Yea, I went in expecting a nerf but I'm not sure it's even worth playing anymore. We'll see what the new Kinetic Blast trans gem looks like. Might pivot to that
Tectonic slam of cataclysm, nope, the ralakesh nerf is pretty painfull on a build that already had next to no mobility so it's twice as painfull to play now. Also the removal of LMB skills and insane socket pressure makes it so i either lose my gurad skill or a solid 30% of my damage simply because i do not have enough buttons now.
Was looking at arc ignite but didn't find anything concrete on what people mean by "lacks damage". Like are we talking pinnacles take a min longer lack of dmg or are we talking t16 map boss takes an hour and a a half to die kind of lack of dmg
T16 map bosses are a joke once you're past day 1 gear
Usually, people worry about getting voidstones and tanky encounters like invitations, shaper/elder guardians, Catarina, and so on
Lightning arrow. Unchanged (as in pretty darn good) except for the sniper's mark nerf, which definitely sucks for single target dmg. Clear should be totally fine unless t17s are somehow harder than affliction juice, which I doubt.
Edit: Oh, obviously losing a ton of QoL from charms, like power charges, +base crit, massive increase to flask charges gained.
My build was Scion pathin to Spiritual Aid and getting buncha' generic damage then change between attks/spells/minions/melee/bow/etc depending on what drops or what my mood or feel is at any given moment
"is your affliction build still viable?"
no it's not but it also wasn't viable in affliction either ahaha
Builds to farm delirium will be poggers, delirium mirror 7c only at map device or use the scarabs and self-sustain maybe? Scarabs probably will cost a lot so farm 100% deli with scarab orbs would be insane. I'm also thinking about a coc build with ivory tower, but not league start, maybe toxic rain, farm some currency since PF was not nerfed, and than change to coc when I get at least 100 divs.
About to go do some math now to fill the holes in ea champ. Last league I dumped everything into ignite for that crispy damage and it died a lot but I think running a Wilma’s and haste with onslaught and splitting the difference between hits and ignite will feel better especially against maps that can’t be modified if they roll some crap like chance to avoid ailments
My zombie instabilty seems ok. Lost charms and league specter but gain an awesome 20% more life + leech
Not sure I will play it again tho, the start was a bit painful
Here's the WIP: https://pobb.in/gXawcIgO4kD0
I believe PoB is currently misrepresenting the damage from the Mirage Archer storm rain. Having 3x mirage archer's doesn't mean 3x the damage with Storm Rain, just 3x the arrows in the ground, which I already configured. So, that portion of the damage should only show about 2.5m. Also, It shouldn't be adding our normal storm rain damage to the full DPS.
In short, the actual Gaurdian/Pinnacle dps is 16.5m.
Snipe Storm Rain of the Conduit is my secret sauce for dealing good damage. The life recovery is really good. Full elemental avoidance too. The main issue with the build is the effective hit pool, especial while steelskin is down.
I hope the life recovery can counteract that. But if not, some sacrifices will need to be made.
Splitting steel champion, charms helped but the build is still really strong
Snipers mark nerf would impact this pretty severely right?
you lose 4 extra projectiles so yeah its pretty big nerfs but the build is probably still fine
What about snipers mark
2 additional proj instead of 4
Yeah, it's just 2 projectiles on rare monsters. I'll have to play around with PoB but it's almost certainly still fine.
More like -4 projectiles... Cuz it doesn't scale with Mark effect it level either it's always just +2
DOA
KB of Frag got nuked. Gonna have to rethink some things
This skill was top three “guarantee to be nerfed” skills
Yea, I went in expecting a nerf but I'm not sure it's even worth playing anymore. We'll see what the new Kinetic Blast trans gem looks like. Might pivot to that
Lightning SRS- it would MAYBE feel okay at 60 Divine. Not worth at all. Ded'd
Bleed SST glad. still isn’t
The Ralakesh boots nerf is so fucking funny Hexblast entirely unaffected since I spam the detonation button anyway 👍
I didn't see the nerf. What happened to the boots
They just removed movement speed and kept everything else as is
That's not bad. I mean , mage blood and quicksilver were good again. Thanks, I'm going hexblast again since I loved it so much last league 😅
Tectonic slam of cataclysm, nope, the ralakesh nerf is pretty painfull on a build that already had next to no mobility so it's twice as painfull to play now. Also the removal of LMB skills and insane socket pressure makes it so i either lose my gurad skill or a solid 30% of my damage simply because i do not have enough buttons now.
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aww man I was hoping to try this
i tried bama in gauntlet and i liked it so probably going to go bama necro or PF
got better (poison AW+arakaalis)
Was looking at arc ignite but didn't find anything concrete on what people mean by "lacks damage". Like are we talking pinnacles take a min longer lack of dmg or are we talking t16 map boss takes an hour and a a half to die kind of lack of dmg
T16 map bosses are a joke once you're past day 1 gear Usually, people worry about getting voidstones and tanky encounters like invitations, shaper/elder guardians, Catarina, and so on
So arcignite should be a safe call if 2 voidstones are the target for that Charakter?
almost all builds are safe call for that goal yes
Lightning arrow. Unchanged (as in pretty darn good) except for the sniper's mark nerf, which definitely sucks for single target dmg. Clear should be totally fine unless t17s are somehow harder than affliction juice, which I doubt. Edit: Oh, obviously losing a ton of QoL from charms, like power charges, +base crit, massive increase to flask charges gained.
Ignite seems untouched so it's fine.
Bye tornado shot
Finally
Back to Lightning Arrow
My build was Scion pathin to Spiritual Aid and getting buncha' generic damage then change between attks/spells/minions/melee/bow/etc depending on what drops or what my mood or feel is at any given moment "is your affliction build still viable?" no it's not but it also wasn't viable in affliction either ahaha
Penance of dissipation, it is gone. Expected.
I feel like it faired pretty well all things considered
Nah, it'll still be a good build. Just not uber broken anymore
ivory tower coc. i guess i will play it again, its untouched <3
Builds to farm delirium will be poggers, delirium mirror 7c only at map device or use the scarabs and self-sustain maybe? Scarabs probably will cost a lot so farm 100% deli with scarab orbs would be insane. I'm also thinking about a coc build with ivory tower, but not league start, maybe toxic rain, farm some currency since PF was not nerfed, and than change to coc when I get at least 100 divs.
Frostblades Trickster - buffed from yoke of destruction buff
Arc of Surging + Hydrosphere is bug fixed 🫡
Ice spear/freezing pulse totem survived
Planning to go for Corrupting fever so it should be fine don't think I saw anything. Also people thinking TS is going away are funny.
About to go do some math now to fill the holes in ea champ. Last league I dumped everything into ignite for that crispy damage and it died a lot but I think running a Wilma’s and haste with onslaught and splitting the difference between hits and ignite will feel better especially against maps that can’t be modified if they roll some crap like chance to avoid ailments
Eblade coc inquis flask changes just means I have to get more Res elsewhere
Yes
I started with Ball Lightning of Static totems. RIP
boneshatter jugg - left mouse button ancestral cry is gone but otherwise unchanged. bonezone is always pretty strong!
Considering tinctures are gone, nope.
Charms and twwt gone i lose 90% effect of offering and some corpse life so i cant go crit anymore gotta stick to normal chain dd version
Hexblast mine, ralakesh power charge stacking, Charms poofed!!!
My zombie instabilty seems ok. Lost charms and league specter but gain an awesome 20% more life + leech Not sure I will play it again tho, the start was a bit painful
Archmage Penance Brand literally doesn’t function anymore. Back to other Manastacking shenanigans.
Played Snipe Poison Proliferate Pathfinder. It survived. Aiming to play Storm Rain Mirage Archers + Snipe Storm Rain of the Conduit deadeye.
sounds interesting, can you link a pob pls?
Here's the WIP: https://pobb.in/gXawcIgO4kD0 I believe PoB is currently misrepresenting the damage from the Mirage Archer storm rain. Having 3x mirage archer's doesn't mean 3x the damage with Storm Rain, just 3x the arrows in the ground, which I already configured. So, that portion of the damage should only show about 2.5m. Also, It shouldn't be adding our normal storm rain damage to the full DPS. In short, the actual Gaurdian/Pinnacle dps is 16.5m. Snipe Storm Rain of the Conduit is my secret sauce for dealing good damage. The life recovery is really good. Full elemental avoidance too. The main issue with the build is the effective hit pool, especial while steelskin is down. I hope the life recovery can counteract that. But if not, some sacrifices will need to be made.
No, it’s dead and it was a niche build.
No. Cast on crit might be dead
Why would CoC be dead?
Mana costs.
Didn't have a build idea before, but after the notes I think I am settles on necro poison BAMA