Unleash Support sounds crazy isn't it?

Seems finicky and unreliable vs a flat 40% more support. I guess it will be nice for bosses for certain skills, and feature heavily in shaper 1 shot YouTube videos.

It's not what I expected, but it might be useful on a second spell. Still not enough to get me to go back to self-cast though.

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super DoT build if the "effects re-occurred" could stack.

dots do not stack with multiple cast.
that being said i have my vortex doing over 1m shaper dmg in new patch.
soo do they really need to?

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Unleash Support

So how does the seal stack works?
They stack passively?
So at 20/20 every 2 second or so you are going to have a spell that deals 296% more damage?

Every 0.71*3=2.13 second you are able to cast spell which will rapidly repeat itself (reoccur) 3 times after initial cast with 26% less damage (less damage applied only to reoccured "casts"). Total damage (initial cast + 3 reoccurs) is (1 + 0.74*3)=3.22 times more damage or 222% more damage (compared to same gem setup without Unleash).

Taking into account this gem renders Spell Echo as almost useless and most likely will replace it in hand-cast setup, Unleash provides 110% more damage over Spell Echo (note: only if you cast spell once in 2.13+ second).

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Say I have 3 seals maxed out and I cast a fireball and its going to hit for it's damage/effect and then each seal will repeat this fireball effect once resulting in quadruple hits? And if the fireball resulted in ignite is the ignite going to stack, or just overwrite itself over 3 times?

Ignite does not stack nor overwrite itself. Monster can be affected by multiple ignites at the same time, but only one of them will apply its damage to monster (the one with highest burning DoT).

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Same for DoT spells like essence drain will the dots stack 4 times?

DoT from same spell usually doesn't stack with itself (except Blight where it is explicitly stated in the description of the gem).

Unleash is def useable just not for main skill so much

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No I mean from what it reads I don't have to wait, and 2 seconds isn't that long and thats 3 stacks.

What I was thinking was you can look at this like ruthless support for spells, even if you just spam main skill and no wait it will still do a double hit every 0.7 seconds.

Incorrect. Using the skill resets your seals/seal timer. You have to not cast for at least 0.71s to gain a seal.

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And say I am moving around dodging stuff for 2 seconds my next fireball will hit 4 times (you know sounds pretty good especially with fireballs new massive damage effectiveness + ignite stacks for boss killer spell).

Correct, though note that Ignite does not normally stack and thus only the highest-damage Ignite (which will itself potentially be reduced by Unleashed Support's reoccurence damage reduction) will take effect.

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I have no idea why people say this saves self casting since I never claimed that. But if the effects like damage over time stacks 4 times this makes dot spells look cool.

Fixed DOT spells such as Essence Drain do not/cannot stack from the same source. Player A and Player B can both have an Essence Drain on an enemy; Player A cannot have two (or four) Essence Drains by himself.

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And if it doesn't it still makes sense for 4x damage on big bosses especially the mechanics heavy one. I am sure I won't be as geared as I_NO with 35k ES and just stands in everything and spam skills... I would be dodging stuff a lot imo.

Unleash Support is a playstyle thing. Some players will enjoy the option to cast at a less frequent rate without losing too much damage, and some skills will benefit from burstfire casting more than others will. It's not The New Be-All of Damage, but it's an interesting gem that does what support gems are FUCKING GODDAMNED SUPPOSED TO DO - it modifies the actual behavior of the parent skill and makes it play in a new and potentially more interesting way. Which means I'm a fan of it.

As far as my Math goes. Spamming your spell will effectively get you 100% more dps if your effective cast speed is about 0,71 sec. With effective i mean that everyone always has to move between casts - while clearing we still have to move between packs. If your effective cast speed is insteed longer its more like a 300% more multiplier. - this will be the cast with most bossfights.

In short... this is completly amazin. - For everything.

Yeah just put it on Arc. Cast once per pack and wipe the screen with multiple Arcs that autotarget everything. Then onto next pack.

It's like Arc traps but instant and you don't need to waste sockets for Trap gem or Multi-trap/Cluster-trap (also big less damage with these) so you technically have two more damage supports on your 6L.

People have been playing Arc traps for ages because it's good for leveling and this looks like it will be even better than traps.

About the 'reoccuring', if the first occurence would shock the monster, will the reoccurences benefit from the shock ? Or is it considered as a single spell cast ?