I see everyone talking about hydra getting buffed, but the only real buff i can see is the aspect getting longer duration instead of shorter. What have i missed that will make it significantly better?
Who said Hydra would be buffed?
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Alot of streamers, seen people writing in forum here on sorc as well (“i might go hydra now that its getting buffed” etc.
Im guessing people mean it will be stronger due to other changes with fire or aspects, but cant figure out what they are.
It’s been hitting the gym and doing chin ups.
The duration buff is a joke. It’s okay and I will take it but unnecessary. Hydra can be casted multiple times even if you have bad mana regen.
At tier 100s, dropping two Hydras against a mob is enough to kill most of them. By that time you can drop another set.
Hydra itself isn’t getting buffed. The Double Hydra aspect is. It will now increase the duration instead of decrease it and that will also apply to the additional hydra summoned by the enchantment, if you’re also running it.
What streamers and others are referring to doesn’t pertain to the buff, however, but rather the fact that it was discovered that Hydra’s damage scales with the target’s level so it gets exponentially better as you’re facing higher level mobs, like in high tier NMDs. That’s not really a buff because it’s always been like this (very few players used it so it wasn’t well known) although it might well be a bug so I wouldn’t plan out elaborate builds around it in case it gets “fixed.”
If it’s indeed a bug, I want it to be fixed with one condition: fix also the other scaling skills from other classes (and similar mechanics). I doubt this will happen.
I doubt they will fix this possible bug? Nope. I doubt they will fix the scaling on other classes but I have no doubt they will nerf Sorc further lol.
Also of all the popular streamers I have seen there is so little emphasis on Conjurer Sorc and never heard of them reiterating the scaling. Probably because it’s not as fun as other mechanics that deal one shot to bosses.
Hydra scaling to the instance lvl is not unique; armor scales to this as well.
If they change hydra scaling, I think it would be consistent to also alter the way armor %reduc is calculated. This would at least make build planning a bit more straightforward.
apparently dmg scales to to world level so u can be lvl 30 sorc in NM100 and still be able to kill something. I could be wrong about it.
Hydra is getting Swol
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Needs to be fixed not fair to every other class that actually have to put in work. Not impressed by peeps who can clear what others cant simply bc of a cheese mechanic. Why dont my werenado druids tornados scale to monster level? Exactly bc that would be cheese… hydra needs to be changed to scale like every other classes ability period. Eventually almost every single sorc will just end up running hydra if it makes the game so easy and does what no other sorc build can with ease.
If they remove the scaling then they need to roll the skill back to its pre-release power level. It was nerfed heavily after release and the scaling seems to only really effect NMDs.
All bugs need to be fixed but I woukd prioritize all the broken mechanics first from each classes, that includes scaling damage. But there’s a big but. Fix them by not introducing new broken mechanics (because you know they will). Before I would even bother fixing Hydra, I would fix resistances first or why the heck does a Druid or Necro doing such massive numbers. Aren’t we supposed to be the glass cannons?
Also there seems to be a misconception with Hydra. Dropping Hydra doesn’t make you instantly good Sorc. You either fall in two cstegories:
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Someone who drops it and hides two screens away from the fight. A lot of folks have a steong distaste on this playstyle. Is this something we can be really proud of? Subjective. I don’t find it fun.
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Barber. No need to explain. Again Barber
Now take out Barber and try not to run two screens away and try to engage as close as possible with the mobs using Hydra. You can run away but not two screens that you don’t even see the mobs. Try fighting with Hydra in a closed room. Try it with console fighting Suppressors. Do it in NM 100. It’s not that simple.
Werenado needs to nerfed harder than any sorc specc, too op. But yeah hydra needs to be fixed, there are videos of 70s clearing nm 100 with it
Was it eternal or seasonal? Barber makes any conversation about balance meaningless.
Without Barber, a lot of builds in S1 will fail to do any good impression.
There are still some builds that are able to beat NM 100 without Barber but not as impressive as with Barber.
it did not get buffed, ppl playing hydra build mainly because they r on season with 3 x op gem. play on eternal, its dog poo