New Valdaran is garbage

[Dioarchet]

The problem of monsters shotgunning players at close range has been discussed before: [1.0.0.8] WTF is going on?

The solution was thus: Grim Dawn Version v1.0.0.9:

@Zantai

Most Projectile Ring and Projectile Burst skills used by monsters now deal reduced damage at point-blank range, most now also deal additional damage at long range

But, I don’t know if this change was applied to Valdaran’s aura.

With respect to this aura, the major change between 1.1.9.8 and 1.2 was that the RR was removed but the lightning damage from the projectiles was increased by over twice as much. This can be verified in GrimTools because you can switch between 1.1.9.8 stats and 1.2 stats at the top left.