State of Tota

Is anything being done about the awful stat of TOTA?

at 2k it feels like the most disengaging content GGG has ever released.

-Everything 1 shots, Punished with longer and longer Death timers.
-Sit and stare at my screen while POE gets to play POE and i just get to watch.
-Stay on defense and get one shot, You can kiss your own totem goodbye since the enemy is in your base and your own Defense will do nothing about it. (Damage not stopping the enemy channeling totems happens all the time.)
-Go offense and get stunned for 5 seconds if... IF... you survive just to insure you actually die. Your escorts run back and forth ignoring enemies and totems.
-enemy chieftains humping their own totems firing off screen one shots with no warning. (it honestly feels like the game is harassing me on purpose.)

I'm not sure if I'm the only person who feels like my blood pressure skyrockets in this game mode, but I feel like I spend more time on the respawn timer watching what is supposed to be an autobattler. being the only unit that has NO role in this game mode.

I'm the ONLY unit that can get one shot. and I'm not a paper build.

This most recent patch has Forced the player into a role which the game won't let you fill. Your forced to interact with the enemies yet the enemies are all beyond your powerlevel. This argument about stopping cheese builds is so deaf. once your at 2k, all you can do is cheese.

I dont want to build a third Character with max block/evade etc just to have you mid league change everything again.

Please just revert this mess. Sanctum has already nuked the economy. I shouldnt be this stressed about winning a stack of 15 jewelers orbs.

How did you get 2k knowing full well you; Yourself shouldn't be the one channeling is my question?

You know the risk of doing that especially at 2k lol

You understand that you have to at some point channel totems right? The mobs respawn when you kill them.

Obviously there is risk in channeling totems. Standing still in POE is a death sentence, has been since before delve. But channeling totems is the mechanic we got.

not sure if youre actually at 2k or not, but you're not really understanding the point.

Edit: What do you the your roll is on the team?

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Coconutdoggy wrote:

How did you get 2k knowing full well you; Yourself shouldn't be the one channeling is my question?

You know the risk of doing that especially at 2k lol

Man, you are the biggest TOTA stan, huh? Are you the guy who balanced this, haha

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Hewchy wrote:

You understand that you have to at some point channel totems right? The mobs respawn when you kill them.

Obviously there is risk in channeling totems. Standing still in POE is a death sentence, has been since before delve. But channeling totems is the mechanic we got.

not sure if youre actually at 2k or not, but you're not really understanding the point.

Edit: What do you the your roll is on the team?

tota does wonders

You DO NOT channel at 2k hell a fucking 4l Void sphere carries the entire game like I ono HOW you got 2k as your build hell I can get away with it cause I have SRS to u no back me up via spear dancers or I see a mob cause u no srs bomb rushes them.

You don't channel in 2k least in your build lol

Hell your void sphere setup doesn't even work why is it only a 1L dude lol make it at least 4

Moving gear and gems around silly, not on that toon atm.

Your ONLY role in TotA, even long before rank 2k is...distract. That's it.

You run around and distract enemies by any means possible. You don't kill them, you don't channel totems, you just distract as much as possible. You are the fly in the arena. They shoudl be constantly swatting at you, but never hitting you.

If you are lucky, your NPCs will take out towers quickly. If you aren't lucky, your NPCs will take out towers slowly. But no matter what, its the NPCs that should be doing ALL the channeling.

YOU are the only smart tactician on the team, with the ability to "control" the enemy progress. Why would you waste your own potential standing still and channeling, opening yourself up to instant death?

Probably another league that gets left in the dirt because balancing it is too hard or something (RIP Scourge & Ultimatum).

In the current state, I don't want this gamemode added to the core game.
They probably agree, and decided it's not worth it to invest further resources into fixing this mess.

Hopefully we still get access to Tattoos though.

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jsuslak313 wrote:

Your ONLY role in TotA, even long before rank 2k is...distract. That's it.

You run around and distract enemies by any means possible. You don't kill them, you don't channel totems, you just distract as much as possible. You are the fly in the arena. They shoudl be constantly swatting at you, but never hitting you.

If you are lucky, your NPCs will take out towers quickly. If you aren't lucky, your NPCs will take out towers slowly. But no matter what, its the NPCs that should be doing ALL the channeling.

YOU are the only smart tactician on the team, with the ability to "control" the enemy progress. Why would you waste your own potential standing still and channeling, opening yourself up to instant death?

I'm fascinated on how he even got to 2k channeling in his build like if he can do that; He can do the most basic understanding of tota lol

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Coconutdoggy wrote:

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jsuslak313 wrote:

Your ONLY role in TotA, even long before rank 2k is...distract. That's it.

You run around and distract enemies by any means possible. You don't kill them, you don't channel totems, you just distract as much as possible. You are the fly in the arena. They shoudl be constantly swatting at you, but never hitting you.

If you are lucky, your NPCs will take out towers quickly. If you aren't lucky, your NPCs will take out towers slowly. But no matter what, its the NPCs that should be doing ALL the channeling.

YOU are the only smart tactician on the team, with the ability to "control" the enemy progress. Why would you waste your own potential standing still and channeling, opening yourself up to instant death?

I'm fascinated on how he even got to 2k channeling in his build like if he can do that; He can do the most basic understanding of tota lol

Maybe the purpose of the complain was to change/balance the mechanic in order to be able to complete high(not 2k) trials without using bs strategies like voidsphere setup or the meta zdps zhp builds that only run around. Last time I checked, this game was about killing enemies, not running around until the npc's are doing your job.