At what point does ES start feeling as better than life+armor as people claim?

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Tungdîl#4170 เขียน:

I checked your ES Build.

Unless there is sth wrong you are not res capped and instead of resistance runes you are using life regeneration runes? Why? (The game is balanced around to be res capped.)

Since you are not using CI chaos resistance is also very important, chaos damage deals double damage against ES. You should also look into life on gear, there are many low rolls or without any life. 1.300 life is not very much.

For the most part, since I'm running Demon Form I need at least 130 life regen per second at my current level, ramping up to around 180 when (if) I reach level 90. Currently those runes are doing a lot of the heavy lifting. My resistances aren't capped but generally I'm avoiding "gained as fire/lightning" maps, in most cases I seem to be dying to phys hits, since I'm very consciously avoiding fire and lightning attacks by keeping a safe distance. Mind, when I was at the same stage in resistances with my other build, I was surviving a lot more as well.

I see what you say about life, but usually I'm not dying to chaos damage either since (unless there's some sneakily hidden chaos damage in random enemy attacks) I'm usually trying my best to avoid visible chaos damage; still, again, I had around that much life in t1-5 maps in my other build and didn't have that many issues surviving.