and the... (surprise!) zero examples/quotes/citations that followed?

remember all the times you pretended i said something else and made a retort to the fanfiction instead of anything i actually said? pepperidge farm remembers.

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Volband wrote:

1. A question about how can defenses be too low, when people are having issues with Syndicate members, but have no problem tanking bosses from 3-4-5-etc. tier higher maps. This is a paradox none of you seem to accept

lolz! now the league mechanic is a paradox!? holy crap.

i guess incursion was a paradox, too. the maps were easier than the portal into vaal construct bullet hell that they were.

beyond? invasion? anarchy? hell, do you think aul was easier than map bosses? lolz. every league is a paradox to you.

hint: yet another misuse of a keyword.