Realistically how bad are the counter attack gems going to be?

With the block reduction, I was hoping something defensive. I'd stick with my cws thank you.

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Astealoth a écrit :

I hope they aren't bad, I hope they are fun and at least comparable to the current cwdt combinations.

Right now I run all 3 of my 4Ls as cwdt, one for immortal call endu cry inc dur, one for minion spam skele zombie spectre, and one for some random fun spells like enfeeble molten shell blood rage. That plus tri herald makes tanking a rave laser show.

This is a case in point on why trigger gems are bad for the game. Why have utility skills that you need to think about and manually cast when you can just use 16 gem slots for auto-cast skills?

I'm not attacking you personally, Astealoth, but your quote is representative of the current PoE metagame and the dumbing down of gameplay. Trigger gems are a "cool idea" that has unfortunate consequences.

Damage mitigation like armour sucks dude. On that case you RIP yes or yes. There is no other option. And that is the main stupid disadvantage of melee over ranged, you are forced to facetank but mitigation sucks and you can be easily one-shotted on the hardest content.

Check your facts before speaking. Try to do uber with a Reave char and you will see what I am talking about.

Doing the same DPS you do with spectral throw your chances to die are naturally multiplied x100.

I expected the gems to be something that would help a lot with this melee problem that now seems that will never be fixed .... and damned ranged spectral throw will keep on shaming melee to the ground forever.

Melee is just a noob trap on this game. It is not viable if you want to survive.

My last hope for melee is some sort of armor rework.

And on top of that, you will lose DPS using this gems or you might lose IC setup because it will take more gem slots to make it work. As someone said before those should be melee exclusive passive nodes instead of gems ....

I started the thread off sarcastically, but man no one has hope for these lol.

I could see these being useful if...

~0.3 sec cd
-no mana reservation (the gem slots are honestly enough)

Problem with melee is mitigation and desynch, and those gems bring nothing to the table.

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awetZ020 a écrit :

My last hope for melee is some sort of armor rework.

There has to be some melee only defenses. If they just rework armor, all bow/caster builds will go armor and still be better than melee.

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symban a écrit :

Problem with melee is mitigation and desynch, and those gems bring nothing to the table.

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awetZ020 a écrit :

My last hope for melee is some sort of armor rework.

There has to be some melee only defenses. If they just rework armor, all bow/caster builds will go armor and still be better than melee.

Not asking for it to be better than eva but just something reasonable. I mean they could live with eva along with hp and never even bother with armor. Can it be said with armor alone and hp?

You can't live alone with Evasion, you need raw mitigation. 7.5% chance of being hit after block% and Acrobatics? That's super. Still have to trim off another 20-25% with auras, Mind Over Matter, Arctic Armour and/or Endurance Charges.

Armour is pretty boss when you get it up to >20,000. Good luck getting that AND resists.



Golden Plate, why couldn't you be Glorious and give me another 300 Armour. And +5 Movespeed because it's not enough to just offer the biggest numbers. Siigh.

Grace+Iron Reflexes is just so much easier.

Those gems are designed for pvp, that's it