I’ll just stop here, as getting under the impression I’m communicating with retards.
I didn’t even see this hero coming, not even his name, nor engaged into a fight - he showed up from a building, oneshot me, went back in. How do I fucking deserve it ?!? Why ?
I didn’t fucking die strictly to the lowish chaos resistance, but to a fucking mechanic able to multiply the damage like no other with separate crit chance per projectile, coming unpredicted at times.
A perfect example of how broken this shit is, are Gastris-like heroes and Gollus, who can deal insane amounts of damage through maxed poison res, with their shotgun attacks, in an AoE. Then what apologists say? “Oh, you didn’t have + to max poison res?!? Lel. Top kek. What a noob.”
Another example about the state of shotgunning is how desperately players follow the shotgun skills all around the skill tree and devotion.
I meant that if you get shotgun by Zantarin, you deserve it. Read my fucking post again. I wasn’t talking in general, just Zantarin. Don’t try to twist my words.
I’ve been playing for over 700 hours and only Mad Queen shotgun me and it was twice. In over 100 fights and those two times was because i got greedy instead of backing off when she had the red aura. I’ve never been shotgunned out of nowhere without me seeing it coming. I’m not being a fucking apologist, i’m talking for extensive experience with both tanky and squishy characters. This is coming from someone who’s an okay player at best.
Gastris and Gollus never killed me once and never shotgunned me. Gastris did have high poison burst damage a couple of updates ago, same with other similar heroes like Bielgna and they were nerfed and don’t deal near the same aumont of damage. And besides, both their shotguns are predictable as hell and they never use it at melee range.
This just screams as someone who’s running around without paying attention to what they are doing and it’s suprised when their character gets shotgunned. Even still being suprised when their character has only 20% Chaos resist.
But whatever, you are gonna keep calling me and the others with my opinion apologists, so this is just going to run around in endless circles. I’m done here.
Gollus dealing insane amounts of damage lul Gastris` problem was his absurd dot which they reduced, not a shotgun. Can he even shotgun? Been ages since I’ve seen him
I play hardcore and have no issues/complaints with shotguns. If you get shotgunned it is 99% your fault and they do certainly not all outright kill you even if you get hit. But sure go ahead and call everyone retards and cry some more
The only “shotgun” that actually kills me is that hilarious chance a nova type skill has to hit all of its projectiles at once, if you’re standing close enough. Pretty sure that’s the real power of Zantarin. I’ve certainly never been killed by the actual shotgun skill he has.
Well technically he does have an ability that shoots out 3 projectiles that also cause a (previously indeed ridiculous) ground effect. But the angle between the projectiles is really wide and he doesn’t use it in melee.
I assume you never played in early access because everyone who played back then has been shotgunned to hell and back by Loxmere. Then he was nerfed and now he poses no threat.
Still, I’m ok with shotgunning, so long as the enemy telegraphs the attack to some degree so we have a chance to get away. If you’re going to have a shotgun mechanic in a game that also features permadeath, then at least show us when we are about to bite the bullet. Bosses generally have a decent telegraph, but there have been numerous heroes since the game was first opened to testing that gave no warning they were about to shove 20,000 damage in our face whether we liked it or not.
