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I'll tell you why. Continous boots to attack based characters, both defenses and offenses, because spells was once the way to go, now they are overboosted and much better than spells. Also because spectral throw is way overpowered. Too much power, too much risk. Ranged attacking with all regular weapon talents and hitting many times per attack.

Just when you balance spells dont boost them too much, instead nerf attacks, or else you will just end up boosting x ten y then x then y until content is trivialized. Ofc, there needs to be new spells as well such as lightning ones that can actually be used to plow things down.

EDIT: And ofc scion

Scions are an upgraded version of witches/shadows. news at eleven.

Melee is just SUPER popular right now because of all the buffs to it. And Spectral Throw. I find Spectral Throw to be a little on the overpowered side.

Nerf Silverbranch and Poison Arrow because everyone uses it in races? No problem, get a decent 2H and Spectral Throw and you're good to go.

This is likely due to the Life buff and ES nerf, as there are very few good life nodes in the witch-shadow area.

Make Infused Shield give 300 ES (or more due to the vaal pact nerf) instead of 12% More ES, and that'll be good enough.

It seems Spectral Throw is the new Cleave. The classes that can't easily use ST for leveling is under represented for now (also it's a cool new gem). Racing season will tell, ST Scion or mule ST for Shadow/Ranger/Duelist will be the go to race build.

You know,prior to patch 0.11 both ES and Life had the same values.Most passives were 8% some of them higher.Back then everyone and his brother played life based builds,and CI was pretty unpopular.Now after release,they buffed life back,while leaving ES nerfed and even moved vaal pact apparently in New Zealand,what did you expect :/.

Both stat shows Witch suck

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But... really, no love at all for the Int stat?

Theories please!

The Era of Dual Spark is officially over.

Some day only a few will remember old Docks layout...

Spork got nerfed, Shields got nerfed (hurts ES way more than armor based who easily picked up the extra armor with CoDT/Molten Shell), RF got nerfed, Vaal pact got moved to near unreachable location for witch, boss fights like weaver and dominus are heavily slanted against classes that can not leech, and leech with a spell requires a gem, as opposed to leech on gear, spells now scale poorly in end game, traps in non full trapper builds got nerfed, life got buffed. Summoners got heavy nerf with aura changes/EB.

Big one: Changing discipline aura to 60% reserved. It's a requirement for all ES classes, which are also very mana intensive. CI can't use clarity on life, so leveled clarity + discipline = no mana left.

Was the perfect storm for witches.