PoE = Path of Kaoms Heart, Solution = Buff hp on chests

Koams' power is offset by the fact that it is both extremely rare and expensive. At least on hardcore it is, they go for like 35 pure exalts right now. Very few people (if any) have that kind of currency laying around. You'd also need a 5L/6L two handed weapon with great stats, another thing that would cost a huge amount of currency.

If anything, life needs to be less relevant, so that you don't need so much of it to survive. This will indirectly nerf Khaoms, which will still be strong, but won't be as "broken" as other possible things out there (when life gets fixed)

Things like damage, armor formula and status ailments formulas need to get changed/adjusted, so you don't require having something ridiculous like 3k+ HP (which is only really obtainable by getting max HP on majority of your gear + path of life nodes) to progress in the game. Other things like damage nodes on the tree need to be made a lot stronger, so that when a exile specs majorly into offense on the tree, they should be one shotting everything

When this happens, Khaoms won't really be an issue. It will still be "broken" (but then again an item that rare should be), however a lot more build options will come up that will just be as effective as khaoms. The game also does need to reward using multiple skills more, which would make khaoms negative much more apparent

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flab wrote:

Here's the thing, from about merciless act 2, you need ~50% more HP (and for things like vaal, even more) than you did in CB if you're melee (or get unlucky). Where am I supposed to get this other than from kaoms?

You have to dedicate your entire build to life, which is what everyone is doing now

The only real exception is summoner

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flab wrote:

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deteego wrote:

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flab wrote:

Here's the thing, from about merciless act 2, you need ~50% more HP (and for things like vaal, even more) than you did in CB if you're melee (or get unlucky). Where am I supposed to get this other than from kaoms?

You have to dedicate your entire build to life, which is what everyone is doing now

The only real exception is summoner

I already do and not even a second's worth of inactivity can get me killed.

Do you also have max life rolls on your gear (you need to get like 4 to 5 max +50 life mods on your gear).

Ideally against vaal you should have a minimum of 3k hp (or at that point in the game in general)

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flab wrote:

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deteego wrote:

Ideally against vaal you should have a minimum of 3k hp (or at that point in the game in general)

Uhm, I had 5.5k hp on my 2h character when I died in about 2 seconds to some blues (for kicks, my caster party member has 6.5k hp without kaoms, including triple curses, hex master, shield).

3k is pitifully low in merciless.

What did you die to?

Things like Vaal's hammer will instant kill you if you are lower than 6kp, which most people don't manage to achieve.

Also armor may be a big difference, even if you have a massive HP pool, if you have little to no armor, things like extra damage/extra aspd/increased critical strike+damage will melt you

Its basically required to also have a granite flask at this point in the game if you don't have one

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flab wrote:

Of course I was using granite flasks of iron skin, had decent armour from gear too (considering it was 2h) also including 10% life leech. Died to a pack of some blue leaping things.

I assume you mean fetid maws?

What was the mod on the blue pack?