3.20 Lightning Strike clear sucks now.

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jsuslak313 wrote:

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Dirtynecro wrote:

Doesn't appear as though you play much Melee, so of course you wouldn't agree with a Strike skill that has any kind of clearing ability at all. It was nice to play something that could keep up with Ranged Skills & Spells. Personally I like Ice Shot better, but defensively Raiders are superior to Deadeyes (because it's so much easier to cap Ailment Avoidance on a Raider). I've played a lot of toons, I've deleted a lot of 90+ toons. Most of those had Melee skills. I have always played a lot of melee in every game that I've ever played.

In Path of Exile every character class can use every skill or weapon in the game, so your assertion that each skill should only excel at one specific job better than any other type of skill doesn't add up for me. It's the diversity of using different skills & different setups on differing classes that makes POE so unique--along with the pace of the game. GGG shouldn't be trying to further define what a skill can or can't do in the game, that would take away most of what makes Path of Exile great.

Lightning Strike still clears just like before if you add Greater Multiple Projectiles. However Raiders don't have bows or quivers or Ascendancy points to add projectiles like Deadeyes do; so you have to drop a damage link.

First of all, don't be one of those people who tries to spy on my characters and assume anything about me. I have been around since the beta, regularly prune my standard characters, and have made 100s of different builds across every single possible playstyle and ascendancy. Just because you don't SEE them doesn't mean I haven't made them. I've been playing a LOT longer than you...

You are projecting what you WANT onto your complaint and defense. But you need to look objectively and from a higher perspective. It does NOT make sense that you swing a sword and an entire screen gets deleted. It just doesn't. It never should have been that way in the first place, but it WAS created that way and that is the problem. Skills like LS that do EVERYTHING without sacrifice, will automatically be top tier, well beyond any other skill, even if they were to lower damage numbers. It has been a pattern for many leagues now that GGG developers are TRYING to clamp down on mechanics that have gone wildly unchecked and out of control over many years. Whether you agree or disagree, or whether the skill even remains functional or not in current PoE is entirely beside the point. THIS is how the developers are balancing.

I am not passing judgment on the validity of these changes, merely parroting specifically what GGG itself shared with why they made the changes they did.

Also, why would it not make sense that skills are specialized just because all characters can use all skills? If anything, that should make it MORE obvious the skills should be specialized, given that the characters themselves aren't. I 100% disagree with your comment that GGG shouldn't decide what a skill can or can't do. THEY ARE THE ONES THAT DESIGN THE SKILLS!!!!