Skill Usage Statistics

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Drimli wrote:

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Jegro wrote:

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Drimli wrote:

It is totally fail from GGG that warchief a god damn totem attack skill seems to be the most used damage skill... So fun and interactive eh?

well it's a quick and easy way to give a significant damage boost to any melee attack build. it's not necessarily used as the primary attack.

Yes they are mostly using other skills with it but when the skill is that high in the statistics it is becomming the most used damage skill overall in the game... no matter what you say.

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ACGIFT wrote:

I do think there still needs to be some fundamental alterations to some skills to preserve build diversity.

Ever since it was introduced, there's basically been no reason NOT to use Ancestral Warchief if you're a melee build: it's literally just a free "more" DPS that merely needs the gem slots on another piece of gear; something that anyone who's not LL always has spare.

It should be simple, really; perhaps male AW cause a debuff to the user while it's up, (such as reduced movement + attack speed) so it has to be a conscious decision, even if it's just a matter of WHEN to have it up; e.g, it might be a liability with clearing trash mobs, but viable for tank-and-spank bosses, or possibly even left out just because of the hassle for builds not built around it. (I really like the idea of making it perhaps "borrow" some of your stats; basically make it outright equivalent to splitting yourself in half for a fight)

It's just plain boring because, well... You basically tack it on to EVERY melee build to make it just flat-out better.

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Restlnpiece wrote:

Stop nerfing because of reddit and forum Babyrage . Buff bad skills up to top skills level instead of nerfing top skill into oblivion.You are welcome ...

Balance can't be fixed with buffs alone. In simple logic:

• 1 badly over-powered skill = it smothers all others, only 1 skill gets used.
  
• 1 badly under-powered skill = people ignore that skill, use the other 100+.

If a skill is seriously over-powered to the point where it's so hard-coded "meta" and mandatory to do well... It's a problem, and NO "giving love to other stuff" will fix it.

To their credit, GGG has actually been pretty damn spot-on in identifying problematic skills/builds and nerfing them. (only issue is often OVER-nerfing, or, in the past, taking too many seasons to apply needed nerfs) There's been very few cases of them nerfing something that shouldn't have been nerfed at all, hence why the complaints are merely that they go TOO far. (e.g, CI+GR+VP was HORRIFICALLY broken pre-3.0, but they utterly annihilated any trace of those prior elements, and they're only NOW starting to recover)

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Rainbowww wrote:

Discharge is my favorite skill and I make one every league.

I am still surprised that it's THAT low on the list.

When GGG does hard-nerf something below the "meta" range, people abandon it hard, even if it's still viable.

Stuff rarely rises up unless some popular streamer tells all the other players to build it, whether or not it sank from a nerf. So, the moment we see a streamer popularize discharge? Expect it to zoom right back to the top like it was pre-nerf, even if it's not as broken as it was then.

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Milkyslice wrote:

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Drimli wrote:

It is totally fail from GGG that warchief a god damn totem attack skill seems to be the most used damage skill... So fun and interactive eh?

It is totally fail from this dude to see that Warchief Totems are currently mainly used as a supportskill rather than a mainskill because its trash for anything but bossing

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Qiox wrote:

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Drimli wrote:

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Jegro wrote:

well it's a quick and easy way to give a significant damage boost to any melee attack build. it's not necessarily used as the primary attack.

Yes they are mostly using other skills with it but when the skill is that high in the statistics it is becomming the most used damage skill overall in the game... no matter what you say.

What I say is that you have no idea what you are talking about.

You got schooled but are too weak minded to appreciate having learned something. Instead you act small and dumb.

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Drimli wrote:

Go on PoE ninja and have a look... "melee" attack skills with 5+ gems and you will find Warchief... this gem have been in the top of melee builds since it was introduced to the game and now that we got shaped items you can run it as a seperate skill (Two handed builds could do this all along) basicly giving you two main damage skills with NO! penalty... tell me any caster or bow builds with this possibility... And no i am not saying it needs to be nerfed but they made warchief as a lazy "fix" to the shitty melee skills that everone was crying over... I have been playing PoE for over 7000+ hours and been playing since beta so yeah you just tell me that i don't know anything mate. Got schooled... LUL.