How to build DEFENCE on your character w/ Nugi [PoE University] 

“Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive and Dodge.” If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a "die" beam.

By far the best and thorough episode I have ever seen. Love this series, thanks ziz!

There's three main types of defences in PoE. Absorption, Mitigation, and Negation. Absorption will create a pool for the entire hit to be taken from. Examples of this are Life, ES, Aegis, MoM. Mitigation will reduce the amount of damage taken. Examples of this are Resistance, Reduced x damage taken, less x damage taken. Armour. Negation completely stops the damage from applying. Examples of this are immunity, Evasion, Dodge, Block, Avoid.

Ziz thanks for these PoE univeristy series. Have you considered reaching out to other streamers or players that are outside the realm of those you typically interact with (steel, havoc, nugi, raiz, tyty) to try and hit on different subjects? For example, maybe coordinate with players/streamers who: 1) focus on delving, 2) focus on making lots of currency, 3) hideout warriors that only craft, 4) players who focus on making mirror items for service. I think it would be refreshing to see new streamers/players on these series to touch on different subjects that your audience could learn from. BTW love your content and not looking to hate, just trying to offer some tips for diversifying a little.

I rewatched this cause it has really a lot of actuallity - thanks! The part around 1:46:46 made me laugh where nugi says the Split between mana, life and es isnt used anymore - and here we are in 3.24, where archmage uses glorious vanity with double leech implicit & points in the tree.

Thanks for the tips dudes. This video got me stoked for some POE again

Wow, I am playing poe for a while, but I have learned a lot of new stuff. Thank you Nugi and Ziz

Thanks, I didn't knew about entropy on evasion, neither the formula of damage mitigation. Based on the rule of thumb is: total mitigation = damage / (damage + 10% of armour), capped at 10% of armour. And life leech, holy... got easier after I understood that leech is a buff that stores a value (like plague bearer) and burns it, with a maximum sum of simultaneous 'buffs'.

Nugi has been around since the invention of drum and bass

Amazing episode! I learned a ton in this one :) thanks, Nugi!

This video kind of reminds me of when the school had a recovering crack addict come tell me all the ways crack destroyed his life in order to scare us from trying it.

thank you for this. very educational! almost two months on poe and still can't fathom the complexity of this game. But I love it!

that toucan logo is so well made nice job whoever did it

Now THIS was helpful! The tip with Petrified Blood helped out a ton with my Deadeye and keeping my leech up AND dealing with bursts of damage

Such An Awesome video!! Thank you so much for explaining these things

If there’s only one video to watch for new players, it’s this one! One of the most eye opening videos for people that want to experiment with builds.

Life Leech from the unique synthesis gloves also gives that overleech

After i've finished 100million dps Berserk cyclone build on standart. I understood one thing: If enemy dies before he can hit you, you achived ultimate defence! But overall great video! Nice and easy to understand! Thank you guys!

What I learned about PoE - no matter how good your defenses are, there will always be that 1 white monster who will 1-shot you ^^

This is such an awesome series, definitely helped me out with some stuff i had previously overlooked. With leech, which stat is it that i should be looking for if i want my leech to be more "instant" than a trickle effect? and is there somewhere the recovery rate from leech is shown either in game or in PoB? also with the complexities of leech i almost feel like it could be a video on its own haha.

kripparian really did a good job at explaining evasion back in the day.. it also stacks, with multiple enemies surrounding you.

I'm interested in a poe-u episode where GhazzyTV is the prof and talk about building summoners.

Look at me learning stuff! This is very informative.....Thank you!

nugi "you gotta build some defence" nugiyen

"Hey Nugi will you come spend 2 hours teaching people defensive layers? Oh by the way before you start I'm going to RIP clips of you for the lulz"

It’s crazy how fast you can go from, “nothing can touch this.” To *one hit*

18:25 Blind roll is separate from Evasion and if they miss due to blind, the hit calculation never even proceeds to the Evasion step (so the current entropy remains unchanged). Same thing is true for Dodge (which is 'random'' (actually pRNG to be precise) and not entropy based, btw).

nugi mentions it briefly however quartz flask is a very mooted defensive mechanic. Especially for summoners, vortex, ED contagion, brand and totem builds.

17:46 Evasion only protects against attacks tho. So physical spells are dangerous if you are evasion based.

You can cycle immortal call on a berserker as well, fairly decently with either groundslam or enduring cry gentlemen. Or better still both.

nice Vid! Especially the part on how evasion actually works and can be made really reliable helped me a lot. One question pops up tho: How does flat chance to evade interact with this? Like the one you find on grace watchers eyes or redeemer gloves...

~ 0:32:00 that was new to me, thank you !

15:30 The elephant in the room that goes unmentioned here is that evasion only works on attack hits, it does nothing against spells, and there are some spells, like Ethereal Knives that do physical damage, and evasion characters need to be *very* wary of things like that because you get can get nuked very fast by stuff like that.

Now I want to see that Hatred + Supreme Ego + Agnostic build Nugi mentioned right at the end

I always use corrupted soul btw, its fun mechanic, it kinda helps with life regen stuff

If you combine this keystone with the Aegis Aurora shield and having max block chance along with having either Riposte or Reckoning trigger skills supported with Life on hit/Life Leech support, you will actually regain Life/Energy Shield instead of losing it.

I really didn't appreciate mobility against things that weren't big bosses until this season. I've been trying to stay more mobile during all content, and I die far less. Considering I'm melee, will probably be even more effective when I roll ranged.

More defence vids pretty peeeeeeeease❤

Great video Zizaran, just a suggestion, I could enable the subtitles in your videos or if someone could tell me the way to have it. Since RU-vid has no such option. Thank you very much and keep it up.

very insightful

Lmao at Zizaran saying “this will not be on the exam” after Nugi struggled to explain the life leech intricacies

also on shild as implict coruption there is physical dmg taken as chaos dmg

I have a build which stretches leech to obtain 4200/4300 of the characters total health pool by combining the trickster and slayer ascendancy nodes on the scion, using Haemophilia gloves to apply a dot, which also causes them to explode This cancels out slayers latent reduction to life gained, and using vaal pact i simply cannot die if i hit something its very satisfying to push these mechanics to their absolute limits

what about elementalist reflect immunity? do map sextants modify that so you only get 90% resistance on elementalist?

"What do you mean '1200 life isn't enough'??"

That leech infographic is really cool

i went block glad this league for the first time and i find it stupid how good it is. i'm scared to play another build now

I am curious , if I get hit by a elemental based attack skill, eg. ice shot, tectonic slam, static strike, does armour do anything as a defensive layer ? Does it mitigate the physical damage first before converting to elemental damage ?

One question about elemental resistances: Do you need to have capped resists 'resting' (just from pasives and gear) or can you rely on flasks for that?

amazing video, as always!!! The only thing that's not quite clear to me, is armour, and physical damage reduction. For what I undestood in the video, armour doesn't actually increase our physical damage reduction, if so, two characters with no addional phys dmg reduction from anything, are gonna have the same amount of physical damage reduction no matter the amount of armour they have. Is that correct?

My build in Sanctum had 1,4k regen and absolutely 0 leech and that felt better than any build with leech I've ever played lol, so undervalued

Should consider timestamps. ESPECIALLY for things with distinguishable portions / parts like slideshows, topics.

I truly appreciate the effort and info put in to this video, but after watching this it really needs some timestamps or editing. It did really not have to be 2 hours long.

This was great, nugi knows his defences.

So how does armor + endurance charge + fortıfy works: For example, lets say you are hit by 100 dmg, you have 1000 armor, 5 endurance charge and fortify so do they apply together? I guess fortify is calculated seperately since it is reduce all damage not just physical. So i guess from armor you get 50% prevent, 5 EC means 5 x 4 = 20% physical reduced, 50% + 20% = 70% so you would take 30 damage but fortify prevent 20% of that and you take 24 damage. Is this how it is calculated?

One thing I'm not sure Nugi explained properly is that evasion doesn't work for ALL hits. It only works for attack hits, not spells. Armour however does work for both attack and spell hits, mitigating the physical damage part.

Are the slides organized in the order of operations?

17:30 Isn't there a chance that if let's say 10 porcupines explode near you, most of them gets a high starting entropy and then you take a bunch of hits? Or is entropy shared between enemies?

Timestamps would be great!~

It should be noted that slayers Brutal Fervor for 3.13, now states: 100% Increased Maximum Recovery is equal to Life Leech, meaning, 1 percent of life leech nets you 100% Maximum Recovery and having 2 percent leech would get you 200%, and so on and so forth. As mentioned in the video, generating multiple instance of leech is important, especially when many mechanics in the game require you to dodge out of the way, and thus, if you decide to use leech in your build, any duration based skill would be your best choice. In the case of slayer, Bladestorm is able to generate 3 instances of leech, and allows you to be mobile while leeching and dealing damage. If you were to build around this, at any given time against an immobile boss such as Kitava, you can simply drop 3 bladestorms, you could spec your tree into all the leech nodes which gives you a total of 6% leech, and adding the life leech gem would grant you 8%, and would get you a total of 24% life leech while your blade storms are active. This percent increases to 32% if you decide to attack as well in conjunction with your blade storms. Now your maximum recovery is 3,200% from Leech. Also, Recovery refers most often to life, mana or energy shield recovery. All gaining of life, mana and Energy shield is recovery. Generic sources of recovery can be found for example in flasks but is not unique to it. There are multiple types of recovery, for example:[3] Energy shield Recharge Rate Regeneration provides passive recovery over time. Leech grants recovery based on damage dealt with the specified type of damage. Certain Flasks grants recovery when consumed. All "Gain on hit" and "Gain on kill" effects Miscellaneous sources, such as unique items passive skills

You gotta build some defence!

Accuracy doesn't scale linearily so blind doesn't cut accuracy in half. It actually halfs hit chance (which is better since accuracy gets worse the more you have of it -> you can see this with 1500 accuracy and 3000 accuracy in pob for example. 1500 accuracy isn't 50% hit chance).

Also the recording is corrupted , it seem it just repeat itself. Or it is presented badly that the slides go forward and backward and did not have a well organized speech. (Or am my web browser has problem?)

So much items being mentioned. I know a many of them; but I imagine somebody not familiar with some of the old uniques won't be able to follow. Adding the item in the slide would have been helpful. "Sabakud Build?"

i cant find the "gotta build some defense" clip anymore

Professor Nugi! Will you sign my notebook

i know its 1 month ago but when it comes to lifesteal...i need to check if i got my theorycraft right. there is this stat called total life leech recovery per second. this stat makes actual life leech totally useless. i mean there are sooo many nodes where you get 0.4% of dmg/attack as life leech. but in my opinion those are totally useless. because later on if you hit for lets say 2mil....0.4% life leech is already 10k life. with 2h weapons i attack 2 or 3 times per second with onslaught/multistrike. so if i got your grafic right thats 3 blood bags with 10k life flowing in each second.... however the maximum amount of life i get per second is 1k. with vaal pact 2k. how long does a blood bag stay? until its empty? and the max is 5 bags? currently i have like 2% since i am a slayer. what good does it to me to have 5 bags with 60k life each. 300k life in total BUT only 1k flows to my health pool? the only good thing i can see about it is when i have overleech and run away to dodge i still got 300k life flowing into me. so yeah its nice for mapping since if you reach the next pack your 1k/sec is still dropping on you... and it certainly helps with bad performance if it stops att in lag you still get those 1k/sec. but thats my point even if i only have 0.4% i still get 5*10k bloodbags and i do have the same effect but just not that long. and normally you will hit again so it does not need to be that long to begin with so it still makes the stat useless if 0.4% has the same effect like 2% just not that long...no?

One thing not mentioned, which I'm not sure if everyone knows. Stuff like wind dancer and dodge boot enchant does not activate on dots, so you get full damage reduction. If ya are eating shit on dodge builds, give it a try

The problem with evasion or block as primary defensive layers is that they can never get so good that you won't get hit. So when you do get hit... you die. Armour only mitigates physical, so if you get a big elemental hit, you die. And vice versa. There is no defense that can let you take one of those big hits and survive... unless your build is so tanky it can't scratch even white mobs.

on hits and spells or just hits? 1:23:21

There are three projects, among the subscribers are EnotGlobal owners and prompt for money?

Armor and evasion both need to be far more intuitive. As a long time player I still have to get them a significant amount of thought, I would guess 90% or more of new players totally misunderstand these stats and they are literally some of the first stats you are introduced to in the game (you start with gear that has only these stats).

Can a minion build like guardian srs even benefit from life leech?

For me PoE feels like a bige inside joke. If you know, you know.. If you dont... you dead. :D

MoM + Agnostic as defence?

you should add a class about build archetypes explaining key gems, like impale for melee builds, crit vs not crit build and when to covnert your build to a crit build if you should, life vs low life builds, eq and eo, mana builds.....

dude that devourer clip is from so long ago

So wait, how do you mitigate damage over time and degens?

Please, is Avoiding missing in there?

read Mark_GGG's post in 2013. Damage taken as is not damage conversion. " Damage taken as" is " Damage taken as" in terms of receiving damage . It does not work the same as the "damage conversion" when dealing damage.

armour cant mitigate 100% of a hit soo.. 1000 armour = 100 hit, 75% resist drop it to 25 hit? is that right?

ok so how do i increase my defense ?

nugi defence hypeeeeeee , now time for me to ignore all of this and roll a newly reworked raider at league start LOL maybe with flicker or caustic arrow LOL

God damn I just wanted to find out how defense works I wasn't prepared for this university lecture. Evasion seems cracked compared to armor, I can't for the life of me figure out how to stack enough armor to make a meaningful difference on my elementalist. I'm trying some form of hybrid on this character to boost my effective hp and I'm capping out at like 4k armor post-flask at act 9, though I'm waiting until I finish campaign to really invest in gear, I'm working with trash I picked up over the last few acts. Maybe I should just stack evasion + es, shove passives into es + max hp, and leech. If anyone has any insight on this, please let me know. I'm looking for shortcuts in my brain on how to think about this, and there are too many options for me to wrap my brain around right now. All I know for sure is I need to stack SOME form of mitigation, because even 10k es will get chewed up with capped ele resist and ~50% chaos res.

well so far my strongest char not interms of dps too but hey 65% dodge not maxed but stil i can stand in middle of mobs and not die in a bink of an eye and survive alot longer than any char i palyed in my entire poe life.

PoE University with Nugi on How to clean ur room when?

1:01:17 made my day

Yea best way to tell your audience, "Everything these experts are telling you over the next 1:52 hours is pointless because look! Event experts die! Enjoy!" - Viewer: ok well, saved 2 hours of my life. Thanks!

Maybe someone knows where EnotGlobal can download cracked?

I will newer understand leech mechanic, i just gave up and using other defences.

Leech for the average player is significantly more simple than leech for the minmaxer. Basically: When you Hit with Damage that has Leech, you gain the Leech % of your Damage (after the target's mitigation) as Life at a rate of 2% of your maximum life per second, capped at 10% of your maximum life, until either the Leeched portion of damage runs out, or you reach maximum life (and leech stops, unless you have 'leech effects do not stop at full life') whichever stopping point happens first. You can have as many instances of leech as you want, however (by default) you can never recover more than 20% of your life per second from leeching. This is effectively 10 hits to max leech rate. Beware that leeched damage is rounded against you, so if the 0.5% leech on your damage is less than 1, you won't leech from that hit. For 0.5% you need to deal at least 200 damage to leech at all.

Just slap on Acrobatics, Vaal Grace, and a Rumi's Concoction, EZ defenses

Like Yoji said, Nugi doesn't build enough defenses!

A separate armour Stat for bleed that isn't important enough to be named something different then physical res. has me dead. Literally.

All the praise for evasion - I like it as well, but you only pointed out RT, there's spells - if I remember correctly you cannot evade those? At least in the past physical spells totally destroyed evasion based characters.

whats a tobacco build

You should timestamp the subjects

Am i on time professor?

Mathematically, if you take 1.15 x 1.06 you have 1.219 and the additive was 21.

trying to teach something that you don't understand, those are the vibes I get from this video