RIP 96lvl [ HC SSF ] Chaos Warrior

My ass is burnt

Look here:



This is a prove that you can hit 95+ also in hc.


I am usually only hc ssf player, hit in poe2 2-3 times lvl 87,88 or so.
So far just 1 of them is still alive, rest is gone.

I decided to play for now ssf, no hc, and already hit 95 and 91.
To learn more about the bosses, the trash and their traps.

Killing fast is a great def layer, but a even more imortant one is to be mobile like all the time. Life, armour, ES, EV, res, should be obvious as high as possible, conversion of dmg taken on top is still bis, but the most important thing is and always will be: move, run, pick loot later, not right after the kill, do not get sourrounded/stagnated in moving/stunned by bosses.

My deaths in hc always was arrogance ("ah, fuck it, lets run t16 Savannah boss with sorc"... last words) or (light)stun by follewed big hits.

Right now we have the smith, best char for hc by far, super tanky. I could do simularcum my very first time, arbiter and ash, during the travel to 95 I died like 10 times, cuz I still play like on hc.


The biggest downside of hc right now is the time consuming concept, not the 1shots.
Even if you have gear in you stash for a new starter, all the gems and jewellers, to get back to endgame and like 80+, with all the ascendacies, the campagne, the different playstyle in hc, is still take far to long..
In Poe1 you could hit endgame in under 10 hours on hc ssf, here it feels like 35 +... 1 shots, as long you move, you can usually always avoid.

I'm not a cyber sportsman, I'm 36 years old. I come home from work and play. And it's not about reaction to danger or greed, I usually die running, not expecting at all that a crowd of monsters can shoot at me in 0.1 seconds, like here:

You might say but you took the extra damage on the map, but damn I have 90% resistance. I just have to take such cards with good defense, otherwise why do they exist, to just throw them away.
That's why I say the game is broken, it punishes for illogical things.
In fact, the game says - you can't run with lives and armor on hardcore, you need an energy shield, you can't kill monsters for longer than one second, they'll shoot you. And you can shove your 75% block chance up your ass.
And I have a slight suspicion about how block chance works. When you block damage, your block chance secretly decreases, if you block again, it decreases again until the damage passes through you. But I might be wrong, of course.
I have enough protection, regarding lives the game does not allow to collect more, 3500 is the possible maximum with the best equipment. Why it is possible to collect 12000 energy shield and so many lives is not clear to me.

If they just added a passive skill tree - your life is doubled but you can't have energy shield. It would open up so many builds. This is not a PVP game, I honestly don't get it, this is a beta test, experiment and don't nerf.

We need something like this in the passive skill tree. Who's for it?

I cooled down a bit. Made the build more friendly for ssf. Removed the increased cast speed, replaced on increased skill effect duration. Thanks to this, you can put two totems, thereby increasing the damage to bosses. Returned the withering effect, thanks to 5 jewelry, I think you can get 100% weakening.

Public Build [ 0.2 ]:
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/r5bj0llt

I leveled up a new character and almost died on the very first map.
https://youtu.be/DJ6-uYHhDdk
https://youtu.be/HVcprBZUZko

the talent tree will have to be redone again, mainly because it is hard to build protection against chaos damage on ssf, and the chance block does not work in this case.

Took 4 ascension at level 82. SSF HC
https://youtu.be/GQI6eTV8CzY

Character:
https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/12y3ty8285i06/Hopfenu-1496/JoJoHopfen

After many deaths on SSF this is my best build:
https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/4brigu5qqchi/Hopfenu-1496/_Hopfen_

img:

Public Build [ 0.2 ]:
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/r5bj0llt

RIP


T16 run.
https://youtu.be/IwftuC0AiNs

I've been farming delirium all day, my eyes hurt from this fog. Is there any way to turn it off?

Guys, I can't play because of this delirium fog. Simply for health reasons, my eyes get very tired, and I need delirium for progress. Since I play on SSF, there is no way to buy it at auction.
The build is really good for clearing maps. If you don't have a goal to kill bosses T2 and above, just want to farm currency, then it's a lot of fun and great for hardcore. I leveled my last character from 1 to 87 in 4 days on SSF HC, that says a lot.
By the way, if you have delirium on your map, you will hardly find exalts. I don't know if they did it on purpose or it's a bug.

Got these resists without legendary items:

Character:
https://poe2.ninja/profile/character/eyocz2n6g9gd/Hopfenu-1496/derHopfen

Video:
https://youtu.be/gujLSyzH1B4