Abyss is hardly playable as melee build
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That is because there is way too much area damage overall. Stun has too weak effect then overall. I have around 12k elemental armour and hp pool of total around 5k - life, mana and ES combined in bear form. Still not enough for t15 maps and abyss depths. Chaos res around 45%
As melee you simply must be able to tank most of area damage to deliver yours, so you cannot just dodge around and shoot from safe position. Moreover I play druid mixed self dmg and minions dmg. So minions supposed to give me some cover from dmg, because enemies should also target minions instead of myself - that barely works. Last edited by Fnts7#2833 on Dec 29, 2025, 4:27:09 AM Last bumped on Dec 29, 2025, 6:25:31 AM
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You have no armor is why and probably no regen
5k health is impressive though Give up some of that for what I mentioned and you’ll be set Mash the clean
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Your chaos res should be maxed. 45% in Abyss is insane.
12k armor is not much. I play Bear Shaman and so far have not had trouble tanking, even in the Abyss (28k armor, 37k elemental armor, 4,2k ES, 2k HP, 2k Mana + Mind Over Matter with full remnants + Reactive Growth, negligible 2,6k Evasion) What kills me is being frozen in place, but I slotted 2 freeze charms to prevent that, and it's been working so far. I think your problem probably lies in trying to make a tank bear, but also a summoner. Not enough resources for that in low budgets, I think. For example, I'm sure you can't use Mana Remnants despite having Mind Over Matter because of the need to use spirit on minions, and thats a huge improvement to survival. Also, get mana regen on as many things as you can. Last edited by Fenneric7777#4268 on Dec 29, 2025, 4:36:34 AM
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I don’t even run chaos res either (33%)
Chaos res isn’t the issue unless you are rolling added chaos to your maps Theres a single mob that moves around a bunch does like a barf of small chaos proj and thats it. Kurgals last grasp mod on an abyss thats it for chaos damage Mash the clean Last edited by Mashgesture#2912 on Dec 29, 2025, 4:41:45 AM
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"45% chaos res"
"12k elemental armour" sounds like YOU problem... try T7 maps... its pretty easy to get 30k armour and 100k elemental armour, get a good body armour for few divines (with 2k+ armour) and +50% armour on amulet with +50% extra from body armour, and in skill points you have +80% armour from body armour node just learn to play the game |
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