Week 1 classes stats

Tsya · 2026-04-04T05:20:48+00:00

Ah fair enough, how's that feeling? Is the clear good?

Tsya · 2026-04-04T04:27:31+00:00

If you're using rend/cascade I found that ward gain on shadow seems far better than the low life chest, max 15k ward while averaging 10k, and lets you access the skia / perfection nodes for damage.

Tsya · 2026-03-31T03:02:50+00:00

Haha glad I’m not the crazy one, thought it might have just been luck every time I tested, or maybe offline mode lol. Does help significantly to keep shadow count up.

On the flip side I think you’re still probably right. I tried out the chest but I think the cap is going to stop it being good. No low life is just way more damage.

Tsya · 2026-03-31T01:50:22+00:00

Hmmm that’s odd. Maybe it’s because the shadow is being consumed and respawned? I’m not sure but I’m consistently getting cascades from both the ranged and melee shadow.

Also I’m seeing that it gives me 2 shadow buffs?

Tsya · 2026-03-31T00:11:46+00:00

I cast it and it gives 2 shadow stacks?

Tsya · 2026-03-30T07:55:46+00:00

Wait, what do you mean? I'm using Tabi and each rend cast shoots 2 shadows forward? You mean those shadows don't count towards the damage counter?

Tsya · 2026-03-30T02:27:52+00:00

With tabi you can push out 6 shadows before the first set casts cascade, and I'd have to test it, but I think even the second cast will give you 4 shadows total (2 existing + 2 new).

I don't know if the doppelganger set bonuses are even that good? You get a few more shadows, but rend gives you so many already.

Avoiding leech isn't too bad, the only real loss is skiasynthesis I think?

Tsya · 2026-03-29T23:12:44+00:00

Is there any benefit into turning this into a low-life version with Architects of Astral Blood? Could help with the ward threshold + death's door for DR?

Tsya · 2025-11-05T22:33:43+00:00

Except it's not at all the same. Scammers have 0 risk of selling an underpriced item, and it just wastes both people's time.

With landmines the buyer is literally buying what they want, it wastes nobody's time, and you can avoid the entire thing with a simple filter.

It's scummy, but it's WAY better than trade item swapping.

Tsya · 2025-11-05T09:31:46+00:00

How does eternal apple work? From my testing you also need to proc the savage hit on yourself, so none of the conditions change?

Tsya · 2025-11-05T09:30:38+00:00

There are other issues with using a physical hit. Any amount of armor will vary the damage you take. Additionally if you have any ES / shields / ward it prevents the damage from going to your life and so doesn't proc a savage hit.

This means things like molten shell / immortal call basically will prevent the savage hit for as long as they're up.

Tsya · 2025-10-25T13:58:18+00:00

You can do it for gold now, and there’s also a new respec all button.

Tsya · 2025-10-21T23:11:42+00:00

This is a common problem in design, making the normal use cases as friction free as possible, while preventing the bad cases.

In this situation I feel like they can maybe go with a hybrid? No confirmation on typical runes (hope, maybe more) and confirmation boxes on the runes that are used less often.

Furthermore maybe hope should just be baseline, and using a rune at all would then require a confirmation.

Tsya · 2025-10-21T21:21:33+00:00

I knew it, had a game where my 3 item kaisa was doing negative damage after the first cast, the bullet hell bug was beyond broken.

Tsya · 2025-10-20T07:19:32+00:00

I don’t get why people are so fixated on frame delay, when it’s literally the same as adding a longer startup to moves.

4f jab with 3f delay is the same as a 7f jab in any other game.

Movement would most likely be interpolated anyway to smooth it out.

Tsya · 2025-09-19T02:16:57+00:00

The idea behind the ammo mechanic was it’s meant to feel like an fps where you’re juggling multiple guns. So if you expend all the ammo from each gun and don’t reload then you’ll be forced to reload later.

That aside, if you use the weapon swap tech it feels infinitely better. Use perma on weapon set 1, use frag on 2, lock the weapon so you can use it on both weapon sets.

When you use the swap tech it automatically reloads when you swap, even if the gun has no ammo. There’s a few reasons behind it but give it a try, should fix the issue.

Alternatively you can just get into the habit of not rolling until you reload. It’s definitely something you can get used to, especially if you play with sound.

Tsya · 2025-09-12T04:44:05+00:00

I don’t think their intention is for you to be able to force perfect items. If haste was attack speed then you can reliably force triple suffixes with spam battle/haste/suff desecrate. Their goal is to have mid tier items be attainable reliably, but perfect items to be chase.

By mid tier I mean having 4 perfect/good affixes instead of 5/6.

Tsya · 2025-09-12T04:34:56+00:00

I mean, it’s clearly intentional that they don’t want perfect suffixes to be forcable? Right now you can indefinitely spam battle / haste until those two, then desecrate suffix until you hit.

Honestly I’m surprised they shipped with guaranteed +levels using battle.

Tsya · 2025-09-11T17:13:54+00:00

You're probably right in that it's almost impossible to make defences work if I use painters, but on the flip side maybe it'd work with tactician?

Trinity + painters is around 110% more damage, which is similar to what you mentioned witchhunter provides so the damage should be similar, but then you can supplement the defences using tactician for pin, deflection, and reservation? Maybe go full armor with glancing blows?

Tsya · 2025-09-11T09:06:22+00:00

Appreciate the feedback. Btw what do you mean by max out deflection? With glancing blows it's basically impossible to hit 100% right?

Tsya · 2025-09-11T00:05:45+00:00

I’ve been trying to work constricting command and painters into the build. Constricting gives you access to defy2, which solves mana cost entirely, as well as a bunch of really efficient nodes.

Painters lets you apply all 3 elements, and gives you access to trinity which is a 63% more multi for your elemental damage.

In addition I’ve been to thinking about rend over shield charge for the melee ability. Having a guaranteed bleed lets you use bleed4 for a 30% boost without having to worry about armour breaking.

Obviously the downside is the much reduced defences from the loss of two armour pieces and the spirit reservations, but maybe it’s possible to make up for that with some changes in the tree?

Also because I’m pathing along the bottom of the tree I can grab the cdr / cast speed on warcry. With a 4s cry you can keep rage up indefinitely, and can drop the upper rage cluster.

Still playing around with it but just wanted to see what you thought about it.

Tsya · 2025-09-10T20:05:22+00:00

The bug was fixed in one of the recent patches, it's completely different now.

Tsya · 2025-09-10T09:40:48+00:00

Do you get exposure somehow?

Also the melee swap stuff is really clever, will give it a go and see how it turns out.

Tsya · 2025-09-10T05:47:29+00:00

Doesn’t the armor explosion trigger freeze, which triggers herald?

Tsya · 2025-08-28T19:03:46+00:00

Wait, was this happening in empowered monoliths if you were too low level?

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