For new players, I'll add on a small tip here. I do recommend helping Einhar with his quest to capture beasts, for a specific reason. Einhar's mechanic, "Bestiary", allows you to perform certain crafts on items using the captured beasts as reagents, by fighting them in an arena, naturally. Most of the crafts require at least one specific type of "red" beast (their minimap icon is red instead of yellow and they are tougher), but there are a few recipes that only require 4 yellow beasts. In particular, one of the crafts allows you to input a life flask, and as long as that life flask doesn't already have a suffix mod, it will craft "of Sealing" on it, which is one of the mods that Baron mentions before the Act 3 boss that allows the life flask to negate Corrupted Blood and Bleeding. It's the lowest tier of the mod, so its duration of immunity is poor, but any immunity will instantly cleanse those debuffs from you and help avoid death. So if you haven't found one of these flasks before this point but have helped Einhar capture some beasts, you can use them rather than spending Orbs of Alteration on your flask.
Excellent tip, this is the sort of thing that makes me wish TH-cam allowed minor video edits as long as they are short (maybe they’d need some kind of auditing system to make sure people weren’t adding in anything that changed the nature of the video). Because this is a great tip that I totally brain farted on and more players should see it. Would you mind if I pinned your comment for a while?
I address this in the video but just to be clear for any beginners: you’ll notice some features of my character on screen that look unfamiliar or don’t make sense. My health bar is all energy shield, my flasks are weird, etc. You can ignore that; I didn’t have an “in progress” version of the character which was at these exact acts so you’re actually seeing my endgame version. No need to worry about it, it doesn’t impact the video at all, just didn’t want you to be confused.
Hi buffalobaron! I haven't watched this video yet but will do it later! I've already finished the campaing and I'm at around 90. I've already transitioned to the 1 HP setup and have around 4.2k energy shield and capped resistance (even above that). In all honesty I've migrated my character back to settlers league days ago because the necro one was unbearable and having giant rogue exciles on a tier 2 blue map was fun. I've already made some investments (around 40 div but mageblood is out of range as off now) but haven't got a proper timeless jewel and haven't got the Melding of the flesh cobalt jewel yet(to be honest I'm uncertain when to implement this one). Anyways, I try to rasie my armour because according to my understanging armour is the most important thing that protects our energy shield and 1tiny HP. I'm doing t15 and t16 maps and try to get xp by doing Jun and safehouses. But for some reason under some circumstances I get obliterated and get deleted from existence from seemingly harmless mobs all the sudden. I've already figured out without bleeding immunity I have to have some way to avoid bleeding (like on flask) because I don't have bleeding immunity yet. Corrupted blood immunity is alredy sorted. Also I've found out burning ground is lethal too against our energy shield. Maybe I'm doing something wrong and misprioritized something in the build? It feels like I die more often then should.
@@csucsitheone4957 hey thanks for the questions! Let’s see what we can do: So for starters I do see a bit of a misconception; while it’s true this build struggles to get high armour values without mageblood, the reason we need armour doesn’t have anything to do with chaos inoculation/having 1HP. Our armour in this build works the same way as armour works in any build; it mitigates physical damage from hits, but with diminishing returns so that extremely large physical hits (like from endgame bosses) would require a crazy amount of armour to mitigate. This is one reason it’s so important to get endurance charges and block (and recover ES on block) because they help make up for our low armour early on. The only defensive thing relevant to the 1HP is that normally chaos damage bypasses energy shield so having 1HP would be instant death vs any chaos damage at all, but of course the keystone makes us immune to that. There is monotheistic downside to the 1HP other than having to spec out of any increased life and focus on ES instead. As far as when to convert over to melding, POB is your friend here. It’s a bit of a balancing act, you basically have to calculate for your specific build how bad the penalty from melding would be and what you would need to do to overcome it. I can help with that if you want to post a POB. I’d say as long as you can get your max resists up to 80 or more it’s worth pulling the trigger on melding, but you wouldn’t want to swap over to nebulis until around 85% or whenever POB tells you it would be an upgrade over your current weapon. Every single % resistance above 75 is so huge for nebulis. As for the random deaths: hard to say though a gameplay video would help. As it happens, burning ground is no more deadly against ES than life, but it definitely hurts. You can always use the abberath pantheon to help with that, and of course raising your resistances once you get melding will be huge for this too. I’ll tell you what; drop a POB either here or in the discord linked in the description and I’ll take a look. And if you’re able to record any gameplay footage of you dying we can analyze that too and see if anything obvious pops out. I’m sure we can get you sorted out.
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For new players, I'll add on a small tip here. I do recommend helping Einhar with his quest to capture beasts, for a specific reason. Einhar's mechanic, "Bestiary", allows you to perform certain crafts on items using the captured beasts as reagents, by fighting them in an arena, naturally. Most of the crafts require at least one specific type of "red" beast (their minimap icon is red instead of yellow and they are tougher), but there are a few recipes that only require 4 yellow beasts.
In particular, one of the crafts allows you to input a life flask, and as long as that life flask doesn't already have a suffix mod, it will craft "of Sealing" on it, which is one of the mods that Baron mentions before the Act 3 boss that allows the life flask to negate Corrupted Blood and Bleeding. It's the lowest tier of the mod, so its duration of immunity is poor, but any immunity will instantly cleanse those debuffs from you and help avoid death. So if you haven't found one of these flasks before this point but have helped Einhar capture some beasts, you can use them rather than spending Orbs of Alteration on your flask.
Excellent tip, this is the sort of thing that makes me wish TH-cam allowed minor video edits as long as they are short (maybe they’d need some kind of auditing system to make sure people weren’t adding in anything that changed the nature of the video).
Because this is a great tip that I totally brain farted on and more players should see it. Would you mind if I pinned your comment for a while?
@@buffalobaron I wouldn't mind, go for it.
Brilliant!!
this is besttttt.... thanks
Thank you BB for putting together this very detailed guide!
Great video! thank u!
I address this in the video but just to be clear for any beginners: you’ll notice some features of my character on screen that look unfamiliar or don’t make sense. My health bar is all energy shield, my flasks are weird, etc.
You can ignore that; I didn’t have an “in progress” version of the character which was at these exact acts so you’re actually seeing my endgame version. No need to worry about it, it doesn’t impact the video at all, just didn’t want you to be confused.
Hi buffalobaron!
I haven't watched this video yet but will do it later! I've already finished the campaing and I'm at around 90. I've already transitioned to the 1 HP setup and have around 4.2k energy shield and capped resistance (even above that). In all honesty I've migrated my character back to settlers league days ago because the necro one was unbearable and having giant rogue exciles on a tier 2 blue map was fun. I've already made some investments (around 40 div but mageblood is out of range as off now) but haven't got a proper timeless jewel and haven't got the Melding of the flesh cobalt jewel yet(to be honest I'm uncertain when to implement this one).
Anyways, I try to rasie my armour because according to my understanging armour is the most important thing that protects our energy shield and 1tiny HP. I'm doing t15 and t16 maps and try to get xp by doing Jun and safehouses. But for some reason under some circumstances I get obliterated and get deleted from existence from seemingly harmless mobs all the sudden. I've already figured out without bleeding immunity I have to have some way to avoid bleeding (like on flask) because I don't have bleeding immunity yet. Corrupted blood immunity is alredy sorted. Also I've found out burning ground is lethal too against our energy shield. Maybe I'm doing something wrong and misprioritized something in the build? It feels like I die more often then should.
@@csucsitheone4957 hey thanks for the questions! Let’s see what we can do:
So for starters I do see a bit of a misconception; while it’s true this build struggles to get high armour values without mageblood, the reason we need armour doesn’t have anything to do with chaos inoculation/having 1HP.
Our armour in this build works the same way as armour works in any build; it mitigates physical damage from hits, but with diminishing returns so that extremely large physical hits (like from endgame bosses) would require a crazy amount of armour to mitigate. This is one reason it’s so important to get endurance charges and block (and recover ES on block) because they help make up for our low armour early on.
The only defensive thing relevant to the 1HP is that normally chaos damage bypasses energy shield so having 1HP would be instant death vs any chaos damage at all, but of course the keystone makes us immune to that. There is monotheistic downside to the 1HP other than having to spec out of any increased life and focus on ES instead.
As far as when to convert over to melding, POB is your friend here. It’s a bit of a balancing act, you basically have to calculate for your specific build how bad the penalty from melding would be and what you would need to do to overcome it. I can help with that if you want to post a POB. I’d say as long as you can get your max resists up to 80 or more it’s worth pulling the trigger on melding, but you wouldn’t want to swap over to nebulis until around 85% or whenever POB tells you it would be an upgrade over your current weapon. Every single % resistance above 75 is so huge for nebulis.
As for the random deaths: hard to say though a gameplay video would help. As it happens, burning ground is no more deadly against ES than life, but it definitely hurts. You can always use the abberath pantheon to help with that, and of course raising your resistances once you get melding will be huge for this too.
I’ll tell you what; drop a POB either here or in the discord linked in the description and I’ll take a look. And if you’re able to record any gameplay footage of you dying we can analyze that too and see if anything obvious pops out. I’m sure we can get you sorted out.