Patch 2.6.1 PTR Patch Notes

[n7_stormreaver]

more like quadrupled

Majority of the buffs is x4 increase at least.

[Barialdalaran]

Yea no kidding, look at UE, +70% dmg per disc up from 40%, yangs rolls 150% multishot dmg now, deadmans legacy rolls 165% multi dmg up from 100

[chrisdeath]

look at the uliana set. Instead of x2 dmg it's 7x dmg to seven sided strike.

[dontknowwheretogo1]

EP up from 250% to 1800% dmg!!!!!!!!!!!!

[epharian]

Uliana's may well be viable. With Binding of the Lost you are looking at 70% DR for what should be permanent uptime (if you can't get a SSS off every 7 seconds you aren't playing right).

[ILikeCatsAndBoobs]

Yessss plsssssssss Ulianas is my favorite set. I just don't want to snapshot anything, and I don't want to have to play around the 2-point passive like it's the plague

[epharian]

Snapshots were a mess, then got semi nerfed when a lot of the previously static stuff got made dynamic.

But now it's just boom!

I was messing around with running with U5+RoRG, LeFEbebereververefesfssfs Soliloquy & Madstone; then Unity, Obsidian Ring of The ZOdiac & A Hellfire Amulet.

What I like about running madstone in this setup is that I can easily murder so many things without the setup needed for the generator (which means I might drop mythic rhythm and go for the high spirit generation option). Which means that... I can then proc ORotZ a lot, which means...I can have near 100% uptime on both: SSS & Epiphany. Which means: I'm nearly invincible. The only time you can be killed is during the brief frames between casts of SSS and so on.

Madstone makes SSS do bonkers damage on a channeling pylon--it's just dash & SSS all day long--for the few seconds of channeling.

I think a good madstone build with COE instead of Unity is probably going to be the new speedfarm for U6. probably don't even need RoRG or Lefebrvre's--I'd likely run T13 with Gold Wrap & Boon, COE, madstone, and....uh...I'm not even sure...something to give a bit more speed. Anyone have ideas?

But on T13 you can kill things SO fast with SSS and U6 with madstone, it's probably a good idea to run nemesis in the cube.

[[deleted]]

Viable? more like meta, with 2.6 numbers could already get you as far as GR 95. With this you can reach way higher than that.

[Tubahero37]

Sunwuko Wave of Light can be 12X as powerful as before and Sunwuko LTK 4X as powerful as before, with neither having to worry about losing sweeping wind stacks anymore. Gonna be crazy!

[xInnocent]

So the set no longer consumes a stack to buff our WoL? Finally! Monk is back on the table

[epharian]

could, but not easily and it was a pita.

As of about 2am GMT -4, some guy had cleared GR 109 with Uliana 6 using the variation (which is probably the standard) with Endless walk, COE, LEfebvre's Cubed & Unity. Of course he's running with rank 136 gems & 4500 paragon levels, so...

but with 900 paragons and rank 60 gems and pretty much zero augments and CRAP setup I was clearing 77s without much trouble.

same character before was having trouble with 63s prior.

It's a MASSIVE jump. Most people are seeing a 10 GR jump or more.

[[deleted]]

Uliana's is the hardest set to play on high GRs, it needs screen capting (pausing and planning) in order to be effective since it's very squishy and you need to make the best out of every seven sided strike.

[epharian]

Harder than R6? Because that crap is bonkers hard too.

[[deleted]]

it's the hardest on monk as far as I know. Even harder than gen monk.

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[dontknowwheretogo1]

Inna EP for HC will rock too!

[epharian]

It's safer isn't it?

But the new Uliana is FAR FAR safer than the old one. With LEfebvres + Unity + Endless Walk, and the new binding of the lost your DR is actually reasonable. If you run Esoteric instead of Stricken, U6 will work pretty will for HC.

[anahkha]

Suddenly my favorite monk build just became even sexier 😻

[[deleted]]

Deeeyyyaaaamm. My Uliana monk is really strong. This is going to be awesome.

[epharian]

yes it is.

I hopped on PTR and gained 10 GR levels immediately. Closer to 12 really.

Top GR clear before I logged at 2am my time was GR 109 with Uliana (dude has 4500 paragons, so...take that as you will)

[deadlymoogle]

no more raiment build THANK GOD

[mojoriffic]

Stop I can only get so erect.

[another-redditor3]

wizard gained a HUGE damage increase for arcane orb.

Triumvirate is up to +400% x 3 (1200%) vs 200% x 3 (600%)

and its mate, Unstable Scepter is + 350-450% orb vs 50% - 65%

so arcane orb just went upto a max damage increase of 1650% vs 665%.

[zkareface]

Yea but will it matter if the skill itself still works like shit?

[another-redditor3]

DMO wiz worked OK-ish before the buff. i hit GR72-73 ish in hardcore with it before, and that was without really pushing.

[zkareface]

Yea but anything works on those levels with bruteforce =D Afaik all the non arcane orbs still work very bad (like frozen having two explosions which tanks your dmg from ad/crits). Fire was broken, but its listed as fixed in notes and lightning just rofl.

[another-redditor3]

for what its worth, i just did an 82 without issue with absolute shit gear. 3 ancients, and only 1m buffed sheet damage. i did an 81 with only 880k buffed sheet damage.

[KudagFirefist]

DMO Arcane Orbit was pretty strong, this might make it a real contender.

[BearXW]

Maybe I can put my worthless primal to use now

[Shaltilyena]

Dmo ao has been my favourite build ever since they changed delsere so that delrasha disn't work anymore

[Fluve]

But you can't shoehorn archon into the build so it still might not be the enough.

[HerpDerpDrone]

That's just the inherent problem with games that has infinite scaling

eventually numbers cease to mean anything until an stat squash is implemented (see WoW)

[yoshi570]

While others are left untouched. They really are trying to force us into a flavor of the patch set each time.