I’ve been testing a few binder setups to assess damage done by 1.0.7.0 and then 1.0.7.1. Afaik all that was done to Mark of Torment was increasing it’s cooldown as well as greatly limiting global options for cdr. Okay, everyone knows that.
However, on multiple occasions, I have experienced being burst through active MoT with ease. Once, I was even killed by FABIUS on his own with MoT active on him. Reaper ganged up with with another nemesis act like it doesn’t even affect them (gotta kite with MoT on…). At times feels like MoT isn’t even there… All defensive stats were regular binder stats a bit upped due to the nerfs: phys res at 7%, Sphere at 18/12, MoT at 10/10 (boosted from 6/10 for QoL), da over 2700, armor around 1800…
What is going on? Is it the buffs to Crucible mutators? Did MoT get some kinda of a invisible nerf?
Some of the nemeses were under performing. Reaper is the same. The Crucible is a little harder than before with some mutator buffs (minor, some of the hardest mutators got nerfed).
Fabius got buffed though. His dmg and I think he has more DA shred on his spirits now. I usually max my Mark into ultimate ranks and it’s more ok, but things are definitely harder now. Worst comes to worst have an aether cluster ready.
I’ll level with you and admit I think Reaper needs a tiny tiny toning down as I find the vast majority of my deaths are just to him. Like, getting through all the other waves okay but then Reaper appears and kills me or almost kills me. His dmg is hard to sustain through. I kind of like it though and kind of like this new difficulty. I’m torn about it.
Did Lokarr get buffed. I swear he’s a lot stronger than before. Though due to the new augments I’m quite sure that the DA required in the current meta is around 2900+ before it was around 2700-2800.
Back in days when veretragna posted his guide about cruci he said u need 3100-3300 DA (all together with buffs), so for me that was the goal. That’s whit my elementalist and IK fire builds i didn’t have problem with cruci. I will test lokarr, i have never ever killed it before.
I normally aim for 2800 DA but I don’t play Crucible. I farmed both Fabius and Moosilauke but neither of them seemed any different. Also tried out Grava and also felt the same. Just Lokarr seemed incredibly strong, maybe it was the inquisitor nerfs??? shrugs
I always aimed for minimum 2900 DA on my builds (all of them Crucible viable). For kiters 3100 with some OA shred is a sweet spot and feels so much more comfortable than 3k or 2900. 2700 DA is asking to get critted, don’t think MoT can help versus this.