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Kiroy
Marine Biologist
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Ele ailment immunity changed from that other wording that made it not as good. Fairly decent buff.
zombiewizardhawk
Potato del Grande
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Yeah i'm thinking I might start off with 1,2,6,7,8,9,12,13 trickster for oro's flicker assuming harness the void stays anywhere near what they have atm. Maybe triple blasphemy since I won't need mana, not sure which 3 curses yet tho.
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Look at the wording difference between Harness the Void, "Your hits..." and Atziri's Promise, "Gain...". That might imply that the extra chaos damage is applied as it's being applied to the monster, not in the conversion/increase/more/whatever phase. It's a shame that we don't have much for reference. The only items and passives that are phrased similarly are Resolute Technique, Lycosidae, and Southbound. The first two definitely resolve during the application of the hit on the monster since hit and evasion take into account the monster's stats.
In that case, it's a 45% more average damage node that's really only relevant on bosses on an ascendancy that's not really geared for bosses. Meh.
Probably going Deadeye wander at this point.
In that case, it's a 45% more average damage node that's really only relevant on bosses on an ascendancy that's not really geared for bosses. Meh.
Probably going Deadeye wander at this point.
zombiewizardhawk
Potato del Grande
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It either works like a hatred/shaper statstick and is additive with other things of that nature (but works on ele dmg too instead of just flasks so not restricted to phys damage builds/skills) or it is applied at the end after all other bonuses give you your "hit damage". The wording makes me think the latter.
Trickster isn't really any less aimed at bosses than most other ascendencies, IMO.
Trickster isn't really any less aimed at bosses than most other ascendencies, IMO.
zombiewizardhawk
Potato del Grande
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The frenzy+power charge increased damage will at least partly apply (more so if you swap to the shield that gives power charges on trap to max out before fight), no mana cost node means triple curse which would apply during mapping or bossing and ghost dance should at least be working a decent amount of the time.
Xequecal
Trump's Staff
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Energy From Within is going to be >25ex this league, I'd avoid energy shield builds.
Derkon
Blackwing Lair Raider
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I played Skele mages in abyss and they were pretty good for clear. Not top tier like your typical bow/wand builds but definitely felt good for a minion build. It's almost like playing totems, just drop your mages and go. Doesn't have all the babysitting that goes on with spectres(though a lot of that has been fixed since I last played spectres a few leagues ago).
zombiewizardhawk
Potato del Grande
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I have no intention of being an ES or CI based build. I'll have some but i'm going life.
Are they buffing energy from within or something, why would it be 25+ ex?
Xequecal
Trump's Staff
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It's incredibly rare. Last league the price was around 2ex, and that was with less than 5% of the meta going CI and the vast majority of CI players being Guardian which doesn't need EfW as the life to mana conversion jewel actually provides more ES for Guardians.
Trickster being Berserker 2.0 with essentially a 45% more damage node means everyone will want to play it, and there's nowhere near enough of that jewel to sustain that. I'm pretty sure it's the rarest jewel that's an actual drop.
Balroc
Molten Core Raider
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zombiewizardhawk
Potato del Grande
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Eh, I don't think everyone is going to be deciding to play CI tricksters just because they get some damage. ES gear is garbage from the nerfs and I think most people will still do inquisitor or something else for most builds (or at least continue the life meta).
Kiroy
Marine Biologist
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Pasteton
Blackwing Lair Raider
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im not sure how i feel about this sextant change. I guess a lot of poeple were calling it broken but it was for me and alot of other poeple the best way to sustain red tier maps. I hope along with this sextant nerf there will be some adjustment to map drop rates, unless they just dont want people being able to reliably sustain maps at end game