Elemental damage completely dominates this game, physical remains useless

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allbusiness a écrit :

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Moosifer a écrit :

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allbusiness a écrit :

You need absolutely supreme gear like Moosifer said.

I did? No I said that at the highest levels both are equal. My old comment was you need to hit the jackpot to find a physical weapon that can match an elemental one.

Look, the problem with physical damage is it's all or nothing. Help out mid tier rolls and people will have a much easier transition.

It's all in or nothing as you said, if you get a godly weapon your physical build can actually out dps an elemental build. The issue lies in two parts; one, the physical build typically struggles with survivability. Two, as you said, you need a baller weapon to keep up.

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mazul a écrit :

Prove it with math or your statement means jack shit.

Edit: furthermore, we are only talking about PURE PHYSICAL builds, no elemental damage whatsoever.

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Moosifer a écrit :

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mazul a écrit :

Prove it with math or your statement means jack shit.

Edit: furthermore, we are only talking about PURE PHYSICAL builds, no elemental damage whatsoever.

Can people get over this polarizing shit. The game currently doesn't have pure physical, it has partial conversion, full conversion or elemental. If you aren't going at least partial conversion than you are gimping yourself to prove a point. Whether that's good or not, let's talk in the context of this game and not how people imagine it should be. This same crap comes up when talking about melee skills "GS and LS don't count because they are ranged skills." Just stop already.

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Jakabov a écrit :

People calling physical builds fine tend to think a build that does 75% of its damage as elemental is actually a physical build. If a build uses Hatred, Added Fire Damage and Weapon Elemental Damage, it's not a physical build. Even if you use a weapon with high physical damage, it's an elemental conversion build.

Name a competitively viable build that actually does more than half of its damage as physical. This rules out the use of Hatred+AddedFire, they add more than 50% by themselves. I can't think of a single build that's predominantly physical -- and no, you can't take a Hatred+Fire build and just remove those two skills and call it a valid physical build.

Elemental damage dominates every aspect of this game. Even the builds that are generally considered physical are actually more elemental than physical. Elemental damage is better in every conceivable way, right down to having better curses and auras, and even being much easier to gear and build for.

There's no support gem with +75% physical damage, there's no passive node with +30% physical damage, there's no aura that adds several hundred flat physical damage. Everything good in this game is or pertains to elemental damage.