Thank god they finally nerfed the incredibly busted... Freezing Pulse?

I seriously hope someone simply didn't put in the whole entry for Freezing Pulse. Because if what we see in the patch notes is the entirety of it, I'd have to ask... why? Who the heck has been abusing Freezing Pulse so bad that amidst the pages of gem buffs to compensate for losing enchants and alt qualities, Freezing Pulse just straight up gets a nerf with zero compensation of any kind?

I think the problem with that theory is, the nerf (they took the gem's inherent projectile speed) would have no impact that early in the game. Besides, the meta starting skill has been Rolling Magma. I don't think that many people even use Freezing Pulse there anymore.

I mean they also nerfed cleave, clearly an disgustingly powerful skill until now. Apparently they didn't have enough of the +2 cleave radius memes before so they removed the attack speed for even more radius, like 1% more or something. They honestly either don't know what they are doing or they just don't care. There is zero logical reason to explain many of those changes it's either cluelessness or negligence.

Its a reasonable radius buff Baharoth though I do agree they could have just baked the attack speed in, it isn't like it doesn't need the help.

I prefer Freezing Pulse over Rolling Magma. It's a bit more instant with a chance of freezing. For RM, we have to wait for the ball to get to the enemy.

I was just watching Ziz's "Explain Everything" for SRS Guardian. He starts with RM and he constantly needs to recast due to the enemies moving. More care is needed to only move away from the enemy (not sideways) as they will follow you.

X