Project Cornucopia: The Unofficial Rebalancing Mod

[Ceno]

Any chance you guys could take a look at shield Forcewave? It doesn’t scale into Ultimate at all, even with full point investment and some bonus skill points it hits like a puff of wind. I think on the most recent build I tried I wasn’t getting anything more than 2-3k per hit with it. I don’t feel as though boosting damage throughout the skill chain so that it actually did some damage would make tank/shield game breaking given the cooldown limitation. I suppose even if the initial hit was low but it did some egregiously ridiculous internal trauma damage might be fun too.

Sure, I can look into it. There will definitely be very good Tremor support in v0.3.3 (:D), but I have long been aware that Shield Forcewave is largely lacking.

Also I was wondering if Etram Fald is on some sort of limited item pool? I’ve finally gotten around to farming for some of the new sets, specifically the Bloodrager items but I’m having a terrible time with RNG. In a desperate bid to shortcut the process I thought I’d go down to Etram. I ended up smithing about 200-300 armor pieces and they were all the same 20 or so items just repeated over and over and over again.

I am 99% certain that Etram Fald does have a limited item pool, though I do not know of that pool’s boundaries. Having said that, he is almost definitely incapable of crafting the 1.0.0.6 legendaries in Cornucopia v0.3.2, given…

GD:Cornucopia v0.3.2 - Epic Items, Components, and More!

No, the 1.0.0.6 Legendaries cannot drop in Cornucopia v0.3.2 (and, consequently, Grimarillion). That’s entirely my fault, but it has been corrected and will be a part of v0.3.3.

Finally, Doom and I have had some conversation about Amarasta’s Blade Burst, so he already has a donated character and some of my opinion on it but I found a new facet to it which confuses me somewhat; namely that Lethal Assault provides acid/poison damage bonuses but the base skill is entirely cold oriented. If I’m building an acid/poison focused NB I don’t feel a one point investment in ABB is a worthwhile endeavor just to leverage it to get to the Lethal Assault bonus. I’d much rather just avoid the skill chain and use a different item granted attack that actually has more single target damage and spend the points elsewhere.

I think if you’ve been having correspondence with doom, it’s probably best that he offer his contextual insight here, but I’ll still leave my thoughts as well:

I don’t see a problem with the scenario you’ve described, largely because of the reasons you’ve put forth. With Cornucopia, we intend to create as much diversity as possible in as many ways as possible; so one character may wish to one-point ABB and max LA, whereas another character may wish to spend those points elsewhere on another avenue of damage output. Still others (namely, Cold characters) would want to max ABB. I think this interaction is fine.

Now, if the one-point ABB/max LA character suffers as consequence of choosing that route, then I’m all in favor of adjusting ABB to counteract that suffering. In my experience, however, having made a 1/12 Witch Hunter in the vanilla game, I don’t find that choice to be particularly weak. I’d welcome any argument otherwise, however.