HurtSmash404 wrote:Also, any plans for Phase Bomb(Imo, it's too gimmicky with not enough power to offset such and the killing yourself with weapon damage turns me away as well)? And what about Beacon, any plans to make it worth hard points?
i just want sin to have a bit of a health pool or something. Whenever i play melee sin, once i reach hell and life leech drops to practically negative, I can't keep myself alive with the pace of incoming damage. You seem to need really high dex and abandoned shrines (which I never seem to get enough of to craft the pieces i need) to obtain the max block needed to survive.
sure you have prismatic cloak, shadow refuge, and perfect balance . . . . but no health pool to use them. without max block you're sitting at what, 30-40% block chance. around 50ish for perfect balane avoid, and then prismatic. so if we go by 50% avoid. and 35% block, you get roughly 32.5% chance of being hit by melee and 50% by magic. That is then reduced further by prismatic cutting maybe 200ish dmg off a hit at that lvl
Now when your in a place where it's a high amount of projectiles, and they don't do a ton per hit? you're fine, prismatic got ya. But once that target has any amount of dmg? say an early uber like jitan, those towers have enough dmg to make prismatic nearly useless, and a 32.5% chance of being hit when he summons so many so quickly? or the big mobs in that same area also hit relatively hard, sure you'll block most of em, but once that one lands there goes 1/2 your hp. Without chugging potions permanently, you don't have the sustain with leech nerfed into oblivion, and no health pool to make pots even do much.
Just feels like that particular build is so hyper squishy without max block and well crafted gear to kill so fast you don't take dmg + bloodbath healing that it's extremely rough. . . and vampiric icon is something I still haven't been able to use effectively.
I remember dying more times than i care to count on cows, and sunless sea on sin even if i crafted a judge claw and built physical resist armor/mr in tandem with other stuff. I had to just let my merc (in much weaker gear) solo the place for me or i'd keel over in 2 seconds to a swarm of hits that do enough to negate prismatic, and nothing else to manage it . . . . When you do kill fast enough to survive with bloodbath, you just need to recast it every 5-10 seconds to maintain it.