righteous fire now dead

so did you really just straight up kill an entire build by removing the dmg from the skill

yep. i wanted to leaguestart with RF. RIP

also nobody will play chieftain now. that 2% was mostly RF.

Looks like they went back on their 3.8 change that gave it baseline damage independent of your health or ES.

I'm hoping they're making a transfigured version that has the base damage.

Um. Most of the real damage you did and needed on an rf build was from fire trap anyways. idk that it will really be that bad. mobs pretty much insta die and most of the damage you do with it was overkill anyways.

I like to see the meta change, so i like that RF is not a viable league starter anymore from what it looks like. But kind of unfair that Tornado shot just got away(maybe even got stronger). They should have really targeted Tornado shot aswell or the Deadeye Ascendancy.

Also Boneshatter basicly buffed(ok melee doesn't have much else, fair enough) ;P RF guys just play Boneshatter now. 20%+ Boneshatter meta next league...

they baked boneshatter alt quality into the base gem, just like most of the skill gems getting lab enchants or alt qualities as standard quality.

Deadeye got a nerf with heatshiver and kaoms getting nerfed.

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Lonnie455Rich wrote:

they baked boneshatter alt quality into the base gem, just like most of the skill gems getting lab enchants or alt qualities as standard quality.

Deadeye got a nerf with heatshiver and kaoms getting nerfed.

Yeah but you don't really need those uniques to delete content with TS. It's just an overall nerf that affects other builds way more. 25% TS Deadeye players use Heatshiver, 98% Frost Blades Trickster players use Heatshiver.
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Please tell me Vaal DD got fUGHHHcked with too? I'm sick of races happening and that's like the go to for the top streamers. So sick of that being the meta for races. Boring as hell to watch. Yet you go and screw with RF? Even if this somehow works out in the end I don't care to learn how a class/skill plays or gets built all over again. If I wanted a new way to play a class/skill I'd pick a new one from the million other options that already keep this game so bloated.

Might be skipping this league although it looks fun. I had been playing RF not because it was OP. Simply because it felt less clunky to control compared to so many other builds in this game. Still after all these years and "improvements" the game just still feels clunky to control characters in many ways.

Oh well...

Too soon to Assume RF is dead we still don't know what the new alternative versions do. Their might even be a new version of another gem that gives same playstyle as RF with a different source of damage.