Could we please get some love to Oskill/charges/ctc on 2.5 please

General Discussion
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  1. make the come fully synergized

  2. minimum of 10% chance to proc for ctc

  3. skill level based on the character level

  4. charges refill with refilling shrine

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For example:

Hellmouth

+150-200 % Enhanced Defense
10% Chance To Cast Level [clvl/4] Firestorm On Striking
10% Chance To Cast Level [clvl/5] Meteor On Striking
+15 Fire Absorb
Adds 15-72 Fire Damage

Example 2:

Crafted gloves

Cb
Cold resist
Fire resist
20ias
Level [clvl/8] multishot (60/60 charges)

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This would make them not complete garbage on off-classes

  • Dragonscale hydra would be usable creating a new build

  • Lightsabre chain lightning ctc would actually deal damage

  • Brand would finally be worth the cost by having bone spear

  • bonehew would have a fun with bone spear dealing damage and corpse explosion

  • Oath’s Bone spirit would become a fun thing

  • Trang Oul firemancer could becoming a thing finally

  • Harmony summoner sorc would have viable valkery

  • Gargoyle bite’s plague javelin charges could become interesting

  • The hydra from torch wouldn’t be useless anymore

Etc

This would certainly make them more interesting and revigorante a large chunk of the itemization

values are mostly for demonstration purposes, further balance may apply

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Proc chance stacks when equipping multiple pieces of the same proc gear. It would be nice if the level of the skill also stacked as well like it does with equipped auras.

Level 3 Amp Damage on strike scales to end game.

Level 3 or 4 Nova when struck becomes largely useless past Normal.

It also doesn’t help that “on strike” is reserved for just weapons and everything on ammies/rings/armor is “when struck”. Would be nice to see separate Suffixes for “On Strike” and “when struck” and available on all gear slots.

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Yeah, with the changes I proposed

That affix that is capped at 14% chance of lvl5 nova when struck could become something like

14% chance of level [clvl/3] nova when struck

Making it not a trash affix past act1 norm

I can imagine a build where you use Lightsabre+2x chain lightning ring + chain lightning amulet lol

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The problem is that’s introducing a massive power creep

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Please explain why

Curious to hear what you have to say, cuz it’s not lol

People conflating diversity with
Power creep lol

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You are talking level 30 Nova at level 90. “of Nova Shield” can spawn on all armor slots and rings. That’s a maximum of 7 slots. 14*7= 98% chance to proc when struck.

Having the level 5 Nova also stack per slot would make it level 35 nova if you were to slot every armor piece and both rings with said gear.

Then again, level 15+ nova with 50%+ proc rate at level 15 would be a bit overpowered. Then again, Holy Fire Pally can have similar effects with just a +3 scepter

Right, because nothing screams power creep like affixes found on magic and rare items.

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I get what you say

But I’m more prone to make the affixes individually good rather than making them dependent on stacking

If you get what I mean

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Let’s use your trang necromancer as an example. Trang is already a strong summoner build which can handle pretty much anything. If the changes you propose to the fire skills which are already strong happen they would be a one man wrecking machine

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You are aware summoner builds are physical and use amp damage. While fire spells are elemental which most likely requires lower resist

It’s one or the other and one will suffer making it a lacklustre hybrid build

Also that summoner builds are strong when not using Trang but rather specialized gear lol

The only piece of Trang a summon necro would use is the gloves for fcr

Most likely going full Trang would reduce greatly the efficiency of your summon abilities

Especially since the set has no summon oriented affixes

So basically you are against improving lacklustre builds on the basis of your own ignorance and resistance to changes

The set has those oskills for a reason, allow them to shine

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14% proc rate when struck still sucks individually when using your formula. Level 30 Nova without masteries is only 232-312 damage at level 30.

Having the skill come fully synergized would make it OP. For example, Imagine a level 30 chained lightning on strike on a Frenzy Barb…

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What about just making when struck skills higher level due to how rarer they are and the fact they require you to take a hit lol

You still need to sacrifice another item to have it
For example chain lightning when struck only exists on

  • cow king armor

  • stormspire

  • nah circlet

You’d need to ditch your weapon or armor or helm for it

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To what 50? Than sorc can just pump Static, Lightning Mastery, and ES and spam static and 1 shot groups as soon as the first hit lands.

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It also spawns on rings and ammies in addition to weapons… :rofl:

These are Suffixes, they can spawn on any appropriate level Rare or Magic item.

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Uhh have you played or watched people play nova? It take like 10 hits to kill a monster in like the chaos sanctuary with a maxed out sorc with infinity

People like it mostly because it’s aoe and spammy

Also static field in hell is 50% max

Edit: ok I’m all confused now if we are talking about nova or chain lightning lol, anyway… both are useless atm and should be tempting to use

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I have an ES nova Sorc. :rofl:

Infinity + “- lightning resistance” gear makes quick work of anything in CS. Synergized level 50 nova is over 6k Damage. The - resistance can double that damage to mobs.

Static reduces HP down to 50% so you can potentially 1 shot anything under 25K HP. Also, who cares about CS, Nova eats beef :sunglasses::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Of Nova Shield is when struck, Of Chain Lightning is on strike. They are different suffixes

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Good idea. 99% of ctc and charges on items are absolutely worthless atm

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I’m curious…. Why do you keep saying “nova shield”???

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Because that is the suffix?

Ring of Nova Shield
Breast Plate of Nova Shield
Chain Gloves of Nova Shield
Etc.

I would provide a link to Arrest Summit but this forum still doesn’t give me the ability to post “external” links :rofl:

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Ah lol everything is clearer now

Rare sees the name of the affixes since most of the game is played with rare/rw/set/rare haha

Also it’s not displayed like that on Amazon basin, the best Diablo 2 wiki ever lol

Still a spam skill

Which what “when struck” doesn’t provides reliably

Also, you are doing the same annoying thing that too many people do despite the disclaimer…

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Trang armor has 3 to summoning skills so your comment about no summon oriented affixes