Please disassociate Ball Lighting from the Ultimate Unstable Currents

[Irres-1198]

Made the switch to one hand + focus today. Already thankful for the extra mana. Plus I put the Esadora amulet on my neck and moved glacial to focus. Whether I get Oculus or not, this is better for the play speed.

[Serge-11150]

I can do nm100 with Fireball. I actually stopped using ball lightning because everything was just too easy and the game became boring,

[RocknRolla-11718]

@Irres-1198

Leaving this

Too bad, Blizzard already stated they weren’t going to nerf classes in Season 2 so get over it already.

[Drytchnath-1291]

My Barb doesn’t use Rupture, Deathblow or Frenzy.

Instead I run Ground Stomp, Lunging Strike and Iron Maelstrom

[Irres-1198]

Oh cool would like to see it.

[Irres-1198]

@Bunny-23445

but do let us know if Flickerstep is working for you in dungeons or not.

Yeah Flickerstep is DEFINITELY working. Don’t want to double post so just linking this from the other thread.

Godslayer vs harlequin crest

Here I made a vid of how it plays right now. You see Godslayers pull a few times where it helps with my ULT cooldown reset, when I actually hit the dodge before they die. NM58, 21 levels above me. [Tal Rasha Everything Bagel 1HwFocus] Now I actually changed Frozen Orb to Arc Lash in my 2nd enchantment spot, because I recently picked up Static Surge, so if Vuln is procced enough I would keep Arc Lash for the stun on cooldown. If not, back to Frozen Orb. I did die once being too a…

But mob density in this dungeon made the ideal scenario where I have UC up all the time. With one or two enemies the gap gets bigger but like I said on avg it feels like you can get the cooldown to on avg 10 seconds ish.

[Shyden-11325]

@Irres-1198

This is my build.

https://d4builds.gg/builds/b6012e8a-9b00-40e4-b6be-5bc6f53c93f9/

This is just painful to look at.

@Irres-1198

I was using the Staff of Liam Neeson

“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.”

[Maelific-1607]

@Irres-1198

Leaving this garbage skill broken may make a few non-gamers feel special. But the problem is the ultimate procs it almost all the time. So someone like me who is not using Ball Lightning looks to the other classes like I am one of these lamers who need it.

Keep it broken I don’t care. But disassociate it from the ult. My build is kick a$$ on its own. And it does not need garbage broken bs to devalue it.

You should probably not make selfish requests like nerfing sorc (the class you play even!) if you want anyone to support your terrible idea.

A more reasonable request would be that they don’t gut sorc when they adjust ball lightning, because Blizzard is definitely going to do exactly that whether or not ball lightning is attached to unstable currents.

But who knows, maybe you’ll get someone’s attention and they make sorc less fun to play because you personally find the game too easy, instead of addressing the root of the problem about the game being too easy. Adjust ball lightning down, bring underwhelming skills up, increase monster difficulty, everyone wins.

Or they could just make the sorc ultimate less fun, you know, that works too, why not since the rest of the game is a dumpster fire anyway.

[Irres-1198]

Sorry but I didn’t need a broken skill to play Sorc. Have been playing it since launch. Will continue to play it, if I play the game, when the skill is fixed.

[Maelific-1607]

The entire game is broken, I find it interesting that you take issue with this single skill.

[Skar-1570]

Dont touch ANYTHING until after season2.

Season 1 they nerfed everything into the ground and everyone quit. If they nerf BL I will go right back to last epoch.

The pact players and devs have right now is that they will let us have fun, yes BL is broken but its fun. Twisted blades, BL, pulversise, hota these are the levels of power all builds should have.

[Strider-22835]

I agree. I don’t think the solution is nerf, rather than buffing other builds. For example I started the season with Ice Shard sorc and I was having a lot of fun until NMD 60+. You cannot kill the bosses with Ice Shards, no matter the build. I mean, you can, but it will take you forever. So, I also had to switch to BL. I would love to go back to Ice Shards, but there is not even one glyph for Core skill damage ffs… I don’t want to play blizzard sorc.

[Urza-1177]

@Diabolical-11427

He’s right, BL procs so often while using UC, you’re essentially using a BL build if you run UC. And the spell is so OP, even if you don’t put any points into it

BL isnt that great when they dont circle you as its going to fly past bosses and hit nothing alot of the time. There is no issue with UC making BL for other lightning builds. They all proc the same amount.

If I was going to change unstable currents then I would have it cast random electric skills on your hotbar. Also damage bonus to ultimates should work for this as I heard it doesnt.

[Keyblade-6785]

Or you could ignore people are having fun and you being mad about it shouldnt mean nerfs for the players actually enjoying gameplay

[Myrddin-1520]

Its working as intended

[Irres-1198]

@Urza-1177

Also damage bonus to ultimates should work for this as I heard it doesnt.

I asked about this in another thread as I was not certain myself.

[Diabolical-11427]

@Urza-1177

If I was going to change unstable currents then I would have it cast random electric skills on your hotbar. Also damage bonus to ultimates should work for this as I heard it doesnt.

Agreed on both points.

[Blankfaced-1552]

If it’s not summoner necros next I’ll be super sad.

[Urza-1177]

I am hoping spiritborn is a pure summoner hero that summons spirits. Since u know we dint get one with necro, druid is terrible with companions, and there is no witch doc.

[Bunny-23445]

@Urza-1177

If I was going to change unstable currents then I would have it cast random electric skills on your hotbar.

I think this would make UC still very underwhelming and not worth taking tbh because majority of sorcerers take Teleport, Ice Armor, Flame Shield on their hotbar. This would leave 3 more skills on your hotbar and I’m pretty sure most only take 2 shock skills here, including the Ultimate.
So UC casting 1 or 2 shock skills only would make this ultimate very weak and definitely not worth its huge cooldown regardless if you have cooldown reduction on your gear or not.

Honestly, the fun part of this Ultimate is it casting every shock skill randomly, take this away and this ultimate becomes a bland skill not worth calling it an Ultimate.

So again, leave UC the way it is.