Easiest way to demonstrate close on a necro is to look at your skeletons, the skeletons with glowing hands are close, the ones that lose the glow are distant
Some of the most deadly things for me in teh game are those damn corpse bow's that one shot you from off screen. Sometimes I think I should get damage reduction from distant just for those.
Yes me too those corpse bows crack you when they are off your screen even I hate those things I survive most of the time but I got more deaths from the corpse now than anything else in the game mostly in helltide the butcher gives me less trouble than the corpse bows lol especially when there’s a bunch of there like in hell tides
And to top if all off, apparently they're built with wheels because those fuckers will sometimes just roll away from you when you approach them lol it's ridiculous.
Maximum life contributes to healing, fortify, all kinds of mechanics. He also spoke about armor. If armor/resists can only resists 80% of damage; you need a pretty big health pool too or you are just going to get crumpled by the 20%. 26:33
11:30 This is the best way I've been able to conceptualize armor affecting elemental damage. 50% of elemental damage is actually physical damage, and is affected by armor, and the other half is affected by elemental resist. A 1000 damage fireball is actually 500 damage subjected to armor and 500 subjected to fire resist.
Earned it? he plays video games for a living and is incapable of having anything bad to say about a blizzard product, specially diablo. He wants so bad to have that access-media power so he'll shill for life.
1. "Outs" either invulnerability like deep freeze, or Unstoppable 2. % Damage Reduction 3. Health. There is no more universally applicable stat and you can easily double your health to 5-6-7k before a potion if you try 4. Everything else mentioned here, this is where it gets very situationally dependent.
The armor stacking is probably even more useful than people are saying. 85% is the calculation versus equal levels. So not only is 100% armor reduction actually 50% non-physical damage reduction...fighting higher level stuff is reducing the calculation so having even higher armor than the tooltip is very much needed.
It is even more absurd, if you do the next reality check: The best way to deal with dangerous Fire Monsters is to equip scarfs, linen (on a sorc/necro) and other highly burnable materials, which somehow in d4 give you alot of armor. ;)
In terms of the affix priority I think the differnces in opinion both have their merits and I'd like to elaborate. I agree that DR on distant is a lot less useful than any other form of DR, I would get one roll of DR vs Distant across the entire build. While Armor is the single best defensive stat in the game I disagree total armor is a top 2 affix because of how low the roll is and because of how easy it is to cap DR from armor, I would pick it over DR against distant but not over Max Life. I'd rank it as top 3/4 (competing with general DR). That is, however, conditional to your current stats, I would have a different idea in case of a build that already has high life but isn't that close to the armor DR cap. DR from close and Max Life are the top tier affixes due to the sheer stat volume of the rolls. Here I need to stress that the first single decent Life roll increases your HP by more than 12%, you don't have to have the life roll on all the available slots but like he said you need at least Helm and Rings because you don't get any other defensive affixes that are as good on those slots, you should never sacrifice life unless on chest and legs and only for godtier defensive stats. I like DR when injuried because of the sheer volume of the roll and because I also like to play a bit of PvP. I rank it a bit higher than DR vr Distant. I dislike DR from poisoned and CCd because many sources of damage cannot be CCd (or affected by anything), it also relies on you always applying stuff before you get damaged, I'd even take DR vs distant over those. I consider Dodge a bad stat up to the very lategame when it becomes a great stat out of the simple fact that it's an additional layer that gains value the closer you are to DR caps, it requires you to be maxed out everywhere else before it's good. Unfortunately you can only get it on a couple of slots so it's mostly a filler stat, a bit better on Rogues. I'd love for CC duration reduction to roll on more slots because it being available only on chest and amulet keeps us from achieving any relevant breakpoints.
I'm fine with dying to just about everything in the game, except enemy death "traps". So tired of having to wait for all of the death effects to cycle through after killing a pack of elites just to go pick up loot. Not every elite should leave a death effect imo. At this point it feels like added fluff to slow down and/or nuke you in one shot because you got excited for the shiney
@Red Starling right. Just annoying that it's for every single elite. It adds to the "same-y" feel. Oh, and when the death trap animations get covered by say, the necro blight pools, the rogues poison trap, etc. Can be really annoying to die to.
it wouldnt compete at all. its additive and 65% would only add around 20% to your total. and then it gets reduced by 40%. and only effects 50% of the dmg. it wouldnt even compete with a 5% generic dr roll
Resistance penalty is also a multiplier. 0.8 in WT3 and 0.6 multiplier in WT4. So basically adding more resistance in WT4 will asymptotically go towards 60% max resists, but you'll never reach it. That's why resists are useless to stack, adding 50% fire resists for example will only increase your fire resists by a couple percent once you're above 40% already. They should reduce the armor contribution and increase the max resists you can have in WT4 to 80%, so you would have a 0.8 multiplicative penalty on resists instead of 0.6.
fuck no they shouldnt not with the current gearing system, if all individual resists were converted to all resist maybe, but they cant do it currently with an individual resist taking up an entire roll on an item
@@Da5kone001 You get all resist from your amulet, and dual resists from rings. I would like to see more variance in the resist stats on jewelry, now it's just connected to item power and there's no meaningful differences between them within the ascended tier. I don't mind the individual resists from other gear, it can compete with armor/DR stat by balancing out the amount you get. You should be able to get decent base resists from jewelry, and then fill up the rest with individual resists from your other gear pieces. Adding all resist on gear is fine as well, but then the rolls should be lower than the individual resist rolls. Or maybe dual resists as a single affix would be a nice addition.
@@gabbonoo Cold resist doesn't do anything to prevent chill or freeze, it just lowers the cold damage intake. Fire and poison seem like the most dangerous elemental damage types to me in the game.
All sources of Damage Reduction work in combination. So Range DR has the same diminishing returns as Resists when you take into consideration all your other sources of damage mitigation (Armor DR, Current Resists e.t.c). If your final Combined DR from armor, resists and any other sorts of damage mitigation is x%, then your next increment in DR of any kind, is going to be 1-X effective (multiplied by 1-x). In example, your total Combined DR is 90%. If you add 40% Cold Resist, it will increase your Final Cold DR by 2%. If you add 20% melee DR instead, your melee DR will go from 0% to 20%, but your Final Melee DR (combined with armor, resist, fortified e.t.c) will rise by the same ammount as in previous case, 2%! So any kind of multiplicative DR is as good/bad as resistances are :) And Armor is less effective the higher you go in Nightmare Dungeons. Its effectiveness decreases with each level difference, reaching about ~10% effectiveness if monsters are ~50 levels higher. So at higher level dungeons, Armor is worse than Resists and other kinds of DR. Maybe the best way to rise survivability is by stacking HP? 🤔
I'd stack HP and Pure DR personally. Pure DR always lowers by that amount when it applies. As everything else starts getting reduced values, pure DR starts to become less affected by diminishing return. 20% Melee DR soaks a lot more damage when armor is only soaking 10% of the damage vs. 80%. The lower your armor % gets, the more pure DR starts to carry your mitigation.
@@Urrarg Not yet sure, Melee and Range DR might be better than pure DR. 20% melee DR and 20% range DR will give you 20% all DR. While 10% pure DR on two slots, is going to give you 1 - (1 - 0.1)(1 - 0.1) = 19% All DR. They're pretty close. The thing is, you can't roll the same stat twice on single item. I'ts pretty complex 🤔 I think it's best to have all of them xD. Melee DR, Range DR, Pure DR, and then something relevant to your class, like Fortified DR / DR against burning enemies etc. Not yet sure how good is HP compared to DR on items. And 33% all res in a single roll is equivalent to 10% pure DR.
I don't mean pure as in only the one that's active all the time. I mean DR that's DR against everything type of damage and doesn't care what enemy levels are. Whether all the time, vs close range, vs burning etc. Imo I don't think it's a question of how it compares to health. Health + DR on everything that can health and dr. There's really no reason to chose between them. IF I had to choose I'd probably take health simply because there's other sources of DR and there's not a lot of good options for health.
@@Urrarg I agree. Health is pretty good. At 10k HP, 1K health is 10% HP, which is about the same ammount of EHP you'd get from 10% Unconditional Damage Reduction.
If you decide to do higher nightmare dungeons, wouldn't you want MORE armor as your current ''cap'' for that very reason? You overcap to deal with higher level enemies because of the armor penalty you just described?
Isn't the armor contribution to resistances affected by the resistance penalty exactly the same way anyway? So that 50% Contribution is really 30% Contribution, and all the resistance rolls are the other 30% Contribution.
Notice he says the molten explosions or the lightning can kill you and you're not supposed to face tank these things. That's where he's wrong. He dies to those because he has only 23% resistance in fire and lightning damage. Of course, it's diminished returns so you don't want to overdo it but you should get close to 50% with just 2 of each stat. Your rings give you 4 so you only need 6 more plus like 5 paragon nodes out of 200 nodes you can grab 10% all resist it won't hurt your dmg that much. So grab 3 resist on helmet or chest. Get armor/life on the other. I got other 3 resists on boots. You can get like 75% armor and almost 50% resistances at lvl 86 like me probably more at 100. He's got high poison and shadow so he's ok against those. And the crowd controlled dmg reduction covers some ground effects for sure. And the close dmg reduction is huge on top of his armor and that's the major threat is the mob damage. So he is for sure tanky like this but could be better imo. Problem is you don't notice it until you fight higher level mobs. At same level you just shred everything. Once you start killing higher level mobs and you're not shredding those buffed hp and shielded mobs anymore your weaknesses really start to show. If you have no poison resistance or only 23% omg you'll be dead so fast. He's got poison resist he just doesn't realize how much he needs it. Anyways, I could be wrong. Just my opinions from my experience.
26:00 blue gems are mostly 100% value on barb and druid builds, i always have max fortify, if i lose it it goes back up in seconds on my barb, i made sure of this with paragon bord
29:00 also again temerity is a barb item, but like he says u want to make sure u get a lot of life/s and if u do its fucking amazing, mobs hit me my barrier goes down and instantly up again
At max level I don't see why you ever need damage reduction of any kind ( as a sorc anyway). Everything challenging (t100 nm) will 1 shot you regardless of any DR you have. So why not just go pure damage? Forgoing all defense nodes I can even take a seventh Sigil, which greatly increases damage.
The reason armor is stronger than resist is because it stacks additively with itself, up to the 85% cap. That means armor will ALWAYS be AS STRONG AS IT CAN BE until it literally becomes useless. However, since you need a higher armor value to reduce damage at the same rate vs. a higher lvl monster compared to a lower lvl monster, if you plan to run high nightmare keys (above tier 70 I'd say), you can safely stack AS MUCH ARMOR AS YOU CAN GET and it will still not be too much. Because you simply need *that much* armor in high tier content. I fear they will change armor to make it worse, rather than fix resists to make them better. I fear my two Barbarians (one hota at lvl 60, and one ww at lvl 95) will become useless. My favorite class by a mile and I worry so much I'll become a walking joke if they nerf armor. Why? Because even though it is so much better than resists, it's not actually too good on its own merits. Resists just need buffed, armor doesn't really need nerfed. So if I can gain more armor (which more and more is needed the higher the level disparity between yourself and the enemy monsters -- for example if running a tier 80+ nightmare key), I will always want to do that instead of get resists. The only resists worth having on gear are the ones you are forced to take: 25%+ all resist on neck, and four single resist rolls split between two ring slots. That's one All Resist roll, and four single resist rolls. Any additional rolls of +resist on any slot for any build or any class is a WASTE because you could instead get armor or something more useful, like main stat (which is its own damage multiplier -- lots of people don't know that it seems). BTW, the "armor reduces dmg by 100%" thing is a VISUAL BUG. The cap is 85%, info which came from the devs themselves over a year ago in a dev quarterly blog update.
@@pxpe7765 It's not really due to a bug. It's really a design flaw. The way resists work is that they all multiply on top of one another. So if you have some resist on your necklace, and some resist on other pieces, each of those separate sources of resistance multiply against one another to come up with a total value at the end. Armor works very differently. Armor has a cap of 85% mitigation against monsters your level. Armor cannot go above that cap. That means that armor stacks additively with itself. So the armor on my chest adds with the armor on all my other pieces like my pants or gloves, and results in a total value at the end that is displayed on the character sheet. If armor worked like resistances, then the armor values wouldn't add together to come up with a sum, they would multiply together to come up with a sum. Let me give you an example. If I have 30% all resist on my neck, any additional resistance source, whether it's in my Paragon tree, or comes from my intellect if I'm a Wizard or Necromancer, or any additional resistance that comes from other gear, all of those will be reduced by 30% when multiplied against the existing 30% on my neck. So on one hand you have armor, that is always valuable point for point, until you hit a hard cap where it does nothing after that. Then, on the other hand, you have resistances, that each additional source of resistance is less effective than any previous source of resistance, meaning that you should pretty much just avoid that stat entirely unless you are forced to take it, like the implicit resists on jewelry, or from main stat for Int classes. If they change the resist system so that resistance sources added together to one another, but had a hard cap, then they would literally work just the same way as armor and would be fixed. But they will have to design, or redesign. Rather, this entirely new resistance system, which will take some serious development effort and time.
Kripp I believe in the discussion about armor or health on helmet your math is right but at the same time do you really want ti go for enemies of your level at level 100 for example. Health scales either way but armor will lose its strength going up in sigil levels
So if you hit 100% damage reduction.... 85 techniqually and you are fighting monsters 20 levels higher then you is all your armor that is over the threshold get used to make up that level leap?
I have a perfect disobedience and it is insane to get 75% extra armor. You should also put it in a necklace if you want very high armor because of the 50% bonus but it is good on any piece of gear if you want something else to get the 50% bonus.
I use disobedience on my rogue on the amulet slot. Swapped it out for the edgemasters one after that one got disabled for a couple of days. Dont really notice that i do less damage but i definitely notice that my survavability got way better
Really depends on what build you run. As a shadowclone TB Rogue I don't use basic skill, so I need poison trap to mainly apply vulnerable to enemies, so I use the vulnerable aspect on the neck slot for up to 75% chance.
Kripp... I'm a 87 sorc worth temerity pants.. should I ditch them for gg pants with damage reduction, armor, etc ? And what about my raiment chest unique ? Should I ditch it for defensive ?
My understanding is that armor is basically useless once you are fighting mobs like 17+ levels higher. Obviously the hardcore player and a streamer who runs regular dungeons all day aren't experiencing this though, so I'm not sure I trust the opinions on armor as it relates to this higher level content. I do agree with the rest of the video though.
try your necrolord build but take out basic skill and add tendrils. if grouped you can remove blood mist and add prison. cdr from decripify let’s you spam tendrils and once you get second board done your minions wreck and you never run out of mana. can also get army of the dead back in 20 seconds and when you have army of the dead up you can spam bone spear and stack crit since tendrils is doing the vulnerable
If your class is ranged most of the time and class supports dodge, then yeah dodge is worth getting, dodge nullify the damage that would have hit and also nullify the enemy CC that would have hit. For druids and barbs it's not really supported by class, and druid and barb get easy unstoppable and fortify.
Isn't the idea if your not playing hardcore to play as if the character is hardcore? Broken armor gets expensive, if you rarely have to repair it you can rack up Diablo IV's most vital resource.
@@Veldrane not at all? and repairing costs almost nothing if you just vendor rares. unless you are dying 4 times an hour, at which point... you got other stuff to work on. i think less than 0.1% play softcore as if its hardcore lol
Hey Kripp, I’ve been seeing that armor is pretty much useless at higher levels when pushing NM dungeons 17 levels above your character (from the finger gamer). But then you talk about it an say otherwise. I changed my barb from high armor to damage mitigation or other defenses and it helped a lot when pushing higher content. Might have just been a fluke though.
Kripp is wrong here. DR is very important in higher NM dungeons. Armor is too but DR is just as important in higher tier NM dungeons. Just look at the build of most player who completed NM dungeon with barb. Stacks of DR
They could make this math so much easier to understand and get the same effect from it by just adding different caps. Like in d2 dmg reduction was dr you knew how much you had was actually accurate to how it would function in reality and it just capped at 50% you could stack more but it had no effect. Just weird to see 10% dr from close, then you do math and that 10% is based off of 10% of what you already have or whats left over and you actually get like 5% or something actual dr in functionality.
They did it this way so that your baseline is always the point at which you currently sit. 10% me more DR will always give you 10% less dmg taken RELATIVE to your current dmg taken NOT relative to the total unmitigated damage the monster dealt. If you are about to take 500 dmg and just in time you drink a hypothetical 10% DR elixir, you will take 450 dmg. But the monster's hit might have originally been for something like 10,000 if you hadn't also got all this other DR preceding your elixir. So compared to that 10,000 unmitigated damage you are right 50 damage isn't even close to 10%. But you need to adjust your thinking and it begins to make a lot more sense.
Current understanding of the armor formula is that it actually becomes WORSE than resistance when the enemies are 50 levels above you (pushing tier 100; nightmare dungeons where the enemy lvl is over 150). Armor starts dropping in effectiveness by a shit ton on the early armor charts, and some people are saying once the enemies are 17 lvls above you, stop investing in armor.
A dodged attack deals 0 damage. But the opportunity cost means you aren't trying to mitigate the ones that do land l, as much. It's very feast or famine. If you can get it for free, take it every time it's absolutely fantastic to see an attack you know for certain would have 1-hit KO'D you get dodged. Elixirs or skill passives etc. Never go too far out of your way for dodge paragons and never ever take it in place of a proper defensive damage reduction stat on armor
Every bucket starts out strong and scales poorly. So get a bit then leave it. Good on one or two pieces if your character doesn't mind missing out on getting hit.
9:00 Note from an engineer: It needs to scale exponentially in order to increase the said value more in a higher cross-section. If that is what you meant. Great video as always though!
21:35 He isn't saying "Close" damage isn't great, he's saying physical, fire, etc is garbago. They are all in the same bucket and those have MUCH higher percentages than DoT, physical etc. Those never decent % options
Lvl 71 barb, I have very little for passive healing or defense aspects on my gear.... if I get frozen I have a 70% chance of dying. If a group of elites have any high damaging affix then welp I better be able to spam my 13 potions bc I will get melted since I have to be close to even do damage 😐
@nickhenley1338 yeah I noticed that too as I level my barb up only 38 not my first class though, I don't get why they just can't give the classes at least access to a couple ways of healing through the skill tree, not needing stats from gear or gear perks or aspects, or at least make the healing more impactful for characters who have less of it
@nickhenley1338 also I know it kind of sucks to waste a perk slot on healing but if you get a heal X amount of health when by close enemies that's pretty clutch haven't gotten great loot for my barbarian though
It’s a bug. Start a nightmare dungeon, finish the FIRST objective, get to next area, TP to town run to any dungeon you want, farm it, leave dungeon, go back in. As long as your NM dungeon is open, you can instant reset any other dungeon.
Pretty sure Temerity is gimmick item for barbs, we do a crap ton of overhealing with the right skill points. The issue is you're missing important shout + mods but those are usually reserved for dr% shouts so at the end of the day we're increasing our survivability and thats what you're looking for especially as a barb.
I like it for Blood Surge necro because I'm always refreshing 50% of my HP as barrier after every 1 or 2 cast. My build also drops a ton of blood orbs and they also fortify me on top of healing, so you always fortified with a barrier refreshing.
Yea, it's sort of gimmicky, but can be fun to use. Made it work on a sorc arc lash focused build (overall somewhat different from the "meta" one). Sorc tends to struggle in higher nightmares due to low survivability among other things. Kinda cheesed my way around that by stacking several things that constantly spam me with barriers. Unless I get one-tapped, I pretty much cannot die. Then again, getting one-tapped is not an all too rare occurrence either, so...there's that...
Temerity for barb is good if you run skills that adds damage to barrier/fortify and only that. I run thornbarb with temerity and for me it's been a lifesaver in HC
I don’t understand what people want. Do they want armor nerf and buff elemental? Or just buff elemental and then we take no damage. But as you said nerfing armor nerfs all barbs
Just a suggestion, but instead of duping, the pants and the chess piece the same, the pants need to be dodge chance close, dodge chance fare, dodge chance. that’s the only mistake I see that they’re making because the game will Nerf itself against their armor you can’t build for against a one shot so dodge it.
but unless u have 100% dodge chance relying on that stat is kind of bad/dumb. if you DONT dodge something lethal, gg. You invested in a stat that is pure rng.
From my understanding armor is complete trash in high level nightmare dungeons, it loses like 1/2 effectiveness every 10 levels above you the monsters are. So it's actually a pretty overrated stat, since it's not like you need damage reduction to do on-level content
Kripp has a point about rubys. The first person who killed uber lilith in HC had all rubies in his gear, I think he knows a little bit about surviving.
So far the only time he killed me was in the beta.... it's easy to tank and heal his damage yet I'll die whenever I get frozen or locked out of my heals and abilities. Seems balanced.........
I just look at this game as half done. Itemization is half done, resistances are planed for higher levels, world is half done, gems are joke and we are missing half of them etc. Blizz decided to ship it before it's done, or just cut it in half and call other half seasons. They just sold us half of the game for full price, it's kina genius and no-one is talking about it :-)
looking at videos like this kind of feels like diablo4 is a complete mess. yeah, the core gameplay is fun, but there seems to be literally no polish in the games balance.
The way they've done resists in this game is terrible honestly. 'some kiddo complained that they were confused in beta so let's just make resists not matter.'
Your comments about barbs are off. They have -10% dmg reduction built in, and challenging shout is the main thing carrying their defense. Aspect of disobedience is overrated because it only reaches max stacks in rare long fights. You're also boasting about your survivability in this dungeon with equal level mobs.
Actually Necro can push that aspect from 0 to a 100 in a few seconds. Darkness skills are all dots, bone armor hit really fast, blood surge hit 3 times with a screen wide AOE and bone spear hits almost everything on screen. But honestly all you need is blighted Corpse explosion, ticks twice per second and you can have like 20 ticks at a time
What are you talking about? Legendaries in D4 is just rares with another affix you can put on other rares to make super rares. Uniques are the real legendaries.
@@FREEDOMFIGHTER28s__Left__Dent not really a lot of legendaries have niche stuff that make a lot of them pretty garbage towards what you would want to build a decent amount of the time.
I missed that when I watched it the first time. His rogue is at 45% from armor??? And it goes up to 82 with the stacks??? I’m at 80% armor all day. I guess I did it right.
I'm amazed how many thing Wudijo has got wrong. One was the gems in armor sockets. Kripp is right pure life is better for barb example im at level 100. You get more fortify and if done correctly build barrier with temerity. Maybe maxroll has not looked their guides deeply if that is their basis as team.
Aside from sending this kind of video to blizzard because we know this isnt a feature but a bug, whats the value of learning the current mechanics when we know they are broken and will be fixed.
did their testing cause them to make it this way? was it too hard for casual people or maybe everyone when they tested having resistance actually means smething and where armor doesnt do all that blocking out of elemental damages? trying to give them benefit of the doubt. cuz if there wasn't something like this, it just seems absurdly bad design
Armor is useless when you go higher in the nightmare dungeons, so life is way better than armor. If a mob is more than 17 level above you armor becomes practicly worthless. Only thing that counts onwards are liferolls and damage% mitigation. In a key with level 100 armor is able to mitigate 7,5% damage at max, nothing more. That is how good armor is....
84 Rogue, I now regularly do NM's at tier 54 (so more than 20 lvls higher than my character) and it wasn't until I started giving prio to armor that I reached them.
I also have 6k armor and I completed NMD54 as a lv83, that was +23 my level. I farm NM usually 8-10 levels above my own pretty smooth, not dying at all. The problem with necro is the low damage outside of bone spear/spirit
Easiest way to demonstrate close on a necro is to look at your skeletons, the skeletons with glowing hands are close, the ones that lose the glow are distant
that's crazy I didn't notice that at all
I thought the hands glow because I empowered em for 20% dmg by resummoning when capped on summons?
@@jonathanrothmare3509 It's the hellbent commander passive I believe, the one that makes them deal more damage if close to you
@@ghostwolfx ahhh ok that makes more sense. I been using the shadow damage 😁
Some of the most deadly things for me in teh game are those damn corpse bow's that one shot you from off screen. Sometimes I think I should get damage reduction from distant just for those.
Yes me too those corpse bows crack you when they are off your screen even I hate those things I survive most of the time but I got more deaths from the corpse now than anything else in the game mostly in helltide the butcher gives me less trouble than the corpse bows lol especially when there’s a bunch of there like in hell tides
And to top if all off, apparently they're built with wheels because those fuckers will sometimes just roll away from you when you approach them lol it's ridiculous.
the charging tusker bulls are the absolute worst as far as normal mobs for me
Yup. I second the corpse bows. Hate those things.
Honestly the red ghosts can be a real problem at higher tiers
Maximum life contributes to healing, fortify, all kinds of mechanics. He also spoke about armor. If armor/resists can only resists 80% of damage; you need a pretty big health pool too or you are just going to get crumpled by the 20%. 26:33
11:30 This is the best way I've been able to conceptualize armor affecting elemental damage. 50% of elemental damage is actually physical damage, and is affected by armor, and the other half is affected by elemental resist. A 1000 damage fireball is actually 500 damage subjected to armor and 500 subjected to fire resist.
Kripp with this amount of D4 content is like Christmas every weekend
love the respect for wudi here. the guy has earned it.
The only thing he does that’s annoying is shill for diablo. Game can be dog shit and he’s like ITS THE BEST ITS SO GOOD
@@kakkycoasties8670 hype makes his audience flourish.
Earned it? he plays video games for a living and is incapable of having anything bad to say about a blizzard product, specially diablo. He wants so bad to have that access-media power so he'll shill for life.
Kirrps comment and point of view in the podcast with Wudji and Asmon were just so on point! GJ
He was the most whiny one there, and had the worst takes.
1. "Outs" either invulnerability like deep freeze, or Unstoppable
2. % Damage Reduction
3. Health. There is no more universally applicable stat and you can easily double your health to 5-6-7k before a potion if you try
4. Everything else mentioned here, this is where it gets very situationally dependent.
The armor stacking is probably even more useful than people are saying. 85% is the calculation versus equal levels. So not only is 100% armor reduction actually 50% non-physical damage reduction...fighting higher level stuff is reducing the calculation so having even higher armor than the tooltip is very much needed.
This guide helped me soo much. A good guide.
It is even more absurd, if you do the next reality check: The best way to deal with dangerous Fire Monsters is to equip scarfs, linen (on a sorc/necro) and other highly burnable materials, which somehow in d4 give you alot of armor. ;)
In terms of the affix priority I think the differnces in opinion both have their merits and I'd like to elaborate.
I agree that DR on distant is a lot less useful than any other form of DR, I would get one roll of DR vs Distant across the entire build.
While Armor is the single best defensive stat in the game I disagree total armor is a top 2 affix because of how low the roll is and because of how easy it is to cap DR from armor, I would pick it over DR against distant but not over Max Life. I'd rank it as top 3/4 (competing with general DR). That is, however, conditional to your current stats, I would have a different idea in case of a build that already has high life but isn't that close to the armor DR cap.
DR from close and Max Life are the top tier affixes due to the sheer stat volume of the rolls. Here I need to stress that the first single decent Life roll increases your HP by more than 12%, you don't have to have the life roll on all the available slots but like he said you need at least Helm and Rings because you don't get any other defensive affixes that are as good on those slots, you should never sacrifice life unless on chest and legs and only for godtier defensive stats.
I like DR when injuried because of the sheer volume of the roll and because I also like to play a bit of PvP. I rank it a bit higher than DR vr Distant.
I dislike DR from poisoned and CCd because many sources of damage cannot be CCd (or affected by anything), it also relies on you always applying stuff before you get damaged, I'd even take DR vs distant over those.
I consider Dodge a bad stat up to the very lategame when it becomes a great stat out of the simple fact that it's an additional layer that gains value the closer you are to DR caps, it requires you to be maxed out everywhere else before it's good. Unfortunately you can only get it on a couple of slots so it's mostly a filler stat, a bit better on Rogues.
I'd love for CC duration reduction to roll on more slots because it being available only on chest and amulet keeps us from achieving any relevant breakpoints.
I'm fine with dying to just about everything in the game, except enemy death "traps". So tired of having to wait for all of the death effects to cycle through after killing a pack of elites just to go pick up loot. Not every elite should leave a death effect imo. At this point it feels like added fluff to slow down and/or nuke you in one shot because you got excited for the shiney
Yea lol my first reaction after killing an elite or boss is to get away from area, otherwise I just end up wasting potions to heal
@Red Starling right. Just annoying that it's for every single elite. It adds to the "same-y" feel. Oh, and when the death trap animations get covered by say, the necro blight pools, the rogues poison trap, etc. Can be really annoying to die to.
Git gud
Oh so original. 🙄 you lack depth just like the overuse of the death trap mechanic.
@@ExaltedSalt your name fits tho
If you had 65% to all resistances as an affix, it would BARELY compete with 20% damage reduction from close or distant.
it wouldnt compete at all. its additive and 65% would only add around 20% to your total. and then it gets reduced by 40%. and only effects 50% of the dmg. it wouldnt even compete with a 5% generic dr roll
Resistance penalty is also a multiplier. 0.8 in WT3 and 0.6 multiplier in WT4. So basically adding more resistance in WT4 will asymptotically go towards 60% max resists, but you'll never reach it. That's why resists are useless to stack, adding 50% fire resists for example will only increase your fire resists by a couple percent once you're above 40% already. They should reduce the armor contribution and increase the max resists you can have in WT4 to 80%, so you would have a 0.8 multiplicative penalty on resists instead of 0.6.
fuck no they shouldnt not with the current gearing system, if all individual resists were converted to all resist maybe, but they cant do it currently with an individual resist taking up an entire roll on an item
@@Da5kone001 You get all resist from your amulet, and dual resists from rings. I would like to see more variance in the resist stats on jewelry, now it's just connected to item power and there's no meaningful differences between them within the ascended tier.
I don't mind the individual resists from other gear, it can compete with armor/DR stat by balancing out the amount you get. You should be able to get decent base resists from jewelry, and then fill up the rest with individual resists from your other gear pieces. Adding all resist on gear is fine as well, but then the rolls should be lower than the individual resist rolls. Or maybe dual resists as a single affix would be a nice addition.
the only resist thats worth it after capped armor is cold imo.... provided it keeps Chilled down vs ranged.
@@gabbonoo Cold resist doesn't do anything to prevent chill or freeze, it just lowers the cold damage intake. Fire and poison seem like the most dangerous elemental damage types to me in the game.
All sources of Damage Reduction work in combination.
So Range DR has the same diminishing returns as Resists when you take into consideration all your other sources of damage mitigation (Armor DR, Current Resists e.t.c).
If your final Combined DR from armor, resists and any other sorts of damage mitigation is x%, then your next increment in DR of any kind, is going to be 1-X effective (multiplied by 1-x).
In example, your total Combined DR is 90%. If you add 40% Cold Resist, it will increase your Final Cold DR by 2%.
If you add 20% melee DR instead, your melee DR will go from 0% to 20%, but your Final Melee DR (combined with armor, resist, fortified e.t.c) will rise by the same ammount as in previous case, 2%!
So any kind of multiplicative DR is as good/bad as resistances are :)
And Armor is less effective the higher you go in Nightmare Dungeons. Its effectiveness decreases with each level difference, reaching about ~10% effectiveness if monsters are ~50 levels higher.
So at higher level dungeons, Armor is worse than Resists and other kinds of DR.
Maybe the best way to rise survivability is by stacking HP? 🤔
I'd stack HP and Pure DR personally. Pure DR always lowers by that amount when it applies. As everything else starts getting reduced values, pure DR starts to become less affected by diminishing return. 20% Melee DR soaks a lot more damage when armor is only soaking 10% of the damage vs. 80%. The lower your armor % gets, the more pure DR starts to carry your mitigation.
@@Urrarg Not yet sure, Melee and Range DR might be better than pure DR.
20% melee DR and 20% range DR will give you 20% all DR.
While 10% pure DR on two slots, is going to give you 1 - (1 - 0.1)(1 - 0.1) = 19% All DR.
They're pretty close. The thing is, you can't roll the same stat twice on single item.
I'ts pretty complex 🤔
I think it's best to have all of them xD. Melee DR, Range DR, Pure DR, and then something relevant to your class, like Fortified DR / DR against burning enemies etc.
Not yet sure how good is HP compared to DR on items.
And 33% all res in a single roll is equivalent to 10% pure DR.
I don't mean pure as in only the one that's active all the time. I mean DR that's DR against everything type of damage and doesn't care what enemy levels are. Whether all the time, vs close range, vs burning etc.
Imo I don't think it's a question of how it compares to health. Health + DR on everything that can health and dr. There's really no reason to chose between them. IF I had to choose I'd probably take health simply because there's other sources of DR and there's not a lot of good options for health.
@@Urrarg I agree. Health is pretty good. At 10k HP, 1K health is 10% HP, which is about the same ammount of EHP you'd get from 10% Unconditional Damage Reduction.
If you decide to do higher nightmare dungeons, wouldn't you want MORE armor as your current ''cap'' for that very reason? You overcap to deal with higher level enemies because of the armor penalty you just described?
Isn't the armor contribution to resistances affected by the resistance penalty exactly the same way anyway? So that 50% Contribution is really 30% Contribution, and all the resistance rolls are the other 30% Contribution.
what do you have bound to left click? i dont recognize the icon im curious
Notice he says the molten explosions or the lightning can kill you and you're not supposed to face tank these things. That's where he's wrong. He dies to those because he has only 23% resistance in fire and lightning damage. Of course, it's diminished returns so you don't want to overdo it but you should get close to 50% with just 2 of each stat. Your rings give you 4 so you only need 6 more plus like 5 paragon nodes out of 200 nodes you can grab 10% all resist it won't hurt your dmg that much. So grab 3 resist on helmet or chest. Get armor/life on the other. I got other 3 resists on boots. You can get like 75% armor and almost 50% resistances at lvl 86 like me probably more at 100. He's got high poison and shadow so he's ok against those. And the crowd controlled dmg reduction covers some ground effects for sure. And the close dmg reduction is huge on top of his armor and that's the major threat is the mob damage. So he is for sure tanky like this but could be better imo. Problem is you don't notice it until you fight higher level mobs. At same level you just shred everything. Once you start killing higher level mobs and you're not shredding those buffed hp and shielded mobs anymore your weaknesses really start to show. If you have no poison resistance or only 23% omg you'll be dead so fast. He's got poison resist he just doesn't realize how much he needs it. Anyways, I could be wrong. Just my opinions from my experience.
26:00 blue gems are mostly 100% value on barb and druid builds, i always have max fortify, if i lose it it goes back up in seconds on my barb, i made sure of this with paragon bord
29:00 also again temerity is a barb item, but like he says u want to make sure u get a lot of life/s and if u do its fucking amazing, mobs hit me my barrier goes down and instantly up again
maybe the pants are bad for like super late game NM dungeons but up to like lvl 100 nm dungeon 45 they are good if u know how to build your character
Hast kripp made a guide to this necro build? It's not the one without golems he uploaded
At max level I don't see why you ever need damage reduction of any kind ( as a sorc anyway). Everything challenging (t100 nm) will 1 shot you regardless of any DR you have. So why not just go pure damage? Forgoing all defense nodes I can even take a seventh Sigil, which greatly increases damage.
So do we basically in general stack total armor % on pieces for any character?
The other thing about armor rolls is disobedience could have you capped anyway. In which case max life could be better.
it wont cap if you run high nightmare dungeons. you would need like 20k+ at level 100 which would mean you sacrifice too much mobility/dps/cc.
The reason armor is stronger than resist is because it stacks additively with itself, up to the 85% cap. That means armor will ALWAYS be AS STRONG AS IT CAN BE until it literally becomes useless. However, since you need a higher armor value to reduce damage at the same rate vs. a higher lvl monster compared to a lower lvl monster, if you plan to run high nightmare keys (above tier 70 I'd say), you can safely stack AS MUCH ARMOR AS YOU CAN GET and it will still not be too much. Because you simply need *that much* armor in high tier content.
I fear they will change armor to make it worse, rather than fix resists to make them better. I fear my two Barbarians (one hota at lvl 60, and one ww at lvl 95) will become useless. My favorite class by a mile and I worry so much I'll become a walking joke if they nerf armor. Why? Because even though it is so much better than resists, it's not actually too good on its own merits. Resists just need buffed, armor doesn't really need nerfed.
So if I can gain more armor (which more and more is needed the higher the level disparity between yourself and the enemy monsters -- for example if running a tier 80+ nightmare key), I will always want to do that instead of get resists. The only resists worth having on gear are the ones you are forced to take: 25%+ all resist on neck, and four single resist rolls split between two ring slots. That's one All Resist roll, and four single resist rolls. Any additional rolls of +resist on any slot for any build or any class is a WASTE because you could instead get armor or something more useful, like main stat (which is its own damage multiplier -- lots of people don't know that it seems).
BTW, the "armor reduces dmg by 100%" thing is a VISUAL BUG. The cap is 85%, info which came from the devs themselves over a year ago in a dev quarterly blog update.
How the fuck do they still have a bug they found a year ago?😂
@@pxpe7765 It's not really due to a bug. It's really a design flaw. The way resists work is that they all multiply on top of one another. So if you have some resist on your necklace, and some resist on other pieces, each of those separate sources of resistance multiply against one another to come up with a total value at the end. Armor works very differently. Armor has a cap of 85% mitigation against monsters your level. Armor cannot go above that cap. That means that armor stacks additively with itself. So the armor on my chest adds with the armor on all my other pieces like my pants or gloves, and results in a total value at the end that is displayed on the character sheet. If armor worked like resistances, then the armor values wouldn't add together to come up with a sum, they would multiply together to come up with a sum. Let me give you an example. If I have 30% all resist on my neck, any additional resistance source, whether it's in my Paragon tree, or comes from my intellect if I'm a Wizard or Necromancer, or any additional resistance that comes from other gear, all of those will be reduced by 30% when multiplied against the existing 30% on my neck.
So on one hand you have armor, that is always valuable point for point, until you hit a hard cap where it does nothing after that. Then, on the other hand, you have resistances, that each additional source of resistance is less effective than any previous source of resistance, meaning that you should pretty much just avoid that stat entirely unless you are forced to take it, like the implicit resists on jewelry, or from main stat for Int classes.
If they change the resist system so that resistance sources added together to one another, but had a hard cap, then they would literally work just the same way as armor and would be fixed. But they will have to design, or redesign. Rather, this entirely new resistance system, which will take some serious development effort and time.
@@D2Mephisto none of that explains why the sheet % goes up to 100% if the actual cap is 85
That Mr Llama guy just complained about everything
Kripp I believe in the discussion about armor or health on helmet your math is right but at the same time do you really want ti go for enemies of your level at level 100 for example. Health scales either way but armor will lose its strength going up in sigil levels
What build are you using in the video, looks fun to me lol.
So if you hit 100% damage reduction.... 85 techniqually and you are fighting monsters 20 levels higher then you is all your armor that is over the threshold get used to make up that level leap?
are you running blind burrows to level 100?
Id be ok if they nerfed armor a little bit, but you would have to buff the hell out of resistances, damage reduction and unstoppable for other classes
I have a perfect disobedience and it is insane to get 75% extra armor. You should also put it in a necklace if you want very high armor because of the 50% bonus but it is good on any piece of gear if you want something else to get the 50% bonus.
I use disobedience on my rogue on the amulet slot. Swapped it out for the edgemasters one after that one got disabled for a couple of days. Dont really notice that i do less damage but i definitely notice that my survavability got way better
Really depends on what build you run. As a shadowclone TB Rogue I don't use basic skill, so I need poison trap to mainly apply vulnerable to enemies, so I use the vulnerable aspect on the neck slot for up to 75% chance.
Depends on your build man. You dont de facto put it on your amulet. I need Direwolf on my ammy. I got disobediance on my chest.
Putting it on anything other than amulet is greed. Full stop.
@@stephencorwin9776 It's not " full stop". For those using Direwolf, THAT needs to be on amulet.
It should be inverted to have the penalty from resist ignored from an mount of armor. and pure resist have no penalty at all.
Kripp... I'm a 87 sorc worth temerity pants.. should I ditch them for gg pants with damage reduction, armor, etc ? And what about my raiment chest unique ? Should I ditch it for defensive ?
just give him ur mouse and keyboard next so he can play ur char for u
I'm never giving up my Raiment on my current build. It's aspect is too damn useful.
after armor, dodge is god tier but slept on. you completely avoid ALL damage.
My understanding is that armor is basically useless once you are fighting mobs like 17+ levels higher. Obviously the hardcore player and a streamer who runs regular dungeons all day aren't experiencing this though, so I'm not sure I trust the opinions on armor as it relates to this higher level content.
I do agree with the rest of the video though.
try your necrolord build but take out basic skill and add tendrils. if grouped you can remove blood mist and add prison. cdr from decripify let’s you spam tendrils and once you get second board done your minions wreck and you never run out of mana. can also get army of the dead back in 20 seconds and when you have army of the dead up you can spam bone spear and stack crit since tendrils is doing the vulnerable
Preach about Abhorrent...
I could see the devs scheduling a meeting and when someone asks for the agenda they start one of these videos. Lol ❤
I'm wondering how you consider dodge ? Getting 8.6% on both pants and boots seems pretty OP.
If your class is ranged most of the time and class supports dodge, then yeah dodge is worth getting, dodge nullify the damage that would have hit and also nullify the enemy CC that would have hit.
For druids and barbs it's not really supported by class, and druid and barb get easy unstoppable and fortify.
This is great for hardcore players. But people not on hardcore who can afford to die sometimes might want to look into unstoppable and barriers.
you didn't go to nightmare dungeons obviosly where you have 4 respawns.
Isn't the idea if your not playing hardcore to play as if the character is hardcore? Broken armor gets expensive, if you rarely have to repair it you can rack up Diablo IV's most vital resource.
lol hardcore. Have fun starting over.
@@Veldrane not at all? and repairing costs almost nothing if you just vendor rares. unless you are dying 4 times an hour, at which point... you got other stuff to work on. i think less than 0.1% play softcore as if its hardcore lol
what is the build kripp is using in this video
TV😊
you confused "more damage reduction" with less damage reduction. unless theres such thing as middle enemies.
Meanwhile sorcerers out there slaying Uber Lilith in 2 one shots
Hey Kripp, I’ve been seeing that armor is pretty much useless at higher levels when pushing NM dungeons 17 levels above your character (from the finger gamer). But then you talk about it an say otherwise.
I changed my barb from high armor to damage mitigation or other defenses and it helped a lot when pushing higher content. Might have just been a fluke though.
Thats also my theory since DR effects are applied after armor and resistances so they should scale very good at high tiers
Kripp is wrong here. DR is very important in higher NM dungeons. Armor is too but DR is just as important in higher tier NM dungeons. Just look at the build of most player who completed NM dungeon with barb. Stacks of DR
My barbarian already has trouble staying alive. If they nerf disobedience, I'm just not going to play barbarian anymore
his 2nd rogue died like a day after the video :D but Wudi is awesome anyway
Wudi is pretty lucky that his deaths weren't to random technical issues.
yea he got cheese by those wraiths that 1 shot with the lightning rail gun
They could make this math so much easier to understand and get the same effect from it by just adding different caps. Like in d2 dmg reduction was dr you knew how much you had was actually accurate to how it would function in reality and it just capped at 50% you could stack more but it had no effect. Just weird to see 10% dr from close, then you do math and that 10% is based off of 10% of what you already have or whats left over and you actually get like 5% or something actual dr in functionality.
They did it this way so that your baseline is always the point at which you currently sit. 10% me more DR will always give you 10% less dmg taken RELATIVE to your current dmg taken NOT relative to the total unmitigated damage the monster dealt.
If you are about to take 500 dmg and just in time you drink a hypothetical 10% DR elixir, you will take 450 dmg. But the monster's hit might have originally been for something like 10,000 if you hadn't also got all this other DR preceding your elixir. So compared to that 10,000 unmitigated damage you are right 50 damage isn't even close to 10%. But you need to adjust your thinking and it begins to make a lot more sense.
Current understanding of the armor formula is that it actually becomes WORSE than resistance when the enemies are 50 levels above you (pushing tier 100; nightmare dungeons where the enemy lvl is over 150). Armor starts dropping in effectiveness by a shit ton on the early armor charts, and some people are saying once the enemies are 17 lvls above you, stop investing in armor.
the amount of armor penetration enemies lvl 50 higher then u have is huge, u need to stack armor as high as possible to 20k+ if u want to survive
@@wrappednw6861 Is it confirmed that enemies have flat armor penetration and there isn't a formula that makes them penetrate armor in percentages?
How do you rate dodge against other defenses?
A dodged attack deals 0 damage. But the opportunity cost means you aren't trying to mitigate the ones that do land l, as much. It's very feast or famine. If you can get it for free, take it every time it's absolutely fantastic to see an attack you know for certain would have 1-hit KO'D you get dodged. Elixirs or skill passives etc. Never go too far out of your way for dodge paragons and never ever take it in place of a proper defensive damage reduction stat on armor
@@graog123Kripp seems to disagree with you since he has it on his pants/boots.
Every bucket starts out strong and scales poorly. So get a bit then leave it. Good on one or two pieces if your character doesn't mind missing out on getting hit.
9:00 Note from an engineer: It needs to scale exponentially in order to increase the said value more in a higher cross-section. If that is what you meant. Great video as always though!
21:35 He isn't saying "Close" damage isn't great, he's saying physical, fire, etc is garbago. They are all in the same bucket and those have MUCH higher percentages than DoT, physical etc. Those never decent % options
I feel like rubies can be decent on some builds; eg a barb with the %max life healing no?
the irony given THE EVENT, which occured only hours later :)
The telemity pans they goin to be realy op if que the unic item wt live stil is goin to be up all the time so dont think is useless or trash
When I push ND I am almost exclusively one-shotted by ranged attacks. And I play "ranged" Rogue.
iron golem is the single coolest summon in diablo and I will do everything in my power to keep it in my build.
The joke about them nerfing armor is too real, didn't know whether to cry or laugh
Lvl 71 barb, I have very little for passive healing or defense aspects on my gear.... if I get frozen I have a 70% chance of dying. If a group of elites have any high damaging affix then welp I better be able to spam my 13 potions bc I will get melted since I have to be close to even do damage 😐
@nickhenley1338 yeah I noticed that too as I level my barb up only 38 not my first class though, I don't get why they just can't give the classes at least access to a couple ways of healing through the skill tree, not needing stats from gear or gear perks or aspects, or at least make the healing more impactful for characters who have less of it
@nickhenley1338 also I know it kind of sucks to waste a perk slot on healing but if you get a heal X amount of health when by close enemies that's pretty clutch haven't gotten great loot for my barbarian though
How’s Kripp able to go straight back into the same dungeon after completing it without restarting the game?
It’s a bug. Start a nightmare dungeon, finish the FIRST objective, get to next area, TP to town run to any dungeon you want, farm it, leave dungeon, go back in. As long as your NM dungeon is open, you can instant reset any other dungeon.
Its not even a debate. listen to Wudijo. You shouldnt listen to someone who told you to spec into resistance. shouldnt even be making videos.
Someone sounds really salty with Barbs. What Barb hurt you so much to give you trauma my man.
Barb sucks thats why. Ran into countless ones that do Zdps and die because a elite looked at them.
Barbs are soyboys
Druids are gigachad
And necros are sigma males
He is wrong about the max life % modifiers, they in fact work on helmets, but not on rings. At least on my rogue. It makes no sense.
Are you kidding me... I've been avoiding armor nodes on paragon
Thank you for turning off your own gameplay sound ❤👍🏻 Now I can enjoy
3:54 he tanked the butcher like its nothing... I realized I dont know how to play this game...
Pretty sure Temerity is gimmick item for barbs, we do a crap ton of overhealing with the right skill points. The issue is you're missing important shout + mods but those are usually reserved for dr% shouts so at the end of the day we're increasing our survivability and thats what you're looking for especially as a barb.
Yep, tried temerity on my Druid, not really worth it to be honest.
I like it for Blood Surge necro because I'm always refreshing 50% of my HP as barrier after every 1 or 2 cast. My build also drops a ton of blood orbs and they also fortify me on top of healing, so you always fortified with a barrier refreshing.
Yea, it's sort of gimmicky, but can be fun to use. Made it work on a sorc arc lash focused build (overall somewhat different from the "meta" one). Sorc tends to struggle in higher nightmares due to low survivability among other things. Kinda cheesed my way around that by stacking several things that constantly spam me with barriers. Unless I get one-tapped, I pretty much cannot die. Then again, getting one-tapped is not an all too rare occurrence either, so...there's that...
Temerity for barb is good if you run skills that adds damage to barrier/fortify and only that. I run thornbarb with temerity and for me it's been a lifesaver in HC
Exactly my thoughts, when i checked that joke stat as resistance. IDK how they are going to fix that :D
I don’t understand what people want. Do they want armor nerf and buff elemental? Or just buff elemental and then we take no damage. But as you said nerfing armor nerfs all barbs
Just a suggestion, but instead of duping, the pants and the chess piece the same, the pants need to be dodge chance close, dodge chance fare, dodge chance. that’s the only mistake I see that they’re making because the game will Nerf itself against their armor you can’t build for against a one shot so dodge it.
but unless u have 100% dodge chance relying on that stat is kind of bad/dumb. if you DONT dodge something lethal, gg. You invested in a stat that is pure rng.
@@KodokuSamaa I have found personally I like to dodgy and be tacky and if you did exactly that you would be just try it once you’ll see.
From my understanding armor is complete trash in high level nightmare dungeons, it loses like 1/2 effectiveness every 10 levels above you the monsters are. So it's actually a pretty overrated stat, since it's not like you need damage reduction to do on-level content
On-level content is boring as fuck. Zero challenge
Kripp has a point about rubys. The first person who killed uber lilith in HC had all rubies in his gear, I think he knows a little bit about surviving.
i mean he basically 2 shot lillith with a bug so not too sure haha
Uber Lilith barely has any cc and so hp obviously better vs her than dr against crowd control.
@@TheAzure4 he killed her again with no bug
Nice closing music.
TLDR: Armor to the moon!
I think you forgot about barbs fortify bud
the ONLY Time i die in diablo4 is when i get ambushed but the Fucking Butcher thing that spawns even in world tier 1 dungeons... i mean WTF...
So far the only time he killed me was in the beta.... it's easy to tank and heal his damage yet I'll die whenever I get frozen or locked out of my heals and abilities. Seems balanced.........
Disobedience is king of defense for sure.
I just look at this game as half done. Itemization is half done, resistances are planed for higher levels, world is half done, gems are joke and we are missing half of them etc. Blizz decided to ship it before it's done, or just cut it in half and call other half seasons. They just sold us half of the game for full price, it's kina genius and no-one is talking about it :-)
So true
technically, to most people the campaign, tier 3 and tier 4, that is a full game.
Agreed. Kripp has repeatedly said d4 launched half baked, as well.
A loot table for an entire class is borked. Felt so bad and awkward leveling Druid even in soft core. When I found out loot was broken, holy shit...
@@thinkchair96 I was thinking of creating an alt for druid, now I'm not sure anymore after I learned of this news.
Why don't these 2 works on diablo yet though?
Most sounds like abracadabra to me. 😅
weird how long has wudi played and doesnt consider that all the classes are different...
His first character, second character, and third character have all been rogues.
Pick a winner and stick with it I say
@@graog123 yeah and all chars died 😂
it' not about how resistance work, it's about how math works :D
If they touch armour, goodbye skeletons...oh wait, they already died to the lightning, cold, fire, poison or physical mobs.
Uh his pets are taking no damage in this entire video.
Rubies also increase overpower damage
Won't Blizzard end up correcting the uselessness of resistance?
bro sees how much damage a barbarian does in 2-4 seconds it makes him scared so he hates on the build 😭
wait, DR scale linearly with armor? that's so dumb. 100% DR with armor lmao
looking at videos like this kind of feels like diablo4 is a complete mess. yeah, the core gameplay is fun, but there seems to be literally no polish in the games balance.
Sooooo i rerolled alot of affexs today..... im now broke. had 10 million
The way they've done resists in this game is terrible honestly. 'some kiddo complained that they were confused in beta so let's just make resists not matter.'
Your comments about barbs are off. They have -10% dmg reduction built in, and challenging shout is the main thing carrying their defense. Aspect of disobedience is overrated because it only reaches max stacks in rare long fights. You're also boasting about your survivability in this dungeon with equal level mobs.
Actually Necro can push that aspect from 0 to a 100 in a few seconds. Darkness skills are all dots, bone armor hit really fast, blood surge hit 3 times with a screen wide AOE and bone spear hits almost everything on screen. But honestly all you need is blighted Corpse explosion, ticks twice per second and you can have like 20 ticks at a time
Already 3 legendaries up to min 06:30
What are you talking about? Legendaries in D4 is just rares with another affix you can put on other rares to make super rares.
Uniques are the real legendaries.
@@FREEDOMFIGHTER28s__Left__Dent not really a lot of legendaries have niche stuff that make a lot of them pretty garbage towards what you would want to build a decent amount of the time.
@@JT-yl9yt Ok then dont put those aspects on rares and stay rare.
I missed that when I watched it the first time. His rogue is at 45% from armor??? And it goes up to 82 with the stacks??? I’m at 80% armor all day. I guess I did it right.
I'm amazed how many thing Wudijo has got wrong. One was the gems in armor sockets. Kripp is right pure life is better for barb example im at level 100. You get more fortify and if done correctly build barrier with temerity. Maybe maxroll has not looked their guides deeply if that is their basis as team.
Turn off crossplay to reduce the lag/instakill combos.
Aside from sending this kind of video to blizzard because we know this isnt a feature but a bug, whats the value of learning the current mechanics when we know they are broken and will be fixed.
did their testing cause them to make it this way? was it too hard for casual people or maybe everyone when they tested having resistance actually means smething and where armor doesnt do all that blocking out of elemental damages? trying to give them benefit of the doubt. cuz if there wasn't something like this, it just seems absurdly bad design
They are testing it right now lol
The amount of on death effects and VENN DIAGRAMs of invul bubbles while on death effects pop off. Its beyond annoying. PoE levels of frustration
Kripp: That's not armor, now this is armor! GG *smiles*
Oi, I ain't swapping out my +15% damage, +21% bone skill damage, +21% physical damage chest piece, it even has some max life on it! >:C
That's fine. Being hard stuck doing only on-level content is perfectly fine.
@@graog123 That's fine, max level content is perfectly fine :) Stuff's getting 1 tapped even at NM80 so I guess I can manage.
years on and still schoolin' fools, love ya bro :) now find a bug that will allow you to give me those legs ;)
Armor is useless when you go higher in the nightmare dungeons, so life is way better than armor. If a mob is more than 17 level above you armor becomes practicly worthless. Only thing that counts onwards are liferolls and damage% mitigation. In a key with level 100 armor is able to mitigate 7,5% damage at max, nothing more. That is how good armor is....
84 Rogue, I now regularly do NM's at tier 54 (so more than 20 lvls higher than my character) and it wasn't until I started giving prio to armor that I reached them.
I have 6500 Armor on my Necro, 7400 with Aspects and still get one shottet all the Time in WT4
I also have 6k armor and I completed NMD54 as a lv83, that was +23 my level. I farm NM usually 8-10 levels above my own pretty smooth, not dying at all.
The problem with necro is the low damage outside of bone spear/spirit