New Support Gem Reveal - Blasphemy

I love the visual design of the skill. Being able to see the icon of each curse active seems like a cool idea, and works pretty well with 2, but the video shows a few going up, and i still can only see two icons.

Also the appearance of the character used in the video is perfect :D

I fear that after this release curses will appear as to strong and instead of balancing blasphemy, all curses will be nerfed instead, punishing self curse casters.
So blasphemy will remain popular and a way to go.

Well I can see this being a thing in PVP.
Sure warding flasks, but that isn't a perfect counter to curses there.

A simple question, what will be the adventages of quality leveling?

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hello,

is this gem coming to standard league directly, too or will it be in a new league?

just askin coz i want my next character to use it.

I still prefer HoT + curse for my crit builds, because, no mana reservation.

Now we need a silence curse gem to go along with this gem :P

Well, this is a lot less useful than I thought.

You can't quick-swap Curses if you have the required Gem Slot Color with this.

You have to first regenerate 25% of your Mana, and THEN Cast the ability.

EXTREMELY bad for melee characters, that could otherwise just go with Blood Magic along with one interchangeable Curse slot, and still have 25% for something else.

For single-curse builds, that never want to swap anything else, it's still alright. But not worth giving up Multistrike, two MORE multipliers, or a 6th Gem that would otherwise still be more damage than the Curse you have (Likely trading Blood Magic for the Damage Gem, due to 100% Reservation), and not reserve the last 25%.
Not to mention Curse Immune...

I was REALLY hyped about this Support until I realized all of this. I had to come and double-check what the wording of "Are Cast" was. This implies it does it automatically for you, so it wouldn't require your 25% as a "Cost" to then "Reserve" allowing you to swap one Blasphemy Curse for another, instantly.

This wording needs to be fixed.

"Are Cast" needs to be "Can Be Cast", or something different.

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Just so people know, got word from Rory that leveling this gem increases Curse Range.
I suspect quality will either be effect or more range.

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YohSL wrote:

Just so people know, got word from Rory that leveling this gem increases Curse Range.
I suspect quality will either be effect or more range.

Rory confirmed on reddit that quality will increase the effect.

So,
quality=curse effect
level=range