smackababy
Lifer
- Oct 30, 2008
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There are more sources of Chaos damage now than before, but easily enough to be avoided you can ignore it (or go Chaos Inoculation and totally ignore it). They really sort of scaled it where you don't start feeling a bunch of the mob effects until you hit Merciless difficulty and the resistance penalties stack. For the most part, you can ignore most things on gear that isn't '#+ to maximum life' until then. If you're playing a ranged character, leveling is probably feeling pretty easy because you mitigate a good amount of damage simply by being far away from mobs.