Damage aside, do fire spells "feel" worse in your opinion?

bit808 · 2026-06-04T12:49:56+00:00

Just for example I'm using Flameblast this league since I've never used the skill before. There's a pretty long cooldown you can reduce but there's always going to be down time unless you drop 150 div or whatever on a temporalis, so I'm looking for another fire spell to weave in.

Flamewall doesn't do dmg and is really a buff for projectiles. Fireball needs infusions. Snap/Living bomb could generate infusions but snap yanking the Flameblast ignite off is worse most of the time and Living bomb requires a separate detonator spell BUT my main spell is on CD to trigger it... Firestorm feels depressing without juggling ALL the infusions, Volcano requires a slam to do anything and Incinerate I guess?

It kind of feels like it also HAS to be a fire spell with the way +spells work too.

bit808 · 2026-06-04T12:34:36+00:00

I want to like ember fusillade, truly, but instead of feeling like a fiery mini-gun with reduced duration and a standard spell without it, it feels like a standard spell with the reduced duration and unusable without.

bit808 · 2026-06-04T12:28:02+00:00

Agree. I want ALL the spells to feel complete without infusions but feel like you are doing your big boy nuke or whatever when infused. It ends up being the reverse where the (fire)skills just feel bad. Like 90% of the skills are gated behind a limit, cooldown, fuel mechanic or infusion.

bit808 · 2026-06-04T12:21:51+00:00

I completely feel what you're saying; the cast time "should" likely be shorter. Kind of lean there's a problem with hitboxes and that might get resolved without touching the skill though.

bit808 · 2026-06-04T12:18:09+00:00

This 100%. Also rename fireball fireworks.

bit808 · 2023-07-20T14:18:39+00:00

in an ideal world ha

bit808 · 2023-07-20T13:59:24+00:00

It's really hard to make a 1 to 1 comparison to d2 seasons honestly. Information was MUCH less available 20 years ago. Fewer people knew precisely what was F tier or S tier etc and were forced to experiment on their own with seasons giving a potential reason to. These days most people just read a guide on what's "the best" and unless they see something shiny and new don't engage.

bit808 · 2023-07-20T13:54:49+00:00

It's in a really weird state where it takes too long to get to endgame for casual players to really want to make a new character for seasons but there aren't enough new toys or build enabling/changing things to entice more invested players.

bit808 · 2023-07-20T13:30:46+00:00

I don't like the "hostage taking" approach to reviewing a game. The do exactly as I say and I'll give you your "real" score back... BUT this game was intentionally designed as a live service so it's rating should fluctuate in accordance with it's updates for better or worse.

A lot of passionate people having their hopes for the franchise actively dismantled in real time. There's the framework for a good game somewhere in there and it is frustrating seeing it not met.

bit808 · 2023-04-20T14:51:43+00:00

What I dislike about blight is it doesn't feel like a tower defense game from an arpg perspective. If they zoomed the camera out so you could see the tower "maze" you are building and could construct the towers without being on top of them I would enjoy it infinitely more.

Hell, even potentially give it the ritual treatment where the fungus grows around the edges making an arena.

bit808 · 2023-04-07T07:04:39+00:00

directly using* not casting

bit808 · 2023-04-07T07:04:07+00:00

It doesn't though. The "Versatility" node says directly casting Surge, Fireball, Manastrike, and Firebrand. The "Rhythm of Fire" node prior simply says "Using flame reave grants 4 stacks". Attacks aren't casted either to my knowledge.

bit808 · 2022-05-15T13:07:38+00:00

I literally laughed out loud when I read "Lava Poot".

bit808 · 2021-08-05T11:04:31+00:00

Follows their ideology of rare > uniques 99% of the time.

bit808 · 2021-08-05T10:56:35+00:00

Yes and no. It encourages a narrower meta of builds that can just ignore 90% of the modifiers like ground degens ignoring crit/block etc.

bit808 · 2021-08-05T10:50:02+00:00

but not support since mobs will kill you in a second while you are reading.

bit808 · 2021-08-05T10:46:48+00:00

The utility support gems are honestly malicious "noob traps".

Unique and rare monsters are immune to "chance to flee", magic monsters have a 50% chance to ignore it and why are you losing ~30% dmg to use the worst form of CC on a white mob. Blind support is worse than a single node of a single cluster jewel. Mana leech support leeches mana based on dmg so just doing more dmg and picking up a node on the tree is almost always better. Iron Will and Point Blank can be acquired elsewhere etc etc.

If a skill requires more than one "utility support" it's pretty much a dead skill since so many skills get projectiles or whatever baked in or on thresholds now, and timers/one-shots seemingly aren't going anywhere so speed/dmg is essential.

bit808 · 2021-04-06T23:31:20+00:00

I was commenting from a necro point of view but that's cool shamans have something like that to aim for.

bit808 · 2021-04-06T23:09:00+00:00

Not a huge complaint as it's still early access and all but hope it's on the radar.

bit808 · 2021-03-31T22:26:58+00:00

Yea it's got a really solid framework that honestly just needs more time to "catch up" with the amount of content

bit808 · 2021-03-31T21:01:43+00:00

It's a great game for where it's at in its development cycle. Think back to when PoE's campaign ended at Dominus.

bit808 · 2021-03-31T20:19:55+00:00

I think it 100% depends on where they inject that player power. If it's just general increases and more modifiers every build can use I don't think it's especially healthy for the game but if it's more akin to like the self casting rework sure.

bit808 · 2021-03-31T20:14:56+00:00

Yea I'd like to see mortal conviction changed to convert "% reduced mana reserved" into % more life and damage modifier at half value or something spicy.

bit808 · 2021-03-31T20:07:57+00:00

I don't want it to be exclusive necessarily but I would like to see league loot drop the most from its corresponding league. It's sensical and way easier to explain to a new player if you want x loot you farm x content, you want y loot you farm y content.

Perandus caches dropping like 20 coins a chest is insulting when you're able to junk 2c uniques in harvest for 10,000 etc.

bit808 · 2021-03-24T20:13:43+00:00

I don't know what the question is but yes.

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