[ Saving the High Life RF Marauder Build ] Devs PLEASE, answer us.

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Hi everyone, this is my first intervention on this topic.

I'm playing an High Life Righteous Fire marauder build focused on High Life, life regeneration and elemental resistances.
Needless to say that the last patch made this builde extremly difficult to play and not really rewarding. I understand the nerf made (mostly because of the low life righteous fire build with Shav) but it make me sad to see a perfectly blanced and fun build been hard nerf to the core (life, regen and resist).

Since then I tried to figurate at a way to make the AOE damage of this skill useable again. Right now this part of the skill is pretty useless and not use by anyone.

The obvious way to make the AOE damage usuable again would be to decrease the life degen caused by it so you could counter it with resist and life regen.
But it seems obvious that the Dev don't want that skill to be used 100% of the time (even if right now the low life build are still able to do it wich is kinda unfair imo).

So I thought, why not allow this part of the skill to interact with more support gems ? Right now, the only support gem that I know who work with RF are Increase AOE, Concentrate damage (who just reduce the aoe without increasing the damage) and faster casting. The only usefull one beeing increase AOE.

The damage of the aoe part of RF have been greatly decreased with the life nod nerf so I think it's not too op to make support gem like increase burning damage, fire penetration, concentrated effect of iron will to interact with it. Allowing Life leech would allow a player to survive the degen during the melee while still beeing vulnerable to any kind of massive hit from monsters or degen damages and curses. And once the pack is dead you will have to turn RF off because of the degen.

That would make this part of the skill way more interesting and it could be combine with other build as a side aoe dps or a main one if you focus on it.

This skill is very fun to play and the risk/reward part is very well thought but right now the cool aspect of it (AOE damage) is underbalance and it wouldn't take that much to make it usefull again.

Tell me what you think about my idea