Deadly Infusion should be halved or something

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ScrotieMcB escreveu:

Shadow/Assassin "notable" on Ascendancy tree
10% increased Critical Strike Multiplier per Power Charge
+0.5% Base Critical Strike Chance per Power Charge

I normally don't advocate the nerf of anything which hasn't even seen the light of play yet; however, in this case I feel I must make an exception. This is the single most OP Ascendancy feature, period; it stands over everything else every released Ascendancy class can do, and by a lot.

So what we're talking about here, with just the Shadow area power charge and the Merciless Bandit reward, is 20-50% more critical strike chance, depending on the weapon/skill used, and 50% increased critical strike multiplier. And that's just a mild example; with some builds, Deadly Infusion can mean doubled critical strike chance and 100% increased critical strike multiplier.

That's just insane.

The core concept of Deadly Infusion is already a very attractive, potentially build-defining thing. It gives the Assassin the ability to crit reliably with spells and weapons which normally do not crit reliably, such as Terminus Est, Cold Snap... there's a lot of cool build space there. But it doesn't need nearly as much raw power in order to accomplish this, assuming these builds commit to Power Charges sufficiently.

My suggestion: halve it, before it has a chance to turn every crit build into a shadow. 5% increased critical strike multiplier and 0.25% base critical chance per power charge is plenty, because even with a very modest 4 charges that's about 25% more critical strike chance and 20% increased critical multiplier for those spells and weapon with a low base critical chance. With high commitment, more like 50% more critical chance and 40% increased critical multiplier -- which is still huge.

Edit: Alternatively, the power of the notable could be spread out between two different types of charges, such as...

• Unstable Infusion
  5% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Critical Strike
  5% chance to gain a Power Charge on non-Critical Strike
• Deadly Infusion
  10% increased Critical Strike Multiplier per Frenzy Charge
  +0.5% base Critical Strike Chance per Power Charge
• Basic nodes on the way to Deadly Infusion changed to 12% Power charge duration, 12% Frenzy charge duration (instead of 10% Power charge duration, 15% critical strike chance).

This would allow the player to decide what aspect of Deadly Infusion they wanted to focus on, rather than just granting players the whole thing.

I don't like being on a nerf wagon but I think it would be a shame if Ascendancy came out and everyone just kept on playing Shadow, especially since that's just what they did this patch.

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Legatus1982 escreveu:

TLDR the last problem that this game has to fix now that desync is gone is the ever-rampant terrible balance issues, and I think ascendancy is going to, or at least has the potential to get us there.

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Patch Notes 2.2 Acendancy:

- Critical strike chance of all skills has been hard capped at 50% now.
- Critical strike multiplier values have been hard capped at 250%

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Wiesl_1404 escreveu:

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Patch Notes 2.2 Acendancy:

- Critical strike chance of all skills has been hard capped at 50% now.
- Critical strike multiplier values have been hard capped at 250%

Calling it now - so no need to nerf Assasin class that hard right? :^)

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ScrotieMcB escreveu:

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Wiesl_1404 escreveu:

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Patch Notes 2.2 Acendancy:

- Critical strike chance of all skills has been hard capped at 50% now.
- Critical strike multiplier values have been hard capped at 250%

Calling it now - so no need to nerf Assasin class that hard right? :^)

As if the devs would neuter their most beloved of mechanics.