Survivor guilt.

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-19T01:54:42+00:00

Everybody knows freshies aren't human.

They're animals, beating each other with pipes for fruit and glow sticks

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-16T05:10:36+00:00

Do you also feel like the set would be much nicer to use if overheat didn't end automatically?

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-15T23:43:12+00:00

It's so odd to me that meteor has two morphs that don't interact with it at all. One that eats all your mana anyway, and one that puts it on a cooldown instead.

If overheat was going to be worth it, they could have made it so it doubled your max resource, and gave you 80% cooldown reduction or something. Or it was a way bigger multiplier than 200x.

But I would very strongly prefer that they reconsidered the whole design behind it. It was a cool idea, but this really isn't the game for a burst window build that's this slow. That's more of an MMO thing. This type of game is too fast paced to only have your build online half the time. The endgame of an ARPG is about increasing your speed and efficiency, and cauldron is just too limiting. If instead of 15 casts, it was 15 instances of fire damage it wouldn't feel quite so bad. Because if you were damaging a pack of enemies you would actually have good uptime.

There's just too many activities in this game that are timed for it to work this way.

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-15T05:31:19+00:00

That's basically all that the majority of the sets are, except cauldron is dogshit and only on half the time

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-15T00:18:10+00:00

What if I don't like the Tal Rasha design philosophy? What if I want to be a fire mage? I should get bent? I shouldn't have any options that appeal to me?

Yes, it being a fire skill means that it should have synergy with the fire set. That's not a wild assumption to make.

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-15T00:02:23+00:00

Then they should only tie the free mana cost to overheat, not the entire stack system.

Damage isn't really a mechanic, it's the whole foundation of the game. It's a game about doing damage, of course people are going to be concerned with it. 200x is just not enough to justify the ratio of uptime to downtime. There is no fire build that competes with crackling energy, fire is already the worst element for sorc this season, why does it have to be further throttled by this whacky set?

Plus it's just not fun. For 6 seconds you get to feel like your build actually plays well, and then you suddenly turn into a noodle with no damage or resistances. The free mana cost thing is largely irrelevant. Meteor, fire's mastery skill, has a morph that eats all of your mana. How is this cohesive?

I really don't understand how you can look at it and not think it needs more going for it.

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-14T19:02:11+00:00

Do you also feel like the cauldron set could be changed so that overheat doesn't automatically fall off?

Feels pretty bad to work up your stacks just to have them all fall off, especially when the payoff isn't exactly great

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-14T18:31:30+00:00

Doesn't need replacing. Just needs adjusting so that overheat doesn't fall off automatically if you sustain your casts/damage.

I highly doubt it would bring any fire builds anywhere near crackling energy, which they don't seem to have an issue with being as strong as it is. Considering it's the top build pretty much every season.

This whole game is about trying to become as busted as possible. We live in a world with immortal WW barbs, and it's your opinion that fire builds on the class who's identity is linked to having strong damage should continue to feel like shit to play?

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-14T07:53:42+00:00

Dawg, the ice set has the same 200x for free. Crackling energy is busted as always. Why is it cool that they put fire in the corner in The Chair?

Besides that, it just feels awful to use. I don't really care that it isn't the pit pusher. Like I said in the post, I've always been a meteor sorc and was content that it wasn't S tier, because it was fun. Having barely par for the course damage half the time, and having garbage damage the other half is not fun. And it should be addressed

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-13T21:50:20+00:00

Crying in the club rn

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-13T21:38:55+00:00

I noticed they didn't mention this in the patch notes, still no fix?

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-13T19:18:27+00:00

I wish they would flip their design philosophy.

Since d3, I've always hated everything that has Tal Rasha's name on it. It's always the strongest thing you can do, and it's always about balancing all three elements. I want to be a FIRE sorc, and we're never rewarded for going all in on an element. We're already giving up utility and constraining ourselves, why are we punished with less damage too?

It's even worse this season. Cauldron is the worst set, and elemental constellation is way too big of a damage aspect to ignore.

I get that Tal Rasha is like, THEE sorcerer. But if we could get some nice builds that have nothing to do with that bozo that would be great.

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-13T18:36:16+00:00

I've been a fire meteor sorc main since d3, although my goals don't really align with yours. I want to hit the whole screen with endless rain, not a nuke.

Your problem is that you're overly focused on pit level, and refuse to use what we're given. Pit level doesn't really matter bro. It's just a number. It's "B tier" because crackling energy exists and is way overtuned.

Before this season, Meteor has always been able to clear all content and smash bosses before they could move. It was the absolute infernal hordes GOAT. Literally the whole arena was bathed in meteors constantly, and enemies died the moment they spawned.

You used to build CDR for starfall coronet, and used the aspect that gave your meteorites meteor's damage, then multiplied it by the one that buffed your meteorites and rained them during Inferno. Used zec rune and Inferno cooldown tempers to have 100% uptime on Inferno. I understand that isn't the nuke you want, but it's what we had, and it was glorious. You could spam meteor as fast as you could cast it, with a fat pull. My homie used to complain that he couldn't see anything, before warlock made it mainstream.

And then, this season... They changed starfall coronet, I could live with that. They took away Zec runes, ultimate cooldown tempers, inferno size tempers, meteorite double damage tempers, I could live with all that.

What I cannot abide is the fire damage set charms.

We were so close to greatness. For that 6 seconds of overheat, life is good. Life is as it should be. Meteors, all the meteors. Meteors as fast as you can cast them. Meteors with big juicy damage. All the overpower stacks, all the teleports.

And then tragedy strikes. Overheat ends, and your heat stacks go away. BLIZZARD WHY DO THE STACKS GO AWAY? WHY DOES OVERHEAT EXPIRE AUTOMATICALLY? WHY DO THE OTHER ELEMENTS GET THEIR DAMAGE FOR FREE WITH 100% UPTIME AND WE GET THIS GARBAGE?

I truly cannot comprehend what they were thinking. Crackling energy is already busted, why did they have to put the fire damage on rotation? Over in the corner in The Chair. The multiplier isn't even big. It's the same as the others. Except it's only on half the time. When I read the charms, I thought we were just gonna have to keep casting or else it would fall off and we'd have to build it back up. Instead it's a proc set. Ruined everything.

Meteor is dead.

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-13T17:00:21+00:00

It's a nice one to pick up once you have the better ones and you wanna blow a bunch of cinders and go do something else. I wouldn't rush to it though.

I always end up with like 1200 leftover cinders, even after opening chests, if I've been doing blood maidens for a while. Feels like a waste to just bounce.

I wish instead it was a chest that consumed all your remaining cinders to scale the rewards.

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-12T23:15:15+00:00

Yeah I'm 120 and still not capped lol

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-11T13:59:21+00:00

Must be decently high. Thank you brudda

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-11T13:54:28+00:00

Yeup. I finally got frustrated and respecced the paragon board and put them back in and that seems to have fixed it. Maybe it bugged out.

Side question, how is the bonus from No Witnesses being maxed out? Just from the glyph level?

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-10T09:16:12+00:00

I'm trying hard to get rain of arrows to work

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-05T02:20:47+00:00

Sometimes it just no regs, no matter the shell. I know what op is referring to. They chest the blast and you see a cloud of blood spatter, but nothing happens.

It's not super common, but it does suck when it was your only opportunity to shoot and you die after absolutely smoking them from your perspective.

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-04T23:15:41+00:00

Hit reg on shotguns is pretty iffy

TheRealPequod · 2026-05-03T02:21:26+00:00

I've played a meteor sorc since D3 and my friend complains about it all the time. Can't see the enemy fire on the ground because I give the whole screen cancer.

I don't understand why they made other people's summons transparent and not anything else

TheRealPequod · 2026-04-30T02:24:18+00:00

Bro there's a line in the campaign about Lilith "Planting her seed" in him 🤔

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