POE2 is the only ARPG game that has defenses just for decoration!

When people suggesting buffs to defensive elements means make them actually count. Just giving more passive options with no more passive points is a tricky way to cheat players. The result is very much nagging in forums.

+1 buff defences yesterday....

Energy Shield is your life extension
Armour is a Lie
Evasion is Copium (non existent in the campaign btw)

But hey we brought you damage reduction mechanic on bosses so your glass cannon build could stand a less chance.

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default_mp3#9394 a écrit :

Energy Shield is your life extension
Armour is a Lie
Evasion is Copium (non existent in the campaign btw)

But hey we brought you damage reduction mechanic on bosses so your glass cannon build could stand a less chance.

Pathetic but it's true. With ton of changes every new upcoming patch , new passive points is a must and should be added in every new League to support defensive builds. Indeed Armour is a Lie if it is less than 35k. Mechanism also sucks. The difference is noticable between 0k and 35k Armour with those Bosses hits.

Next patch should balance defences and the way is not to nerf Boss hits but instead make them actually count per percentage value.

+1. Bring immunity options for all type of defences.

they want MEANINGFUL COMBAT and want us to build defenses while the only thing that works is ES lol
kinda funny
a specially that ARMOR IS THE WORST DEFENS in the game hahah and they are probably already on vacation so we are probably screwed till they come back
and even then not sure they gonna do something about armor
they a whole year to do something whit armor and yet here we are .

Also they've added Ele damage mitigation for Armour and Deflection for Evasion. Now you need to solve this as well. Which is beyond me.

Path of Exile 2 probably my first role playing game where Armour and Evasion is IMAGINARY stats

Especially when there is no way to scale life outside gear and jewels, no wonder everyone going with ES

If you want something meaningful that makes any sense. Just go with percentanges for example I found body armour in Act 1 that have 15% to armour which means if I take 100 physical damage I only ate 85. And so on. And the maximum number that you can stack is 75%, same cap as for ELE RES numbers.
Instead of ooohhh I got 1500 ARMOUR so what? Do I need to calculate with some whoever know what formula outside of the game to understand what I am getting out of this?

being 62 years old doesn't mean you actually know what you are doing

it is entirely possible to build a very tanky character

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Konried#2763 a écrit :

being 62 years old doesn't mean you actually know what you are doing

it is entirely possible to build a very tanky character

It's his experience about RPG games played past until now. Age doesn't mean something but experience does. Defencive builds need a lot of things right now to reach the value of offensive builds.

To make matters worse, there's also the XP penalty upon death. Everything is designed to make you lose players.