Hexblast nerf makes the skill completely unusable...

What's the point? Why nerf this skill in such a way that you have to time how long a curse has been applied? There is no indication as to when you can even use hexblast after a curse is applied, no timer that says how long the curse has left, nothing.

This nerf is the exact opposite of fun. If anything, nerf the amount of damage it does. Don't nerf it via a timegate. It makes the skill completely unviable entirely.

I was looking forward to using the new Lich ascendancy with this skill, because it was so much fun to use as demon form. Today I finally leveled my Lich up enough to take hexblast as a skill, and was completely disappointed. What the heck? I went from excitement, to just utter disappointment. The whole reason I picked the class, gone. At this point I wouldn't recommend this ascendancy to anyone.

I implore you to revert this timegate nonsense, in favor of something that makes more sense. Something that will actually make this skill usable. If this remains this way, hexblast will effectively be a dead skill that no one will EVER use. It's EXTREMELY terrible now. And just to say it again, I'm actually disappointed I went with Lich at this point in time.

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Just make it not work on permanent auras if you really want, but the duration thing is weird and kills the skill.

Seems pretty insane to me too. I didn't think the state of hexblast was that bad to begin with. I remember Blasphemy not reaching anywhere near as far as I wanted it to and Hexblast still doing a lot less damage than other meta builds.

I will bump all Hexblast posts until they ROLL BACK the nerf completely.
The Skill was absolutely fine, this just shows the DEVS dont play their own game!

UP until nerf rolled back

You know it's probably my fault for not reading the pages of flavor text in the game but me making a witch, picking lich, grinding through the slogfest that the campaign is now for 10 hours to unlock hexbast not realizing its nerfed into the ground, dumping my only gemcutter prisms into it and my only jewelers orb only to realize it's completely bricked; It's just the breaking point for this patch, uninstalled and left a negative review and probably wont come back to the game until they reverse course with this anti-fun mindset.

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The skill is dead atm. Reverse time requirement.

Yes, please rollback Hexblast, this skill is currently unusable. No viable build will wait for several seconds or invest a lot in duration reduction just for a below average damage.