Act 5 Kitava

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

I have overlevelled to 53 but for some reason i still only have 1444 hitpoints, but have 3K armor and all resists capped, fire is 76% But everyone is tellign me I need 2K minimum toavoid gettign 1 shot. Which is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ since that woudl lock out anything but marauders from the last half of the game, except for paying for boss kills.

So what are the realistic numbers for a cyclone leeching juggernaught. Leeching is both life gain on hit and the 2% gem.

This is hardcore, so the rinse and repeat method wont cut it.

[Awesome!]

1500 is probably bare minimum. 2k is a fair recommendation for hc. its really not that much if you have good life on tree and on gear at lvl 53.

i can almost guarantee you will get 1 shot by a punch with 1200 if you eat it

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Ok,, so basically the game is pointless unless I run a life build. Good to know.

[Grumpy]

There is no 100% accurate suggestion which life - damage ratio a char should have at any given point while playing. As long as you doing good damage and have enough defense to tank the damage of most encounters leading to the boss fight you should be fine.

Also going the rule of thumb of 300-400life per act its not really that hard to reach 1.500-2k life for act 5 for any class in the game. But more is always better.

If you have problems to reach that values with the easiest class to stack life, then there is something seriously wrong with either your life on the tree or with the gear you are wearing.

1,2k is on average the life I have in a3.

[Awesome!]

if you play hc its usually a good idea to be kind of tanky, yes.

[Grumpy]

Originally posted by Shadow Raider:

Ok,, so basically the game is pointless unless I run a life build. Good to know.

Energy shield is the other major option

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Eh, I just used a dozen orbs of regret and got ym life to 1900 something. Godo thing too, since at one point kitava one shot me leavign only a sliver of life bar left. So i woudl have been kicking ♥♥♥♥ around my cabin for sure :)

other than that is was actually mostly boring.

[Grumpy]

eh, if you had life left than kitava didnt one shot you. he just hitted you hard. one shot refers to being dead after 1 hit

[Phobos]

Originally posted by Shadow Raider:

Ok,, so basically the game is pointless unless I run a life build. Good to know.

Path of live nodes.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Originally posted by Grumpy:

eh, if you had life left than kitava didnt one shot you. he just hitted you hard. one shot refers to being dead after 1 hit

Yeha well less than 100 life is close enoug, especialyl since it is less than I boosted my life just prior to the fight.

[DarkFaceGlow]

Originally posted by Shadow Raider:

Ok,, so basically the game is pointless unless I run a life build. Good to know.

Most builds are life builds. The start of the game is easy, so a lot of people tend to ignore how important HP is.

[Rinko]

1500 is fine for hc. Just watch out for when Kitava's hand does a grasping animation then pulses, since that tells you he is going to have to ground pulse toward you in an X pattern then explode where you're standing. That attack can tag you twice if you touch one the ground pulses. When he swipes his arm dragging it across the area don't run away from it if its damaging you (otherwise just avoid it), run through it or use a movement skill to get past it.

53 is a bit overkill, you can always use a granite or basalt flask to help be more tanky. Decoy totem is helpful as well.

[AnimalMother]

A granite flask of iron skin will make your physical mitigation go through the roof while still leveling. Other than that, kitava's smashes aren't very effective if you stay as close to him as possible. He'll often whiff his smash ahead of you, and you can sidestep more easily when you're close just to be safer. The only issue is that his blood pool degen ability can force you to move where you don't want to.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Killed kitava just fine, then a few levels later, with more HP got one shot helping some people in chamber of innocence. Even with 2100 HP at that point. So I am thinking the difficulty progression needs to be adjusted. Just my opinion, but locking nearly half the game content behind a specific build type is a bit inconsiderate. I do occasionallly spend money on the game, so saying the argument that its a free game doesnt hold. I shoudlnt have to literally outlevel each area by 5+ levels just to be able to barely survive.

[Grumpy]

Originally posted by Shadow Raider:

I shoudlnt have to literally outlevel each area by 5+ levels just to be able to barely survive.

Other options would be to aquire the knowledge to understand these bosses to not get killed. because this:

Originally posted by Shadow Raider:

Just my opinion, but locking nearly half the game content behind a specific build type is a bit inconsiderate.

is BS. If you know whats the boss does and you know what your char is capable off then you dont die.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

Originally posted by Grumpy:

Originally posted by Shadow Raider:

Just my opinion, but locking nearly half the game content behind a specific build type is a bit inconsiderate.

is BS. If you know whats the boss does and you know what your char is capable off then you dont die.

is BS, because my character had 2100 life, max resists and 3K+ armor. Not to mention life regen and life leech. Gettign one shot has nothing to do with knowing what the boss does. it wasnt kitava, it was innocence and ther is no way to avoid his death ray entirely for the entire fight. A boss shoudl simply not be able to one shot through that much life and dmage mitigation. Especially when the character in question outlevels the boss by more than 10 levels.