Threshold Jewel: Fight for Survival

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Nephalim wrote:
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pneuma wrote:
So... cold pen.

Yeah, that totally changes the way FB works. I guess every underused melee skill is gonna get these require uniques now...?


They were never going to buff them proper so I see threshold jewels as 'paying' for the skill gem we deserve instead of the skill gem GGG gave us.


better than no buff
I dont see any any key!
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XerxezBreak wrote:
Wish they would reveal the last 5 Threshold Jewels. It would really help with planning for the next league.


+1

Bex! Go rogue! Spoil ALL the things!
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Nephalim wrote:
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pneuma wrote:
So... cold pen.

Yeah, that totally changes the way FB works. I guess every underused melee skill is gonna get these require uniques now...?

They were never going to buff them proper so I see threshold jewels as 'paying' for the skill gem we deserve instead of the skill gem GGG gave us.

Yeah, that sucks.

Perfect is the enemy of good and all that. I'm glad that the build is getting a buff, but this is just the absolutely worst way to go about it. It's introducing a gear requirement way too early into build planning.

"Frost Blades" can mean a lot of things, but now at the very least it means thou shalt have 2 of these jewels and they must go in 2 of ~5 jewels sockets.
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pneuma wrote:
So... cold pen.

But only for the melee strike. Is that good enough? Probably? I suppose it's the bit that needs the most help when it comes to one-button play.
kumite kumite kumite
Frost Blades is still going to feel awkward.



Sometimes you can take the game out of the garage but you can't take the garage out of the game.
- raics, 06.08.2016

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JohnNamikaze wrote:
Frost Blades is still going to feel awkward.





this ^ its the weird targeting that makes it bad...
I dont see any any key!
Just curious: have you guys tried it since the last auto-targeting update? It made quite a big difference to me, much easier to land a hit with shift and ground-targeting. Still quirky, but not as egregious as it once was.
(that update was 2.5.0, or the start of Breach League, for reference)
Last edited by Vipermagi#0984 on Mar 2, 2017, 5:45:32 PM
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Vipermagi wrote:
Just curious: have you guys tried it since the last auto-targeting update? It made quite a big difference to me, much easier to land a hit with shift and ground-targeting. Still quirky, but not as egregious as it once was.
(that update was 2.5.0, or the start of Breach League, for reference)



Yea, I have, but it is still annoying.
Sometimes you can take the game out of the garage but you can't take the garage out of the game.
- raics, 06.08.2016

Avid enjoyer of Frost Blades, looking at this jewel and...kinda going "meh?" I mean sure, two of these replaces a Cold Pen jewel in your links so you can get an effective 7L since nobody needs pen against packs on FB...but that still seems awfully boring next to badass modifiers like Knife Nova over in the Ethereal Knives locker room.

If someone handed you a Frost Blades character with two of these for a half hour of mapping, then handed you the same Frost Blades character with two generic rare jewels instead for another half hour, would you be able to tell which half hour was which without looking at the skill tree? if not, that seems kinda like a waste of a threshold jewel.

Oh well. Still something in the toolkit, at least.
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