Acrobatics

So it's time to plan a build for the new league (I probably spend more time planning than playing with leagues nowadays), and I always like to try making builds that capitalise on various nodes, but every league, I look at acrobatics, and I just draw a blank. I give in. Is there a build (hypothetical or not), that utilizes acrobatics in some way that makes it a positive pick? I'm really not seeing it. Everything I can think of, it still strikes me me as a pick that's strictly worse for any build than takes it (but then every new league, there it still is on the tree, still costing points as if it's some kinda boon to some niche build out there...)

Well, I guess total silence answers the question too. Not even a niche build that can utilize acrobatics? In which case, if there's any dev reading this...My feedback is that it needs a rework. Any node that's strictly a bad pick for any build taking it shouldn't make it to the tree as an option.

And also on the feedback front now I've finished going through everything for my build this league (rather than making a new thread for like one line), the new gem 'corrupting cry support' has 'supported skills have 10% increased area of effect' and 'supported skills have 20% less area of effect'... I mean, Ok, I do get it, I've played long enough to know one's additive and one's multiplicative (and how to do the required maths to see if it's going to help or not), but should I really need to? I mean, take a step back and look at what that would look like to, let's say a new player... It seems unnecessarily complicated for absolutely no reason. Are there going to be gems now with increased damage and less damage now? Or more duration and reduced duration? It doesn't strike me as cool or interesting, but more as a sign of slackness on the development front when it comes to balancing... My two cents anyway...

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Mezbanine wrote:

Well, I guess total silence answers the question too. Not even a niche build that can utilize acrobatics? In which case, if there's any dev reading this...My feedback is that it needs a rework. Any node that's strictly a bad pick for any build taking it shouldn't make it to the tree as an option.

And also on the feedback front now I've finished going through everything for my build this league (rather than making a new thread for like one line), the new gem 'corrupting cry support' has 'supported skills have 10% increased area of effect' and 'supported skills have 20% less area of effect'... I mean, Ok, I do get it, I've played long enough to know one's additive and one's multiplicative (and how to do the required maths to see if it's going to help or not), but should I really need to? I mean, take a step back and look at what that would look like to, let's say a new player... It seems unnecessarily complicated for absolutely no reason. Are there going to be gems now with increased damage and less damage now? Or more duration and reduced duration? It doesn't strike me as cool or interesting, but more as a sign of slackness on the development front when it comes to balancing... My two cents anyway...

No, it does not.

Yes, there is actually a very strong defensive layering involving Acrobatics.

It's been consistently harder to do each time they reduced SS in the passive tree.

Spell Block, mostly evasion, enough DR to survive hits, Petrified Blood, Dissolution of Flesh jewel.

Dissolution of Flesh reserves life base on your max pool. Not what PB sets. PB then of course makes you take a portion over time which Dissolution of Flesh ignores. The Spell Block, Evasion, Acrobatics is there to give you time needed to un-reserve life from damage.

The combo roughly doubles your max hit threshold.
Downside as always is PB makes you weak to DoTs.

Ah, so that's the item I'd been missing all this time. Thanks Xzorn! (Was driving me nuts trying to find something to do with that node :)

You could easily go onto PoE Ninja and just search "Acrobatics"...2% of the Crucible builds shown use it which is actually quite high. Although...perhaps those numbers are conflated with Timeless jewels, not sure how ninja handles that...