Malachai's Simula Blood Magic trick being removed. Why I'm disappointed.

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raics wrote:

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Flickerflare wrote:

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raics wrote:

Ok, one more try and I give up.

Early in game, if you do 100 damage and take a 10% melee damage node you do 110 damage.
Late in game, if you do 10000 damage and take a 10% melee damage node you do 11000 damage.

Is the node more valuable late game than early? No. Why? Because game content scales, so your damage also scales, check that concept out, might be novel and fun to you. If you do 10k dps 1k is a nice boost, if you do 50k dps 1k more is negligible

If anything, the node is more valuable early because your other bonuses to damage, like the one strength grants is low. With every extra damage node you take you get less benefit per point, first ones you take almost act as 'more' bonus while last ones give you a fraction of their value per passive point.

If you take two builds at the exact same point in the game, then the scaling argument is irrelevant.

Who gets more out of haste, an Ice Spear Caster, or an Elemental Hit Bowrauder? Both characters are level 100 for this example.

The answer is the Elemental Hit Bowrauder because they will get a higher DPS increase from using it.

Please THINK because you're not arguing as well as you think you are.

And caster in general benefits from haste more than attacker because of lesser availability of cast speed compared to attack speed, that's really common knowledge.

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Dan1986 wrote:

So ideally you wanna have the situation where both is balanced to maximize dps. raics was right that haste kind of fades in comparison to faster attacks gem/multistrike etc. But if you don't use these gems it's actually pretty good. On the passive tree there are very few nodes with >= 12% ias (berserking, acceleration etc), so it's not too bad. Moreover if you attack faster you also leech more which increases survivability. Let's not forget that

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voonvoon wrote:

Small Q: Why was it possible to use Auras at notmal cost on life with Malachais? Doesn't this helmets Desc also state, that it doubles the cost of spells and thus making it equal to sort of a 19+ BM Gem in Life use?

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Flickerflare wrote:

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raics wrote:

And caster in general benefits from haste more than attacker because of lesser availability of cast speed compared to attack speed, that's really common knowledge.

Really? Because according to your current argument neither of them benefits more: Each gets a 13% increase of their base DPS.

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ancalagon3000 wrote:

Haste can give at most 13% extra dps / more dps. And thats a far fecthed scenario where the only source of ias is this shitty 40% reserve aura, not FA gem, gear or passives. What that 13% is, whether its 100 or 1 billion damage, is not the issue here. The guy said haste gives him much more than 13% extra dps while also stating he had an extra 30 ias, its impossible.

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Flickerflare wrote:

Yes. That was the initial point, and the guy claiming it gave him more than 13% DPS is of course silly... I suppose we've gotten quite derailed by all this. Though I'm done responding since my opponent clearly has his head up his ass and is incapable of thinking in ways other than percents.