The new Dual Strike is baaaad

Somebody did not think this through, but not a big deal considering the amount of gems they had to change. I mean cmon it's dual strike.
Some other melee build with trans gem will go through the roof probably. Or just do the Boneshatter thingy.

The Tornado shot gem is great for players on a budget(40 div helm enchant on a gem at the cost of some projectile damage, lol), but bad for the meta game(At least in my opinion).
Lightning Arrow also stronger now. Maybe they just don't want an outrage, so they thought: "Ah well, 20% bow meta, could be worse. Let's please them some more."^^

that does look amazingly bad.

i'm just happy they buffed frenzy, 14% more attack speed and damage at 20% quality and 7 frenzy charges (which is what i usually get as frenzy charges ) its pretty good imo

watch the "new" versions of dual strike be insanely overpowered to compensate.

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jsuslak313 wrote:

watch the "new" versions of dual strike be insanely overpowered to compensate.

Something like, "enemies are always on full life for hits with this skill"?

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jsuslak313 wrote:

watch the "new" versions of dual strike be insanely overpowered to compensate.

that could be the deal ya. crit is not a low level mechanic, its a more advanced endgame thing, maybe the trans gem is actually a boatload of crit madness. they did say they would be more about stats you have to build into but once you build into them their power potential is potentially a lot higher.


its a fair point.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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jsuslak313 wrote:

watch the "new" versions of dual strike be insanely overpowered to compensate.

that could be the deal ya. crit is not a low level mechanic, its a more advanced endgame thing, maybe the trans gem is actually a boatload of crit madness. they did say they would be more about stats you have to build into but once you build into them their power potential is potentially a lot higher.


its a fair point.

they say lots of stuff. you can go and check some 'alt' gems theyve announced already

check the Double Strike of something

tell me how does removal of ~150 added flat can be compensated with that Impale gimmick

40% impale chance
40% impale effect
KILLING blows do something. Killing. Blows.

so vs bosses you get an auto attack with strong impales but lacking ~150flat added phys regular version has

no matter how you spin it, it is mediocre

the other example: Random Bladestorm. it is actually good because it removes one fiddly bit. but i do not see how you can 'build into it'


im sure you can build into alt spells and minions. but melee gems so far are all garbage

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suszterpatt wrote:

Not that anyone plays melee of course, but

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No longer has 50-107% increased Critical Strike Chance. It now has 60% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against Enemies that are on Full Life (previously 30%).

Quality now provides +0-30% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against Enemies that are on Full Life, instead of 0-20% increased Critical Strike Chance and +0-10% to Critical Strike Multiplier.

Useless against bosses, trash mobs die in one hit anyway.

Can we please change this to literally anything else?

Yea, this is.

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plaguefear wrote:

Divine ire gets 140% damage per stage for 10 stages increase.
Dual strike gets its tiny damage nerfed.

This says everything about the state of the game that there is to say.

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suszterpatt wrote:

Just checked poe.ninja for main skills in Ancestor league

Tornado shot: 10290
Dual Strike: 14

Clearly Dual Strike needed this nerf, some people were still using it!

This'll teach 'em!

Tornado shot got buffed too :D

Lol! What was GGG thinking here.

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suszterpatt wrote:

Not that anyone plays melee of course, but

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No longer has 50-107% increased Critical Strike Chance. It now has 60% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against Enemies that are on Full Life (previously 30%).

Quality now provides +0-30% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against Enemies that are on Full Life, instead of 0-20% increased Critical Strike Chance and +0-10% to Critical Strike Multiplier.

Useless against bosses, trash mobs die in one hit anyway.

Can we please change this to literally anything else?

Damn. I knew it was going to be bad but this is...special...