Quote (allience @ Mar 12 2020 01:05pm)
Phoenix penetrates your resist the lower his hp is.
Shop pop spreading shoop rumors again. People have always had less 100s in hc. Since closed beta. The number of HC/SC players have always been 1/60 or so.
The charge up skill also gives you -50 fire resist.
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Guardian_of_the_Phoenix 
Guess I used the wrong metric. But you gonna get one shot by something no matter what. Too many monsters do broken damage and will continue to do so going forward. Baran's adds, chaos pools in metamorphs, blight monsters and uniques, and then theres going to be the ones from this league. Bloodlines had multiple packs that everyone was dying too every time they were encountered and didnt get fixed until more than a month in.
But this game has always rewarded you more for going for offensive rather than defensive, they can say whatever they want in their patch notes, but defenses do not matter. Only thing that matters is the monsters dying before you.