CI vs Life - Advantages and Disadvantages?
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I'm going to want a source of armor having diminishing damage reduction because you took more damage from a single blow...
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" http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/11707 Scroll down to Armour / Damage Reduction. The more mob hits the less armour reduces the incoming damage. IGN: dedunmamma
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" Thanks for the list :D The dogs use arctic breath right? Are they the only mobs that super stun locks you? |
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" Pls not. I have an CI ES/EV Hybrid build which uses Bloodrage without offtime. It would be a huge nerf for me from this fact alone. My ES is at 4000, my health would be about 600-800 by now. 40% of my ES would give me a bonus, but in my opinion a very small one, because i get rarely stunned or frozen anyway. If i get frozen or stunned i use a granit or defreezeflask. (there once was an 50% chance of avoiding status effects, meaning that your life was doubled in the calculations. Was this changed? if not, there is not even a bonus here.) I do ranged cold damage, have arrow dogding and use Purity. I barely get any damage at all with my build and usually my shield regenerates fast enough between hits. If Chaosdamage would hit the ES I would have to stack chaosres and still would get more damage then before. All this with only a small or even a non exsisting bonus. I think most CI Hybrid builds like the critdaggerbuild for shadows wouldnt be viable anymore. It would be a huge nerf for Hybridbuilds. For me this change would destroy my build totally IGN Corelica Last edited by Chesto#0622 on Mar 13, 2013, 12:24:29 PM
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" Afaik the breath is fire damage. Running docks without the eye amu is kinda like High Noon. You pull the trigger first on a dog pack, they freeze and you win, otherwise you die. If a rare dog has improved movement speed, it's usually game over for me. The only other monsters that can stun me pretty bad are undead rhoas. For whatever reason i never had any problems with other charging mobs like the blackguards. Unlike the rhoas i can evade their charge. Dunno why. Packs of archers also never were a big problem, maybe due to the fact that i play with skeleton totem. That helps to not getting hit by half a dozen arrows at once. Oh and 100 CI is not complete immunity. Actually my ES shield does take a slight damage versus cobras and alchemist. Is there another damage type mixed in their attacks or is immunity capped? I have to take a closer look at the game mechanics. On the level 67 Wharf map, the unique boss is a bramble cobra that shoots multiple projectiles. Even with CI i can't take more than 4-5 hits. I have no idea how a non-CI char can survive that encounter. |
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I am a CI FP Crit witch and I do not use the Eye or Dream Fragments and do not have any real problem with stuns or frozen. I use an Ice spear totem with elemental proliferation and try to be a little carefull about running head on into archer packs. On harder maps, I bring out 3 zombies as a little meatshield but for the most part, everything is perma frozen. I have about 5,800 ES atm at level 79 1/2. Personally, I love not having to worry about health or chaos resists.
Truth be told, I have been farming 66-69 maps and have not yet attempted a 70 so maybe things will be different later on. I do run with 103% block and stun recovery (cuts my stun duration from 350ms to less than 175ms)and use quicksilver flasks that remove frozen. I do get a lot of millage out of those flasks. Never played any other char but I have zero problem with the mechanics of CI and hope they do not change a thing. Last edited by Daarknight#7656 on Mar 13, 2013, 4:04:46 PM
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@ daarknight
How self centered can an opinion be? This is how i read ure post. "i use a ranged permafreeze enemy build and hope they dont make any other build viable for ci because my afk brain build works just fine as it is" Fact 1. ure ranged, u ever even considered how CI works for melee chars? Fact 2. u permafreeze enemy's making u able to pretty much tank with ES while ure (look my brain is dead) totem is up. Fact 3. u permafreeze mobs and are ranged, and u seem pretty proud of having no problems with ci mechanics....trol? Maybe just for once think further then ure nose allows, and consider the 100000 other builds that are being ruined by CI machanics as they are. Thx upfront, no offens but ure post was just to short sighted to not comment upon. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
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CI is still garbage
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Life is better and will always be better since every ailment uses life, and not ES in it's equation.
Anyone who goes CI doesnt focus points in life, obviously. Dynamic Environment - Day/Night, Rain/Lightning - http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/110100
GGG's design philosophy in three words: Quantity over Quality. |
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" You mean for those wearing an eye of chayula or/and dream fragments...otherwise, do your homework son.. IGN: Gahrlaag Wiki - http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Path_of_Exile_Wiki Move de sync from de bathroom to de kitchen for better flow! crisis solved. Last edited by Gahrlaag#4258 on Mar 15, 2013, 2:30:54 PM
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