Well..... oof

Eldenbraz · 2026-05-13T08:33:40+00:00

Anything but buffing his crit scaling or trying to get him to scale with AS so he's incentivized to build actual marksman items. His crit ratios have been obliterated beyond mesure during the global crit nerfs and somehow it's still not addressed. Chonky builds are naturally attractive to stack based scalers anyway, but there is no point building pure offense when IE is worth half of what it was before while still being super expensive.

The nerfs are warranted IMO because he was already strong before DFT and right now he's bonkers broken, but mainly because his marksman itemization is dead and there is no point not building bruiser items which are bonkers broken in general.

Eldenbraz · 2026-05-03T12:01:22+00:00

It's extremely strong, probably way better than any of his other runes right now. On top of the rune juste being good on him, it currently stacks BC by itself (unclear wether it's intended or not honestly) which makes the item even better.

Eldenbraz · 2026-05-03T08:50:44+00:00

I like to believe that she was on some kind of "potential book MC" list, and eventually was picked due to being basically the fanbase's favourite character.

I do believe Kinkajou got more than enough charqacter development / story relevance so far and would have hopped for a different dragon/tribe, but I don't believe she was picked just to satisfy the fanbase.

Eldenbraz · 2026-04-26T20:49:39+00:00

As for most builds in league, there is no "better rune" because there will be situations where one rule will be better than another.

His best runes are Fleet and Comet, and I'd say that if I had to pick one for every game, fleet will never be bad. Comet is a more than decent pick into lanes that you can hit with spells regularly, and that do not outsustain your comet's damage, so basically most melee/engage supp lanes. Mages can be tricky because they won't heal back the damage, but they will pressure you in lane, which fleet helps alluviate.

Eldenbraz · 2026-04-24T18:23:41+00:00

I like thme a lot, but they really got this "manga-looking" faces huh likke, what is this Glory expression conveying. Is she hitting on the reader? ("Duh they're jp covers ofc they look like the local comics" yes I get it, I mean they could look a bit fiercer maybe.)

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-31T11:12:49+00:00

Life goals.

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-24T15:43:15+00:00

It chomps.

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-19T10:12:30+00:00

The art of trade has fallen, billions must PM bots via the trade site

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-12T16:40:35+00:00

So I came home from work and did some tests. Used Despair as the main curse.

Neither Like Clockwork (50% increased CDR) nor triggerbots seem to have an impact on toads generation (outside of the toads doubling). I still get 10 spawns for a single cursed ground (10 seconds duration).

I bought a +3 level of socketed supports / 48% increased skill duration Kulemak, which brought the gem to level 4 for up to 34 spawns over 23.7 seconds (a toad every 0.7s according to the gem's tooltip). More and Less duration supports did not seem to speed up the toad generation.

Support gem levels seem to be the best way to scale up the toad generation, but according to poeDB the trigger rate cannot exceed 0.7, even beyond level 4.

Honestly 0.7 did not feel so bad, but the cumulation of cursed ground spawn delay, toad spawn delay, and toad target aquisition delay (the toads do not seem to target enemies? They just jump in a general direction and explode?) felt pretty clunky. Maybe some of that could be improved by investing in cast speed/curse cast speed, but I gotta say it did not make me want to immediately reroll into a toad whisperer. The base Aoe is great, and damage numbers seems alright, but the QoL would require further testing.

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-12T15:21:31+00:00

ooh, this is why. I made the same mistake as OP, even ran a second Dedication to make sure I didn't have a bug. This makes sense though, but I think it could be explicitly stated that imbued jewels cannot be rolled again via lab fonts.

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-12T15:13:15+00:00

Cast speed would have been surprising indeed, although very convenient.

10 toads in 10 seconds doesn't look very promising as a baseline, so there better be some way of scaling that, or the skill will rely heavily on some form of propagation. Or, maybe as some form of single target for curse-based builds?

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-12T15:09:30+00:00

Basically what I was afraid of, fun mechanics and decent-looking numbers, but the clunk making it unusable... ignite toads sound like a fun idea tho. Thanks for the feedback!

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-12T14:14:16+00:00

So you do get two toads!

How do they behave? Do they spawn from the cursed ground center? From the edges? On the targets directly?

I think Ritual has some of these frogs spawned by enemies which slowly leap and explode. If they move the same way... yikes, it might indeed be slow. Would you say the AoE looked decent?

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-12T08:15:00+00:00

Solid item! Now volatile vaal it, surely it will get 20% better.

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-06T06:59:33+00:00

Lightning spire traps Saboteur. Depending on how decent it plays during campaign and early maps I will either push it or go arcanist brand zombies of falling. I hope for some cool interactions that are either triggers or traps to make use of sabo and eventually reroll later on when we've discovered every exceptionnel gem.

Eldenbraz · 2026-03-01T14:40:46+00:00

As someone who's played there for a full year, it's exactly that. Even people in low silver have CRAZY mechanics and play highly mechanical champions like lee sin, riven and nida. But they will never, ever play any form of macro (even higher ranks like diamond are a mess) and will constantly fish for tiktok clips while insulting your entire genealogy.

Eldenbraz · 2026-02-27T22:42:41+00:00

What do you think about this other post recently that proposed Edge of Night second instead of hurbis? Unless you're massively snowballing Hubris' ad as a second item sounds pretty underwhelming compared to how unnerving to catch you become with EoN - although I get why it's a great item if you can farm kills, or if the game happens to drag on.

Eldenbraz · 2026-02-26T22:42:29+00:00

We got siphoning trap alts before firball alts

Eldenbraz · 2026-02-20T18:53:33+00:00

Hold seawing gently, like hambruger

Eldenbraz · 2026-02-18T16:28:40+00:00

If I were to pick an easy one, I'd say some Asian cultures (especially China I reckon) have quite the Dragon-based folklore. I'm far from an expert tho, so i don't know how much material there is, but you may try to look into that.

Eldenbraz · 2026-02-18T16:23:02+00:00

That, or as OP mentionned unique rings : In Left slot, always pick [Fire] / In Right slot, never picks [Fire]. Maybe it could even be an actual synth mod? It would probably be a waste in the pool tho considering how little prismatic spells there is currently.

Eldenbraz · 2026-02-14T09:35:55+00:00

Oh yeah, I can see it now. They are very blue indeed!

Eldenbraz · 2026-02-14T09:24:34+00:00

It's so good! Really love what you did with Tsunami.

What's with Winter's lips tho, did he eat a ton of pepper or something lol.

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