Are Ataxes doing more damage now?

[vader]

Is it me or does it seem that ever since that update yesterday, Ataxes are doing more damage. Smites and Grasping Darknesses still seem the same but Ataxes have got to be hitting harder. I'm seeing warriors lose half their health in one hit and then immediately die before I can even select their bar to heal them. I got hit by them a couple of times and each time I saw -250 in red float above me. :(

[Celois]

They have always done that ammount of damage, warriors have in general gone down in 2-3 aatxe hits. This is where reversal/prot spirit comes in use in Underworld :)

[smigow]

maybe they didnt have max armor and absorption

[vader]

maybe they didnt have max armor and absorption

I guess that's possible. Maybe I'm just getting unlucky with all my warriors today. :(

PS. I love all the WTFs?!? when I use vengence on someone and they die after everything is killed. :)

[Mystic Tiger]

I guess that's possible. Maybe I'm just getting unlucky with all my warriors today. :(

PS. I love all the WTFs?!? when I use vengence on someone and they die after everything is killed. :)

My favorite part of Vengeance is using it on the warriors that always try to run ahead... then when they fall back down, you say, "I'll res you for real once my energy finally has time to regen"

[Malchiel]

maybe they didnt have max armor and absorption

Max armor max absorption max vigor , max everything. Take it from me, my guy went down in 2-3 hit. More like 2 actually.

What you need to tank in UW isn't a warrior with 110 armor, what you need is an earth ele with 200 armor =_=

Lol I got a friend who's an earth ele, tanking like 6 of those invincible ataxes and taking 2-3 dmg a hit for an indefinite period of time, while the rest of us, including the monk chatted away. ;p As for warrior... well they probably need to pick up some protection to survive like that.

Earth ele vs. physical => complete invulnerability, if not close.

[David Holtzman]

Earth ele vs. physical => complete invulnerability, if not close.

I play an earth ele, and with max armors you get to about 180. Even with that much armor, the aatxes still do a whole lot of damage. I like to add in eruption (for blind) and ward v melee. With that combo you can take out aatxes fairly well. Smites and darknesses too.

[salaboB]

Lol I got a friend who's an earth ele, tanking like 6 of those invincible ataxes and taking 2-3 dmg a hit for an indefinite period of time, while the rest of us, including the monk chatted away. ;p As for warrior... well they probably need to pick up some protection to survive like that.

The invincible aatxes hit really, really weak unless you're moving.

Normal ones are the scarier type.

[Malchiel]

You can get more definitely.

Kinetic ~ 60
Armor of earth ~ 60
Obsidian flesh = 20
Glyph of elemental power

You can get upwards of 200 in fact.

Especially if you get some water magic in the mix. Armor of Frost? and another one there. May be you can even get 300 al ;p

It's been a while since I play earth ele, but I'm sure I still remember some of the basic.

Then there's ward vs. melee. Combined with 200+ armor you should be near invincible vs. physical.

In fact earth ele, is kinda... invincible... if they so desire it.

After that a simple aura of restoration will out heal the dmg done to you. Balthazar spirit to keep your energy going. Done and done.

I don't use this combo anymore since I ended up all too often in a stalemate in PvP arena. Nobody can kill me, not even spells can touch me with obsidian flesh and some enchanting wrap. I just end up with a bunch of ppl beating on me indefinitely :(

[Sclopper]

i had an experience with my ranger with max AL all around i had died once before and a aataxe hit me and i saw a red -457 Sever Artery to me well thats just crazy a 1 hit kill.