End game and squishy characters.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/COTTIXS142
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Kind of new to using the forum, but in need of advice...

What could I possibly do to my main char. while keeping the build similar, that would make me less squishy. I get one-two shot by just about every boss or elite/rare monster

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COTTIXS142 wrote:

I get one-two shot by just about every boss or elite/rare monster

Modern PoE in a nutshell. The best defense mechanic nowadays is to kill monsters before they have time to do anything.

cant see your characters. you need to make them public

FYI Your profile page is set to private. You have to change that before anybody can look at your chars.

Can use
https://poe-profile.info/
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds

and see builds using same skill and ascendency.

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COTTIXS142 wrote:

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Kind of new to using the forum, but in need of advice...

What could I possibly do to my main char. while keeping the build similar, that would make me less squishy. I get one-two shot by just about every boss or elite/rare monster

While killspeed is certainly a decent defense mechanic, it isn't the only one. The whole oneshot meta is precisely that, a meta. It's caused by the fact that most players pick builds with no defenses aside from small HP pools (usually around 5k) and maxed elemental resists. I.e they are pretty much naked as far as defense goes. You will hardly ever get one/twoshot if you build proper defenses. You won't be able to tank absolutely everything, some things are just meant to be avoided like Bameths Vaal DD but those a few and far in between.

@OP make your profile public or post a POB then i can take a look at your builds.

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While killspeed is certainly a decent defense mechanic, it isn't the only one. The whole oneshot meta is precisely that, a meta. It's caused by the fact that most players pick builds with no defenses aside from small HP pools (usually around 5k) and maxed elemental resists. I.e they are pretty much naked as far as defense goes. You will hardly ever get one/twoshot if you build proper defenses. You won't be able to tank absolutely everything, some things are just meant to be avoided like Bameths Vaal DD but those a few and far in between.

Exactly that. People that complain that everything oneshots them can´t and really shouldn´t be taken seriously since they have proven to not fully understand the game with comments like this. I personally played characters (that werent Aurastackers by the way) that could literally facetank uber-elder or sirus quad-beams without moving at all while comfortably eating a tasty sandwitch and playing with one hand.

This game offers a multitude of defensive layers:

- Evasion and Armor
- Dodge and Spell dodge
- Max HP / Max ES
- Regeneration
- Max Resistances
- Dmg-Conversion
- Less damage taken & Reduced damage taken (yes, those are different things)
- Block, Spellblock and additonal max Block
- % Physical Damage reduction
- Damage Avoidance
- and of course gems that utilize those mechanics

If you know when those mechanics apply and in what order then u can build extremely tanky characters. But people rather prefer to deal 25million damage rather than tanking it.

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Vennto wrote:

If you know when those mechanics apply and in what order then u can build extremely tanky characters. But people rather prefer to deal 25million damage rather than tanking it.

thats mostly because its safer and more reliable.
the game ultimately is a war of attrition. you want to kill before being killed. even with all of the defensive layers etc we can still die in literally the blink of an eye.
killing the mobs/boss instantly is just the best way to stay alive because there is much less time for you to be insta-gibbed, regardless of your defenses.

this is why aura-stacker and other build have become "the best" because they get both defense and insane offense. but even aura-stacker builds are not immortal and will die if you're not killing.

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Vennto wrote:

This game offers a multitude of defensive layers:

- Evasion and Armor
- Dodge and Spell dodge
- Max HP / Max ES
- Regeneration
- Max Resistances
- Dmg-Conversion
- Less damage taken & Reduced damage taken (yes, those are different things)
- Block, Spellblock and additonal max Block
- % Physical Damage reduction
- Damage Avoidance
- and of course gems that utilize those mechanics

Hmm lets see

1. Does jack shit againts one shots (that are not phys dmg)
2. Does jack shit agains one shots
3.
4. Does jack shit against one shots
5. One of the best defense mechanic, but hard to get
6. Does jack shit against one shots from dmg you dont convert
7. Hard to get outside of few ascendencies
8. Does jack shit against one shots
9. Does jack shit against anything that isnt phys dmg
10. Does jack shit against one shots

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xMustard wrote:

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Vennto wrote:

If you know when those mechanics apply and in what order then u can build extremely tanky characters. But people rather prefer to deal 25million damage rather than tanking it.

thats mostly because its safer and more reliable.
the game ultimately is a war of attrition. you want to kill before being killed. even with all of the defensive layers etc we can still die in literally the blink of an eye.
killing the mobs/boss instantly is just the best way to stay alive because there is much less time for you to be insta-gibbed, regardless of your defenses.

this is why aura-stacker and other build have become "the best" because they get both defense and insane offense. but even aura-stacker builds are not immortal and will die if you're not killing.

Just no, that's the point. If you build properly you can't die in the blink of an eye against like 95+ % of the content. You can't die at all if you pay minimum amount of attention. Honestly if you get "instagibbed" more than once in a blue moon you either deliberately play a glass cannon or you just don't know how to build defenses.