This game has 0 balance. OMG is it unbalanced!

Ceno · September 28, 2019, 9:55pm

No, it’s garbage. We already had a thread for that, though: Soldier + Arcanist

From that thread, on the topic of Spellscourge…

Soldier + Arcanist

In your opinion @Ceno, what does spellscourge need?

A good question.

It depends on the direction Crate wants the set to stay. I, for one, do not like Blade Arc and even if it did a gazillion damage I’d probably still hate sets built around it ( I have never played Bloodrager… ), but I am not of the mind that adding Physical Damage to BA is the call (for various reasons, one of which you just learned. ) Those small values of Physical Damage pale in comparison to what one could theoretically get out of BA’s % Weapon Damage; I say theoretically, however, because Spellscourge uniformly has godawful flat Weapon Damage on account of its shield and Arcanist/Soldier offering literally nothing in that regard.

DoT Spellscourge BA might be able to squeeze out some damage with new Overload, however if you’ve played much Spellscourge you’d know the set is not actually all that tanky and losing the ability to benefit from ADCTH on account of going DoT isn’t great.

Furthermore, Spellscourge does have the energy regen to sustain BA + Maiven’s, but not much else. Devastation is a massive load to add in to the mix and for not entirely much gain. Other utility spells and a movement rune (which is also unaffected by -%Cost) will quickly kill your energy pool.

What this all comes down to is that Spellscourge needs:

Damage

Damage Mitigation OR sustain

(More) Energy Regen

Given that that’s basically everything that every build needs, I’d personally argue that Spellscourge offers literally nothing to Battlemages and is not worth trying to build around. I don’t normally advocate for total overhauls (anymore), but the Soldier-side of Spellscourge sorely needs it.