Ashes and vim users

[Sheila]

Okay so DG told me to post this here, kind of a big overlook on ashes and vim users.
Basically since NPCs aren't intelligent enough to use their resources effectively they get a pretty big bonus ammount.
This generally isn't an issue, but it becomes an issue in ashes where NPCs get all that extra vim AND they also get the doombringer talents Abyssal Shield and Demonic Blood, which increase all your damage dealt and decrease all damage received based on your vim
(note: these can actually scale over talent levels 5-6 for NPCs so it gets even crazier, even with diminishing returns).
So the end result are rares/randbosses that will literally end your fun right there, this gets worse, much worse as difficulty goes up. So you end up with rares that can one shot you or barely take any damage at all from your attacks,
while being able to lock you into place with relative ease while also dealing a lot of damage (abduction, fearscape) and chase forever (wraithform).
I think NPCs shouldn't have these two talents (abyssal shield and demonic blood) available to them to fix this.

[edge2054]

+1

[Effigy]

Sounds like an easy solution. I've been on the receiving end of this, and it's not fun.

[Stuntofthelitter]

Yeah, I've been horrified since the realization dawned on me. This absolutely needs to be in the next Ashes patch.

[darkgod]

And so it was

[Furey]

Thanks so much Stunt and DG and Sheila! I will be able to enable Ashes on insane again thanks to you lot!