XP penalty and likely 1 portal is NOT going anywhere

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PaintMaster#2396 schrieb:

Imagine GGG remove xp penalty, and give us 6 portals, what would it mean?

1. Literally 0 reason investing into defense at all or above bare minimum.
2. It doesn't matter if you die or not, you still have more portals anyway.
3. This encourage more and more people play exactly same fastest range builds.
4. This encourage people play builds that clear screens with half of gear being rarity and 0 defenses.
5. It just deletes build diversity, when most of players play same build.

Not denying that some stuff there in maps do hit hard. And it hit harder if you don't care about mods on your waystones that can make easy map into deadly map.

If you die in maps on your 1500 life build, its not game problem, its your problem.
If you die in maps because you didn't bother investing into defenses, its not game problem, its your problem.

Game will change a lot and not once during Early Access. Work around to make your character good, instead of complaining about "game problem" that is your build problem in reality.

Some tips that might help you:

- On builds that naturally don't have high life, you should definitely go into hybrid life/es, or life/es/evasion, its good, its worth it.

- You might know that armor is bad, work around it, get a bit of armor against smaller hits, just stack more life against bigger hits instead of going hard into armor, since currently there's just nothing in the game that hit for more than 4k phys damage, so for example 4k life character with 5k armor will tank higher hit than 3k life character with 15k armor.

- Most of stuff that kill you in maps is elemental but not phys. So max resists and higher life/es is the way to make melee character tanky. Very few mobs that you find in maps can hit hard with phys damage, but almost all if not all of those mobs are very slow and easy to avoid.

Edit: changed some points because some people take every single word literally.

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MicROPaladin8612#6987 schrieb:

I played chrono and I found out armor and max life is trash, I can't imagine the life of warrior player with it, so instead, I respec and retrade my gear and spent it all on aura/curses temporal chains, and I rarely die after that,

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MicROPaladin8612#6987 schrieb:

is it my own build problem? yes
is it my problem that the armour are trash? no

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cowmoo275#3095 schrieb:

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Sakanabi#6664 schrieb:

Yeah, when I die in juiced map and lose everything + 10% exp then I say "Oh god damnit..." and I try again.

Precisely.....the normal player response.

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slushypeami#1092 schrieb:

I like 1 portal and I like exp penalty. All is balanced as it should be.

There should be more exp or lighter exp curve tho, my deadeye went over a week deathless and I was 70% to 96 doing juiced t15 breaches... that's kinda rough

Not saying I should be 100, but 95 feels a bit too little.