They sort of are if you plan on not dying. Problem being that Possession/Maiven comes on a class with low innate health values - so actual EHP can be deceptive and Menhir/Maiven comes on Bama of all things. Bama already being regarded as the ‘tanky but relatively mid damage’ spec.
Also phys Bama would simply prefer OA from Oleron, tri-ele Bama would potentially prefer attack speed from Reckless (although this is debatable). There’s just no merit in playing a zdps tank build.
Now, is stacking obscene amounts of absorb on anything other than Warlock worth losing offensive asc affixes for? Maybe? But it’s GDstash territory. Might as well just get COF RR% on every piece of gear and call it OP.
Edit* And before I get called out for the ‘GDStash territory’ comment, I know you can get these mods legit. It got more reasonable with lower reroll costs. That being said I have yet to see a single 400 health affix while rolling any of my item pieces. So having tailor made affix in every slot is still a bit silly for me.
“if they sorta are”; how come no one has ever referred to it as such?
“ehp” also doesn’t really matter, you can stack health if you want, occultist gave you phys res etc, i’ve seen warlocks with over 20k hp before FoA, but i’ve not seen a single feedback thread suggesting that possession/bulwark+maiven values needed to be dialed back, because it was slightly busted to combine that much absorb
*granted it’s possible i might have missed those threads ofc.
Was mostly backhand comments, this and this class doesn’t do all that much damage but it’s tanky due to two Absorb sources. People don’t cry OP for builds that can’t quickly kill things I think.
Similar deal with the new defensive potions although they are being mentioned somewhat (armour & damage reduction one). Majority of the conversation was in regards to TDM potions tho. Because damage.
Hey folks sorry I haven’t read the entire thread, but saw you worrying about crazy good Execution and Storm Spread ascendant affixes.
My 5 cents are: it costs a few small countries GDP worth to roll for those 100% chances.
I think it fair to have them that strong.
If anything, I’d advocate for other ascended affixes to become stronger (not sure which exactly, all the underpowered ones haha).
which is how you should design a system…I don’t think it makes any sense at all to try and make game design decisions based around a third-party CHEAT lol
If people want to use cheats then let them. Yea you’ll prob see a bunch of stashed builds with optimal mods but that’ll just be what is possible, not necessarily what is actually needed to enjoy the game or complete challenges in practice.
If it gets bad or irritates people enough, make it so these posts get a GDstash tag on them or something idk
