Frozen Orbit nerf

Sorcerer
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Well back in the day this luuuuvely little aspect was almost a godsend for early levellers, especially for trash clearing when coupled with the “chance for FO to shoot twice” Temper.

I thankfully found it early this season and was looking forward to levelling up on Penitent a bit faster…until I noticed it no longer exploded twice. Now only explodes once. No change to the value either - you’d think they’d increase the damage a bit after this bad a nerf. And believe me, it’s quite noticeable if it’s been your bread & butter every season so far.

Good thing I was able to gamble a Starfall soon afterwards, and I officially placed Frozen Orbit in the trash where it now belongs.

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Hi I made this question to a builder and I got this answer:

"It’s not a nerf. It’s actually a huge a buff. They just do it to save server resourced like with everything to keep sorc low and boring :wink:

It now explodes twice instead of 3 times, but frozen orb deals 44%+ extra damage. Before you got 2 extra explosions for 35%ish less damage.

So let’s say your Orbs Explosion did 100 Damage:
So now it is 144 + 144 = 288 Damage
Before it was: 100 + 65 + 65 = 230 Damage

Also the “non explosion” damage got buffed too, so its even more than that."