Winter Orb is probably one of the dumbest skills in PoE history

Click bait title. Trolls coming up in 10 seconds to say "so y u play Bane / Soulrend / Arc Trap?".
But I'm not talking about the meta damage alone.
It's more than just that.
It's a skill that dictates a one-button play style, on top of that it auto-targets, and on top of that you don't even need to re-cast as often as other dumb auto-targeting, one-button skills which currently dominate the game.

I'd be fine with it as a secondary skill used to apply debuffs or whatnot (e.g. Herald Of Thunder)... but here is where the meta part comes in: it's not an auxiliary skill. It's a main skill that can shred single target and multi-target with equal power-creep efficiency.

Winter Orb is just a fucking broken sum of broken parts.
A real "Mark, what were you thinking?" skill.

I'd like to say that it's some sort of aberration, but for how many years did we see that standard "pizza sticks" league starter build? Drop totems and run around while the game plays for you.

Now you get to bring the damage with you while the game plays for you! The fact that it still fires off auto-targeting volleys while you sprint through the map is just so much better than any other skill that requires you to stop and channel...these guys are planning to overhaul melee?

Don't see how its worse than arc totems, or arc traps. Hell, those don't even require channeling just dropping them down.

Or, any melee skill with the old vaal pact?

Some people enjoy these kind of 1 button gameplays, you know? Nothing wrong with that. You can play summoners with your mouse alone too if you really want to.

it will get nerfed just like arc was

Melee should be the archetype getting these incredible and flexible skills.

Skill design is reaching a wall where ggg has done what they can for projectile attacks and melee attacks and skills like worb are just the evolution/power creep of skills.

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Exxxiled665 wrote:

it will get nerfed just like arc was

Yes, eventually when they've sold enough mtx. Then it's time to monetize something else. Rinse and repeat. Profit.

Remember when people thought that the console ports wouldn't affect the game's design?

Good times.

Change it to cast the projectiles in a similar fashion as EK nova jewel.
Would make the spell retain its uniqueness and not just become a cold version of EK, because it would still require channeling.

Create a threshold jewel that makes 1 of the generated projectiles auto target, with a maximum of 2.

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johnKeys wrote:

A real "Mark, what were you thinking?" skill.

He was thinking "hmm, soon Path of Exile will be on TWO consoles..."