Dear Blizzard,
My Sorceress just made it to Abattoir. I haven’t finished pushing to see what she can do, I’ve only done a handful and I can beat Tier 3 in about half of the time. I have no Uber-Uniques, so I’m free to run all the best defensives Ball Lightning Sorcs have, and I am. I have Disobedient, Mage-Lord’s, and Everliving. I have the fortify vampiric power. I have Perfect Rubies in my armor sockets, Perfect Skulls in my jewelry sockets. I have prioritized defensive secondary skills so I have a mountain of Damage Reduction both flat and from various sources, I have high resistances, I have 10k base armor. It’s not enough to protect me from even the weakest mobs in the game unless I’m carefully using barriers, stunning, building up fortify, building up Disobedience stacks… With all my stuff in full swing, I can face-tank the three guys at the end of Abattoir, BUT, when it’s not all in full swing, I can be one-shot by a stray arrow from a single Skeleton Archer. And I’m not just talking in Abattoir, 3 levels ago in the same gear I got one-shot by a trivial mob in a Nightmare Dungeon with Sigil Level 70. This really hampers my enjoyment of the game. I feel like the most dangerous moments aren’t fighting the big bosses, it’s the first several seconds of the dungeon when none of my active mitigation is rolling yet and I can’t cast it until I see a mob because it won’t last. It’s any time there’s too much space between mob packs. It’s when I have cleared an area and stop to loot because if I missed ANYTHING at all, even a scrawny carver, it can literally kill me in a single hit. I would like the trivial mobs to feel, you know, trivial. I don’t mind having to use a bunch of active skills to defeat the tough elites and bosses, but I shouldn’t have to fear for my life if my barriers are down and there’s a grumpy kitten nearby. I also don’t think this state of affairs meshes well with my having to loot items off the ground in the nightmare dungeons that take up the vast majority of played time from 50 until you get geared enough for Abattoir. It’s just too dangerous to loot. Even or maybe especially after I believe I’ve mostly cleared the area. And I don’t want to have to run back through. But that’s another topic. Readers go search for “PLEASE Make Abattoir Permanent” if you also hate looting in Nightmare Dungeons…maybe they’ll take the no looting aspect from Abattoir and extend it into Nightmare Dungeons or something.
Anyway, the fun of Diablo has always been creating a powerful character and (optionally) pushing that character, but I don’t feel powerful when I’m getting killed by rodents even after I’m mostly optimized–minus a Melted Heart of Selig or other Uber-Unique that I might not be lucky enough to find even off Duriel in the course of a season. I also don’t feel like I can push the character because if I’m in a place where the full force of my mitigation is being utilized to kill mighty Elites, I’ll either inevitably be killed once by some stray arrow when my mitigation drops off at some point; or I’ll inevitably be killed multiple times whilst trying to pick scraps of loot off the floor. The risk of death to trivial-ness is too high in Abattoir to only have one life, and too high in Nightmare Dungeons to have to stop to loot.
Sincerely,
That Sorcerer who HATES to Loot
Did you forget you had already made this same post?
I mean there’s some slight differences in the delivery, but it’s pretty much the same, a giant wall of text asking to make Abby of Zir permanent and add some changes to the game.
Tldr. If you cant beat tier 3 thats ok. Every build should be able to do tier 1 go tier 5.
This is a gear, build or skill issue
I think you answered it already. You get one shot when you don’t have your DR or any damsge mitigation skills / aspect active.
Corpse Bows are notorious for one shotting even folks with good defensive setup. So if you don’t have anything active for DR, why do expect you should survive in AoZ?
Wall of text did not read.
As an avid wall O’ text maker for the love of holy jebus put some paragraph breaks in there or something! My eyeballs. My poor eyeballs are watering now!
If you are getting 1 shot its because you have a bad build. Make a better one.
Could be u use sapphires in armor and alot of your damage resistance is offline until you are fortified. Be very careful at the start of dungeons or AoZ until you are up to speed.
My suggestions are if applicable:
Take off Raiment of the Infinite chest piece and remove any points you may have in glass cannon. Get X% armor on your chest instead.
If you are a BL build consider putting the points from glass cannon into charged bolts and particularly Destructive Charged Bolts as it has a 25% damage reduction on enemies hit by it. When you use Unstable Currents it will randomly cast charged bolts.
Flickerstep boots has X% close damage reduction which helps.
Remove the vampiric enhancement Domination if applicable, as it can kill you as well as your enemies apparently.
When I heard about this i fell off my chair. Only Bliz could code something this poorly. Those poor souls in HC that died to this power. Yikes.
LOl I know! It didn’t happen to me but I’ve read a few posts about it.