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I got a poet pen in incursion when it started in my first temple at like 25. Sold it for way less than it was worth so I could buy a tabula asap.
Good thing I don't play HC anymore, I died like 10times already on the way to 50.
Not much early luck so far in the league, but meta luck, I got the automaton herald from the one free mystery box which is pretty neat.
Penance
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Trying out SSF HC right now. It's a whole other ball game. I've done HC back in the day, even got a dude to like 92 or 94. But SSF is just another beast entirely. Plus this flashback shit is suuuuuuper rippy. Going to try and make it to 85 and in some ways it will be a bigger achievement for me then killing Uber Elder.
Croetec
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Elemental weakness would have been the dream but Despair does add chaos damage on hit along with DoT damage for cold snap. Going to see if I can't get windshiekers for double curse setup and run a Elemental Weakness blasphemy in a Heretics Veil.
Yeah this is what I settled on, doing a Blade Vortex Trickster with Vaal Cold Snap + Spell Cascade setup in the gloves. Cold Snap definitely got slept on this league, hadn't realized the cold damage areas stack and found some trickster builds that clear guardians just fine using Cold Snap.
Croetec
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Well technically these haven't been reworked yet.
They did a decent job last update for old skills. They unfucked burning enough that a bunch of fire skills are viable now, Arc and Ele Hit are top tier now, Blade Vortex was buffed to top tier again(it wasn't terrible but wasn't great). Immolate rework is a mixed bag but the skill is average which is better than it was before. Fire Trap is very good now although you can't use it to lvl anymore. Charged Dash and Ground Slam are ok, not great or anything but they're decent enough. Double Strike is pretty good now too. Freezing Pulse is much better, although it still suffers on any maps with doors and shit.
Overall, that's a pretty good amount of skills that weren't not good that are now pretty good or very good. So I'd expect when these get reworked, they might end up pretty good too, although some might fail in the rework.
They did a decent job last update for old skills. They unfucked burning enough that a bunch of fire skills are viable now, Arc and Ele Hit are top tier now, Blade Vortex was buffed to top tier again(it wasn't terrible but wasn't great). Immolate rework is a mixed bag but the skill is average which is better than it was before. Fire Trap is very good now although you can't use it to lvl anymore. Charged Dash and Ground Slam are ok, not great or anything but they're decent enough. Double Strike is pretty good now too. Freezing Pulse is much better, although it still suffers on any maps with doors and shit.
Overall, that's a pretty good amount of skills that weren't not good that are now pretty good or very good. So I'd expect when these get reworked, they might end up pretty good too, although some might fail in the rework.
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Still hoping they can figure out a way to make Elemental Hit not "Burning Arrow 1.5" where every spec just pushes Avatar of Fire and the restriction jewels into a ranged setup.
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I fully expect them to remove it at some point. I don't think it can be reworked in an interesting way. Maybe make permanent pet for a trap based minion build shit, but they'd have to add a ton of restrictions and that's gonna be clunky as all fuck. If it does get reworked, I'd expect it'd be reworked along Dominating Blow since they're basically the same skill.
My expectations if they ever get to it is to remove conversion trap entirely and rework dominating blow to open a new summoner melee playstyle(for which you have a few items that might be interesting, notably The Scourge). I think something that summons temporary spirits on hit, or that generates a set amount of generic summons which have a chance to steal rare mods(built in Unending Hunger). Dom blow scaling with minion damage gives it a pretty big damage modifier, and you could potentially make use of the garbage phantasm on kill skill if the temp ghosts you get from a reworked dom blow work off the same supports.
My expectations if they ever get to it is to remove conversion trap entirely and rework dominating blow to open a new summoner melee playstyle(for which you have a few items that might be interesting, notably The Scourge). I think something that summons temporary spirits on hit, or that generates a set amount of generic summons which have a chance to steal rare mods(built in Unending Hunger). Dom blow scaling with minion damage gives it a pretty big damage modifier, and you could potentially make use of the garbage phantasm on kill skill if the temp ghosts you get from a reworked dom blow work off the same supports.
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