Make Vulnerable Additive

[SoverySimple-1733]

@Fronkles-1644

@SoverySimple-1733

Leave crit as the usual bucket, but keep vuln and overpower together in one. Find/create fitting third option (since sorc’s need it pretty badly) and we’d probably be golden. Maybe something related to dot damage?

Sorcs do need something, and dot scaling does sound nice. A conflagration mechanic (which druids already have) would be nice. However, this wouldn’t make sense for lighting sorcs.

The source of the chokehold on the meta is the imbalance of buckets. You need something in all buckets to do meaningful damage, so any bucket that has only 1 affix in it would be a non-negotiable part of your build. Attack speed is less effected by this because attack speed is gated by resource generation, and main stat is less effected by this because you get so much for free that adding more is less of a necessity.

If crit is in its own bucket, then all builds would require crit. The meta would look like: crit + vulnerability (the current meta), crit + overpower, or crit + X. That’s 1-2 slots per weapon + implicits, 2 slots per ring, 1 slot per glove, that would be non-negotiable. Also, An added effect of having less buckets would be that the current additive affixes would contribute more to damage. They would be more acceptable, possibly even desirable, rather than the eye sores they are currently.

Lightning could just have an electrify dot that lets them multiply off of mobs affected by it. Could even call it something cheesy like “lightning rod” or w/e. Basically would take the vuln/overpower bucket and, if need be, add a bucket for certain class mechanics in the future onto it. Would help keep everything in-line over time. So a dot one and a lightning one, to fix up sorc’s and druids I guess some.

And the issue is if you take crit out of its own bucket then crit just outright dies as a stat. It’s a heavy investment one and still usually % chance based for many that invest into it. Why even consider messing with crit chance (which is almost always rather low without aspects doubling or tripling it) and crit dmg when you can just stack something lazy like vuln or overpower instead?

@Magnus-25265

I didn’t say necro shouldn’t access vulnerable. I said this is unfair. You’ve a skill to inflict vulnerable and I’m OK with that. You talk like that because probably you didn’t notice how powerful vulnerable is. It’s multiply the damage like x10 times, it’s mandatory now.

Yeah, and it gives up plenty for that access (See: 1 unstoppable skill total, no mobility options at all, no barriers iirc outside of temerity [honestly unsure if blood has one as a passive, as it’s in a bleh state RN], minion damage being a joke, etc.)

It’s probably the only thing keeping necromancers afloat right now as a class. If we take and remove the only two things that’s keeping them working atm (crit, vuln) then something has to give.