Mental Alacrity - v1.0 Edition

Grim Dawn Ideas and Feedback
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“Mental Alacrity: Casting Speed bonus reduced. For a 10 point passive, it was giving too much and there are now more speed bonuses available in other masteries.” (B31 Patchnotes)

Does anyone think this is worthwhile anymore? I didn’t think its bonuses were fantastic to begin with, which is why I always kept it at 8/10 (its scaling after 8 was pretty terrible). Now its even worse. I presently have it at 3/10 because it starts getting less than 3% Energy Cost Reduction/Point Invested beyond that. After 4/10, its down to 1% Energy Cost Reduction/Point. And aside from the first and 10th level, its only 1% Cast Speed/Point. Honestly I’m pretty sure I could just get rid of it altogether and not notice a difference (playing a DEE caster).

I guess the argument that ‘there are now more speed bonuses available in other masteries’ is kind of sensible (assuming its true, which I’m not certain of), but reducing the stats of an already mediocre skill kind of sucks. Maybe adding on something else to compensate for the castspeed loss could be a good idea? Not sure what to put there, though; Arcanist feels like it kinda already has everything.

Thoughts, anyone?

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I didn’t see much point in nerfing mental alacrity, especially with the 200% cap. Casting speed sources weren’t really improved that much like attack speed sources were. In most cases they were left the same or even reduced.

The same can be said for the nerf to pneumatic burst’s total speed. I doubt that extra 3% was really breaking the bank, especially when total speed was nerfed/removed on a number of items.