Path of Exile

This is an example of one of the more egregious scalars they've ever released in PoE. It happens from time to time and people don't pay attention to it because the numbers aren't readily eye popping



5% per 100 ward is... idiotic. 10k ward = 500% increased cooldown recovery rate. You can easily hit 30k ward with things like Yndas and Faithguard.

People will use that purely for the CD recovery, ignoring the trigger portion. Those numbers don't make any sense. Abuse it while you can if you feel so inclined.

There is nothing else in the game that scales that stat even close to that much. Saboteur is one of the few places to get it and its only 50% and its a feature notable of that ascendancy

Khane said:

This is an example of one of the more egregious scalars they've ever released in PoE. It happens from time to time and people don't pay attention to it because the numbers aren't readily eye popping

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5% per 100 ward is... idiotic. 10k ward = 500% increased cooldown recovery rate. You can easily hit 30k ward with things like Yndas and Faithguard.

People will use that purely for the CD recovery, ignoring the trigger portion. Those numbers don't make any sense. Abuse it while you can if you feel so inclined.

There is nothing else in the game that scales that stat even close to that much. Saboteur is one of the few places to get it and its only 50% and its a feature notable of that ascendancy

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At a certain point aren't you just battling tick rate on the server not to mention diminishing returns? For things like coc I don't know if it's worth the less multiplier but maybe for other big cool downs it's worth? I've only used cdr for coc and cwdt.

Well you're always trying to line things up vs server tick rate (33ms). That's global, has no bearing on CDR one way or another other than you need to be aware of it.

More CDR = better. And that one gem can solve all your CDR needs on any skill by itself essentially.

As an example they added this exceptional support this league, there hasn't ever been anything like this for just flat cdr and this is what would be considered a high amount


That's 45%. The cast on ward break is 50% at just 1k ward. 1k ward is nothing. So a gem that has other purposes is better suited at the job this new exceptional gem was created for by leaps and bounds.

Make no mistake. Being able to get hundreds of percents of CDR is game breaking. You can essentially get things like Molten Shell to fractions of a second of CD time, making it *almost* permanent. Warcries can be used over and over (and there is a warcry mastery that restores 15% of life when you use a warcry). These are just 2 small examples.

You can make Frostblink have a CD that is lower than Wintry Blast's cast time...

That shit is broken.