Defences for sorc?

[Vertebra]

how can i beef up my defences on sorc? any usefull uniques? I have specced into a lot of ES nodes on the tree and some recoup life.
Ive made it to maps, My Ele resists are capped chaos at 33% but im still getting one shot pretty often.

[Withey]

I went all in with ES+CI. 7.9k ES with plenty of recharge rate/faster start of rate. seems to be doing alright unless I get pushed into a corner and beaten for my lunch money.

before I had enough ES to swap to CI, I was doing ES/MoM and stacking mana. acted as layered defenses for that damn chaos dmg. Good luck!

[Kai]

This is because the devs don't intend you to continue the game, if you get one shotted it means they are gatekeeping.

If you can dodge roll and expert your way to the end, then there is nothing left and the devs don't want people to reach the end when its not done lol.

[5ean5ean]

Originally posted by Vertebra:

how can i beef up my defences on sorc? any usefull uniques? I have specced into a lot of ES nodes on the tree and some recoup life.
Ive made it to maps, My Ele resists are capped chaos at 33% but im still getting one shot pretty often.

Life recoup is a meme garbage stat...dont get it. It's pure bait.

For ES to feel good you have to invest in recharge....mainly faster recharge start.

But endgame isn't balanced at all. Even the top POE players are getting one shotted no matter what thier defenses are. Pains of EA.

[Plum]

Originally posted by Vertebra:

how can i beef up my defences on sorc? any usefull uniques? I have specced into a lot of ES nodes on the tree and some recoup life.
Ive made it to maps, My Ele resists are capped chaos at 33% but im still getting one shot pretty often.

get evade and es gear not just es

[Kai]

There is a passive skill that lets you regain Life like Energy shield, but E.S. will not regen and only flasks will. This also implies you cannot heal with flasks.

[5ean5ean]

Originally posted by Arxya:

Originally posted by Vertebra:

how can i beef up my defences on sorc? any usefull uniques? I have specced into a lot of ES nodes on the tree and some recoup life.
Ive made it to maps, My Ele resists are capped chaos at 33% but im still getting one shot pretty often.

get evade and es gear not just es

Just getting evade on gear won't do anything and spending passive points towards it is alot of tree pathing that will make you weaker DPS and ES wise.

Plus Evasion has an entropy mechanic that eventually guarantees a hit eventually.

[ninjawannabe]

Originally posted by Withey:

I went all in with ES+CI. 7.9k ES with plenty of recharge rate/faster start of rate. seems to be doing alright unless I get pushed into a corner and beaten for my lunch money.

before I had enough ES to swap to CI, I was doing ES/MoM and stacking mana. acted as layered defenses for that damn chaos dmg. Good luck!

I was thinking of going MoM and Eldritch Battery, with a similar focus on max mana and mana regen on nodes and gear. The main reason is then I don't have to worry about restart and recharge rate as 3rd and 4th point investment area. How did it feel overall? Was is just okay and the new CI is way better or does it just feel different?

[5ean5ean]

Originally posted by ninjawannabe:

Originally posted by Withey:

I went all in with ES+CI. 7.9k ES with plenty of recharge rate/faster start of rate. seems to be doing alright unless I get pushed into a corner and beaten for my lunch money.

before I had enough ES to swap to CI, I was doing ES/MoM and stacking mana. acted as layered defenses for that damn chaos dmg. Good luck!

I was thinking of going MoM and Eldritch Battery, with a similar focus on max mana and mana regen on nodes and gear. The main reason is then I don't have to worry about restart and recharge rate as 3rd and 4th point investment area. How did it feel overall? Was is just okay and the new CI is way better or does it just feel different?

Not a good idea bc there very little ways to actually increase maximum mana on the tree. Even with hundreds of exalts in gear you may get 5k max mana? It's far easier to scale ES for defense. Only time to get EB is if you have Everlasting Gaze amulet.

Just invest in faster recharge delay.

CI in my opinion is an OP keystone bc life is straight garbage in POE 2. You just have to solve freeze and stuns which can be done with ES stun threshold nodes or charms.

[Withey]

Originally posted by ninjawannabe:

Originally posted by Withey:

I went all in with ES+CI. 7.9k ES with plenty of recharge rate/faster start of rate. seems to be doing alright unless I get pushed into a corner and beaten for my lunch money.

before I had enough ES to swap to CI, I was doing ES/MoM and stacking mana. acted as layered defenses for that damn chaos dmg. Good luck!

I was thinking of going MoM and Eldritch Battery, with a similar focus on max mana and mana regen on nodes and gear. The main reason is then I don't have to worry about restart and recharge rate as 3rd and 4th point investment area. How did it feel overall? Was is just okay and the new CI is way better or does it just feel different?

I had a hard time stacking enough mana to rely fully on MoM - even with EB and lots of mana regen nodes. Just got one-shot too much still. The big ES pool and CI is feeling better - less one-shot, but it won't save you from getting swarmed. Breach and Ritual are basically always-skip for me bc the body-blocking is intense.

[Withey]

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

Originally posted by ninjawannabe:

I was thinking of going MoM and Eldritch Battery, with a similar focus on max mana and mana regen on nodes and gear. The main reason is then I don't have to worry about restart and recharge rate as 3rd and 4th point investment area. How did it feel overall? Was is just okay and the new CI is way better or does it just feel different?

Not a good idea bc there very little ways to actually increase maximum mana on the tree. Even with hundreds of exalts in gear you may get 5k max mana? It's far easier to scale ES for defense. Only time to get EB is if you have Everlasting Gaze amulet.

Just invest in faster recharge delay.

CI in my opinion is an OP keystone bc life is straight garbage in POE 2. You just have to solve freeze and stuns which can be done with ES stun threshold nodes or charms.

Yeah, this. Even with Gaze and EB, I didn't feel like I could stack enough mana to make it work. ES is feeling solid right now, but I am only in t8/9 maps. I played RF jug last two leagues, though, so everything is going to feel softer than that haha.