Unavoidable damage mechanics are BAD for game balance.

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PrimordialDarkness a écrit :

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KillerB a écrit :

I'm doing pretty fine without endu charge and armor and eva and overstacking res and block

Every defense type has a type of weakness

Armor - ele dam + chaos dam / repeated high damage spikes (bone giant, golems) / DoTs
Eva - spells/spike damage can pass by (better than armor if you are getting hit by average higher damage.) / DoTs
ES - Not a mitigation so you have to make sure regeneration/leech is not an issue
HP - Same as ES
Regen builds, noregen/lower regen maps
Block - Takes 1 character slot, you need spellblock vs spells.
Leech - Nerfed atm, hard to leech ele dam (I don't really know how it works, since I haven't used it post patch)

Resistances: Physical damage

Elemental resistances - Capped at 75 you need purites/nodes/items to increase it, elemental weakness curse, penetrations, physical damage
Chaos resistance - Forces you to stack ES (CI), otherwise hard to get, and capped at 75.
phy + ele

I don't know why you think that evasion should not have the downsides it has now, I still remember the QQ threads about how armor is useless and it should protect you vs ele dam just like evasion does, no matter what you pick it will never be able to protect you vs everything.

The problem is that Armor can still get capped resistances, block/spell block as well as ES to protect itself from elemental damage. Nobody whined about that. People whined that armor didn't do anything against PHYS damage, which was indeed true.

Now, the problem with Acrobatics/Phase acrobatics is that it can do NOTHING against physical damage that is flagged as undodgeable. There is no mechanic to protect you, while armor characters have access to mechanics that protect them from armor's weaknesses. However, there were very few instances of such damage before act 4, and they were never incredibly high burst.

Essentially, GGG created white mobs that simply kill an evasion character within seconds, no matter what the evasion character stacks to defend itself from them.

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RagnarokChu a écrit :

I like it how people are talking about unavoidable damage mechanics in a evasion build when they die when they eventually get hit anyway.

Should change the point of the thread to extreme spike damage.

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TimeDilation a écrit :

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RagnarokChu a écrit :

I like it how people are talking about unavoidable damage mechanics in a evasion build when they die when they eventually get hit anyway.

Should change the point of the thread to extreme spike damage.

There are a4 mobs that have Resolute Technique. And hit like a whole fleet of trucks. Evasion is exactly useless against them.

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RagnarokChu a écrit :

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TimeDilation a écrit :

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RagnarokChu a écrit :

I like it how people are talking about unavoidable damage mechanics in a evasion build when they die when they eventually get hit anyway.

Should change the point of the thread to extreme spike damage.

There are a4 mobs that have Resolute Technique. And hit like a whole fleet of trucks. Evasion is exactly useless against them.

Yet again, it doesn't matter if you have evasion or not.

Giant mobs of enemies hitting whole fleet of trucks is dangerous to all builds.

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Finkenstein a écrit :

Malachai= constant cluster fuck that basically is if you don't use totems prepare to die a bunch but at least at GGG they are kind enough to have added the feature that allows us to resurrect at the nearest checkpoint.

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TimeDilation a écrit :

No because it will one shot an Evasion build while an Armor build will likely have just enough time to pot, quicksilver out, granite, logout, or leech their life back. A4 Snakes for example basically rocked Bob's evasion character while Etup just rolled them over.

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DD is Phys. And if you ask me: THAT is the Problem.

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Starxsword a écrit :

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DD is Phys. And if you ask me: THAT is the Problem.

Since when? After 1.2 update, Detonate Dead should be pure fire.
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Detonate_Dead

Of course, the wiki can be wrong.