Why fireball is dead?

Dude, there are so many skills now, so many new ones, and you claim a skill that has been in the game for 7 years is dead?
Of course people play the newer stuff especially in the beginning of a league.
Fireball is actually good, just so many more fun alternatives.

DPS wise fireball totally wrecks everything and can shotgun like kinetic blast. My biggest problem is that it requires pierce fork or chain plus GMP to do any meaningful clear. You also need to get some proj speed (this should really scale as the gem lvls) since you would otherwise be outrunning your fireballs. The threshold jewels are weak seeing how it is easy to get the equivalent AoE from nodes.

FB is only a clearskill though. You'd wanna be using flamesurge if you want some insane single target dps with fire skills (unless youre like that one guy playing firestorm, which under the right circumstances hits like a truck).

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insilopeh a écrit :

DPS wise fireball totally wrecks everything and can shotgun like kinetic blast. My biggest problem is that it requires pierce fork or chain plus GMP to do any meaningful clear.

Like a lot of older Bow skills/spells that wasnt reworked.
(or just go ignite, then you dont need pierce and gmp)

All they need is to make it heat-seeker fireball - simple, interesting and not lore or balance breaking. Sacred 2 had heat-seeker fireballs and they were very nice.

P.S. But it will be VD, oh shi...

Because of the hyper clear speed meta.

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taybaza123 a écrit :

GGG has buff spell casting but a lot of player still play winter orb or strom brand. Does GGG hate fireball? ,or it's too OP in the past?

because hand hurts when u cast 1000 times a day in a play session, all this hand cast is poorly thout
my hand hurts , LITERALLY

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KopaKabana a écrit :

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taybaza123 a écrit :

GGG has buff spell casting but a lot of player still play winter orb or strom brand. Does GGG hate fireball? ,or it's too OP in the past?

because hand hurts when u cast 1000 times a day in a play session, all this hand cast is poorly thout
my hand hurts , LITERALLY

You know you hold "attack" button for same amount of time while playing Winter Orb and Fire Ball? The only diffrence is that with Fireball you just tap the button and go to next pack, with Winter Orb you hold button for longer, kill couple packs and repeat.

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tm10067 a écrit :

All they need is to make it heat-seeker fireball - simple, interesting and not lore or balance breaking. Sacred 2 had heat-seeker fireballs and they were very nice.

P.S. But it will be VD, oh shi...

That's pretty much SRS.

Idk, fireball mines is pretty fucking good for clear.

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Pathological a écrit :

and the second makes the skill something other than what it is now.

That's kind of the problem & solution. A lot of skills in this game are just terribly designed and/or don't fit how the game is played. Either got to remake the entire spell or change how the game is played.

GGG is doing neither...They're doing what Blizzard would do in D3...just add more damage.