SO far, I’ve gotten to lvl 100 with about 222 Paragon Points I specc’d a bone spear stand alone Necro and was running NM 60+ dungeons, and I’m just not having fun.
The enemies constantly 1 shot me, sometimes even when I get to the boss, The boss can 1 shot me, and their life will refill back to full. Is this the ‘endgame’ I’ve heard so much about? Basically an escalator into a sheer brick wall.
What am I doing wrong?
How are your armor, resistances and “damage resistance”?
The 3 of them work as a team. If any one of them is really lacking later on vs higher levels, it’s very noticeable.
Armor to at least 9250 and you need the disobedience aspect. If you want to get away without the disobedience, you need at least 13400 armor.
Also, all resist to 70%. Also, try to find gear with health and damage reduction (either flat or from close/distant).
Equip Lidless Wall and put Shielding Storm aspect.
I’m running disobedience (1%). I don’t really have my armor memorized, emeralds (?) on my armor, so I get extra tanky when I’m cc’d. How much elem res should I go for?
Should be rubies on armor for max life. Jewelry should be the gem for the resistances you are low on OR skulls for armor.
sounds pretty much like your build isnt working out, especially if you “only” run nmd60
Yeah what was your first clue.
This is a good idea as well.
You may also want to look at your stats for the gear you have. Your stats may not be optimal for dungeons. (Crit, life, armor, reaists etc). You may have to reroll some stats on gear to make them better.
I don’t have lidless wall, and I’m getting comments that my build is bad, or something to that effect, apparently NM 60 isn’t supposed to be difficult for lvl 100. Hence me being here.
I got a hat that makes bone spears have balls, and one ring that autocasts corpse spells. And some razor armor.
I would recommend watching some basic build videos. This guy is a lot of fun
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Yeah that’s what Im using now. I run that corpse CC, the bone storm with the extra health and blood mist when I get cc’d and +10 extra seconds then I use normals to refresh my cooldown if i’m being horded.
Usually I will throw 1-2 spears to create 1 corpse, then vine to CC the whole room and then spears until all dead. The problem is For some NM dungeons and bosses, they will deal 50-100% of my health in one go.
get armor and damage reductions from close and also from distant, All damage reduction, those are even more important than armor as it goes after all other defensive layers, remeber DR starts having monotonic increase as it aproaches 30-40% so adding more of one kind has diminishing returns. Also,as monster lvl increases the armor needed to reach the cap its also higher, is not static, depends on what is hitting you, for a t 100 you need around 13k to feel comfortable.
What about elem res? What should I aim for?
I think you should try and aim for the cap, which is 70%. World tier 4 has a 50% resistances penalty which means you need 120% total in order to get 70%
Basically all of the elements have dangerous attacks associated with them, I’d just try and round them out.
It seems like a lot, but with all of the resist all you can get from paragon and jewelry, it’s pretty easy to do.
I don’t really think it’s worth putting a focus on this stat for gear though. I like the Total Armor / damage reduction affixes and to use jewelry slots for resistance gems to cover any resistance deficiency because something like +60% fire is actually overkill later on and 250 armor is nice but not crazy.
I’d like 30% total armor and to use a ruby in a ring for example, which is enough for me to cap resistance and get much more armor.
My skills and paragon board (and gear) are different when optimized for leveling and are changed when I move to pushing higher NM dungeons. I will probably change them again to optimize for the upcoming Zir dungeon.
if by razor armor you mean the razorplate unique, you should swap it for a common leg chest armor with dmg reductions and max life/armor %
Thank you for the helpful advice. I will respec my paragon board and seek out the resistance nodes. I really only needed the bone board for bone spear anyway I can focus on defense for the other 3 boards if it means not getting 2-shot.
I didn’t use Razor armor because it meant having lower def and I needed the armor slot for an armor skill. Tbh I don’t use uniques, mother’s love earlier because of the cost redux, but I couldn’t find an ancestral variant and I found a better essence solution.
I also considered respeccing into skelly necro but I’m told that does even more poorly at higher difficulties esp since I mainly solo since I don’t have many friends who play this game.
You have to start sacrificing your (likely) excess power for damage resistance on your gear. Thats kind of the name of the NM Dungeon game.
If you don’t want to use a Lidless Wall for whatever reason I’d recommend the Flickerstep boots and Osseus Gale on the amulet slot.