Act 3 enemies have so much health

[The Ghost Pyro From Outerspace!!]

You spend hours grinding your damage up in act 2, and then it just doesn't matter in act 3. Everything takes 10+ hits to kill for normal enemies anyway, and bosses can block now for some reason too. Honestly the amount of spongeiness of enemies in this game is so annoying, and the damage upgrades are hidden behind the most annoying quests in the game (except the first one which you just find). Do they just want us to not kill things?

[xXBigUraniumFartsXx]

I just want to get to Nuu

[goodbye_bonito]

So you don't want to do needle upgrades but you want to kill stuff faster, am I right? You are using Reaper crest too?

[Neth]

I have to ask.. is the pale oil from the gourmand still locked behind his delivery quests in act 3? would have guessed he would be dead

[The Ghost Pyro From Outerspace!!]

Originally posted by goodbye_bonito:

So you don't want to do needle upgrades but you want to kill stuff faster, am I right? You are using Reaper crest too?

No I *got* needle upgrades, and I want to kill stuff. My point is the needle upgrade feels useless since they just buff regular enemy hp anyway.

[Varanus]

Originally posted by The Ghost Pyro From Outerspace!!:

Originally posted by goodbye_bonito:

So you don't want to do needle upgrades but you want to kill stuff faster, am I right? You are using Reaper crest too?

No I *got* needle upgrades, and I want to kill stuff. My point is the needle upgrade feels useless since they just buff regular enemy hp anyway.

Have you considered running past them? Most of act 3 is simply about backtracking, and you can easily avoid most enemies, if you want. I rarely bothered, unless they were specifically hindering some platforming, was something I needed for the hunter journal, or were in proximity of one of those void mass things I was trying to kill.

[goodbye_bonito]

Originally posted by The Ghost Pyro From Outerspace!!:

Originally posted by goodbye_bonito:

So you don't want to do needle upgrades but you want to kill stuff faster, am I right? You are using Reaper crest too?

No I *got* needle upgrades, and I want to kill stuff. My point is the needle upgrade feels useless since they just buff regular enemy hp anyway.

That mostly impacts bosses. Needle upgrades actually let you kill stuff faster, it is very very obvious with naked eye without any kind off numbers from wiki. And with fast hitting needle even bosses feel like they go down too fast

[Danilum]

Mobs in act 3 are tanky because of the void stuff. They tend to always spawn voidy if there's a mass in the room. Kill the thing and they should usually be easier to kill (even though they CAN spawn voidy anyways).

[Phyre]

Originally posted by Neth:

I have to ask.. is the pale oil from the gourmand still locked behind his delivery quests in act 3? would have guessed he would be dead

They are still alive, and I think you still need to do the quest, but not sure. I have heard the Chef boss becomes voided, if he's still alive in act 3. So you might want to do it before that happens. :P

[Doc Holiday]

Hunter crest with damage bonus is the answer for act 3

[Ellamar]

In rooms where all the enemies spawn as void buffed, you can just destroy the void masses to permanently remove them from that room. After that, there's only a chance that the enemies of that room will get void buffed and at least I think you can kill them before they get buffed. Not sure.

[юля, газуй]

SHAW!

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Originally posted by The Ghost Pyro From Outerspace!!:

You spend hours grinding your damage up in act 2, and then it just doesn't matter in act 3. Everything takes 10+ hits to kill for normal enemies anyway, and bosses can block now for some reason too. Honestly the amount of spongeiness of enemies in this game is so annoying, and the damage upgrades are hidden behind the most annoying quests in the game (except the first one which you just find). Do they just want us to not kill things?

just mod it and give yourself multiplied damage. problem solved.

[almurat89]

Originally posted by Doc Holiday:

Hunter crest with damage bonus is the answer for act 3

Or shaman with the all silkskills, volt filament and wavelight

[Draygo]

Yeah I absolutely think if you kill the void mass in the room they SHOULD NOT spawn anymore there, its awful.

[Rachel Dawn Amber]

upgrading needle also upgrade your silkskill