Return of Reckoning

Keula wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 1:38 pm I think you missed a critical part of the new consume essence. It has no aoe heal at all anymore, it's just ST heal.

I am way too tired it seems. I did miss that they made it completely useless.

After another day thinking through these shield changes, they make even less sense to me. Why is Consume Essence stronger than Transfer Essence? This goes against all normal game balance (group heals are better / more consistent than out of party aoe). Was this to help warband play? If so, why ...

I don't quite understand what the vision for the shield changes were beyond nerfing their ability to heal. It removes the reward from the risk of being in melee compared to tossing on a chalice. Your heals are still cut by heal debuffs. It lowers the benefit of target selection (base heal triggers ...

I read that critical damage, things like flanking, or mutated aggressor, infernal gift, slayer/choppa mechanic all count as multipliers on base damage. So lets say you deal 100 damage as a marauder with an ability. Let's also say you are using 50% increased critical damage tactic, and pop mutated ...

mythic done similar thing (actually exacly the same...) and we see what they accomplished. A big problem is that some of those who were making balance changes were unaware of what the consequences were. For example, I would say that the biggest break in balance was around the time of split Sov sets ...

Hello everyone. I am Xvim (aka Iyachtu) and I played a terrible hybrid DoK.

I have also remade my Zealot and Blackguard (Tankineveryone / Healingmyself Becauseuwont respectively). I look forward to seeing you all around and (maybe) keep some of you alive.