They have killed a nephalen, BLIZZARD please return the Crusader Invoker as it was before, now it is useless, with that change that they made 10 stacks of 90 damage (before 25 stacks of 350) they have destroyed the set of thorns Invoker
The Invoker build became unfortunate collateral victim when they nerfed the A6I2 Bomb build. The I2 bonus simply just buffed the Bombardment waaaaaay too much and something had to be done. Even after the nerf the build is very powerful which means I2 nerf won’t be reverted.
We did suggest to the Devs during PTR to move original invoker bonus from 2pc to 4pc.
And, buff Akhan’s 6pc to 10,000% or more to make bombardment and other builds that use A6 stronger (Condemn)
This will let Invoker set unchanged when 6pcs are worn and doesnt buff A6I2.
BUT, they didnt listen. Instead they change I2 bonus and mess up the entire I6.
Maybe someday they will listen to feedbacks and suggestions. We did ask for A6I2 nerfs and told them many ways of doing it, not harming Invoker original set. But they preferred to listen to none of us, the testers.
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Which would have accomplished nothing. You can still combine A6 and I4.
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You cant use A6I4. Reason is you dont have enough cooldown to cast 16s back to back Bombardments. Crimsons is mandatory for Bombardment to work. If you lose Crimsons, you cant deal damage on every physical cycles. And RG fight is a 100% fail at high levels.
I already cleared 146 on live servers. I know how to play A6I2 very well. Crimsons offer back to back Akarat Champion for cheat deaths and yes, 146 is painful without the armor bonus from Prophet. If you lose 100% uptime Prophet from not using crimsons, you get crowd controlled. Even 50% extra defense from original I4 cant save you because you lost 6pc Akhan’s defence bonus (during downtime).
In GR 148, from my live testing, i took 4 mins to kill the RG on live servers. Imagine you dont have 16s back to back bombardments, how long will you take to kill RG if you only attack once every 32s? You get kill without Prophet uptime in RG fights.
If you know how to play A6I2 at high GR levels like 145++ and can survive without back to back Prophet, please let me know. Im currently one of those who cleared very high and can clear even higher with some fishing.
In summary, if you use A6I4, you outright lose 50% damage from pre-nerf (1 bomb every 32s) AND you get crowd controlled, and you die like nobody’s business in higher GRs. Theory and practical are 2 different things. Sometimes you must play the build at high levels to view its weakness and strengths. Thats why people like me pushed high in ptr (rank1 non season post nerf 145, rank 3 season prenerf 148)
My 146 live server clear is available below.
Video - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/799831242
(Start 1:47:00)
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