Low life builds: How do you survive chaos damage?

Maybe I am missing something but I feel I should point out that low life build and Righteous Fire don't really mix well. Since the damage of RF is based off your total health, low HP means low damage.

I have a Low life templar thats 78 My way for dealing with Chaos dmg is to run Vitality Aura as my Life reducer as well as put on and reduce the hits I take Currently I have around 800 hp with over 2k being my max so the regen is more than enough as long as im careful and avoid multiple hits to keep me up. that 6% on low life shield might also be a reasonable alternative

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Trapperkeeper wrote:

Maybe I am missing something but I feel I should point out that low life build and Righteous Fire don't really mix well. Since the damage of RF is based off your total health, low HP means low damage.

RF's most powerful feature is the ludicrously large spelldamage boost.

It's so far ahead of any other caster build in terms of DPS that I'm pretty sure GGG will nerf it at some point. With Shavs, that is. I fear that when everyone gets the gear they need, every character will either be wearing Shavs or Kaoms.

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aimlessgun wrote:

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Trapperkeeper wrote:

Maybe I am missing something but I feel I should point out that low life build and Righteous Fire don't really mix well. Since the damage of RF is based off your total health, low HP means low damage.

RF's most powerful feature is the ludicrously large spelldamage boost.

It's so far ahead of any other caster build in terms of DPS that I'm pretty sure GGG will nerf it at some point. With Shavs, that is. I fear that when everyone gets the gear they need, every character will either be wearing Shavs or Kaoms.

That is really the wrong mindset.

If it's more powerful than the rest, the rest should be buffed ;)

Chaos resistance is a good option. You might just have to stack chaos resist gear. But basically, you're being a bit silly expecting to be able to survive chaos damage on a low-life build without Shavronne's.

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Angryweasel wrote:

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aimlessgun wrote:

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Trapperkeeper wrote:

Maybe I am missing something but I feel I should point out that low life build and Righteous Fire don't really mix well. Since the damage of RF is based off your total health, low HP means low damage.

RF's most powerful feature is the ludicrously large spelldamage boost.

It's so far ahead of any other caster build in terms of DPS that I'm pretty sure GGG will nerf it at some point. With Shavs, that is. I fear that when everyone gets the gear they need, every character will either be wearing Shavs or Kaoms.

That is really the wrong mindset.

If it's more powerful than the rest, the rest should be buffed ;)

Well I wish that they just hadn't made Shavs, that was the real screwup. Before, RF caster was an interesting build with great power but also huge drawbacks. Now, it's just the best caster build, unless you're in HC and want to get a bit more defense with CI at the cost of halving your DPS.

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Well I wish that they just hadn't made Shavs, that was the real screwup. Before, RF caster was an interesting build with great power but also huge drawbacks. Now, it's just the best caster build, unless you're in HC and want to get a bit more defense with CI at the cost of halving your DPS.

It still has pretty huge drawbacks in hardcore.

You go from 11,000 ES down to maybe 8,000 ES.
You lose ES faster than you regen while burning in maps with -XX resists (these come up a lot).
You have to be overcapped so much with resists so you can do ele weakess otherwise you will get burned too much.
You lose 2 potion slots (most likely) to use fire flasks.

You can't just say to skip -XX resists and ele weakness either because it's just too many map mods to skip. You already have to skip blood magic and half regen is absolute torture (you can't really use RF at all, so you get no DPS benefit while still having lower DPS and less useful flasks).

In other words after you spend like 50 exalts on gear and realize like a third of the map rolls are really bad/impossible then you can actually be viable with it as long as you play flawlessly and at full attention every second you're outside of town.

It's much less OP and "best in slot" than Kaom's.

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h3rp3s wrote:

LOL at the guy saying CI. Ya use CI immune for a low life build?

Anyways the only way possible is to be super rich, and buy a shavronnes.

Yay thanks for the chance nerf GGG! /sarcasm

Note: Invalesco made his RF Templar on HC before Shavronne's was added to the game.
Low life without Shavronne's isn't impossible.

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Well I wish that they just hadn't made Shavs, that was the real screwup. Before, RF caster was an interesting build with great power but also huge drawbacks. Now, it's just the best caster build, unless you're in HC and want to get a bit more defense with CI at the cost of halving your DPS.

It still has pretty huge drawbacks in hardcore.

You go from 11,000 ES down to maybe 8,000 ES.
You lose ES faster than you regen while burning in maps with -XX resists (these come up a lot).
You have to be overcapped so much with resists so you can do ele weakess otherwise you will get burned too much.
You lose 2 potion slots (most likely) to use fire flasks.

You can't just say to skip -XX resists and ele weakness either because it's just too many map mods to skip. You already have to skip blood magic and half regen is absolute torture (you can't really use RF at all, so you get no DPS benefit while still having lower DPS and less useful flasks).

In other words after you spend like 50 exalts on gear and realize like a third of the map rolls are really bad/impossible then you can actually be viable with it as long as you play flawlessly and at full attention every second you're outside of town.

It's much less OP and "best in slot" than Kaom's.[/quote]

I currently run this build with a little over 7k es, and can run - resist maps without degening es. Its - resists + 50% regen where I start to slowly lose es.

Ye I also only degen ES on -Max res maps and half regen maps. not that its really much but can still be dangerous.