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After playing around trying various things I’m fairly confident something has changed with deathwish and this is causing my issue. Basically I can switch out deathwish on the cube for any useless item that won’t increase my damage and not notice a difference. Not sure exactly what is broken. I.E. is it completely broken, it’s now additive not multiplicative, the delay is now much longer, or switching channeling skills resets the delay now. I use Disintegrate and Arcane torrent to maintain Tal Rahsa buffs (hold down mouse and tap torrent key).
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Not sure what changed but I got severely nerfed with the update. I went from running a GR with 7 minutes to spare right before the patch to taking 25+ minutes to run it after the patch. From what I can guestimate based on damage numbers is that I am at 25% of the damage I used to do.
I changed no gear and checked and rechecked a dozen times that I still have my expected gear on, skills/passives haven’t changed, and paragon levels weren’t reset or anything. Toughness seems unaffected from what I can tell and my damage/toughness numbers seem correct (same as before patch) on the inventory screen.
The only item/skill I have mentioned in the patch notes is a legacy etched sigil. But even if that was nerfed to adding no damage to any skills it wouldn’t explain the drastic reduction in DPS. But even then I switched out to a new version and my energy twister was still doing a fraction of what it used to do.
I also tried dismissing the follower since follower changes were made. Just to rule out any weird bug there.
As you stated, the change to Etched Sigil is announced in the 2.7.0 Patch Notes.
So, how is this a bug?
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I don’t know if it’s Etched Sigil. All I know for sure is my damage output has been greatly reduced with the patch.
All the patch notes say is “fixed an issue with the legacy version of Etched Sigil buffing unintended effects”. So I don’t know what effects they are referring to. But my damage reduction seems pretty much across the board. So if the change to the sigil is the cause I would think they accidently broke effects they didn’t mean to “fix”. Unless the intent was to nerf the legacy version out of the game.
Shirley you’re not talking about season vs non-season performance?
I would guess not, but you seemed to be still using Deathwish in cube when Valthek (ET staff) has higher multiplier so. Ring slot I would assume is RoRG (which armory has hard time showing it).
Also, your Etched Sigil. First,
That was regarding Firebird where legacy Etched Sigil boosted the damage of non-arcane spender dmg and has nothing to do with ET damage as far as I know.
You seemed to be using legacy Etched Sigil because you have a primal one. Etched Sigil change made it no longer boost other spell damage but only Energy Twister and buffed the damage multiplier on it. In regards of Energy Twister, worst current version Etched Sigil > best version/primal legacy Etched Sigil. Current version Etched Sigil has higher multiplier on it, so no reason to use the legacy one (when it comes to Energy Twister).
Try changing your weapon cube slot to Velthek and use the changed Etched Sigil. I assume that will boost your damage enough.
Thanks for the suggestions. Playing around with those changes led me to what I believe is my issue (updated above)
