The beacon (area)

[Wolfram]

Well, I am supposed to move those carts, well, the game makes it plain impossible due to these spectral ordnance enemies blasting me into oblivion instantly... even the summoned skeletons of my vaal spell don´t help at all, is there anything I can do to prevent them from respawning a second after I cut them down?

[Psyringe]

I don't think there's a way to prevent them from respawning. If they kill you instantly, then your defenses may be too low. How much life, energy shield, and resistances do you have?

[Wolfram]

Life is 1387
Shield is 60
Armor is 1538
Resistences are Fire -2, Cold 21, Lightning 24, Chaos -30.
Resistences are improvable, rest is OK?

[Psyringe]

Hm, that's way too low - it's no wonder you're getting one-shot. As a rule of thumb, you want 400k combined life and energy shield per act. You're in act 6, so 2400 would be a decent value at this stage. You can make do with 300k per act if you really know what you're doing and have good gear, but you're lower than even that.

Armor only helps against physical damage and will probably not help against spectral ordnances, but I'm not sure.

Resistances need to be improved. You're taking more damage than you should due to your low resistances, and then have a very low health pool.

It's a very common mistake. The game tempts you into neglecting defenses because you can go through a lot of content without worrying about them. But the farther you go, the more important they become - to the point where planning a character involves _first_ taking all the defenses you can, and _then_ checking how much offense you can still muster.

[Wolfram]

Originally posted by Greger:

Originally posted by ^ ^1👌 Wolfram:

I am not sure about resistences but I got 1,58k health and 60 energy shield, gonna add the resistences now.

When leveling a general rule are atleast 300life for ranged and 400life for melee chars each act. So in act 5 atleast 1.500/2000 and act 10 3000/4000.

And all elemental Resistances atleast 50+, but you should aim for 75 in all. Chaos resistance you dont have to bother with.


POE are different then most other RPGs, enemies do so much damage that's hard to avoid so even damage focused builds have to invest in defenses too such a degree it almost would be considered a tank in most other RPGs.

Originally posted by ^ ^1👌 Wolfram:

Life is 1387
Shield is 60
Armor is 1538
Resistences are Fire -2, Cold 21, Lightning 24, Chaos -30.
Resistences are improvable, rest is OK?

It´s quite improvable then.

[Awesome!]

yes fix your fire resist first and try to get some more life on things

[Cowtipper]

Originally posted by ^ ^1👌 Wolfram:

Originally posted by Greger:

When leveling a general rule are atleast 300life for ranged and 400life for melee chars each act. So in act 5 atleast 1.500/2000 and act 10 3000/4000.

And all elemental Resistances atleast 50+, but you should aim for 75 in all. Chaos resistance you dont have to bother with.


POE are different then most other RPGs, enemies do so much damage that's hard to avoid so even damage focused builds have to invest in defenses too such a degree it almost would be considered a tank in most other RPGs.

Originally posted by ^ ^1👌 Wolfram:

Life is 1387
Shield is 60
Armor is 1538
Resistences are Fire -2, Cold 21, Lightning 24, Chaos -30.
Resistences are improvable, rest is OK?

It´s quite improvable then.

goldrim helmet would instantly provide you with enough res to not immedietly feel the burn so to speak but yes easy to improve upon, what leauge are you in and are you stilll stuck at the Gauntlet section ?

[Psyringe]

I just checked the area. The spectral ordnances actually seem to have limited respawns - about 4 per ordnance if I counted correctly? The gauntlet also has checkpoints, once you reach one, the carriage will not go farther back. So you could potentially bring the carriage to the next checkpoint, then take the ordnances out very carefully from a distance until they stop respawning.

But you'll have to fix your defenses in any case.

[OldManBanjo]

Originally posted by ^ ^1👌 Wolfram:

Life is 1387
Shield is 60
Armor is 1538
Resistences are Fire -2, Cold 21, Lightning 24, Chaos -30.
Resistences are improvable, rest is OK?

There is no way you can play through the act with those resistances and health. Barring obviously intentionally challenging yourself (maybe SSF?)

[Paroe]

Originally posted by AngryOldBanjoMan:

Originally posted by ^ ^1👌 Wolfram:

Life is 1387
Shield is 60
Armor is 1538
Resistences are Fire -2, Cold 21, Lightning 24, Chaos -30.
Resistences are improvable, rest is OK?

There is no way you can play through the act with those resistances and health. Barring obviously intentionally challenging yourself (maybe SSF?)

While leveling a character on standard for testing i went through A6-A8 on a little more than 800 health and Andavarius rings....

Its definitely POSSIBLE.
Plausible though? Only if youve over geared your evasion or are a slayer with insane damage.

[Zi]

Press `S` then `create party`, then name in like help with beacon needed. Its ok when some content for some builds is not really doable. Usually I was doing this to speed up things what I dont like or not doin ok with my gear or else..

[il Salvatore]

This mission is impossible for SSF. Please go easy on those of us who want to do the solo missions

[Wolfram]

lol, I wondered what post you were answering to. A post of mine... Well, how the times have changed. back then my builds sucked impressively.