How to make your builds tankier in Path of Exile

Zizaran talks about defensive layers and different kinds of mitigation available in Path of Exile.

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[Zizaran]

Enjoy this slightly different video while we're all enjoying Settlers of Kalguur!

[Kikis]

ritual killed my character in a t4 map (after I traded with ziz, as is tradition) and since i have like 3 hours of sleep i just sorta went unhinged with editing this. sorry not sorry.
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[bistendope]

Editors roasting their boss is my new favorite meta

[DavidReber-zh]

I feel like the editor did an outstanding job as a supporting role in this video.. Kudos

[hitihautriponel]

Editor watched the raw video and went "Ziz tired. Me tired. a huge damage." then released a basically unedited video

[MrCMaccc]

Editor: im lazy
Me: nah, let him cook he's on to something

[DevonFaltine]

This is my first time playing poe and I'm doing it almost completely blind and just trying to take it slow and read as much in game when it comes to skill gems, armor and passives. Honestly this game is great once you realize it isn't as confusing as it looks on the surface. I just finished act 2. I'm running a marauder with a two hand axe and making my way through the skill tree slowly but this game is great. I'm sure in the higher levels I might have my character get a little bricked but for now I'm blasting through crowds and enjoying the game

[Blecco]

This was great and the editing was honestly funny as hell. Really interesting. Trying to run a Witch so seeing what I can do now that most Phys as is gone is very helpful.

[esoes]

Editor: im lazy
Also editor: *random cuts on Ziz's hand*

[MassisKharne]

Thank you Ziz, I learned a huge damage from this <3

Also to the editor: thank you so much for the laughs that my sleep addled brain has been needing. Dunno why seeing "he will cover one more defense" turn into "he will cover two more defense" got me to cackle so hard

[furizu]

I have a lot of questions about these mechanics, and while I learned one or two things, most of this video felt like it was in a different language. A planned, written, and edited one would be amazing to help people understand these mechanics! An example at one point you were talking about 4th vials or something and I had zero clue what any of that was about. I used to think armor was much more effective that what you talked about here.

[whatarethehaps]

Learned quite a bit from this - thanks. The config/calcs for looking at specific uber boss abilities was enlightening. Damage conversion discussion was useful. It would be really nice to see some of these glass cannon league starter builds (like hexblast miner for instance) made more tanky through application of some of these principles in a video. Even the "endgame" POB from most content creators has such low mit that they die from any uber skill, a single melee in a t17 etc.

[alienangel]

Like the video, but for a new player it would also be useful to mention what the main options for getting a given defensive stat is - eg early on expecting to get resistances from gear, elemental avoidance from passives, late game armor from unique jewels? You mention that endurance charges become really important and that you have 8 of them... but where are they from? else? I know I can look them up on wiki, but ideally the video would save me the effort of wiki-ing 8 different things to find the 3 that are accessible from the content I can currently do.

[Astharot]

16:23 that was one of the best edit ever

[RamzaBehoulve]

That's the kind of videos which makes you appreciate the usual work of the editor;)

[Peter_Tissot]

Thank you Zizaran's Video Editor!

[Zijkrial]

The specific unique examples were useful when it came to registering penetration, but otherwise I did get a bit lost without re-playing the portion.

I'd like to see more options from different starting points of the talent tree...and also am curious as to why the Eradicator has 3 different ways of killing me in 0.1 seconds. I know 75% lightning resist + 4 endurance charges is not amazing, but the sheer speed I kept dying made me more or less give up.

I realized in retrospect that I should have used purity of elements and/or an actual resist flask. The shock debuff is nasty as well, so..maybe I kinda know the answer. What caught me off guard was how unavoidable the attacks were.

Also, the editing here was actually hilarious.

[MrGruxLike]

Best edited video I've seen on youtube.

[simioncristian]

for a not pre-planned video it was pretty informative, the only thing I would've added was the importance of increased maximum elemental resists

[Mordiaken]

been a min since i watched a ziz video, but i gotta say LOVE the editing on this one =).