How are people seemingly one-shotting everything in this game? Am I missing something?
Hey everyone, I recently got this game last week and have been having a blast with it so far, having just finished the main quest for act 2. But for some reason, I've been really struggling with the combat thus far. I started out as a battlemage, then respec halfway through Act 1 to a Two Handed build because I wasn't able to find any decent spells. I've been using whatever I can find, and only recently I was able to get the stats required by Sir Lancelot's armor and Arondight, with the rest splitting equally between Perception and Practicality (at 4 each right now)
But even with the boost from Sir Lancelot set, the current dmg on my Arondight at full health is only at 248-278 when I'm at full HP.
From a lot of the comments I've seen like above, people have been saying it's too easy to get overpowered from just playing normally, and I'm just feeling so dumbfounded by this. There are occasional enemies I can one-shot, but they are just some random wolves and undead. I'm at Tomb of Sir Gawain now, and the boss here would instantly one-shot my character if I miss a single parry. Meanwhile, the random marrowghast I fought on the way would hit me for 3/4 of my entire HP bar. I would be fine with that if it means I can actually hit them back just as hard, but I only deal like 10-15% of their HP with each swing (maybe 30% if I get lucky with the crit). So I'm always at the risk of getting mopped in just one or two hits while also having to fight a whole horde of enemies that take dozens of hits to kill.
I feel like I'm missing something so incredibly obvious here, but I have no idea what it is. Hoping I can get some pointers without being too spoiler-y if possible. Thank you!
Edit: Thank you everyone for the advice. I just went through another repec to focus on crit chance and got it to around 70%, now everything dies relatively quickly. With a bit more min-maxxing I can see how people can easily one-shot most enemies in the game.