Alpha saying it’s a 10 second spawn… seems a little short, wouldn’t it be fair to make him a 15 second spawn at least like tyrant?
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Hope it’s longer later down the road, I’ve been waiting for the fantasy of summoning a pit lord for too long. Wouldn’t want it to be short lived…. Literally.
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Use tyrant to extend summons
Oh this won’t end well for us…
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tyrant doesnt work on pit lord.
it should.
EDIT: I just read… it extends the duration of LESSER demons.
Yea, it should last longer than 10 seconds.
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you already tested this on Alpha? Thats unfortunate.
Bah, I also had hoped tyrant would extend it, pit lord must be quite the monster if it’s only spawned 10 seconds out of 3 minutes 
For those who might think “tyrant should extend pitlord, this will make pitlord stronger” stop, it won’t make pitlord strong.
Hell, some argument could even be made for tyrant to not extend Nether Portal just so NP can stand on its own legs without tyrant power.
what will happen is blizzard will balance pitlord considering it gets extended by tyrant, who is what happens with every other demons who get extended by tyrant.
Now, with this out of the way.
Could Pitlord become 15s, be visually more impressive[maybe cast a firebreath or some other cool spell when summoned before going for melee attacks?] yes it could.
would i dislike ? not rly, but do not think Longer Pitlords = Stronger Pitlords.
once tunning starts, be it 10s or 15s or 25s long, the difference will be how the budget is divided for the pitlord, be it X damage across 10s, X damage across 15s or X damage across 25s. [assuming NP stays on that CD/effect, everything else the same]
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Its a capstone talent, give it a mechanic like this: when you cast HoG, instead of summoning imps it gives that energy to the Pit Lord instead, sustaining its presence.
You give the Pit Lord a depleting energy bar which you fill by casting HoG, and the gameplay is bases around trying to keep him powered as long as possible.
Obviously this is a qualitative suggestion to make summoning a Pit Lord more interesting than just a fire and forget 10 second grunt machine.
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Does DeCon work with the pit lord and jailer?
Jailer is NYI, part of the spell is not implemented yet, meaning you can’t summon it [but you can collect souls].
I find super funny people providing feedback on a spell who no one even watched how it works yet.
Yes, it works with Decon, but its value 80% hp, not much higher than the value of NP demon (75%), so i doubt you will wait NP vanish to summon tyrant, when that means you will have 2 NP Demons fading/not being extended.
I much prefer for the pit lord to extend its duration based on how much soul shards you spent, but increase the amount of soul shards you need to spend to 15.
If the pit lord gains more damage based on soul shard you spend during nether portal. Mine as well increase duration to based on soul shards spent.
This. I like this idea a lot.
My only concern is since we won’t get imps we won’t get more demonic core procs to keep spamming hog. Meaning the actual minigame of this will be very shortlived outside of lust.
Unless the imps being consumed by the pitlord give us core procs of course.
Nether Portal needs to be retooled alongside Tyrant anyways.
Why do our cooldowns have cast times while Affliction and Destro are instant cast?
Why does Nether Portal favor degenerate gameplay with spamming 1 shard HoG?
They need to fix this.
They also need to make our damn demons switch targets when we do, so much of our damage is waste on phase shifts and temporary immunity mechanics.