Feedback and Suggestions (Path of Exile 1) - Projectile support suggestion: Projectile Focus Support - Forum

There's a ton of projectile skills in the game, and sadly a lot of them are very basic in their design and follow the same premise. To spice things up, I was thinking about a support gem that would turn those projectile skills - both caster and attack ones - into channeling skills in a similar manner that Snipe works. " Projectile Focus Support Tags: Projectile, Caster, Attack, Channeling, Fork, Chain Focus your powers, channeling your projectile skill to gain stages. Every stage provides additional projectile effects. Modifiers to attack and cast speed affect the skill's channeling speed. Stage 1: Projectiles Chian +1 time Stage 2: Projectiles Fork +1 time Stage 3: Skills fire an additional projectile (hidden: base channeling speed is 1 second per stage) Level 1-20: Skills deal 30-20% less damage 1-20% increased channeling speed Base quality: 1-20% increased channeling speed Anomalous: 1-20% increased projectile speed Divergent: Skills deal 1-20% increased damage Phantasmal: 1-5% chance to gain an extra stage while channeling Of course the numbers would need to be checked and balanced out accordingly. The architecture to turn a skill into another type already exists, which would definitely require much less coding to get this going. Sitting in HO spamming alts for 4 hours straight is peak PoE gameplay. Thanks, Chris. Last edited by Ydoum#5726 on Sep 24, 2021, 9:27:02 AM Last bumped on Sep 23, 2021, 4:02:31 PM This thread has been automatically archived. Replies are disabled.	Posted by Ydoum#5726 on Sep 23, 2021, 7:32:00 AM Quote this Post
Not soure about the " Level 1-20: Skills deal 30-20% less damage part since there was no explanation how long it takes to gain a skill but I like the idea. I mean 20%less damage while no moving could be very bad if it takes too long.	Posted by ProfWollhoven#3086 on Sep 23, 2021, 10:48:35 AM Quote this Post
" ProfWollhoven wrote: Not soure about the " Level 1-20: Skills deal 30-20% less damage part since there was no explanation how long it takes to gain a skill but I like the idea. I mean 20%less damage while no moving could be very bad if it takes too long. The basic idea is to have one powerful clearing ability instead of firing multiple times, at a risk of having to channel and e.g. get stunned. You get so many clear benefits - like from GMP, fork and chain - that there has to be a negative damage multiplier. The benefit of a skill like this is that you get multiple effects at once, though way weaker than any of the named support gems. Regular fork support actually grants damage bonuses Regular chain support chains 2 times LMP/GMP fires a lot more projectiles As I said though, the numbers would need to be checked up and balanced accordingly. Another interesting thing could be to make attack and cast speed increases affect the channeling speed to make it smoother. Sitting in HO spamming alts for 4 hours straight is peak PoE gameplay. Thanks, Chris. Last edited by Ydoum#5726 on Sep 23, 2021, 3:18:19 PM	Posted by Ydoum#5726 on Sep 23, 2021, 3:17:23 PM Quote this Post
" Ydoum wrote: " ProfWollhoven wrote: Not soure about the " Level 1-20: Skills deal 30-20% less damage part since there was no explanation how long it takes to gain a skill but I like the idea. I mean 20%less damage while no moving could be very bad if it takes too long. The basic idea is to have one powerful clearing ability instead of firing multiple times, at a risk of having to channel and e.g. get stunned. You get so many clear benefits - like from GMP, fork and chain - that there has to be a negative damage multiplier. The benefit of a skill like this is that you get multiple effects at once, though way weaker than any of the named support gems. Regular fork support actually grants damage bonuses Regular chain support chains 2 times LMP/GMP fires a lot more projectiles As I said though, the numbers would need to be checked up and balanced accordingly. Another interesting thing could be to make attack and cast speed increases affect the channeling speed to make it smoother. I can totally understand that and just like I said, it would just be a it too much if the stage timer is to long. If you get 1 stage every 1 sec it may be totally fine. Depends if your clear would be high enough to not get oned. :D Cyclone gets a stage every 0.5 secs (if I'm not mistaken) but you're still moving.	Posted by ProfWollhoven#3086 on Sep 23, 2021, 3:40:18 PM Quote this Post
That's true, but if we do go the route of " Increases to attack and cast speed affect channeling time it might be just fine, probably as smooth or smoother than cyclone. Sitting in HO spamming alts for 4 hours straight is peak PoE gameplay. Thanks, Chris.	Posted by Ydoum#5726 on Sep 23, 2021, 4:02:31 PM Quote this Post