I mean, seriously, I made a Flames of Ignaffar-focused Purifier and eventually I just stopped bothering with Flames because Word of Pain/Word of Agony just wiped everything with zero effort on my part. Worse yet, it barely has any visual feedback, just an icon that doesn’t stand out very well above every single trash mob that it disintegrates inside half a second. Negligible energy cost, no cooldown, high damage and really fast ticks!
It’s boring! Boring in all the worst ways! There’s no challenge using it at all and it dominates every build if optimization is a serious concern. It needs a deep nerf, either a cooldown or slower ticks or damage reduction or… something. And its visuals and sound need some serious jazzing up. Maybe a particle effect on the ground, a contrasting color behind the rune itself? I don’t know. Bear in mind, this is low levels and I don’t know how well it scales, but from what I’m seeing elsewhere nobody seems to disagree with me, if they’re discussing it at all.
When u reach Elite mode, Word of Pain cant do one hit kill Elite boss anymore.My Mage Hunter(inquisitor+arcanist) go pure spirit (+%550 element damage) can do only 3k-4k per sec againts Warden and get 1/2 hp bar if he get me…late game Ultimate ,i think word of pain will not be useful anymore.
Lmao word of pain is a useless skill dont even bother with it. I use it to level up my toons but thats it. Its worthless and unlike Dswarm there is nothing u can do to make it useful. Anyways any skill that is good in normal will usually fall off in Ultimate and ppl tends to build their chars for Ultimate so… Well u got the idea;);). Anyways there is no need to make a thread bout a skill u think is powerful w/o completing the game with a build that abuses that skill like the Dswarm conjurer one