Hydra now has 3% lucky hit chance…
Other players are reporting that it is now displaying the per-hit chance. The old lucky hit display was the overall chance that Hydra would trigger lucky hit at all over the entire duration.
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if you’re having actual proc issues (like frost nova enchantment not proccing), i complained about this earlier and someone told me to reset my enchantments, and that fixed my problems i was having.
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Hydra wahs dead nerfed i don´t unterstant why he nerfed this class to dead , NO Fireskills buff comming. why the hell kill Blizzard this class to hard …he don´t realized all players need a Fireskills buff and beter fireskills Aspec and fireskills paragons … the Developers all at another games?
+8% to Firebolt…Fire Sorc is back baby!!
now its broken he need nerfed again all skills 90% more 
It’s not just hydra. All the conjuration lucky hits are tanked as well. Also, the passive that increases lucky hit got reduced from 5% per rank to 1% per rank. I’d guess it’s a mistake since it’s not in the patch notes.
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If i understood old mechanic right, hydra had all there lucky hit in the first volley, and ZERO lucky hit during the rest of the duration.
So hydra was a way, to force trigger the frost nova entchantment, to get vulerable on the enemy, and the moment you had the frost nova triggered, you could DPS totate your spells.
New hydra per hit over duration is more a RNG factor, if frost nova triggers, and you cannot rotate your DPS into the triggered nova from safe distance.
So simply going straight for frost nova in close range combat will be the way to go, with the nerfed defence on all aspects of the game.
The good news is that it seems to just be the tooltip displaying the wrong info. I was using conjurations to proc the frost nova enchantment, and after testing, it’s still proc-ing just as much as before.
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Not really. It was just that the skill tooltip sometimes displayed not the lucky hit “per hit” but an average for the “whole skill”. So the game client was computing an estimated chance that a lucky hit would proc if an Hydra lived the full duration, with 3 heads and every fire bolt it shot hit something.
You could see the Hydra lucky hit tooltip value lower when you equipped the aspect that lowers Hydra duration.
Now, it seems it displays the actual lucky hit chance per hit instead, which is more clear. And also shows how trash it is. Such a low proc chance is super unfun and unreliable.
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