I had no problems dealing with standard mobs, even when they swarmed all around me. But the tougher bosses and nemesis mobs are a thing. I love to farm them. It’s the only “end-game” right now. So I decided to get some life steal (% attack damage converted to health) for them just to realize that it’s practically useless against them. I haven’t had the chance to test if resist reduction would help with that. But just the thought to having to stack two very rare attributes to make one of them slightly viable is very odd for me.
Yeah it’s a shame but life steal is bad atm. Bosses need their resists lowered or we should have ways to decrease enemies resists to life steal.
IMO both is necessary. As I said, if you have to focus on two very rare attributes to make one slightly viable it’s not worth to go for that. I’m OK with reduced life steal’s value versus bosses but making them completely immune just restricts build diversity.
Yeah I agree. I’m currently working on a life steal vitality build but will have to skip nemesis bosses because of this. It’s annoying. Having bosses immune to life steal is like giving a boss the ability to make your char have 0 regen or unable to heal.
no, our communitys BM players have already figured out how to survive after the nerf, I mean stand very safely, you just need to be creative and dont just wear a bunch of purples
Lifesteal does feel useless.
And does Lifesteal work on spells? What counts as an attack…?
The default weapon attack and every skill which has % weapon damage on it.
Yes, lifesteal is quite useless now.
And thanks for this, in order to fight Fabius, every character is building in defensive devotion and armor/regen items. Even for the casters, who will be presumed as ranged and fragile and needed distance to kite bosses while they have to stand still to fight Fabius, cause it’s the only way.
In 1.0.0.2, they nerfed all defensive devotion while the mobs are not significantly nerfed. That wouldn’t be a problem, because ult requires skills to finish. But what is needed to fight Fabius? Nothing but armor, regen, DA, no single skill is needed. In this case, I would say Fabius is a bad design as a crucial boss for farming.
What do you mean exactly ? I have builds that can facetank all content on ultimate but not because of lifesteal. Lifesteal not working on some bosses makes it very, very weak.
This is quite the opposite what Crate tried to achieve with the last update. I wonder why they thought that would a good idea.
It’s more like “most bosses” (or is it even all bosses?).
Lifesteal works fine.
yes, life steal work perfect with Attack speed + physical damage
I guess the point is, and what’s discussed in the latest posts, that it works when you actually don’t need it, and doesn’t when you need it the most.
I have to agree that instead of working around an unreliable mechanic, you’d better focus on another forms of passive defense. It’s what gonna carry you, and that’s what the majority of players are doing.
At high difficulties, life steal can cut through only with massive resists reduction, agree with this either. It’s a flaw.
The resist reduction mechanic, monster resistances, and their interaction with the various types of damage sources, is badly implemented. It affects LS as well.
To those who think life steal is useless right now
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36285
Ver 1.0.0.2 Blademaster Fabius farm problem? Nah，kill Fabius in 8 sec shows BM is still op.
And if you want more, I also have a much more safe secret HC BM build, with 2600 DA 2700 OA, it can not kill ultimate mog but can kill any other thing very easily. I don`t want to show it in this forum because I think zantai gonna nerf it
I always hate these examples because they rely on gear you can’t get unless you farm Ultimate.
The general rule of thumb being that so long as you have the gear any build is possible, but what’s the build everyone is using to actually obtain that gear, or are they just dying endlessly in Ultimate until they do?
I also love examples of BiS from head to toe builds, btw it’s also abusing the resistance reduction.
Can this lovely BM function the same way without stacking reduction?
I just don`t like people like you talking about farming problem, the last thing a BM player need to worry about is the farming issue, without good loots a BM can easily farm Fabius in ultimate with proper setup on devotion.
After you farm Fabius 50 times then most of players will have good loots or enough materials. at last everything is possible.
If you haven`t figured it out how to do it you just need to ask me or someone else, I can tell you how to play a OP blademaster from zero to hero,.
Generally, if you have farming issue with blademaster, it`s totally your problem, you need to play another 100 hours to know better about this game
Nah, after ver 1.0.0.2 patch he is not abusing resistance debuff stacking, the op factors comes from somewhere else.
and I have some BM builds not using deathmark weapon, instead, they use green weapon from the shop ( yes you can buy it from shop), they can still farm fabius under 30s.
Playing Grim dawn need someone to be creative, if this road is blocked, try another road
Great, this confirms the issue. You need very specific, very rare gear, stack the most powerful attributes in the game - also drinking every elixir you have available - and then you can start to do some things and abusing some (unintended) mechanics. Exactly as I said.
Besides that, in the videos there’s no proof that the players are using legit gear like it can appear in the game.
which resistance reduction is necessary to reduce life steal resistance? Is it vitality resistance, or is it only - all resistances?