PvP Manifesto Post and Patch Notes Teaser

Am i the only one who thinks that all announced gems are actually badly designed?
New wand skill - wanders are crap unless you can afford mirror service, noone even care what does that skill do

Bow decoy skills - seems totally useless.

Melee Lightning aoe skill - when i hear things like this nothing but "inevitable death to reflect" comes in mind. We already have infernal blow and it's even safer, tyvm.

Melee trigger on block/hit skills - totally useless, even as a melee 90% monsters are normally killed without a chance to hit once. And we already have vaal molten shell.

Physical to lightning - its just retarded. Who in the hell would convert physical to lightning? Could have been useful as a support for LA but LA is totally bad compared TS or IS.

"

CliveHowlitzer wrote:

"

xssarinx wrote:

With the nerf to block, I was kind of hoping one of the counter gems was defensive. All offensive gems from what I could tell.

Second guessing even playing incinerate or arc now to be honest. Fuck you devourer's.

Same, I had my hopes up for a new defensive skill but it seems I was wrong. A shame.

well I presume if you link them with blind or knockback or stun or loh/leech etc then they can be used defensively, curse on hit blah blah. Effectively curse on block with chance to blind? it could be cool, I dunno, have to see.

"

Odoakar wrote:

Path of procs and playing on auto-pilot.

I prefer self-casted skills.

Yeah, it's looking either like a proc or a skill that, when activated, will attempt to block and only sometimes go on to attack.

Dreading these skills but certainly going to try them. I really dislike random missing. It sucks all the enjoyment out of the game for me so I avoid characters with low accuracy (95% or less). Block chance tends to be pretty low so good chance these skills are going to frustrate the hell out of me if I have to activate them myself and annoy me by taking control away from me if they proc.

Let's see...

pvp centered balance applied to pve?

it worked so well for all the previous games in the history..

"

sidtherat wrote:

pvp centered balance applied to pve?

it worked so well for all the previous games in the history..

99% sure that the Dev Manifesto is talking about PvP scaling, and not about PvE scaling at all.

So we have two block counter gems but nothing 2-handed specific? I was really hoping these gems would be the buff to 2-handed builds but I guess not...

Otherwise these gems are exactly what I though they would be. I'm not sure what revolutionary ideas others had for them, but this is really the most obvious way to implement counter gems. Not super exciting, but I wouldn't call them useless before trying.

What worries me most is how many support gems they need to be useful? Most of my 2-handed builds don't have any extra links free, because usually I need a single-target skill, aoe skill, aura setup and two cwdt setups, which already fill every gear slots.

oww no new spells :(

"

Juzzbe wrote:

So we have two block counter gems but nothing 2-handed specific? I was really hoping these gems would be the buff to 2-handed builds but I guess not...

What worries me most is how many support gems they need to be useful? Most of my 2-handed builds don't have any extra links free, because usually I need a single-target skill, aoe skill, aura setup and two cwdt setups, which already fill every gear slots.

What, you want 7 socket armor next ?, Whats that gonna cost to link ?, 10,000 fuses ?

"

Yoff wrote:

Who in the hell would convert physical to lightning?

I would. I've been wanting to incorporate shock into my pure phys builds for the longest time but there just hasn't been a good way to scale it with physical damage, not like with fire from Added Fire Damage and Herald of ash, or cold from Hatred, or even chaos from Ming's.

Kinetic Blast - I suggested that name. :)