This game has a basic survivability problem

Sick of being one-shotted by things off screen. Minus some absolutely end game uniques, I am geared up in the best equipment available, but feel like the game is designed to intentionally humiliate/disrespect me. Lvl 95, feeling totally underwhelmed as far as survivability goes. The combination of Evasion/HP/ES (Ev 70/HP 2030/ES 630) is shit on my huntress. Random bullshit mob (or even nearby offscreen shrine) can end me faster than I can blink.

Going off to play Witcher 3 while you figure out how to make your characters into something other than glass cannons.

SSF

The evasion is up there, but the health and energy shield seem really low, I mean, is that a typo, 630es? Thats... that is nothing. Thats actually nothing.

95 is also insane. The game pretty much falls off a cliff at 90... and thats being really loose- its probly more like 85ish.

I haven't played a huntress though, or used an evasion/es gearset. Its not even worth having es at 630. Then you're evasion reliant- ewwwwww.

I think they did change it recently to avoid everything though right? That would make it better, but I haven't tried it since the change. Maybe when daggers come out.

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Nefeiy#2129 wrote:

HP 2030/ES 630

Unless you're sending 15% of damage to mana or something, that's way too low. 3500 life and 15% damage to mana might be enough. Or you could pump ES.

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Nefeiy#2129 wrote:

Going off to play Witcher 3 while you figure out how to make your characters into something other than glass cannons.

The way to "solve" this problem is by deleting every enemy including bosses asap

90% of the time i can't even tell what killed me, poe 2 visual clarity is atrocious and is possible one of the worst cases i've ever seen in my entire life, and this come from someone who grew up playing a lot of different mmos

1775 hp
550es
58% evasion

Haven’t died since 91.

Either you invest into defense or do high enough damage that you never even get touched

You can't really make Evasion/ES work without also investing in Deflection. You still can't evade a lot of things so they made Deflection for some reason. You also didn't mention Block chance.

My Ritualist does fine. My Armor/EV Merc also does fine. Both pale in comparison to the two pure ES witches I made though. Esp when you can get ES delay around 1.7s with 4 points and one affix.

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Vyend#2601 wrote:

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Nefeiy#2129 wrote:

Going off to play Witcher 3 while you figure out how to make your characters into something other than glass cannons.

The way to "solve" this problem is by deleting every enemy including bosses asap

90% of the time i can't even tell what killed me, poe 2 visual clarity is atrocious and is possible one of the worst cases i've ever seen in my entire life, and this come from someone who grew up playing a lot of different mmos

I made the decision last night actually to take this approach. While I'm trying to make something that "should" work, work, its not.
I might as well just go ahead and work on trying to just out pace everything.

I don't have the currency to make a hybrid work. I'm just not doing very well at that balance with limited resources. I'm just going to lean into straight dmg.

SSF

Energy shield does seem super strong.

Can you go pure es and be ok against bleed/poison?

I'm armor/es atm... its pretty strong. Only issues are against mobs with crazy +%dmg rolls or double rolls, high chaos.

Bosses can't touch me, I'm only in tier 10s though.

Bosses are actually the easiest content. Abyssal rares are the hardest.

Ive made 5 chars this league, neither uses top tier gear

1) Witch - 15k ES + high potency curses make ridiculous EHP, with good recharge stats and Convalescence + long DoT damage = she is basically unkillable, outside of some uber Arbiter big moves

2) Merc - 3k life with very high movement speed (including while using skills) and 15k armour which applies to all damage types (30% to chaos). decent leech, slow immunity, bleed and crit immunity and large AoE dps, very hard to get killed

3) Sorc - 1700 life + 9k ES, with 100% damage taken recoup over 2.5s, applying to both life and ES. Bleed immune. Super hard to kill, can basically AFK against many packs

4) Warrior - 3k life + 20k armour (100% applying to chaos damage, around 200% to elemental), 1k life regen (yes you are reading it right), leech, active block from shield skills, curse immune. Killable only by the strongest boss moves

5) Monk - 2.3k life, 18k evasion, 15k deflection. This is what I call glass cannon, he has ridiculous clearing ability, and super high dps transforms into high leech which is not removed when life is full. Gets one-shot occasionally

all have all resists capped (which is mandatory)

I am writing this to provide a bit of inspiration and to point out that you need to learn how to make defenses work

Good luck

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kazajhodo#6457 wrote:

SSF

The evasion is up there, but the health and energy shield seem really low, I mean, is that a typo, 630es? Thats... that is nothing. Thats actually nothing.

95 is also insane. The game pretty much falls off a cliff at 90... and thats being really loose- its probly more like 85ish.

I haven't played a huntress though, or used an evasion/es gearset. Its not even worth having es at 630. Then you're evasion reliant- ewwwwww.

I think they did change it recently to avoid everything though right? That would make it better, but I haven't tried it since the change. Maybe when daggers come out.

It's probably an EV focused build with like a pure EV chest. I'd be fine if ppl would use pure EV builds for campaign and early map lvling but jesus, some day ppl MUST realize that pure EV is shit. I mean, how many times do the experienced nerd-gamers have to tell everybody that ES is the way to go? But I guess some ppl just REFUSE to listen to any advise and rather smash their heads against the wall 24/7.