Playing any type of melee combo build is insufferable.

I'm playing warrior with 1700 armor trying to do TIER 1 maps... it's impossible.

Even with maxed out elemental resistances, I die instantly to white mobs. Even with max level quality on my Boneshatter gem (which gives more attack speed), I still get stunned before I can get the attack off.

The combination of instantly getting stunned and having no survivability is making the game completely unenjoyable.

Not only that, I slogged through the absolutely abysmal campaign for the umpteenth time, just to get NO LOOT throughout or AFTER REACHING MAPS.

You can count all the viable builds right now on one hand... The game isn't even challenging, it's just unfun. How is the only solution to my problem slogging through the campaign AGAIN on the newly buffed Lightning Spear build? What happened to the build diversity we saw in 0.1.0? How is this game significantly worse in almost every way now?

This needs to be addressed. I will not sit here and praise GGG for making a few bandaid patches over the past week. It's not enough to buff the new class and call it a day. There needs to be blanket changes that add back the diversity we had in the first league. We need loot, the only way to get upgrades is to use the terrible trade system. Where is the crafting? Where are the drops? I want to earn my gear upgrades, not sit there on a web browser shopping for them...

I would trade all the negligible new content to go back to the state the game was in the first league. It's just worse all around.

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Most endgame warrior builds are seemingly unkillable? Is 1700 armor a typo or are you trolling?

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KeiranPOE#4565 wrote:

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Most endgame warrior builds are seemingly unkillable? Is 1700 armor a typo or are you trolling?

"Seemingly"?
You clearly haven't tried it.

Thats whats happening if people want to make a game more in the direction of a soulsgame but have no clue about the formula.

I hate this stun and stagger to death combo from fast running mobs that surround you and interrupt/stagger you to death and you cant even roll out and get interupted with this too.

Get temporal chains? well eat shit cuz you will die now
Play anything melee? boom boom you are dead
Proximity Trangability? well hope you dont get other shit mods on top cuz you will be dead
Have hard hitting mobs that are faster than you? you cant even roll away because once you get out of that roll animation the mob is right next to you and bashes into your face

so much fun, yay

Ngl easy fix would be, give rolling iframes, give some or all attacks stagger resist or hyper armor that your attack cant be interupted

In any soulsgame you wont get at least swarmed and surrounded from 10000 mobs at once with no escape, only if you made a mistake

And then there is the Loot....lots of meaningful white items to ignore, yay

I got to maps yesterday and I don't really have any issues with getting stunned or anything and I have 2800 armor and 1000 evasion. I think a this point we should just be asking people for their trees and items so we can see what the heck is going on. They need to get the online armory working asap cause all these opinions mean nothing blind.

Cause like 90% of these posts are pure skill issues.

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KeiranPOE#4565 wrote:

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Most endgame warrior builds are seemingly unkillable? Is 1700 armor a typo or are you trolling?

What level/gear does your warrior have. Or are you referring to carn and alkaizer. 2 hcssf/gauntlet players. Their game experience wont be the same as this guy.

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Kashou#2868 wrote:

I got to maps yesterday and I don't really have any issues with getting stunned or anything and I have 2800 armor and 1000 evasion. I think a this point we should just be asking people for their trees and items so we can see what the heck is going on. They need to get the online armory working asap cause all these opinions mean nothing blind.

Cause like 90% of these posts are pure skill issues.

the variance in the gear that drops from 1 person to another seems to be pretty high.

Thats probably because if you rely on stuff from the ground instead of the vendor you probably wont upgrade much ever.

I don't get how anyone can claim "Skill issue". It's absurd. As I mentioned in the post, these are TIER 1 MAPS. The lowest level of endgame content.

If it's gear related how do I acquire better gear without playing? I have 450 hours on poe2, I'm not new to the game. You're telling me I need better gear for the lowest level endgame content. Where do you start then?

Armor has always been the worst defensive stat by FAR. I find it funny that the one guy claiming he has no problem also built evasion LOL. If anyone is not telling the whole story its people claiming there is no problem. We need the armory so those types cant lie about having an easy time just to put others down, not so we can put them down more.

Warrior is pretty bad. Not because of power but because of a lack of build options. Everybody is using hammer/perfect strike/boneshatter.

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Vinny#7672 wrote:

I don't get how anyone can claim "Skill issue". It's absurd. As I mentioned in the post, these are TIER 1 MAPS. The lowest level of endgame content.

If it's gear related how do I acquire better gear without playing? I have 450 hours on poe2, I'm not new to the game. You're telling me I need better gear for the lowest level endgame content. Where do you start then?

Armor has always been the worst defensive stat by FAR. I find it funny that the one guy claiming he has no problem also built evasion LOL. If anyone is not telling the whole story its people claiming there is no problem. We need the armory so those types cant lie about having an easy time just to put others down, not so we can put them down more.

Armor is bad if you are trying to play only armor with no HP based ascendancy like Titan or Gemling, without shield, without evasion. You can try to bash your head against playing pure armor with lower armor than someone going hybrid and cry and scream all you want, but layered defenses has always been the way to go. If you want to play pure armor yo have to understand its strengths and weaknesses. Armor needs HEAVY investment into life regeneration. If you don't have that then forget one shots you wont be able to even play the game because you can mitigate all the damage you want but if you can't recover your HP then you're gonna die anyway. On top of that you need to have investment into stun and elemental threshold plus the whole max res wheel and maybe even the bottom one that also gives max res.

But yes you dying on tier 1 maps is definitely a skill or game knowledge issue. Armor is one of the best defenses in the game but people are trying to stack 50000 armor with 0 regen and no shield or no evasion and then they die and cry.