2.1.0c Hotfix

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GGG_Neon wrote:

We deployed a hotfix with the following changes:

• Temporal Chains quality now grants 0.5% increased Cast Speed per point of quality.
• Enfeeble quality now grants 0.5% reduced enemy Critical Strike Multiplier per point of quality.
• Curse on Hit quality now grants 0.5% Curse Duration per point of quality.
• Blasphemy quality now grants 0.5% Curse Area of Effect Radius per point of quality.

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GGG_Neon wrote:

We deployed a hotfix with the following changes:

• Temporal Chains quality now grants 0.5% increased Cast Speed per point of quality.
• Enfeeble quality now grants 0.5% reduced enemy Critical Strike Multiplier per point of quality.
• Curse on Hit quality now grants 0.5% Curse Duration per point of quality.
• Blasphemy quality now grants 0.5% Curse Area of Effect Radius per point of quality.

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darkwolf7786 wrote:

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GGG_Neon wrote:

We deployed a hotfix with the following changes:

• Temporal Chains quality now grants 0.5% increased Cast Speed per point of quality.
• Enfeeble quality now grants 0.5% reduced enemy Critical Strike Multiplier per point of quality.
• Curse on Hit quality now grants 0.5% Curse Duration per point of quality.
• Blasphemy quality now grants 0.5% Curse Area of Effect Radius per point of quality.

For what purpose?

At this point, I don't see why gems have quality anymore. They've all been changed to something pointless where they aren't worth using gemcutters on.

The few that still matter generally are ones that increase Projectile Speeds of skills that increase their range, like Incinerate, Freezing Pulse, EK, and Ice Spear. Everything else just plain isn't useful.

Please just overhaul quality bonuses already into something usable.

Who needs cast speed on their Temp Chains?

Who needs reduced Critical Multiplier when reduced accuracy is already reducing chance to crit and isn't going to come up that often except maybe for Hardcore Players who really want to not take that 1% crit?

Generally, curse on hit last long enough for groups of monsters and isn't hard to reapply if it were a boss.

Blasphemy already gains a large amount of AOE from leveling, which like regular Auras, does not really enhance the aura or curses. Useless quality bonuses continue to make Gemcutters useless as well as the Enhance gem. I miss Firestorm's quality effect.

Quality for Gems should directly affect the gem in question and improve upon something that gem does more specifically. These bonuses do not do that and are all quite terrible.