Content Update 1.1.5 Teaser Video

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Raghin wrote:

will firestorm echo destroy FPS now that it can rain insanely fast?

I personally doubt it, I got a firestorm+molten strike CoC build (I had an urge to throw balls at people) which I feared would be laggy as balls, but with 48% crit chance on MS, 80% chance to proc and 4.3 or so APS, at worst(i.e. 40-ish mobs, all crit-cursed) it just halves my FPS. That ofc isn't endgame (talking merc docks/66 maps) so with better than "mediocre-at-best"-gear and possibly 6l, it could become an fps problem... but I don't think it'll go that far with selfcast.

As I have suggested many times - the solution to spellcasting is to make it more mobile with spelldamaging curses or something. The approach with Echo is to make spellcasters to facetank stuff while they cast. I dont understand this approach towards "battlemages". Makes ES less viable as well.

Although - cause of desync in PoE you have to build spellcasters as battlemages anyway. Direction towards survivability might not be bad - but it just feels wrong when casters need big armor to be playable builds.

Also - I want to see more general Leech from gear that supports a) Elemental damage and more importantly b) Chaos damage.

Its very hard to make Chaos damage builds at the moment for example as you dont have any leech.

@Ziggy great videos - done with good prep. Thanks.


Best,
Cudez


ps. Why didnt you guys make a "lightning" oriented staff instead that "one staff to rule them all"? Maybe put some +gems to it and then we would have staffs for all spellcaster types and not just one op one.

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All I hope, is that Echo will be a quest reward. Ideally I see it be given in merciless or end cruel (but please do not make us choose between it and cwdt).

Too many drop-only support gems have been added recently, and gems in quest rewards always feel so useless most of the time. (unless you're marauder of course and get 4 reduced mana and life leech...)

Love Ziggyd's work and I love that GGG allows him to do it.

YES! More of THIS GGG!

i want the new staff !


but, it's very (very) low droprate... i think :D


For make this build :
Echo spell (30) + firestorm + fire penetration + increase duration + conc. effet + power charge on crit + life leech

maybe more power than the searing touch

Echo on dual flame totem build = 2 x flame totems in one cast?

That would be sweet

echo spell gems work only with self spellcast (not work with totem, trap.... )