I do want to make a suggestion for Amazon Bow “piercing” as it was like on Diablo 2 LOD version 1.09d.
It will make the game more fun for me & I do believe that I might speak for others in this case.
The piercing according to me, was a uniq detail in Diablo 2 LOD & I loved playing with the Buriza Crossbow.
In Diablo 2 Ressurected, I did max out the Amazon piercing kill & I also got a Buriza, but it doesnt act like it did in Diablo 2 LOD 1.09d.
Thank you for reading this & please consider my suggestion.
The only difference between 1.09 and D2R is that guided arrow doesn’t pierce anymore, which was just broken in PvP, and fixed decades ago with 1.10. Everything else pierces exactly like before.
That´s what I dont understand why guided doesnt pierce anymore. It is physical damage, not magical/cold/fire/lightning damage. It should pierce according to me.
I dont care if it was broken in pvp decades ago, but I dont consider it broken back then either since it was physical damage and not magical/cold/fire/lightning damage.
I mean you are right guided should pierce, and piercing wasn’t the broken part, but it absolutely shouldn’t turn 180° in a single frame to pierce the same monster again and again. But i guess the devs back then wasn’t able to implement a complex enough target finding / max turning angle, and i doubt it get’s implemented now.
I’m not saying it’s rocket science, but there is abit more to consider. Locked target Vs. free shot, target selection considering distance / angle, max rotation per frame… I can understand that it was avoided. Game was some years old and in mantainance at the point of 1.10.
Edit: Just realised you are talking about something total different. maximum times a missile can pierce was always implemented, 5 times IMHO.
Okay. Guess it would also be fun to have an “kill everything” button in the GUI. Game would be dead in a week, but hey, fun.
I said…
"Hello Blizzard.
I hope I came to the right place.
I do want to make a suggestion for Amazon Bow “piercing” as it was like on Diablo 2 LOD version 1.09d.
It will make the game more fun for me & I do believe that I might speak for others in this case.
The piercing according to me, was a uniq detail in Diablo 2 LOD & I loved playing with the Buriza Crossbow.
In Diablo 2 Ressurected, I did max out the Amazon piercing kill & I also got a Buriza, but it doesnt act like it did in Diablo 2 LOD 1.09d.
Thank you for reading this & please consider my suggestion."
If you want to have fun with max pierce, set yourself up with strafe. Line yourself up with a group of monsters, pewpewpewpewpew, they all fall down.
whispers Let the bodies hit the floor… Let the bodies hit the floor.
Guided arrow still has it’s uses… For those “around the corner” shots, killing annoying zigzag moving monsters (council members for example) and where anchoring your zon down with strafe is risky, such as taking down bosses and even Dclone.
When they released d2 it seemed like that was intended for Amazon dps. When it got nerfed they tried to fix it with runewords like faith (well maybe that isn’t the soul reason for faith), anyways bow zons have been pretty terrible without faith or windforce. Buriza is really good on paper, but not nearly as good without the GA pierce and without it it’s enough to make nobody use it.
GA can’t hit around corners actually, needs line of sight.
As for the OP I think it’s in a good spot without pierce, good single target damage, autohit (besides blocking of course), low mana cost. Good spammable skill.
Maybe not a full 90 degree around the corner shot, but you can still hide behind a corner without aggro on monsters and hit with GA. The arrow might graze the wall corner a bit… heheh
Fair questions mr Johnson.
My issue was long time ago when they removed the piercing AFTER patch 1.09d & the monsters got stronger. I dont complain about the monsters.
Now to the “Why” question
Because, it was a very uniq detail where you could see the guided arrow pierce through the monster & return & hit it again before it disappears.
When that was gone, it felt boring without that detail.
Because the change was long overdue and highly needed. On PVP and against bosses it basically sextupled the damage (if i am right with max 5 time pierce, can someone confirm?) of the already OP (back then) bowzone. It’s good that it’s gone, and if the game feels boring to you if you’re not broken OP, that’s your problem.
I’m afraid there is very little chance that they ever do anything about it.
Basically, it was a bug that introduced massive balance issues, so the piercing removal for the skill was intentional. If they put the pierce ability back, they would most certainly do that while making sure the skill cannot go back to its previous target. That would certainly be better than it’s current no-pierce-at-all state, but definitely not what you are looking for.
Please keep in mind that, with the ability to socket 5 Ber runes in a Demon Crossbow (100% crushing blow), and to get over 100% pierce chance with the Razortail belt, you would have even Pandemonium bosses just melting in a few seconds against that skill (1 shot = 6 hits, you’d get them under 1 third of their starting hitpoints within 6 shots, taking into account their physical resistance).
those were the good ol’ days.