Hello everyone
So the question is about this item.
As you may know there are three acid Dervish builds - Ya’s, thejabrixone’s and mine.
I’m a new to this forum, but as I know Ya and thejabrixone are wellknown and respectful builders.
All of us agree that +1 to Nightblade skills and res on Bladebreaker’s and Spellbreaker’s belts outperforms Murmur even in acid builds.
Mythical Murmur’s Kiss needs a little buff. May be not another +1 to Nightblade (though it would be nice:p), but definitely it needs some res and prob a bit higher flat damage bonus
I highly disagree. Fire and Aether to acid is pretty good. Sure, it is outperformed by +skills items, but so are plenty of hats and amulets. There’s a good proc on top of that, so choosing between skills and conversion is good. Moreover, it gives +3 to three skills and +2 to one. There’s nothing more this belt needs. It’s good as it is right now and adding + to skills would make this belt super strong on any acid build.
I guess when people choose cold/pierce belt instead of designated acid one on acid builds it’s a pretty damn clear sign this acid belt is not good enough. It’s not a terrible belt for sure, probably lacks some little extra tweaks.
I can’t say if +1 to NB would be too much to one of the best DW specs atm, but the belt is definitely worse than cold and pierce nightblades have. Acid and Poison never had awesome belt and still don’t, Lightning got one decent one just in FG.
The thing is, the conversion is only fit for a niche acid reaper or saboteur reaper. Acid reaper still has Deathguard, acid sabo doesn’t make any sense.
So aether>acid is still useful, fire>acid is not. Add to the fact that it doesn’t have any res, OA, and +Nightblade. As we know that Nightblade need to have many +skills and good res.
So murmur need to have a very good stats if it doesn’t have +nightblade. If it has cold>acid or elemental>acid, and have at least a good res; I will gladly use it. [emoji14]
Problem with Murmur belt is that it tries to be both a retal and a regular aa belt and succeeds as neither. In the former, it’s outperformed by Misty Glade. In the latter, it’s 10 laps behind both Spellbreaker and Blade Breaker.
On acid nightblade aa dw builds, almost every nightblade skill is taken (literally every node in the mastery except PB and Blade Trap, and sometimes Blade Spirit and Blade Barrier). Not having +1 on the belt is huge. Basically disqualifies this belt.
Conversions are only useful for setups that take Meteors and/or Imp. And reapers.
Belt offers zero resistances. Zero crit dmg. Zero oa. For retal, zero %retal dmg.
Flat and %dmg are nice. But in fact Spellbreaker has more considering all the ranks to all the skills: wps, Merciless, Anatomy, etc. On Venomblade, Spellbreaker’s cold flat is converted 100% on ABB and 36% globally.
Proc is very good. Lmao. Seriously. This is the only advantage.
SOLUTIONS:
Give up on retal. Misty is just better. Change +3 Retribution to +3 to Consecration. (OR stick with retal/aa duality and add %retal dmg as well as sth in oathkeeper that is usefull for regular aa)
Not +2 but +3 to LA. Seriously. Only one rank to LA more than Spellbreaker?
-Change +3 to Mirror (seriously, did Crate draw lots on that, or play darts with all skill names from all masteries as targets?) to something from necro.
-Give acid rr mod to something necro. Replace the proc if need be.
-Bump up the stats. More flat and %dmg. Add some res, pierce or chaos. Add flat oa. All of it STILL doesn’t make up for no +1 to nightblade.
-Consider +1 to necro. Put that Deathguard back on the map again.
