Reave

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kavinux wrote:

All those skills have low physical damage on hit making them BAD agents armour.

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Lauicus wrote:

After playing with Reave since it was released I must point out I'm extremely satisfied with it as it is, except for one issue: Not falling back to standard attack when out of mana.

I've seen a lot of disappointment targeted at the core or the skill (loosing stacks when using another skill, having an AoE-cone instead of 360degrees all around AoE and alternating weapons of used Dual Wielding).

I honestly think the skill would be totally OP when any of that behavior would be changed, its just very balanced the way it is now. I use Reave with a CI-GR-VP (1H + shield) Shadow and the AoE synergizes perfectly with Life Leech. Its insane how much survivability it gives, with 360degrees around AoE one would be virtually invulnerable. Also loosing stacks when using any other ability just keeps it away from being totally OP; the AoE at 8 stacks is so big (note that I use NO AoE increase) that being able to Flicker to the next mob without loosing the stacks would be insane, imho.

Only real problem I encountered was that my char stops attacking when out of mana, which occurs regularly (desync, but also in big parties when other ppl kill the same mob and things are crowded and the screen is full of effects/loot). It just stands still in the middle of the fight and does absolutely nothing. I just cant get used to it as all other skills (have more chars in PoE) fall back to default attack.

I hope this will be fixed soon, it would provide a big improvement in terms of smoothness of gameplay, while not affecting the mechanics of the skill. Imho the stacks shouldn't be reset upon using default attack as default attack isn't a skill afaik, but even when loosing the stack I'd prefer that over standing still and doing nothing at all. If one doesn't leech mana fast enough to Reave again within 2secs the stacks are lost anyway due to the 2secs timeout.

Note that for now I use default attack under the left mouse button, but I would really love being able to use "Move only" again, as using default attack to move often results in weird pathfinding due to accidentally clicking chests, boxes and desynced monsters.

Hope to see a fix soon!

Edit: I can also state that loosing the stacks on using another non-attack skill like Enduring Cry does NOT discourage the use of other skills, EC in my case. Besides the benefits of the charges it supplies it also draws the monsters right into my AoE, again, without loosing the stacks it would be OP.

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L2linhdt wrote:

except reave need to link to multistrike to be effective, make it also have less damage than normal and need 2 socket for 1 skill

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Autocthon wrote:

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L2linhdt wrote:

except reave need to link to multistrike to be effective, make it also have less damage than normal and need 2 socket for 1 skill

Reave does not need to be linked to multistrike to be effective any more than any other melee skill.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

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Autocthon wrote:

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L2linhdt wrote:

except reave need to link to multistrike to be effective, make it also have less damage than normal and need 2 socket for 1 skill

Reave does not need to be linked to multistrike to be effective any more than any other melee skill.

And since Multistrike provides the best DPS among all melee gems, most melee skills are linked with it anyways.

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vaiNe_ wrote:

I want reave to be enabled for 2h sword users, because cleave with its meager 70% DE doesnt cut it. Pun intended.