Skill Reveal - Spectral Shield Throw

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Antigegner wrote:

boring and unneeded...we need spectral boot throw.

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ACGIFT wrote:

I'm noticing some things here... While someone else pointed out it being shown with a typical endgame "flask to win" setup (Atziri's, ToH, Sin's, and Vinktar) what I noticed is that in not a single example did it throw multiple projectiles. I'm guessing this means one of two things:

• "Extra projectiles" only applies to the secondary effect. (akin to how GMP only affects primary shots of Tornado Shot, but not the secondary)
  
• The skill, rather arbitrarily, can't be used with sources of extra projectiles.

Both are actually kinda silly, and speak to an inability to actually balance game mechanics, but the latter is worse than the former.

I can perhaps see WHY they would force a non-GMP skill; there's hope to make people use the (otherwise worthless) Chain and Fork supports. But if they need a SPECIFIC skill to use them with, it's not really helping out the supports, is it? It's just an arbitrary, mandatory pairing. Better would be to rework the mechanics of fork and chain, (maybe even return GMP's old larger damage penalty while we're at it) or do SOMETHING to shift away from the whole meta of "all five support gems are for MORE (or de facto more) damage."

Anyway, beyond that, I guess GGG is feeling that Captain America fever? A little belated, given that it's Black Panther that's all the rage in theaters at the moment... :P

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MasterAxe wrote:

Im sorry, but if they were a top priority, then they would have been done long before now. Now that just confirms most of them will just be broke in one way or another, which most expect anyways sadly. There was also no reason to rework all of the ascendencys, only had to fix the stupidly broken ones, that were barely used.

Yeah, I have to concur with this. I was VERY troubled by their apparent need to, say, buff Berserker, which is an ascendancy that's needed absolutely no love; as of this writing, it's the #1 most-popular class, accounting for 14.56% of builds.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Meanwhile, while I have no doubt that GGG will give some love to the classes that badly needed it (*coughAssassincough*) the issue is... When EVERYONE gets something, that means the supposed fix to disparity just maintains the status quo: sure, Assassin will be in a better position compared to the OLD Berserker... But the -NEW- Berserker is even beyond that.

GGG should have skipped buffs for the top 6 classes (Berserker, Slayer, Gladiator, Pathfinder, Raider, and Necromancer; not even 1/3 of classes make up over 60% of builds!) and just revisited the others.

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Seronia wrote:

Oh boy,
if and it is a big if, this skill scales with armour and attack damage this skill has the potential to be highest damage skill ingame. 500% increased armour without even the shield nodes which give 25% more defenses on shield. Ouch that will hurt big time.
2K armour shields are not that uncommen. (2000 base armour * 5 armour multiplier) / 15 (damage from armour) * 2 (lowest damage you get per 15 armour) = 1.3K base damage without any supports and a base attack speed of 1. Since a lot of armour nodes also provide life we get a hell of a tanky high dps build. And that is before any attack damage multis or ascendancies.
So in retrospect, either the damage won't scale with armour nodes or this skill will be a bid op.
Just my 2 cents

Damage wont scale with the shield nodes. The shield nodes doesn't increase the armor value on the shield - it multiplies the armor the character gains from equipping a shield. I initially got the same hype as you but tested it immediately after :-)

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D3s7r0y3r wrote:

So this is kinda like Frost Blades when it comes to good AOE but pretty bad Boss damage?

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KaseyM21 wrote:

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D3s7r0y3r wrote:

So this is kinda like Frost Blades when it comes to good AOE but pretty bad Boss damage?

No one knows because no one knows the scaling of the gem. Frost blades is bad on bosses because projectiles can't hit the target you melee. Take Molten strike for an example which scaling is identical to frost blades. It has initial melee and projectiles after. But it's projectiles can hit your initial target so it's really good for bosses. Shield throw is probably similar to frost blades in this aspect but if the damage is high enough it won't even matter.