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So, I've never played Heirophant nor Guardian, so I won't comment them. But the Assassin changes look nice, mostly in the poison area.
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Kinda sad, though, you want to play poison? Play assassin.
Forum - Development Manifesto - Development Manifesto: Ascendancy Changes - Path of Exile
Kinda sad, though, you want to play poison? Play assassin.
Caliane
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jesus. hierophant arcane surge line seems totally broken.
25% inc aoe, .5% spell leech( no warlords), 40% inc spell damage, immune to elemental ailments.
Gain arcane surge when you or your totem on hit with a spell. ON HIT. no mana cost.
Arcane Surge Support
surge level not stated, but it doesnt even matter.. its 10% more spell damage, .5% mana regen and 10 faster cast at level 1..
holy shit.
add into that, the previously amazing MoM nodes. 150 mana, 10% damage to mana, and slightly buffed sancutary of thought, which now has 10% less mana reservation as well.
25% inc aoe, .5% spell leech( no warlords), 40% inc spell damage, immune to elemental ailments.
Gain arcane surge when you or your totem on hit with a spell. ON HIT. no mana cost.
Arcane Surge Support
surge level not stated, but it doesnt even matter.. its 10% more spell damage, .5% mana regen and 10 faster cast at level 1..
holy shit.
add into that, the previously amazing MoM nodes. 150 mana, 10% damage to mana, and slightly buffed sancutary of thought, which now has 10% less mana reservation as well.
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zombiewizardhawk
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I'm sure it doesn't multiply that 1500 by the %armor roll on the shield but achieving a high armor number isn't the reason it's unpopular. I've had builds that pull over 100k armor before and that was quite a while ago. I wouldn't be surprised if you can get 200k+ if you have nice gear aimed at it.
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Oh damn these Hierophant changes are pretty big, especially like the synergy with MoM, can probably make a real tanky motherfucker with all these and Cloak of Defiance. Like assassin stuff too, don't know how it is currently cause I never played one but no reflect from crits and crits cull with basically 100%crit chance on anything either at full life or under 33% life seem pretty cool. Also like that he can basically negate crits against bosses as long as there's no trash mobs around, should make it a little less shit at surviving.
Pretty excited to see the Elementalist changes now, elem was pretty powerful overall until they fucked up with status ailments and dots. Wonder if it'll have a potential bigger focus on golems, I could go with an elem summoner build to switch it up a little bit if it's better supported like Hiero and totem. Also curious what they'll do to necro, it's one of the most popular spec so probably not many buffs but I wouldn't mind if they removed the whole support aspect and made shit stronger for minions(or just made stuff stronger for minions), and the chaos node should probably be reworked into something more interesting.
Pretty excited to see the Elementalist changes now, elem was pretty powerful overall until they fucked up with status ailments and dots. Wonder if it'll have a potential bigger focus on golems, I could go with an elem summoner build to switch it up a little bit if it's better supported like Hiero and totem. Also curious what they'll do to necro, it's one of the most popular spec so probably not many buffs but I wouldn't mind if they removed the whole support aspect and made shit stronger for minions(or just made stuff stronger for minions), and the chaos node should probably be reworked into something more interesting.
Xequecal
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Iron Commander Hierophant looks hilarious. That's going to be 10%/5% regen from that node alone?
Korrupt
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I have no idea if youre asking me, I haven't used poison since the nerfs. I did probably 50 different poison builds when it was meta and would apply it and sustain it from different methods. Mostly though I have always used assassin for crit or CoC stuff when it was meta. You can bet things like Cospri's Malice and the good CoC uniques are going to skyrocket in price though again. The single target buff and power charge generation change go a long long way into making CoC better at bosses where it sucked before.
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Can do assassins without poison, just crit anything. Poison otherwise leeches off physical. You obviously can't leech off your dots, but you have to hit pretty hard for poison builds anyway, it's not like top tier damage but it's still reasonable that it'll give decent leech. Can also LoH claws shenanigans if you're doing melee poison stuff. That said I probably wouldn't bother too much with poison still, it's good for single but aoe you might as well use something else anyway so might as well build without poison at all in the first place.
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It was a question for anyone really. What are those different methods? LoH and LPS?
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Not really. If you want good poison damage, 99% of your damage is backloaded. You aren't leech shit off your initial hit.
