GG, new unique chest and CI.

Seriously, that chest... it should grant CI or something, not be the mother of all ES chests...

A witch wearing that now has the same high EHP against chaos damage as she does against everything else. No more weakness... and pick these high yield chaos resist nodes to feel even safer.

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sanleon wrote:

A easy fix to CI is just remove it from the game. Dissapointed with this so much, i hope a fix soon for CI

Just remove ES, what's the point. Not even a joke.

Before you couldn't regen, leech, take chaos damage with it, use pots and you got screwed by stun/status ailments.

Now you get keystones that allow you to regen and/or leech. Uniques that allow you take chaos damage to ES, also others that prevent you from being stunned or different status ailments.

Should I go life or ES, hmmm I don't like pots I guess I'll go es.

edit: Can't wait for Shield Magic passive which is blood magic for ES. Or how about unicorn's blood which regens 1.5% of your ES per second. I don't get these changes at all.

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sYkoDe4d wrote:

GGG needs to take out the new Unique instantly.

This armour in combination with Zealot Oath gives you the possibility to run:

-Alot blood Magic Auras
-Righteous Fire with inner force 115% MORE damage
-Pain Attunment, again 30% more damage which would be with RF 180% MORE damage
-dont need to invest one point in life
-dont need chaos resis on your gear, some % would be nice but you dont really need it that much
-You have alot of ES reg all the time when used with Zealot´s Oath

180% more damage, 6-8Auras and dont need life and Chaos Resis mods anymore.

This doesn't mean you're immune to chaos dmg. Even with zealots oath, a poison arrow or chaos bomb with -60 chaos resists will rape your ES.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

This doesn't mean you're immune to chaos dmg. Even with zealots oath, a poison arrow or chaos bomb with -60 chaos resists will rape your ES.

I'm running blood rage on my templar who uses EB and volls. Inva has 75% chaos res. Int tree has some chaos res and if you understand what you gotta do getting chaos res on certain pieces isn't impossible.

Plus with that damage it seems a pure glass cannon build would be viable.

people are overreacting here so hard wtf, it doesnt give chaos immunity this chest just makes low life builds viable

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Laellu wrote:

Seems this armor is getting way more attention than it deserves. I could be wrong of course.

A couple of thoughts for those that may not be thinking this through:

Exactly why do you care about 40% auras? And even with reduced mana and blood magic and blah blah...I guess you are presuming to be able to survive on like no hp? ok...that's possible for sure, but ~

How are you planning to get energy shield back? Oh, I see, ghost reaver and zealot's oath. Ok so, you somehow get awesome life leach. I guess you could do that. I guess you also found life regen somewhere anywhere near the witch area. Just getting ghost reaver and zealots oath together will be hard, but I am guessing you will find your way to all of those awesome hp regen nodes, except ~

Your energy shield will be lower than someones life total on a dedicated life build. Your mana will be lower than someone with an Eldritch Battery build. Both of which can benefit from life flasks. Those regen pretty quick. This chest is not the be all to end all uberest ES ever. It has no life, it has no chaos resist..... (how do you do damage with righteous fire again? oh yeah, your life....which is low...maybe you multiply it enough *shrug*)

The jury is out. I think people lack imagination for creating builds. Even if this chest works well for a low life build, low life builds needed some love. I don't think this item will become a sudden 'must-have' for witches. Again, I could be wrong.

Why do people care about 40% auras? Simple.

40% Vitality - 1.55% hp regen, 2% hp regen with Inner Force.
40% Haste - 14% cast/attack speed, 7% movespeed, 18%, 9% with Inner Force.
40% Determination - 51% MORE defense (multiplier), 66% with Inner Force. Think Granite Flasks, which are ALSO affected by inner force, as are quicksilver flasks.
40% Purity - 27% triple resist, 4% max resist. 35%, 5% with Inner Force.

Next, this build that I just put together within 5 minutes:
101 pts

291% Energy Shield (did not even pick up the last set of Nullification nodes)
350 int = another 70% Energy Shield
3.7% life regen (can pick up 0.4% more at marauder tree)
45% triple resist (can get another 10% from Nullification) + 35% from purity.
32% chaos resist

-Damage nodes? Gear + Iron Will + Righteous Fire (over 105% spell dmg multiplier) + Pain Attunement (blood magic robe + 3 reduced mana 40% auras = low life condition fulfiled). Who needs damage nodes in that case?
-Cast speed? Haste. Gives you movement speed as well.
-Lesser ES than normal HP builds? You would need godaweful gear to be that bad, with 361% energy shield to boost your base es from gears and discipline. (vs the average 200-250% hp builds out there)
-Need to tank heavy hitting mobs? Granite Flask + 104% increased Armor + 66% Determination. A granite flask alone would give you 4000*1.3*2.04*1.66 = 17609 armor. Not even counting a granite flask with Iron Skin mod.
-Worried about taking too much burn damage from Righteous Fire? 85% max resist + 0 hp nodes + zealots oath + 3.7% hp regen +2% hp regen (vitality).
-stun? Spec for Unwavering or get that stun immunity amulet.
-Chaos damage? -28% chaos resist (-60 +32), not counting gear yet. You already have 20% triple elemental resist (-60 +80) from skill tree + purity, so less reliance on them for your other gears. If 4-5k hp builds (the average without Kaom's) can survive chaos damage with -60% chaos resists, I do not see why someone with 9-12k es not being able to survive them. Ghost Reaver + life leech exists.
-mana? 60% regen + clarity. You can even pick up regen nodes at the middle or from templar's area. Seriously, mana problems are not even a worthy nitpick here.
-guess what? The thing that CI benefits from, blood rage? Low max hp + high ES + new chest + zealot's oath + high regen = blood rage is spammable by this build as well. So much for CI's perks.

The ONLY things CI had were blood rage and chaos immunity. Now you get a chest that can utilize blood rage easily as well, while being able to run 3 more auras, use righteous fire, pain attunement, and can gear up against chaos resist.

So are people over-reacting? I don't think so.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

This doesn't mean you're immune to chaos dmg. Even with zealots oath, a poison arrow or chaos bomb with -60 chaos resists will rape your ES.

And most people who can afford that chest already have 0% Chaos Resistance and higher. This will be fun to watch, although it has fairly low ES as an offset.

Actually. Your build will have SEVERE mana problems.

Springleaf + Aruku Tiki + Passives = ??? ES regen :D

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Actually. Your build will have SEVERE mana problems.

Here, just for you.
113 pts
+ % regen on rings
+ clarity
+ mana leech gem

And these are with bad mana node choices.