Why is Faster Projectile gem the only one with "increase" instead of "more"...

You made 29% more projectile damage for Slower Projectile and for Pierce, so why not make it for Faster Projectile as well ? This gem is really cool and too often neglected because of the lack of damage...

Because having faster projectiles is already a buff to the damage of some skills (spark). It also increases the range of (and therefore the area covered by) skills like EK, flame totem, and incinerate.

Slower projectiles greatly reduces your AoE and dps, so having a more multiplier makes the gem somewhat useful. Faster projectiles with a more multiplier would be OP and almost every projectile build would use it (it would also make slower projectiles almost useless).

Faster projectiles is just fine how it is.

The Pierce gem gaining a damage multiplier made no sense imo. After doing that why not throw damage multipliers on anything we'd like?

Btw Iron Will and Culling Strike also both have increased damage, Faster Attacks and Faster Casting are both increases, and I would assume Iron Grip also has increased per level.

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Slower projectiles greatly reduces your AoE and dps, so having a more multiplier makes the gem somewhat useful. Faster projectiles with a more multiplier would be OP and almost every projectile build would use it (it would also make slower projectiles almost useless).

This gem is already useless bro, you can just play with Pierce instead or so many other support gem that would be better than Slower Proj

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The Pierce gem gaining a damage multiplier made no sense imo.

Yes i don't understand either, so at this point why not for Faster Proj.

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adghar a écrit :

The Pierce gem gaining a damage multiplier made no sense imo. After doing that why not throw damage multipliers on anything we'd like?

Because pierce used to not be used by anyone except Lioneye's Vision users, and the gem itself was pretty much never touched, it was always chain or nothing.


Don't get me wrong, I don't really agree with its current state; it's being used by projectile skills that already have guaranteed pierce just because its a good damage amp regardless (not to mention a double-dipping damage amp atm). Imo it (at best) should start with no damage bonus, and gain 1% 'more' per level, up to 19% at lvl 20. That's low enough to be outdone by supports solely intended as damage amps, but still enough of an incentive to consider pierce over chain.

We have so many support gems with huge damage boosts now that it feels like a waste to ever use a gem like Faster Projectiles. I get projectile speed from wands and/or the tree instead and use that support slot for a massive damage boost. A more multiplier would at least make me start using Faster Projectiles on some builds.

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We have so many support gems with huge damage boosts now that it feels like a waste to ever use a gem like Faster Projectiles. I get projectile speed from wands and/or the tree instead and use that support slot for a massive damage boost. A more multiplier would at least make me start using Faster Projectiles on some builds.

Exactly, a lot of people would play with this gem if it was as much efficient as the others support gems

Faster Projectiles is fine.

Pierce should lose the damage multiplier and become 100% pierce. It's pretty easy to get 100% pierce without the gem, so if it lost the multiplier and stayed 50% I think people wouldn't use it.

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Oriuke a écrit :

You made 29% more projectile damage for Slower Projectile and for Pierce, so why not make it for Faster Projectile as well ? This gem is really cool and too often neglected because of the lack of damage...

Because once upon a time, not every support gem had "more" mods on it.

Give it a few months, I'm sure Faster Projectiles will get an update.