This is terrible, confusing, and bad design. I will help out the devs and just make this aspect. WE have to do better than this for sorc and sorc in general.
Axial Conduit (current one) - Unique Pants
Chain Lightning alternates between orbiting you and seeking up to 3 enemies. When it returns, it drains 6 Mana from you for each active Chain Lightning. After draining 66 total Mana, the bolt explodes for (270%-570%) Lightning damage.
Chain Lightning expires if you don’t have enough Mana for it to drain.
Axial Conduit (new one) - Unique Pants
When chain lightning bounces it also triggers a charged bolt.
Other affixes unchanged which are
Damage Reduction
Resource Gen
Chance for Chain Lightning to cast twice
Chain Lightning Skill bonus
Simple fun and elegant. No need for the convoluted bad one before.
IF this is too powerful an easy tweak could be casts a charge bolt that deal X% less damage.
IF this is not powerful enough then have it cast 2 or 3 charge bolts per bounce.
Why the focus on Charged bolts? Are you trying to synergize it with Lam Esan or something?
My biggest issue with the unique is that these Kiss / Curse effects always seem inherent to Sorc design and it’s awful. Please just remove them. They don’t add any real variety, they just make an item feel explicitly worse for no reason. The effects you have tied them to aren’t too powerful on most items anyways to matter.
Well if u were focusing on lightning damage the charged bolts could do some serious damage. 6 bounces is 6 free charged bolts. I thought it was cool but it looks like ppl dont like it.
i’ll be running a pure lightning sorc next season, since i haven’t used any lightning skills yet, i’ll try them all and see which ones work for me, perhaps chain lightning will be the goto skill… we’ll have to wait n see… but regardless, i’ll make the most of it… Its not about being the greatest and the fastest, its about having fun and being creative and working with what you’ve got… at least for me… thats what makes it fun.
This! I’d understand if Sorcs are overpowered and needs toning down. But the reality is that Sorcs are horribly underperforming and these kind of designs work further to hold Sorcs down in the mud.
Sorc literally is the “you can’t have fun” class in Diablo 4 it seems.
I think it isn’t our game and the devs have the freedom to engineer as they wish. Either we choose to use those ideas, or we don’t. In the end numbers will speak volumes- which is why we’re now seeing various mythics changed up.
Who the eff you think you are that you can speak for anyone else but you? Who made you the community speaker? You cant even do simple math, yet you think you could design skills in an an arpg within 5 minutes on a napkin.