Life vs energy shield question

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Exilion99#5481 a écrit :

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TwitchGLHFsport#2155 a écrit :

I am still fairly new to this game but I would have to start leveling my warrior further to get a better understanding of its weaknesses.

Yeah, do that and get back at us.

While you do that, next POE1 league is on 6th March, you can try play Melee with AR too.

Yeah I should progress further in POE1, I only played POE1 mostly after POE2 came out before buying POE2 and i really liked it so I have been playing POE2 since then.

I have a league warrior right now, with a 2 handed and tower shield on his back, I did the Ascension with Temper. I farmed the VAAL dungeon so much at a low level that it became really difficult to kill the bosses, but still my character bossing feels really strong in the Acts. I can shred all of their armor and beat the **** out of them, It's strong. I'm maxing melee damage with SOME defense but I can still take a beating.

I was kind of disappointed with how crit scaling was for martial weapons on the passive tree tho, I would need a god roll to get a weapon with good base damage and increased crit chance.

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TwitchGLHFsport#2155 a écrit :

What's the highest lvl you got with Warrior?

97

Not like I was trying to get that either just happened through regular play

Buff Life 50% or make spesific classes start with an amount of Life. Es is not just OP, is god mode!

the amount of Armor on these items is absurd :o

I'm starting to think this post was sarcastic after picking up body armor with over 1000 amor and then looking on the market to see that it can go as far as over 7000 armor.

I'm currently leveling a max ES Witch, I see where you are coming from for sustain in boss fights.

The question is how will it perform in a Ritual or Breach? I need to be able to kill them before they can surround me.

If i can survive and die less by endgame it will be worth it and save time for leveling even if it takes longer to clear maps.

The endgame is so brutal, anything is fair game. Whether or not this is OP? I hope it is.

Even builds that look absolutely broken can struggle to reach lvl 100.

I'm having so much fun playing Witch tho, it's a great class.

I think ES and CI is far from OP, I think it is actually a sacrifice to get CI and is very niche to minimize risk against the Abyss mobs + others.

I was actually having better sustain with Evasion/Armor/ES on my sorceress compared to max shield.

Even while maxing shield, I feel a lot more vulnerable with CI vs standard mobs.

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TwitchGLHFsport#2155 a écrit :

the amount of Armor on these items is absurd :o

I'm starting to think this post was sarcastic after picking up body armor with over 1000 amor and then looking on the market to see that it can go as far as over 7000 armor.

7k armour? Only in dreams....

lol it exists but yeah, 1k armor is still impressive to me.

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TwitchGLHFsport#2155 a écrit :

I think ES and CI is far from OP, I think it is actually a sacrifice to get CI and is very niche to minimize risk against the Abyss mobs + others.

I was actually having better sustain with Evasion/Armor/ES on my sorceress compared to max shield.

Even while maxing shield, I feel a lot more vulnerable with CI vs standard mobs.

At this point you are just trolling.

Many people have been explaining how defense works, to you and why ESCI is absolutely busted based on math and years of experience.

Yet here you are.

I swapped from Witch Infernalist (pure minions) to Abyssal Lich basically just to grab CI, and yeah - ES + CI + MoM is an absolutely unhinged combo.

Since the switch I've died exactly once, and that was 100% self-inflicted. I did the classic "I am the main character" move, dove into a pack the size of a small country, and got stunlocked until my keyboard learned new swear words.

Right now I'm sitting on about 9k ES and only ~1.5k mana, but since the mana is basically just my emergency "life" buffer, it still feels fine. The point is, ES + CI + MoM turns a lot of the game into "how hard can I troll myself before I finally fall over", and most of the time the answer is "harder than it should be".

That said, it's not literally god mode unless you also do the boring adult stuff. Capped res is mandatory, and having 30%+ phys reduction from armour (or whatever your mitigation setup is) matters a lot, because otherwise some random juiced mob is still going to hand you a surprise one-shot through all your fancy blue-bar philosophy.