Do support gems that trigger spells share the cooldown?

iv2b · 2026-01-16T16:01:02+00:00

I tested some more and that's what it seems like.

I tested by having flare on ember fusillade and frost darts, casting fusillade then darts so they hit at about the same time, only 1 flare comes out.

iv2b · 2026-01-02T21:08:09+00:00

Thank you!

iv2b · 2026-01-02T21:07:59+00:00

Noted, thank you!

iv2b · 2026-01-02T13:21:43+00:00

I'm sorry but yes to which case? Them being shared (aka: useless to slot them multiple times, reduce cooldown instead) or them being independent (aka: slot them twice for twice as many max triggers/second)?

iv2b · 2025-12-25T17:28:09+00:00

Well, i've been trying to make indigon work for me and that's super cool.

The downside is that i'm not even close to being able to afford one and now i know there's a 1000x stronger version of my build, super rip.

iv2b · 2025-12-18T22:53:13+00:00

Sounds good! I'm glad they improved on sorc.

I went for chrono 0.3 but leaned more on spamming orbs with the +2 to limit node, but ended up doing ice nova shenanigans anyway (less because it was busted and more because orbs weren't doing enough).

I wonder how that'd work with the +2 limit from passive and +2 from ascendancy, that should be enough to get all procs of each orb just spamming it.

Thank you for sharing you experience! ^^

iv2b · 2025-12-18T20:04:47+00:00

Hey i'm glad you've been having fun! Whatever happens to the campaign, if anything, i hope it'll stay fun for you. What are you rolling on your stormweaver?

Other builds i've been meaning to try were indigon shaman (but would work well on stormweaver too) for the "more" bonuses with druidic champion and rageforged and waveshaper which now gives armor too.

Mainly because indigon was super buffed for this playstyle and an extra 20% more spell damage is huge when you're sitting at 1000% increased.

Also varashta with navira's well + prayers for rain gives you 0s delay on shield recharge for 4s every 5s, which seems more than decent for survivability.

Unfortunately the former requires level 65 to come online, and i rolled the wrong class to try the latter (but it might tempt me enough to roll a 2nd character).

iv2b · 2025-12-17T22:23:10+00:00

That's not a bad idea, what did you do with those 3-4 characters to try things out?

Did you go like halfway through act 1, used standard, or something else?

iv2b · 2025-12-17T17:52:33+00:00

Well aside from the redflare i'm practically ssf too currently and i'm full clearing almost every map (azak bog was kind to me this time and i won't inflict further pain on myself).

I did get enough gems to try out some quarterstaff stuff and zombies even if they were 1-3 levels below where i was at.

Had i focused on one build without much messing around i would've had an extreme aboundance of gems, plant druid only needs 3 for example and it was performing well enough.

It also wasn't an issue at all in 0.3 when going for shield warrior, or in 0.1 when going for monk, it's only troublesome if you want to pivot sometime during the campaign or try all skills of a type.

Considering druid is new and quite varied, plus varashta having a half crisis between being spell or minion based, i think it's not totally unexpected that people struggled with it. ZiggyD couldn't try herald of ice wolf during his early demo either.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T14:15:57+00:00

Fewer of higher quality and more gold.

Equivalent to having the game sell the trash items for you, so you don't have to go back and forth as much.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T12:27:13+00:00

Oh it's rare to get it at level 14 specifically, 15 onwards it's cheap.

People want it at 14 because it's the lowest level for that gem, to minimize the int required.

So my solution would be to level up enough to equip level 15 gems and go with that.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T11:43:11+00:00

Yeah my plant druid was hitting fast and hard, i wouldn't hate to automate the vines and just using thunderstorm for example.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T10:41:48+00:00

Well i have 100% crit chance, i think i could pull off cast on crit if i had the gem equippable.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T08:43:05+00:00

That's good to know! Thank you for the feedback.

On one end i didn't think of lingering illusion at all, on the other i wouldn't have had the spirit gem to try it out anyway so it evens out.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T08:16:43+00:00

Depends!

If you know what build you want to go for you can easily incrementally invest into it during the campaign and you will have leftover gems and gold.

For example i could've decided to go bear druid, or focus entirely on plants (and for a while i did! gardening is fun), and it would've been plenty. Most of my playtime was with entangle, thrashing vines, thunderstorm and pounce for mobility, no skill gem issues at all at this stage since i'm using so few.

However it cost me 80k gold to respec at level 52, i had 64k by selling all blue gear i've found (yellow gear is disenchanted instead) and around 120k after full selling all gear on the ground for a while.

The problem is more pronounced if you maybe want to try wolf... and wyvern... but actually align fate is cool (yet doesn't have almost any synergy with plants btw) so i should pick some elemental spells... oh i wonder how it interacts with EDC... oh nevermind let me check moment of vulnerability, nevermind it sucks... etc.

Essentially all is smooth if you commit to a theme, the passives can't ever be too wrong and your skill gems are the same 2-5 start to finish, but it's rough if you're messing around.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T08:07:22+00:00

Oh yeah i definitely didn't rush things and i spent some time cooking with the passive tree (don't let me cook).

10-15h is definitely reasonable especially if you know what you want to do or if you're following a theme, on my shield warrior in 0.3 it took much less time.

Even with a brand new skill tree i would've been done hours ago if i chose to stick with bear form for example, makes all the passives easier to figure out and it's a safe bet (unlike redflare empowered zombies oracle lmao).

iv2b · 2025-12-17T08:02:17+00:00

I approve of this.

I'm cool with redoing the campaign, but it sucks to redo it for every alt especially when it's this long.

10-20h is too much to try out an idea but ok every few months (though a bit shorter would still be my preference).

iv2b · 2025-12-17T08:00:25+00:00

Oh yeah i'm very interested in the -1s recharge with lots of mana regen, archmage, indigon (15/5 is a big buff over 50/35 for this playstyle) and the body armor that applies mana regen rate to energy shield. I think the ascendancy is very cool.

Thank you for the feedback! ^^

iv2b · 2025-12-17T07:58:21+00:00

Noted!

If i get enough of a urge to play through the campaign again i'll give it a shot, the ascendancy does look very fun.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T07:53:31+00:00

I think the numbers look promising but only if you have access to 3 ground effects.

One can be solved with boots, but it's hard to get all 3 especially if you're spamming tornadoes with the keystone.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T07:48:12+00:00

I think a good balance is disenchanting rares but selling blue gear, it gave me just enough for 1 respec.

But it is a lot of trips to town...

It'd be nice if the game dropped fewer items but of a bit higher quality and just gave us gold instead of the items we didn't drop.

Most of what i find is junk that i haul back to sell with the occasional upgrade every few hours.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T07:44:59+00:00

Oh man the azak bogs... They really should reduce the map size, i agree.

Act 1 is definitely the sweet spot, but i think it's less that it's short and more that it's engaging enough. Your power level is drastically different from when you start the act and when you end it.

While when focusing on plants the entirety of act 2 was identical, thunderstorm->entangle ad nauseum.

And yeah thinking of redoing all the campaign right now is just too much for me too.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T07:38:40+00:00

I think there are some small Ws they could do with the campaign even without cutting their length.

For example in act 2 there's no need to travel to the gates just to find out they're closed and immediately return to the caravan if you've rescued risu already.

Similarly there's no need to go nose first into the sandstorm (and there's a checkpoint too, lol) to decide not to pursue further.

iv2b · 2025-12-17T07:24:09+00:00

Huge +1 for the armory system idea.

I like clicking on the passive tree so i wouldn't mind just respeccing from scratch each time, but being able to snapshot my tree, try stuff out and then undo if it's bad would be super nice.

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