Returning player looking for tips

[Sajonji]

Returning player here. Last time i played much was before the watchstones atlas. Couple years now.
Back then i could follow a meta build, get life and res on items in order to cap res and have 4.5k to 5k life and breeze at least through high yellow maps without much worries or dying.

Now i followed Ziz detonate dead build, have capped res and 4.5k life, running 3 defensive auras (grace, determination, defiance banner) and am still ripping like crazy. (eg died in 4 of 6 delves i attempted). Feels very unfun compared to the old experience i have in memory.
What are new defensive systems i should look into that have been introduced since then ? Or is it normal now that blue mobs clap your ass ?

[Dies Fourth]

Theres been some debate about the " BMOD ", blue mobs of death on the forums. Some make bosses look tame in comparison.

I found 1 on a level 1 map that smoked me, i had to go back and avoid it completely.
dont feel bad your not likely doing anything wrong its just the gasme needs some " balancing " in this regard according to some, others disagreee per usual on the forums.

some 1 started a thread to have the mechanic completely removed from the game, not gonna happen but an interesting read

[Sidian]

Originally posted by Sajonji:

What are new defensive systems i should look into that have been introduced since then ? Or is it normal now that blue mobs clap your ass ?

I noticed that delve is quite a challenge. When i tried to do a delve for my level with a necromancer, all my minions died like flies, despite having +4 gem levels.

However, i didn't have much of an issue with Ziz's DD build. I mean, i still died a lot, but i also don't disconnect in dangerous situations.

To answer your question, are you using defensive utility flasks (armor flask with additional armor, evasion flask with additional evasion, spell suppression and phasing flask) with an uptime close to 100%? That can make a big difference.
One change that we got since you played last is Flask crafts. You can use your crafting bench to automate flask usage on specific conditions, like "use this flask when charges are full". As long as you kill things, you'll basically have a 100% buff uptime from flasks, which is very powerful with defensive flasks.

[Redex]

Aegis Aurora Champion Kite Shield is very strong this league whit a lot of armor + cap. attack and spell block , it makes your character almost invincible except for one shots mechanic and aoe areas"burn frost etc"

[Redex]

it works very well whit chao innoculation

[Redex]

chao innoculation is good this league because of the achenemesis mods that have added a lot of chaos dmg

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Tip: uninstall until GGG pulls their head out of their ass.

[Redex]

yep goooood tip, lol , but it's mostly the casuals players who leave the game
it's hard to leave when you have multiple characters hl , friends , etc

[Rinko]

The screechers in delve do spell damage, you're supposed to have 100% spell suppression if you're doing that build. Suppression can be crafted on gear through the bench as a suffix. You'll want hybrid armor/evasion gear, evasion gear is required to get non-bench spell suppression. You can also run tempest shield on top of having bone offering up which gives you a good amount of spell block.

DD necro is extremely tanky when built correctly. High armor, spells doing half damage through suppression and hit/spell block. Then if you go the extra mile, high maximum resists.

[jbridso]

TLDR; The league mechanic is a flawed design and OP deathtrap. There is no escaping this.

The issue is that they changed up the standard magic/rare mob affixes and changed them to the last league's Arch-nemesis mods... The mods during the league were chosen by the player... so a) you had a choice to run them or not, and b) you knew they were coming and they were balanced around this fact. Now as a standard spawn... the mods are so deadly that you just explode before you know what is going on due to the pace of the game.

They basically just destroyed the game for casuals this league.

[dakin1]

I'm running a spark build and one thing I've noticed is sometimes mobs with tooltips "Resists fire damage" or "Resists cold damage" don't seem to take much damage from my spark projectiles, almost like they have very high lightning resist instead of the posted fire/cold. Don't know if this is a bug or just a troll nature of lightning skills (damage values on projectiles have a very wide range), but it is getting annoying to often run into mobs that take a very long time to kill even when the tool tips indicate they should die fairly quickly.

The Archnemesis mod thing on blue/yellow mobs is very annoying as well. I know they nerfed some of them recently but they still feel over-tuned to me (a potato casual as opposed to the try hards with min-maxed meta builds)...

[Sajonji]

Thanks.
Seems spell supression is the primary thing i'll need to look into. Didn't exist when i played last.

[Chan]

I don't know what's up with this league, but I have 8kHP, maxed resistances and 30% phys reduction and still die to random ♥♥♥♥ all the time while playing cautiously. Don't feel bad it's just a very bad league for surviving it seems.

[Redex]

30% phys reduction it's really not enough

[Dies Fourth]

Originally posted by Sajonji:

Thanks.
Seems spell supression is the primary thing i'll need to look into. Didn't exist when i played last.

That depends on how far into end game your trying to get imo.

[dOBER]

Originally posted by Chan The Man:

I don't know what's up with this league, but I have 8kHP, maxed resistances and 30% phys reduction and still die to random ♥♥♥♥ all the time while playing cautiously. Don't feel bad it's just a very bad league for surviving it seems.

I have 3.7k life 90% phys reduction, max resist and i dont die random. 3.7k life is enough for t16 80% delerium beyond.
https://youtu.be/LH8lb0B-lZc