Is FubGuns "Lightning Spear" build getting nerfed?

Just saw a video of Fubgun making his lightning spear build, and a few of my friends are already playing it.

The build deletes the entire screen with 1 click (similar to the herald explosions from 0.1) and arguably even faster than heralds.

While its a very cool interaction to figure this build out, EVERY OTHER class and current build is useless compared to this build.

I have an Amazon, so if this is not getting nerfed, theres pretty much no use playing other builds if your aim is to grind currency as fast as possible. Until another OP build gets figured out, this trivialises the whole endgame.

I'm not asking for it to get nerfed, I'm just asking because I'll probably switch over it too if its not getting nerfed.

Another issue is because every other class got gutted so hard, the difference between this build and others is extreme.

Edit: The build is also fairly cheap to get started, which also goes against the whole fun aspect of getting expensive gear to become a god. My friend can clear tier 15 maps at lvl 72 very easily.

Probably.

They will probably nerf Lightning Spear and Accuracy stacking, probably Vault support too. I hope they do it in the next major update with content though, or people will be really annoyed.

His name is "Fubgun" by the way. I wouldn't call it "his" build. The earliest I saw it was from a much smaller creator. Anyway, it's not exactly ground breaking. Accuracy give stuff. Lightning Spear good. Supports + frenzy charge make Lightning Spear go kapow zap zap zap zap. That's about it.

crazy that lightning spear is complete garabge during campaign but absolutely insane mapping. How can scaling be this off i don't understand.

Yeah I didn't understand why they buffed LS instead of the bleed which is really undertuned in maps.

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Ispita#4020 wrote:

crazy that lightning spear is complete garabge during campaign but absolutely insane mapping. How can scaling be this off i don't understand.

Well you just have to understand how the skill and Vault support works. The skill is insanely empowered by frenzy charges, and then the lightning bolts chain 21 times with vault support, with no damage decreases at all. In fact it gets increases.

You have the crit chance to pretty much always proc snipers mark for the frenzy, and you have enough damage to electrocute easily for more from combat frenzy, and you have more movespeed for vault to get to 30.

If you have a frenzy charge and 30 vault stacks, it goes kapow zap zap zap. That's it. It's still useless for anything but clearing packs, because it's really only worth casting with the 30 vault stacks, and the damage comes from it pseudo chaining between enemies.

Seems like that was intended, probably not at this power level because they expected you to do some dumb shit like walk up, parry, disengage first.

They purposely play broken builds that will get nerfed but might as well play it and reap the rewards while you can which judging by the loot changes isn't going to be much

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xpose#1651 wrote:

They purposely play broken builds that will get nerfed but might as well play it and reap the rewards while you can which judging by the loot changes isn't going to be much

You mean they play good builds because it is fun to be strong in an ARPG? No way.

yes.

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AverBeg7#1689 wrote:

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xpose#1651 wrote:

They purposely play broken builds that will get nerfed but might as well play it and reap the rewards while you can which judging by the loot changes isn't going to be much

You mean they play good builds because it is fun to be strong in an ARPG? No way.

Call it whatever you want. Him and few others purposely try to find combinations that will break the game and they will always get nerfed because of it. Not deterring anyone just pointing out the facts before people start investing whatever little currency they have gotten from this league.