[Suggestion] Changes to the Mythical Warborn Gavel

Grim Dawn Ideas and Feedback
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So, currently the Mythical Warborn Mace has this wierd + flat physical damage to War Cry. Let’s be honest - this skill modifier is pretty useless. It has been tested on a few Warborn builds of mine and the highest damage I’ve seen so far (I’ve tested it on the dummies that are immune to life reduction as far as I know) is ~15k on crit with Warborn procs and Deadly Momentum. I think it’s just better to stop trying to turn War Cry into some “damage skill” and leave it as a debuff only skill and remove the flat damage from the Warborn Mace (and possibly Krieg as well).

After a little discussion in our Russian GD Community Discord (and no, there are also non-crucible players there as well) we came up with an idea for the new skill modifier for the Mythical Warborn Gavel. Since Warborn is a Cadence - focused set, it always seemed strange to me that it doesn’t have any Cadence mods. Our idea is to add +1 more target and possibly some crit (8% for example) damage to Cadence. Cadence builds are known to have some AoE problems and this change will solve this.

2

I like this modifier. It’s not useless if you choose two Gavels.

3

double crap damage is still crap damage :confused:

4

Well, two Warborn Gavels isn’t the best choice imo, because maces have a very low AC bonus and that usually results in DPS loss on a DW Cadance build. And I don’t really see how having ~20k instead of 15k is a good skill modifier.
If the suggested change is implemented, wielding two Gavels will me a much more viable option.

5

I was hitting for 30k. I liked that to clear trash, as I had no wave clear.

6

I’ve never been a fan of small-ish amounts of physical damage on spells. Armor on mobs makes the first ~2k damage quite useless.

7

The only benefit to the bonus as it is right now is the ability to break environmental objects very quickly. That being said, you might as well consider the 4-piece proc as the real skill mod the gavel gives. Having %OA, big flat damage, and the warborn set bonus might just be too much value to include a good skill mod.