2.0.5 ruined aspect Charged Flash

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I’m not sure what you were trying to attempt with changing the aspect Charged Flash for Sorcerers but you made this aspect completely useless now. At least pre 2.0.5 this aspect was decent because you could stack some nice dmg boost using this aspect with for the skill charged bolts but the change no longer adds any extra dmg other than just allowing it to crit. I feel like you just want us to never use this skill which i really want to, especially when you have a specific legendary Staff of Lam Esen.

I enjoy trying out off meta builds, and using charged bolts has been really fun for me the past couple of seasons but the dmg always seems to fall off when you get to a certain point in endgame. I was working on a really nice dmg stacking build with Overpower and using the charged surge along with the rune Qax.

There is no point using the charged surge anymore as it no longer adds any bonus damage, you already have a piercing aspect called Piercing Static, but it causes the dmg to fall off, but at least it still allows us to proc the Enhanced Charged bolts, where as the Charged Surge does not. So why remove the bonus damage from this aspect?

Please please please do something to allow charged bolts to actually add some decent damage. Perhaps fix the staff that is meant for the skill or change piercing static so the fall off dmg isn’t as great, or fix charged surge again but giving a % multiplicative damage at least, even if it doesn’t give it a 100% chance to crit anymore.

Sorry for ranting but literally it feels like you are pushing aside other classes and further buffing the already godly spiritborn, not allowing us to have fun with the other classes but just making them garbage for no reason. This change wasn’t called for, the aspect was underperforming before but now its worse…

Thanks

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These devs have no idea how their game works. Its the worst balance team I have ever seen and I have been online gaming since 1998.

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Players playing this build like to see all the bolts everywhere. The aspects should just super charge these instead or whenever you cast a cooldown skill it sends out 5 or something cool.

Im sad because I made a guy to try this build out and it seeems it sucks.

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I was thinking the same, the surge should send out a piercing aoe wave around your character similar to the frost nova, i think that would be better at least, but also add extra dmg to the aspect :stuck_out_tongue:

Honestly I was super excited for the Vyr’s keystone passive buff going from 250% to 500%! I thought that as awesome for bosses, i wish i could tell how much dmg the arc does when passing between multiple mobs but on bosses this was a huge improvement, but damn charge bolts is sadly very underpowerd no matter how much i’ve tried to make them good.

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I reported a bug with piercing static well before the midseason patch, thought they would fix it at midseason and got a buff to piercing cold instead. :rofl: Oddly enough I was doing an overpower charged bolts build when I found the bug. Honestly no idea what they’re thinking. I didn’t like charged flash because it takes forever to charge up just to have three casts that feel like slapping a group with a pool noodle and from what you’re saying that is still the case unfortunately. Guess I’m sticking with Frozen Orb for my sorc.

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