Skill Reveal - Spirit Offering

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Eranicus wrote:

Thanks for one more useless item/gem for actual summoners (classic summoners in particular)

Something tells me that people at GGG who design all these items/gems for summoners have absolutely NO IDEA what they are doing and dont want to listen to all good sugestions people post. Well, what can we do .....

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patskie14 wrote:

While we're at it, Let's add a 4th offering skill
Blood offering: MORE/Increased (which ever is less OP) physical damage, and life gained on hit + minor life regeneration

And Add an offering based unique armor/es helm
that gives the following bonuses

+3 levels to socketed offering skills
Socketed offering gems last 25% longer (stack with increased duration gem)
+30% Area of effect to offering skills
You can have two active offerings at once

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Ghazzy wrote:

So spirit offering is released as a middleground use for summoners. The arguements made is that they can be used to save minions.

Just to make things clear:
Minions do NOT die, until they die. To clearify that statement this is how it goes:

Minions don't die until they take such insane ammount of damage of gets shotgun dropped so hard it would be impossible to even convocate them out of harms way. So Spirit Offering will be completely useless as a defensive mean for your minions.


The damage increase can be rather nice to builds such as SRS, DB, AW builds. But then again thanks to Mistress of Sacrifice this offering will be in more or less any CWDT NON summoner builds.


So as xHavoCx wrote earlier this will result in Necromancer classes getting increased popularity but it will not be for summoner builds. It will then be nerfed to work as an "Offering" instead of a "spell" just like havoc wrote, it is so simple to figure this out.


The worst part is that people see this as summoners getting attention when in fact the stuffs being released are better suited for almost all other builds but summoners.

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Exile009 wrote:

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patskie14 wrote:

While we're at it, Let's add a 4th offering skill
Blood offering: MORE/Increased (which ever is less OP) physical damage, and life gained on hit + minor life regeneration

And Add an offering based unique armor/es helm
that gives the following bonuses

+3 levels to socketed offering skills
Socketed offering gems last 25% longer (stack with increased duration gem)
+30% Area of effect to offering skills
You can have two active offerings at once

This sounds like a nice idea, but...it ought to have some sort of downside as well - either a unique one (like on Soul Mantle) or just by being on a low base type (like on Cloak of Flames).