Why does the ranger always suddenly die and be chased in the stone? What’s the use of defense in this game? 75 resistance and high evasion still result in the same outcome. The experience was very bad. The number of deaths in 6 hours is greater than 30, making it very difficult to survive in the collective attack of monsters.
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How much HP/Ward and armour mitigation do you have?
1130 HP, 20 ward/s, 25%?
1241 HP, zero ward, 11%?
929 HP, zero ward, 13%?
Not much meat on the bone to survive a hit, if you ask me. Your rogues (not rangers) are all built paper thin, so it is no surprise.
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Thats how evasion works yeah.
You have 0 mitigation, 75 resistance is baseline, its not a defense, its a checkmark you can obtain if you wish.
Dodge is a hit or miss defense, you can have 90% dodge, eventually you fail the dodge check and die.
Armor/Damage reduction is what you want if you want to survive the hits you take.
in general marksmen is squishy as fuck, but its expected because they dont get good access to armor or high health.
Yes since the most recent patch it does seem more like a souls game now.
Quite a few people on the forums are saying the same kind of thing when it comes to things like Damage,Survivability etc.
Whatever they have done along with not to mention the reset has made this game more souls like.
Good for some bad for others especially new players going into this they will be affected the most.
It is not like a souls game as souls games do not have unavoidable damage. Fire lich is a great example of how to not design a boss.
There are also enemies that spawn under you, projectiles that spawn at 0.0 on the player, enemies that hit you even if you visually dodged them.
I made a thread about this before also. Last epoch is stuck in a weird place. It ain’t rest fo the wicked with dark souls gameplay. And it ain’t grimdawn where stats matter more.
Need to go the way of grimdawn since LE ain’t competing with no rest for the wicked. They need to pivot hard and decide where they want to head
That can either be desync or the hit occurs at the start of the skill animation rather than at the end/when the skill visually hits your character. The first can happen in any/every online game & I’ve seen a few examples of the latter (the giant lightning golems from chapter 9 apply their stacks of shock immediately rather than when they hit you).
Yeah, but what if they want to be somewhere in the middle?
For some people, only black and white exists.
The same as for some people, treading new ground seems to be a cardinal sin. “Don’t leave the dogma that game XYZ set, or you are doomed.”
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Gonna provide a irl conceptual example. I am a resturant. I provide a 1$ hotdog, a 10$ burger, a 15$ stake, and some average drinks. I am middle of the road, but i am going bankrupt… why?
Well down the street is a stakehouse, they sell high value, killer 50$ stakes. Near me, there is a exotic hotdog place, with dogs ranging from 20s-100$. And there is a brewery making custom meads. None are going broke??
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Being middle of the road is fine when no one is specialized. The game market for arpgs is no longer what it was, you can no longer be the middle of the road shop. You have to be specialized. Now if i was the storeowner. I would open up a funky Weedalcohol GenzWumpa Land (random name). And now try to make highly customized food for genz, buns with weed, meat with weed, etc etc.
So what is last epochs custom highly specalized offering? I think you get my analogy. Sorry if its poorly explained i slept 3 hours.
McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and any number of fast food joint would like to disagree with you.
In fact, in the real world, what you often see is that the “quick and cheap” business profits a lot more than the high quality one.
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I would not say McDonalds is cheap. Paying 10$ for a small burger… is kind of a scam. But i get what your saying. Dont forget thou, marketing and time is something i tried to avoid. These places are some cases decades old
I would actually push back on quick and cheap. Macdonalds and pizza pizza got huge money inveated in quality control. Benefits of being cheap to set up (well cheaper then others). Probably more then any singular owned restaurants ever could. Beauty of economics but also its curse
Fast food joints aren’t really cheap anymore, but they used to. Blame it on capitalism.
One of the biggest advantages of fast food joints was mostly that it was cheap and it was fast and the quality was ok.
These days it’s not that cheap anymore, but it’s still fast and quality is ok-ish. So they keep doing fine.
But my point is that a high quality 50$ steak restaurant will, by definition, target a very small portion of the community. So they’re dependent on that small part of it to survive.
Fast food joints, though, clearly target the lower classes. So they make less money per item sold (or did, anyway) but they sell a lot more and have a much larger cushion to survive if part of their regular customers leave.
This is all to say that being middle of the road (regular restaurants are middle of the road vs fast food joints and gourmet ones) is still a valid option. As long as there is a market for it.
In the case of ARPGs you currently have 2 extremes. D4 which many players feel is extremely dumbed down and PoE which many players fee is extremely complex. So there is plenty of space in between, as there are many players that aren’t fully satisfied (or at all) with either option.
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When I want to go to the fancy specialized Japanese restaurant, I have only a select few friends who have the acquired taste to enjoy the Japanese cuisine.
But if I want to just go and eat some mediocre sushi, I will find plenty of people to join me.
Somewhat authentic Thai food? Same thing, most won’t enjoy the authentic flavours. Localized mediocre Thai take away? No problem.
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While I agree with the first part, I don’t necessarily agree with the second. Not everybody wants to play a hardcore/challenging game like PoE, nor do they always want to play a casual game like D4, there is room in the middle, it’s not just a race to the most extreme ends of the spectrum.
If you’ve got somewhere cheaper than McDs for burgers, good for you, though in quite a bit of the rest of the world McDs is probably the cheapest burger place.