How do I survive against the porcupine?

I'm playing DA, so basically I can't stop my attack even if I see a pack of them ahead, they just f-ing one shot me even on full life, and all flask on. Is there anyway I could survive against them except re-crafting my gear then drop purity of elements + malevolence and go for the deter-grace-defiance setup?
Thanks in advance
And to whoever came up with that stupid on death idea, I hate you.

Dont have a magic solution but if its your Occultist:

If you see them coming you could weapon switch to a survival setup (armour shield with %phys mitigation or phys-taken-as-ele or some such things).
You seem to be missing a cwdt. Immortal Call with usable Endurances (Endurance on kill etc) is probably the best for this.
Why are you using 'Hidden Potential' with 2 magic items?
There seems to some optimization potential to get more %armour.
You could get more endurance charges (3 at least) and/or switch to chaos golem.

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Zrevnur wrote:

Dont have a magic solution but if its your Occultist:

If you see them coming you could weapon switch to a survival setup (armour shield with %phys mitigation or phys-taken-as-ele or some such things).
You seem to be missing a cwdt. Immortal Call with usable Endurances (Endurance on kill etc) is probably the best for this.
Why are you using 'Hidden Potential' with 2 magic items?
There seems to some optimization potential to get more %armour.
You could get more endurance charges (3 at least) and/or switch to chaos golem.

Thank you for your reply!
First, do you have any suggestion on which gem I should drop for a CWDT setup?
Second, I built this based on a guide on the forum, and I see HP does provide a decent boost, but now that you mentioned it, all the top char I came across on ninja does not use it, so any idea what should I change it to? (maybe a reservation small cluster/enduring composure)?
And last but not least, I also have already thought about switching to chaos golem, but I didn't think 7-8% phys reduction is that big, also with the fact that my golem dies often in maps, I think I will stick with stone golem rn.

If you have a way to remove corpses such as shattering them from cold damage or something that destroys corpses on kill they wont fire their spikes either.

Something like the divergent lightning conduit in the wand.

Divergent q20 Lightning Conduit would destroy their corpses. That said, it's not gonna help in your case but thinkin about it...

Would destroying corpses turn off on death effects and effects that were linked to the living monster/their corpse.

I dont fully understand your build so I may be off on some things:

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MrShika13 wrote:

First, do you have any suggestion on which gem I should drop for a CWDT setup?

I wouldnt use Defiance Banner. I dont think it was even that good before the nerf. But now if you have no evasion - it costs too much for the %armour you get from it.

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MrShika13 wrote:

Second, I built this based on a guide on the forum, and I see HP does provide a decent boost,

If you are looking for %damage the best way is probably a 84+ well rolled large chaos damage cluster with many small nodes - focus on buffs to small nodes esp 35% increased effect, Notables are bad mods then. Dont know how much this would cost though - I dont play trade league.
And 'Inertia' is a wasted jewel slot if you can put more onto the rings.

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MrShika13 wrote:

but now that you mentioned it, all the top char I came across on ninja does not use it, so any idea what should I change it to? (maybe a reservation small cluster/enduring composure)?

Enduring composure would combine well with cwdt-IC if you get hit often enough.
And if you could get rid of that long pathing to 'Sovereignty' that would also be good...

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MrShika13 wrote:

I'm playing DA, so basically I can't stop my attack even if I see a pack of them ahead, they just f-ing one shot me even on full life, and all flask on. Is there anyway I could survive against them except re-crafting my gear then drop purity of elements + malevolence and go for the deter-grace-defiance setup?
Thanks in advance
And to whoever came up with that stupid on death idea, I hate you.

try use a jade + granite flask, might help might not be enough. molten shell could also help, basically you need to evade or physically defend against them, or the freeze/shatter approach works too

Traditionally, the 2 best defenses I've found vs. porcupines are either lots of evasion or the fully upgraded Lunaris pantheon. Porcupines are basically a ton of tiny hits, hence evasion shines here because as number of shots approaches infinity, evasion is basically % mitigation (95% evade chance means 95% of those shots don't hit you).