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I thought poison and chaos damage didn't bypass ES in 2, they just deal double damage to ES. According to the in game tooltip.
Exactly so. I'm playing poison build and when it attacks ES mobs, it deals with ES first always.
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Posted byAzimuthus#1135on Jan 4, 2025, 1:03:03 PM
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those snakes do an outrageous amount of damage, it really needs nerfed its so out of tune with all the other mobs at the same level.
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Posted bySnorkle_uk#0761on Jan 4, 2025, 1:07:17 PM
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So I love PoE2, playing a stormweaver sorc with reasonable success. Chaos damage has always been dangerous for ES based builds and when I got one shot by that "extra chaos dmg" mob I respecced into Chaos Innoculation and changed my gear with a focus on ES instead of life. The stun threshold problem can be solved by "Asceticism" (stun threshold based on 30% ES instead of life). Works well for me even with crap gear. I expected to be squishier overall (no life), but immun to chaos damage, which was the most dangerous type of damage to me.
Yes, I never get damage over time, my blue "CI Health Orb" turns purple, but its not ticking down. However, spitting snakes and poisonous insects are still the most dangerous mobs for me by far(!), it feels like they are hitting even harder as before. As soon as I see green projectiles flying towards me, I'm always fleeing in panic because the damage is crazy.
On the contrary, physical damage is significant for my ES orb (I have almost zero armour), but not dangerous. Even more confusing: with only 44% lightning res I expected to die frequently to lightning mobs, but I can take several lightning hits... about 3-5 greenish poisonous projectile hits kill me.
Question: Is Chaos Innoculation bugged with regard to chaos hit damage? Or are the poisonous mobs (snakes, insects) just hitting very hard with physical damage to inflict mild poison dots?
How does Chaos Innoculation feel for you guys?
PS: No, I'm not running MoM, EB, or Archmage.
Idk, snakes deal 0 damage to me on CI. Whereas they used to melt me in seconds before I made the switch.
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Posted bySandcubicle#5745on Jan 4, 2025, 1:10:12 PM
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Idk, snakes deal 0 damage to me on CI. Whereas they used to melt me in seconds before I made the switch.
Do you have some armour @Sandcubicle ? If so, spitting snakes probably deal mostly physical damage.
[edit] I guess CI works as intended, the spitting flower mobs do no damage at all and I suppose that its mostly/all chaos damage. Spitting snakes on the other hand seem to do physical damage. So don't try to guess the main damage type from visual cues :) This in particular has improved a lot over the last two years, so don't get me wrong.
Last edited by nZain#0913 on Jan 4, 2025, 4:29:59 PM
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Posted bynZain#0913on Jan 4, 2025, 2:21:15 PM
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