Maraketh Legion mobs ARE BROKEN

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DaviKar wrote:

5.4k hp is way too low when you're doing red maps. You need at least 20k hp now when legion is out. Also probably more defenses, like 80+% resistances (including chaos) and 80+% armour.

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maraketh are incredible dangerous on higher maps and on 8 mods maps specially if the maps has a multiplier crit + crit or 1 or 2 elemental damage added.

simply by those 2 mods or 3 and adding temporal chains or 50-70% extra life you're in for a fun time.. you could potentially lose your map if you don't play it extra extra safe.

oh and the reward for all that well.. awful.

Then don't open it? If you risk dying 6 times for an awful reward why not skip it and move on

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Then don't open it? If you risk dying 6 times for an awful reward why not skip it and move on

I don't think that's the solution.
Doesn't make sense to me, that GGG creates this set of legion mobs, that are rare, just to be avoided because they are uncontrollably dangerous, yes the game isn't supposed to be easy, I agree, but give the players a chance to counter, don't just faceroll them with this ludicrous mobs. Either they increase the chances of meeting the Maraketh and keep the mobs has they are, so we can to what you suggested (just skip them). Or keep the same chance of meeting them and tune them down a little bit.

Some of the legion mobs really do need an adjustment on the damage they are dealing, I currently play a Juggernaught running Essence Drain with 8.25k life 88% phys reduction 76fire res 75 cold/lightning res and currently 44 chaos res and i clipped a legion in a t12 earlier by accident and as i hauled ass to get away from it i was literally 1 shot with my full defensive kit activated, Vaal Molten Shell + 7 Endurance charges.

With my stats I'm certainly not even close to the tankiest of builds but if im getting 1 shot then what chance in hell does your average player have in these situations.

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MasterChief89 wrote:

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EKTELESTES wrote:

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MasterChief89 wrote:

Dear GGG, could you please tune down those mobs, they always go "nothing personal kid" on me. I think I'm not the only one.
Just because they are rare doesn't mean they have to ass rape me with 1 shots.
Worst is that they don't drop splinters like other legions do. They are hard AF, rarely show up and when they do they just do what I described above. Not rewarding at all.

Just a stupid punishing mechanic I think.

You need to use more life on your items. A lot more.

Yeh I could use a bit more of HP, and I plan on doing so, still I don't think it will help. I read that people with 7k+ HP still get 1 shoted by those guys.
At the moment I have 5.4k HP.

I actually stopped getting 1-shot at around 5600 life on my crit slayer cyclone. And I had the usual defenses, fortify on the main link etc. More life does help, a lot. You can check my char / tree, it's actually an ssf one, was helping a noob friend in this private league. Killed shaper with a Kondo's, then almost killed Uber Elder, too with it, but decided to get back to him after a get a starforge. Got it in like 10 runs, before that I was using a self-crafted excquisite blade, around 500 dps, nothing special.

Other things that help a lot apart from life are movement speed and attack speed, as well as aoe, for cyclone at least.

Yes i agree they need to be toned down. My death's oath build is super tanky and sometimes i get instagibbed only by these mobs in the whole game. I have 5.5k life, divine flesh with 89% chaos res (hopefully will get max 90% with corruption XD), 78%cold and lightning and 79%fire + enfeeble and temp chains with curse effect, decent amount of armour + cwdt stone skin with 2k dmg mitigation, rumi for more block... I will try cwdt+molten shell + granite flask with 100% inc armour, but i doubt it will help much. These mobs just need to be toned down, they do more dmg than elder...

I have 3700 life, no mitigation, and I can survive a two damage mod T8 by just popping Steelskin as I run in.

Edit: Emphasis on can. I die like 40% of the time, I need more defenses. Edit edit: Actually, life would probably be more important.

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DaviKar wrote:

5.4k hp is way too low when you're doing red maps. You need at least 20k hp now when legion is out. Also probably more defenses, like 80+% resistances (including chaos) and 80+% armour.

That's bullshit. I got ~7,8k eHP with MoM and fire/cold/lightning at 75% and for me everything below T14 is a breeze including legion.

Legion in T15/T16 can be problematic, though. Especially when you got multiple of those teleporting Maraketh rares and they have multiple mods. It doesn't happen too often, but that one time they really kicked my ass bad. When I went back through the portal, immediately 3 of them blinked in front of me and BAM, I was gone again.

I don't think Maraketh encounters need to be toned down generally but they really should get rid of such outliers.

I got one shot earlier in a t16 beach. Not sure what the mods were, but was using typical four sextants with added mobs (might have gotten shocked?). I got one shot by a maraketh leap slamming from behind a palm tree at level 96. My character has 5600hp, 2200es, MoM, Eb, 70% Evasion, Ghost Shroud, Sand Stance, 10% Dodge from quartz flask, and Arctic Armour.