Announcements - Skill Reveal: Storm Burst - Forum

" sidtherat wrote: would like to see some actual melee skill for once somewhere: in a showcase, in a boss fight, in a reveal all you show is 'spell' 'spell' 'spell' 'bow'.. for each melee skill out there (even including the pointless ones) there are 2-3 blue gems. it is no longer fun you know. maybe do a 'reveal' and just remove the bottom left part of the tree with all the red gems noone cares about? you are already partway there so just push it and be over with it, ok? as for the skill itself: all that is wrong with POE in one single package: - effortless scalling (answer me this: how godly the damage will be when it can be augmented with BOTH conc effect and slower proj? is it sane to allow this kind of scaling?) - bonkers initial damage - faux-skill AOE-overlap - CwC compatibility for no-mana-investment-needed spell spam (CwC was a MISTAKE, esp its lack of mana cost!) - no mana cost whatsoever you want everyone to play this skill? wouldnt making it interesting (not 'strong', but interesting) a better way to do it? or did you give up and no longer rely on 'interesting' but on the free-power giveaways to attract players? i though 3.0 will change stuff. but this skill shows nothing is going to change really.. hint: root cause of many spell related balance issues is mana. channelling + cwc made mana (the speed bump for spell builds) pointless. Bah, if only melee namelocking skills would get an identity, either by having bonkers damage or bonkers survival, but us melee "addicts" could only dream that would actually be addressed. And all these lacklustre "improvements" to spells/ranged skills that already feel the "only way to play". Because "balance". /s CwC should cost a cool 50% reserved mana for what it does, or at least it should scale with the linked gems the mana cost. But as GGG never thought about the offscreening situation and offered a viable solution, I won't get my hopes up. But please, I dare GGG to get Glacial Hammer or Heavy Strike on par with Storm Burst first, when linking them with Melee Splash/Elemental Proliferation or threshold jewels first and amaze us with "new skills" after. PSS: Our almighty TencentGGG overlords are very scrupulous regarding criticizing their abilities to take proper decisions and consider everything "needlessly harsh and condescending"... Good to know "free speech" doesn't apply in any form or manner on the forums these days... Last edited by sofocle10000#6408 on Jul 12, 2017, 12:29:21 AM	Posted by sofocle10000#6408 on Jul 12, 2017, 12:28:04 AM Quote this Post
Channeled Bow skill plox. lolololol snipe ___________________________________________ Gene Quagmire/Kwagmyr - Parts Unknown	Posted by genequagmire#5118 on Jul 12, 2017, 12:36:32 AM Quote this Post
3.0 build confirmed	Posted by ImSlower#6741 on Jul 12, 2017, 12:38:46 AM Quote this Post
so uh, a skill that can be channeled (cwc), has 100% pierce (at least thats how I saw it), can be scaled via aoe and projectiles, with each projectile can hit the SAME target, AND aoe overlap on explosions ? somewhere in the nearby cellar arctic breath is tied up and crying sad, sad tears this is pretty ridiculous	Posted by grepman#2451 on Jul 12, 2017, 12:44:51 AM Quote this Post
Storm Burst + Cast while Channeling + Ball Lightning + Greater Multiple Projectiles + Slow Projectiles + Faster Casting... Last edited by eralduspr#7267 on Jul 12, 2017, 12:46:54 AM	Posted by eralduspr#7267 on Jul 12, 2017, 12:45:31 AM Quote this Post
" Darking9090 wrote: " Xpluszzz wrote: yey another xbox skill :( (looks cool tho) This ^. I'd like more skills that are very hardcore such as animate weapon but xbox controllers can't do that. ...because they couldn't simply rework it to target the nearest Common-rarity item to the player, right? How does Detonate Corpse work on Bot/NPC's? They target whatever is closest to players or player controlled/summoned enemies...they don't have to do much work to reuse the code with console players in mind.	Posted by LeetbakaDX#3749 on Jul 12, 2017, 12:45:37 AM On Probation Quote this Post
this skill looks great	Posted by Ninjaki#3483 on Jul 12, 2017, 1:02:10 AM Quote this Post
" eralduspr wrote: Storm Burst + Cast while Channeling + Ball Lightning + Greater Multiple Projectiles + Slow Projectiles + Faster Casting... ball lightning is a trap, as are almost all the lightning spells right now. you'll be better off picking up a fire or cold skill and applying ee instead, since storm burst looks like it'll hit like a truck against single targets as well. or not do cwc at all and just stack up on more multipliers and pen if youre going for pure damage	Posted by grepman#2451 on Jul 12, 2017, 1:03:28 AM Quote this Post
Would just like to point out. Isn't this technically bringing back shotgunning? There are a lot of skills that do this kind of overlap shotgun now. State of Beyond Mechanic: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3568084 State of Blight Mechanic: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3568078 State of Harbinger Mechanic: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3568062	Posted by Raghin#2415 on Jul 12, 2017, 1:03:32 AM Quote this Post
" Raghin wrote: Would just like to point out. Isn't this technically bringing back shotgunning? There are a lot of skills that do this kind of overlap shotgun now. its aoe overlap but also because each projectile is its own entity sequentially (ie, like barrage), it also can hit the same target with same cast projectiles (ie, from GMP or whatever).	Posted by grepman#2451 on Jul 12, 2017, 1:05:56 AM Quote this Post