Cwdt Immortal Call

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caboom wrote:

would be much easier to balance CWDT if they made it only for spells that do damage, as of now its only a gimmick for casting suport spells.

anyone uses cast when stuned or cast on melee kill? those need a lot of love.

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caboom wrote:

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The problem is that GGG got inspired by the cast x on attack/hit and other such wonderful trigger skills in Diablo 2.

The issue comes from them not restricting them enough. As you say, if they worked only for damaging skills they would already be a little bit more balance.
I use them as such actually. They had the Cas ton crit issue with everyone spamming spells from an attack gem and tons of spells that it will trigger on crit resulting in those terribly broken builds.

So the idea is good, i even missed the triggers in POE because they were fun in D2 but since any character can use basically any and all gems in a lot of varying combinations there are just too many ways this can go wrong and it did.

cast on crit works in a completly diferent way than CWDT, COMK and cast when stuned. COC has a much easier time buffing its DPM since it does not need to scale both attack damage and spell damage like cast on melee kill or put itself on a risky situation like CWDT or cast when stuned.


all in all i think it would be much better to change them to something along this lines:

cast on melee skill
Supported Melee Attacks will Cast Supported Spells on Kill
Supported Triggered Spells have (40 to 78)% increased Spell Damage
attacks and spells linked will benefit from both attack and spell damage boost
This Gem can only Support Skill Gems requiring Level (38 to 70) or lower
You cannot Cast Supported Spells directly

this will make suporting both the attack and spell much easier plus items, gems, keystones and auras with +spell damage and +attack damage will provide a double boost.

increased spell damage could be toned down if proven OP but i doubt it will reach COC level.


CWDT
Casts Supported Spells when you take a total of (528 to 3272) Damage
(-70 to 6)% more Damage replaced with 8% increased damage per level
This Gem can only Support Skill Gems requiring Level (38 to 70) or lower
100% reduced effects of linked buffs / debuffs
You cannot Cast Supported Spells directly




cast when stuned. well this one needs a miracle not to mention that giving it a plain damage boost will just make it a reskined CWDT.

30% +3% per level chance to Cast shater when stuned



shatter:
% of missing life as damage over an area around you
% of missing ES as damage over an area around you

given how life is less likely to be stuned it should have a higher value.