Why is it taking so long to buff life.

"

vexorian#9572 schrieb:

Although ES is definitely strong now. I think people really misunderstand what those 20K ES characters are really like. You think the 20K ES is 10 times bulkier than your 2K life.

The reality is that ES is the only defense that doesn't actually reduce the amount of damage you think. People with 20K ES exist because if you want to go full ES, you kind of HAVE to go 20K.

Imagine a 4K physical damage hit. Sure, a guy with 20K ES will tank it. But so would someone with 2K life and 50% Armor reduction. The difference is that the Es guy will take 4K physical damage while the armor guy takes 2K physical damage. This has multiple effects because damage takes points from your stun threshold. Worse still, life gives stun threshold, but Energy Shield doesn't give stun threshold unless you also invest heavily on a lot of passives for that matter. Without this care, the ES user will get stunned and most likely die. No matter your stats, if you get stunned there's not a lot you can do at t15. It is also significantly harder to recover 4K damage versus recovering from 2K damage. Without CI this also makes you vulnerable to bleeding. It's the same with evasion. Maybe evasion doesn't happen very often, but when it does, that's a 100% reduction of damage. That means damage that won't reduce your thresholds.

Now, I am not going to lie. When you get Chaos Inoculation and really build your passives towards maxing your ES. It really works ant it's quite a cool way of playing. But if you think 2K life required a lot of investment, you have no idea just how much of the passive tree has to be spent to accomplishing it without otherwise being incredibly vulnerable to some situations.