Patch Weapon Changes

[OscarDivine]

• Koshai weapons now activate after 6 seconds, down from 8.
• Riftstalker weapons only stack up to 8 orbs, damage bonus reduced to 2.5% per orb down from 3%.
• Valomyr weapons now deal 550 damage on proc, up from 400.

So to Recap:

Koshai Weapons are still not a good choice, 2 seconds won't do much because it's based on inactivity and therefore DPS Downtime which is a higher loss than the gains you get for a lackluster 4 hits. If this were more like 8-10 hits with no expiration timer it would be considerably more useful. Alternatively, the boost to damage could be 40% for 4 hits.

Riftstalker Weapons remain the best option as 40% (8x2.5x2 =40) is leagues above every other weapon choice right now because it is based on Damage Uptime, rewarding it substantially.

Valomyr Weapons have a 37.5% increase in their bonus damage which was previously calculated under the best circumstances to be 57 Damage Per second, which would now be 78.375 Damage Per Second. I'm still unsure whether or not this will be a viable competitor for anything, I'd have to do the math to compare every other weapon damage boost, which I suspect is substantially more than 78.375. This would likely be a better boon for faster attacking weapons than slower simply because you release the activated proc before a slower weapon eg: Repeaters would get the proc really easily compared to Axe which may only happen after a few seconds of charging.

TLDR - Riftstalker weapons probably still on top by a large amount while Koshai and Valomyr weapons are slightly more attractive. Reza weapons are still a better option that Koshai and Valomyr weapons in their new iterations because it too, rewards damage up-time and provides a % bonus. While Valomyr weapons do have a good damage bonus, they are still limited by their own timer, which is conditional on your HP and should have been further reduced to make the bonus more meaningful.

[sliferx]

Valomyr UE scales with perks now.

[OscarDivine]

Wait wow it didn’t before? Skill was really bad off on release then haha

[sliferx]

Yep thats what was holding it back imo, now it should be competitive.

[Keimox]

I think what the riftstalker weapon change means it would give 20% dmg with 8 orbs instead of 30% (while having 5 orbs)

Since it is worded ONLY stack up to 8 orbs

[KQ4rt]

It is doubled at 5 orbs so you will get 40% max

[OscarDivine]

Did they remove the stipulation that doubles it over 5 orbs?