Soul Taker needs a buff

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tikitaki wrote:

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UnderOmerta wrote:

Buff Kaom's too. Give it 6 linked prismatic sockets.

now we are talking

Tabula Kaoms

Kaom Hearts Tablets.

Should Kaom also have "Chaos damage only affects energy shield"?

Im all in for buffing melee and adding new unique weapons that make melee more fun or rewarding to play.

But to add a unique item that completely disregards the game mechanic (mana management,blood magic) thus creating builds that only rely on just 1 skill and spamming the hell out if it (plus as much aura stacking as possible),seems way off to me.

Soul Taker axe

Royal Axe

200% increased attack speed
1000% increased critical strike chance
350% increased physical damage
Adds 100-500 lightning damage
100% chance to inflict triple shock stack while kiting mobs in parties
Your hits freeze every time
100% increased effect of kaoms heart on you
Your attacks cannot be evaded
50% chance to drop a 6 linked shavronne on enemy death
Fuck mana

I hate people like you, just jelous of others and definitely cant afford the axe and watching friends using it then qq in the forums.

Dischargers kill everything almost 1 shot when i have to take all the spell and physical damage from the mobs to farm....

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dualestl wrote:

Im all in for buffing melee and adding new unique weapons that make melee more fun or rewarding to play.

But to add a unique item that completely disregards the game mechanic (mana management,blood magic) thus creating builds that only rely on just 1 skill and spamming the hell out if it (plus as much aura stacking as possible),seems way off to me.

Soul taker and auxium (and to a certain extent the blood dance boots - free blood rage without degen or any other penalty and 1% life regen per frenzy charge --> WTF?!?) were part of the 'pay2win' wave of diamond designed uniques. Funnily enough, they were all released together. It was so blatantly obvious they were pigeonholed to work for certain builds (melee builds, power siphon, and low life es builds) and give a 100% workaround to said builds' disadvantages, and there was a huge hot topic about it back then with the devs basically going 'We playtest everything, its not broken and its not biased towards said build at all, shut up and play or else'

Now ... Do I really care about removing / nerfing / balancing? Not at all, and would I stay away from said items? Of course not lol, if i got my hands on an ST axe I wouldnt mind! What i am saying here is, you cant say this unique is not broken when it so obviously is.

Someone will argue 'they dont get a free copy of the item so its not p2win noob' ... well (1) you dont know that for sure (2) even so, if they got a diamond pack they can acquire it ingame asap lol, or just rmt it, worst case scenario.

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dualestl wrote:

Im all in for buffing melee and adding new unique weapons that make melee more fun or rewarding to play.

But to add a unique item that completely disregards the game mechanic (mana management,blood magic) thus creating builds that only rely on just 1 skill and spamming the hell out if it (plus as much aura stacking as possible),seems way off to me.

You think so ? What about kaoms? Isnt it killing the mechanica as well. If you think this way thye should remove all the good uniques. Then you probably quit the game.

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Rangers wrote:

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dualestl wrote:

Im all in for buffing melee and adding new unique weapons that make melee more fun or rewarding to play.

But to add a unique item that completely disregards the game mechanic (mana management,blood magic) thus creating builds that only rely on just 1 skill and spamming the hell out if it (plus as much aura stacking as possible),seems way off to me.

You think so ? What about kaoms? Isnt it killing the mechanica as well. If you think this way thye should remove all the good uniques. Then you probably quit the game.

kaoms should not exist lol

uniques are good to have. broken uniques are not good to have.

you end up with d3 situation. everybody running around with the same fucking uniques. thats boring as fuck man

it also fucks up balance really bad. im pretty sure they balanced life nodes AROUND the fact that kaoms exists, which is beyond fucked up. you could even call it psychotic.

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Rangers wrote:

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dualestl wrote:

Im all in for buffing melee and adding new unique weapons that make melee more fun or rewarding to play.

But to add a unique item that completely disregards the game mechanic (mana management,blood magic) thus creating builds that only rely on just 1 skill and spamming the hell out if it (plus as much aura stacking as possible),seems way off to me.

You think so ? What about kaoms? Isnt it killing the mechanica as well. If you think this way thye should remove all the good uniques. Then you probably quit the game.

kaoms has a massive drawback at least, making it usable by only 2h melee and bow build min maxers, and it wasnt designed by players. Also i wouldnt say in sc / anarchy kaoms is bis on those 2 builds either, in any way shape or form. if you can afford kaoms, you can afford getting 5k hp w/o it, which is enough.

Same as BOR .... not using a chest is such a huge drawback for me ... biggest source of es armor evasion life res you can get. And BOR gives the life ok, but doesnt really have anything op besides that or gives the other things at all.

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tikitaki wrote:

kaoms should not exist lol

uniques are good to have. broken uniques are not good to have.

you end up with d3 situation. everybody running around with the same fucking uniques. thats boring as fuck man

it also fucks up balance really bad. im pretty sure they balanced life nodes AROUND the fact that kaoms exists, which is beyond fucked up. you could even call it psychotic.

have you ever player when you lvl87+ in hard mods level 76+ maps? Kaoms cant save you nor soul taker.... And you lose your 1 week experience with 1 or 2 shots. So you obviously just a jelly fish of other people's wealth. We had this in every arpg game so im not shocked.

please don't have strong opinions if you didnt spend enough time on this game to do so.

nothing personal.