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Xevy

Xevy

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Also in reference to the "Only 2% of players used it!!!" metric people are trying to complain with. Here's the end of Keeper's League:

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One skill has been "nerfed" into oblivion, one is one of the most comfy specs since RF, and then there's Mamba. All sharing the same usage. The 2% on HROC is absolutely fucking bonkers because I know people here even played it.
 
Arbitrary

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Xevy said:
It wasn't deleted, this is the weird "ITS DEAD" PoE-think that holds them back from making real changes beyond just constant slight buffs.
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This is why people were saying it was deleted. If you used it as a generic strike you didn't have the less attack speed penalty and you didn't have the less damage while dual wielding penalty on a strike skill with perfectly fine effectiveness of added damage. This is also why it got nerfed. It was getting used as a generic strike skill.
 
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Xevy

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Arbitrary said:
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This is why people were saying it was deleted. If you used it as a generic strike you didn't have the less attack speed penalty and you didn't have the less damage while dual wielding penalty on a strike skill with perfectly fine effectiveness of added damage. This is also why it got nerfed. It was getting used as a generic strike skill.
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Weird, honestly didn't know people were doing that. Looking at it it seems it's mostly str stacking Juggs were using it for that purpose with the already nerfed Foulborn HoTaMs. I'm not even sure that's the best way to do it even for that build. Seems more of them were using Reave than Mamba. The nerfs before reversion seemed half for strike half for DOT, though.
 
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Weird, honestly didn't know people were doing that. Looking at it it seems it's mostly str stacking Juggs were using it for that purpose with the already nerfed Foulborn HoTaMs. I'm not even sure that's the best way to do it even for that build. Seems more of them were using Reave than Mamba. The nerfs before reversion seemed half for strike half for DOT, though.
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This is what really did it

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Again, two percent representation with everyone stat stacking for flat ele.
 
Deathwing

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Gem swapping, reave for clear, mamba for single target. Or invest in some extra strikes and strike range and kludge mamba into both rolls. It was going to be ruetoo's starter this league, that 2% was going up.

The nerfs were three fold originally: stop abuse of mamba's hit damage(intact), prevent application of multiple strong poisons through other methods(Betrayal's Sting, new sword)(intact), nerf mamba poison dps(reverted).

Essentially, poison mamba is back to where it was in 3.27 whilst catching a significant QoL stray in 30% less attack speed. Considering whiffing agile targets is one of the chief complaints of the skill, perhaps they thought this good enough and they didn't need to touch its ridiculous ability to dot cap.
 
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It was the only combined hit skill in the game without a penalty. I'm pretty sure that was because they just forgot to add Viper Strike's (non trans) actual penalties to it. Which they now have done.
 
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Level 90 Crit Elemental Hit Slayer [3.27]

➤ Life: 3,441 [104%]ㆍMana: 93ㆍeHP: 66,916 ➤ Resistances: 75%/75%/75%/-60%ㆍArmour: 7,234 ➤ DPS: 11,945,062ㆍSpeed: 9.74ㆍHit Chance: 100%ㆍCrit Chance: 58.69%ㆍCrit Multi: 465% ➤ Config: Boss, Frenzy, Power, Custom Mods
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This is what I got for cold ele hit league starter so far. My definition of "league starter" tends to be somewhat austere, and I'm even breaking my own rules by including marylene's fallacy. But, I was able to buy one after the campaign in Phrecia, so...probably ok.

Don't have a solve for endurance and frenzy charges in single target zones. Open to suggestions there.
 
Arbitrary

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If anyone gets seduced by Guardian you can socket Automation with Convocation and not have to worry about where your big ass minion is. It even heals him a little.
 
Xevy

Xevy

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Arbitrary said:
If anyone gets seduced by Guardian you can socket Automation with Convocation and not have to worry about where your big ass minion is. It even heals him a little.
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Man I was hopeful Convocation could use a blue coin and get Automation, but automation appears to be a hybrid gem type and not a support so it won't be in the pool.
 
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