By Beast Cornered Is Draining You to Death — What to Do (S10)
- Live patch changed Beast Cornered: it now drains life based on resources spent.
- Many builds die without barriers; adjust gearing and skills to add sustain.
- Short-term fixes: alternative powers, healing items, and class-specific recovery.
Season 10 shipped with undocumented changes to the Beast Cornered power. On live, spending resources now deducts a matching percentage of life, which blindsided resource-hungry builds and caused frequent deaths without barriers or strong healing.
This breakdown lists immediate pivots: swapping uniques where possible, stacking healing received and on-hit recovery, and leveraging class tools (passives, boons, aspects) to sustain while keeping damage online.
What’s in the video
- Beast Cornered drains life equal to ~30% of resources spent; heavy spenders risk one-shots.
- Example: spend 100 resources → lose ~30% life; 300 resources → ~90% life.
- Barrier uptime becomes mandatory on resource-intensive builds until you add sustain.
- Low-spend/basic-attack builds are largely unaffected and can keep using the power.
- Consider swapping to an overpower-oriented unique (e.g., “brawn over brains”) to shift scaling.
- Boost sustain via “healing received” (e.g., skulls in armor) and high hit-count effects.
- Helpful items called out: Endurance Faith, Temerity, Doombringer for extra healing/lucky-hit sustain.
- Barb: Raid Leader auto-shouts + Invigorating Fury provide strong passive healing.
- Druid/Necro: Circle of Life/boons and options like Gruesome Mending, Hemorrhage, Iron Maiden for recovery.
- Rogue/Sorc/Spiritborn: Siphoning Strikes, potion synergies, Warmth/Flame Shield, Vital Strikes/Scourge for sustain.
Receipts
“When you spend resources, you drain a percentage of your life.”
“If you spend 300 resources, you lose 90% life.”
“You will be kind of forced to have barriers in a build.”
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