This game still makes no sense to me no matter how long i play

Or a person would just move from it and you know not make a thread about it hell someone looked it OP's POB and I was curious myself this dude isn't tanky at all hes a totem guy.

FAR from tanky.

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Coconutdoggy wrote:

could of

what

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Kennelmus wrote:

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Coconutdoggy wrote:

could of

what

I'm not a native English speaker, and should probably be the last one to critique grammar mistakes, but using "could of" instead of "could've/could have" is a very common mistake I see A LOT and it makes no sense to me.

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RitualMurder wrote:

im absurdly tanky
there is no reason that i should die to some bullshit weak ass shit like that

Clearly not tanky enough :)

Actually it makes perfect sense. That particular damage type is so rare in the game that it's not really ever accounted for when building defense. Either account for it or just don't get hit by the beams. Or kill him before you ever see the beams. They aren't that hard to dodge. Not sure how any of this is confusing?

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Johny_Snow wrote:

I think his DoT is physical btw

What is a physical Dot if not bleeding? HIV, TBC or Pest???

This boss is trash.

How can it be DoT ? a split of a split second kill still counts as some time in GGG's mind!

Its called damaged over time for a reason. Even if that means one shot. Frame it down to a tenth time-frame and there's some damage over time in there.

We may laugh. But these kind of designs cheat everyone from time to time. Its a poor taste to swallow, but what can we do ?

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Phrazz wrote:

I'm not a native English speaker, and should probably be the last one to critique grammar mistakes, but using "could of" instead of "could've/could have" is a very common mistake I see A LOT and it makes no sense to me.

I think it's because of how it sounds when spoken. Could've when spoken sounds a lot like could of and so for some, it gets engrained as could of rather than could've. Once they've made that connection, it's hard to undo when you get around to writing it.

I'm not defending it; just describing a path for which it might happen.

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As for the boss, if you stood in the physical DOT without a lot of physical damage reduction (not armour), then you definitely earned that death.

Your first stop before making this thread probably should have been to research the boss. Although your title admits that things don't make sense to you, it might also help if you read up on the difference between a hit and DOT and how you mitigate those two things for physical damage. All the things you described as tanking in your original post are hits. You'll want to describe something more directly relatable like the physical degen pools in Uber Elder fight as an example.

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Nubatron wrote:

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Phrazz wrote:

I'm not a native English speaker, and should probably be the last one to critique grammar mistakes, but using "could of" instead of "could've/could have" is a very common mistake I see A LOT and it makes no sense to me.

I think it's because of how it sounds when spoken. Could've when spoken sounds a lot like could of and so for some, it gets engrained as could of rather than could've. Once they've made that connection, it's hard to undo when you get around to writing it.

I'm not defending it; just describing a path for which it might happen.

As usual, it's the responses that grant the GD thread something worth discussing!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whats-worse-than-coulda

Some people think it's a recent phenom, but nope -- this one goes all the way back to the 1700s. That said, for most of the time it's appeared in print, it seems to be done with the intention of portraying someone with a limited intellect or education level.

Now we all know C-Doggy is anything but that, being one of the more verifiable POE galaxy brains around here who is also a native English speaker, so it's best to assume it's a deliberate affectation to put you off-guard. I have seen her type perfectly well more than once, so yeah, it's an act. You probably didn't need to be told that, but there it is. She is not making a mistake; she is projecting a persona.

Unless two extra keystrokes are that important to her...I suppose that's also possible. Y'all Exiles are all about Eile über alles.

In which case 'coulda' is even better: three keystrokes saved!

That all said, I have caught myself typing 'then' rather than 'than' even when writing 'properly' when the fingers overtake the brain so I think it's possible to make 'verbal' typos even with typing. Probably just from seeing so many people make that mistake (and confusing then and than is absolutely a mistake). Garbage In, Garbage Out as they say. I really should spend less time on the less erudite corners of the Internet but eh, how else am I going to look in the mirror in the morning and not see nothing but an overgrown child prodigy?

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I'm not so mean as to say 'if your tank died it clearly wasn't tanky enough' because if it served as a tank in all other ways, then it's probably on the game -- but I am curious, and I think I asked this before: why even have tanks in a game where avoidance is entirely the way to win? This is a pretty worrisome (there's that word again!) thing to ask of an ARPG, don't you think? Especially one as purportedly dedicated to giving players a diverse and creative set of build/play options.

But then again, I wonder what tank even means in PoE. When you have this many vectors of damage and damage mitigation, you're less a 'tank' and more a complicated network of defences on legs. Think about it: a tank. Big hulking chunk of metal with a big fucking gun. Slow to aim, fairly easy to avoid, hard to kill with anything that isn't designated a 'tank killer' (fucking love the A-10, as an aside). The whole point of a tank in any game is to survive more damage than you deal, but ideally to deal enough damage to kill anything before it can kill you. That's assuming you're solo; in a party, tanks only have to deal enough damage to keep the threat off the glass cannons and the supports.

In the current state of the game, and here I'm asking directly for answers from anyone more knowledgable than me with PoE (i.e. anyone reading this), what would you have to do to create a character that satisfies the abovementioned condition of being an all-purpose 'tank'? Preferably, include Sanctum and its Resolve mechanic.

Failing that, do you think the game should have outright tank killers if it still hasn't figured out to have outright glass cannon killers?

OR is trying to apply these simple terms to a more complicated game like PoE an act of futility?

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Now we all know C-Doggy is anything but that...

I only know this user from the forums, and have to base my knowledge/judgement on that alone. So may I be excused from this "all" of yours, please?

Anyhow, I'm probably venturing outside of the ToS here, so I'll just show myself out.