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Jamie A. Rose Jan 2, 2018 @ 1:20am
Bosses should not one shot me.
Does no one else find this ridiculous? That every boss in the game can kill you in one or two hits? Balance your bosses GGG, this is unacceptable. There's nothing fun about dying every five seconds because you can't find a better way to make bosses difficult.
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Originally posted by Arqwart:
Originally posted by Jamie Rose:
I have Fire Spells and Fire Traps as well as Flesh Offering and Detonate Dead.

Flame Surge, Fire Storm, Contagion, and Desecrate.
You may want to try cutting back on your abilities by choosing what you want to focus on. Are you looking to go all summoner or caster? If all summoner, it's generally best to all-in on your summons for killing power and only provide curses + auras + offerings in combat while keeping yourself safe. One major thing I would suggest is not running Blasphemy curses at all. It's much too dangerous for you to be in the thick of things, not to mention it's rather contradictory to the ranged playstyle you want to go for as a summoner. Try running an aura to buff your summons (such as Haste, Anger, or Hatred) and a defensive buff/aura for yourself (Discipline or Arctic Armour). If you make the swap to focusing just on your summons, you'll be free to throw curses as needed while your summons do the work for you and you'll be better ready to dodge about / stay out of harm's way. I suggest Ball Lightning + Curse on Hit + [Insert Curse(s)] due to the ease, safety, and low mana cost (keep Ball at lvl 1).

With all that said, the character and the experience you want from the game is up to you. If you wish to be part caster + part summoner, you're free to do so. The main thing is that you need to take into consideration what the game is telling you. If it doesn't feel like you're able to progress at a steady pace due to consistent deaths, take the opportunity to make changes to your character's survivability. Flasks, life, ES, evasion, dodge, block, armor, Enfeeble, Temporal Chains, movement abilities, Decoy Totem, Fortify, endurance charges, elemental resistances, Arctic Armour, leech, life regen, Mind over Matter -- there's a lot of available tactics for increasing your character's defenses. Your best bet is "layering" defenses on top of a moderate health / ES pool.
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Loneliness Jan 2, 2018 @ 5:47am 
Originally posted by Jamie Rose:
It seems silly to overspend on life when I have all these zombies and spectres and a huge golem to tank for me. Seems to me like they overtuned the bosses.

minions do help a ton *not getting hit*, but when that runs out and you actually do get hit, they don't really help anymore.
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dOBER Jan 2, 2018 @ 5:48am 
Originally posted by Jamie Rose:
It seems silly to overspend on life when I have all these zombies and spectres and a huge golem to tank for me. Seems to me like they overtuned the bosses.
Its not overspend even as summoner. After act8 maps start and you will get oneshot by normal/rare monster with only 1300 life. You should not even think about playing past act8 below 3000 life + mom. 3k life is very easy as summoner because you dont need many points for all monion nodes
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Detergent Jan 2, 2018 @ 5:55am 
Originally posted by Jamie Rose:
It seems silly to overspend on life when I have all these zombies and spectres and a huge golem to tank for me. Seems to me like they overtuned the bosses.
So... you don't want a large HP pool, don't want any forms of defense, and you don't want to die in 1 hit?

lol wtf?
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Drake Jan 2, 2018 @ 5:55am 
The average life of a "glass canon" build is 5K, that's how poe is balanced. You're basically playing naked and complaining because you die from every hit.
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MANiaC3173 Jan 2, 2018 @ 6:28am 
Originally posted by RandomHero:
Originally posted by Jamie Rose:
It seems silly to overspend on life when I have all these zombies and spectres and a huge golem to tank for me. Seems to me like they overtuned the bosses.
So... you don't want a large HP pool, don't want any forms of defense, and you don't want to die in 1 hit?

lol wtf?

HAHA my thoughts exactly! and i dont even play the game, just enjoy watching others play lol
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Shamanalah Jan 2, 2018 @ 6:38am 
Originally posted by Jamie Rose:
1300/350

I had 2.4k HP for A9 boss without capped res IIRC and I kept complaining it was hard.

We all have our dumb moments don't worry.

Still struggling to find a good ring but at least I have flask to mitigate the problem. Gotta think a bit ;)
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Phobos Jan 2, 2018 @ 6:50am 
Originally posted by Jamie Rose:
1300/350
Shaper; welcomes you...
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wardy2424 Jan 2, 2018 @ 7:56am 
ecks deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Arqwart Jan 2, 2018 @ 8:03am 
What's your max life / ES? What are your elemental + chaos resistances? What's your estimated physical damage reduction from armor? What is your attack dodge? What is your spell dodge? What is your evasion chance? What is your block chance? What's your life regen? What's your leech rate? Do you have endurance charges (how many if so)? Do you use Fortify? Do you blind enemies in any way (such as a stibnite flask)? Are you actively avoiding wind-up attacks from bosses? What bosses in particular are you talking about? Do you use any summons? Do you use any totems? Do you use Decoy Totem? Do you have a quick movement ability that you can actively dodge with? What flasks are you using? Do you use Arctic Armour? What curse(s) are you using (if any)?

You have a LOT of tools of available to you for making your character resilient. However, none of that matters if you aren't taking an active role as a player to avoid clearly powerful attacks. Major bosses within the acts of this game tend to telegraph just about everything they do so it's up to you to respond accordingly.
Last edited by Arqwart; Jan 2, 2018 @ 8:10am
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Phobos Jan 2, 2018 @ 8:06am 

Originally posted by Arqwart:
What's your max life? What are your elemental + chaos resistances? What's your estimated physical damage reduction from armor? What is your attack dodge? What is your spell dodge? What is your evasion chance? What is your block chance? What's your life regen? What's your leech rate? Do you have endurance charges (how many if so)? Do you use Fortify? Do you blind enemies in any way (such as a stibnite flask)? Are you actively avoiding wind-up attacks from bosses? What bosses in particular are you talking about? Do you use any summons? Do you use any totems? Do you use Decoy Totem?
Already noted; but nore info woul be great...
Originally posted by Jamie Rose:
1300/350
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Valmar Jan 2, 2018 @ 8:22am 
1300 at act 8 (and probably not resis max) and complaining about one shots just made me laugh.

You can adapt and play this game which is even EASY as fak, it was hard like 3 years ago or so, but currently is a joke. OR you can try diablo3 or any childish game like that.

Its true the game have some mechanics that could be improved, like one shooting in endgame bosses with 8K life and max resis and that, but common. This topic...
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ToXiN Jan 2, 2018 @ 8:33am 
Originally posted by Loneliness:
it's fine.
most boss one-shots comes from one of two things:

1. either the character in question is undergeared/underleveled, which leads to lower defences and one shots.

2. it's highly telegraphed and therefore meant to avoid.
Unfortunately this is not true.
Many times certain bosses can one shot you even when you have a decent health (ofc we do not count the map modifiers which makes them even more powerful).
The visuals in this game is not the best, too much crap happening everywhere (not clean), and you can get lost among the flying craps across the screen and bamm, you are dead. Or the bosses have simply crap visuals for one shot skills or their skill is just a mess.

I would love if the bossfights were more skill oriented, but that's not gonna happen. The meta is run into the boss room and kill it within 4 secounds. Sadly the devs encourage this kind of bs, so there will be no changes in bossfights.
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Matt Jan 2, 2018 @ 9:12am 
a noob build a junk and complain....
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ToXiN Jan 2, 2018 @ 9:17am 
Originally posted by 0060:
a noob build a junk and complain....
It's always fun to see a noob like you with 500 hrs trying to act cool. :D
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Matt Jan 2, 2018 @ 9:19am 
Originally posted by ToXiN:
Originally posted by 0060:
a noob build a junk and complain....
It's always fun to see a noob like you with 500 hrs trying to act cool. :D
my first build is ok with high evasion, shot and run style. Except the laser spider, he don't even know the mechanics of his own skill and how to avoid being hit
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