Vire’s Might not hitting with two hands is the weirdest thing i learnt this PT. No wonder it always felt so anemic and pointless to invest into, unless you are making a Volcanic Stride exclusive build.
I’ve made a fire Vire dedicated build with a shield a few days ago. I rage-deleted it but it looked smth like this. Phys to lightning conversion takes away only 25% phys and doesn’t hurt the tooltip too much, it’s worth going for these items for lower Vire cd.
Anyway, the flat hit of this Vire is like 100-110k vs a dummy (120k w/o the helmet). A cooldown skill that is hard to pilot hits barely stronger than spam skill builds. The dmg and speed on the build are miserable and survivability is also low. Vire’s main node even after PT buffs is absolutely worthless to invest into. Every Shieldbreaker skill will be much stronger. Grenado is pulling 200k+ with huge dots, huge crit, lower cooldown, it’s easier to use. And it’s still not among the strongest skills to build around.
Then i tried to build around the strongest support for Vire in the game - Blazerush. Tooltip went to smth like 160-170k. Still was unplayable.
I think all rush skills need to reward wearing a shield with an extra hit (maybe with some values adjusted). Their wording is the same as charge skills (like Blitz) has but somehow the mechanic is different. There are too few skills that work with shields to leave one of them with this cosmetic support where you only get shield’s flat added to the hit and not 2 hits.
- unless you’re doing something else with the shield(aegis/fw etc)