Kitava Heralds are OP

[ShatteredPumpkin]

so i am constantly dying by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kitava heralds on my maps srsly these things need a massive nerf getting slaughtered by them constantly is no fun

[Arise Chicken]

Grogbart님이 먼저 게시:

Magic Grumpy님이 먼저 게시:

why are you so mega focussed on only phys prevention? its not like there are dmg types like ele dmg or chaos damage (looking at you tora and ITF)

Because the topic of this thread is Heralds of Kitava, which happen to cause physical damage.

I've had two characters with over 8K of effective health which I could compfortably run through anything EXEPT when I came arcross anything doing sigificant amounts of physical damage in which case I got one-shotted just as bad as a similar characer with only 5-6K Health.

That's why I find Ghost's claim of never having been one-shotted with a 6K no-phy-dmg-mit character quite hard to belive. Thus listing my most common encounters of getting one-shotted to ask if he just forgot an occasion or two.

Yes, in mechanical fights potential one-shots can be avoided, but to have never been one-shotted in one once, is quite a different claim.

Finally why not mention elemental and chaos damage? Apart from not relating to Heralds of Kitava, you can beef up those resistances on pretty much any item you equip and there's plenty of passives. For pyhs-dmg the options are quite meager, as mentioned before.
Plus the threat of being caught out with insuficient elemental and chaos resistances is present pretty evenly throughout the game (exept for the first time suprises of Kitava curses), while the encounter of the few single Heralds in the story, does not sufficiently prepare you for the thread physical damage poses once you hit red maps.

the only time ive seen the phys damg of a herald 1 shot was when the map modifiers reduced armor and gave players vulnerability. Same for the syndicate fort balistae

[Grumpy]

Arise Chicken님이 먼저 게시:

the only time ive seen the phys damg of a herald 1 shot was when the map modifiers reduced armor and gave players vulnerability. Same for the syndicate fort balistae

thats more or less my idea too. if you have a stupid combination of map mods it would be possible to get 1 shotted alot from a random mob. but I can in no way imagine how OP can 1 shotted of 4k HP alot by these when not running these crazy combinations.

[Rinko]

Arise Chicken님이 먼저 게시:

the only time ive seen the phys damg of a herald 1 shot was when the map modifiers reduced armor and gave players vulnerability. Same for the syndicate fort balistae

They changed it so flasks will remove map mod curses. You can run curse immunity on something like a stibnite flask that uses 10 out of 30 charges and lasts 5 seconds without quality or flask buffs. With that you can reasonably keep it up the entire map.

[castitatis]

Well personnally, earlier on my way to kill kitava for the second time, I did get 1 shot by a kitava herald with increased physical damage. As a witch with sub 3k hp and almost no phys resistance, that would be expected.
Are they op? Hardly. They do hit like trucks though on anything without any armor that doesn't dodge their dive bomb attack.
Arctic armour really does help a lot btw.