Half my deaths are obvious. Generally those deaths are in 150+ scourge T16 maps. It's the other deaths I scratch my head over.
Couple days ago I died after an apparent ice nova from a blue box. Can those hit that hard? I have 100% spell suppression with 53% mitigation. The corpse explosion boxes are at least kinda obvious. I don't read mods on T16 maps anymore but opening strongboxes terrifies me; and if I survive the opening the result is generally nothing that matches my lootfilter so perhaps I need to train myself to not click.
Had Sirus drop an insta-kill meteor on my head after rejoining the fight from a previous death. Zero que or warning or maze or anything just death a second after I ran up to him. I give Sirus to my friend now. Fuck that fight. It's obvious to me why I see so many Koreans playing this game: the end game boss fights are bullet hell shooters. (no offense, I <3 Koreans. thanks for selling me stuff)
Single random heist rares one-shotting me out of nowhere with 5.3hp 700 ES and steelskin on after I just waded through 20 blue/purple/yellow/unique mobs and blew them up in 2 seconds.
Explosions occurring after you kill the mobs seems to be a common phenomena in this game.
One-shot dying the same exact moment I kill a map boss seems to happen sometimes. (no apparent explosion)
Rarely I'll get a massive dot on me seemingly from nowhere. I'm running pathfinder concoction so I have infinite flasks, including perma health flasks, but if I didn't these would have killed me. Sometimes I can just sit there for many minutes using life flask repeatedly after everything is dead and the dot won't go away. Not in nightmare. Bug? (it's not a ground mod)
Catarina has this undodgeable ranged attack that was one-shotting me while she was off-screen. I'm probably geared enough now to survive it but it was aggravating. I find the boss mechanics unintuitive and confusing. Couldn't figure out what it was even after reading the wiki. 'Where is the massive a mount of damage coming from? I see nothing' is something I say playing PoE more than every other game combined.
Really really enjoying the game after having not played it in years (I highly recommend PoE and is a favorite) so I don't want be be a hater but I have to LOL at some of this. PoE really has this crazy/sexy vibe to it; the good parts are just so good. Scourge league's gimmick is brutal but also highly rewarding so I don't mind it too much. (although the corrupted scourge implicits are strangely stupid) Got a Doctor card a few days ago because div card farming is much more viable with scourge. Fun stuff.
Game is much more enjoyable if you pretend 96 is the last level.
Classic PoE. Thousands of hours and its basically the same for me. 96 is where I've "beaten the game" most leagues. A lot of people I play with get to 100 but they usually boost by buying pure breachstones and doing runs etc because actually mapping solo to 100 is rough if you die even once or twice. We do have some one who plays SSF and has been top 5 Ascendancy to 100 a few times, but it basically breaks him for the league.
Sirus is buggy. Always has been, always will be. I've had him run OUT of his own arena then DIE beam me. I was streaming when people were watching me the other day and his abilities were 2x speed when he was floating. That was a new one. The teleport into a meteor with no maze I've had before. The DIE beam BEFORE audio cues is also a classic. He's just the worst but once you get a good character for him and get to farming him it actually FEELS good. The loot, not so much anymore.
Heist is very interesting. Aura stacking rares happens a lot so you just get some extra crit/haste/extra phys mob pummel you. People are also alleging there's mobs in there with Resolute Technique so they can't be avoided. I'm not sure but playing a million Raiders through the last few leagues I would believe it. Some of the shit there is phys spells too which tend to fuck people up if they don't have endurance charges or raw phys mit.
Catarina thing: I didn't know it, but have died to it a lot as well. I was watching either Mathil or Ziz do her and what she does is she puts down her Cane, and during that time the more you RUN the bigger the damage is on you. So basically whenever the audio is called (I don't remember which) you just don't move and it won't do much damage to you. Very unintuitive and I'm sure HC players loved figuring that out first hand.
Oh and Ice Nova boxes will definitely one shot you sometimes even with 80% cold res and 6k+hp. They were the #1 murderer of HC players for a long time. They also scale with map mods so if you get increased AE you better haul ass after clicking it. I think with 75% cold res the normal box hits for like 4k damage before any modifiers. Dying to explosions could be certain Detonate Dead mobs (Stygian Revenants, the black boney spiders do it) or explode boxes. If you're on a boss that somehow gets detonated, you're dead. It does millions of damage. There's very, very few situations where that can occur anymore, thankfully.
