When will we have Puncture skill turned into Support gem?

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Boem wrote:

Oh look he's back with more ridicules suggestions...

Bummer. . .

Kind of funny, as everyone is actually ridiculing his suggestion.

I didn't ridicule it. I want a DoT support, like 'poison blades' or whatever. Puncture is fine as an active gem, however.

Oh right, I almost forgot that you think you deserve to be addressed separately.

*some people are ridiculing it.

Cheers! I would like to believe I'm part of 'everyone'. :P

But hey, if not. Also cool.

Back on topic: if we were to have a DoT support, it'd have to be pretty weak. Chaos damage seems the easy answer, since it's fairly hard to buff chaos damage, and chaos typically represents 'poison'.

Puncture, on the other hand, should stay an active gem because it does what it says on the box: you puncture the enemy, such that if they move, they bleed out real fast. There's no reason why fireballs, lightning bolts and so on should do the same.

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Charan wrote:

Puncture, on the other hand, should stay an active gem because it does what it says on the box: you puncture the enemy, such that if they move, they bleed out real fast. There's no reason why fireballs, lightning bolts and so on should do the same.

Puncture is not the effect, bleeding is the effect, so the gem would add Bleed effect to the skill, bleed only account physical damage, so you lightning wouldnt do anything with puncture

sure it would need a nerf in order to be a support
something like

Puncture
support,attack,duration
200%multiplier
40% less damage
Supported skill has 50% chance to make your foe bleed

See, that's the sort of thing you should have put in your original post.

It would need to be renamed, something like lacerate or perforate, but a weaker 'bleed' support could be cool. I don't see why 'Puncture' can cause bleeding but 'Cleave' can't. They both cut the enemy, both have a *chance* to cause bleeding.

So that'd be my stipulation. Chance to bleed rather than absolute. That way Puncture remains the go-to skill for guaranteed bleeding, whereas this new support would simply add a chance for your attack to create what another game called 'open wounds'. And of course the DoT would be weaker than Puncture's.

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Charan wrote:

I didn't ridicule it. I want a DoT support, like 'poison blades' or whatever

Perhaps a Poison support. Poison might be a bit to strong to be a support though (20% of the hit over 2 seconds for those unaware). Chance or melee only or w/e. Or maybe I overestimate it. Played with Mortem but not Adders.

^if you make it melee, ST players will get even more buff for there buck.

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Boem wrote:

^if you make it melee, ST players will get even more buff for there buck.

OMFG FUCK ST. :(

Melee attack instead of melee weapon fixes that.

But then bows/wands lose it :/
Edit: Wait bleed or poison. This is aimed at bleed but Boem may have pointed at poison.