Lightning Thorns

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mgasper0 wrote:

the changes sucks.

bet your the only melee that says that

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mgasper0 wrote:

the changes sucks. one of the few challenging mobs in the game, and they nerf em... and those rumors 6500hp, 80 resists,... getiin one shoted, are bullshit. i have 5.5k 10k dps sinlge target and 7k dps cleave, how can i tank 2-3 even 4 with thorns on em? and that was before the last patch, now me and me friends dont even mind em. GGG shouldnt listen to all the crying.

ohh and when i saw the changelog, i was 100% sure the first thing ill see about the thorns, will be ranged crying about em. and now they are even nerfed!

Do you want a screenshot of this "bullshit"? And since you didn't read, I'll point out that my marauder friend with those stats was not one-shot. I never said he was, you can go re-read if you don't believe me. I said -I- was one shot from firing a split arrow with 3000 hp and 75% resist. One shot from frenzy took nearly half my health.

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raics wrote:

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Imml wrote:

Matbe try fighting the mobs from range or kiting then that should work also single target the witches

A jolly good suggestion my dear sir, it just doesn't do to blindly charge and spam your skills, you need tactics. I will suggest rain of arrows or rat poison as especially effective witch-killers.

Or... maybe just remove your chained-mp'd lightning and cold arrows from hotbar as I do with cyclone.

If you, or anyone else I suppose, had read my posts, you'd know that I said I still lose half my HP firing a single shot from frenzy. There's no MP or chain involved. One single arrow hits me for around 1500 damage with capped resists.

ahhhh fun time today on Promenade map at boss, the guard + the thorn mage :D (1 mod of the map was +30% dgm from boss +25 attack speed), 1 Lightning arrow one shotted me :D, the bitch shielded the whole pack in like 1 sec :D, but single target all fine! I should read the patch notes :DDDDDDDDDD

They are shielding entire packs at once. Or maybie the desynch s so bad, I dont see them shielding the entire pack 1 mob at a time O.o

Maybie now that everyone is complaining, they will fix this, or maybie people will just keep wasting maps.

Aren't ARPG's meant to be mindless slaughterfests?

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Blackmogg wrote:

ahhhh fun time today on Promenade map at boss, the guard + the thorn mage :D (1 mod of the map was +30% dgm from boss +25 attack speed), 1 Lightning arrow one shotted me :D, the bitch shielded the whole pack in like 1 sec :D, but single target all fine! I should read the patch notes :DDDDDDDDDD

Same thing happened to a friend of mine.

Not to mention it was a Oneshot for 5,4k HP with 83% Allresist.

Was aware of the new patch, went to promenade boss fully expecting lightning thorns.
Put my skele totem down, spam my LA kinda offscreen.
See my life going down insanely fast, stop shooting and potting it up but the remaining arrows in the air killed me.
Guessing 3-4 Lightning arrow and ~1.5 seconds to kill me, only got to use 2 instapot charges.

5k life after reserve, 83 allres.


Don´t wanna complain but LA Rangers hit so many targets often way offscreen, ~2,5 shots/second (standard 5link) and up to 27 hits per shot --> You realistically proc ~65 times per second in a big group and a Level 18, 13Q Life on hit did nothing for me.

Exactly. LA + Chain vs LT shielded packs of mobs is like insta death, even with LoH and 80% lightning resist.

its funny.
some ppl playing ranged said like 'whats wrong? find alternative way if u cant handle them(like let them eat cake)' before patch.
and now?
ROFL. NICE PATCH EVER.

Noob tip of the day: Firestorming thorns = nuke death.

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retriend wrote:

its funny.
some ppl playing ranged said like 'whats wrong? find alternative way if u cant handle them(like let them eat cake)' before patch.
and now?
ROFL. NICE PATCH EVER.

I never said that, I knew it was a severe problem and I also knew that it didn't affect me. I saw the melees in my party get eaten by it and wished it would be fixed. When I saw "damage reduced" in the patch notes I thought it was being fixed.

It was not fixed.

And as an added bonus, it now affects me as well.