The daring may enjoy a Dance with Death

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鬼殺し wrote:

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DivineChampion wrote:

This "Can't use helmets" is the most clunky thing i've ever seen in this game.

edit:
Point Blank is limited to attacks. Wording of this new Keystone says spells are also affected. Melee buff huh?

Hence my suspicion there is something we are not being shown associated with this modified keystone. Some larger restriction or condition.

Fine, not suspicion. Hope.

...They can't be this incompetent as to allow it to work for spells.

Well, they released Winter Orb... everything can happen now.

What happened in the "caster patch" for melee? Nothing, except Slayer/Scion nerf. No carrots. No bones. "No" uniques for two leagues aimed at melee.

If they now manage to make caster shine even more in a "melee patch", I will be... Disappointed.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

"Lucky" is on average a 33% more multiplier.

only on lightning, the tighter the min-max the smaller the increase.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

The problem with that keystrone is:

1) It's pointless to invest so much into crit reduction etc. to make it worth. Might as well get just get the damage without any downsides.

2) Abyssus already exists

3) It's ultra trash for melee, maybe acceptable for ranged somehow

4) It promotes one-shot gameplay even more. Even if it's a player's choice, majority don't understand the gameplay risks and mechanics good enough and emotions will still prevail over their poor decisions.

Pretty much agreed, abyssus for melee still though I find it amusing the number of people on reddit as such that think 40% extra phys taken is inconsequential compared to crits being lucky.

I don't really think you have to build crit reduction either it just isn't that relevant but 1 crit reduction node/piece of gear will cover the extra damage taken in one go.

As far as I can see there are only two things that balance this, its location because really its a caster node and its currently overwriting point blank and the fact a GG helmet with correct lab enchant on many skills is worth a pretty sizeable chunk by itself.

i wonder if GGG ran out of ideas.
instead making some INTERESTING jewel, they came up with a classic "you have moar (not true cause you lose helmet slot + lab enchant +) damage but you are more likely to get 1 shotted"


great fucking design GGG, indeed
like we dont have enough of these items to build around


why would anyone use this shitty fucking jewel ? its not even fun, just pure numbers


i would make slot for diamond flask with crafted catarina crit anytime and
/spit on this jewel

That much sacrifice of resources for crit seems to be not worth it, lets be real here...

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Zebedin wrote:

great fucking design GGG, indeed

This is ONE notable changed by ONE iteration of the jewel. Don't judge the design of the jewel based on what one iteration of it does to one notable. I very much like the idea of these jewels. EVERY single outcome of them can't be as interesting as you want.

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suszterpatt wrote:

Right, so the area of the tree that already has the least Life/ES now gets a node that makes you even more likely to get oneshot.

Design experts hard at work.

Oddly enough that's an ok place to put that jewel, since the best crit avoidance in the game is dodge, and the right side of the tree is where all dodge is.

Loss of helm enchant and raw stats? Seems like a dogshit time.

Maaaaybe if they buff Brass Dome's other stats ? :) (You take no extra damage from crits)

this keystone screams str area not dex area, str area lacks crit and has some reduced damage taken from crits nodes to help mitigate the increaced chance to crit, dex area has plenty of crit nodes making the benefit minimal and already strugles with spike damage making the drawback a death sentence without a brassdome wich by the way is a str item. Let alone the lost of a helm.

i can see some lighting crit builds, mostly for the "your damage with critical strike is lucky" part.