Lightning Thorns
" It does affect spell casts, at least the Freeze Pulse character i have gets the reflects now too, and well.. GMP.. need i say more than that i also nearly oneshotted myself with it earlier? :) |
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" So is it changed to affect projectiles, maybe? Regardless, it needs to be dropped in damage. There's no reason I should kill myself instantly with 3000 hp and capped resist. Even my friend firing lightning arrows doesn't die to one shot of elemental reflect... lightning thorns hits HARDER than reflect and people complain about it constantly. i too fas fo youuuuuuu
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" Of course it does, it seems to do a spell damage counter similar to tempest shield so it doesn't matter how much damage you did, the only difference is that it works on every attack and tempest works on block. Why doesn't tempest shield work like that? It would be cheap and probably break pvp even more then it already is, we don't have that skill for the same reason we don't have immortality aura or 100% crit aura that enemies use, in fact, most enemy skills are stronger then ours. Ever dominated a rare with haste aura? Enjoy your 20 seconds of being the Flash. If you use attacks on reflect enemies you can evade and dodge reflected damage or mitigate it with armor, it uses enemy's attack rating, not yours so it's even easier. So of course, lightning thorns hits harder, the only thing that should work on it is spell evade and spell block if you have it, even with 80 resist it still does a lot of damage on every strike and many skill setups do quite a lot of strikes per use, LA+lmp+chain, cyclone... Wish the armchair developers would go back to developing armchairs. ◄[www.moddb.com/mods/balancedux]► ◄[www.moddb.com/mods/one-vision1]► Last edited by raics#7540 on Apr 12, 2013, 11:10:10 AM
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Love the changes to Lightning thorns os much easier now and ranged that want to complain can take the advice ranged characters gave us when it only effected melee
Abyssus Crit Cleave - http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/381106
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" "If it bothers you, play ranged, I never even notice LT enemies" That the one? Very constructive, insightful and most of all, witty. Wish the armchair developers would go back to developing armchairs. ◄[www.moddb.com/mods/balancedux]► ◄[www.moddb.com/mods/one-vision1]► Last edited by raics#7540 on Apr 12, 2013, 11:30:03 AM
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" You have no idea how happy those changes made me. They even reduced the damage and now ranged characters are still crying about it. | |
" I never said once that it shouldn't affect ranged. I think it should affect all damage sources. I also think that it needs to be toned down A LOT. The reduction in damage was clearly not enough. i too fas fo youuuuuuu
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" We were also told that we were over reacting and to get lightning resist as well as kite more and use single target attacks Abyssus Crit Cleave - http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/381106
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" Countless quotes could be dug up telling melee to "get over it" or "get better". It seems that once the shoe is on the other foot however it is suddenly can not be overcome by the very methods melee were told to cultivate to get past them. Humorously, with the damage reduced. They bother me MUCH less now than they did. And yet that reduced damage is enough to have the ranged folk crying foul. How do you think it felt with shield chargers, and the higher damage on us face to face? Alexis *smiles* |
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Have any of you tried lightning resist rings? Or maybe not standing so close to a group of them? I think single target attacks would help too...I don't know why you're having problems -- everything is O.K. on my side!
Spoiler
Seriously though, they've been OP for as long as I've met them. I'm still not getting over this reaction. It's sweet, sweet karma. Better than Warlock nerfs in TBC.
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