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Dante Jan 4 @ 1:15pm
How useful is immunity to Chaos?
I'm trying to increase my survivability right now and I'm wondering how much help a setting like immunity to chaos damage would be.
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Havok Jan 4 @ 1:17pm 
Incredibly useful.

Poison and any purple attacks cannot hurt you at all. You just need a metric ton of ES with Eternal Youth and good ES Recharge to make it really beneficial.
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my butt is erect Jan 4 @ 1:25pm 
Chaos is is the main reason you die in one hit for no apparent reason when you can't see through the endless diarrhea explosions the game throws at you. Frankly it gets really old having this be the main source of 'difficulty'
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Wild Jan 4 @ 1:29pm 
Chaos is the most common and dangerous "element", about 1/3 of rares or every ritual event will have purple explosions or chaos plants, and the game doesn't have a limit of how many can overlap and hit you.

And because chaos resistance is so rare and roll so low on gear, having a passive that es shield character can trade 2k life, that they didn't care anyway because they have 6k+ energy and if that gets depleted they probably die, for complete immunity means it's the strongest passive node in the entire tree.
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Salmon Snake Jan 4 @ 1:31pm 
Originally posted by ak47:
Incredibly useful.

Poison and any purple attacks cannot hurt you at all. You just need a metric ton of ES with Eternal Youth and good ES Recharge to make it really beneficial.
Its situational
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Elgareth Jan 4 @ 1:32pm 
Also you can completely ignore Chaos Resistance if you're simply immune to it, so you can use that slot for different bonuses on your items.
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Drifter Jan 4 @ 1:35pm 
If you're a life character, 75% chaos res will make chaos damage a joke.

If you happen to be an ES character, chaos is extremely scary even at 75% because it does more damage to energy shield. People spec into CI to not have to deal with chaos as ES and free up a slot on their gear. It does come with some penalties, though.
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smitters Jan 13 @ 2:14am 
And with life to 1 it means you are considered low life and full life at the same time and all the time. Meaning node adding damage on low and full are effective at the same time.
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Wabbajack Jan 13 @ 2:29am 
Originally posted by smitters:
And with life to 1 it means you are considered low life and full life at the same time and all the time. Meaning node adding damage on low and full are effective at the same time.
Really? Have you tested it? if it's confirmed then it's awesome!
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smitters Jan 13 @ 2:41am 
That's why there is a node "Killer Instinct" on the way to the chaos node.
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p00se2 Jan 13 @ 2:45am 
i run with 10% chaos res since forever

chaos damage is not even in my top10 list of things that kill(ed) me


#1 luxury stat :summeryeti:
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Dwane Dibbley Jan 13 @ 2:50am 
Not that much. Chaos in this game is not very dangerous. I ran t16+ and even +4 mist king/breach boss with 23% chaos resist and it was ok. Some mobs on juiced maps might hurt, but its mostly just healable DoT. I pumped resist to 70 just for convenince.
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Dwane Dibbley Jan 13 @ 2:52am 
Originally posted by Wabbajack:
Originally posted by smitters:
And with life to 1 it means you are considered low life and full life at the same time and all the time. Meaning node adding damage on low and full are effective at the same time.
Really? Have you tested it? if it's confirmed then it's awesome!

Its just myth. You are on full life, but not on low life.
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smitters Jan 13 @ 2:55am 
Originally posted by Dwane Dibbley:
Originally posted by Wabbajack:
Really? Have you tested it? if it's confirmed then it's awesome!

Its just myth. You are on full life, but not on low life.
Anoint the node Defiance and you will see it works on your evasion and armour
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Baron01 Jan 13 @ 2:56am 
Originally posted by Dante:
I'm trying to increase my survivability right now and I'm wondering how much help a setting like immunity to chaos damage would be.
Chaos resistance in PoE 2 is now treated as mandatory defense similar to elemental resistances. Chaos damage is very common in the game and is very deadly. You simply need 75% resistance against Chaos damage otherwise you will be prone to get 1-shot or split-second wiped in certain unlucky situations.
The above means that immunity to Chaos is rather valuable as it makes gearing a lot easier since you can ignore one needed stat. What you need to consider is what downside comes with the immunity and can you build around it.
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smitters Jan 13 @ 2:57am 
Originally posted by smitters:
Originally posted by Dwane Dibbley:

Its just myth. You are on full life, but not on low life.
Anoint the node Defiance and you will see it works on your evasion and armour
On POE1 it didn't count as low life. So probably a bug but until they fix it, use it
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