Unavoidable One Shot Deaths and Damage from Offscreen by Drox Minions

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Grendahl wrote:

At 5k hp, minions to block damage, and great damage, how do I react to "oh, look, there's a pack of....and I'm dead."?

Yes, that happens at 5k HP. Most definitely on bosses. Doubled-down on the new buff boi bosses.

My summoner isn't anywhere CLOSE to done gearing and I've got 11k effective HP (with the damage shield buff from necro, can't remember name...9k without) and had a few close calls vs morphs and rough packs in T9-T13.

5k HP is a glass cannon. Hell, 7-8k HP can be a glass cannon if you have zero other defensive options.

I feel there's a huge problem when newer players go onto forums or streams and just see/read "HH meta, 100m dps meta, one-shot everything meta" and don't realize that 5K hp only works if you know every fight inside and out, have the reflexes of a housefly (5ms reaction time btw, science nerd stupid fact), OR if you're using a headhunter and that 5k HP becomes 100k a few seconds into a map.

MOST (not all) of the complaints about one shots are "I'm level 92 and 4k hp and keep dying! Why does this game suck?"

TL;DR - Get beefier. There's a million ways to do that nowadays.