Monster chaos damage is out of control

With how difficult it is to gear in this game, it is absolutely unacceptable for end game (area level 78+) monster chaos damage to be tuned around capped chaos resistance. It is absolutely insane that when I'm clearing an area level 82 boss map, I'm more afraid of seeing that I happened to get unlucky and roll cultist archers in the mob pool than I am afraid of seeing that the boss got some crazy mods from Deadly Evolution. Maps are way too dense, and monsters move way too fast for me to be able to recognize that in the corner of my screen there is a single white cultist archer that exists over there just out of range of all my aoe who will shoot 1 tiny little purple flower arrow in the sky that will instantly kill me. I can tank every single breach mob at the same time (assuming they don't roll extra chaos damage mod), but I can't survive 2 milliseconds inside these dozen different chaos degens that are everywhere.

Cultist mobs, fungus zombie dudes that blow up into chaos pools on death and their big brothers that fling the same chaos pools everywhere, little flower guys that blow up into chaos pools. There is no world where it makes sense that these pools should kill me faster than a t16 map boss.

If it were easier to gear and fill out missing resistances it would make more sense for the numbers to be tuned this way. However, I've been playing this character for almost 100 hours (ssf) and I can only barely manage to stay elemental resist capped, much less manage to get even a single piece with chaos resistance on it. I have multiple quad tabs filling up with items to reforge together to keep trying to roll to get any relevant amount of chaos resistance while maintaining other basic defenses. The difficulty in gearing is fine, but if this is how you want gearing to play out then chaos damage in monsters needs to be way lower.

Last bumped on Jan 15, 2025, 12:51:54 PM


this damn snake will one shot you even if having higher chaos res, and that's on T4 with no damage mod...

there are also bunch of other monster that I presume deal chaos damage are also extremely lethal:

- crone, her vomit will shotgun you
- some spiky lime color thing in forest that shoot lime colored spikes, also shotgun
- unsure what it is that summon purple flower on ground

while these are much easier to dodge, but if you happens to just being slightly careless, you're DEAD.

I have slightly better stat than yours even at T4 Lv72 SSF, but these chaos crap gets me so often, especially the snake in tight quarter. Walk through the door - wait, WHY AM I DEAD?!........ it's not funny anymore.
Last edited by xonedl#1873 on Jan 15, 2025, 12:57:29 PM

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