07-12-2012, 12:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-12-2012, 01:01 AM by FireIceTalon.)
I just tried the Diamond Skin vs Frozen at Captian Daltyn - the Diamond Skin WILL absorb the damage as normal, but it didn't break the freeze either. Although the DS lasts longer than Frozen does, the fact you can be chain casted on means the DS will only save you so much - and keep in mind, Frozen STACKS...so if more ice bombs explode while you are frozen, you will get immobilized again. I agree that Wiz probably has the best overall defensive abilities to counter these mob traits (Barb and Monk are pretty decent here as well), but there is still a huge imbalance here. The fact I am outnumbered at least 3-1 per mob (sometimes 4-1), and the fact most of these mobs have insane damage and a asinine amount of health on top of them just having the traits is a challenge in itself. Not bitching and moaning here, just telling it like it is. I want a genuine challenge in combat - not to be cheezed. Of course, some of the traits are the opposite problem - they are too easy. I mean, if I come across vampiric, jailer, electrified, and missile dampening...I can't help but laugh, as the only way such a pack would be hard is if the base monster type is a difficult one (like Soul Lashers, if I'm playing a ranged char, then ANY elite pack of these will be difficult). But usually, it is the former problem - though neither is really preferable over the other.
We are kidding ourselves if we think Inferno will ever be tuned properly though. Blizz wants it very hard and tedious because that 15% cut in the AH is more important than how much fun their customers are having with their product. Snide as this comment may be, it is the truth.
We are kidding ourselves if we think Inferno will ever be tuned properly though. Blizz wants it very hard and tedious because that 15% cut in the AH is more important than how much fun their customers are having with their product. Snide as this comment may be, it is the truth.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)