Does T10 Resilience let you survive a Hobgoblin Champion sniper attack in GMs?
TL;DR: Not by itself but 1 sniper resist at any resilience will let you survive
A couple weeks ago I posted a thread testing whether or not T7 resilience would let you survive a vandal snipe in a GM. In the post I mentioned that although you could survive a vandal snipe, higher tier enemies like bosses and champions could potentially still one shot you and I still needed to test that.
Well this week's GM, the Inverted Spire, features 2 barrier hobgloblin snipers in one of the beginning areas and was the perfect place to test. (*Edit:forgot to mention the modifiers are increased arc + enviromental damage and increase melee damage which should not affect my testing)
Here are the results:
My hunter running T1 Resil + 1 Sniper Resist
My titan running T10 Resil and no Resist mods
My testing wasn't as thorough this time, mainly because the beginning area of this GM is a pain and because I believe these two scenarios are a good representation of the extremes. In each scenario I made sure that all possible resist buffs (like omni's resist perk or stasis glacier resists) weren't active before I challenged the champions, you can see this in the buff/debuff area. The second clip shows the barrier champ almost brushing me with the first shot, I'm pretty certain I took no damage from this shot and it doesn't effect the results. This was actually my second clip of T10 resil testing, I forgot to show my stats in the first attempt, but I did also die in the first attempt.
There a couple situations in which you may possibly still survive a boss/hobgoblin snipe while running high resilience without the proper resists and one I wanted point out one in partcular. "Overloading" or disrupting a combatant will reduce incoming damage by 25% (source: Pip1n's D2 Compendium). So in a GM like Glassway where you're running a primary with overload rounds, it maybe possible to survive more situations by disrupting bosses and champions to lower their outgoing damage.
Posted Jul 15, 2021, 10:28 PM UTC · edited