787 Whirling Smith

787 Prada whirling Smith

Try to be more clear, I’m trying to run this build but just came back a week ago so obviously don’t have the ultra expensive items.

Armour is at 70, resistances are good, health is low at 1700 and leach is high.

I think I’ve died more this week than I did the 2 seasons I played when the game came out.

My damage is decent, but if I get stomped by a boss or something catches me in the map I generally get killed before I can do anything.

Am I missing an important passive/gem?

Is it my life is just too low and when I lose health from the skill gems it can’t leach fast enough. Is it possible leach is too low?

Any thoughts would be great, I’m on the edge of either blowing this thing up or quitting and coming back in April

Comments

OfStarStuff•4 months ago•2

DO NOT judge your armour off of the percentage. If you're in endgame and you have less that 50k armour, it's nearly useless. Armour damage reduction is based off of the specific hit you take and you need essentially 9 times the number of the hit to mitigate it 90 percent. So if you take a 10k monkey slam, you need 90k armour to reduce it by 90 percent. And if you only have 1500 life, it doesn't take a very big hit to take your health to zero. You need about double the number of your armour in armour applying to elemental damage as well. Aaaaand, if you can get armour applies to chaos damage on a helmet, that also helps a lot.

noeagle77•4 months ago•2

Pob?

Professor_Jun•4 months ago•2

People are going to ask you to link your build with PoB or whatever. Hard to tell what's wrong without seeing specifics. 

Also. Why April? 

Deadedge112•4 months ago•2

Like others said, you need to link your build, but I'll list some things to check because I too made this character.

You need 12k armor minimum.

You need 85% of armor applies to elemental.

You need 30% of armor applies to chaos damage.

You need all the defensive ascendency nodes: 25% of phys taken as fire, hexproof.

You need more life (2k).

You need mind over matter and 700ish mana.

I only get one shot by powerful map bosses occasionally now and I'm still lacking some armor because I still have budget boots, chest, and amulet.

sirhandom•4 months ago•1

Your health pool is abysmal. Gotta get that up to 3k at least. Every piece of gear possible should have T1/2 HP, thats the most important change for your survivability. 1.7k is not enough to tank big hits w/ high armor.

Kryomon•4 months ago•1

Without a PoB we cannot help you

cryptiiix•4 months ago•1

I came up with a build right before Prada released his, check this version out. The main staple item is the unique chest piece Crimson Couture to get 6k hp. Link to Maxroll in video comments.

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