Hi chaps, Whilst I’m aware giving archon blackhole is not a new topic. I figured I’d post my idea regardless, as I’m keen to hear what you guys think about it also.
So without further ado.
Each time you hit an enemy with black hole, your damage is increased by [150-200%] for 5 seconds. Archon form can cast black hole
Ideally legendary should take the place of a weapon slot, either main of offhand. We could even use one of the existing legendaries such as
https://us.diablo3.com/en-us/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/mark-of-the-magi or https://us.diablo3.com/en-us/artisan/blacksmith/recipe/atrophy
What do you guys think? Obviously other builds can use the item too. But with the duration only lasting 5 seconds, only high CDR builds can fully benefit from it, AKA Vyr’s.
Additionally, if we want to lock the effect to only archon, we could change it as follows.
Archon form can cast black hole. When in Archon form, each time you hit an enemy with black hole, your damage is increased by [150-200%] for 5 seconds.
Well, Black Hole sure needs item support. That Jang’s belt is just utterly useless, so that would be a good place to start. Not necessarily good for your suggestion regarding Vyr. As for Archon, I highly doubt we will see the blank skill slot filled anytime soon… or late. Won’t happen. Can’t imagine them doing this now, as tempting as it may be.
Then… as for CRD being a Vyr/Archon thing. Well, nowadays it’s also interesting for other builds, provided that can you fit in the Crimson set. A short thought experiment:
With Crimson set bonus CDR translates to extra damage, so you’d stack some if it fits… the bare minimum (20% from set bonus, 20% Evocation passive, 12.5% diamond in headgear and 10% through paragon) would add up to a combined +49.6% damage buff and reduces Black Hole cooldown to roughly 6 seconds. The cooldown starts on cast, so with your Black Hole lasting 2 seconds and dealing damage over time… essentially the uptime of this buff would be quite high, even outside your typical Archon build.
I would prefer an update to the above-mentioned belt, but if you really want a weapon…
Yeah good point. However this also means using RoRG (in most cases) As well as taking the place of a weapon slot in the cube. So it’s a considerable skill cost. But if any builds can fit it in than that would be great also, don’t think any of the meta builds can (could be wrong) so only underpowered builds would see a benefit from it anyway
Only problem with that wand is that its a lvl 30 legendary, and black hole is a lvl 61 skill, thats the reason why I’ve listed the above items.
Black Hole is one of my favorite skills / abilities in all of Diablo. When I picture it, it would be more like this for effect (from a Legendary):
For each second an enemy is affected by both Slow Time and Black Hole, there is a cumulative [3-5]% chance they are killed. Black Hole now lasts [x] seconds.
I dunno. I like the idea of literally ripping a demon out of spacetime.
Sure, the exact #s might be off. Could always make it each second, 1% to a max of 10 or whatever, assuming it’d even be possible to get Black Hole (or Slow Time) to last that long. Of course, that also opens up layering with multiple casts and perhaps not even from the same character…
I’m positive the dev(s) could make Black Hole more interesting.
I honestly don’t think it’s too powerful. Take these items
However I like the idea of increasing the radius of black hole a lot and to be completely honest I’ll settle just for having a legendary that gives archon black hole, Seems a no brainier for me, as the vyr set is a tanky set that gets right into the thick of mobs. But it’s lacking that ability to pull groups in close together, giving archon a way to access black hole solves that
(sort off as black hole isn’t the best grouping ability by far in d3. But it’s the best wizard gets, on this note. Increasing the radius as you said would aid in this even more)
Additionally the cast or black hole will provide extra archon stacks. Seems like a win win to me. Aesthetically it also fits as well. It just looks like archon should be able to fast black hole. Y’know?
What’s more Vyrs severely lacks weapon choices. Chantodo’s is a must. And that pretty much only leaves furnace in the cube.
Any on proc legendaries are useless as they pale in comparison to Chantodo damage.
Starfire is an option for lightning archon. But not really as your gonna wanna be at least 20yards from enemy, so that they’re hit by Chantodo waves (not to mention with audacity passive it’s 15 yards away you wanna be)
