Instant death

[slayer]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it's just how the game is supposed to be, but it was anti-fun and seemed to make zero sense so I figured I'd post here and see what the deal is..

My character has 95% resist according to my stats and generally I take no damage. The only damage I take seems to be from traps and ground things like the arcane spinners and lightning balls which I assume is a % based damage because no matter if I have 10k or 400k hp it does about the same % of my hp per tick.

However, there is one thing that kills me instantly from full hp every time and is ultimately why I quit playing HC. It actually took me awhile to realize what it was that was killing me when I played only HC. I"d get to around lvl 100 and then be dominating and then 1 thing would touch me and I'd instantly die. It turns out that the tan colored ball that launches up after killing a boss that leads to shooting a spread of bullets is the culprit. If a single bullet hit me, I die. Doesn't matter how much HP I have or what my dodge/resist is at. 1 hit = 1 death.

I don't know if this is intentional or part of the game, but it doesn't really seem to make any sense and I don't see how I can play HC without going thru waves slowly which isn't very fun. Anyways, I enjoyed the game, but this random 1 shot is anti-fun especially when literally nothing else does damage to me unless I stand in it.

[Run dem Weh]

No matter if you have 95% DMG reduction or less, there WILL be certain things that 1shot you.

Namely, the large balls that the green and purple statues throw (or certain enemies when they die), if they hit you before splitting, right on top of your head, it'll kill you which actually does make sense since they do quite a bit of dmg with each projectile (be it the explosive one, or the green bombs that explode twice etc etc) and they all hit you at once before splitting.

[Tac.]

I've got 97% DMG reduction and 1M HP, and certain things 1 shot me too :).
So the only answer to carry on dude : just dodge everythings :D.

[slayer]

yes, i know, i have a lot of hp too, but what's the point in increasing my hp and resist if it means nothing. The game went from being a fun rogue like to a really bad bullet hell game. oh well, it was fun for awhile. Thanks for the replys

[Alohalolilol]

Just dodge the ball and youre fine, just dodge the ball and you don"t die, just dodge the ball, dodge the ball, dodge the ball new game 2016 Kappa

[Run dem Weh]

Well, it IS part binding of isaac in which you really need to dodge.

In any case, that's why none of my characters ever get a point of Armor, because you reach that dmg reduction / dodge cap through gear sooner or later anyways, hence, it's pointless.

[maustercheese]

yeah at some point they decided that defensive stats should be pointless and focus all on getting out of the way of stuff and damage basically

like why bother having more max hp if vs the things that will kill you instantly if your not full hp so you can be full hp sooner

and armor won't stop what will probably kill you either hence damage is where your stat points go and nothing else

the game is more or less a bullet hell now a days

[Run dem Weh]

It has always been, actually. The genre is not defined by some stat system, but how there's so many projectiles to dodge, and the game didn't have less of them before, except for something like the arcane lasers.

You can invest in HP (Armor is literally pointless, since there's a cap on dmg reduction/dodge and you can reach it just through gear), it'll not mean no more 1shots, just less, since the things that do 1shot you aren't just "random hits", it's big hits in most cases.

Also, i'd just like to point out that in Diablo 2, one of the greatest games of all time, for end-game builds you'd just put every single point in "Vitality" (for more HP), and rarely ever anything in any of the other 3 stats, that didn't hinder the game from setting milestones in gaming history either.

[Mr. Pulp]

I've been getting a lot of insta deaths lately from the small bullets. But i've noticed the bullets are not coming off of bosses. Pretty sucky considering I get a ton of relics and then instantly die from something I can barely see.

[Lawlzer]

Originally posted by Mr. Pulp:

I've been getting a lot of insta deaths lately from the small bullets. But i've noticed the bullets are not coming off of bosses. Pretty sucky considering I get a ton of relics and then instantly die from something I can barely see.

Bosses need a buff. As a marksman, (ranged class), I can literally just sit on bosses, and not die.