Season 3 - Propose Madness Runeword (2H-Weapons)

General Discussion
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For Season 3, I urge the developers to consider adding a new runeword that would be exclusive for 2H axes, hammers, polearms and spears designed as an expensive end-game weapon. The name “Madness” comes from the unfinished runewords list. The primary theme is obviously centered around corpse explosion upon kill (which gives melee much needed AoE), massive strength and dexterity bonus, PDR and all resist, and finally boss-killer stats such as CB and OW. The stats may require some tweaking in the PTR, but the basic premise is below…

Madness
Sur - Um - Ohm - Ber - Gul - Um
Two-Handed Axes, Hammers, Polearms, Spears
Required Level: 63
50% Chance To Cast Level 25 Corpse Explosion When You Kill An Enemy
+60% Increased Attack Speed
+400-450% Enhanced Damage (Ohm)
+20% Bonus to Attack Rating (Gul)
20% Chance of Crushing Blow (Ber)
50% Chance of Open Wounds (Um + Um)
Physical Damage Reduced by 10-15%
Add Strength +0-49 (+0.50 Per Clvl)
Add Dexterity +0-49 (+0.50 Per Clvl)
All Resistances +10-15
Hit Blinds Target (Sur)
Slows Target by 40%

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Honestly, I just love the flavor this evokes. You so utterly destroy them that their bones become shrapnel, etc.

Finding natural flavor fits like that feels like a good way to bridge the AOE issue for melee.

Don’t quite have the head space at the moment to think about the specific math here, but just wanted to chime in on that part.

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Exactly. A runeword such as this would be a great addition for melee with a significant source of AoE damage and utilizing 2H-weapons. This is what the game really needs in my opinion as it is severely lacking.

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It sounds cool. It just doesn’t seem like the devs want any meta shifting runewords though.

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I don’t think it’s meta shifting as 2H-weapons arent even viable in the current state. This would simply be one step towards viability.