Will unencumbered get a nerf or nah ?

So, i am curious what people think about this ? Knowing the GGG way of balancing things, i think it will get a nerf. Should it get a nerf ? NO ! It is a balanced playstyle which needs a lot of work to actually make it work. You have to give up slots and utility/defences just to end up having a solid dmg. It is also really expensive to min/max. But, i can bet GGG will nerf it as a simple solution, instead of balancing the core of all problems. "Bad" skills vs cyclone (talking about melee) and everything else vs broken impale mechanics. Is it just me or you guys also feel the same about the topic ?

i dont agree about that part that it is expensive to min-max. Every build is expensive to min-max. However, it is actually really cheap to get going. With about 10ex you might get fully geared while "only" missing Helmet enchant and a juicy Watcher's Eye (other than that it includes the Jewel, Garukhans, 6l Chest (Wildwrap is really cheap) ...)

However, i agree that unencumbered actually feels pretty balanced. As you said, Damage scaling is easy but you are encountering serious drawbacks such as life stacking, missing sockets, low aoe / range

Well it is true, every build is expensive to min/max, unencumbered also.Tbh,for 10 ex you can barely get like decent 6l astral plate with %inc dext and Garukhans. Going for Wildwrap is a straight suicide, it will be impossible to have decent eva/armor and life pool. The reason i posted is i heard from so many people that "this shit is broken", "it's going to be nerfed to the ground" etc, while i find it mediocre/good and i know many other skills that can pull up the same or better numbers with the same or even much lower investment, while having larger hp pool and better defences/utilites.

the cluster jewels deserve a nerf, especially the herald stuff

not this jewel however
you easily gain dmg but at what cost?
yes, nothing too high to overcome but its not a thing like summoners

@hobla

Wildwraps Evasion rating is decent and HP scaling happens with Dex thanks to Garukhans which Wildwrap has plenty. And btw, according to POE Ninja about 50% of all Hollow Palm users wearing a Wildwrap so this chest seems viable.

Early on Hollow Palm damage seems broken. However, i am only LVL 82 and i cannot say how the damage scales into the very late game. Hollow Palm cannot be really balanced for leveling, maybe they can put a higher level requirement onto Astramentis but that wouldn't change much. Other than that, attribute scaling was always really efficient while leveling

cant wear 1/2 your gear
missing a shitload of sockets
can't wear glove mtx (worst offender)
first ascendancy glove enchant useless

I don't think anything needs to be nerfed from this jewel/monk playstyle.

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cant wear 1/2 your gear
missing a shitload of sockets
can't wear glove mtx (worst offender)
first ascendancy glove enchant useless

I don't think anything needs to be nerfed from this jewel/monk playstyle.

I mentioned stuff like the sockets in a different thread and a few folks were like nawww.

It's really not impressive if you've run a decently geared cyclone or decent boss killing build. I ended up building into it simply because it was cheaper (at first) when compared to the higher tier weapons. I ended up spending 7ex on an astral, 2ex on the max roll astramentis, and 3.5ex on the boots which were originally 1.5-2ex before it became popular.

I'm at 1100 dex now and while I could push for more, flat damage only goes so far without a crit multiplier. Aside from ring upgrades and an expensive watcher's eye (and maybe a prettier astral) there's not much left for me to truly push.

My guess is that a lot of folks thinking one with nothing is really strong just haven't played builds that dealt that level of damage before. I'm pretty sure my legion cycloner performs around the same level if not better but instead of giving up weapon and glove slots/sockets he only sacrifices the chest sockets for 500 flat health.

Totally agree...@Sollkomol, yes most of the people are using the Wildwraps because it is a cheap and solid (6l is like 1-1.5ex), but it can't compare with good rare chest with %dex. There is an another problem, i am playing smite as main skill so wildwrap/any pure dex chest is a no go for me because i need 5r1b or 4r2b. I just hope it doesn't get nerf because of people who are saying it's broken but haven't really tried it...

Honestly cyclone is more likely to take a hit given its popularity than just the jewel if the jewel at all.

It's been a few leagues since the after legion nerfs and the skill is still pretty popular so it's likely to get hit again.