Degens making game NOT playeble!

After having a couple of months break from PoE because i got tired of GGG Nerfing things,i decided to rework my Aurastacking character...
Took me about 1 week to do it again and investment of additional 700 ex.

So here i am a character worth several mirrors,and today while running maps,i stumble on the new mechanic "alter" where is says "monsters drop burning ground on death".

After clicking it,i insta die of the burning degen!
I cannot understand,how is it possible to have 89% max all res,and insta die from a degen ground?
Before this 3.17 release i was able to stand on burning ground degen.

i was as 40% exp on lvl 99 so that was about 50 maps wasted.

i re-enter the area to check what killed me because it happened so fast.
first pack i hit,they drop burning ground and guess what,i insta die again...!!!!!!!!

In the past several years,i cannot remember a release GGG did,that they did not break something in the game.

I instadie with 89% max res,what are people with 75% max res to do?

I am starting to hate GGG,and i understand that leaving this game will be the option for me.

let me preface by saying I'm not calling out your thought process behind "reworking" your aurastacker...merely your preparation ahead of time.

Over the last two or three patches, there have been so many changes to aurastacking that you can't simply rework them. They need to be rebuilt from the ground up. You don't have nearly the same amount of aura effect, nor aura reservation. This severely severely limits the past effectiveness of what aura stackers could "tank".

I'm looking at your build and you are running NO defensive auras except the purities, and NO ailment immunities...you are essentially an exceptionally expensive glass cannon. Of course you are going to die.

Regen has changed, armor has changed, AILMENTS have been severely buffed, so much that maybe you didn't read about or think about before trying to build the same build.

Your build is still insanely powerful from an offensive standpoint, but its not defensive at all without some stacks of headhunter buffs. Very low ES, no other defenses beyond resists...

Someone made a different thread about this, and the burning ground dropped from Exarch altars seems to not be pure fire damage, and also not count as "burning ground" for the purposes of Redblade Tramplers, etc.

I'd need to test it more, but I think it deals physical damage similar to Kitava's ground corruption effect, which means it also ignores armor completely. If that's the case, only non-armor physical mitigation (endurance charges, etc) would actually protect against it.

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jsuslak313 wrote:

let me preface by saying I'm not calling out your thought process behind "reworking" your aurastacker...merely your preparation ahead of time.

Over the last two or three patches, there have been so many changes to aurastacking that you can't simply rework them. They need to be rebuilt from the ground up. You don't have nearly the same amount of aura effect, nor aura reservation. This severely severely limits the past effectiveness of what aura stackers could "tank".

I'm looking at your build and you are running NO defensive auras except the purities, and NO ailment immunities...you are essentially an exceptionally expensive glass cannon. Of course you are going to die.

Regen has changed, armor has changed, AILMENTS have been severely buffed, so much that maybe you didn't read about or think about before trying to build the same build.

Your build is still insanely powerful from an offensive standpoint, but its not defensive at all without some stacks of headhunter buffs. Very low ES, no other defenses beyond resists...

I think your "Post" is out of place.
Let me tell you my reasons.
1st it seems to me you did not bother to read my complaint at all.
i am not complaining i died,i am complaining about the way i died.
Also,aurastacking works just fine with some min maxing+some reworks.

i ran about 300 maps with this character in the last 2 weeks,and did not come close to dying.Does that make the build an "Expensive glass cannon"?

After the recent "update" some things dont seems right,matter of fact a lot of the streamers are complaining about the same thing.

i tried the same map with a 7K life character 75% max res,and 78% phys reduction...
do know what happened?
The same thing....no even worst,i died even faster.
So problem is not defences itself,its a overtuned degen.

i did some research on the matter,and that looks like burning ground but its a degen,against which you cannot build defences.

No one should need to invest heavily into defences to counteract degens.
Also,having 89% max res is a very very solid defence against taking elemental damage.

as i write,i start to see less and less point to explain to you what Ehp is and so on.
But maybe next time,before you try to make people at fault for having a problem,maybe perhaps look into the problem your self?

if you have only 75% res you insta die twice - simple as that.:)

the upgraded abberath pantheon makes you immune to burning ground. Really helps if you don't need any other specific pantheon power. The ignite duration reduction is rly nice too, ignites have been very deadly since 3.15

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stalkingjackal wrote:

the upgraded abberath pantheon makes you immune to burning ground. Really helps if you don't need any other specific pantheon power. The ignite duration reduction is rly nice too, ignites have been very deadly since 3.15

Thank you.
i can stand on burning ground,and i take no dmg.
This new degen,looks like burning ground but its not.
It instakills you.

im fairly sure ive walked through it and stood in it many times and i cant say ive noticed it doing any damage at all?

This game is a complete fiasco regarding technical balance in 21st century this state of a broken game is hilarious, you have bugged and broken mechanics everywhere graphical bugs, crashes, one shot rare mobs killing players with every defence there is available.
Degen on the ground that is doing absurd amounts of damage, bugged boss mechanics, crashes, bugged ailments, no way to remove bugged bleeding, insane amounts of damage from normal monsters.

So sad that such a good game is in such horrible state overall and they are being ignorant about it. The atlas and the expansion gave so much hype and with all the unbalanced trash it just destroys the hype

issue got addressed on reddit by mark_ggg