"Yo guys the ascendancies are doable, just check out my 7 point plan that involves turning your character into something completely different than you want to play and buying gear that only works in the trial."
I don't know why he keeps going on about melee bad. That melee is bad in sekema's is pretty much pure myth.
doubly now with "armor applies to elemental."
the only "weak" builds for sekema's is something that relys on thorns, tanking of damage/recoup, or slow cast/attacks. Anything that leaps, or attacks fast and first, doesn't get hit.
And as always, Honor loss is post mitigation. not just 75% honor resist, but also 75% fire resist.. or Armor, or chaos resist.
or evading the hit=no loss.
And the vast majority of damage in Sekemas is physical, then fire, then chaos. with a tiny bit of cold for 1 boss.
so, armor, max fire resist, and max chaos resist will make it a breeze.
Zarokh is a bit of dps check. huge HP total for equal level bosses.
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the rest of his points, are all specific tactics within Sekema's. how to actually engage the rng correctly. not "change your build"
Which is:
never take an affliction that blinds you to rewards/afflections, or makes you go random.
Always try to path to a path with options. you don't want to to choose what seems to be a better node now, but only has one path out of it. As if that 1 path out is a run ender..then you are screwed.
Gathering sacred water is a priority, to be able to spend at balbaba for boons.
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Idk. I had to respec to kill Arbitor. who is also a pure dps check. either play fuck fuck, trying to dodge his one shot bullshit, and in or out, in then out... or, just go full dps, and 1 shot him before he can even pull any of that shit.
had to respec out of Recoup, move to self cast elem weakness. and iirc a couple other changes to go full dps burn.
