Double Strike

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WillyHsu wrote:

The game is already 0.9.9, and you still not change this skill. It's obvious that players won't use Double Strike when they have Heavy Strike.

When you have no element damage, the calculation is below.

Take lv11 gems for example :

Heavy Strike :

150% base damage x 140% = 210% your base damage

Mana : 8

Stun and knockback the enemy


Double Strike

70% base damage x 120% x 2 = 168% your base damage(each hit is 84%)

We all know that DS hits twice.
So if an enemy has armor, the damage will be redused twice. It means the damage will be actually lower.

Mana : 11

No other effects


GGG, your math is bad.

If you don't modify this skill in the future, then I really can't realize what you are thinking.

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Renor wrote:

I would have exspect doublestrike to have a mechanic like this:

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if the first hit is rolled as a crit, you will hit twice
if the first roll does not crit, the second hit has the same chance to roll a crit

Same applies for accuracy

This would perfectly fix the problems with double strike and synergize well with the build possibilities.

or does it currently work like this already? If yes, the skill would be pretty cool ;)


PS.: I see that shockstacking is a pro arguement for double strike, but actually its not as useful as it might seem(as long as you wont go full lighting damage)

Assuming you just support your physical damage with lighting damage and go for crit, the problem is, that you lose a lot of chances to shockstack enemies, because of the damage effectiveness of DS. The nature of lighting damage (dealing high max and low min damage) further reduces the chances to shock. If your you dot 10-200 lighting damage and enemy has X HP you might end up that the lighting damage rolls from 10-70 wont shock the enemy because of the high HP.


Another big problem of lighting is, that its strong versus weak enemies, but awful against strong enemies.
Yes, you might onehit white mobs with 1 double strike, because of the double shock stack, but when you face a tripple elemental resist rare, you wont do shit and you can hit it for like 20 minutes, because lighting damage will not shock and physical damage is low per hit, meaning, armor will reduce the damage by a lot.



If double strike has no special/hidden mechanic, its just bad. And so is the game if it does not get fixed.