Alternatives to Spell Echo and Multistrike

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LorewynGaming escreveu:

The melee one has potential but the other 2 are completely over powered.

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SlightRedeye escreveu:

The idea's effectiveness is outclassed by what already exists in-game. For what reason would one want to use Imbue for their attacks when CoC would provide a much greater output and not be bound by their weapon's APS in order to cast spells? Combo attacks and Fusion inherently cause a problem for spells, mainly because most spells scale exponentially through their support gems.

For example, Freezing Pulse can use several support gems that outright multiply the output of the skill; GMP, Spell Echo, Cold to Fire, Increased Crit Multi and Cold Penetration to name a few.

By using the Fusion/Combo supports, you cut an active skills effectiveness drastically without much return. I don't think it is a case where increasing the damage of the support gem would mend the issue, because all spells are different. Arc would benefit much more than Ice Spear in that situation because the spell requires less links to function at an acceptable level.

How are you supposed to scale the skills using this support gem? Will this confuse new players? You are suggesting an attack that casts spells on-hit, once per attack. Does this push players to desire Daggers more than they are currently? It is the only weapon of choice capable of 2.0+ APS and rolling Spell Damage.

There is too much uncertainty for me to buy into this idea unfortunately, it seems like it would not be intuitive for new players and it causes several concerns for balance that aren't easily worked out. Not to mention it give even more reason to use a dagger over the other unpopular weapon types.