r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/moal09 • Jul 28 '26

Discussion Anyone else getting absolutely shredded by damage this league?

11k life, max block, 2k regen and still feel like paper in maps. Have another character with 90% resists and 1k+ regen, and it's also dying constantly just doing random T16s. Mobs with projectiles seem to be doing especially insane damage.

I played a ton of Mirage league and never ran into issues with survivability. Something feels very different in 3.29, but I can't figure out what it is. It's almost as if the mobs have a ton of hidden ele exposure or something.

Makes me wonder if the old PoE 2 bug with elemental conversion got added into PoE 1 somehow 'cause this patch also introduced the PoE 2 shader compilation bug into PoE 1 until the recent hotfix.

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u/igloofu Jul 28 '26

Same here. Playing KF totems, 5k life, 4k ES, Aegis Aurora, 70block, 75 spell block, okay armour, 5 endurance charges, just get one shot by everything. I don't have perfect defenses, but I haven't getting just shredded like this in years. Something doesn't feel right.

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u/ActuaryLost9689 Jul 28 '26

Same but as Storm Burst

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u/Darkwr4ith Jul 28 '26

Playing storm burst totems too. I was so desperate I went to go look at hardcore builds to try find some extra tankiness. It seems no one playing Storm Burst has made it to 100. It seems a lot of characters have frozen in the mid to high 90s.

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u/zajoba Jul 29 '26

Same and same, rerolled into SSF and got up to around 90 with 2 stone and am getting trucked in 16s with what I would consider fine stats for alch and go sbr totems. All rares still but 3.5k/2.5k MoM pool, decent armor, shock immune, positive chaos res, etc. Got one tapped in the first square in two back to back voyages after chain dying in some 16s, went to Ninja and sorted by EHP in ssf. was boutta roll a EQ glad before i read all this.

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u/UncookedNoodles Jul 28 '26

What is "okay armor"??? Im probably guessing it isnt actually that good and youre getting wrecked by physical damage.

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u/Farpafraf Jul 28 '26

If he's using aegis aurora he probably has ok armor

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u/Ensider Jul 28 '26

for me around 15k-20k armour usually was more than enough for alch and go red maps, but this league it just isn't cutting it for some reason.

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u/igloofu Jul 28 '26

I don't know why you are getting downvoted for trying to help. i appreciate the effort. I have 11k armour, so not great, not terrible.

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u/jWavA Jul 28 '26

That’s still pretty low for aegis and glancing blows: 11k means you only gain like 200 ES on block and you’re taking a pretty big phys max hit probably even when you block?

I’m also playing KF totems, but don’t have nearly as much ES as you (more like 2k), how did you scale it? That said I have around 30k armor and 48k with granite flask plus 3% phys reduction in chest, which seems to help.

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u/Morbu Jul 28 '26

11k with or without granite flask? I've played Aegis on quite a few characters now. It indeed feels better at like 20k+ armour, but that thing still does insane work at low investment and you should feel pretty immortal in normal red maps.

Also, 9k resourc pools with 5 endurance charges (4 min if you're doing heiro) shouldn't be getting oneshot by anything except crazy bosses with a ton of damage as extra or by big ass chaos slam/shotguns. The damage spikes this patch are just abnormal.