Path of Exile
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Vorph
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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RIP Elder rings too. I was really hoping that would be left alone as a long-term replacement for sextants getting nerfed into the ground, but nope. Not sure why they feel the need to get rid of mapping strategies that actually require pretty advanced knowledge of the mechanics.
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I think Chris Wilson said it was shitting their servers. At least, sextants was. One fully sextanted map instance was pegging a cpu core just calculating item drops. Elder ring might have been the same thing.
I'm a little confused by the changes to Infernal Blow. Am I doing my math wrong? They mentioned a few weeks ago that they changed it to bolster the skill's single target damage. So, now this will do 123% + 66% per attack instead of 160%? That doesn't seem like much of a buff. The only caveat I can think of that the debuff isn't affected by multistrike's downside...but then again, it wouldn't be affected by other supports like WEDS...this makes no sense.
Getting weapon damage onto the explosions is useless, no one had any trouble clearing with that skill.
Vanderhoof
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Caliane
Avatar of War Slayer
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yeah, some heavy damage buffs to a few of those skills.
Orb of storms. Wheeeeeww lad.
Stormburst got a large direct damage upgrade, but lost its release burst. overall dps may not increase a ton, useability should have increased greatly however.
orb of storms does proc on channeled skills...
Ball lightning was also already a t1 skill imho, and it got a MASSIVE buff as well.
Frost bomb is interesting. also a huge buff, raw damage only small buff. But damage effectiveness huge buff, cold pen solid buff, and reduced duration massive buff.
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Kiroy
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all lightning flavored cast equipment and the usual lightning caster uniques are just gonna be nuts for the first month.
Xequecal
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I've got no idea why anyone would use anything besides Arc with those numbers. Single target it's only 200 base DPS less than flameblast. It also doesn't cost 400 mana per second, actually works with leech and doesn't require you to stand still for huge periods of time.
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Kiroy
Marine Biologist
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Kiroy
Marine Biologist
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GC still best ST cause stat stick is so OP but once they nerf the stick then ya, arc will be crowned king of everything. Self cast, traps, mines, totems. Insane clear and ST.
Byr
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