Act 3 cruel VERY challenging. Am I doing something wrong?

I finally passed the cruel difficulty solo with a ranger during the month race. Died a few times to idiot mistakes on my part and a desync or two. I'm now actually being a baby and not fighting merciless Brutus until patch .11 in fear of a dreaded desync which would crush my soul lol.
Best results as Ranger
rank 29 (1 Hr Lethal TI Solo (S02E148))
rank 40 (2 Hr Fixed Seed Solo (S02E249))
rank 49 (1 Hour BLAMT Solo (S02E258))
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Danny1981 wrote:
but docks are 2 lvl below me and if I stand in the cold breath for 1 second I am as good as dead.


Dude thats fire-dmg...

and thats all there is to surviving in PoE, knowing wich enemys do what and how to circumvent it and recognizing dangerous situations just those 2 seconds before you are at 3 HP and not 2 seconds after.

It's experience, thats all - my first time playing I couldn't see how HC would ever be possible... now I'm mapping with a melee in HC.
Well... Level 55 here, act3 cruel, just beaten Gravicious.
I play solo, melee, 1200 life, 2400 armour, almost selffound... everyone would say "too low"

It's hard, but I advance (slowly)

Somehow, I find the docks very difficult (60% fire resist, others are 75%), I like battlefield more.
You need distraction. A totem is nice (I used decoy, now fire) and spectres to fight and take damage for me. The Unique "bones of ullr" gives me two spectres which helps somewhat, but they have only mediocre stats, so maybe a good rare would help even more...

dont know much about bow-dps (I only use my bow for 1-2 shots of poison), but 240 seems weak. I have like 1100 with double strike and 450 with cleave (dont think this is considered "good").
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Wraeklops wrote:
Well... Level 55 here, act3 cruel, just beaten Gravicious.
I play solo, melee, 1200 life, 2400 armour, almost selffound... everyone would say "too low"

It's hard, but I advance (slowly)

Somehow, I find the docks very difficult (60% fire resist, others are 75%), I like battlefield more.
You need distraction. A totem is nice (I used decoy, now fire) and spectres to fight and take damage for me. The Unique "bones of ullr" gives me two spectres which helps somewhat, but they have only mediocre stats, so maybe a good rare would help even more...

dont know much about bow-dps (I only use my bow for 1-2 shots of poison), but 240 seems weak. I have like 1100 with double strike and 450 with cleave (dont think this is considered "good").


With Wrath, Anger, Weapon Elemental Damage and two fast blue weapons 450dps cleave is something that's easily reached at the end of normal, even selffound oO

And "dps" highly depends in the skills you use. A Cleave with conc effect will show something vastly higher than an Lightning Arrow with GMP and Chain, but will most likely do more damage.
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Danny1981 wrote:
How are HC-characters able to clear normal and cruel without dying?


NECRO'D

In HC we all, almost always, pick up as much life/res as we can from nodes without gimping our build's core. Most Dps builds run 200%-250% hp and most melee builds run 300%hp if they can.

On gear we focus on LIFE > RES/ARMOUR/EVA/ES > DPS primarily.

If we focus on DPS first on our gear, we will end up in the CareBear league.

.. necro
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Last edited by lVlage#3413 on Mar 30, 2014, 2:50:08 PM
to be honest. i think act 3 cruel is shitting easy. im 1-2 shotting all normal enemys and allmost never die. i play only solo. i dont have any friends that play this game.
Wow major necro, and I was gonna respond to the OP too.

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