Build of the Week: Season 2 Episode 1

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PhreEkGarden wrote:

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symban wrote:

Getting all life nods on passive tree should give additional survival, not the mandatory basic survival.

Really? He was just showcasing a build... literally jumping into packs of monsters or letting them run into him.

I guarantee someone playing that exact build who was actually TRYING not to get hit by everything, and playing a bit more defensively and aware of their surroundings, would BARELY have gotten hit or taken damage.

THAT is why the game is great. You have to actually react to the situations you are in.

Would you rather they nerf the game so much that you can literally just face tank everything, even when you are playing a character that is built more offensively, which his clearly was.

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symban wrote:

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PhreEkGarden wrote:

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symban wrote:

Getting all life nods on passive tree should give additional survival, not the mandatory basic survival.

Really? He was just showcasing a build... literally jumping into packs of monsters or letting them run into him.

I guarantee someone playing that exact build who was actually TRYING not to get hit by everything, and playing a bit more defensively and aware of their surroundings, would BARELY have gotten hit or taken damage.

THAT is why the game is great. You have to actually react to the situations you are in.

Would you rather they nerf the game so much that you can literally just face tank everything, even when you are playing a character that is built more offensively, which his clearly was.

Did you watch the same video as me? If so how come you failed to see

- His passive tree was quite focused on life nods and MS
- He got almost killed by trash white mob in 66 map

That skill is all good in open ground, but colliding on walls destroys projectiles, so he has to facetank in dungeon/crypt maps. Playing carefully and with attention is easy outdoors in open ground. Smoke trap is a nice example of that, it works like a miracle in open maps. But in open maps you dont need its teleport utility. In dungeons you need it desperately but it requires line of sight, so it is shit.

Regardless of how careful you are you have to step into a room to be able to send your projectiles, and that requires a few second facetanking. Video already proves it cant do that.

He had good gear, not the best, but very good gear for life; he has MS; he had a typical life nod passive tree. Even then he would die multiple times if he tried to run that map with some damage mods.

No matter how I look at it, life builds still sucks. The way I see it, when they scaled the damage results were WAY out of what they intended when they were creating game mechanics. ES/Evasion/Armor is supposed to be on par in terms of survival they grant. Right now against spike damage evasion/armor are totally useless. Life can not handle spikes neither without tons of life nods.

I dont think current state of spike/life/es/armor/evasion is far from what they intended, and they dont know how to fix it neither.. :((

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Kerkrom wrote:

new passives:
Arcane Radiance: Light radius is based on ES instead of Life. connected to the 10INT at the 16%Chaos.
Sentinel: +24% AR 10%Allres. Bottom of the Scion start. after the projectile stuff.
Iron Grip: moved to where blood magic was
Blood Magic: moved along the outside further towards the marauder.At the 10STR that is connected to "Deadly
Precision"
NOTABLE TOTEM PLACEMENT SPEED (this is not named yet): 30% casting speed for summoning totems (will not affect totems directly).In a 3 Node block that is connected to 10DEX at Mana Shield (where atm Diamond Flesh is)
Diamond Flesh: moved to below Golem's Blood
Mana Shield: When Hit 30% of Damage Taken is taken from Mana before Life. (When Hit: does that mean it will not work on reflect?)

Also a lot of New Blocks (3 or more Nodes in a Circle). And a Keystone passive next to the Body and Soul Block.

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Trejos wrote:

Did you watch the same video as me? If so how come you failed to hear that
- the tree changes are being iterated, and life builds viability might be completely different than presented in the video.

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FrivolousSam wrote:

The problem with the tree as it exists in the form we saw it, is that Scion is by far the best class for almost every build. As much as I like the scion, I don't want to see nothing but scions everywhere.

++++++1 to this. I hope scions dont get a huge advantage, plus I hate playing/seeing female tittie characters in video games. Its everywhere now days, I dont get what the huge deal is. Ruins the immersion. If i wana see tities, i go watch porn...if i want to play a character, i want a badass mofo.

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Kerkrom wrote:

Spell Block does not mean Mana Shield they are two different concepts