How come Blashemy has 35% reservation?

So...it's designed in such a way as to not render things like Curse on Hit, or indeed hard-casting the curse, extinct?

Somehow that neither surprises nor depresses me.

Was already planning on a secondary Blade Vortex CoH set-up over Blasphemy for my hardcast Vortex Shadow - that way I'm not actually spending anymuch more sockets on my curses, I get the same general effect as a Blasphemy set-up, but I also get to run some regular reservations as well. Provided the mana holds out, anyways.

All this really means is that Curse on Hit is nowhere near as dead as people said it was when Blasphemy was previewed.

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I_NO wrote:

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mark1030 wrote:

Area of Effect, aura radius, and curse radius all make the area bigger. Get some of that if you want to stand far away from the monsters.

That doesn't work AoE gem wise.

Why wouldn't it work?

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mark1030 wrote:

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I_NO wrote:

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mark1030 wrote:

Area of Effect, aura radius, and curse radius all make the area bigger. Get some of that if you want to stand far away from the monsters.

That doesn't work AoE gem wise.

Why wouldn't it work?

You fucking tell me I put the gem on the thing; Doesn't work it even has it applied still doesn't work.

I tried lvl-11 Blasphemy on a couple of close-range characters who previously used Curse on Hit with movement skills to auto-curse. CoH has zero curse radius, but the mobility you get with Whirling Blades and Lightning Warp make up for it. Blasphemy didn't really add enough curse range to justify its 35% reservation cost, especially not when you'd have to give up Arctic Armour to use it.

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I_NO wrote:

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mark1030 wrote:

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I_NO wrote:

That doesn't work AoE gem wise.

Why wouldn't it work?

You fucking tell me I put the gem on the thing; Doesn't work it even has it applied still doesn't work.

Then you should report it as a bug. IAoE gem supports curses and it supports auras so if it doesn't support a curse aura it's bugged.

well this really blows, planned my build around using this, now completely useless

In short, GGG makes us believe in something and then we realize that is not even remotely the expected... That's nothing new.

Ok so a couple of questions to those who have tested it so far:

1. Radius of skills from items work with blasphemy to increase range?

2. Does AOE from tree increase range?

3. Does curse radius increase from tree increase range?

If all of these work I'm still planning on using it otherwise not so sure.

Another question:

Do curses used by blasphemy change the curse into an aura, so that aura radius nodes will also increase range?

This would be nice if it did.

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mark1030 wrote:

Then you should report it as a bug. IAoE gem supports curses and it supports auras so if it doesn't support a curse aura it's bugged.

But is the support gem (increased aoe) supposed to support a support gem like blasphemy? I thought it would not.