Explosive affix

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I can tank well enough, most things don’t really hurt. Wasn’t always like that of course but having gotten some things I feel I can hold my own.

At torment 2 I had 50000 fire resistance and a toughness of… 20000? Or maybe it was 25000. I think it was 25000. The fire resistance was exceptional, the others were at 30000.
So the thing is that the explosive affix, where there are large slow fire aoes, always oneshot me.

I think I’ve gotten even tankier in torment 3, finding heart of selig and speccing into that, but those bursts always oneshot me. Other things doesn’t. There’s probably other things that will but those are lethal cause the aoe is so large and if you are in a cramped space, and there’s three-four elites with this, you may very well run out of space to run.

Seemingly, to me, this doesn’t seem like an intended oneshotter. It seems more like a suppressive fire that may kill you if you are assailed by other things.
The lightning bursts seem more oneshotty, stacking up; looks deadly and they are. But their aoe isn’t large like the large fire explosions are. There’s smaller fire explosions also and they’re not as lethal.

I think this is an oversight, that these explosions aren’t meant to be this deadly.

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Same, I have 200k toughness in combat. Can take any other affix combined. But explosive will always 1shot? Is it supposed to 1shot? Pretty sure it wasn’t before. Also weird as T4 suggests only 35k toughness for the base level. Surely an affix shouldn’t 1shot with 6 times that much.

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I have a feeling some affixes like explosive and poison arent having their damage calculated correctly or are ignoring our player mitigations entirely. I have noticed no difference between 30% and 80% poison resist on how many pots I have to pop to survive it for example.

I am also rocking a 300k toughness thorns build and yep, explosive is a guaranteed one tap for me as well.

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Explosive affix on elites always oneshots me on t4 even at 450k toughness!! This is merga overtuned compared even to boss abilities and way out of line with all other elite affixes. It is extremely annoying and a bug and breaks pit runs often. Def needs a fix!

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It is ridiculous. Nothing touches me , but explosion 1 shots me. Poison leaves me with 10% hp….