The recent build/ascendancy balance is hilarious

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demonstorm wrote:

I've been playing deadeye since I can remember and this is the second time (first one being in metamorph) that I've rage quit off my elemental bow build due to how miserable the damage/survivability is. It's disappointing to be honest.

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yamface wrote:

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demonstorm wrote:

I've been playing deadeye since I can remember and this is the second time (first one being in metamorph) that I've rage quit off my elemental bow build due to how miserable the damage/survivability is. It's disappointing to be honest.

dude when was the last time a deadeye was considered to have good survivability?

???

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SeCKSEgai wrote:

Just gonna say, I've had my scions in standard do basically nothing for several leagues now because their ascendency probably hasn't seen and change since they nerfed leeching a while back.

It's not like they revolved around leeching, but aside from making a physical/elemental reflect immune or life leeching totem build there really isn't anything specifically appealing as a scion that isn't done better by the base class.

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ArtCrusade wrote:

I always thought about Scion like "take small Pathfinder, rest is optional" for flask charges. ^^

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ArtCrusade wrote:

Just gonna drop in here and tell y'all Sirus has like 32k Armour. Please take that under consideration when you jumble with numbers

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demonstorm wrote:

Can anyone explain to me how is it possible for a bow build to be infinitely more powerful as a champion (an ascendancy that should be general purpose for physical builds) than the archetype ascendancy, deadeye?

I've invested several exalts into a bow deadeye and I barely tickle guardians. With my champion impale build, I destroy them in 2 seconds. MOREOVER, my deadeye dies in 2 hits at most, despite fortify in bottle, 4.2k hp and a lot of evasion/dodge (this doesn't help if you get hit, yes, which is another problem of its own), while my champion can facetank a ton of stuff.

I've been playing deadeye since I can remember and this is the second time (first one being in metamorph) that I've rage quit off my elemental bow build due to how miserable the damage/survivability is. It's disappointing to be honest.

I know this may seem like a rage post (it is btw), but I can't possibly fathom how things got to this point. Monsters have been buffed ad infinitum alongside physical builds, while they had the audacity to nerf tornado shot / elemental jewels into the ground. Meta rotation is one thing. This isn't it.