…with my understanding of this game’s mechanics.
Ok, first of all, I’m not a native english speaker, so please, be patient with any grammatical errors I had to make in this post.
Second, I suck immensely at kiting enemies, and in some place, in my opinion, kiting is not even an option. So 99% of my char, even casters, have to be able to tank almost anything.
Here’s the first question: almost all the builds posted in this forum are not suited to ultimate/hardcore, but all the comments say otherwise. For example, the “Ultimate DPS Blademaster” is just too frail. I have even downloaded the attached save, so the char is 100% adherent to the autor’s idea, but ultimate Fabius has killed me with ONE SHOOT in three separate instances! WTF?
In my experience, to be able to survive, a char MUST have AT LEAST 2200 OA/DA, 2000+armor, 12000+hp, 30+ physical resist, all resistance maxed, a bunch of health regen (usually 400xsec is the bare minimum I accept) and some sort of panic button(mirror, blade barrier…) or a circuit breaker like Menhir’s Will, Giant Blood or, best of all, Healing Rain. It goes without saying that these values changes between classes combination, so a soldier with decent focus on shields can be viable with less DA/armor, but these are my guidelines in general.
Yet in every post DA is dismissed as a trash stat, while OA is of incredible importance, and every melee chars run around with several pieces of caster’s armors, and apparently without dying.
Now the dps part. I have a vitality-oriented witch-hunter with 2700 unbuffed OA, 200% attack speed, +70% critical damage (with Hungering Void), 44000+ dps, Wendigo Mark bounded to Beronath’s Fury and Twin Fang bounded to Whirling Death, plus the Solael’s Decimation proc. This guy has no problem tanking and killing anything, it is a true, immortal machine of destruction, but there’s no way I can kill Fabius in around 15 sec as all these builds and their moms claim to do easily.
In the end. I’m just curious if I’m missing something crucial, because I will love to find an use to all those lovely end-game sets and items, but I often find the result subpar to the just combination of green items. (my pierce-only blademaster use dermapterans, there no way the Deathmarked Claw/Fang can outperform these, even with the procs).