Here's what the Snakepit Sapphire Ring is like in Path of Exile: Betrayal

Not sure what to think on this one but as others have noted the removal of pierce might be interesting to play around with on some things.

I wonder how it will work with Sire Of Shards and new Ice Spar.
Yeah, I know it most propably will be a meme build, but still looks cool ;)

and rip +1 projectiles

already nerfing winter orb ey, i se what you did there

Is this an really early / late april's fool joke?

Seriously, i know this is all about Winter Orb and the redesigned Ice Spear...
Getting real sick of this pseudo-balancing crap.

I bet both can't even compete without the old ring, but hey let's just completely change an unique before someone can actually test this, because of two new skills... professional work!

Great design ... you spare yourself some effort. Making this simply a new item would make everyone happy.

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the_jebler wrote:

it will probably suck but i want to make a chaining storm burst totaly ignoring the aoe holding it down wile my screen looks like a pinball game until everything in dead.

That sounds silly. I'm down for that :D

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VanGhul wrote:

Is this an really early / late april's fool joke?

Seriously, i know this is all about Winter Orb and the redesigned Ice Spear...
Getting real sick of this pseudo-balancing crap.

I bet both can't even compete without the old ring, but hey let's just completely change an unique before someone can actually test this, because of two new skills... professional work!

Great design ... you spare yourself some effort. Making this simply a new item would make everyone happy.

So usually when GGG just implements new stuff without rebalancing the old items first, everybody is whining that they don't even test their own game beforehand.

Now they actually think ahead and balance existing items and again...people are whining.

People expecting ball lightning to fork... it won't, sorry. Freezing Pulse and frostbolt *definitely* will be able to chain or fork with this ring, as "projectiles pierce all enemies" is explicitly a line in the skill text of the gems; storm burst might be able to work with it because at least the gem description says "pierce through enemies" in it, so it may or may not function as an actual property of the skill.

But ball lightning? The wiki claims the balls "pierce", and we know the balls count as projectiles, but nowhere on the gem is the word "pierce". As far as I can tell, the reason ball lightning can't chain or fork isn't because it pierces in the mechanical sense but because it never makes meaningful contact with an enemy.

I'd *love* for a dev to tell me I'm wrong, but I'd be literally shocked if they suddenly made ball lightning fork.

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Now they actually think ahead and balance existing items and again...people are whining.

"think" is the funny word here, replace it with "believe".

Or are there actual testing results @Bex?
Otherwise this is not balancing, it's just destroying potential stuff and diversity even before it could happen.

Besides the cold res, this ring already have only offensive stats.
If they already take away +projectiles you can assume additional projectiles will be mandatory.

What about Sire of Shards? It gives +4... Will it be the next "redesigned and now balanced" item? Want to make Dying Sun even more expensive?

You don't even have numbers now about this skill's damage, like always just assume this will be overpowered again... people are assuming.


I criticize the modification of a single unique item, altering it to a nearly new one for no explained reasons, but i'm whining. :D logic!
Big words.


Ignorance brought you here exile...

What the fork is this thing?

Sorry, I'll see myself out.

Before I go though, could be interesting with gloomfang and Dark Pact maybe?

Edit - Gah, nevermind - just saw that Dark pact is not a projectile either...