Very solid video. Both fairly comprehensive and succinct. Some other things to add would be sources of less damage taken like doppelganger guise, natures patience. Pantheon is another thing you could add. It may be worth another video on recovery/Regen/leech/recoup/life gain per enemy hit etc. and ways to defend against degens since that's a big area of vulnerability for a lot of players.

AMAZING quality!!! i loved screenshots showing up when you talked about things in them, keep making more, it was a pleasure to watch :D

Great to meet you in game, and thanks for the tips with my build! really appreciate the info!

Was looking for exactly this yesterday. Thank you so much

Good info. Great delivery. Clean, concise, and informative.

Awesome overview! I feel like a big one missing is Defiance of Destiny, especially when that's used in conjunction with Progenesis and/or Petrified Blood.

Very Nice video, brief and useful content. Thank You. This video should spread.

Nice informative video. The biggest thing missing i can think of would be petrified blood/progenisis effect + sustain and maybe a mention of the eternal damnation amulet and how to utilize that effect, just as a suggestion if you are thinking about a part 2.

Great video. Helped me, a returning player. Much appreciated.

Great vid. I would love to see more. I would add lightning coil setup tho

Thank you! Very handy information

loved the video just a question about the staff mastery 30% increased defenses does that include spell suppression?

Great video! Are any of these setups reasonably attainable in SSF and how would you go about achieving it? (Like Gwennen gambling for uniques, chancing etc) Thanks!

Great video man 😮

Earned my sub with this one

Simply amazing

Good and clear video. So is evasion not a good reliable defense?

Nice video very informatív, But I have a guestion, could eternal damnation work with divine flesh or fourth wow ? Or all these three together ?

great video!

STR stacking has some nice reductions if you are wearing a rare armour cause of eldritch implicits. i'm also using fortification but it's tricky to add to any build and the main is taken as elemental+flasks

great video thanks

Great info.

fast and interesting, really good

im a fairly new player, my defensive layer are hopes and dreams.

Doppel is very slept on. Bloodnotch is also incredibly good with a valyrium ring + The Agnostic node and cold amulet

It's funny how people are using all these extra defenses and still have billions of damage while my build sacrifices all defence to barely have semi-decent damage :D

My favorite is the gain life before hit amulet and gain life when you are hit by stunning hits. And the Cast when stun support all your damage and you walking simulator

nice video thanks

great video

On maps Armour scales from being giga powerful to completly useless because of few funny overwhelm (PENETRATE) mods from 20%+, such a toxic mechanic (Pen like mods) that applied to Resistances only in common scenarious - but apply some nasty numbers when it comes to Pdr.

All i use for defance is Determination, 75 all res, close to capped chaos res , fortyfie and stunn imunty , leech , some life regen on belt and boots .Just in case olso use cast on deat portal for not running to end of the map . It makes confteble gameplay on not to jused maps with not much investment and takes some skill to pilot , wich is a lot fun for me .

This video was so informative! Great video 10/10

It probably needs its own vid but there are a ton of skills to be used as defense as well. Things like molten shell, steelskin, arcane cloak, etc.

The Mahuxotl's machinations with tempered by war keystone has become my favourite this league, i'm always trying to think of ways to use it in every build XD

How does divine flesh interact with mind over matter with eldritch battery?

What has been missing in the Video and is a Huge advantage is the Atlas tree. Running Niko gives you +3% Max res, alot of dmg speed. Running Shrines will resolve in 90% of your maps being almost always 90% max res and full armour.

What would happen if you used Incandesant heart + Divine Flesh and then went CI ? Does that just negate 75% of damage ?

The funniest thing about transcendence is that it makes you extremely weak to phys reflect even if ur build does tiny amts of phys dmg 😂

You said that armor is better against many small hits rather than few strong hits, but you also said that you want 90% PDR, but you didn't said why. The reason is.... the amount od damage mitigated depends on hit, if we have 10k amor and we receive 50k dmg in single hit we will mitiage only 3%, so we mitigate 1500 dmg, receive 48500 dmg with 10k armor, but with 50k amor and 10k hit, we will mitigate 50%, which is 5k and we also receive 5k damage. This is also reason why we wan't to transfer phys dmg to elemental(and sometimes chaos), getting 75% res is easy, and from 50k hit we mitigate 37,5k and receive 12,5k and with 10k hit, we mitiage 7500 and receive 2500, so in almost all cases ele resistances will do better at mitigating damage, as long we don't have 20k armor and we are receiving like 20 dmg hits, moreveor stacking armor over 20-30k gets tricky, at least for non-hardcore players. Also when we get % as ele, it will reduce phys part of hit and armor will do better.

I'm playing a Bleedbow Glad this League, i kinda min maxed it to hell and PoB says i have 200k eHP , i got a lot of things that make me tanky a few examples would be 90% Phys Reduction 85% Evade, 20 Fortitude, 100% Suppress, 80% Chaos, 50% Elemental as Chaos and a few more things. But i'll have to say that Stacking Def layers without having a huge Hit pool isn't the move in some Very Juicy Content. I got like 4.2k Raw Hp and some Juicy things just 2 Hit me. I'll probably try to Reach something like 100k ES in the next Saison (with idk what Build) to see if that's Viable as well. Great Vid tho!

I have the opposite issue in poe, got good at being tanky by myself but my damage is always zero xd

This video omits sustain which is equally as important in a strong defensive setup. Ye you can mitigate all this damage but you're still going to be taking damage. You need ways to recover your health / ES quicker than you use them up. POE has a variety of options for good sustain. Leech can be invested into and reach very large recovery per second Regeneration is a staple, if you ever played RF character you know you need to have strong regen to outregen the self-damage Recoup is the odd one, works best if coupled with other sources such as leech A honorable mention is Graven's Secret unique belt paired with Ralakesh Impatience boots. This belt would normally prevent you from gaining power charges but the boots allow you to have maximum power charges at all times - so you get all that juicy crit and damage from them. You use standard power charge stacking setup (several uniques) and you end up with a char that has like 10 power charges and can gain up to 10 absorption charges. The latter ones give you massive ES recoup from elemental dmg taken. Usually used on CI builds.

Good shit my dood! I realized I wasn’t subbed! Thats fixed!

Nice video. Didn't know spell supression is that important. Could explain why i'm dying from several fire projectiles even though i have 77% fire res.

Fourth Vow + Gloroius vanity + eternal damnation + petrified blood + progenesis. 90% chaos res 250k armour.

gg

mahuxotl's machination + tempered by war

Defensive setup = kill them faster then i die hahah

I wonder why you ain't even mention Evasion as defensive layer

I bought one of those jewels its worth it.

And how a slayer can get supress without lose dps:)))

This is a little basic and just a list of mechanics. I think poeple needs suggestions. And larger ways of thinking about defences. For example i think you should mention these baseline rules everyone uses. For example you must solve phys. Someone not using armour must use large ammounts of compensation for this. It is the single biggest source. Your example with using determination for the campaign is a gross understatement. You need lile 40k+ armour preferably unless you use a large ammount of convert AND reduction or youbare glasscannon. Another good example is if you run armour and some maxres you dont NEED spellsuppress. But if you only have 75 res and not very high armour/jugg you MUST have spell suppress to not be oneshot by a lot of commons things in map/boss. Overcapping resists a little and removing curse is incredibly important if you like to play any t16 maps. This is very important and most builds brick and becomes a glasscannon if you do not. Some like glasscannon but i assume they dont waste time on a defense video. 90% res to 75 it a massive increase in damage taken. It increases damage taken by +150%. That's just a player maxres or elemental weakness. Regenerstion is a topic worth expanding. The regeneration from aegis is not only aegis. Inquis, the life regen necklace or shield both are strong. This invalidates all incoming damage exceot for oneshots. Overleech from trickster/slayer, inquisitor and the aegis/defiance of destiny are the most popular atm. Reduced dot damage taken is underrated tbh. Some dot builds can get -20% easily with low investment. Critical damage reduction 100% more than quadruples your effective hp in maps with crit mods from altars, map mods etc. I think discussing the incoming sources of damage and which one are layeref and how these reductions interact is smarter and preferably with graphics (not sanctum where you dont even run defences).

flask change was a nerf though :/

Mageblood is sooo expensive 😭

bro how to defend against degen pools

This is nice but you progress faster by playing glass cannon. Thus by ignoring some defensive layer you shoot througg the progressing for a tenth of the budget, so ten times as fast in the beginning of a league. Dps is underrated. I am tired of paying for so many defensive layers. It's just bloated lile the rest of this game.

I like the video. I'd have liked more emphesis on more items, like Defiance of Destiny or Progenesis perhaps. But you gave zero amount of wrong information, and that's good.

I paid for 6 portals

damn no DoD ammy... kinda yikes 🤡

This is a typical, misses the forest for the trees video. You are not explaining HOW to improve defense. You are effectively just telling people "buy these uniques to improve your defenses." That is sooooo much different than teaching someone how each mechanic works and why it is important. Then again maybe the target audience wasnt a new player progressing through the campaign or SSF players, in which case, you might want to make a video for them too.

For starters to get better play Hardcore

how about ggg just stops being an idiot

the best POE def is to just stop playing a game they cant balance

Reading these jewels as a new player is fucking impossible. Why did they do this? It feels like an intentionally obtuse choice and makes zero sense at all.

希望你可以讲讲如何做装备，很多玩家玩不下去的原因是装备不好，dps不够导致毫无游戏体验，thank u。