@GGG - Could someone explain why Mjolner is having its cooldown increased? [new 2.6 changes :P]

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Again - Remove cd and\or make able to use multiple skills at the same time like it was

This is the only thing which gavel need

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You're all complaining about the Mjolner nerf; but it isnt really that bad... Sure the DPS is slightly lower, but in all honesty, it was far too OP as it stands

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You're all complaining about the Mjolner nerf; but it isnt really that bad.
Sure you need to adapt your build slightly, but if you maximize charges and use it in unison with Fortify + Arctic armour it still retains its survivability. Sure the DPS is slightly lower, but in all honesty, it was far too OP as it stands.

I run a 5k life 50% Phys reduction Juggernaut with 11 endurances, after some slight adjustments ...mainly reducing the attack speed, dropping RT and going crit based with EO and using the passives gained from dropping attack speed to boost accuracy and life... it survives just as well as it did before the nerf.

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zSavage wrote:

I'll be writing PMs to Rory and probably Mark too tomorrow. I'll post when I send them and what I say.

-Savage

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You're all complaining about the Mjolner nerf; but it isnt really that bad.
Sure you need to adapt your build slightly, but if you maximize charges and use it in unison with Fortify + Arctic armour it still retains its survivability. Sure the DPS is slightly lower, but in all honesty, it was far too OP as it stands.

I run a 5k life 50% Phys reduction Juggernaut with 11 endurances, after some slight adjustments ...mainly reducing the attack speed, dropping RT and going crit based with EO and using the passives gained from dropping attack speed to boost accuracy and life... it survives just as well as it did before the nerf.

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zSavage wrote:

Hey guys,

As you know, the internal CD of Mjolner in patch 2.5 was changed from 0.1s to 0.25s. There's a large number of players (myself included) who are confused about why this change was made. (There's over 100 posts of ours in this thread: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1774087 talking about it and hoping for a response).

Now I know that a lot of the changes that have been made in regards to the spell triggering items and support gems have been for performance reasons, but in most cases those were given other changes (like more spell damage on CoC after the change) to make up for the longer CD.

Anyways, here's the question we're all wondering about. What was the (or is there) a game balance reason for increasing the internal cooldown of Mjolner to 0.25s? This reduces the single target dps potential (and healing potential, if using a Discharge version with Voll's Devotion and Kingsguard) by 60%, as it is trigger 4 times per second instead of 10.

As myself and many other Mjolner build 'experts' in the thread linked earlier outline, the 2.4 Mjolner builds were not by any means top tier (like Cospri's, Warchief totems, BV Pathfinder, etc from last patch). With the changes in 2.5 Mjolner is more or less rendered useless as an endgame build (and it's not like with the stat requirements the item has you can do much else with your build).

So here's question #2: Can we expect any changes to Mjolner (internal cooldown reduction, additional damage modifiers for spells, reduced stat requirements, attack speed, etc) to make the item usable for doing endgame content? In the past Mjolner (versus things like CoC Discharge and Cospri's Discharge) achieved DPS and sustain through sheer volume of spells (whereas the other builds mentioned can scale crit and crit multi and can sustain high charge levels through use of Voll's Protector). As Mjolner is a slower weapon, perhaps we can expect something like fewer but more impactful spell triggers?

Thanks for reading and I hope we (myself and those yearning for an answer) will hear back from you soon.

Regards,
-Savage