Arcanist Brand now costs mana from your manapool every time it triggers

Are you serious? Can't be intended. Trashes the whole skill.

Mates and I were just talking about that... however they have now all gone to other games.

Think at end times it will be the 1% playing their own little game..

All triggered skills now cost mana. Spellslinger is the only one I'd consider truly ruined.

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Atech2 wrote:

Are you serious? Can't be intended. Trashes the whole skill.

it is and clearly stated in patch notes.

Its wild how they nerfed Arcanist Brand when IMO it already felt like a clunkier and less scalable Spell Totem.

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EveryZig314 wrote:

Its wild how they nerfed Arcanist Brand when IMO it already felt like a clunkier and less scalable Spell Totem.

It is GGG choice to nerf ALL trigger build including COC

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neohongkong wrote:

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EveryZig314 wrote:

Its wild how they nerfed Arcanist Brand when IMO it already felt like a clunkier and less scalable Spell Totem.

It is GGG choice to nerf ALL trigger build including COC

I mean, I guess they might have nerfed it thinking of it as a utility skill, and just never considered its viability as a primary skill (which it was kind of lacking in to begin with).

Don't worry there is no build that is not nerfed.

The thing that gets me with arcanist brand is that this is inconsistent with how regular brands work. Its as if spells linked to spell totem support would require constant mana use, and its all because of a technical detail in the wording of the support. Furthermore, arcanist brand was basically never used for anything other than utility, because ggg definitely feared that it would be insanely broken as a main dps support unless they put some hefty penalties into it (which im certain they were right about).

As a result AB is completely dead as a main skill support, and it being inconsistent mechanically with regular brands is extremely unsatisfying and unintuitive. Im not against the trigger changes per se, as it often just gave you a bunch of shit for free, or trivialized the entire mana mechanic, but AB should definitely be reworded to not be a trigger anymore

I said again. The gem has the word "Trigger"

Spell totem does not have the word "trigger"



edit: it does have the word trigger, but it is saying it can't support trigger skill. It is totem CASTING the skill

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Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.

While the brand explicitly said trigger the linked gem



I guess Trigger WOC at point blank level is way too powerful