WTF is with the Green Beam of Death?

This damn mechanic. It's the very wide beam that shoots a screen away. Any time I'm caught in it, I die, mainly because I get stun locked. It doesn't matter that I have 75 chaos res. It doesn't matter that I have a stun charm. It doesn't matter how much I spam my healing and mana flasks. I just die. Screw me. I'm really getting tired of this and am almost done with this league just because of this one mechanic.

It's implied by the patch notes that these green beams are cold damage. They're definitely not chaos damage though since all chaos damage is confirmed purple.

They have a large tell and windup before they actually start doing damage so


Move out of the way?

I have 75% cold resistance, too.

Can't dodge it when it shoots at you from off screen.

Large tell or not is meaningless when this beam shoots you off screen. Can't dodge if you can't even see them.

My proposals:

1. Restrict it to less than a screen in length.

2. It must either never stun the player (or freeze or otherwise disable controls) or not deal 10k+ damage in 2 seconds

Every time I die to that beam, the thought is never "I did something wrong;" it's always "GGG did something wrong"

(edited to sound less harsh xD)

Hmmmm,

This is a strange bit of feedback. You mention getting stun locked, which is when you get stunned repeatedly by each instance of damage. Those beams definitely don't do enough damage to actually do that, and stun charm would prevent that in the first place.

Are you most certain you're not just getting frozen? This isn't actually a balancing issue, I'd call it a defenses issue.

You mention 75% cold res, but what defensive layers are you using? ES, Evasion, Armour, a mix? Do you have enough Life Regen to mitigate sources of damage over time? What's your elemental ailment threshold? Do you run anti-freeze or reduced freeze duration on anything?

If you give the details, the community is actually happy to help you deal with the problem

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MathiasSoul#7397 a écrit :

Hmmmm,

This is a strange bit of feedback. You mention getting stun locked, which is when you get stunned repeatedly by each instance of damage. Those beams definitely don't do enough damage to actually do that, and stun charm would prevent that in the first place.

If you give the details, the community is actually happy to help you deal with the problem

I do suspect it's not a *stun* but a *freeze* (even though my character doesn't seem to have ice all over them). I do have a stun charm, but noticed I don't have a freeze one on.

The annoying part is, it burns my ES + hp in about 2-3 seconds on tier 13 maps (during which I can't move). It takes less than a second on t15 ones sometimes.


I have 1.9k HP + 5.2k ES, which is far from top tier, but still sufficient for t13-t15 maps outside of this type of off-screen instant-stun melt attacks.

...I'll try an anti-freeze charm next time though xD

the beam easily tracks you from distance but it can't spin 360 on a dime. You are able to get in close to dodge roll or move behind the beam to avoid it. But then you are in close with the rest of the mob, so I dunno increase your overall dps to crush the mob I guess.

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al_araan#4288 a écrit :

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MathiasSoul#7397 a écrit :

Hmmmm,

This is a strange bit of feedback. You mention getting stun locked, which is when you get stunned repeatedly by each instance of damage. Those beams definitely don't do enough damage to actually do that, and stun charm would prevent that in the first place.

If you give the details, the community is actually happy to help you deal with the problem

I do suspect it's not a *stun* but a *freeze* (even though my character doesn't seem to have ice all over them). I do have a stun charm, but noticed I don't have a freeze one on.

The annoying part is, it burns my ES + hp in about 2-3 seconds on tier 13 maps (during which I can't move). It takes less than a second on t15 ones sometimes.


I have 1.9k HP + 5.2k ES, which is far from top tier, but still sufficient for t13-t15 maps outside of this type of off-screen instant-stun melt attacks.

...I'll try an anti-freeze charm next time though xD

Yeah I absolutely think the anti-freeze would help you, when you're frozen you're obviously gonna take the full brunt of the damage from the beam and any other monsters, right? Can't evade, can't dodge, can't block, nada

Anything that deals cold damage also contributes to freeze build up, so that's probably what it is, and the charm would let you move out of the way, use Convalescence, and return fire to kill the pack. You'll have a much easier time with that change, I'm sure!

Invest in elemental and stun threshold based on Energy Shield too, since it's otherwise only based on a very low pool of 1.9k HP