is there something wrong with stygian dolls in hell? i have 15% damage reduce, 7500 defense, 2100 life and i STILL get killed in 1.5 hits from any stygian doll while standing still. it makes it nearly impossible to navigate durance of hate level 3 with anything other than a sorceress + teleport.
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Merc’s don’t take explosion damage from bone fetishes. As melee, you simply don’t engage them, but retreat, and let your merc pick them up.
Their corpse explosion is pure physical with a high chance of Deadly Strike!
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This is the answer, deadly strike is just painful.
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That’s how they’ve always been. So not broken. As already suggested, let your A2 merc handle them.
With a non-sorc against dolls and fetishes (like flayer dungeon) I got in the habit of going through a door then retreating instantly, whether I see anything nor not, and see if a pack comes rushing at me.
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if you are necro, use terror or bone wall to trap or let skellies kill them
if you are barb, use howl
if you are zon, kb them
if you are pally, max block, use sanctuary aura to push them back
if you are sin, use cos
if you are druid, bear on them
just don’t get close to them and kill them in group…
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Broken? maybe not but far and away more powerful than anything else in any difficulty. I can take Diablo Faceblasts and not need a potion, but 2 seconds into a room in act 3 where my merc is stuck and I die to a pack of tiny things.
Absolute worst part of Hardcore, even more than the crashes, is knowing even BIS builds and 99 where all content is faceroll… not seeing a Doll can wipe you instantly.
Yeah yeah “It’s always been that way getgud” cause people are trolls but they really do need to be toned down closer to damage actually on par with the difficulty of the act.
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This is the correct answer… They are merc meat (or bone)…
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75%Block is your friend.
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Yeah would be nice if that would be true. My zealot got 75%block, 15k defense, 1.5k hp and a ton of damage and magic damage reduce and still gets wtfpwned by them.
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Yep, means 25% gets through, same on my pally. I just back away and let the merc kill them.
If you are a sorc, teleport on them and die when your merc kills one
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Lol this…Stygian’s are Tele Sorc worst nightmare!
I think what’s crazy is how inconsistent they are. I’ve ran into them on my sorc and they only do maybe 100 damage total during a fight. OR, they do three 400 damage hits in rapid succession and kill me instantly. Remember, learn how maps are generated! Level 3 is always going to be to the left 90° of where your character is facing when exiting the waypoint.
oh . . . i might disagree with the first part of that statement
dolls are an absolute pain in the rear . . . . but . . . a4/5 souls, those things will snipe you from off screen with an elite affix you won’t even notice till your face up in the dirt
the vipers in nihlathaks temples are also really bad, since the poison on them is glitched. . but that’s avoidable (if your melee though . . well . . why are you in nihlathaks temple as melee to begin with. but ya your probs dead).
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you’re not getting killed by their hits. they explode when they die for MASSIVE damage that kills even the most insanely geared people in the same time. you have to stay away from them.
not always . . . sometimes it’s 90 degrees to the right (like what 1/10 times)
These critters are the best example that the game has nothing to do with Diablo 3. 
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why use merc while mfing？
u can also equip your merc with a low damage weapon
Why do you think defense has anything to do with how many hits it takes to kill you?
Defense just reduces your chance to be hit.
Insight runeword.
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