It’s really cool, nice effect & damage but I’m suffered for its’ hideous cooldown…
Does any build use this 2.5s cooldown skill for main?
I’ve hardly seen that kind of buld but 1.1.2 nerfs this skill so harshly…
I think this skill should be adjusted; remove cooldown, reduced damage.
I think it’s fine when built around – people were able to get the cooldown down to 1s, and it carries a massive DoT as well which does a large portion of the damage.
Unfortunately between changes to the skill itself as well as to both major sets that support it – Octavius and Virtue – it’s gotten substantially weaker. I think the Virtue version probably deals 15-20% less raw damage per hit compared to before, with an effectively much longer cooldown (1.6-1.8s compared to 1.1-1.2s).
I’m hoping they revert at least one or two of the changes, but I’m not holding my breath. Sounds like many more experienced players and testers thought the changes were a bit overkill but they’ve gone through regardless, so we’ll have to see where things land in time.
Yeah Virtue set,decrease both CD overall and CD of skill,decreased WD,fire and crit damage.Octavius also loses a lot.Major difference is,that Octavius warlord is piano build and have more skills in rotation,while Virtue is pretty much one trick pony.
Aegis was very op. More op than RoH at the peak of its oupiedness. And it got hit very hard. With no cdr even the previous wd and crit values are meh for direct dmg (maybe…). But for DoT it’s okay given that you make up for it with shield stuff. But I dare say that previous Aegis alone was stronger than now Aegis and FW put together.
Ugh, and I’ve been trying to find/build an Aegis with 1 second cooldown. 1.6-1.8 seconds is still fat too long a cooldown, you use the skill and then stand around endlessly waiting on the cooldown to use it again.
I think that was an exaggeration on my part – seems that the previous Virtue version managed 1.3-1.4s cooldown, and now it’ll be 1.8-1.9s.
I think you can beat this by going MI weapon and Shield – Ugdenbog Repeater and Colossal Defender. Those two alone get to 1.45s, without CDR affixes on them or anywhere else
Use more skills. There are plenty of skills that have cooldown in GD you know 
Far as I could tell in GrimTools only the shield had any cooldown affixes. My limited knowledge and building skill only got it down to 1.2 seconds which from limited testing isn’t even that bad.