Corruption 500?

[lopschi93]

I got my first character to 500 after beating Aberroth for the first time (yey)
I quickly realized that going from 300 to 500 corruption so fast was a mistake. I do enough damage (changed to my own version of cold avalanche which works quite well even tho mana is an issue). But I get one- or two tapped (stun into kill) way too often.

Now I know my defensives aren't top notch but I am capped with resis and got 60% endurance and (together with 300-600 ward) I am at 3300 life.
But at 500 corruption I die to hits that deal 3k damage or even once I died to 4.3k cold damage hit.

How is shaman supposed to survive that?
Or is 500 only something you should aspire to reach on top builds / with good (god) gear?

[Tyyne]

Link your build so people will be able to better help you.

[b R an D ka N e]

probably need more than just hp and endurance
check your passive nodes to see if there is any passive reduce dmg
red ring can reduce 10% dmg
also make sure you either 100 crit avoidance or 100% reduced bonus dmg from crit hit - this is a must have for high level corruption. crit can one shot you

besides all these, people either invest in block or dodge
or slow/stun/freeze to make enemies can't move = you are safer

also you still need to move around and avoid dmg - unless you are very tanky build

500 is not high tbh
above 1000 will be quite challenge, meta builds can do 2000 corruptions

[Bishop]

I played druid on corruption 600-700 and it was passable but not very fun. Stack hp, stack endurance/threshold, get red rings if you can, having two of them really helps a lot. Cap every single resistance, cap either crit damage reduction or crit avoidance (this was easier for druid, not sure about shaman).

You can also dip into something like life leach + hp into ward with some gear. The idea is to use hp to gain ward and use leach to keep hp topped so you have both full hp and full ward for additional layer of protection. Didn't work too great with lighting werebear but should be easier on the shaman.

And yeah. You still gonna get oneshoted with some nukes. That's just how it is. Primalist is like quarter of paladin defense wise right now. There's a reason why 90%+ playing either zhp falconers or palading/vk according to LE tools leaderboards.