how bad is chaos damage?

Experienced players: give a hint about chaos damage; how bad is it?

Is it just as bad as the other damage types like fire or physical, or is it extra nasty and so makes a disproportionate difference when you spec for Chaos Inoculation?

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chaos damage unless you get very rare items will bypass energy shield there are barely any nodes that give resistance to it and most likely is hard to get on gear

You can get +16 and +8 chaos resist from some somewhat near nodes.

Witches are best off when it comes to chaos defence. We have CI, two +8% Chaos Resistance and one +16% Chaos Resistance nodes. So even if you don't get CI it can be a good idea to pick up the combined +32% Chaos Res.

Rangers get one +8 Chaos Resistance node and that's all there is on the tree.

Chaos damage numbers are roughly the same as elemental, but it bypasses your energy shield, and chaos resists are harder to get.

It is a serious enough problem that you can't focus on energy shield as your primary defensive stat unless you take chaos inoculation (or have shavaronne's).

If you're new to the game, which I have to assume you are, do yourself a favor and just do a health based build.

I just finished Merciless with my Witch main last night and she has -60% Chaos Resistance. Was no big deal to be honest. Game complete, with 9 deaths in total. The only thing you need to worry about are Snake enemies in Sarn and the Sewers levels. Just be extra careful there and you'll be fine with no Chaos Resistance at all.

P.S For the record, I have 1400 HP.

Maps, as I understand it, are a different story.

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AnnanFay wrote:

Witches are best off when it comes to chaos defence. We have CI, two +8% Chaos Resistance and one +16% Chaos Resistance nodes. So even if you don't get CI it can be a good idea to pick up the combined +32% Chaos Res.

Rangers get one +8 Chaos Resistance node and that's all there is on the tree.

There are two 8% chaos resistance nodes? I can only seem to find one. If anyone could provide a screenshot, that'd be great. Thanks!

EDIT: nevermind, I found it. Here's what I mapped out for myself, for now. I'm not sure if it's good or not, but I think it might work Kova's Tree

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GhostlightX wrote:

P.S For the record, I have 1400 HP.

Maps, as I understand it, are a different story.

what level ?

I'm 37 and about 700 hp, and I'd like to know if that's a good number or I should start selecting more life nodes from here on out.

If you play around at -60 you will get insta gibbed even at 5k hp.

Room full of those triangle plants, alchemists and the wharf boss(multishot at 21% positive resist I lose 3k hp per attack).

The map snake mobs hit for about 1500+ if you're at -60.

Chaos resist is very easy to get nowadays, you can buy a 80hp/25chaosres/30-40XXres piece of armor for maybe a GCP.

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plasticeyes wrote:

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GhostlightX wrote:

P.S For the record, I have 1400 HP.

Maps, as I understand it, are a different story.

what level ?

I'm 37 and about 700 hp, and I'd like to know if that's a good number or I should start selecting more life nodes from here on out.

I finished Merciless at level 64 I think and that is when I had 1400 HP. I am now 67 and I have about 1600 HP and doing fine. I have no idea if that is good or not, but I very rarely die as I said and that is with -60% Chaos. I am a very careful player though. ;P

I don't facecheck unknown rooms with my face if I know there are enemies about that can deal Chaos.