Nerf Lightning Arrow
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Lightning Arrow isn't the problem. It's the gem named Weapon Elemental Damage with the power of several skill nodes.
Create such a ranger without that gem and you will see it fail. |
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Melee (not viable) < Spells (many are not viable) < Arrow Skills (most are viable) < Freezing Pulse (OP) < LA (king of the OP hill) Why in the world would you buff EVERY SINGLE OTHER SKILL in the game? LA is king of the hill. It needs to be reeled back in line. |
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FP is horrible now.
Mob resists are too high. Could easily probably knock 25% off the dps tooltip. Even with elemental weakness at lvl20. Plus, you have to be close to do damage. |
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" Balance is important in a PvE game aswell. |
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IF they will nerf LA I will just create new OP character
"Is there such a thing as an absolute, timeless enemy? There is no such thing, and never has been. And the reason is that our enemies are human beings like us. They can only be our enemies in relative terms." Last edited by kamil1210#5432 on Mar 8, 2013, 9:39:51 AM
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Now and then things need to be nerfed - if you just buff up everything, then you get into power-creep, everyone is too strong, then they buff up monsters, then a new OP skill pops up, everyone gets buffed again and the cycle continues.
However, also need to be wary of swinging the nerf stick too hard - the cycle of 'OP/nerfed to useless' isn't any better. If they were to adjust LA, it shouldn't be to the point that everyone that is a LA user is rendered useless - although any change would result in people claiming as such, even if it amounted to only a 0.5% DPS decrease. |
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" The problem isn't lightning arrow, it's people focusing heavily to boost one skill through passives and linked gems. If a player isn't doing that, then lightning arrow is actually a mediocre skill. GGG could do a "insert OP skill of the month - please Nerf" fix by taking away the 5 links and 6 links and all passive node skill boosts. That wouldn't be a very fun game, IMO. What they might be able to add some more challenge and build diversisty is add a *few** immune type monsters in merciless that are absolutely immune to one type of damage. Piety's story http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2081910
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" It works the other way too. Any longtime LoL player knows it. When you nerf everything that's slightly more viable than everything else, you're eventually left with a bunch of shit, left to sift out which option sucks less than all the others. And this is why Riot is ass. If you're reading this, I'm probably on another year-long ban.
Thanks GGG. |
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" If everything in LoL is shit, then everything in LoL is also great, because there shit it can only be compared to the other shit. LoL is the most played game ever(IIRC), so they most be doing something right. Last edited by Sickness#1007 on Mar 9, 2013, 10:23:21 AM
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" dat philosophy I'll give you that one. I ended up quitting LoL due to everything constantly being nerfed. Kinda like Evelynn and Shaco, nerfed to hell over a year ago, brought back to viability, nerfed again. Just got tired of that shit. Hope it doesn't happen here, though the devs seem to know what they're doing in terms of game balance and keeping things on par with one-another. If you're reading this, I'm probably on another year-long ban.
Thanks GGG. |
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