Physical taken as ...

Imagine playing build on right side of the tree with evasion or energy shield bases (no armor) after patch. Phys taken as was only source of mitigating phys dmg for them. And now its gone

For showcase, there is a few second video with 17,5k hp build with no armor vs a few white mobs in white map (no modifiers) who got insta deleted. With some evasion you can stay alive maybe 1 more second, but its only for showcase. Maybe im wrong, but it seems armor builds only viable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYraZJiTP8

can get it with eldritch implicit on body armour, only other options that i know is cloak of flame and lightning coil and dawnbreaker

I know, but that means everyone need to play with lightning coil, which is 50% and then get rekt in 1 sec still, bcs they will not have 17k hp. And we speak about white random tresh mobs. Imagine some rare on steroids

Its a necessary change for the game, phys as ele was redic busted because it allowed an elementalist to have more EHP then any of the "tank" classes.

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goetzjam wrote:

Its a necessary change for the game, phys as ele was redic busted because it allowed an elementalist to have more EHP then any of the "tank" classes.

then adjust elementalist not everyone else

It was any class that didn’t use armour. It was easier to get a really high phys hit on pf than it is on a jugg.

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

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goetzjam wrote:

Its a necessary change for the game, phys as ele was redic busted because it allowed an elementalist to have more EHP then any of the "tank" classes.

then adjust elementalist not everyone else

Welcome to 9 out of every 10 GGG balance decisions.

elusive

That change has nothing to do with elementalist its because phys taken as ele was vastly overweighted in budgetary terms for a character and you guys know that because its why we used it.

Now whether the dex based characters are now screwed due to not having a good way to mitigate large phys hits is a different question that needs answering, honestly evade characters need more Kintsugi type items/passives in general. The Eldritch implicits might be acceptable will have to see the values but at least on HC I can see plenty of lightning coil/cloak of flame getting used here.

That being said that isn't new its already the way

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Kayder13 wrote:

With some evasion you can stay alive maybe 1 more second, but its only for showcase. Maybe im wrong, but it seems armor builds only viable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYraZJiTP8

If anything this clip just shows that stacking only life ain't gonna get you anywhere. There are still many ways to buff your defensive layers up and honestly the nerf for phys taken as elemental damage was just more than overdue.
They should also cook some changes for cloak of flame and lightning coil and dawnbreaker along the way for the next league to put an end to the taken as era.