Remove the chaos res penalty.

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Charan wrote:

It was a last minute decision for Open BETA. So these suggestions and this feedback is great. I've yet to even face the chaos resistance penalty but given my hatred of chaos damage and agreement that GGG has no real idea what they want Chaos damage to be...I am a little afraid. :)

Imagine triple stack shocked with curse of vulnerability all the time.

It makes PERFECT sense the largest nodes for chaos are by CI. We have NO regen.

Further, all resistance should not include chaos. The damn resists should have never been added in the first place. Make it a priority on gear. Grab the node/s you can.

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Further, all resistance should not include chaos.

I would agree for the sake of CI alone, but atm, it seems GGG is uncertain about the state of CI.

Meh, what do i care, i dont play melee. Everythings easy at range. lol.

Instead of -20% and -60% they could make it -10% and -30%. I think it's too much, especially in a pack of poison mobs you can quickly get dropped.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

It makes PERFECT sense the largest nodes for chaos are by CI. We have NO regen.

Further, all resistance should not include chaos. The damn resists should have never been added in the first place. Make it a priority on gear. Grab the node/s you can.

No regen? What happened to ZO and GR, CI's best buddies?

Lol

That's basically at 0 with 1 item.

It should have NEVER been added. But until then. Get some resistance.

Ting, zealots oath has nothing to do with chaos dmg, same as GR. if you have CI, than chaos d,g and its resistance is a moot problem.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Lol

That's basically at 0 with 1 item.

It should have NEVER been added. But until then. Get some resistance.

Ting, zealots oath has nothing to do with chaos dmg, same as GR. if you have CI, than chaos d,g and its resistance is a moot problem.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

It makes PERFECT sense the largest nodes for chaos are by CI. We have NO regen.

Resistance on gear? I have yet to see a single piece of gear with chaos resistance on it and the most anyone not near CI can get is 8% without totally sacrificing their build to get up to 23% by going near CI.

My Mara might be default and not HC, but I have plans to roll a HC character as well, and frankly in merciless, I tend to play it like HC and try to avoid deaths and losing xp.

My Current Stats:

HP: 3,464
Armor: 6,737 (With Grace, IR, Determination)
Total Physical Reduction 77% (with 4 endurance charges)
Life Regen: 158.8 base, character sheet peaks around 850 with Leech

I'm able to swap rings around to max fire/lightning in key areas.

My Chaos Resist is at -32%

My experience thus far in A3 Merciless, at level 61

I can faceroll through City of Sarn, taking on a high number of mobs in that zone solo, 10-20, via leech + end charges

I move into the Slums, can easily deal with the leapers, carrion queen/spawn.

If I see a pack of more than 3 white snakes however, I need to run and separate and kite around to avoid too much spike damage.

I had the same experience in A2 Merciless River Crossing/Dark Forest. Take on 20 of the other mobs, fear for my life from 3+ white snakes.

I've only been able to find 2 piece of useable gear with any chaos resist up until now. In order to feel comfortable with chaos mobs, I feel I'd easily need another 80% chaos resist, which isn't accessible near the mara tree easily, or via gear right now.

I feel the disparity between chaos and other sources of damage, especially for the Mara tree is too great. We either need some chaos nodes on our sides of the tree, or have it built into all resists, or endurance charges, the damage feels too much for a melee character right now.

Mara already has built in chaos resistance. Hp nodes and regen.

Also. You're not sacrificing your build by getting chaos resistance. That's part of your build. You have a weak build without it if you choose to.

Making chaos resistable adds viability to armour and evasion builds, should shift things away from the old "life stacking is required" mentality. Rating builds will be good with moderate life, if you can get resists across the board.

Might be okay.

Thing I don't like about this is it takes away from the uniqueness of chaos damage. Changes things just a bit too much. We'll see how it turns out, though.