Tried cold/lightning Devastation Sorc with the offhand and a conduit. The tank is good but the dmg experience is similar to any deva build aside from Spellscourge BM (which is just passable now) and Diviner, which is pretty bonkers. Moving closer to FoA, really want to see more skills being worth taking without insane mods, deva among them.
Suggestions:
- buff the base skill, adjust bonuses on the sets and normalize projectile count across the board. Reasoning: extra projectiles on deva do not contribute to both visual and gameplay experience with the skill. There is literally no reason to have a set that outright gives double the dmg to the skill compared to other options. It immediately means the skill has a problem.
- buff or even repurpose the cold conduit. right now it is not doing it’s intended purpose. +2 proj with such drastic area increase and negative tdm ends up having borderling gear/devo proc level of dmg and feels very deflating to use
- side quest: all arcanist conduits need to have a look at. the most boring of all conduit line-ups IMO
Will maybe test the acid Deva and report how it feels, but tbh looking at the sketch it just screams literally half the dmg of Diviner so why would you ever consider going acid Arcanist for that remains a question.