Congrats on destroying Voltaxic Rift

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

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raics wrote:

Besides, the design of Voltaxic and Consuming was somewhat ridiculous from the start. Converting into chaos is an advantage in itself, did they really have to give you free status effects as well?

Well, a long time ago, Poison was just a crappy weak DoT, that couldnt be scaled well and didnt stacked either. So, Consuming Dark had "poison" property rather to fit item's theme, it didnt added much DPS anyway. Now, Poison can be scaled very hih due to DD, and it stacks.
And Voltaxic had 5% crit chance base, and couldnt leech mana, nor life (so you had to waste 1 gem slot for Blood Magic, and 1 more gem slot for Life Leech). It was always considered very strong, even depite its DPS never shined in the past. Now, you can leech both life and mana without wasting gem slots, you can put poison and scale it with DD, you have access to OP skills like (buffed many times) LA and Blast Rain, and so on.
Why wonder, that decent uniques from the past suddenly became OP?

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eragon1111 wrote:

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Yajirushi62 wrote:

Honestly, I just grabbed a harbinger that I bought for 10c in standard before switching to Voltaxic, and it's doing similarly on clear speed as my Voltaxic did. 133-313 damage and 8.6% crit which is similar to your 6L, the only thing that I won't be able to do with it is elemental reflect maps.

How fast do you clear t12+ bosses ? Do you run double reflect maps ?

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Yajirushi62 wrote:

Honestly, I'm still going to be using Voltaxic in 2.3 because even with 40% of my damage being reflected I can run any map mod I want at the cost of a slightly lower shock chance on non-criticals because there will be two "hits" that can shock per hit instead of one.

Edit: I'm probably one of the minority that doesn't use poison in my Voltaxic setup, went Deadeye instead of Pathfinder at the beginning and could never justify the cost to switch.

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Diphal wrote:

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Yajirushi62 wrote:

Honestly, I'm still going to be using Voltaxic in 2.3 because even with 40% of my damage being reflected I can run any map mod I want at the cost of a slightly lower shock chance on non-criticals because there will be two "hits" that can shock per hit instead of one.

Edit: I'm probably one of the minority that doesn't use poison in my Voltaxic setup, went Deadeye instead of Pathfinder at the beginning and could never justify the cost to switch.

I agree. I think that double dipping of poison is HIGHLY overrated. Was funny watching video where a guy with Voltaxic basically destroyed every monster on the map with first shot... and people were still making stupid comments how posion is OP. I was like... there is not even time to let posion do a few ticks.

I believe that Voltaxic and other chaos builds are sooo popular only because items in Perandus are extremely accesible and because its only way how to bypass the most stupid mechanic in game - reflect.

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Diphal wrote:

I agree. I think that double dipping of poison is HIGHLY overrated. Was funny watching video where a guy with Voltaxic basically destroyed every monster on the map with first shot... and people were still making stupid comments how posion is OP. I was like... there is not even time to let posion do a few ticks.

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Ceri wrote:

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Frankenberry wrote:

So this item still does amazing damage and 60% reflect damage reduction. Sounds like a pretty damn solid item to me.

No. The damage of Voltaxic was never the point. It is pretty low dps honestly, it's not hard at all to find a rare bow that has significantly higher dps for a couple of chaos. And now when the defining property of it is ruined, what's the point in using it? Ok, granted it's one beautiful bow, and it's very purple.

I don't know, it just feels like a knee-jerk reaction to a problem that isn't with the item itself but with recent additions to the game. Fix those instead, I'd say. This isn't gonna fix anything that's actually broken.

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Ceri wrote:

60% conversion as of next patch - no legacy version.

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_Emperor_ wrote:

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Ceri wrote:

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Frankenberry wrote:

So this item still does amazing damage and 60% reflect damage reduction. Sounds like a pretty damn solid item to me.

No. The damage of Voltaxic was never the point. It is pretty low dps honestly, it's not hard at all to find a rare bow that has significantly higher dps for a couple of chaos. And now when the defining property of it is ruined, what's the point in using it? Ok, granted it's one beautiful bow, and it's very purple.

I don't know, it just feels like a knee-jerk reaction to a problem that isn't with the item itself but with recent additions to the game. Fix those instead, I'd say. This isn't gonna fix anything that's actually broken.

It will have a prophecy... boom 100%

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DurianMcgregor wrote:

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Ghoulz666 wrote:

Dying from something off-screen is healthy? Are you delusional? Is that fun gameplay to have to fucking read everything before you kill it? Are we reading books here?

It's a check to make sure you don't go full retard glass cannon, or at least that you die if you do so. The only problem is people think they should just be able to do this without risk.