Feedback: Determination feels necessary to myself and... most players, it seems.

Looking at poe.ninja build stats, the usage rate of Determination by players ranges from a low of 64% usage in Lake of Kalandra Softcore Trade to a whopping high of 90% usage in Lake of Kalandra Solo Self-Found Hardcore. You can find every class and ascendancy using it.

I feel like this needs to be addressed in some fashion. It is clear that there is a lot of incoming physical damage that requires mitigation, maybe it is time to consider that it is simply too much, or that there are insufficient means of dealing with it otherwise, or that other defensive options available are inadequate in comparison when dealing with it.

The feeling of needing Determination is becoming more and more problematic as GGG insists on lowering values of reservation efficiency available from the skill tree and other sources (Conqueror's Efficiency, for example, provided 4% with an additional 2% with corruption, replaced with a 2-3% roll on jewels with corruption now removed.) The room for reserving other skills, including essential damage ones, is being chipped away at while at the same time Determination remains too desirable a defensive aura to not have. This is ultimately leaving players with less build options on top of requiring them to have sufficient strength in order to run Determination.

I don't have any suggestions for fixing this issue at large, aside from simply "nerf monsters," which given how current game balance is trending, is something I do not believe is an option for GGG.

Please consider looking into this and thanks for reading.