You are being way too restrictive with acrobatics. Needs FULL redesign.

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goetzjam wrote:

Acro doesn't need a full redesign and here is why.

The following are the best ways to mitigate damage in the game:

Deal damage before they can do damage to you (typically this is done at ranged, best examples are expensive builds like low life spectral throw or wander)

BLOCK Block in this game works in ways I don't think was really ever intended. For example 75% block gives you a damage reduction of 75%, meaning you only take 25% of the damage that you could be taking, in addition if you have spell block being the same then that also gets reduced. This lead to block being the single (non expensive) form of damage mitigation. Paired with higher ele res and evasion and in this case acro leads to basically taking no damage, except in rare cases.

The change to reduce the block of acro was to enable block builds OR evasion\acro builds not simply stacking the best 2 methods (for the price) of negating damage. If you want both, then that comes at a price. Nothing wrong with that IMO.

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Legatus1982 wrote:

Direct nerf to even more melee. Why? There are better solutions than this.

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goetzjam wrote:

As for blocking if you are heavily investing in block you need to start at scion because she is the only way you are going to get even close to capped block before reductions.

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Peterlerock wrote:

Logical consequence:
Don't max block when you are intending to take the Acro keystone.
Wear a shield if you want to for a bit of extra survivability like Panini_aux_olives described, but ffs, do not touch shield nodes.

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goetzjam wrote:

Aegis's block chance wasn't reduced by 2% it was the energy shield gained that was.

Replenishes Energy Shield by 4% of Armour when you Block, this is now 2%

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goetzjam wrote:

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Legatus1982 wrote:

Direct nerf to even more melee. Why? There are better solutions than this.

Please enlighten us all on how they can add something in the game to make it so melee is more viable because lets take a look at what they have added\changed:

Previously there was no perma allocation, this meant that melee characters had a better chance of getting loot therefore it was more popular.

CwDT was added, this is being setup and utilized by ranged classes as well, which typically do more damage.

Shields\blocking, again stacking this or using evasion isn't exclusive to melee, therefore ranged classes use as well.

BoR, has been nerfed twice now (technically 3 times if you count the life nodes on the tree, just 2 legacy versions)

They've added these new gems, but without extensive testing I don't see those being that much of a help.


Your point is generally mute, block was overpowered, acro\phase is strong, put those both together and it was op. Now if you generally like RNG then you can go both, but if you don't invest into one or the other and make a build around that.

As for blocking if you are heavily investing in block you need to start at scion because she is the only way you are going to get even close to capped block before reductions.