Mosaic made from joke build op build. Just the look of how you spend all charges nonstop looks so silly. Not only it creates framerate issues or even game crashing but its terrible from from perspective of game balance. It completely destroyes weapon options what to use on martial art assassin. You have either build which will suck and various item choices, or you have playable build with double mosaic.
Mosaic was poor addition to game in hope to make martial arts assassin more playable. No consume charge ability is fine but it should not work for all charge up skills at once. This completely kills the progress of your builds. You suck and then you are suddendly godlike.
So how to fix MA skills when mosaic would be removed? Simply add noconsume charge ability on individual MA skills and their chance to not consume charge will go up as you level up the skills. This will give more weapon choices to MA assassin instead of just always using Mosaic. You can still get strong enough builds but not go into silly levels of power. As additional changes i would replace some missiles on chargeup skills, for example meteor. Atleast removing fire on ground.
Nice additional for MA sins and assassin in general would be also new unique claws. Plenty of Class specific uniques is missing from LoD. Itssadthe there is no more class specific unique items in general.
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Already was ages ago but thank you for your kind words and for keeping my topic on top even if its with dumb and childish reaction like yours 
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Mosaic to me is an attempt to make the MA Assassin stronger. Honestly I’ve never used a MA assassin, nor have I seen anyone use one prior to D2:R… It’s always been trap assassins. At least the item is doing something right to make people want to use a MA assassin.
I wouldn’t be so quick to just chuck it in the trash can. Yeah, its super spammy. I’m sure tweaks can be made though.
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Make it that mosaic only keeps the last stacked skillstacks and remove other stacks just like before. Also change the keep stack rate to 100% so you can have a choice for the second slot
Item is doing something, but far exceeding what the MA sin should receive. MA skills need skill changes, not item trying to fix skills issues.
Item itself is issue because they are trying to fix 6 skills with one(or two) item instead of actualy fixing the skills.
Grief if similar case for melee class, but not brought to extreme like mosaic.
Game doesnt need silly runewords like mosaic. It needs to add missing unique items and fix more skills. They did quite well in older patches. I hoped they would continue with more skill improvements, instead they add runewords now trying to fix skills because its faster and easier. But in the end much worse way.
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Maybe they will take what they have learned from Mosaic and make a few skill tweaks, then tone down Mosaic a bit. Sure, items can “enhance” skills, but we shouldn’t go the D3 route where the items are solely what make the characters skills viable.
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all they need to do is change elemental dmg buff to debuff. Maaaaaybe even increase it a bit so it’s not 8-15. maybe 15-30 would be more accurate.
That way sin would have to use infinity… Now all you need is iratha set + smoke + 2x mosaic and you do CS with a same pace as geared hammer ^^
Don’t forget that sin still needs to build stacks and maintain them so there is a drawback. It makes sin slow on fast games. Even on CS TZ I was doing 30-35games per hour on solo p8. on hammer it’s also 30-35games, on nova sorc I usually hit 40.
So it’s not as Op as some think. still way over performing. I’m expecting +20-30% dmg buff with NHD changes in next patch and then KappaHmm
Yeah it was rushed out just like the sunder charms were. Ideas usually have to be brainstormed, tested and tweaked until its just right. D2R barely gets that treatment 
Is she a sorceress or what? A melee character shouldn’t be shooting out spells 24/7.
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I’d rather them tweak the existing uniques we have. None are really used, bartucs is nice for budget but that’s about it.
I’ve mentioned In other threads that they could tailor firelzard for fire builds and shadow killer for cold.
In addition crescent moon/lawbringer in claws would be nice although I’m aware dual wield crescent moon claws would be very powerful.
I guess it depends on the tweaks they make. Not to consume needs to go but even then are you really going to pass up the elemental dmg Increase on mosaic given you can still get +5 to any skill as well.
Yep exactly completely agree.
One of the many great things about this game is the number of ways you can build a character around a set of skills. Mosaic ensures that the only way to play MA is with this runeword (much like grief for other melee characters) and this is why it needs to be removed.
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Yeah but its quite low item choice, other chars have dozens of unique weapons for use. Lod was probably rushed so they never had time to add more unique class items.
But yeah she should certainly buff existing claws atleast.
I actually like the building and spending playstyle (played rogue in wow because of assassin), played it despite not being top tier (or anywere near that). I was excited to see them improving it and was really disappointed when they totally killed the identity of the build.
You build once and then just spend over and over. The mosaic even made it feel like a chore to build stacks, something i enjoyed before.
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I only play NL so have no first hand experience on Mosaic, but I play a kicksin trapsin mix, she is pretty strong with old school bis like stormlash, I looked some Mosaic gameplay videos, as fun as it looks, I do feel visually and balance wise it is a little excessive, looking at your 4k screen turning into pure white pixels does make you feel that this addition is a bit trollish.
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Oh don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t be against new uniques it’s just I’m skeptical with what they would come up with.
I’m also thinking that they probably don’t want to put much effort into the game anymore so.easier to change existing uniques.
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Your experience was the same as mine. Previously enjoyed gaining charges and releasing even though it was a little clunky.
Was intially excited for mosaic and then tried it. Gaining and keeping the charges became a chore and the playstyle was boring.
The constant screen clutter became annoying as well.
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I am glad to finally see reasonable comments. Mosaic was a pure mistake and changes underpowered character into overpowered character. We need a change.
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Remove lightning fury first.
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Seems like they just buffed the build. Well…they know their stuff huh?
Zax…Shut the front door.
Saying the guy on alt account afraid to post on his main
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