New rogue exile MAGNUS STONETHORN

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Just wear a ruby flask and you will survive unless you play a glasscannon build, my 86 Scion with 82% fire resistance (92% with ruby) could tank the flameblast in Invasion.
Also, it's ridiculosly easy to avoid it unless he is hasted.

Personally I like this exile.

Yes. . .

News-flash guys, any build unable to utilize aura's and take +max resis is from hence forth no longer "viable".

Good stuff, good conclusions.

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Gobla wrote:

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jeppesu wrote:

Just wear a ruby flask and you will survive unless you play a glasscannon build, my 86 Scion with 82% fire resistance (92% with ruby) could tank the flameblast in Invasion.
Also, it's ridiculosly easy to avoid it unless he is hasted.

Personally I like this exile.

See! Perfectly balanced.

As long as you have 7% increased maximum resistances and a ruby flask ready it'll provide a tough but challenging fight.

Lol <3

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Boem wrote:

Yes. . .

News-flash guys, any build unable to utilize aura's and take +max resis is from hence forth no longer "viable".

Good stuff, good conclusions.

Now if only our minions could have overcapped resists and ruby flasks...

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Now if only our minions could have overcapped resists and ruby flasks...

Then he would be called a minion-master, not a "summoner" this imply's he needs to summon his minions.

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Gobla wrote:

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jeppesu wrote:

Just wear a ruby flask and you will survive unless you play a glasscannon build, my 86 Scion with 82% fire resistance (92% with ruby) could tank the flameblast in Invasion.
Also, it's ridiculosly easy to avoid it unless he is hasted.

Personally I like this exile.

See! Perfectly balanced.

As long as you have 7% increased maximum resistances and a ruby flask ready it'll provide a tough but challenging fight.

You don't need 7% increased max resistances, just wear a Ruby for safety in case you somehow get caught in the flameblast which on the other hand is REALLY easy to avoid.
Especially in Invasion it's almost mandatory to wear a Ruby and if that's too much work for you guys then I have nothing to add.

EDIT: Sure, he might need to be somewhat rebalanced but with a build having a fair amount of damage/defense and at least some mobility it's still not a problem.

I would also like to add that this is a GAME, what do we play games for? Challenge probably. If not? Then don't play high level maps.
It is NOT FUN to run around being able to facetank everything with no strategy what so ever after it gets nerfed because of whining people on the forums playing glasscannon builds.

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Alea wrote:

there is a guy at GGG that got this problem: if users are pushing it to change an initial design choice (invaders nerf) then he must buff something else (some exiles and maybe something else too). I dont remember the name for this disease but thats due to a trauma in childhood.

I would call it being unfit for the job.

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Lord_Kamster wrote:

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Alea wrote:

there is a guy at GGG that got this problem: if users are pushing it to change an initial design choice (invaders nerf) then he must buff something else (some exiles and maybe something else too). I dont remember the name for this disease but thats due to a trauma in childhood.

I would call it being unfit for the job.

That's probably it, I remember knocking my tooth out with a bounced-back branch while chopping firewood as a 10-year old or something, since then I've had a distinct aversion for manual labor.

Yeah, it was a trauma all right, a blunt trauma.

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raics wrote:

That's probably it, I remember knocking my tooth out with a bounced-back branch while chopping firewood as a 10-year old or something, since then I've had a distinct aversion for manual labor.

Obviously you did it at low level and poorly equipped.
You had to farm for better axe and increased physical resistance items (mouth/head protectors for e.g). Or just buy them, as everyone does. Your fault.

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jeppesu wrote:

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Gobla wrote:

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jeppesu wrote:

Just wear a ruby flask and you will survive unless you play a glasscannon build, my 86 Scion with 82% fire resistance (92% with ruby) could tank the flameblast in Invasion.
Also, it's ridiculosly easy to avoid it unless he is hasted.

Personally I like this exile.

See! Perfectly balanced.

As long as you have 7% increased maximum resistances and a ruby flask ready it'll provide a tough but challenging fight.

You don't need 7% increased max resistances, just wear a Ruby for safety in case you somehow get caught in the flameblast which on the other hand is REALLY easy to avoid.
Especially in Invasion it's almost mandatory to wear a Ruby and if that's too much work for you guys then I have nothing to add.

EDIT: Sure, he might need to be somewhat rebalanced but with a build having a fair amount of damage/defense and at least some mobility it's still not a problem.

I would also like to add that this is a GAME, what do we play games for? Challenge probably. If not? Then don't play high level maps.
It is NOT FUN to run around being able to facetank everything with no strategy what so ever after it gets nerfed because of whining people on the forums playing glasscannon builds.

Except nobody plays real glasscannon builds. You can't play a genuine glasscannon in PoE, as in a character that sacrifices all defence for offence. Meaning not picking any defensive nodes at all. Selecting equipment based only on the offensive stats it provides, disregarding all defensive stats. That's a real glasscannon.

And it doesn't exist in PoE. You just have tanks and overgeared tanks. And increasingly the game is being balanced around overgeared tanks.

If you don't want to facetank everything then the rational solution is to not play a build that dedicates all resources to trying to achieve exactly that. And if you do play a build that does exactly that then, just like your glasscannon whiner, you shouldn't whine when you can facetank everything.

Game should be balanced around a normally geared build with a healthy mix of offensive and defensive nodes with normal maximum resists and no block at all. Nothing should ever one-shot such a build.

If that leaves players who go balls to the wall defensive and do max block, put all passives into defence, greatly increase their maximum resists etc. able to facetank everything then that's their problem. They shouldn't whine about a game that's not giving them any challenge when they're doing everything they possibly can to avoid any and all challenge.

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torturo wrote:

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raics wrote:

That's probably it, I remember knocking my tooth out with a bounced-back branch while chopping firewood as a 10-year old or something, since then I've had a distinct aversion for manual labor.

Obviously you did it at low level and poorly equipped.
You had to farm for better axe and increased physical resistance items (mouth/head protectors for e.g). Or just buy them, as everyone does. Your fault.

Absolutely right, I was very low level and reflected damage is a total bitch if you go glass cannon.