General Discussion - 170 dmg nerf to ice nova??? - Forum

GGG doesn't jsut nerf 1 broken build, they fully nerf entire items and skills and fuck everyone. "In this game you're just a cow being milked, not a human being entertained" - Kiss_Me_Quick Last edited by IIPheXII#5639 on Mar 6, 2019, 3:33:17 PM	Posted by IIPheXII#5639 on Mar 6, 2019, 3:33:00 PM Quote this Post
They have done 100% absolutely nothing to make hand casting superior to remote casting. No nerfs to spell totems, trap, mine which would really tackle the remote casting problem. Nor did they implement anything that gives self casters a buff to actually casting a spell themselves. Only one support (unleash) while the second (intensify) will be even better in non-moving long-duration totems, esp in boss fights. They nerfed skills used a lot in remote setups - such as frost nova (coc that always targeted a random frost bolt rather than just the caster), arc, and glacial cascade. But not the remote delivery method itself. Patch Notes 3.15: Fixed a bug where players believed the game was playable. This has been corrected and made retroactive. Patch Notes 3.19: Fixed a bug where players adapted to 3.15. This bug cannot be corrected, so we have implemented a 90% reduction in item access as a punishment.	Posted by BlaqWolf#1151 on Mar 6, 2019, 3:37:56 PM Quote this Post
Mathil broke the crap out of this spell this league. And yes he was hand casting it. The amount of dps he was getting was absolutely absurd to the point of trivializing all content.	Posted by beaniac#7060 on Mar 6, 2019, 3:46:42 PM Quote this Post
" Phantom_Omen wrote: " ExcretusMaximus wrote: The CoC build you played in Betrayal is the exact, and only, reason it was nerfed. A spell which I've always loved and I was hoping would be usable after their "hand casting" changes is one of the hardest hit because of a niche CoC build. The main reason for all of this is the shitty interaction with frostbolt. No one uses it. No one wants to use it. The only time it's been used is in a broken CoC build... Like, why? Why not just remove the interaction and buff ice nova for hand casting? I don't get it... Have you guys ever seen anyone actually casting ice nova on top of frostbolt? Because I haven't. I was really hoping that they would make this skill a good self cast skill to be used alone... But oh well, I guess shock nova is still there AND has actually been buffed. Ice nova on frost bolt was my main build this league, and it's very strong. Hell, mathil got it to 8m shaper dps.	Posted by Bleu42#4018 on Mar 6, 2019, 3:49:24 PM Quote this Post
" BlaqWolf wrote: They have done 100% absolutely nothing to make hand casting superior to remote casting. No nerfs to spell totems, trap, mine which would really tackle the remote casting problem. Nor did they implement anything that gives self casters a buff to actually casting a spell themselves. Only one support (unleash) while the second (intensify) will be even better in non-moving long-duration totems, esp in boss fights. They nerfed skills used a lot in remote setups - such as frost nova (coc that always targeted a random frost bolt rather than just the caster), arc, and glacial cascade. But not the remote delivery method itself. Cast point from 0.8 to 0.7 on arc for example is about 14% moar damage from casting speed. Discharge from 1 to 0.75 is 33% moar as well. Base cast speed changes also affect totems so that's a buff and they don't take into account that people in this game don't need moar damage just to play ranged with indirect totems/traps doing the job. "In this game you're just a cow being milked, not a human being entertained" - Kiss_Me_Quick	Posted by IIPheXII#5639 on Mar 6, 2019, 3:55:26 PM Quote this Post
they did lower the last time on it as well, so it will be about as good if you handcasting it. It's how they balanced a lot of spells. lower the cast time, lower the damage to compensate, so if you keep casting the skill, the damage is pretty on par.	Posted by Rafein#2354 on Mar 6, 2019, 4:04:52 PM Quote this Post
They need to rebalance coc not nerf nova... (سಥ益ಥ)س (سಥ益ಥ)س (سಥ益ಥ)س (سಥ益ಥ)س (سಥ益ಥ)س (سಥ益ಥ)س (سಥ益ಥ)س	Posted by RitualMurder#3177 on Mar 6, 2019, 6:16:51 PM Quote this Post