Chaos damage survivability

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SSF so no trading possible. I'm playing a Life/ES hybrid, but I'm focusing mostly on ES. I'm also running Pain attunement with Life reservation to enable it at all times. My Chaos res is sitting at around 50%, but my Life pool is so small that it's just a pain to deal with anything Chaos related.

Are there any mechanics or equipment that could help? I know about Shavronne's Wrappings, but is there anything more immediate that I could do besides keeping my fingers crossed that I find that particular Unique? Also, does anyone know where I could find Shavronne's Wrappings - are there particular League mechanics or Maps that have a higher drop chance for it?

[Ghin]

Not sure how you're gonna do a build like that in ssf. You could just go Chaos Inoculation and forget the chaos res/low life.

[mcb0ny]

There are four uniques that have "chaos damage does not bypass energy shield"
Shavronne's Wrappings, Esh's Visage, Solaris Lorica and Coruscating Elixir.

You can also get "30% of chaos damage does not bypass energy shield" from skill tree. And Soul of Shakari from Pantheon gives some chaos dmg reduction.

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Originally posted by mcb0ny:

You can also get "30% of chaos damage does not bypass energy shield" from skill tree. And Soul of Shakari from Pantheon gives some chaos dmg reduction.

Omg, I completely missed the 30% on tree! That's gonna be the winning ticket! Thanks so much!
If it doesn't work out I can always just go CI, but I built my character around defenses and that minus 30% multi would hit me real hard.

[MagnusGrey]

You should also try to max your chaos res, another 25% and you will take half the damage you are taking now.

[KoUJkoDeBo4ka]

If chaos inoculation is out of the question, which I presume it is, since You spoke about running low life setup, buy out divine vessels and hunt down Arakaali +40% chaos res against chaos DoT upgrade, + aformentioned Soul of Shakari's upgrade. And for flat chaos damage hits that bypass energy shield if you don't have items to make it so that it doesn't, consider trying out Petrified Blood, if you don't run it already. While it might be finniky to place in, and being imperfect in a sence that in tricky calculations manner there are hits that still will kill you nontheless, I myself had a great time with it, especially if you have some sort of recuperation to negate dot that PB turns hits damage into, like Life Recoup + significant amount of regen (which might be achievable if you are elementalist and stack up Ascendancy nods that increase effectiveness of your golems' buffs).

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Originally posted by T3R3Z1 PYROP3:

If chaos inoculation is out of the question, which I presume it is, since You spoke about running low life setup, buy out divine vessels and hunt down Arakaali +40% chaos res against chaos DoT upgrade, + aformentioned Soul of Shakari's upgrade. And for flat chaos damage hits that bypass energy shield if you don't have items to make it so that it doesn't, consider trying out Petrified Blood, if you don't run it already. While it might be finniky to place in, and being imperfect in a sence that in tricky calculations manner there are hits that still will kill you nontheless, I myself had a great time with it, especially if you have some sort of recuperation to negate dot that PB turns hits damage into, like Life Recoup + significant amount of regen (which might be achievable if you are elementalist and stack up Ascendancy nods that increase effectiveness of your golems' buffs).

Trickster, unfortunately. I've got good sustain on trash mob clearing from Polymath ascendancy node, but against strong Rares it's a struggle. I used PB for a while but I don't have enough Mana/Life to fit it in anymore. Also, I'm not using Heartstopper Node. For now I'm progressing fine in mapping. I only have trouble in fights where all the mobs die and I have nothing to kill to sustain myself, but I'll see how it goes and modify the build accordingly.

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I got 75+ Chaos res today with some lucky drops in Lake. Chaos doesn't seem to be wrecking me too much anymore, but physical one-shots are starting to happen. That's what I get for not building armor. Now I need to think of a way to deal with physical hits and AoE degens. It seems I gotta stay in white maps for now and farm up some levels and gear.

[Ghin]

Determination aura is a pretty easy way to mitigate some physical damage.

[Shneekey]

Keep in mind that there's also a Chaos node that has 'gain 1% more Chaos damage per 4% Chaos Res' or somesuch that might be relevant to your interests now that you're leaning into Chaos Res.

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Originally posted by Ghin:

Determination aura is a pretty easy way to mitigate some physical damage.

Gotta free up some mana or Life for that first.

Originally posted by Shneekey:

Keep in mind that there's also a Chaos node that has 'gain 1% more Chaos damage per 4% Chaos Res' or somesuch that might be relevant to your interests now that you're leaning into Chaos Res.

Oh my dear lawd. I thought the Chaos damage over time multiplier only applied on critical hits so I completely overlooked this. Wow, 45% more from Polymath, 30% more from Pain Attunement and 21% from that Chaos Mastery Node brings me real close to 100% more. Doesn't help me to not die, but at least it makes me worry less about damage later on.

Originally posted by Shadowlet:

There's a Chaos Res Essence, also there's amethyst Ring. Both relatively easy targets for SSF

Yep, yep, got there eventually.