Energy Shield is just stupid right now. Buff life builds.

It seems the meta is now to just stack energy shield no matter what build you're playing because ES is just that strong. Grim Feast, Ghost Dance etc. just shit all over evasion / life builds when it comes to survivability to the point where you're basically gimping your character if you don't path toward the Monk starting area in the tree even if you're playing DEX / STR builds.

This is silly. I know you wanted to take life out of the passive tree, but it's made ES just way too strong. A pure life / armor / evasion build should be just as viable endgame as an ES build.

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Blasphemous84#2190 wrote:

It seems the meta is now to just stack energy shield no matter what build you're playing because ES is just that strong. Grim Feast, Ghost Dance etc. just shit all over evasion / life builds when it comes to survivability to the point where you're basically gimping your character if you don't path toward the Monk starting area in the tree even if you're playing DEX / STR builds.

This is silly. I know you wanted to take life out of the passive tree, but it's made ES just way too strong. A pure life / armor / evasion build should be just as viable endgame as an ES build.

We need a keystone that gives a Petrified Blood/Progenesis type effect. Something like "50% of life loss from hits is prevented, then 150% of life lost this way is lost over 4 seconds."

I'm deadeye on my main right now. I've been trying to find a way to get enough int and also path towards the ES nodes near the Monk without basically flatlining my DPS but I just can't find a way to do it with what I'm trying to do. Maybe a literal full respec I could do it lol. My tentative plan is to try to go mundo evasion and take acrobatics then just live life dodge rolling as best I can and hoping acrobatics lets me be lucky enough to save me on any failed rolls.

This is, of course, if the damn maps would stop kicking me to the login screen and eating my waystones. I've lost probably a dozen great waystones to this bug and now I only have like t3s left. Thanks, game.

I'm playing Deadeye as well. Level 85 with pretty decent gear. Acrobatics and 68% Evasion. 2300 health.

You just get clapped when evasion fails. It's really that simple. Under most circumstances you can outplay the damage and just avoid getting hit in the first place, but then you open up a T15+ Ritual in a map and you're instantly swarmed and dead. It's dumb. We shouldn't have to stack ES just to survive as a ranged evasion build.

Even if you had 90% evasion with 2500 health, you're going to take hits 10% of the time. If those hits one shot you, your build is essentially dog shit compared to a Sorc / Monk with 16k ES.

It feels really inconsistent how they took all the life nodes off the passive tree, but then simply left the ES nodes as strong as ever or possibly even stronger.

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EveryZig314#6840 wrote:

It feels really inconsistent how they took all the life nodes off the passive tree, but then simply left the ES nodes as strong as ever or possibly even stronger.

+1