A new "Eldritch Battery"

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Cig escreveu:

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whiteBoy88 escreveu:

I'm wary of the suggestions to make keystones more useful for the class in general. Keystones are meant to be build-defining in a drastic way, and not always in good ways. They weren't intended to always be a good choice for a given class.

Eldritch Battery removes your main defense in trade for greater offensive potential. It's a glass-cannon passive. Using it, you could completely forego mana passives and spend them on other passives like life or more offensive choices.

There in lies the problem with the current Keystone, we don't need a gigantic mana pool, for anything. So you are essintially, removing your defense for nothing.

In the new iteration, of Eldritch Battery, there is a drawback, this being, if you get hit by, or try to tank, a lot of damage, you will be OOM, in which point you WILL die. There is no getting around that. No ES, no mana, means very few hits for a low health pool character.

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Qarl escreveu:

While there have been several well reasoned posts about the weakness of Eldritch Battery, there is one thing that prevents us from making it better.

By far the most abusive, overpowered character we have ever seen used Eldritch Battery (and no other keystone would have worked for what the build needed).

The person with that character (actually they built it twice, in different release versions), never shared their secret, and its not that easy a build to get right.