GD:Cornucopia v0.2: Devotion Overhaul and Mastery Tweaks

[Ceno]

I’m not entirely sold on the idea of making it more compatible with WPS procs in general since I didn’t really feel that Cadence is a problem in the core game.

That may be your outlook but when Blademasters or Warders are taking Shard of Beronath/Savagery over Cadence 100% of the time, something is clearly wrong with the skill, and the obvious correlation is Cadence’s anti-synergy with literally everything.

And let’s look at the ‘Worst Skills of v1.0.0.3’ thread:

Worst Skills build 1.0.0.3

Cadence, anyone?
When Blademaster decides to use Shard of Beronath as default attack (despite is has his own default attack skill), then it’s something odd for me.
Its main weakness is that it cant trigger WPS skills on the 3-rd hit (which actually deals increased damage). So, your WPS hit at 66% effectiveness compared to normal attack. What a shame!
ATM, Cadence is only useful because of Fighting Form’s high bleeding damage, for a bleeding build.

Worst Skills build 1.0.0.3

Cadence - Everything has been said already. When even Blademasters who do a lot of physical damage prefer to use Shard of Beronath which converts some damage to elemental, you know you have a horrible skill on your hands. Needs to stop overriding attack procs, but even then it would probably not be worth investing many points into. Needs a damage buff as well.

Worst Skills build 1.0.0.3

Cadence could use a rework. So could Ulzuin’s chosen, both which are underwhelming.

Worst Skills build 1.0.0.3

Fighting Form (Cadence upgrade) provides quite strong bleed damage. Also, Cadence itself isnt bad for bleed, cause one big hit is what matters for it.
So, Cadence is usable for bleed builds, but in every other aspect, it sucks badly.

Worst Skills build 1.0.0.3

Basically, why would anyone ever choose Cadence in it’s current form?

I’m not sure a buff would save it. Personally I think it needs a complete rework. Maybe make it a shotgun type skill by default, with multiple projectiles, so you can get up close and make a mess, and some exaggerated muzzle flash wouldn’t go amiss. I like the eb and flow idea of the “cadence”, but having the first 2 shots essentially doing nothing is just annoying.

Worst Skills build 1.0.0.3

Cadence? More like Decadence… the mechanics of this skill is just bad.

Seriously, it’s screaming “REDESIGN ME!”

Worst Skills build 1.0.0.3

Cadence: No Synergy Allowed

Upheaval: Synergy is Dead

Ulzuin’s Chosen Poorly

Bloody Bollocks

Unfinished Blades

Blade It’s a Trap

Olexra’s Frigid Fart

Notice a trend here? As it happens, the only skill which we haven’t mechanically redesigned in Xeilua’s list is Phantasmal Blades, because I personally feel there are good ways to make it work in the core game already. But such ways simply don’t exist for Cadence right now. Edit: OK, we didn’t ‘mechanically redesign’ Upheaval either, but we gave it a good buff. More or less to Bloody Pox too, except its buff is on the verge of being mechanically different, depending on your point of view.

For ranged, there are WPS procs to use with this new Cadence, but they’re all item-dependent.

I’m not retuning the # of hits to proc Cadence; I think its finally in a good spot to serve a wider variety of builds.

If the new transmuter is too strong in Ultimate, I will tone it down, but I personally doubt that it is. Cadence’s problems, since its nerf, have been shit-tier AoE clearspeed and complete anti-synergy. For a skill requiring 40 skillpoints of investment (+another 40 points of mastery investment), that’s simply unacceptable.

The Attack Damage Converted to Health is higher than it should be because % Damage Modification applies to the stat…which is dumb. If Crate ever fixes that in the base game (HINT, HINT) it’ll retroactively apply here and the stat will be functioning as intended.