Why I hate partying with low-life ST players...

Totally agree with you OP. Most of the low-life ST players are dbags but some aren't. I have a low-life ST char too but I don't do that. However, when I join a public party, I do see them and they don't stick with the party. I just call them out and tell them they're a dbag. Leader usually kicks them afterwards.

I have a LL ST friend that maps with me from time to time and if he starts getting out of line I'll roll and ele reflect map and then run hatred, wrath, anger, empower in a vertex for lulz.

don't worry the build is getting nerfed to the ground. i know what you mean. partly it is because blood rage and the low es they have makes them go faster to avoid being extremely low on es very quickly. basically it's a shit / bogus build if you fon't have the right gear and there are many st wannabes out there. but don't worry the nerf is coming.

Whenever I map, I tell people to let me know if they want me to slow down. Otherwise I just plow on and let them leech.

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chromafunk wrote:

don't worry the build is getting nerfed to the ground. i know what you mean. partly it is because blood rage and the low es they have makes them go faster to avoid being extremely low on es very quickly. basically it's a shit / bogus build if you fon't have the right gear and there are many st wannabes out there. but don't worry the nerf is coming.

Looks like you've never played this build nor you have any knowledge about how this build works.

1) In case you don't know it, Blood Rage deals damage according to your hp pool. Lowlife builds generally have around 1k hp, that means activating Blood Rage will deal 1003 damage (3.8*16.5*1.6/100*1000 - %damage/sec*duration*negative chaos/%*hp, more with Increased Duration) to your ES. I don't see how would this kill me even if I had low ES.

2) You can just swap weapons (or grab Blood Rage gem in your gear if you have auras in the shield, but most players don't) to get rid of it instantly.

3) It's a very good build with shit gear (reaching around 25k LMP dps with low level, low level auras, 5 link, shit ele dagger and shit jewellry) and it scales more than well with upgrades.

I suggest getting more information before crying next time.

Why can't I find any of these so called low-life ST on the guides lists, and how are they being nerfed?

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Zedda wrote:

Why can't I find any of these so called low-life ST on the guides lists, and how are they being nerfed?

aura are getting nerfed, at least some of them.

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rrtson wrote:

[...] We appreciate that you have the ability to carry the entire team. [...]

I don't. A mixture of broken uniques and the stupid Eternal Orb brought the game to this point (one person having easily enough DPS to carry five more), while Mirrors helped spreading the plague.

There were always the more effective builds, but these days you either follow suit, restrain yourself to collect the loot left behind the DPSer, or skip party play and go on solo. I'm usually not the biggest fan of nerfs, but in this case I hope the nerfhammer hits auras hard (around which all the broken low life builds are build around). Well, that's my oppinion, I'm not so much into completly trivialising the game.