Need help. Dying a lot at 48.

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Im a duelist using primarily cyclone. I havent been able to find stronger weapons since 20 levels ago. What gives?

[Mr. Fibble]

Use the crafting options for levelling gear, trading should be your last option for stuff you won't be running maps with.

If you're using a loot filter it doesnt hurt to check what its hiding from you.

[Cowtipper]

Question , have you checked your resistances ? Your going to get shat on in act 6 if they are not capped , After you kill kitava the first time its - 30 to all resistances , If your going to use poe trade get a rigwald's charge , and then at 51 a terminus est .

[S1ade]

Originally posted by Cowtipper:

Question , have you checked your resistances ? Your going to get shat on in act 6 if they are not capped , After you kill kitava the first time its - 30 to all resistances , If your going to use poe trade get a rigwald's charge , and then at 51 a terminus est .

This is a good point. Its possible you may of missed the message saying it had been lowered. And are running around with 50% res.

[[MOSS]-BurningUp]

I had trouble in Act 5 with Innocence and Kitava both I don't know what it was I might just not have enough HP or resistances either one. My resistances def. aren't capped and it's hard to get HP as a ranger. sigh. They could both almost one shot me with certain attacks. I'm even overleveled for act 5 which is the sad part kind of lol

[S1ade]

most people have a hard time with Innocence. he's just a ♥♥♥♥ boss.
what is your HP @ currently? 1500ish?

[[MOSS]-BurningUp]

Originally posted by Rmpg:

most people have a hard time with Innocence. he's just a ♥♥♥♥ boss.
what is your HP @ currently? 1500ish?

Yeah you guessed it, lol. I'm right by one of the life clusters in the Duelist tree though so It's gonna go up 20% tonight. I still feel it's low for my lvl tho, kind of brutal as Ranger not much health around.

[JediKnightSky]

Big bosses have attacks that demand you dodge or die unless you are a vet loaded with the knowing and funds to face tank it.

AS a ranger you may want to look into a teleport skill to gtfo when needed.

I can beat all ten acts on a 1500hp melee build consitently life is far less the factor then capped resists and high phys resist. Evasion tends to feel pretty useless to me after act 3 or 4.

So many of my characters end up traveling towards iron reflexes no matter the class or skills used.

Also regen lots of regen If you aquire all the good regen uniques you then know what you need to fill in with passives and other gear slots to finish off resistances.

Also for new players I often suggest finding an odd slot to stick vaal summon skeletons I find it a great oh ♥♥♥♥ button to provide plenty of distraction for abit of a breather at the beginning of a big fight.

Or a decoy totem or smoke mine. For new players lots of fun little tricks that can help you beat the 10 acts. they wont take you too far into mapping but mapping is more for long time hard core types

[Valar Morghulis]

Well Innocence isnt that hard on range. If he lasers quicksilver to him and run in circles. If he shoots the little laser balls through the room hide behind the statue.

The add phase can be harder if you lack the damage to oneshot them.

With 1.5k hp it's a little bit difficult because everything that hits you will kill you. I had 2k life and 1k ES at that point

[[MOSS]-BurningUp]

Originally posted by Valar Morghulis:

Well Innocence isnt that hard on range. If he lasers quicksilver to him and run in circles. If he shoots the little laser balls through the room hide behind the statue.

The add phase can be harder if you lack the damage to oneshot them.

With 1.5k hp it's a little bit difficult because everything that hits you will kill you. I had 2k life and 1k ES at that point

I'm a melee Raider so yeah it's a little harder for us. If I fought him again I'd probly do better now that I got his patterns down he still hurts like a ##### tho.

About the HP and ES I dunno how u do that as a Ranger class without sacrificing a ton of DPS and stats, evasion, armor, etc. and going all over the right side of the tree chasing life nodes

[Valar Morghulis]

Well I never played the right side since the ES nerf. But what I read on the forums that you usally go left ASAP for thae life nodes?

Not playing pure evasion builds tho. My first char ever was a duelist and I was like yeah gonna go full evasion and failed hard haha. And since the ES nerf I start with totem builds.

Massive mobility. And you can invest in the life nodes on the left side pretty easy if you start as templar/marauder

[[MOSS]-BurningUp]

Originally posted by Farkenel:

Originally posted by YourHorribleDemise:

Im a duelist using primarily cyclone. I havent been able to find stronger weapons since 20 levels ago. What gives?

It's a trading tycoon simulator. Self finding decent stuff is pretty terrible. Just visit poe. trade and find a upgrade for a alch.

The system behind drops makes zero sense whatsoever in this game... you're in a lvl 46 area and u get absolute trash lvl 25 items. You have level 90's selling lvl 50 uniques because that's what dropped for them.

This is one area where Grim Dawn just ####'s all over this game. In Grim Dawn if u kill a really strong guy it's possible that you can actually get a good weapon that is a couple levels higher than you. That never happens in this game.

In this game u get what u needed in Act 4, in Act 5 or 6.

[Valar Morghulis]

But most of the fun skills need expensive gear to work which imo is my biggest problem in PoE and the only thing D3 did better.

[Grumpy]

Originally posted by Valar Morghulis:

But most of the fun skills need expensive gear to work which imo is my biggest problem in PoE and the only thing D3 did better.

but getting full equipped in like 2h without much effort is not that fun either.

[Valar Morghulis]

Originally posted by Grumpy:

Originally posted by Valar Morghulis:

But most of the fun skills need expensive gear to work which imo is my biggest problem in PoE and the only thing D3 did better.

but getting full equipped in like 2h without much effort is not that fun either.

Well I'm not saying that I want to be equipped in 2h. They should just buff more skills.

There is a reason why there are just a few low budget starter builds, because all the other skills itself are not strong enough to work without good gear.

[Mr. Fibble]

If you follow a build guide rather than DIY then choose one that gives options for rare gear rather than explicitly saying you NEED uniques X, Y & Z.

Giving no flexibility traps people in the trade of exile mentality and will prevent a lot of people exploring options or even considering SSF, a mode I have always played even before it became a more concrete ingame setting. I had done minimal trading before but always to get rid of stuff and never to buy gear.