Leaked 3.0.0 unique belt. It's causing a shitstorm on Reddit; they can't decide if it's good or bad

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gladiatorpie wrote:

Umm did you just say CI goes great with eldritch battery? Those two nodes don't exactly mesh well.

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JoeShmo wrote:

It seems asinine as a lvl 16 item. But, I mean, 99% of low level items are terrible anyway.

But what peeks my interest ..is effects that say "Gain X while at full Energy Shield".

For a life build...you now pretty much have 100% uptime access to these things ( in battle ), since even a .20 life leech is going to cap off your 300-400 ES with a grazing hit. And since the degen is % based ...it really doesn't matter that it's slowly removing ES since all you need is 1 hit to cap it back out, which even low level characters could achieve.

How many people really think to play an occultist as a life build? Id imagine nobody realistically. You're working counter productive to your strengths, going all the way to the left side of the tree when keynotes you need are on the right ..and depend greatly on ES. It's like playing CI with 20 points put into % life nodes.

But the belt basically saves you all of that headache, and realistically how many builds can afford to "give up" an item slot for basically just a single gimmicky effect? Most of them. And the belt rather saves all the minor points that give % Max ES and such from being entirely wasted as well; because basically the more health you invest into ..the larger your ES pool ( albeit at not that great of a conversion ).

But considering they stated that you wouldn't be leeching ES with ghost reaver anymore, I'm not understanding people's logic in using it to sustain the ES. We obviously are missing a really key ...note .....here in order to figure out what the belt's interaction is actually going to be. It would be redundant for the belt to give you ghost reaver ( if they changed it to what they had hinted as super ES regen ) ..since you can't regen / etc. with the belt on. And also why the belt has been held back and only "leaked" at this point; since it makes no sense to have it available right now without a proper mechanic for it to use.

So I'm going to stick with the initial thought that they are thinking of creating something ( a belt of all things, which makes sense ) to try and make ES heavy / leaning ascendencies / builds be more workable with the current shift to Health / Defenses.

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Bristoling wrote:

If you're playing a life build with leech, that additional ES leech is basically the same as if you had some small amount of regen.

So, I'd read this belt as:
- No res.
- No life.
- No WED.
- No flask bonuses.
- You gain x% ES regen if you are on full life and are attacking + leeching.
- You gain some ES.

Great and unique idea, poor execution. Belt shafted in the ES nerf bag before it even came into existance.
Especially in a slot where majority of builds get their resistances (90-120 total res on a single item slot), it's unnaceptable to have "okish/alright" bonus/mechanic and not something OP.

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Astealoth wrote:

I don't really see the big discussion about the belt. You're giving up good belt mods to take on Ghost Reaver node without the skill point investment. It might be good utility for someone who wants to spec out left side of the tree only, but I really don't see a ghost reaver belt as build defining. I wouldn't give up a really good rare belt with flask mods for the ability to take a slightly more skill point efficiency route. I would rather spec ghost reaver if I wanted to ghost reaver, there's plenty of high efficiency general purpose nodes over that way.