dps more important than defense for pinnacle bosses

Every mechanic on the boss is an insta kill despite the huge defensive, which I think is not good. I fight him for like 1 minute, get him to 20%, then he wipes me out of a billion insta kills because I don't have time to dodge, while a player from the clan wipes him out in 8 seconds without mechanics, where is the fairness?

armour 5%, evasion 90%, energie shild 1000 hp 1300

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paulpotter#7417 wrote:

Every mechanic on the boss is an insta kill

it's false.

but we are agree , offense is better than defence on pinnacle .

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pollozik#7790 wrote:

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paulpotter#7417 wrote:

Every mechanic on the boss is an insta kill

it's false.

its true

0.1.0 league monk 4k es oneshotted by hands on xesht, mage 1500hp 4k es + MoM(1700 mana) oneshotted too

no it's false .

Not all mechanics one-shot, only some of them do.

You have to do acrobatics and get to 80% plus before you'll see evasion helpful. I have 40% block, 80% with acro, and 1800 life. I can take exactly one hit. I use instant on flasks to some extent as well. Also remember you have raise shield and parry. They do things and reduce damage. Not sure what your build is but sometimes you have to actually play defensively to get the benefits of your defences.

Acrobatic is nerfed from -70% to -75% evasion, it cannot be used even with 25k evasion

I try play acrobatick + iron reflex but it doesn't work

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paulpotter#7417 wrote:

Acrobatic is nerfed from -70% to -75% evasion, it cannot be used even with 25k evasion

I try play acrobatick + iron reflex but it doesn't work

Ok that's your problem. You need to start thinking in terms 50k+ evasion. I have about 50k without acro. I have 40% block with decent block recovery and 1800 life. I have some work to do before pinnacles myself because this isn't enough.

Playing defensive builds in PoE1 have always been difficult. I do believe evasion needs help. However, your situation has so much room for improvement. You aren't defensive tbh and you hit like snot. You really need to pick something. Either go glass cannon or go defensive. You probably don't have optimal gear or a gimmick to work with. And you can't forget parry and raise shield. I think you might be playing the game wrong. I'm not trying to be mean but I just don't see how you think the numbers you're saying are good enough to be called defense? You are so squishy.

For example, I use wind dancer with knock back (arms length?) and blind. When they are blinded, they have less accuracy and hit less. As long as I can take one hit, I'm good. That's why i have so much life for an evasion build.

Also do not do both acro and iron reflexes. They don't work together. You won't dodge anything because you won't have evasion.

As a suggestion, I path huntress toward Spiked Shield and Shield Expertise nodes. you get so much defence from those nodes and if you have strong evasion shield, it's a huge node cluster. I mean that is a must have cluster for 100% of almost all huntress builds. You can also explore glancing blows.

Don't forget to use instant flask on some level as well. Especially if you can only take one shot. And omens are op.

I think you have to explore more or go to some build forums and ask for advice or explore parry more.

You can also always see if you can squeeze in blink and second wind and give yourself easier ways out of tough spots.

I play bow + Deadeye + poe 2

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paulpotter#7417 wrote:

I play bow + Deadeye + poe 2

XD

Then you should expect to get one-shot by a boss-it’s kind of the essence of your class. But don’t worry, Deadeyes died a lot in PoE 1 too, except we had 6 portals :p

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pollozik#7790 wrote:

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paulpotter#7417 wrote:

Every mechanic on the boss is an insta kill

it's false.

but we are agree , offense is better than defence on pinnacle .

Isn't this the case for everything in this game?
I'm running full resistences, average to good evasion+block , 52% Chaos resistance.

Yet, the best defence for me is the DPS , the more and quick enemies I can kill, the better I survive.

So yeah...for me at least, the best defense has always been to have a big , high , crazy weapon & skills for high DPS.

Right now on my Amazon Huntress I'm doing 22.2K DPS per lightning spear, and this is what keeps me alive in tier 15 maps....

I did not even get to the Pinnacle boss , or to Xesh , or anything else.......