One-week "Resistance Penalty Testing" Hardcore Ladder Race

Oh shit, I had global off and did not notice, RIP lolmaul =(

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Morsexier wrote:

I do want to note how fascinating it is to me that Orbs of Alchemy seem to follow the Giffen Good principle (which doesnt exist in real life), and might not apply since the Orb itself is a price, but I have lots to say about the increase in rarity of Alchs and their relation to the new maps system.

I would have thought that Orbs of Alchemy weren't allowd to be Giffen Goods on account that they are not inferior goods (Transmute orbs are the base inferior item of that line).

Do all your posts have awesome tangential segways? :) I want to read them ALL :)

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wiggin wrote:

RIP Kem. I was trying to keep up with you and...

Haha, yea, you went passed me in level while we farmed the ledge. Then I think I saw you progress and I decided to do so too and well, it didn't work out. Having a live monitor besides you really makes the whole race feel more like a race even if you are not in the top 10 :D

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Exmorda wrote:

Oh shit, I had global off and did not notice, RIP lolmaul =(

RIP lolmaul

Edit:
At lvl 31 now with my new char. Decided to do a Fayded and stay up 30hours and see if I can manage to get top 20 again, will be hard though.

Defeated merciless Vaal at Lev 61:

Typical 2H groundslam mara (BM, RT, IR, high life/regen)
* 2.8k life after reservation (grace/anger)
* 73 fire, 34 cold, 75 lit resists
* 45% DR with grace
* Resist Passives: diamond skin, 2x cold, 2x fire resist

With these stats the fight was not too bad. Was able to survive a direct slam attack (phew!).

Keeping high resists without sacrificing too much life or DR was challenging, but doable. Because I was paranoid I leveled to 59 in Fellshrine to gear up and increase his life pool before doing act 2 quests. I think my char's survivability on average during progression was much higher than the last 1-week race, if only because I made resists a high priority- especially for boss fights (max or close).

Rocky Climb and Prisoner's Gate in act 1 were tough due the herds of ranged fire/lightning goatmen (may they all die a horrible painful death!) and fire/puncture dogs. The rare mobs seem too close together, often resulting in battling 2 at once. Decoy totem for the win! (don't know how I would've survived without it).

On a side note, needing to keep your auras in an active gear slot makes having enough sockets for all your skills quite a balancing act. After I gear up a bit more it won't be an issue, but with 3 sockets/item on average it's a challenge! (hard to get higher socket/link counts during progression). I'm glad gems in your swap still get experience.

Looking forward to doing some maps tomorrow!

Too bad most of the players are simply going for GS Marauder or Templar for obvious reasons (easy mode with easy resists). What is the result of these? : "Yes, Mara and Temp are still easy mode.. I just look for more resists gear now."

We won't know how is the change really affecting gameplay for remaining majority of classes (duelist, shadow, witch, ranger). There are of course few exceptions, which I personally would like to hear more about.

The trend is still same... pick Marauder, take GS and go for the win (whatever it is for you). I am wondering when(if) this will change... :(

Well even rangers use groundslam now(KittyofDoom)

Considering my build I have to say the res penalties are a huge slowdown if you don't have got luck with rings.

Luckily I found the unique resistance cap or else I would still lurk in ruthless.

Refund points become far more important now.
After I crafted some kind of endgame equipment I had to refund some points so I could at last get one more 15% damage node on minions.

The resnodes need better placement no question, also the duelist, shadow and ranger don't have got good access to resnodes at all.

The common maradeur build barely needs modifations anyway since it gets 60% from the maradeur tree 10% going to the templar tree and later he can improve it with 18% from centernodes.


Same goes for a melee templar build.

Other kind of builds need serious stuff and skill modifications to counter those penalties.

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Hilbert wrote:

Well even rangers use groundslam now(KittyofDoom)

that explains alot. Was wondering how he came out of no where to pass me on the ladder. I guess his build finally came together and he's tearing through content. Good for him but now I gotta go hard...damn it.

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Balron wrote:

Too bad most of the players are simply going for GS Marauder or Templar for obvious reasons (easy mode with easy resists). What is the result of these? : "Yes, Mara and Temp are still easy mode.. I just look for more resists gear now."

We won't know how is the change really affecting gameplay for remaining majority of classes (duelist, shadow, witch, ranger). There are of course few exceptions, which I personally would like to hear more about.

The trend is still same... pick Marauder, take GS and go for the win (whatever it is for you). I am wondering when(if) this will change... :(

Aha, interesting. Looking at top 10 I see 2 marauders left while all the summon spamming witches are rising fast. For all the whining about GS rauders no one ever seems to talk about OP minions, funny how that works.

So you don't think there is anything wrong with the whole 'GS Marauder situation'? Interesting.

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Exmorda wrote:

Oh shit, I had global off and did not notice, RIP lolmaul =(

Yep i just crashed and got killed by 1 extra cold dmg mob in a map. My broken graphics card cause me system lock ups often so its a huge gamble for me =). Didn't get lucky in this race. Good luck for everyone still racing!