The Voidsoul has both “physical damage converted to chaos damage” and “fire damage converted to vitality damage” for Aegis of Menhir, which puts it in an awkward position for Aegis of Menhir.
Given the changes made to the Dagallon, The Cyclone, Morgoneth and other sets, I believe it is necessary for The Voidsoul to also make changes. I think simply removing “fire damage converted to vitality damage” for Aegis of Menhir will be a good choice.
If set will lost it’s conversion to Vitality there are any reason for % vitality damage bonuses on set? Set became pure chaos. Since Ignaffar lost its conersion to vitality, +vitality/vitality decay looks obsolete.
Comparing to sets you example,
Dagallon now multialternative set: pure fire, pure lightning or both
The Cyclone now oriented to: Fire EoR, Fire Mines or Lightning Wind Devil.
Morgoneth now oriented to: cold wind devils, cold omen or vitality SS.
i don’t understand/what does that have to do with vit foi?
either you couldnt’ do that before, because conflicting transmuter/item, or you’re talking about dual dmg setup? which the goal was to cut down on and focus more into 1
(so now you can do full vit foi and use the set for vit foi or chaos foi - you couldnt’ use it for vit foi and chaos doom bolt before anyway or vit doom bolt since then you had split transmuter on foi/it makes no sense either way )
there is a conduit already converting vit aegis, so the conversion at a glance appears redundant , - atleast if the intent is having vit Aegis Voidsoul.
*doesn’t mean it should be fire converted to chaos ofc - since that would then just limit the vit aegis if vit aegis was an intended (and boost chaos spam aegis , can’t have that )
Unless the conversion is there to actually limit chaos aegis dmg a little?
The best Vit Aegis uses the spam conduit just like the best Chaos one
You’d lose Vitality Decay from Reprisal since you cannot convert it to Chaos. For some flat Fire converted to Chaos on the main skill. Although Chaos Aegis doesn’t have Vit RR so Vit Decay might be useless for it.
i’m thinking more “strict intent” in that sense, ie actually using vit conduit, and not the unintended version “we dont’ speak of Sam at family gatherings”
In my opinion, Aegis Voidsoul’s “physical damage converted to Chaos damage” is also redundant, so the best way is to remove both “physical damage converted to Chaos damage” and “fire damage converted to Vitality damage” together, so that this set can flexibly choose between Chaos Aegis or Vitality Aegis.
As for the missing conversions, we can make up for them on other scattered equipment, just like many other sets did in this 1.216 update.
that wouldn’t be bad in many cases i think, and probably is still how some sets work i think(ptr in mind), but Z did mention he’d like (some) dual dmg sets to be useable in “both” ways then with a different enable item, sorta effectively expanding the set slot amounts then from 4 to pseudo 5 i suppose we could say
(i dont’ remember if that was specifically in the Blightlord or Morgoneth set examples)
it’s maybe worth to mention, in this case, there are no other sets for vit foi, making it kinda neat it can be used both ways with different enablers.
native cross conversion v intended conduit vs spam conduit begs the question for Vit aegis tho, which in either case doesn’t have a set/also giving 2 dmg set options in 1 here.
(Doom Bolt i can’t really wrap my head around how it would be built on the vit side, mostly because of non set DB item slots)
“only” other option would then be to introduce separate/new dedicated Vit foi/aegis sets if so, but with the plan currently Void Soul atleast serves that dual purpose ok atm (and vit aegis/VS aegis might “only” be scuffed from spam simply always being better )
I’m well aware of the current Crusade Against Dual Damage!
My point is that the set works as designed so what’s the problem?
With the changes to Tainted Flame and Tainted Power that started this whole thing off there has been an apparent absence of guides posted using those exact transmuters… I get that the changes in those cases were to better synergize with Berserker. Other than that I don’t agree with the changes and probably never will.
The other % Damage type is “free damage” akin to the “free resistances” and other extra stats on some items.
Others seem to play DDD builds as they have mentioned with the changes here and there so I’m not alone!
that it works less well? - probably also why you then have an outright request here to not split the dmg
splitting the dmg means you get less as either chaos aegis or vit aegis, and end up with a mid DD. That then seems kinda forced?, we’re forcing 3 lesser version to more easily allow for that 3rd option to co-exist
Keep in mind you can still do that double dmg you want in terms of aegis, you just use the medal and conduit at the same time/slot an extra conversion item.
I’m not sure i understand the remark about lack of builds posted? - the change praised chaos AAR and Chaos Foi and vit foi respectively, and did indeed have builds posted that was part of the request but also passively benefitted from it
Black Flame didn’t need to be reposted because it just got default stronger without changes
Likewise chaos fois were already posted, requiring 0 updates
Vit AAR with transmuter wasn’t a thing and now is a full existing build with direct support
And only vit fois using teh transmuter required an updating taking the point out
Meanwhile if you don’t see them posted it’s also not just because “transmuter change bad”, but because no one cared about the build that much(low performance/meme etc), - so it’s a weird correlation to draw when small changes doesn’t force a ton of build updates elsewhere and here it’s 0pt change or single skill point change.