Live preparation of 1.2.0 patch notes

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Chris wrote:

Be aware these are still a work in progress and not finished yet!

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RogueMage wrote:

Viper Strike is once again fucked over.
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Deadpeng wrote:

Poacher's mark shall replace frenzy now.

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RogueMage wrote:

Viper Strike is once again fucked over.

In 1.1 with lvl-17 VS, each charge does nearly 200 dmg/sec over 7 seconds. With the max 4 charges, that's a total of 5600 dmg in 7 seconds. With Multistrike I can hit 4 times in less than a second. And this is with Melee Splash and Conc Effect, so it infects a whole pack at once.

In 1.2 with lvl-17 VS, I'll do around 600 avg dmg/hit, and Viper Strike will have a 50% chance to do 175% of that as Chaos damage over 7 secs. That's an average of 525 damage per hit in 7 seconds. At about 5 hits per second, that's a total of about 2600 VS damage from a 1-second Multistrike volley, drained over a 7-second duration.

The unlimited VS stacks in 1.2 is a lousy deal, the whole point of the skill is to quickly infect your victims with a long-lasting multi-dose of poison, and then follow up with a Culling Strike from a hard-hitting attack. I'm not going to pound away on a monster pack for several seconds to build up a massive poison dose, not when I could be finishing them off with something far more efficient.

Yet another example of GGG mucking around on a whim, wasting development time on a skill they already invested a major effort into overhauling only a few patches ago. What's worse is they arbitrarily stripped all the Chaos and DoT damage nodes out of the Duelist area, leaving the only remaining nodes in - you guessed it - the Shadow area. Since the dust settled from the last major DoT revisions, no one has been complaining, no one asked for a radical makeover, no one who's currently using VS is going to appreciate it, and with such a sluggish damage yield, it won't even measure up to a good Puncture build.

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Numquam wrote:

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Chris wrote:

Be aware these are still a work in progress and not finished yet!

Are there any additional significant changes left?

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RogueMage wrote:

Tears

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Chris wrote:

• New tiers of life and mana flasks (Divine and Eternal) have been added at levels 65 and 70.
  

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RogueMage wrote:

Viper Strike is once again fucked over.

In 1.1 with lvl-17 VS, each charge does nearly 200 dmg/sec over 7 seconds. With the max 4 charges, that's a total of 5600 dmg in 7 seconds. With Multistrike I can hit 4 times in less than a second. And this is with Melee Splash and Conc Effect, so it infects a whole pack at once.

In 1.2 with lvl-17 VS, I'll do around 600 avg dmg/hit, and Viper Strike will have a 50% chance to do 175% of that as Chaos damage over 7 secs. That's an average of 525 damage per hit in 7 seconds. At about 5 hits per second, that's a total of about 2600 VS damage from a 1-second Multistrike volley, drained over a 7-second duration.

The unlimited VS stacks in 1.2 is a lousy deal, the whole point of the skill is to quickly infect your victims with a long-lasting multi-dose of poison, and then follow up with a Culling Strike from a hard-hitting attack. I'm not going to pound away on a monster pack for several seconds to build up a massive poison dose, not when I could be finishing them off with something far more efficient.

Yet another example of GGG mucking around on a whim, wasting development time on a skill they already invested a major effort into overhauling only a few patches ago. What's worse is they arbitrarily stripped all the Chaos and DoT damage nodes out of the Duelist area, leaving the only remaining nodes in - you guessed it - the Shadow area. Since the dust settled from the last major DoT revisions, no one has been complaining, no one asked for a radical makeover, no one who's currently using VS is going to appreciate it, and with such a sluggish damage yield, it won't even measure up to a good Puncture build.