I’m speechless, how can something like this even happen? has anyone at blizzard ever triggered the skill at all? i’m sitting in a crowd of enemies and the allies have nothing better to do than offscreen and offmap … what? … looking for enemies? or what are they doing there? like 70%+ of their active time they do no damage to enemies but … fly in from one side of the screen and out the other side … draw huge circles all over the screen and don’t even hit a single enemy even though the map is full … just stay offscreen for a few seconds and then come back at some point. I can’t find words for such a …
edit: oh I totally forgot they also try to kill already dead enemies by drawing tiny circles over their dead bodies until you move on to the next crowd
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Yeah, I completely dismissed the Earth ally after a few runs. It’s like it’s playing against you…
If it does not hit anyone it doesn’t matter how high its damage is.
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I tried earth ally after the patch in “inbetween season” and it is fun at gr90 but above that is useless.
I went back to water ally for good now, that Blizz ruined fire ally.
I feel like they should just copy and paste water ally AI into earth and then adjust their damage values for higher uptime (having earth with higher DPS since water also CCs).
If they really want them to zoom around (which we can’t see anyway because of visibility issues in most cases), they’d need to increase their damage per hit a lot and try to avoid being able to manipulate them into hitting more frequently, which seems a lot harder than just re-using water ally AI.
They should also make air or enduring into high single target DPS options. Since they have no interesting secondary form, they should punch harder against single targets.