Path of Exile

Pyros_sl said:

Movement skills desync more than everything else. I've played almost exclusively hardcore, and I have never died to desyn. I've desynced like everyone at some point, but I desync very rarely(even when I had to play on the US gateway due to my routing to euro one being fucked so I had 90-130ping). Part of it is understanding what cause desyncs, and not doing these things.

I never run through mobs unless absolutely necessary and even then I'll take the safest path possible(which is away from as many monsters as possible, since most desyncs are caused by pathing being blocked by mobs and rubberbanding back once the server sends the client a fuck you message). I always use Shift(technically space since rebound)+attack as a melee in tight places/buildings/doors/wherever a desync would matter, which ends up being almost everywhere unless I'm like powerlvling in full uniques and there's literally 0risks of dying. I don't spam movement abilities, I use them a few times then force a resync with /oos or by simply breaking jars/crates by clicking on them., unless I'm spamming them to navigate through an empty area or through a low level area(farming normal gems by running alts with my high lvl).

I've never done a leapslam or flicker build because of how unreliable they are, but did level as leap slam with 2H for a bit, mostly in normal, low risk to die to desync at that point, no point since Spectral Throw addition though. I always keep an eye for stuff that looks out of place, mobs not attacking me even though they're in melee range, traps not being thrown or being thrown from another location, these are a clear sign of desync and I'll /oos right away.

Oh and I don't fuck around with Brutus/Kole, I skip Kole almost always, or I facetank them. I will sometimes range kill them but I will always stay at long range, expect to get pulled even though I shouldn't, and definitely NEVER run around pillars or random shit as a way to kite them, as that will always desync them(especially brutus has a lot of walls like that in the room and if you start kiting around them, you're gonna get fucked, hell he can actually bodyblock you against a wall easily).

I didn't die often overall. I mostly died to playing recklessly while leveling and running into a bunch of shit that I shoudn't have ran into, or against bosses like merc vaal(low armor/health, got rocked three times in a row) or merc piety(including one death to her getting both ice and fireform at the same time, shooting arrows while moving at max speed, fun times). At the very least this game lets you log out/port out near instantly if there's a major fuckup, so it's not as easy to die to something out of your control. If you play D3 HC, you'll die anytime you lose your connection for example.

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