One-week "Resistance Penalty Testing" Hardcore Ladder Race

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Balron wrote:

If we will be forced to switch equipment while running through instance, I will be really sad. There has to be some other way how to make game more complicated - a way that wouldn't be so annoying.

Seriously..don't make me switch the gear in the middle of battle.

I agree with this.

I think it will be hard to balance making resistance matter vs having to switch during a battle though. Personally, I think that you should have to gear up for an instance at the beginning, but not need to change during it. ie fire resists for western forest.

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Thalandor wrote:

So I just died because of the "flicker strike always hits" bug. My pure evasion ranger had 0 defense against this, and thus I had no chance of kiting a pack of 5 flicker strike mobs in a dungeon.

I'm a little bit mad.

Yeah flicker strike mobs are some of my most feared. I typically wont even do the pirate ship because of them until I'm a full difficulty above them.

I don't have the option of skipping weaver obviously so I just literally inch forward in that map so as not to pull more than 1 at a time. 1 mistake around them is all it takes. If you get too many there are only two options, death and alt f4. You cant outrun them and the damage to squishy characters is just insane.


I also noticed that panda died, what happened man? :(

I hit Level 60, and think I'm going to rest on my laurels and take my 32 currency orbs, good luck all :)

I hope I'm not annoying anyone with my spam here but I think this is the place to provide feedback about this league (?).

Recently I brought my char to ruthless chambers of sin. I switched gear and made sure he had over 125% (-50% ruthless) lightning resist before I started this area - I collected and stored gear for this and vaal. I don't like the hassle and I'm slowly running out of space in my stash*. When I entered everything was just like I remembered it, quite hard when cursed with elemental weakness and when some necro sneaked behind and started reviving like crazy but nothing unusual or different from my previous experience.

Then I met the lady in the pit and the scorpion weirdo. He hurt my char a lot. I thought I would be able to tank him with maxed resist but I wasn't. I don't know exact numbers but my HP wasn't too bad (which is rather easy to do when you are marauder) and I was using a shield. Still this was no go, one direct hit took roughly half my marauder's life. So yeah, I kept casting decoy totem, hit and run, totem, hit and run... no kidding. And this was with 75% resist, maybe the attack is too hard. It is not like it is impossible to kill it, you can basically make it without being hit once if you choose so. It is just annoying. Or maybe that ugly thing I play is too weak.

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wiggin wrote:

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This will be real problem in regular leagues if you only have 4 default tabs and want to play more than one character. Good tactic to make people buy extra stash space but also a bit against the free to play style.

Just create a new Account(it's free)and use 2 chests or maybe make 10 Accounts = 10x more room for Loot

or just create Mule-Chars on one account and use them to store items

@uberskills
I can't try it now (I only have one acc) but I can imagine how annoying would that be. Making new account for a new character just so I can store my resistance gear. How would I transfer the items between my accounts? Multiclient? Maybe my pc can't handle it, but even if it could... It is already annoying just to store the gear, this is not a solution, just an awkward workaround. I mean, thanks for advice but I hope the game is not going to encourage or even require this behaviour. This is starting to be off topic so I stop here sigh.

Edit: And yeah, I do use some mules already. We have limited character slots though. And it is just as annoying.

Edit2: Before someone smart tells me that I could also buy some stash tabs: I know. I just hope the game is not going to become annoying as hell in order to make you pay - and the resistance penalty may indirectly cause it. Which was the main reason I made that note about storage space.

TL2 has both a shared stash (account-wide) and personal stash (per character)

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dime wrote:

TL2 has both a shared stash (account-wide) and personal stash (per character)

This is true but it is far more restrictive.

Damn Panda - what happened?

This is a sad week for me - I have had almost zero opportunity to play.

I died verifying that fighting Dungeon Brutus with 3 frenzy charges is a bad idea.

Verified.

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NotThat wrote:

I died verifying that fighting Dungeon Brutus with 3 frenzy charges is a bad idea.

Verified.

Request; Please verify Cells Brutus with 3 frenzy charges.