Wildfire jewel and molten strike, make the jewel interact with blood/sand stance?

Looking on PoE ninja, only 1 person is using a wildfire jewel. This already shows how bad it is. However, when you look at the character it can be seen that it's an aura stacker which only uses it for the 1% RMR.

So I get that the idea was to increase the coverage of the skill while keeping its total damage the same. However, as it turns out people don't want to lower their single target damage for a bit of extra clear. So how about you make the jewel interact with blood and sand stance? This way people will have an option to reserve some mana to switch the way their molten strike works on the fly (instead of gem/jewel swapping).

An example would be to let the jewel grant 75% more chaining range while in sand stance while granting you 75% less chaining range while in sand stance (if chaining range works that is, if not that would have to be implemented). This means that during clear the balls will bounce all over the place while for bosses they'll likely hit twice causing the boss damage to remain mostly unharmed.

The reason why I believe this change will not result in everyone always using the jewel (which is the reason it got changed) is that it will always be a little worse for single target. There will always be a delay before the balls hit a second time (and it's not even guaranteed they will, it's just more likely) and it costs a gem socket and at least 10% reserved mana (for blood and sand or flesh and stone).
Last bumped on Jun 8, 2021, 5:50:00 PM
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Even better: How about Ancestral Call interacts with Blood and Sand Stance. In Sand Stance Ancestors hit other nearby enemys. In Blood stands all Ancestors can hit [the same] nearby target.

It would make the dead Wildfire jewel obsolete not that it isnt obsolete in its current form anyway.
Last edited by zzang#1847 on Jun 8, 2021, 10:11:11 AM
They should un-nerf molten strike a bit. There are so few options for elemental melee skills and many are bad.
We're all in this leaky boat together, people.
Or just revert the completely unnecessary jewel change, that absolutely no one asked for?

It's just vendor trash now. Literally, everyone dropped it the day it changed.

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