GGG secretly released Ball Lightning skill

For topic relevancy, the lightning ball skill gem as of 6/3/2014 is not a current quest reward for any class or quest reward regardless of difficulty.



Man I cannot wait for another *direct* lightning attack. Don't like spark, storm call is ok, Arc is amazing now. Really want lighting ball.

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Chris wrote:

It was accidentally included in 1.1.0 in an unfinished state. It'll make a return in 1.1.1 or 1.1.2!

We're planning to fix the problem that causes it to crash characters tomorrow.

You're pretty late on the date.

wait so that one guy is allowed to just keep the gem?

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jebroni wrote:

wait so that one guy is allowed to just keep the gem?

He used his quest reward on it, so ya, he should be allowed to keep it. He can't use it anyway, they're disabled.

Also, please release this skill, either without a cooldown or with "+% increased shock duration." A skill with this many individual, small hits won't shock for long enough to be usable as a shock stacking tool, unless you're talking about shock stacking for the purposes of its own damage (meaning no cooldown), or you give it an innate bonus to shock duration.

If you're worried about how many supports you can stick on it, just make the aoe work like lightning arrow, meaning the only usable supports are damage supports and LMP/GMP.

Just remembered about the new fire skill that does more damage against enemies that are burning but can't cause burning itself. It would be cool if it worked similar to this, only instead of doing more damage to shocked enemies (kinda redundant) it did something like gaining power as it hits shocked enemies.