New and Changed Gems in Path of Exile: Trial of the Ancestors

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Aldonés wrote:

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muzein wrote:

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yakoob wrote:

Is there a typo in Controlled Blaze Support?
The Less Damage component does not state specificaly With Hit.
In my understanding it reads as Global Less Dmg therefore it would decrease the Ignite Damage aswell?!

It says supported skills do less damage - That IS the hit. The ignite is an aliment proc'd off that hit.... But since Ignites are calculated off the hit's damage; yes it will lower the ignite as a result.

A hit of:
100 dmg = 90_ignite per sec for 4 sec.
The next hit would be:
97 dmg = 99.522_ignite per sec for 4 sec.
The '10th stack' hit:
70 dmg = 151.2_ignite per sec for 4 sec.
The 'Max Stack' hit:
22 dmg = 91.872_ignite per sec for 4 sec


I'm sure I'm missing something here, if someone could point me to where I'm wrong using a base hit of 100 damage as this support stacks up.

Assuming I didn't mess something up, there's a sweet spot of how many ignites you want to inflict within a 4 second window... but the support takes away damage from those who aim to max out their attack speed? Curious.

If that's the case, I'm not a fan. The game already 'throttles' player's DPS with boss mechanics. Typically melee players don't get 100% uptime on their DPS--Having a support which maxes out its top damage via some sort of breakpoint in attacks per second assumes you can maintain it.

So Either you exceed the theoretical best attacks/sec to account for downtime on bosses and lose out on DPS when your windows permit more uptime... Or adhere to the ideal attacks/sec and lose out on DPS any time you can't maintain uptime :/

Am I wrong in this assessment?

my understanding is DoT is based off the base damage before all the modifiers are calculated. Basically the ignite is calculated before the less damage takes effect.

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Alyosiki wrote:

more than one year of no balance change. And I don't think these support gems will change it now. You made us exited and then misled everything. Like, really, why? I love GGG, I love PoE, but I get older. I played this game since Open beta day 1, mb miss 3 or 4 leagues in a past 10 years. Likewise, I just want to be more excited about a new league, and I don't ask much. I don't need a new hollow league mechanic (Lake of Kalandra) but just change these meta please.

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muzein wrote:

Ah. Well then there isn't much of a downside if you just want to base your DPS off ignite damage.

So 364% more damage with ignite... but compare that to Flameblast which gets 60% more damage with ailments per stage and you can max out at 10-12 stages (And has a Vaal version).

Jayd42 brings up a good point about AoE. 1 slam that hits 10 mobs is 10 ignites in 1 attack. Could be a fun mapper build for slams that AoE ignite/prloif?