Molten Strike got a buff

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Molten Strike

Now deals 120% of base damage at gem level 1, and 161% of base damage (up from 147%) at gem level 20.
Projectiles deal 40% less damage at gem level 1, and 30% less damage (from 40%) at gem level 20.

i did not expect that in the slightest

Yeah, but max 1 wildfire jewel and nerfed lab enchants.

''buffed''

ONE wild fire

nerfed lab enchants

more nerfs etc

the fuck dude lol HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A BUFF

No but lorewaeve did by ele flask changes which more MS characters use. Basically you can get 85% res equivalent just using these new flask.

oh i haven't seen the wildfire change.

so you can only have 1 wildfire jewel now. that was expected on my part. hmmm

how is that a buff, you ask? well its still a buff to the skill gem. overall nerf but not nearly as much as other things.

molten strike will still be very strong. and at least they didn't change wildfire to only 1 projectile bonus and still use two, this at least frees up a jewel socket! lol

ya. well depending on how expensive the new lab enchant is (should be less but probably not by a whole lot) it'll mean my builds overall projectiles are unchanged, but it forces uses its enchant.

hey at least doryani's fist got an insane buff

Probably the buff to the Grelwoods and the Gem will counteract the nerf for pure MS builds.

However, for like MS/Herald-Of-Agony Crawler builds, this is a nerf.

I saw the "buff" and assumed they were reducing projectiles. Makes sense, still prob best "melee" skill.

I guess they buff your fps by reducing balls

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ladish wrote:

I saw the "buff" and assumed they were reducing projectiles. Makes sense, still prob best "melee" skill.

absolutely. at least without knowing exactly how well the new skills perform. going to be some pretty sweet phys dmg champions with the new skills though, thats for sure.

i also assumed they were reducing projectiles a while ago. i knew they'd hit the enchant and knew they'd hit the wildfire jewel somehow. again im glad they reduced it to 1 jewel max instead of reducing the jewel to 1 projectile and you still needing to use two. thats the best case scenario of the nerf, anyway.

this will hurt more molten strike builds but mine is still very much alive. after seeing the nerf to quill rain, MS will be my league starter once again.

i'll see what build i want to migrate to once i build some currency. probably CWC winter's orb with frostbolt and self cast vortex.
vortex being able to proc on 5 frostbolts at a time now is pretty enormous buff. will make clear speed pretty insane.