Hows the buffed Corpse Explosion?

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Surprised at the lack of excitement over the massive buff this classic and satisfying skill is getting , especially with the gauntlets buff too.

How does it perform? Tbh the CE + gauntlet buffs is the main reason I’m excited for the patch /S21

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Pretty Bloody Weak Sauce

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What?

Didnt base damage on it’s own triple ? Plus gauntlets doubled its bonus ?

I just cleared GR101 with LoD corpse explosion and corpse lance build . I’m hoping with 3x base damage plus 2x gauntlets buff that will take me at least 10 more Gr levels

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GR100 isnt impressive its Weak.

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When you focus on 2 different skills you can not achieve maximum potential of either. Either choose CL or CE and max it out, not both.

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Problem is corpse explosion is my favorite skill in the game, but corpse lance outperforms it. I’m curious with this buff if I can finally drop corpse lance and just play CE. I love CL too but if I had to choose I’d prefer CE

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Man… Are LoD builds still going to outperform Sets?

Personally i cant enjoy CL or CE build cause it relys heavily on LotD to provide corpses. I find myself running around dying 1 shot when i dont have corpses, and I find myself without corpses very often. I wish they added a new legendary power where there’s another source of corpses or something…

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I hear you. I have the Golem pants , flesh golem rune, the Moribund gloves, and GoS + tons of cooldown and its still not enough

I will say though with the buff to CE maybe the tanky inarius might be useful now

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i never enjoyed necro at all due to the reliance on LOTD to provide corpses.

yeah. they should either provide a rune for lotd with no cooldown eg: consume all essence, the cooldown of LOTD is now reduced to 10 seconds

or an item abilty
each time you , your skeletons, golems, simulacrums take damage, gain a corpse token. if there are no corpses on screen, you can cast a corpse skill by consuming a corpse token.

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Or a bracer that reduces LOTD cooldown by 1 second each time you kill an enemy , basically the same as the Mess (sp) legendary weapon but affects on LOTD and is on a bracer or off hand for the Necro

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Its not weak. I would say it is quite well balanced now. Ofc the build is not op, i dont think it will be an op build if it gets some additional slight buffs. Very dependant on lotd and you need a time idling at the start of the rift to get Johnstone buff which I dont really like, but the dmg itself will not be weak after the patch. I hope some additional patch for its complicated mecha ism and dependence on lotd/Johnstone would follow up soon so that the build can replace rat runs in the next season.

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This has always been my problem with builds relying on corpses. There needs to be a skill that provides corpses at will. Change one of the primary skills so it produces a corpse at your target each time it’s used.

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