Game Balance in Siege of the Atlas

not rly suprised and hyped for manifesto i was know nerfs and buffs incoming that is it not rly big think

Icestorm is a hit based skill yet it doesn't appear to have been buffed for selfcasting. It currently is more viable to trigger it, but since you are nerfing the trigger damage output across the board this skill is yet again left in the dust.

Revert Icestorm to its former glory!

wow so shit skills still shit and decent things like TR or Seismic or spellslinger are significantly worse...
"great" patch just like always with skills balance...

Yayyy a mostly no changes manifesto! or, a "Mehnifesto"! Honestly this is what I wanted right now. No big nerfs.

A lil bummed about awakened added dam gems, and Voidfletcher... Void doesnt seem stupid OP to me. And with the changes to rare quivers inc, this one seems particularly unnecessary

Well there goes my scorching ray totems build, depending on how they implemented "Lower the damage from Totem, Trap, Mine and Trigger effects to balance out the buff to these spells"

I bet it's going to be global lower damage from totems/mines/etc, so spells that didn't get buffed got shafted.

Cast on crit build are dead, again over 150hrs spend to create a good build that will not be viable after the patch, thats why people quit

I get the feeling that the devs think that the main reason some of these threshold jewels are not being used is because of drawbacks or because the spells themselves aren't being used.
IMHO, this is a misconception and the reason they are rarely used is because of the tremendous power any other jewel has in that slot. I feel they should just grant some damage increase to accompany their effects.

That's a lot of nerfs for a buff manifesto. The Hydrosphere changes are a straight 30-50% less damage nerf to a dozen builds that are now unviable. Had to be done though as the mechanic itself was pure cancer.

Looking forward to an actually playable Flameblast. Maybe this will be the league!

please dont forget to buff ice storm ( whispering ice) , otherwise the nerf to support gems will kill that skill!!

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clawface wrote:

Glacial Hammer feels like it got nerfed again through threshold jewel not being made implicit like other skills and also due to hydrosphere skill changes. 100% cold convert is not big enough change.

Yeah exactly. Also same story for heavy strike, which was already in a horrible spot. Now it caps out at 38% chance where before you could get it to 60% with the jewels.