Iskandra's 33% Cold and Lightning to Fire Conversion Feels Like -33% TDM

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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The Iskandra set has a very unique mechanic, with the potential to make TSS spammable. In FoA, it was further improved with the ability to gain charges and guaranteed consecutive casts while the Mirror is active. I built the character around cooldown reduction, and although it involves some luck, I was able to facetank Callagadra with it.

However, there is something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and that’s the point of this post. There is no equipment that supports Fire damage for TSS. What about the Eastern set? Sure, that’s true. It’s a great set. And that’s it.
Let’s look at the weapons. You can use Trozan’s Starkeeper to increase the number of projectiles, or Shard of Asterkarn to reduce the cooldown. But both only support Cold and Lightning.
What about the masteries? Star Pact provides a nice cooldown reduction, but again, it only supports Cold and Lightning.

Because there is no other support for Fire damage, the conversion to Fire feels like it is simply dragging down the Cold and Lightning damage.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to limit the Fire portion to added damage, while removing the Cold and Lightning to Fire conversion?

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i’m “pretty” sure it’s there to make it tri ele for that ele mage notion? 100 -33, 100-33; 66, 66, 66
(and since we have multiple cold and lightning stuff trozan already)
so if anything we should just “double down”/lean harder into fire support (would also make conduit version more useful then for 100% variant if fire/trie ele weap or medal existed)

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This weapon choice is also worth considering. Extending mirror effect duration and shortening cooldown is valuable now.

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That would probably be better if it were possible, although it would require some pretty major changes.

With three damage types, though, choosing which resistance reduction devotions to take becomes difficult. Arcanist also has no resistance reduction in its masteries, and TSS has quite a few other issues as well.

Iskandra has become more interesting, but there are still a lot of problems that need to be addressed :thinking:

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I hadn’t considered that.

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Just curious as to why you think it’s valuable now.
What changed so that it’s valuable NOW as opposed to before ?

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my guess is before the amulet didn’t have the mod on trozan recharge when activating crit with mirror skill.

So if mirror has longer duration, bigger chance of mod bonus, no?

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Yeah, ok that explains it. Thank you
Never noticed that change

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However, if the content is changed in the PTR, it may become a weapon of little value again. :sweat_smile:

I’d rather have a giant flat elemental-RR.

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The flat RR from skill modifiers is something I’ve felt for a while as well. Pyran is another example. I think it would be interesting if these modifiers could go above the 32 on Elemental Storm.

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