Zerker and Defy pain in hc

hi again, two subjects in one day, damn im abusing !

But its your fault, someone did help me a lot last one :D

I just made my uber lab (after 24 goddess opened in map device to get the last freakin trial lol)

Berserk in hc, took defy pain cause aspect of carnage scares me even more,

Here is the question :

Will i explode if i dont take the -60% physical reflect 3 nodes right now ?

I have nothing to spare , i dont even really want to take them, damn ggg i loved the previous ascendencies, why those freaking changes :( i prefered the mana and life leech.

I have 15k+ armor and 4 endurance charges right now, could it be enough to absord this insane max life reflect ?

Those who play with, are the 3 nodes absolutely necessary ?

Thanks a lot

Fortify (+fortify effect), endurance charges should mitigate it to some extent, not sure about armor.

Really not worth taking without reflect mitigation IMO

I tested lol, without reflect mitigation it hurts quite hard, i took the -25% from pantheon + 60% from nodes, its a temp solution, but works well.

Its strange mechanics, but i admit once with mitigation, i reach hilarious amount of armor and leech. Strange but interesting. Seems to synergies extremly well with dodge and block, which seems to stop the stack progression, so i am 90% of the time between 3 and 8, so it gives nice constant bonuses.

I was planning to take the 2 other endurance charge to reach 6, but i think its really not necessary anymore, as my armor is above 40k with pots, so i traded 4 points for 3. And if i get a ring with 5x% i'll win those points back. Really interesting after all.

Its quite a blast to play zerker in hc, will he make it to red maps ? not sure :D , especially with my ultra weird build based on my gloves corruption i made.

Taking reflect reduction is completely pointless, get fortify + the 2 clusters on the passive tree for extra fortify effect, 3 endurance sharges + the armor and all the extra of it you'll get from Defy Pain and you won't feel the reflect part of it. Even better when you have Molten Shell up.

Hilarious how many people are scared of that line, I have 0% reflect reduction on 9k hp on my Berserker and I don't even notice the little damage I take from Defy Pain.

At best if you're really paranoid about it, take the pantheon, passive tree points are too good to be wasted on reflect reduction.

I don't agree. I test without and with 85% the difference is real. Without any reflection the loss is huge. I don't have 9k life and I guess you must really have insane gear cause None of the berserker I saw on Poe ninja, including the lvl 95+, are close to this amount of life, and in HC.
Your profile is hidden so there is no way to understand why I do see a real difference and you don't. Guess you play sc ( 0 flame intented, just that as a HC player I am extremely aware of my lifepool reactions )
In HC, the life loss in middle of encounters is really noticeable, and you can definitely say when it occurs. With reflection rdc it's ok.
Talked with a lot of zerker ig, they all use reflection reduction, and named playing without"suicidal".