Elemental damage seems like utter over kill for health-based characters

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vexorian#9572 a écrit :

Evasion and Armor are really weird because of how every single rare mob always has something that skips them. Meanwhile ES' supposed counter is chaos damage. But it is rare and you can just get Chaos Innoculation and forget about it permanently.

Elemental Damage shouldn't even be about the damage. It has ailments for a reason. Maybe armor should still protect you against elemental damage from hits. And ES needs a drawback than can't be removed from game with just 18 skill points.

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Sulik7#2502 a écrit :

2k health is easy to achieve but with investment. If you try hard to stack hp, you should be around 2.5k. Going to 3k+ is only for some ascendancies and high value gear

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nocebo#2432 a écrit :

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JEE_ZUZ#0982 a écrit :

But 2.7k health is too little, especially if using shield which can have health mods.
4k health reachable with very moderate gear investments and feels comfortable without rippy mods like +2 proj, ele pen, shocking ground especially if all together in a single map.

While with such a mods even some of white monsters can oneshot you, which is tottaly insane and feels out of balance. The player should have a chance to survive. Always.
It's not only the matter of elemental damage, but mostly lack, if not absence of balance among the map mods. We have a new game with new game balance, but all the map mods are old from POE1.

It won't matter, that isn't the issue. Looks like you didn't read the mention about the Blood Mage I made?

The issue is that elemental damage is 3-5x more deadly than physical is even though you have the same mitigation. It wouldn't matter if the character has a third more health, it's still way too spiky.

Minor, normal enemies like the electricity casting demons can rip you apart way too fast. I think there's just been some decimal issue with their damage values since the Infernal Bats, or some other FIRE shooting corruption demons deal maybe 10% of the damage the lightning casting ones do.

P.S. People won't have 4k health either in any "modest gear".

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Ash#9143 a écrit :

I think something might be off with the lightning spell when casted by mobs triggered by a strongbox.

Usually an average spell like that would do little damage, maybe 1/5-1/4 of my ES.

Then when i get hit by some mobs triggered by the strongbox a single hit by the same spell takes out 3/4 of my ES