There are a lot of builds coming, I’ve already seen over a dozen on Discord.
Testers do feel the opportunity here and make RA builds of all damage types.
245% seems a tad too high / easy to get and that’s coming from item skills’ lover (Item skills).
Maybe decreasing Weapon Damage and increasing flat a bit instead?
Other component skills are still strong with far less weapon damage although
they do have more AoE / flat and I’m not melee / Blade Arc player so I’m not sure
how more damage melee skill should have as a compensation.
In Crucible it’s also strong but I’m too lazy to get a proper time there atm.
I also used Reaping Arc as a filler skill in Fire Shieldbreaker with buffed Barthollem’s Gavel but it’s not flat damage focused so it won’t properly
measure this skill potential. But it’s cool to melee with Guardians together.
Lets also not forget that RA doesn’t require any skill point investment, unlike BA, obviously. So it only makes sense for a fully invested skill with multiple skill mods to be not outperformed by a granted skill.
Like, for example, Obliteration can’t beat AAR, can it?
I’ll say that there’s a big difference between these two and Uroboruuk relic. The former two are components, meaning they don’t take a big spot in one of your item slots because weapon components in general aren’t major game changers (there are a few that are but are the minority). Meanwhile, the relic slot is a pretty important item slot which has an handful of options, each with their own boons, for a lot of builds (some types just end up using the same one everytime though) meaning to use Reaping Arc they have to sacrifice an important item slot.
It’s not as big as you think. Usually the difference between relics of the same damage type is just the class it gives +1 to and the granted skill. On non aether builds it’s a bigger difference but that’s why aether is the best RA build.
It depends. Sometimes the difference is marginal, like in the Chaos build I posted,
when you have all skills capped anyway and a lot of %damage.
Sometimes I feel people overestimate losing relic slot a bit,
Yet Oblivion is a great addition very often.
Yeah. I was mainly talking in the context of aether and maybe vit (but vit melee sucks) but if you go deeper down the rabbit hole then it becomes bigger if you deviate from the intended damage type and necro in general. Tho it’s fair to think of aether when comparing to biting blades/chillspikes cause builds that mained those mostly limited themselves to their own types too.
Speaking on the old cd version. It’s not massive in the grand scheme of things but it is a hit to melee-based Vitality Decay users (casters have plenty of sources, they shouldn’t care I’d think).
There’s no strong relic I can think for Decay not that isn’t reliant on conversion, not that more than 2 or 3 people play Decay anyway.
Edit: Ignore the above, I’m a complete idiot. Was going off of memory and thought RA just had the weapon damage and Aether/Vitality damage.
I feel that if the numbers were as low as is being suggested here, the complaints would instead be about how Crate changed the skill from useless to still useless, idiots devs…
If the numbers end up out of whack in some build I didn’t think of…oh no? We’ll address it? But if everything ends up in the 4-5:30 range…I mean…do you guys want new viable options competing with existing top builds or not?
I like the change of the skill. It opens new possibilities. But I think a skill to proc WPS is much more necessary. Like Beronath Fury. There are a just a few items for that. Same with Scourge Strike.
In my opinion, in the state that it is now, the relic is very nice, so you do not need to nerf just because of one quick build. (Spellbinder on aether). There are also other types of damage, such as physical, vitality, cold, and others, where these % WD are very necessary and if they are reduced, it will make little sense to collect anything other than spellbinder on aether. Translated using Yandex translate.
