General Discussion - Is it me or is spectral shield throw really underwhelming - Forum

Fixing one broken mechanic by exploiting another broken mechanic... that's fucking great.	Posted by Shagsbeard#3964 on Mar 3, 2018, 1:12:06 PM Quote this Post
I was trying to use SST with mines, but for any reason it doesnt work with mines. SST is no Melee and therefore dont benefit from strength, also there are no damage passives for this skill in Marauder area. Only passives that work are physical from Shadow. Even Sunder works with Meleedamage/Strength nodes and it has better coverage and skaling than SST. Maxlevel base damage with 2k Armor/Evasion shield is around 663 while AOE does 25% less damage. That are 1087 raw dps at level 20.	Posted by Fumina#3873 on Mar 3, 2018, 1:42:00 PM Quote this Post
I'm using this skill with Curse on Hit + Vulnerabily, and I'm kinda enjoying it...	Posted by eralduspr#7267 on Mar 3, 2018, 1:51:53 PM Quote this Post
" Fumina wrote: I was trying to use SST with mines, but for any reason it doesnt work with mines. SST is no Melee and therefore dont benefit from strength, also there are no damage passives for this skill in Marauder area. Only passives that work are physical from Shadow. Even Sunder works with Meleedamage/Strength nodes and it has better coverage and skaling than SST. Maxlevel base damage with 2k Armor/Evasion shield is around 663 while AOE does 25% less damage. That are 1087 raw dps at level 20. its a projectile and an attack, so all projectile and attack nodes scale, if you take iron grip then strength scales it. I love all you people on the forums, we can disagree but still be friends and respect each other :)	Posted by Snorkle_uk#0761 on Mar 3, 2018, 2:16:35 PM Quote this Post
" Snorkle_uk wrote: I put together a trickster one on standard with "lol standard" type gears to see how it works deep endgame. currently at lvl90 with a lvl15 gem its around 270k dps, pob reckons with a lvl21 corrupted skill gem on a lvl95 build that takes the other 4 wed nodes down in the bottom right corner itll be around 350k dps. That character has 10k energy shield with 30k evasion. I dunno, I feel like crit scaling adds a lot, its sitting around 80% crit chance. The max you can roll on es+ev shields now is about 1470 evasion + 330 es, so you couldnt quite scale the crit as high as that with non legacy es gear, youd lose about 0.5% base crit so that would leave you a little over 76% crit chance I think, maybe 77 cause Im on 81.something if memory serves. If you have a more savage shaper offhand that tree goes over 400k, I have a sceptre that would give me 375k but it doesnt have attack speed and I like the faster shield charge and the extra bit of crit chance. I feel like the skill could rly do with a bit of a buff, I think what Id like to see is the amount of shards from the explosion doubled so thats its actually got some workable aoe capability, cause almost all of them miss almost all of the time. Looks pretty viable, though that took some serious legacy gear to achieve. I did attempt to put together an assassin build (non-legacy), but failed to hit the critical 95% crit without seriously impairing tank. The problem was that I found SST needed both a large number of DPS nodes and crit damage nodes to be anywhere near effective, thus sacrificing any ability to survive a few hits.	Posted by balhpaz2#5477 on Mar 3, 2018, 2:29:20 PM Quote this Post
" not sure if someone posted it already, but the best you can do in terms of dmg is pair the good shield with shaper/elder statstick.. cause you dont need the weapon stats, you just want that extra phys as fire/cold/lightning but that works for everything :c I need more purple titles	Posted by Ocylix#1741 on Mar 3, 2018, 2:44:45 PM Quote this Post
If you could lmp/gmp the initial shield throw it probably won't be as bad as it is right now. "The launch day went quite well with just a few small hotfixes to address minor problems." Heist League - GGG	Posted by nononononono#1480 on Mar 3, 2018, 2:57:06 PM Quote this Post
" mrtournevis wrote: So all the three new gems are bad ? It's not too early to give an opinion about something who could possibly shine in late game ? Did we know if GGG can fix it in a league already started ? Don't want to play with this fucking sunder again, it's the worst spell in the game Tectonic seems to be be usable, but don't expect more, than 200k shaper dps out of it without expensive flasks and enchants. For clearing trash it is definitely an option and then molten strike for bosses most likely. Altho I don't think it is fair, that multistrike consumes 3 endurance charges why on flicker it only uses 1 charge, it just doesn't make sense. Well worst case scenario is I'm going to play cleave. " Draegnarrr wrote: I'm sure tectonic has the same problem when people realize just how bad ground-slam is and probably more importantly how bad scaling is if you go RT or any kind of non crit build really. The main difference with this skill is, that it has elemental conversion, so you can focus on fire with 100% of your resources and maybe make some stuff out of it? RT is not the problem most the time, it's crit and multy being fucking hard to get on melee builds, like for real I can get like around 30% crit with a marauder and 300% multy, that's not enough for shit, bottom line for crit builds is 50% without flask and 400% multy. And then there's the nerfed abyssus, which I would quite frankly use if they would have halved the inc dmg taken on it as well not just the crit. Last edited by krenderke#3861 on Mar 3, 2018, 3:34:56 PM	Posted by krenderke#3861 on Mar 3, 2018, 3:25:36 PM Quote this Post
SST is the worst piece of crap ive ever tried in this game, and ive played alot of leagues and played alot of builds... And this skill was the only thing that got me interested to come back for the league.. guess im out	Posted by Altheone#1566 on Mar 3, 2018, 3:41:48 PM Quote this Post
" squencelol wrote: anyone having any success with sst? lvl 57 Jugg here, having a lot of fun with full phys / bleed. Act 2-5 was a bit painful on bosses tho.	Posted by Baazinga#4644 on Mar 3, 2018, 3:45:05 PM Quote this Post