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[Neonivek]

Nothing is wrong with the game, though my character has low HP for his class and level, you are meant to really stack elemental defense in advance.

I hear some people bring it as high as 90% just to be able to do those sections without a team.

[Aklyon]

Theres basically two things you need to keep up, though not constantly until Cruel or so really. HP (or ES, or both), and your defense of choice. Elemental resists are also useful, especially cold resist for antifreeze. You can't tank hits forever, but if you can take a couple you've got time to Get ye flask. And also ye counterattack.

[Neonivek]

If your defence of choice is evasion then you are a long distance character.

Evasion doesn't hold up in melee very well.

[nenjin]

It probably suffers the most from level differences, I'd suspect.

[Neonivek]

It probably suffers the most from level differences, I'd suspect.

According to my friend Evasion is a useless avenue to go into right now because the game overnerfs it with each difficulty.

It is better, if you go full evasion, to get Iron Reflexes.

Though I HIGHLY suspect this will change. It hurts Rangers too much.

[Aklyon]

Evasion has always been somewhat of a odd defense. Armor reduces physical damage, ES eats damage for you before your health does (excepr for chaos damage, unless you have CI), both do that all the time (ES has to regenerate first though). Evasion is a chance to dodge.

[Trollheiming]

Evasion has always been somewhat of a odd defense. Armor reduces physical damage, ES eats damage for you before your health does (excepr for chaos damage, unless you have CI), both do that all the time (ES has to regenerate first though). Evasion is a chance to dodge.

Moreover, a mod in chat said that the more you dodge, the more likely you are to be hit next time. Some sort of "entropy factor" according to him. Even if you could dodge 100% it lowers with each miss till it hits.

[Aklyon]

THeres also the craziness that is Acrobatics/Phase Acrobatics (Strip all armor/ES for a 20% chance to dodge attacks, and also spells once you have Phase, along with a few passives in-between them to add a few more percentage points), though I don't know how that effects your evasion rating.

[Drakale]

Evasion has always been somewhat of a odd defense. Armor reduces physical damage, ES eats damage for you before your health does (excepr for chaos damage, unless you have CI), both do that all the time (ES has to regenerate first though). Evasion is a chance to dodge.

Moreover, a mod in chat said that the more you dodge, the more likely you are to be hit next time. Some sort of "entropy factor" according to him. Even if you could dodge 100% it lowers with each miss till it hits.

I have been experimenting with that on my shadow archer, and my current strategy is to stand and shoot while tanking one or 2 melee attacks then move back and repeat. I barely get hit using this technique and it allow for longer shooting sprees. A bit more dangerous against freezing or lightning monster that can stun you, not taking chances with those. 

[KaelGotDwarves]

So I have tons of characters, hardcore... my main is a necromancer witch level 33. Breezing through the game. I love Minion Instability. My minions explode upon death, and I can keep summoning skeletons forever.

Add me, KaelGotRice.

[miljan]

I started to have a lot of crashes in this game in act 3  . It looks like the problem is in win xp

[ukulele]

Just lost another HC character, this time my lvl 21 witch, im considering playing the game on default just to win it one time and get a good idea of the builds posible, at this rate it will take me 1 year to reach 30 in HC.

[Aklyon]

'possible builds' in default is different from HC. In default you don't have to worry about death penalties until cruel.

[Simmura McCrea]

Sweet holy fuck the Act 2 boss. I mean, the whole area was tricky, then BAM YOU DEAD FOO.

[Aklyon]

Vaal Oversoul does not care for your shenanigans, it just shows up and then BAM.

Or no bam if you avoid it.