just fought Valdaran on my invincible 1h warder… 7.4% chance to crit me, goes through 18k hp in a matter of 3 seconds. i have to kite in and out with a shield tank who has 86% aether resist?
at one point had 6k hp as i fled to heal, but his lighting bolt caught me 50’ away and killed me on contact. guess i’ll be farming nemesis on elite? because this is absolutely retarded.
i’m a min-max player with 1500 hours played. these are maxed toons with BIS gear.
wtf :furious:
I can sympathise. I’m having much the same experience with Nemesis bosses, though my characters aren’t nearly so well geared or built as yours.
well, i was able to kill him after i remembered most of the AETHER nemesis’ damage is lightning. but he still crit me like crazy seems insane you need to drop so much damage for ultra tankiness to facetank him and still get crit so much.
I managed to kill Valdaran recently with my 2h BA warder, but he got 2450-ish DA. Still a tough fight though, melee shotgunning, lightning bolt with resistance reduction, etc. Guess 80% lightning res is still not enough.
On the other hand, I play without Wendigo totem.
Come on man he does lightning damage :rolleyes: He will debuff your lightning resist so your total lightning res better not be 80 exactly either. Running from him is a bad idea cause he’ll bop you with lightning, just stay at melee and tank with good res. I facetanked him on my dw vitality character after using fevered rage and he was like 28% to crit 
He is pushover as long as you stay close and have proper resists
Just roll back to 1.0.0.6 until they amend this ridiculous mistake with the OA, i am sure they will fix it via Hotfix 3 soon.
Did you try to use consumables like Courageous Tincture or Stoneheart Oil?
Acually no, his debuff reduce ALL your resistance by half (except control effects)
And how do I do that? Not everyone has your familiarity with the system, you know.
Also, I use the Steam version. Does it even allow for such things?
I think the rollback only works for gogversion.
Maybe this patch was made to make DA more relevant? I mean before you could pretty much neglect it and you were still fine with less than 2k in Crucible (i read at least, dont have it yet).
That would be fine if there was more DA on items. It’s not too hard to get ~2-2.1K DA where a Soldier is one of the masteries, otoh it’s really difficult if it isn’t.
It’s not just you.
It’s the game.
Try not to let the Defense Force get you down too hard for being objective.
Killed Valdaran with my 2H Valdun Commando, he had around 9% chance to crit me, only around 11k HP and i facetanked most of the fight (can’t really kite Valdaran). Took me around 2 minutes though.
I do agree that the OA buff was rather unnecessary since Nemesis can reach some high chances to crit even with DA above 2K.
even before the patch Gladiator crucible was so damn hard nowhere near worth it for trying to get gear. now it’s just silly.
the loot is just as good on ultimate/challenger though so no real reason to do it anyway.