First attempt at a Poison Lich, so bear with me. L47, just finished up the first group of quests in Heoborea.
I’ve been trying to build a sustainable Auray of Decay without having to toggle it, and for the life of me I can’t do it for more than 15 minutes. I’ll get it setup just right, with a steady total of Health/Ward around 950, Poison Res overcapped @ 100%. After running a few quests, I’ll back to town, talk to the NPCs…then I’m dead again. Nothing has changed - gear, skill/passive points are exactly the same, except now I’m getting drained like a stuck pig.
I started this combo around L35, for the most part it’s been great. But for the last couple of levels it just it’s making any sense. I find that a complete respec of AoD will make the combo work again. But only for a little while until I’m dead again.
Is this combo just not viable? I’ve tried to find similar builds online, but they’re all L100’s, which don’t help me.
iirc the first 30 stacks of poison reduce your poison res by 2% each so you need to overcap 75%+60%
i m not sure how leech with poison works but in theory you need to leech MORE than the damage you receive. AND not only that, leech happens over a duration of time, not instantly so the amount of overleeching needs to be substantial.
you would achieve this by reducing dot damage, and improving your leech amount.
since you’re playing lich, you also need to consider a lot of lich passives penalize your regeneration and infact directly drain your HP.
so you’ve got a lot of things working against you.
personally i’ve tried to make it work but got lazy. in theory if you can make it work you’re be “immortal”.
perhaps make a Life based decay aura build? i dont know.
Yeah, I just deleted this build. After playing for 2 hours straight with no issues, I got killed by a melee attack, 8 full seconds after the POS monster was killed. After respawning, I can’t use AoD at all without dying immediately, so something is way off here. My usual trick of taking EXS off-and-on stopped working.
AoD from a “design” POV is meant to be toggled on and off. keeping on indefinitely requires a lot of investment. if you’re level 47 its easy to assume you’re lacking a lot of passive nodes and probably lack a lot of good equipment to make it work.
hmmmm… that said you kinda made me want to try making my build work lol.
Leech works against Exsamguinous, but yes, Aura of Decay isn’t intended to be on constantly. He could try getting more armour & the armour affects DoT affix but generally there’s not much that can be done.
If what you’re saying is true, then I should have been thwarted from the beginning, not randomly while in town talking to NPCs or after a rebirth. It’s almost like I was permanently afflicted with Poison stacks from the previous session.
Oh, well - learned something new today. It was a fun way to play while it lasted.
The way resistances work means that the more you advance in the campaign, the harder it will become.
Your poison resistance is capped at 75%. It doesn’t matter how much more you have, except for effects like shred.
After that, it’s further reduced by the area level up to level 75+ where you’ll have an effective resistance of 0%.
This means that early on your effective poison res was around 70-ish at area level 5, but as you move up in the campaign and the area level keeps increasing your effective poison res will decrease.
When you reach the end of the campaign your effective poison res will be around 25%.
That should account for the issues you’re having with AoD and being able to sustain it for less time as you advance.
