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TheRat posted:Enfeeble got loving violated It got a buff didn't it overall? From 60/80% less effectiveness to 50%. I guess it depends on how much the accuracy nerf is
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Mar 4, 2019 23:56
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I approve of these changes. I am however not likely to make a Scion Storm Brand character anymore.
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Mar 4, 2019 23:59
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TheRat posted:Enfeeble got loving violated There's the Occultist nerf
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Mar 5, 2019 00:00
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hmmm, instead of addressing Zerker they decided to see if they could make slayer have a lower player count bold strategy
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Mar 5, 2019 00:03
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MMF Freeway posted:It got a buff didn't it overall? From 60/80% less effectiveness to 50%. I guess it depends on how much the accuracy nerf is 50% less curse effect vs rares is loving brutal
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Mar 5, 2019 00:03
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TheRat posted:50% less curse effect vs rares is loving brutal Oh I did not read good enough
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Mar 5, 2019 00:05
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Can someone explain the slayer/scion nerf for my friend who is bad at good think? Unironically looking forward to using onslaught & phantasm as early supports for every build now btw im the friend
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Mar 5, 2019 00:10
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Svensken posted:Can someone explain the slayer/scion nerf for my friend who is bad at good think? You wont be able to store up minutes of leech buffer now, since nothing lasts longer than 5 seconds
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Mar 5, 2019 00:11
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Leech nerf was way overdue, Ascendant Slayer was incredibly dumb. They really desperately need to give Slayer something substantial in this case, though, and there's no mention of it while there are notes for Trickster and Inquisitor. Assassin's Mark, Enfeeble, and Tempchains all got whomped, much less interested in my tri-curse Vortex Occultist start off of that (not that AM mattered for it). Unless I'm misreading the critical strike changes and how that affects AM. Of note is that Controlled Destruction is no longer a free huge damage link on EO builds! Nerf to CWC by making the desirable big hitters worse, perhaps. Maxres capping at 90 is mildly amusing. Inquisitor seems like it might be pretty loving crazy with the new Consecrated Ground mechanics!
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Mar 5, 2019 00:12
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Inquisitor needed a (more) viable alternative to the 100% cookie-cutter resistance pen. With so many sources of pen/resistance lowering abilities now putting things at zero was kind of eh. The consecrated ground path was...good, even great for some builds, but needed to be a viable option for every build.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:16
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AegisP posted:Wait a second...they're removing the min/max crit caps? O_o I'm glad for this and it really stuck out like a sore thumb before. Accuracy I can sort of buy because a lot of games will say "you theoretically never be unable to hit an enemy at all" though I do prefer the idea of there being some threshold at which you never miss. With crit it's purely just a designer who said "hey I play a lot of D20 games wouldn't it be funny if no matter what you could roll a natural 20 and crit or roll a natural 1 and critical fail?"
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Mar 5, 2019 00:16
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can i get an invite on baram?
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Mar 5, 2019 00:16
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theshim posted:Leech nerf was way overdue, Ascendant Slayer was incredibly dumb. They really desperately need to give Slayer something substantial in this case, though, and there's no mention of it while there are notes for Trickster and Inquisitor. They also talked about new sources of +max resists next league. Dunno if that means loreweave wont be quite as popular or if it means for the new league content they are expecting you to have higher max resists, which would be one way to address offensive power creep by making you gear for defensive power creep.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:17
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When the patch goes live how long does it take for path of building to get updated with the changes
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Mar 5, 2019 00:20
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TheRat posted:You wont be able to store up minutes of leech buffer now, since nothing lasts longer than 5 seconds Yeah practically it means Slayer's niche of lab farmer is gone and any Ascendant Slayer/x is probably dead but at the very least less tanky. Any bow ascendant should now be comparable as a Ranger if not outright better.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:30
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Ugh, now I have no idea what I'm going to start with.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:32
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Ghostlight posted:Ugh, now I have no idea what I'm going to start with. Storm Burst Trickster
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Mar 5, 2019 00:39
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Feldegast42 posted:When the patch goes live how long does it take for path of building to get updated with the changes forever because the lead dev works for GGG now and doesn't actively maintain his tool
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Mar 5, 2019 00:42
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Avatar of Fire Kamehameha Elementalist Ignites, maaaan
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Mar 5, 2019 00:42
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Feldegast42 posted:When the patch goes live how long does it take for path of building to get updated with the changes Usually with in a hour or two of patch notes, but the POB guy hasn't updated somethings in a while since he got a job at GGG. quote:Other Changes This makes elemental overload with controlled destruction near impossible to proc right?
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Mar 5, 2019 00:45
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Shame about that leech nerf, I won't be playing cyclone scion this season. Almost certainly starting with some sort of inquisitor pending spell numbers in patch notes.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:45
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Isn’t that a huge EO nerf in there.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:47
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euphronius posted:Isn’t that a huge EO nerf in there. Yes. Running CD on a 5% spell will now drop down to 2.5% crit chance. So you'll likely need *some* spell crit sources if you want to have EO up for most spells.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:49
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Vasudus posted:Yes. Running CD on a 5% spell will now drop down to 2.5% crit chance. So you'll likely need *some* spell crit sources if you want to have EO up for most spells.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:54
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Bugsy posted:This makes elemental overload with controlled destruction near impossible to proc right? Yes but you can still use something like storm brand + increase crit + arcane surge to apply it.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:57
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euphronius posted:Can’t decide between stormbrand elementalist or scion elementalist/slayer to start. Hahaha well well well.
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Mar 5, 2019 00:57
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lamentable dustman posted:hmmm, instead of addressing Zerker they decided to see if they could make slayer have a lower player count "melee isn't so bad, I mean you could always play a 2hander build as an ascendant or slayer and get that crazy overleech." 
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Mar 5, 2019 01:04
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nerox posted:They also talked about new sources of +max resists next league. Dunno if that means loreweave wont be quite as popular or if it means for the new league content they are expecting you to have higher max resists, which would be one way to address offensive power creep by making you gear for defensive power creep. The idea of "defensive power creep" is kind of silly with how this game has gone. I dug up this video of Kripparian talking about his Freeze Pulser at the point he finished all the gear for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EWMl4Odu44 Looking at the stats of the build, he has instant leech, 8700 life, and 85% all resists. It's at lvl 88 so if he hit lvl 93 or so getting to 9000 life would have been easy. This build is far tankier than what most builds get today in terms of life pool and resistances. On the other hand, his dps is 2500 on Freeze Pulse (remember it shotgunned so it's really 12500). 6L was incredibly hard to come by at the time and he finally gets the 6L in this video for a damage support, since Life Leech support was mandatory at the time. His crit rate was like 36%. Kripp said at the time that even if you could build as tanky as he did, the game was still going to kill you at some point. The game has gotten dramatically more dangerous since then in terms of what monsters can actually do, and it's actually harder to get as tanky as Kripp was in that video today.
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Mar 5, 2019 01:06
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BobbyK posted:For people that hit 36 challenges regularly, do you have any advice for someone who burns out at 24 every single time? Typically there are around 6 challenges that are significantly more effort to accomplish than the others, figure out which 4 you’re going to ignore and have a plan on how to get the others done. Buy carries for boss challenges that you can’t handle on your own, then come back to them after 36 if you want. Actually, aggressively buy anything (prophecies, scarabs, etc.) that will make it easier to get to 36. Rerolling can be a good way to have more fun and prevent burnout, but it’s not for everyone. If you feel burnout coming, take a week or two off before it really sets in. This doesn’t always work but it’s a shot at hitting your goal without making yourself miserable.
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Mar 5, 2019 01:07
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theshim posted:Uhhh, no, it should drop it to 0%?  who needs math
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Mar 5, 2019 01:08
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RPZip posted:That's an interesting idea. Do you skip the occultist es nodes then?
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Mar 5, 2019 01:27
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Vasudus posted:
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Mar 5, 2019 01:32
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I'm really interested in seeing the numbers on the trickster changes. It was already a really solid ascendancy which got a ton of clear speed and hp/mana/ES recovery for free. Only downside was that everything was on-kill so it was mediocre against bosses. Now it can have full uptime of both frenzy and power charges, and if the numbers on the ghost shrouds are good it should also have some really nice survivability. Easy access to ES leech near the starting area is also a really nice change. I started one last league, and I will probably do the same in this one. Only thing to decide is which spell to use. Osci fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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Mar 5, 2019 01:37
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Ghost Shroud should be loving nuts with Hale Negator if it's any good at all.
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Mar 5, 2019 01:54
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Tai posted:How do you reduce Arc's power without loving self cast Arc. BadMedic posted:Increase cast speed, decrease damage proportionally. Self cast won't notice a thing, but PP and traps get nerfed. Called it! Also can I get a guild re-invite? Character name BadMedic.
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Mar 5, 2019 01:58
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It still depends on just how hard brands are going to be nerfed but that manifesto hasn't pushed me off Storm Brand Elementalist as a starter yet.
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Mar 5, 2019 02:00
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I don't think arma brand deserves a nerf 
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Mar 5, 2019 02:02
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lmao this hype cycle is honestly pretty dumb, it's like a month now of constantly going "well.... depending on the numbers" for basically everything. Everything is described so vaguely you can't have much emotions at all good or bad.
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Mar 5, 2019 02:08
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Slayer nerf not too vague.
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Mar 5, 2019 02:09
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They buffed Phantasms, Convocation, and Consecrated Ground, gonna play summoner all league again. 
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Mar 5, 2019 02:16
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