Desecrate nerf makes me sad t.t

You add a huge quality of life improvement, helping to alleviate the fact that you lose minions everytime you disc (which is far too often). And now you completely remove it and turn the gem into something that will rarely get picked up when dropped.

What exactly were the reasons for the nerf? Whats wrong with the corpses being based on zone level? don't minions get de-leveled to zone level anyways?

I love that level 1 corpse explosion = fine for doing massive damage. But level 1 desecrate, basically just a quality of life bonus gets nerfed instantly or "fixed" instantly.


When you remove snap shoting, please make minions persistent.

Pretty disappointing when 5/6 new gems added are considerably worse than options that already exist. I think GGG's current method of being so careful to not make any new gems op is flawed. New gems should be equal to what currently exists if not slightly better. And then possibly nerfed a bit after 4 month leagues end to make way for new gems and new builds. It should be a cycle. My currently mentality when new gems are announced is to not care at all, then test them a little and stash them. Id much rather be excited when I hear of new gems and expect to be able to design new powerful builds around them. Bone offering and flesh offering are decent additions at least. Or just bone offering really.


I actually thought GGG added this aspect to the gem to help out with disconnecting, turns out they don't give a shit, heh.

Sorry, you misunderstood the english in their decision.

Bug fix

BUG fix

Not nerf

It wasn't done for balance, it was done to fix an error in their coding.

That was the reason for the change.

You can ask for a buff to the skill, but please stop trying to say they were nerfing it, it was not a balance change, they didn't do it because it was too powerful or anything, it was a BUG fix

That's right, if GGG give something very powerful to summoners, they do it by mistake only, like snapshotting :)

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Pretty disappointing when 5/6 new gems added are considerably worse than options that already exist

same for uniqes

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Bone offering and flesh offering are decent additions at least. Or just bone offering really

dont you mean flesh offering?

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StormHunter wrote:

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Pretty disappointing when 5/6 new gems added are considerably worse than options that already exist

same for uniqes

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Bone offering and flesh offering are decent additions at least. Or just bone offering really

dont you mean flesh offering?

Na, double curse and elemental equilibrium are already more effective ways to get damage. You don't really need more than that and with flesh offering you have to wait for some monsters to die. So it's less effective.

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Rory wrote:

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BobRawr wrote:

Will the corpses summoned by Desecrate interact with Detonate Dead? If so how is the max life of the summoned corpses determined?

The corpses are based on the level of your Desecrate skill, though can't go too far above the area level. It'd be roughly equivalent to the life of non-magic monsters of that level.

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BobRawr wrote:

On another note, Will there now be a Desecrate spell and a Desecrated Ground effect from items in the game? Or will desecrated ground be changed?

Desecrate ground has a new effect, and has been changed in how it does damage to a flat value. We'll have more information on this available soon!

From January 21st. (before Desecrate was even implemented.)

It was intended to work like this all along.

It's not a Nerf.

Where is the info about this nerf? I can't find any patch notes newer than 1.0.6...

in the patch notes they made it so the level of the corpses summoned by desecrate are tied to the gems level req.

so instead of summoning corpses in a 76 map with a level 20 gem , you only get level 68s which makes much weaker specters and does much less damage with detonate dead.