Wow New Gems are fun!

I definitely feel like the dual wielding gem is probably unintended. I tested out a few grifts atr 135 with a flawless emerald in my OH to see how much power loss I’d suffer. Granted, it was noticeable on my main HoTA damage, but the anguish gem still slaps elites with the instakill. That gem is gonna be so intense this season. Pull groups and wait for the pop!

Pulled three 150 keys (I was too tired to do more) with the same setup my 145 clear had, and I got non-add bosses as I had in the 145. My best 150 attempt so far was 2:40 over. Obviously an easy clear with adds to proc Anguish to delete boss.

These gems are entirely OP and I love it. xD

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Awesome! I would understand if they changed/fixed the gems in two weapons. But the other stuff, I’d love to see.

Usually it’s ‘against the rules’ to augment on PTR, but it’s part of the season theme, lol. So having everyone all augged up is going to inflate the numbers. Plus there’s a bug when you have sever cubed (the cheesy sword) and one of the new soulstones that lets you 1-shot GR150 elites.

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Saw that on youtube. Loved it lol. Of course that will be fixed. But that is the point of PTR is to find those over looked game mechanics that slipped through the cracks.

How much of a change did it make since they’ve corrected the 2 gems in weapons?

Bit of a power tier loss. But anguish still carries 150. Similar power level required a few fishing attempts.

Rend is going to be a GREAT speed build. Mixing the pain shard with 100% crit chance when you have moving past 50% speed with the BK swords is goofy fun. Then there a couple great hat shards to choose from.
2-3min 120s xp runs not using the anguish.

This is solo you’re talking about, right? I love the WW Rend build and have been doing about 2-minute clears with it. I’m excited to try HotA, but I won’t be surprised if I continue on with WW. If those 2-3 minute 120s will become “standard”, that’ll be awesome!

Yeah. Stuff just blows up all over the screen. Obviously this is after you get some decent gear and a little paragon, but the ceiling got raised a few grift levels compared to S24.