I was excited to try out a thorns Spiritborn build using Razorplate, but now that the difficulty penalty goes up to -100% resists, I just don’t see a feasible way to cap resistances without using Tyrael’s Might. Not to mention the massive armor penalty which will likely also require 2-3 armor rolls on our gear. I hope I’m wrong about this, because it’s currently looking like Torment 4 will require us to spend tons of our item affix slots just to cap out defenses.
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sounds like this is streamer only mode gameplay
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We haven’t seen the paragon boards yet, and did not really see all the adjusted Blizzard maths…
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The patch notes actually detail the paragon node changes. If anything, they removed a lot of the All Res nodes. I hope you’re right that the math was adjusted, otherwise we will basically be required to either use Tyrael’s or get All Res on every single item.
If you get all res on every single item, what about armor? Where would you put that on? You do get armor penalty too.
TM is required right now in IHT8
People do like to suffer from anticipation.
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Yes this is very bad.
And it’s boring to be honest.
It’s the same level of boring like ignoring every item that doesn’t have life on it.
Don’t make it that difficult for us to get our defenses up…
Let us choose between interesting stats.
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And do no damage, We will be whacking on a trash mob for five minutes lol. Just kidding but i hope they put other ways to get all resistance other wise we will all be wearing the same chest piece and not feeling the might.
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Carly Simon sang a song about that. haha
We could have a use for selig again
Yeah these reductions feel very heavy handed but we’ll see how it feels in the PTR. Maybe they brought enemy damage down enough where it doesn’t feel bad.
I do think they overvalue resistances being a “question you have to solve” for your build. It’s just not a fun one to solve and feels more like checking a box when you do.
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You don’t need to go to T4. There’s nothing exclusive there. Just enjoy your build.
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The problem is when the droprates of loot, materials, gold… whatever…
is SO much higher in t4, nobody will consider to play t3 or t2.
Compare it to D3.
Nobody really wanted to farm in t10 or t13 because the loot was significantly worse.
The point is you go as high as you can. If you can’t survive in T4 and remove T4 what do you get out of it? Nothing. But people, who find T3 too easy will suffer. Live and let live.
Yeah, Lets hope they don’t pull a POE where they nerf the players and buff the mobs. The direction this game is going is looking more and more like POE. But not free to play.
It does IMO but also to the OP… We dont know what the paragon boards will look like. We also dont know about how gear will scale now. Tyraels isnt necessarily mandatory. You can get resists in other ways. For instance, I dont even use gems in my jewelry because I am capped armor and resists without them. There are also paragon nodes I dont take because I dont need the resists. You can also temper resist if needed and take less dmg tempers.
They will be reworking a ton of gear, so I doubt it will be mandatory but with this dev team, who knows lol
Depends on the build I guess but I run two out of 3 of my characters there and I dont have it.
Makes me glad I’ve got one with 2GA, one on dmg reduction, the other on all res. Not that this will help me in the season in the least. 
