Damage and defense in the end game. GETTING 1 SHOT ISNT FUCKING FUN

Getting 1 shot fucking sucks. Im over it, let us build actual defenses so we dont get 1 shot by random shit mapping. If i get 1 shot by a telegraphed boss ability, thats on me, but all the random damage u take from maps, no thanks.

Ive been doing 15/16s consistantly for the past week and 1 out of every 5 runs i just die randomly. Max res, 2k HP, 75% evasion 45k dps lightning arrow 42k dps primal strikes.... Ive put well over 100 hours into this league already and the 1 thing ive noticed across the board is.

PLAYER DEFENSE MEANS NOTHING.

First of all, evasion is fuckin garbage and anybody starting in that part of the tree is just playing at a disadvantage.

80% chance to evade means u have a 20% chance to just fall over dead. FUCKING GARBAGE

Armor and resists, only work if you have a health pool to support getting hit. The fact that we cant survive a hit and actually have to manually dodge EVERYTHING, with very little movement abilities (i run as many as possible), is not fun.

/rant

Suggestions

Increase health pool
-HP per str up
-HP nodes on the tree
-increase life rolls on gear

Tone down damage output on monsters, the massive damage output should come via combining waystone mods, not naturally occurring.

Things that i have noticed do way to much damage, or need to be addressed.
-Curses/ground effects from certain mob types/runic monsters. The delay is so quick its almost impossible to get out of unless ur constantly moving.
-Chaos orbs (from plants) the damage is fine, the spawn rate is obnoxious, especially IN FUCKING ACT 1.
-Meteor/Lightning shrines Why the fuck do these 1 shot, thats fuckin retarded.
-Vaal melee/axe throwers; The melee guys move super quick, attack super fast and hit super hard, they have it all, thats not fair. The axe throwers proj speed is insane, it hits super hard, and a lot of the time u get microstunned by the first one as soon as they get on screen, and u cant move to dodge the other 6 and die.

EVASION IS SHIT WITH NO HP TO BACK IT UP. This was a problem in season 1, but ES was so powerful that you could make up the difference, with ES getting a massive nerf, we have no backup.

I also wanna add Simulacrum to this. Everything about this encounter is fucking aids and should not be this way in PoE2. I can clear t4 expedition boss but cant even do t0 Simulacrum.... To many mobs that stun through stun immunity.

you need to add energy shield to your build - get hybrid armor es+evade and spectral ward node + subterfuge mask (you can instill one of this into amulet)
2k just does not survive here at all. 2k hp + 2k enegy shield is not very costly.

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computerlame#2558 wrote:

you need to add energy shield to your build - get hybrid armor es+evade and spectral ward node + subterfuge mask (you can instill one of this into amulet)
2k just does not survive here at all. 2k hp + 2k enegy shield is not very costly.

So what ur saying is, half my evasion for 250-300 ES? Thats fuckin dumb. I didnt ask for any suggestions but thanks for the bad one.

The devs are still playing through the story! They have been making some great changes but the game still needs so much more. I honestly hate how Jonathan keeps saying lets not do that lets fix what is broken. The entire game is broken please fix it.

I am so tried of playing ruthless mode. They had buffed the item drops but it is still so stagnant. I don't play trade and the progression feels like garbage. When you have to gamble 90% of your gear that is not fun.

I honestly wonder how many casuals never even make it to the end game because of getting killed over and over.

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computerlame#2558 wrote:

you need to add energy shield to your build - get hybrid armor es+evade and spectral ward node + subterfuge mask (you can instill one of this into amulet)
2k just does not survive here at all. 2k hp + 2k enegy shield is not very costly.

That shouldn't be mandatory, though. It's the only defense system that requires the support of another. Pure armor or pure ES are perfectly fine, but pure evasion pretty much requires the use of specific DR uniques or high-rolling HP on all available gear, and even then you'll only have like, a little over 2k.

I just think ES is too strong and HP is too weak.

Not to mention the Corruption monsters.. they are way to overpowered some of em, and the speed they come at you..

My guy the suggestion wasn't bad.. No need to get defensive :D (pun intended).

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Ghrimm4#7838 wrote:

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computerlame#2558 wrote:

you need to add energy shield to your build - get hybrid armor es+evade and spectral ward node + subterfuge mask (you can instill one of this into amulet)
2k just does not survive here at all. 2k hp + 2k enegy shield is not very costly.

So what ur saying is, half my evasion for 250-300 ES? Thats fuckin dumb. I didnt ask for any suggestions but thanks for the bad one.

“Oh, your evasion + health build isn’t working? Just switch to Energy Shield!”
People say this like it’s normal—but they don’t stop to think how bad the design has to be if ES is basically mandatory even on the left side of the tree (where you should be able to build evasion). That’s not build variety, that’s a band-aid.

My roommate is a PoE1 player, and after 2 weeks of season 1 he uninstalled PoE2 and yelled at me for an hour about how GGG should know what the fuck they need to do, they've had 13 years of making the first game, trial and error, what works and what doesnt, what the players enjoy and what they dont. I laughed a little and kept grinding season 1.

Then i played SSF, and i hated the game, now were in season 2, and its just as bad as SSF was in S1.