Is fork and chain overshadowed by pierce?

Most projectile skills don't really use, if at all, fork or chain. It's always pierce no matter what projectile skill it is. Is fork and chain just too underpowered or inherently worse than pierce?
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Enzari wrote:
Most projectile skills don't really use, if at all, fork or chain. It's always pierce no matter what projectile skill it is. Is fork and chain just too underpowered or inherently worse than pierce?


Fork and chain might as well not exist as skill gems. Chain's less damage is too severe. Even if pierce had zero more damage it'd still be better than chain.
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I'm using chain for my Ice Shot, works wonders. But yeah, pierce is too prevalent and supported by too much stuff (Drillneck, Deadeye) while chain and fork are mostly standalone.
Less damage is dogshit.
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I always found Fork to be a weird support despite having some potential for pack clear. Chain is awesome for pack clearing, but really messes on your single target damage output if you keep the support around it.


Pierce support already got nerfed, so it is fine. However, Chain and Fork Support needs to get a big buff.
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The less damage is so fucking bad no questions asked there.
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Back in the day SPORKers were all the hype :) Gem hype comes and goes.
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Enzari wrote:
Are fork and chain overshadowed by pierce?

Abso-bloody-lutely.

It's weird that the pierce support gem has a more damage multiplier while fork and chain have a less multiplier.
It's insane.

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hyper_ch wrote:
Back in the day SPORKers were all the hype :) Gem hype comes and goes.

That was because of how Spark worked, not because fork was a good support gem.
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A change here, a change there... and fork will be great again :)
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JohnNamikaze wrote:
Pierce support already got nerfed, so it is fine. However, Chain and Fork Support needs to get a big buff.

Strongly disagree. Prior to Pierce getting a (completely needless) More Damage multiplier, Chain vs. Pierce was a legitimate choice made on a case-by-case basis, even with the Less Damage penalty on Chain. Pierce Lightning Arrow was fairly uncommon due to the clearspeed offered by Chain LA, but ever since Pierce got that stupid fucking More Damage modifier, it's Pierce all day every day forever and ever.
The "nerf" to Pierce made zero difference there. Oh no, it went from 30% to 20% More Damage, big fucking deal? :/ It's a loss of 7.7% damage - switching to Chain is almost a 50% loss.

The Pierce buff was, alongside Multistrike, one of the most blatant Damage inflation changes.


Fork has ~always been a shit support though.
Last edited by Vipermagi on Oct 19, 2016, 8:59:14 AM

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