should only apply to one move
wiz is dead, and after 8 seasons of wiz reign we really don’t care. time to move on
always the same tourist … who asks for nerf
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What we need to the Fun Police AKA HailFall to stop posting NERF this BUFF that when he has made it clear he doesnt have the game knownledge or experience to be making these claims.
Im not elitest in any way but dont want something fun to be washed away cause some inexperienced casual thinks its best
Also mate i just know how to play this game efficiently. I dont no life anything there are far better players then me out there i just know when an stupid comment is made about nerfing something that would ruin a whiole bunch of builds. Especially coming from someone who doesnt remotely play end game and doesnt know how that change would effect multiple builds
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HailFail was also… Sorry, his name is HailFall (don’t know why I keep reading it wrong?). But he is also the guy who wants the molten explosion damage nerfed.
(Sorry for the pun).
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We have 3 channeling skills and they are all awful. The reason we even use them is for DW/ES dmg modifiers on other skills like Hydra/Meteor. The channeling skills in those builds contribute next to nothing in terms of dmg. That’s just a silly design functioning as a band aid for our god awful legendary selection.
DW/ES combo is pigeonholing wizards into running channeling builds because they are the best global modifiers we have to pair with other skills that have specific (yet sub par) legendary affixes modifying their damage.
No one in their right mind is advocating for wizard nerfs (especially after this last patch and the introduction of an underwhelming set) but DW/ES and the lack of diverse and powerful legendary affixes to our skills is confining us to builds that are either archon or channeling + 1 of 2 other boosted skills.
I would much rather they confined DW/ES to channeling skills only and increased its % modifier by an order of magnitude. That way they would actually be for channeling. In addition to that all of our other skill damage and legendary modifiers need to be reevaluated to overcompensate this loss because everything outside of hydra/meteor and maybe frozen orb aren’t even worth mentioning on their own and hydra/meteor itself is terrible without DW/ES.
A reevaluation of our skill damage and build diversity literally can’t be done while DW/ES exists in its current state. Any buff to an arcane spender just encourages more use of channeling via ES. The addition of any item other than a synergistic weapon/source combo together that beats DW/ES encourages channeling. I don’t know why DW/ES needs to have this global identity crisis.
The irony is they have so many current items in the game they could do things with but instead have useless affixes. There are so many sources that are insta salvage like Mirror Ball / Mykens / Oculus / Winters Flurry / Light of Grace (5/9 non set sources). So many Wizard Hats that have no support like Archmages Vicalyke / Velvet Camaral / Dark Mages Shade / Storm Crow (4/7 could have been 5 if they hadn’t buffed magistrate a few weeks ago). Wands that do essentially nothing like Blackhand Key / Starfire / Fragment of Destiny / Slorak’s Madness / even Gesture of Orpheus (5/9) is pointless when the DMO set exists.
The majority of our class specific items are useless. Our sets, outside of Vyrs/Chantodo are undertuned (especially Firebird dear god). Wizard itemization desperately needs to be looked at.