WOLCEN - Lords of Mayhem

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鬼殺し wrote:

Lightning Strike is SO FUCKING SATISFYING. You want to feel like a badass zapping shit everywhere, that's the skill you want. I don't think I've seen any ARPG do a basic channeled chain lightning as well as Wolcen does. D3's was too lightweight; D2's was too erratic; PoE's is too twitchy.

Okay, so I want to discuss those passives a bit more now that I've built and 'finished' characters using all ten 'segments' of the wheel. The really important thing is there are absolutely no double ups and even minor nodes function as dramatically as a PoE notable. The larger ones are almost keystones. This means that there is one basic node that dramatically adds crit chance with daggers, one node that affects mage staff attacks, one node that extends dodge-roll range, and so on. Wolcen's notables do things like two-handed-weapons-as-one-handed, shifting the elemental damage around, creating elemental damage fields on elemental kill, significantly raising an attribute while dropping others, and so on.

What they don't do is merely add damage or defence. That comes down to your gear and your attributes. But some will add base attributes; many add low percentile.

There are quite a few nodes not yet enabled, and some of them have some pretty exciting names. Twin Pistol Mastery, for example.

Which is all to say, the passives in Wolcen do a LOT of heavy lifting as far as how your character grows but not in so bland a way as simply adding attributes or damage/defence.

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Dorlok wrote:

And is the town lagging quite massively or is that just me? :)

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Kellog wrote:

I'm just waiting for the Linux release they promised.

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k1rage wrote:

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Kellog wrote:

I'm just waiting for the Linux release they promised.

keep waiting

like all Linux releases its probably really really low priority