Rework Festering Scythe (Midnight)

The upcoming implementation of Scythe in Midnight is absolutely unacceptable…

It’s not exciting and does not change the way you think about or use your Festering Strike keybind at all !

On top of that, the damage and effects it currently provides are really weak and uninspired.
Giving 1/3 of what plaguebringer used to provide in disease hastening, that also being a debuff instead of a buff which makes it worse in spread cleave (where dots usually shine), and doing 60% less damage than the live version.

All in all, not only is it unworthy of being a capstone, it’s also a complete disgrace compared to previous scythe, which at least dynamically changed the way you used and thought about fester in aoe, and was a lot more exciting than what we got for now on alpha.

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I quite agree.

Festering Scythe should be an outright replacement to Festering Strike.
And if they so want it to be our primer for ghouls summoning then make it so it adds a stack for clawing shadows per target hit. That would dramatically help fix ramp problems for aoe.
Also it should be the old plaguebringer at full value. kinda pointless toherwise to have that even in there.

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