As Conjuration Mastery will be changed to Primordial Binding which gives no significant benefit to Frozen Orb. We need rework on Fractured Winterglass as the Conjuration Mastery and the Unique Power is bad for Frozen Orb. Please rework this Unique, and make Frozen Orb viable again. Thanks Blizzard.
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What’s wrong with it? Seems to me like it will still be a very powerful item, albeit one that is probably used to support Lightning Spear rather than Frozen Orb as a primary damage dealer.
Read S7 PTR Patch Notes.
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It adds a major bonus to a skill that no longer exists, for one.
Two, it was changed (badly) to add +Resistance and conjuration cooldown changed to an inherent affix which is not correct itemization.
It should just be changed to add like percent damage to conjurations. Maybe 200% as a starting place.
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I think they would need to make it say frozen orbs are now conjurations for it to stay as is
They should rework it to help with frozen orbs damage or rework it to be used by another skill entirely > Bolts/chain/ball since its paired with the broken spear aspect. Then make a new frozen orb unique
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The only passive give meaningful damage to Frozen Orb is the chance to cast Frozen Orb twice, as Conjuration Mastery will be change to give damage to Summon. The damage of Summons is negligible as Shako no longer use in DPS build for sorc.
I prefer the All Resist affix to stay as I do not need to use Tyrael Might to cap my resistance in T4. Shroud of False Death give us more dps and decent defense.
So bad we cant test in PTR even it get reworked, as the dev will be on holiday leave at the time. They clearly forgotten this Unique is going to be negatively affected by the changes of Conjuration Mastery passive.
They could just change that Frozen Orb counts as Summon/Conjuration so it benefits of the new passive Primordial Binding.
Technically can, but Frozen orb is classified as core skill. I think it will be complex to program. It may lead to bugs which either some multiplicative damage related to core skill stop working or some unintended Interaction which cause over performing. Shredding Blade and Storm Swell were bug seasons ago due to programming errors.
Other issues are damage from summons are generally low, that’s the reason players did not level up Lightning spear in Splintering energy build. Even with the new passive Primordial Binding, I think the damage from summon still low. You can’t boost them effectively by assign skill points as random summons will be generated by Frozen Orb. Those summon will not get skill rank from Shako as most players will use Heir of Perdition
I will prefer a new Unique power which make Frozen Orb more exciting. As this is an Amulet slot with 1.5x damage multiplier effect, any new Unique power must do meaningful damage. Otherwise players will just pick normal Ancestral Unique and Enchant with storm well.
Then Meteor should be a summon. And inferno. I don’t like one-of exception rules.
It also mandates the use of froZen or by any conjuration spec,forever and ever amen.