Acid Reaper and Acid Witch Hunter lacking

[Chthon]

Thanks for the response. However, I strongly believe you should also add ABB to your list of poorly designed abilities. Its really just awful and SOME people seem to be… tricked by the fact that its cd is so low but fail to realize it could be a .5 second cd for all i care and it will not change the fact that the ability provides extremely marginal dmg increase (compared to all the other skills in grim dawn) for a 2h and a dps LOSS for 1hs.
And I bring that up again because i find it ironic that there is an acid based 1h legendary which adds some worthless poison dmg to ABB which is funny cause it clearly seems to be a design intent for a dw ABB but just fails.

I am fine with ABB the way it is, but the fact they give us ABB bonuses on 1h melee weapons really bugs me

As for your comment on Beronath, I dont think it is as good as you say. When you compare what you gain from a beronath which is a simple 115% and really nothing else for acid to the crazy total damage and crit multipliers fire strike has … just doesnt come close. You are better off going any other elements and rolling a sab. You could prolly go acid sab and do better than reaper / witch hunter.
That being said I am not saying there should be an acid default attack replacer that beats out or goes even with fire strike cadence etc, all i am saying is the gap shouldnt be this large.

I went with Acid Pyro at some point, Fire Strike is no doubt very good but Beronath isn’t too far behind. In vanilla I saw 50k-60k DPS on Beronath Witch Hunters, not to mention sheet DPS of Fire Strike will be higher because of all the flat fire damage on it (that doesn’t add too much to the Acid builds)

And default attack replacers aren’t an issue as Shadow Strike serves that purpose, Acid WH are played similarly to Cold Spellbreakers by building around Shadow Strike

EDIT: I forgot to comment on your 5th point. What you say is actually not true, there is currently NO reaper build that uses deathguard hood which would beat out the other 30% conversion hood. You can play this “poison bone harvest reaper” if you find it fun but it will never come close in terms of damage to any reaper build using the 30% conversion. Infact people are realizing its not even optimal to invest points into bone harvest at all aside from the first point (for the standard acid reaper build). I am usually a pretty open minded guy but in this particular issue you are really gonna have to prove to me with math that ANY build utilizing deathguard hood can beat out the 30% cold conversion hood. It cannot.

Have you actually tried the set and skill before making this comment? If it’s math you want then simply trying out the set would give you your answer
The 30% conversion only benefits the Acid Melee version, if you go Poison Caster with full DG set and Bone Harvest it’s one of the strongest Necro builds atm. I’d still advice you to try it

I wanted to ask you regular posters the question of how often does Crate give attention to these types of posts? How often do their balance patches come? If there is really obviously awful stuff like Harbinger of souls, does it usually get a fix?

If enough people get behind it then a change might come