Got to Ultimate on Vindicator, got to Jillius, the Decayed and he’s blocking 9/10 of my hits and he has retarded levels of reflect or something because one hit onto him chunks me for 1/4 of my hp bar (currently at 11k, oh and I’m overcapped on Lightning by 23%). The shield model he has looks nothing like any Legendary shield I know of that has reflect on it. AND due to him blocking most of my shots and that I can’t shred his resistances becuase then I do damage equal 2/3 of my hp to myself, I’ve been fighting him for 3 mins and he’s still on 80% hp.
Fun times and no I won’t reset the session cos fuck this guy.
Edit: He had a Resistant Preserver Aegis of Valor. 30% Chance to block 1170 damage with +10% chance to Block, 51% Lightning res, 36% Ele res and 34% Reflect Damage on top of his 94% Lighting res. And after I tabbed back in he started blocking ALL my attacks. Took me 7 mins total with Wind Devil and Stormbox Electorcute damage + Arcane Bomb to kill him.
HAH. Just a bit, though not as bad as my first toon, a 2H Warder. I ran into the Reflective Skeletal Knight hero on Ultimate that I thought I could kill through his reflect…nope he also had an almost perfectly rolled Zolhan’s Revenge, which proc’d, and I 1 shot myself.
Wow…there’s literally not enough RR to deal with that xD. I’m just glad Celestials can’t do shit like that. I mean I know Lokarr can spawn with big boy weapons every now and again but I mean super defensive items.
If you ignore the inconsistent damage of bleed builds, especially one that relies heavily on ON KILL procs you have in the bloodrager a not-so-durable character. Large values of ADCTH but low damage values to pump into it, occasional bursts of damage with cooldowns that won’t be timed as heals because that’s your dps. Physical resistance and armor are low. I’d love for the bloodrager set to carry a bleed warder but Bloodrager 2h is made of paper. What do you see when people mention bleed builds? Witchblade, often sword n board. People would play Bloodrager, but it just doesn’t perform nicely in crucible and isn’t a blazing fast or supremely durable campaign farmer. Part of the lack of interest could be due to bleed builds not being flashy, but the mechanical aspects are a sizable part in driving popularity.
If 1.0.7 came with some nice things for the Bloodrager set that keyed off of shaman abilities it would be a great help, and not push bleed witchblade even higher in the comparison.
