POLL!!! Do you use curse on hit?

Do you use curse on hit?
why?
how?

because when they first anounced it i was like oh yeah this will be nice
but when i realized they've been moron enough to make it "must be linked to the attack" i was lol screw you, especially since its not even 100% chance for a 2 link waste...

from what i heard so far from you guys. About 75% of you dont use it because of its mechanic.

the fixes i heard that sounds the best are:

-Make the curse on hit a recipe ingredient. you have to vendor it with a curse in order to get ie: Vulnerability on hit, which would save 1 slot

-make curse on hit work like codt, not attack linked dependant. Only having COH linked with a curse in a single 2L combo would make it apply to the whole character's attacks

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Sexcalibure wrote:

Do you use curse on hit?
why?
how?

because when they first anounced it i was like oh yeah this will be nice
but when i realized they've been moron enough to make it "must be linked to the attack" i was lol screw you, especially since its not even 100% chance for a 2 link waste...

gz with thread #100 for last week

I thought so many possibilities with this amazing gem!

But in practical use they all sucked badly :D It is trash sadly, way more efficient to just cast the curse, and save 2 gem slots. Among new gems CwDT is great, CoCrit is meeehhhh (but still pushing it for a good use, but I always end up better just casting the damn thing), rest are just crap.

Problem is that for the 2 links you need to trigger the cast, you can support your spell or your hit WAAAAAYYYYYY better then the utility of extra free cast.

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symban wrote:

I thought so many possibilities with this amazing gem!

But in practical use they all sucked badly :D It is trash sadly, way more efficient to just cast the curse, and save 2 gem slots. Among new gems CwDT is great, CoCrit is meeehhhh (but still pushing it for a good use, but I always end up better just casting the damn thing), rest are just crap.

Problem is that for the 2 links you need to trigger the cast, you can support your spell or your hit WAAAAAYYYYYY better then the utility of extra free cast.

ya Curse on hit should be an attack separated gem that applies for all attacks on the char

It doesnt seem useful at all. Maybe if someone links a frenzy or something to curse + curse on hit just to save time and then uses main skill or something. I don't know. But it's so easy to just curse them anyways I dont see the point in this gem.

i use it on my scion EE elemental hit archer on a 5L bow with projectile weakness and i am loving it. i also use a range attk totem so it helps with it also. and yes it does proc about every 3 hits or so and works great on rares.

I have used it for a while with my ice/summ with on my freeze pulse gem + crit weakness so I could freeze mobs just by attacking them instead of cursing and then attacking but I agree there are far better links for attacking gems then Curse on hit.

Curse on hit should be actually two gems which you place in different links. If you activate it in one link system, it casts what's in the other. That way it would only take 1 slot from the main skill, and you could augment the triggered effect with it's own support.

No, I don't use curse on hit because I don't have the linked sockets to spare. Who does, though?

Even if I had a 6L, I wouldn't turn it into a 4L just so I wouldn't have to hit another button.

I like Shagsbeard's idea.

I read your thread here and it dawned on me why mine didn't work... because it's not "curse when you get hit" it's "curse when you hit something" - which makes me the moron of the year I guess.


I would actually find use for it if it triggered when I got hit.