Since the piercing weapon has 100% Armor Piercing, the Armor Piercing on the items has lost its effectiveness and has been removed. As far as I know, the Devotion “Blades of Nadaan” and Components “Silvercore Bolts” have received the compensation they deserve, but most of the rest have not, including “Valdun’s Betrayal”, “Belgothian’s Slaughter”, “Mythical Pack of Treacherous Means”, “Mythical Will of the Blade”, and prefixes “Sinister”.
Especially the latter three, they compete with other items or prefixes in the same position, such as Sinister, which is significantly weaker than Heart Piercing or Tyrant now.
% Armor piercing does not require compensation because the weapons that needed it now have it baseline, thus the items that used to have it did not suddenly lose value.
Sinister affix is getting a Berserker skill bonus.
I’m glad to hear it and very looking forward to the new Sinister Affix.
Actually, when it comes to “Pack of Treacherous Means” and “Will of the Blade”, what I want to express is not “the builds that used to have it suddenly lose value or not”, but whether they are competitive compared to equipment in the same position (such as Mythical Cord of Deception and Mythical Peerless Eye of Bernath). Perhaps can slightly increase their basic damage, but the situation is not urgent.
Agreed. It’d be nice to replace the % armor piercing mod on Will of the Blade for it to be a decent non-set alternative to Avenger of Cairn (defensive) and Peerless Eye (offensive) when it comes to most of the dw piercing blade master builds, which are already kinda lackluster and don’t have many options in the first place. Maybe get rid of the % armor piercing as well as the attack & cast speed mod, and replace them with some combinations of health, OA and/or DA, and resistance. Just a few things that come to mind.
removing speed wouldn’t be great/a benefit, bunch of builds using that while still not speed capped, so you’re just hurting X pierce builds gaining nothing meaningful in return
I’d say that Will of the Blade is a solid option overall still. Compensation would be nice, but it should be smth small, like stun res or maybe like 300 hp - those things will actually be useful but not power creepy.
Belgothian/custom Blademaster or Infiltrator (or more exotic Trickster/Dervish) have enough Petrify res from masteries. But somehow stun res (well somehow for BM, understandably for Infil and everyone else) is a problem on it.
