Arcana27961 Wrote:Finally a fire rune for Disintegrate, even if it's just Convergence. I'm still hoping for a fire Arcane Torrent.
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That's an interesting change and could possibly help, but the fundamental mechanic of the skill's randomness and specific pathing speed made its effective damage 1/3rd of its rated damage unless you were fighting a super-large monster or at the end of a corridor. I've always been a proponent of just making the Twister move slower to improve its effectiveness. It would reduce is maximum range, which was the most unreliable part of its damage, since it was so random whether or not it would go that far in the specific direction you wanted, while increasing the chance it would stay on a target that was in the short to medium range of combat and deal effective damage. Sadly, my Wizard is the only class I have left at 60 since I wasn't particularly too interested in any of the 2.0 changes thus far, but I might see if I can get anything done at that level with Energy Twister to see if it's still garbage tier.
Gave Energy Twister a bit of a try on PTR and it's still basically garbage tier. Casting it directly on top of your intended target gives at most 1 second of contact before it drifts away and the target runs to you. Casting it before the target flips the coin on whether the Twister will actually fly into the target and deal 2 seconds of damage. It's still terrible and this change does nothing to address the main issue that Energy Twister only ever hits for 2 seconds unless the monster is retarded and runs away from you or you're in the end of a corridor so it can only travel into walls. It might hit for 3 seconds against bosses if they're big enough but that's completely meaningless if it's only usable as a swap skill, i.e. unusable in Greater Rifts.
I like the new Lightning Rune for Arcane Torrent though. Would look pretty cool if it were actually blue instead of still purple. Probably gonna level my Wizard on live and build Lightning now.
Tried a bit of the new Monk changes, and while the Spirit generation changes are pretty nice, I still have no real spender to dump it all in. I hope they buff Wave of Light because it really shouldn't be this pomegranatety. Not to mention it's inherently 50% slower because of the animation. Tempest Rush - Flurry is in a pretty cool place, I hope they buff up the other runes to be competitive in damage and utility. I made a suggestion for a lightning rune similar to what we have right now, though I imagined it to be more like a Conduit effect which would probably clash too hard with Wreath of Lightning. The damage is horribly low though, 135%/s. Might be feasible for up to T1 clearing with full Lightning gear and a Schaefer's Hammer, though the proc from the hammer itself and likely Wreath of Lightning would be much more significant.