The Prime Monsters system, AKA: How to Fix Dominating Blow once and for all

As requested by moderation i recreate this thread because it looks like a 8 months old thread with weekly update and frequent reply is considered Outdated/Necro

So here we go

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- 2.0: Dominating Blow: Minions deal 20% less damage at level 1, with the penalty reduced at each gem level. Each level grant 2% more minion damage, for 20% more damage at level 20.

- 2.1: Minions created by it now deal 35% less damage at all levels.

From 20%more( level 20) to -35%(all levels) thats somewhere like 50%less damage nerf! and not only that, it removed a part of the incentive to level them gem not having the damage scale per lvl.


And having its mechanic denied to endgame bosses and recent contents is pretty much like a 100% nerf:

- Atziri

- Shaper

- Voidspawns

- Izaro

- Kitava (Both act 5, act6 Banon rescue and act6 final)

- Elder

- Voidportal spawns

All fights with non-Dominatable adds monsters or they die once add-phase is over.



Also, league monsters cannot be Dom Blow:

• Breach
• Beyond
• Harbinger
• Abyss monsters

On top of that

3.0 Brought a lot of new bosses with adds and add phases such as Innocence and Kitava fight... None can be dominated

I have a bad feeling for 3.1's Abyss monsters aswell


Support gems are even denied


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What if, instead of converting Monsters into minions, Dominating blow was Converting monsters of each kind into 1 Model, 1 representative and that monster feeds from the monsters you dominate. Lets call that monster/minion, a Prime.

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IE: Kill a Goatman, all the next Goatman you Dominate will be absorbed by this Prime Goatman . So instead of having 10 distinct Goatman, you now have 1 Goatman with the power of 10.

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So lets say we have the Prime that does 1-10 damage and has 200 hp:

• then he absorbs a monster with 1-8dmg/100hp
• a rare with 10-20dmg/300hp/extra life(dunno real % but lets say 30%)/Resistance aura.

Then this Prime now has stats that goes like:

Damage: 12-38 base

life: 800hp (600*1.3)

mods: Extra life (previously added) and Resistance aura
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And you can have 1 Prime of each type of monsters!

1 Roah, 1 prime titty bitch,1 devourer, etc

Duration:
The first monster you convert creates the Prime, the monsters you convert afterward are added to it. The Prime timer is frozen as long as there is another monster buffing him. Each added monster have their own individual timer that when expires make the Prime shrinks (obviously).

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Scenario 1 :

- Kill a monster(monster1) that becomes Prime( lasts 15sec)

- Kill another similar monster(Monter2) that adds its stats to the Prime but have its own timer ( 15sec)

- Prime timer freezes

- 15 second later, monster2's timer runs out

- Prime timer starts (15sec)

- 15sec later and you have not killed another similar monster, Prime dies

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Scenario 2 :

- Kill a monster(monster1) that becomes Prime( lasts 15sec)

- Kill another similar monster(Monter2) that adds its stats to the Prime but have its own timer ( 15sec)

- Prime timer freezes

- 10second later you Kill another monster (monsters3) which adds to Prime

- 5 second later, monster2's timer runs out, Prime shrinks and loses Monster2's buff

- Prime timer is still frozen because Monster3 timer is still running

The more absorbed monster(buffs) it has, the bigger it gets. This would just take the Souleater+Headhunter feeling we have with Dom blow and take it to its final and perfect form, a complete and polished skill.

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Microtransation opportunity:
Using Invasion boss models as hosts for the Prime would be pretty cool and good recycling

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To fix the issue with bosses i propose a threshold jewel



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Bonus:

• this could fix Bloodline issues
• Increased monster diversity could be way more interesting with such skill mechanic
• the lag Dominating blow generates

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3.0: Fall of Oriath



Aint it the perfect timing?





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Lets Keep faith!

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Bex_GGG wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

I'd really like to see dominating blow redone.

I talked with our development team about this. They're keen to work on Dominating Blow but they want to do it right which requires a bit of time. This means that the rework won't happen in time for 3.0 unfortunately.

and 3.1 Supporter pack is called

+1
Maybe if you create this thread 500+ times more, GGG will take it into consideration. Too bad we'll all be dead long before that.

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silumit wrote:

+1
Maybe if you create this thread 500+ times more, GGG will take it into consideration. Too bad we'll all be dead long before that.

It's a request from the moderators

They considered my other thread necro and outdated

you are like the Andy Dufresne of PoE

writing a letter every week lol

if you do it for six years maybe it will work like in the film lol

love u sexcalibur. you had many cool ideas for skills so far. I also like your idea with the mini totems from ascendancy :D

keep it up!