Will DD ever get nerfed?

This skill has been beyond bs on both the players hand and the enemies(specially strong boxes).

This skill has been consistently the best since syndicate (when I started probably even broken before that) with 0 legueas of it being meh.
Every league 100M+ dmg, 200k+ eHP chars thanks to this skill needing negative damage investment.

Meanwhile SST was good for 1 league and GGG did the following:
- Nerfed all base ES and EV on shields
- Nerf SST
- Nerf Jewels/Items/Mods most common in those builds

I swear they're gonna ignore DD for next expansion and archmage gets 5 direct nerfs and 12 indirect nerfs.

Meanwhile slams and melee are just fked.

DD especially made this way to be N1 kill

GGG don wanna change it

Here's the most used main skills from the 95+k players, from poe.ninja website:

Lightning Arrow 6%
Hexblast 6%
Ice Nova of Frostbolts 5%
Splitting Steel 5%
Righteous Fire 5%
Fire Trap 4%
Elemental Hit of the Spectrum 4%
Detonate Dead of Chain Reaction 4%

So maybe DD is not the most appreciated for a reason, if you know why tell me, i never played it.

Affliction;

Tornado Shot 12%
Penance Brand of Dissipation 11%
Detonate Dead 6%
Cyclone 5%
Summon Raging Spirit 5%
Boneshatter 3%
Splitting Stee l3%
Vaal Detonate Dead 2%

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Universalis wrote:

So maybe DD is not the most appreciated for a reason, if you know why tell me, i never played it.

DD while powerful is essentially a 2 button skill. Which will always limit its uptake in the community.

You often need to 'prep' the skill with desecrate or another corpse generator, this can make it feel clunky.

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Universalis wrote:

Here's the most used main skills from the 95+k players, from poe.ninja website:

It's a skill you can take from 1 to 100 basically. On leaguestart the top 3 were 1) Lightning Arrow (6%), 2) DD of Chain Reaciton (6%) and 3) Elemental Hit of the Spectrum (6%)

Pick rate alone shouldn't justify a nerf imo. It was hyped up a lot because of creators like Ben and Lily. A skill being a good starter also doesn't mean a nerf is warranted, so I doubt GGG is gonna take action against it, especially considering the skill's drawbacks as you need to use 2 gem setups to get the output + manage your specter pool for min-maxing

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ArtCrusade wrote:

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Universalis wrote:

Here's the most used main skills from the 95+k players, from poe.ninja website:

It's a skill you can take from 1 to 100 basically. On leaguestart the top 3 were 1) Lightning Arrow (6%), 2) DD of Chain Reaciton (6%) and 3) Elemental Hit of the Spectrum (6%)

Pick rate alone shouldn't justify a nerf imo. It was hyped up a lot because of creators like Ben and Lily. A skill being a good starter also doesn't mean a nerf is warranted, so I doubt GGG is gonna take action against it, especially considering the skill's drawbacks as you need to use 2 gem setups to get the output + manage your specter pool for min-maxing

I noticed the alternate quality (chain reaction) was mostly used, I also noticed that rangers and so on projectiles skills, are always hyped.
DD is AOE and has probably an issue in maps where "player has reduced %AOE" by xxx% due the increased modifiers effects. Projectiles are the real deal in the long run.

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gryphon79 wrote:

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Universalis wrote:

So maybe DD is not the most appreciated for a reason, if you know why tell me, i never played it.

DD while powerful is essentially a 2 button skill. Which will always limit its uptake in the community.

You often need to 'prep' the skill with desecrate or another corpse generator, this can make it feel clunky.

AH yeah, it's true, even I prefer down to zero button gameplay and focuse on looting loool. Almost forgot that.
By the way it seems DD is used with coc, but skills like icespear are more used: Players may also prefer to freeze monsters.

Played DD for the first time this league.

Pros:
- Massive damage
- Very tanky

Cons
- 2 buttons
- Clunky
- Slow in general
- Having to cast Desecrate and then target it for the explosion just feels bad, especially at boss fights with no enemies corpses

Imho, considering the downsides it deserves its strength. Also because of the downsides I soon switched to a Lightning Arrow Deadeye who can be killed by any fly and dies 5 times per map. But at least it flies through maps, and with potion auto-use I literally play with one hand most of the time.