No, I am not saying at all that EHP = HP. I am saying that the easiest way to boost EHP is to get BOTH the cheap improvements to defenses as well as the cheap increases to HP. While a high HP is sufficient to deal with almost all damage, it is not always the easiest way to do so.
For example, what you dismissed as not defense (probably because it is a given in all builds) is maxed resists at 75%. This means all elemental damage is reduced to 25% of what it would be.
If you have 8,000 ES and take 25% of the damage from elemental attacks from say the Crematorium boss, Megaera, then you will be taking lots of fire damage. Maybe a couple thousand a hit when in the fire. You can take maybe 4 hits from her.
Say I want to live through the fire twice as easily. Should I aim for 16,000 HP? Of course not, that is impossible. Instead get a couple ruby flasks, which reduce her damage temporarily by 40%. That means you effectively increased your HP by 40% and also increased your HP recovery by 40%. A flask is therefore better against her, temporarily than 8,000 more ES, because the side effects of recovery are also increased relative to the damage taken.
If you really want to kill her, get 6% more max fire res from divination distillate, a ruby flask for 10% more, and use purity of fire for 5% more. Getting your fire res to 96% completely trivializes her damage. You take 4% of the damage done by fire. With 3,200 ES, and temporarily with 96% fire res, my effective ES is effectively 20,000 and my defenses are better (13,333 EHP) than if I have 8,000 ES and just use a flask for 85% fire res. It is much better especially for CI because reducing the damage also removes secondary problems like stuns, and status effects, whereas increased ES does not reduce them, and then you have to spend additional efforts to counter both the damage with higher ES, and the effects with dream fragments, eye of chayula and so forth. Actual reductions in damage are better than higher ES.
This same principle makes actual HP pool important, but not everything for all types of damage. As the hardest damage to take in this game is elemental (aside from physical reflect, which is handled mostly by CwDT + IC) I think the best way to deal with damage in the game is auras + flasks + divination distillate.
This is how I kill Dominus on level 78 maps with 3,200k ES. I use purity of lightning, a topaz flask that refills on crit, and divination distillate. The combo reduces his lightning damage to nothing, and I can eat a touch of god, and keep on trucking.
Could you make a step by step passive tree like every 10-20 points you need to have this and this, basically like this ~20 points you need to *passive tree link showing the passives u should have when you get to 10/20 points*after that same thing but ~40 points and so on so forth
just want it to be easier to understand because I don't know where to go and which one to do first (I am bad at making decisions... >_>)
And also the gear I noticed was in standard league so would it work in domination league to? because i like to do it in the domination league for the most part but don't like to have to hard or to easy of a game
Thank you for replying! *ahead of time*
Last edited by MinatoThe4Th#0150 on Feb 2, 2014, 8:34:51 PM
im curious how you get 83 passive skill point when you at lvl64
here is the link from your guide lvl64 skill tree
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYABbUMjQ1JDkgRLxGWFdcV_Ra_GNsa2xutHhohYCgqKLUqOCy_L28wVDB8PeI-z0BVQKBHBkjuUUdWY1uvXvpfamcean5vV3BScLt08XiueOt_K4auh9uNv4_6mVeZmp2jpn-nNLGztMW1SLb3t9O95sBRwcXC7MNt037WB9aK14bXy9kT2-fcgt0N44TnCutj7BjtQe12707veu-g8-r5Y_yr_MX_kw==
Perz I just wanted to post to say I appreciate the effort you have put into this thread. I am currently running the armor based build at level 89. I sit on 40k dps self buffed with 3.9k es running discipline. I can clear most maps with ease and only a few bosses that give me any trouble.
Perz I just wanted to post to say I appreciate the effort you have put into this thread. I am currently running the armor based build at level 89. I sit on 40k dps self buffed with 3.9k es running discipline. I can clear most maps with ease and only a few bosses that give me any trouble.
Current gear:
try upgrading your shield next to get more es imo. looking good otherwise
