WTF? This change actually does nothing, 'cause there is a 100% cold to aether conversion to TSS on the same item, LOL. On the same item, Carl, not even as a set bonus.
It seems, that some of recent changes are definitely chaotic. Crate is seemingly intended to nerf spellbinders, but they don’t have a clear strategy how to perform this. Instead, they nerfed arcanists and therefore all other classes based on the arcanist mastery, whereas they weren’t as immortal as spellbinder was when it was piloting properly (that’s an important issue, personally, I would never run a MoT/MoE spellbinder, because I’m too old for all this…)
Except it fixes the issue. With 120 Cold to TSS, the conversion will convert that to Aether and Star Pact conversion can’t affect it. If it was aether it would be converted to cold through Star Pact.
Ah, that’s the point. But then they should change the bonus on the set, which adds flat aether damage to Storm Box, into lightning (in order to be converted via transmuter), or this aether damage will be converted into cold.
Aether -> Cold conversion on Star Pact can cause a lot of unpredictable consequences. Perhaps, in some future it would be necessary to nerf some op cold builds, lol.
The Star Pact thing is brilliant. Aether has no access to that extra 13% cdr now. Cool. Mission accomplished.
But why the Iskandra? It was the weakest of the 3 aether caster sets, 7.0 gave it an interesting buff that made it competitive with Clairvoyant and Agrivix, and now the thing is trash tier. And these used to be the most used pieces OUTSIDE the binder class. RIP Spellbreaker. RIP Mage Hunter.
I’ve tested some of the binders I had. CT Agrivix more or less is fine. 25-30 cdr is perfectly fine and having to take Reckless now made my realize that maybe I should’ve been using it from the start. Less devastation and Spear hurts but mostly hurts the binder pride.
Everything Iskandra is stone cold dead imo. I remade my recent Iskandra PRM to Clairvoyant and guess what? Still punching in under 8:00 no banner it’s just much much harder. Binders ain’t dead. They’re just more elite now. Way harder to pilot.
They are not dead, Crate just murdered build diversity among Spellbinders funneling all of them into Agrivix set. Also, while doing it, it killed few of the semi-dead classes like Spellbreaker/Sorc/Warlock (I still don’t believe Warlock is a real class tho, never seen one, lol)
Fixing an issue and creating a whole bunch of others is not fixing.
And btw the starpact thing doesn’t ‘fix’ binders only. ANY build that wants the cdr has aether or aether converted to something via gear. Take Spellscourge should he choose pact over oleron.
just one example. Unless one shouldn’t even have options
Ehh, those numbers on Malakor do look pretty high, but considering this is literally the only Discord weapon we have in the entire game right now, I’m fine with it being powerful rather than weak, even if the reason for it looking powerful right now is less because of Cadence and more because of dear lord Censure chill the fuck out jeez. Besides, I don’t think Malakor was used much at all before(?), so at least it has a purpose now.
Haven’t tried it yet though, so it’s hard to say how good it’ll be in practise.
They didn’t even fixed what was broken, just ruined a playstyle. Now you see these binders switch exclusive skill and removing transmuter from CT, they`re still immortal top clearer :rolleyes: .
Discord? You know, there is infiltrators in the game? lets count how much cold RR they can achieve with this item.
30 from skill mods
15 from Magehunter amy
45 from Censure
35 from Night chill
15 from silver mark
23 from Rumor
32 from Tempest
Agrivix-Schmagrivix… Everyone is saying Clairvoyant is dead but I don’t see why. Maybe I missed something? All I’ve noticed is 200% less dmg on the proc (is 3000% and 3200% that much of a difference?) some minor total cdr chance nerf (I never looked at that anyway). What did I miss?
I just did 7:35 no banner with this here fella and it’s harder now, true, but still top-tier clear time…
The only people who bother posting builds recently are Crucible farmers, and the people who only play main campaign don’t bother posting builds anymore (Chthon left, TZ TZ I haven’t seen in ages, Autentist hasn’t posted a build in ages, Zhuugus hasn’t touched a build in months, I think the only person who still posts builds and doesn’t care too much about Crucible is Valinov), so the only people who have any experience testing builds are people who play Crucible.
I’m not a fan of the dominance of CDR + Time Dilation immortality strategies either, but there is a point to be made about navigating the high burst damage of enemies while still having a distinct flavor that isn’t facetank all day. What other strategies can people use to keep alive while dishing out enough damage to kill Nemesis level enemies?
Stacking damage reduction is great, but Necro’s RE was nerfed and there aren’t enough abilities that do that function to matter on a great scale, especially since the only universal way of doing that - stacking DA - was nerfed in 1.0.6.0 and few people even considered the ramifications of doing so with little alternative. Flat damage absorption was nerfed in Inquisitor but buffed in Demo, but Demo has a lot of other issues that prevent people from picking the class up (no skills that grant resistances, Thermite Mines is too finicky to be used as reliable RR, most of its damage abilities are too meh if you’re not playing Ranged Autoattack Purifier). Shield builds have the weakness of not having good skills that use the Shield to do damage (though FG is going to change that with Oathkeeper) while most of the Shields have nothing that’s worth giving up 16-19% CDR or another weapon to use.
Crate can only respond as well as people bother to list solutions, but most people would rather do nothing but list non-serious demands too vague to even begin to consider (to poke at the quote above, what makes some gear BiS but not others? What separates excellent builds from mediocre ones?) and then complain when the patch doesn’t cater to their exact needs that they didn’t even bother forming a coherent argument about. Hopefully having Shattered Realms as the build’s benchmark, movement runes that better help kiters and the new equipment patch up the holes that AoM left.
The original build that used 3 nuke is dead. Now all is left is one button spam, that is better suited for Agrivix/Krieg set cause outside of CDR tricks Clairvoyant has no defenses. And Crete also killed Clairvoyant Sorc/Warlock in the process of “balancing” And Agrivix binder still clear around 6 minutes, standing in one spot on the centre of the map, so what exactly was fixed?
Really loving that aether to cold conversion. I mean, I love anything that gets converted to cold, but it’s really nice for Trozan builds since it converts the aether damage on Arcane Bomb, and I have an oddball Winter King build that uses Spear of the Heavens so that’s a lot more viable now as well.
It doesn’t fix allagast it destroys it.
You lose 50% of devastations aether damage
You lose 50% of wrath of agrivixs aether damage
You lose 50% of spear of the heavens aether damage
You lose 50% of aether lightnings aether damage
And any other aether proc skill you use you guessed it, you lose 50% of its aether damage.
Mirror is broken and instead of fixing it they screw over any aether build that needs cdr.
