Haven't felt this powerless in endgame in forever.
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I'll admit, I skip more leagues than I play, and I've spent more money on gifts to others than on myself, so my dedication to the game is only half there.
That said, I've played on and off since 2013. I've only ever followed one build guide, as I tend to enjoy doing my own thing; half my builds are trying different totem spells, so I'm not reinventing the wheel each time. That said, tonight I had more deaths than the entire rest of the league combined at level 82...and in a level 70 map. (one of the deaths may have been from a dif night.) Below I'm going to link a gif and picture. My character is far from good, but these deaths make me...uhg...miss D3's style of difficulty. Feel free to criticize my gear, build, or the way I play... I don't mind. My motivation to keep playing is incredibly low, so I wouldn't argue against anyone telling me I just suck. Anyway, here's the gif (of 4 short clips. 18 sec total.) https://gfycat.com/completebrownblacklab And here is a picture of the map, modifiers, and my stats. https://imgur.com/a/oC5S4oJ Nope, not res capped, but I never needed to be at this level in low maps before. Anyways, I'm done with excuses...tell me what I'm doing wrong, or don't. Not sure what I'm expecting posting this here, but here we go. Yes, my display picture is basically me right now. Last edited by DarkPaladin4000#7405 on Nov 3, 2021, 12:58:57 AM Last bumped on Nov 7, 2021, 9:51:47 AM
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Why would you NOT res cap? I don't understand your reasoning.
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did you happen to mouse over the stacking thing in the top left corner lately?
first death - 100 stacks second death - unfortunate haste rare mob pileon third death - 100+ stacks, those flame golems fuck everyone up fourth death - betrayal boss slam you walked INTO (he was slamming your totems) the league mechanic this league is FUCKING PEOPLE UP. HARD. not having max res, good spell mitigation, and good movespeed + movement abilities will mean you die a lot after 100 stacks. the 2nd one, most of those mobs would have died if your totems were not charging their lazers. a different skill would have cleared a lot of that trash. you *have* a shield on. with a slightly adjusted tree, you could get to sanctuary with 1 passive point (and theres a life node there too). skipping defenses this league is asking for that gif montage to happen, every map. |
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The most likely cause is lack of game knowledge(I won't go into skill choice as I have never played divine ire in any form)
Your defenses are almost non-existent a fly landing on your character is going to make him fall over. You have no defensive flasks that actually mitigate any type of relevant damage, next to no block, a small amount of armor, no MoM. The only thing that is preventing any type of damage is 4 endurance charges. You need to being doing A LOT of damage to kill them before they kill you if that is the play-style you want to go with. Besides the nightmare, the 4th death isn't anything to do with luck, You are a totem build, there is no reason for you to run into 2 Betrayal guys until your totems have killed them. Divination Card - Emperor's Luck. Last edited by Isindel#2713 on Nov 3, 2021, 1:41:41 AM
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" In the pic I explain that I don't normally need to in these low tier maps. I can buy items to res cap, but they are close enough that it's usually not an issue here. " I agree with you, and am grateful for the feedback. That said, I think my biggest problem is that this is happening in a T3 map. : \ " My defenses are pretty tanky outside the nightmare...usually. Tonight just made me feel like I was in red maps all of a sudden. And yes, the 4th clip was just pure bad luck. I need to chase them when they run to place another totem near them, and me running into that slam was me running away from the other guy. It's mostly there because I don't recall ever taking that much damage from these tiers of maps. Which ultimately, like I said to the other guy, is my problem here. The last league I played, my toxic rain build took this much damage the few times I got hit (evasion build) in this tier of map. One thing I'm realizing though, is divine ire is horrible for going into the nightmare...so if I keep playing I may want to change that. Welp, although critical, I appreciate the current comments. Still sad, but some good takes here. |
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This league is rather unforgiving of non meta skills/builds. You really really need to start following a reliable build guide and work with a clan or guild to get past the gating of meaningful league yield with this season. With resources being as scarce as they are outside of scourge material, you need an economy of scale to optimize your character to actually do well in scourge.
[19:36]#Mirror_stacking_clown: try smoke ganja every day for 10 years and do memory game
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" Literally every single stat on your character is too weak to survive well even 6 leagues ago. No Phys mitigation No Block No capped res No ES Negative chaos res (when GGG put a massive chaos res cluster right next to your class) Only 4k Life (with no ES) Either get 7-8K life or get Block. DO IT. NOW. |
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Before you remotely consider taking rekikyo's advice on anything, look at her scourge character.
She is running poet pen lightning conversion which does... 27k dps, doing nonsensical things like running purity of elements to make up for 11 missing lightning resistance. Main skill tempest shield which does.. 30k dps. Just look at the character and judge for yourself. This is someone who has zero game knowledge. Last edited by trixxar#2360 on Nov 3, 2021, 3:40:37 AM
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" I mean I've had squishier characters leagues ago that did league mechanics much better. Not saying you're wrong on advice on what to do, but I get up to 52% phys mitigation in combat easily (I did just buy a shield so it'll be higher) and that's higher than any other character I've had in T3 maps before. Also, that mitigation is for level 82, and I'm in a level 70 map, so it's not entirely accurate. I do find it interesting how 5-10% is make-or-break in a T3 map according to everyone here. Maybe I was just lucky, but that wasn't the case in my past leagues. |
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" They seemed extremely hyperbolic in everything they said as well, so I tried taking what did make sense...which was the CR nodes, it seems. Edit: and getting a shield, even though I got it prior to reading their post. Last edited by DarkPaladin4000#7405 on Nov 3, 2021, 4:51:07 AM
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