Creative Use of Slower Projectiles/Reduced Duration

How might you use these two new gems?

You mean when they exist... right? We don't know exactly what they do yet. There are definitely some negative effects with duration you might shorten. Also, if slower projectile comes with a damage bonus, it would be quite useful. Projectile speed for damage boost? Yes please.

I think slower projectiles might be good with ice spear, probably causes it to reach its second form sooner.

Just speculation though of course.

Of course, Faster Projectile doesn't change the distance Ice Spear changes form, so I doubt it.

Could be useful with Arctic Breath, maybe? More on the screen at a time = more chilled ground = more lag spikes for the PvP enemy team :)

Reduced Duration is aimed at Lightning Warp and/or Traps/Mines, I think.

reduce duration with explosive arrow

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Anthian wrote:

reduce duration with explosive arrow

Yeah, that should work well. I have a friend who's REALLY waiting for that.

IIQ/IIR/EA/Life Leech/Reduced Duration.

It's not like you NEED damage supports on it :)

well reduced duration should be amazingly good with lighting warp and i think it could be pretty useful with blood rage and life builds , i dont know about you but i always try to use blood rage and i can easily keep it up when i attack mobs because of the leech however its really punishing where there is none around.If somehow the duration is lower this means there will be less time when i lose life and i can basically spam it before every fight.Maybe if the gem gives some kind of buff it can be useful in other skills like molten shell.

As for slower projectiles i think it could be pretty nice with spectral throw , it could increase the effective dps since the weapons return and u wouldnt want them to go too far, again i think it would be pretty stupid to leave slower projectiles without a great buff to projectile damage atleast a bit more than the one faster proj offers anyway we will see.

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StickAndMove wrote:

How might you use these two new gems?

I'm not sure, but it might be handy for a close-range kiting build, in conjunction with the Point Blank keystone and Freeze Pulse or something.

Would it reduce cooldown duration?

My question.

I wish that Reduced Duration worked similar to Concentrated Effect, but for duration things, like concentrating a viper strike's damage.

Unfortunately since increasing something's duration keeps the same rate of damage and just ups the time portion, Reduced duration will likely just lop some of the time off, without affecting the rate of damage.

And +1 Explosive arrow. Maybe even slower projectiles. I want to rapid fire out 5 waves of arrows.