Nimis changes for 3.21

Currently Nimis does something no return projectile effect does: it allows ball lightings to bounce back. Will the change of its wording also change the effect to stop working with ball lighting? Other return effects do not work with ball lightning.
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I can't be bothered to read the notes but nerfing a good unique like Nimis would be a mistake. There are so many dumb uniques in this game that can simply be translated into stats. Omniscience, Original Sin, Ashes, HH, MB, etc. Almost all top Uniques are belligerent stat boosts.

Uniques that actually do unique things is what this game needs more of.
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Simplified projectile returning. Previously some effects that caused projectiles to return specified they only did so at the end of their flight, others only from a final target, and a few from either case. Now all effects that cause projectiles to return do so in any case that they can.
Projectiles which explode or otherwise destroy themselves only when they cannot move further, such as fireball, which return will now consistently not do so until after they have returned, just like they don't do so before piercing, forking, or chaining if they have those behaviours. Previously this was inconsistent. As a general rule, if a projectile wouldn't do something when it pierces or chains from an enemy and continues on, it also won't do that when it hits an enemy and returns from them.
Projectiles from skills which force them to explode or otherwise destroy the projectile before checking for other behaviours, such as the Concoction skills, will now consistently prevent returning, just like this prevents other projectile behaviours.
Projectiles which initially fire at a specific location rather than in a direction, such as Caustic Arrow, now ignore this when returning, so they will continue past you until they hit something.


Nothing specific to Nimis, but their FAQ specifically calls out nimis going from returning at the end of flight to the already existing returns to you text for things like alt quality speed projectiles. That did not affect Ball Lightning previously, but Nimis did.

It looks like it will break nimis from working with BL outside of the random direction firing. I have a few rings, so I will double check after launch if that is the case and update here (unless a dev does clarify BL interactions for us).

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