Ward ofc 
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i dont know what to do. i see these giga ward builds, and wonder if im doing something wrong. stopped playing my rogue after empowerment now that its so easy to die.
That wasnāt the case prior to 1.0. All low-life builds built life because it turned into even more ward. ( Exsanguinous, Last Steps of the Living, etc.)
You can go ward with beastmaster. I did, LOL
canāt you just be good enough at dodging stuff and not even have to worry about ward?
I played spellblade in beta and all my ward did was allow me to stand in one place and do damage while taking hits I should have been dodging.
Iām playing a sorcerer with 1.5K ward and teleport around a lot. Of course, Iām only at 100 corruption and getting kinda beat up but itās all good. Feels like slow but sure progression to me. I did find an Exsangious and just stashed it in the bank.
Umm yeah, thatās it. You found me out!
Drats! Now how will I maintain my superiority in this world of pixels!?!?!?! WOE IS ME!
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And thatās perfectly fine. I also have a minion build thatā¦ get thisā¦ doesnāt use any +minion dmg gear. But it would be strange if my other minion builds had their damage capped based on my non-minion +dmg stats, wouldnāt it?
I have the tank kink: āHit me, Zombie, one more timeā
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If you werenāt watching streamers youād still have a beast master thereās going to be broken builds in any game you play the fantastic thing is you can build that same char that has 20k plus ward itās not a government secret lol.
So I am using ward on mage builds. I am aware there are nodes on acolyte masteries and maybe one other(?) that have ābroken/unintendedā maths. I see lots of posts about ward being terrible and abused.
-Iām in camp āfix nodes that are unintentional/brokenā but Iām also scared of ward being screwed overall. Since I play mage builds, I rely on ward but believe me, it is NOT saving me from one shots etc while not utilizing whatever nodes are broken.
-So I get that if people are using WHATEVER(s) that are granting them mega wardsāthis should be fixed but also scared all these people crying wolf at ward will kill me while I can only manage 2k-3k wards that still donāt save me.
My Runemaster which I havenāt optimized for ward decay or retention at all, can routinely hit 12k ward, and isnāt even at lvl 100 yet. I still die on a regular basis.
At some point people might need to put the pitchforks down and realize that while a small number of specific builds have issues, EHG clearly intended ward to be a build defining mechanic for some masteries.
Whatās funny is Beastmaster might be the most broken build in the game with hitting for 3 million and able to get 12K walking around town ward with capped armor.
THE BEST BEASTMASTER BUILD IN LAST EPOCH?! - Last Epoch (youtube.com)
Edit: Kripped said 40k ward is probably possible but he stopped playing the Beastmaster due to it being to OP.
Why should they nerf it?
Why do the classes have to be balanced?
The point of the game is to have fun and enjoy the differences between the classes. Not make all the classes the same.
The ābalance the gameā crowd that shows up always ruins these games because they cant handle difficulty and challenge.
Well, classes need to be somewhat balanced because there is a competitive aspect to the game with the leaderboards on the arena. If there was none, then it wouldnāt quite matter as much. But still, any game where people can compare and showcase builds and such needs some semblance of normality between itās classes.
You are correct, I totally forgot about that as I dont care about that kind of stuff. im purely a have fun kinda guy. Thanks! 
I mean, yes, but also no. There are absolutely no stakes. āWinningā the leaderboards doesnāt mean anything, and neither does ālosingā. So, IMO, anybody getting all twisted up about it is being a big weirdo.
Iām sorry i touched you in the āno noā spot and said the WARD word which is what your build probably is. Iām not asking to make them equal but not also OP beyond the limits of where it is the only way to play the game to progress easily. The game should be getting harder the more corruption there is but with ward it is like no corruption.
Against dummies, right? Considering the 87% damage reduction in empowered monolith, this would scale down to 390k.
By nature, Iām fairly competitive (even if I donāt necessarily care about being so in LE), so I understand why people would be upset with needing to play a very specific set of builds to be able to compete with others. The leaderboards are to show off, and have bragging rights. Itās a lot of fun to say āIām the best.ā
And to be fair. Weāll never achieve a fully balanced set of classes and skills, but we could aim for there being a wider range of things available to those who want to be competitive. Iām in no way saying that we must have every skill and every class 100% balanced and in no way can we allow the slightest deviation in that balance, it just wonāt happen.