The new Ascendancy classes seem kind of bland compared to the others

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

So here's the new FOTM

Required selections:

Spoiler

So your Taste of Hate and Vessel of Vinktar now have Surgeon's. Oh, and you have 15% increased movement and 20% increased attack speed up all of the time, because why not. Also, you don't need a Staunching flask anymore.

So you use some kind of CoC or archery conconction to kill everything on the screen within seconds. You don't quite get the crit of Assassin's Ambush, so you have to make due to perma-Lucky crits via Diamond flask, but in exchange you get 100% unique flask uptime - gladly taken.

Then you get one choice out of three options:
* 5% reduced elemental damage taken AND flasks gain a charge once every 3 seconds (HC option)
* 30% increased Poison damage, 30% increased Poison duration, +30% Chaos resistance AND always Poison on hit while a flask is up (the 7L SC option)
* 10% physical added as a random element, damage penetrates 10% elemental resistances (might as well ignore the first mod, because you're only taking this if you're elemental. still nice, especially for 2-3 element builds)

So hop on the Mathil Bladefall CoC train everyone, because unless it's nerfed to the ground it's here to stay. And if Bladefall is nerfed, then EK or something.

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Nephalim wrote:

ScrotieMcB wrote:

So here's the new FOTM

Required selections:

Spoiler

So your Taste of Hate and Vessel of Vinktar now have Surgeon's. Oh, and you have 15% increased movement and 20% increased attack speed up all of the time, because why not. Also, you don't need a Staunching flask anymore.

So you use some kind of CoC or archery conconction to kill everything on the screen within seconds. You don't quite get the crit of Assassin's Ambush, so you have to make due to perma-Lucky crits via Diamond flask, but in exchange you get 100% unique flask uptime - gladly taken.

Then you get one choice out of three options:
* 5% reduced elemental damage taken AND flasks gain a charge once every 3 seconds (HC option)
* 30% increased Poison damage, 30% increased Poison duration, +30% Chaos resistance AND always Poison on hit while a flask is up (the 7L SC option)
* 10% physical added as a random element, damage penetrates 10% elemental resistances (might as well ignore the first mod, because you're only taking this if you're elemental. still nice, especially for 2-3 element builds)

So hop on the Mathil Bladefall CoC train everyone, because unless it's nerfed to the ground it's here to stay. And if Bladefall is nerfed, then EK or something.

Should those poor FOTM saps with not a single ounce of creativity also ask NASA for a supercomputer before GGG nerfs it 2 weeks after ascendancy hits?

You're grossly overestimating the value of surgeon unique flasks considering any half assed crit build is going to clear through mobs with the force of billion stars, even more so with the power creep offered by these classes. Non-event bosses are also not going to last more than 8 seconds against a crit build.

Really, the most impressive part of this is going to be chaos conversion and poison abuse which should already be nerfed heavily by then.

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First: Dropping your ES by 20% of its maximum doesn't count as savage hit - a savage hit can only be scored by depleting 20% of maximum life - so no CI shinanigans possible here, sry.

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Quantume wrote:

Looks like the WoW talent page, handful of bonus perks to toss around.
Next year we'll be getting flying mounts.