Plus Skills on Weapons shouldnt be a necessary stat

Without this stat weapons are trash. Should this really be the case or should a combo of other stats be able to compensate for the lack of skills?

I think we shouldn't have to worry about having to have a specific stat like this on a weapon otherwise it might as well go into the trash can

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KorricGaming#8311 wrote:

Without this stat weapons are trash. Should this really be the case or should a combo of other stats be able to compensate for the lack of skills?

I think we shouldn't have to worry about having to have a specific stat like this on a weapon otherwise it might as well go into the trash can

You are thinking about this from the perspective of "caster".

Obviously the + skill is "necessary stat".
The same way high physical damage is "necessary stat" for martial weapons.

In POE 1 you have like 5 valuable stats, and the rest is useless garbage to water down the mods pool and feed the slot machine.

POE 2 is actually worse, because even the crafting table is gone, and you have SLOT machine instead for that too.

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Skellymancer#5263 wrote:

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KorricGaming#8311 wrote:

Without this stat weapons are trash. Should this really be the case or should a combo of other stats be able to compensate for the lack of skills?

I think we shouldn't have to worry about having to have a specific stat like this on a weapon otherwise it might as well go into the trash can

You are thinking about this from the perspective of "caster".

Obviously the + skill is "necessary stat".
The same way high physical damage is "necessary stat" for martial weapons.

In POE 1 you have like 5 valuable stats, and the rest is useless garbage to water down the mods pool and feed the slot machine.

POE 2 is actually worse, because even the crafting table is gone, and you have SLOT machine instead for that too.

yeh but on the other hand if you find a blue with +# skills/+phys dmg no mattr how you roll it its gonna turn out decent.

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

yeh but on the other hand if you find a blue with +# skills/+phys dmg no mattr how you roll it its gonna turn out decent.

This isn't even remotely true.

Lets take my monk build for example.

I need physical damage (percentage/flat) and elemental damage with attacks.
All prefixes are taken.

No percentage - vendor trash.
No flat - vendor trash.
No elemental damage - vendor trash.

You roll all 3 with good tiers - but no attack speed suffix:
AGAIN VENDOR TRASH.

You cannot fix this weapon.

At one of my builds, I actually had all 6 affixes predefined.
I searched for very very specific items.

(because everything else is literally useless crap)

for weapons flat phys and % phys can defn be enough to be a decent weapon. so sure its not just one mod, but it is a martial art weapon, where for casters/necro these mods are more spread out between ammy, helmet, weapon.

just realized you taking trade league. nvm

I use to think the same, but I've had some wands where a +4 to skills had less damage than ones with no +to skills at all. It also came with the benefit of not jacking up my mana costs.

It is still by far the most powerful mod to get on its own though. feels like you need 6 well synergized mods to compete with +to skills and 5 trash mods.