Hierophants reworked Nerf or Buff?

My FP Hierophant use Taryn's Shiver, FP is lvl 23... if I use a shield I lose 14k dmg per totems + the 68% critical chances for dmg x4 it means over 200k dmg, it is a huge nerf ! I don't have the time to rebuild my characters whenever GGG nerf something, it is annoying, they simply ruined my toon and the time I spent on it, so I won't play it anymore Rip.

Since this is on the first page again, I wonder how many of those folks arguing that it was a "buff" now realize what we were trying to explain to them.

I wanted to bring this back up just one more time to see if all those folks that claimed this was a buff still feel so adamant now that the league's about to end.

I unlocked a ton of veiled mods, even a hits can't be evaded, but still never saw a +1 totems. I'm also aware that mod was disabled for quite some time and completely unavailable.

One person was especially adamant, and given he/she maxed at 10 challenges, it seems like their expectation didn't match their reality.

I hit 36 for the first time and didn't bother with hierophant, with ES items often taking a hit (like sin trek) and ignomon getting nerfed that building around mana/mana cost was worth the price of entry.



At this point I have to wonder are there people still convinced that this was a buff?

Nothings changed, if you have the gear its a buff if you don't its a nerf.

Shimmeron change was a far bigger dps drop than the totem switcheroo for a majority of totem builds as they have a tendency to be fairly FOTM as it is (and thus were using arc)

There was a method discovered to fairly reliably unlock +1 totem which was something like buy a terrible shield with the mod unlocked for as cheap as possible, remove its crafting mod then have whichever syndicate member did veiled mods reapply it and you'd always get +1 totem.

Dude, do you want Golden Shovel?

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Aynix wrote:

Dude, do you want Golden Shovel?

One day you might say something of merit.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

Nothings changed, if you have the gear its a buff if you don't its a nerf.

Shimmeron change was a far bigger dps drop than the totem switcheroo for a majority of totem builds as they have a tendency to be fairly FOTM as it is (and thus were using arc)

There was a method discovered to fairly reliably unlock +1 totem which was something like buy a terrible shield with the mod unlocked for as cheap as possible, remove its crafting mod then have whichever syndicate member did veiled mods reapply it and you'd always get +1 totem.

The shimmeron change definitely hit hard, and it's not like totems were topping the charts then.

I didn't know about the unveiling trick, I'll probably look into that before league ends.

I would like to ask you go more into what you mean by gearing deciding the buff or nerf. Are we talking about like a crazy expensive soul mantle/atziri's reflection jewelled up gear level or a +1 totem and typical totem gear setup?

I was saying from the very start of -1 tot announcement: it was a kill off.