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I think it would make Mortick too powerful, healing damage, 50% damage resistance and 40% additional damage for most builds? Sounds to good to be true. I rather the devs take worthless item, like they did with Echoing Fury, and made it more useful so we can get creative to make better builds.

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Going to repeat what I said in General Discussion:

I’ve been brainstorming some ideas for a new Slaughter, because 300% damage is pitiful for most builds in 2019. Pain Enhancer does so much more in comparison, and it’s just a Gem.

I think this is the one I like the most:

Thorns

  • Attacks have a chance to cause an eruption of blood dealing 300% Thorns to enemies within 15 yards (% can be modified as needed)
  • This would add some much needed AoE to Barbarian Thorns builds.

My other ideas just made Berserker even more mandatory which in turn makes Mortick’s and Boon more mandatory… and it’s bad game design.

However, redesigning Slaughter to be a Thorns specific rune helps out a specific build or two and doesn’t make Zerker anymore mandatory for other builds than it already is.

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I like your Idea, Jako. It would be a little UP for the Frenzy Thorns build, in my opinion.

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Very nice idea on the Thorns / slaughter.

Only issue is that Morticks would compete directly with Sanguinary Vambraces and outperform it.

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For ultimate fishing and maximization, if Slaughter did become a Thorns focused rune, I could see players not using Mortick’s and choosing Slaughter as their Zerker rune straight up.

For more casual players, ya, a change like that would make Mortick’s mandatory and knock out a couple other current Thorns items potentially.

It’s also possible players could cube Mortick’s or Sang Bracers and run both.

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I personally think Slaughter should be a Rampage-like mechanic, a stacking buff when killing enemies (there the name).

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I second that opinion. I think it should be sonething like this:

Each slayed enemy causes bloodshed explosions with 20% of all critical hits. And each slayed enemy stacks this damage up to 5 (X) times…

And then wait for the blizzard servers to crash lol

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Don’t they die eventually? Hehe