Resolute Technique heavily overpowered

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Nasabot schrieb:

RT is not the problem, its the lack of other options in the STR tree.

That's actually pretty true. The Marauder section of the passive tree has zero increased critical chance nodes, so unless there's some from gear you're losing nothing getting RT. I don't think it's a good idea to force anyone to get certain nodes just to have them rendered useless by a keystone later on, but there should be far more critical strike nodes in the Mara area to make it something to actually think about. The trick would be placing them so they're easily accessible, and powerful (most likely notables) but NOT in the way of your development... in other words, they should be similar in power and location to Cranium Crusher and Purity of Essence.

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Nasabot schrieb:

I am pretty sure that crits dont matter a lot in PvE in terms of armor avoiding, because base damage is probably high enough to bypass it.

This is the other big problem. Right now armour does not provide any real defense whatsoever. The ideal should be that a character built specifically for high armour reduces your "typical" physical hit by about 85-90% before factoring in flasks... the same as the Righteous Fire builds, which focus on getting max fire resist, resists it 85-90% before flasks (having Granite flasks provide THOSE characters with brief psudo-invulnerability to physical is fine; it's probably OP for most builds). We are NOWHERE near that objective, especially for endgame play.

In an 80% physical resistance world, a crit would matter a LOT, reducing the % reduction as I described in the math of my earlier post (more so, actually, I described 50%), and would be an appropriate keystone drawback. Right now, going from 18% to 11% doesn't actually matter that much and trivializes armour, which as a result trivializes critical hits.

I don't think the problem is RT. I think it's well-balanced for a balanced world; crits SHOULD matter. The problem is that there are still major, borderline catastrophic balance issues going on with armour (and evasion and ES) and the passive tree.