Skill Gem Feedback - Ground Slam - Forum

" The graphic aspect to this skill is so sad, it looks utterly repulsive. Dat orange effect looks so damn glassy. I hope they change it to a white brightness or something else. I understand that the concept is the hit "destroying the ground" but it just looks plain stupid to be honest, especially when you are spamming it, rather have it glow or somekind of effect that isn't litterarely glued to the ground. Also it might work the way it is if you simply change the colour and add brightness, that way it might go well with all the various spots. Why should there be white glowy stuff? I think the concept is quite fine. But a better animation would be if the ground was shaking and waves (shock waves, fuck physics and use perpendicular waves for the ground :D) would spreading from the weapon impact location towards the enemies. Last edited by sintflut2012 on Nov 20, 2012, 5:50:09 AM	Posted by sintflut2012 on Nov 20, 2012, 5:49:53 AM Quote this Post
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but after the change that makes ground slam affected by base weapon speed, the character sheet and tooltip are not currently displaying accurate dps/attacks per second. When using a .95 mace with 5% ias mod, the character sheet displays a faster attack speed than if you have a 1.25 speed mace equipped. which also makes your sheet dps terribly inaccurate. Just a heads up to the devs if they are not already aware of the issue. Last edited by swimsuitarea on Nov 21, 2012, 8:08:24 PM	Posted by swimsuitarea on Nov 21, 2012, 8:07:07 PM Quote this Post
Are you aware that the game displays the same speed for ground slam regardless of weapon speed? Is this a tooltip error or was this an undocumented change to the skill?	Posted by Drakx on Dec 11, 2012, 10:18:47 PM Quote this Post
here is quote inside this own thread to answer the above comments. " Mark_GGG wrote: Ground slam does not use the weapon's base attack duration. The skill has it's own base duration which is used. This is affected by any and all increases to attack speed. Effectively the base attack duration from the weapon is 'replaced' by the one from ground slam, with all the same modifiers applying. As such, the base attack duration of a weapon is irrelevant, but the amount of increased attack speed is not. The "attacks per second" displayed on the skill is incorrect as it cannot currently account for this. this skill has its own attack speed that replaces the weapon, just below the same post on page 8 of this thread: 850ms. it is boosted by all attack speed mods, the ones on the weapon itself included just not the weapon's speed stat. so a 2h mace of 0.95 second attack speed will be the best hammer to use this skill with vs a hammer that has dps far stronger but only single target of 1.3 attacks per second.	Posted by soul4hdwn on Dec 12, 2012, 1:04:51 PM Quote this Post
" soul4hdwn wrote: here is quote inside this own thread to answer the above comments. " Mark_GGG wrote: Ground slam does not use the weapon's base attack duration. The skill has it's own base duration which is used. This is affected by any and all increases to attack speed. Effectively the base attack duration from the weapon is 'replaced' by the one from ground slam, with all the same modifiers applying. As such, the base attack duration of a weapon is irrelevant, but the amount of increased attack speed is not. The "attacks per second" displayed on the skill is incorrect as it cannot currently account for this. this skill has its own attack speed that replaces the weapon, just below the same post on page 8 of this thread: 850ms. it is boosted by all attack speed mods, the ones on the weapon itself included just not the weapon's speed stat. so a 2h mace of 0.95 second attack speed will be the best hammer to use this skill with vs a hammer that has dps far stronger but only single target of 1.3 attacks per second. This was changed in a recent patch and not how the skill functions anymore. We're asking for confirmation of a tooltip error.	Posted by Drakx on Dec 13, 2012, 1:18:56 PM Quote this Post
ok then in that case. post the weapon and relevant passives and supports in question. thats how a few other skills get proper feedback when a tooltip error happens. i predict the old 850ms turned into a speed modifier, or 85% attack speed base. sorry if i'm not helpful right now.	Posted by soul4hdwn on Dec 13, 2012, 4:28:47 PM Quote this Post
There is currently a display bug where the displayed attack duration is still calculating from the old base duration of ground slam, but the skill actually executes correctly using weapon base attack duration.	Posted by Mark_GGG on Dec 13, 2012, 7:09:58 PM Grinding Gear Games Quote this Post
" Mark_GGG wrote: There is currently a display bug where the displayed attack duration is still calculating from the old base duration of ground slam, but the skill actually executes correctly using weapon base attack duration. Thanks for the confirmation!	Posted by Drakx on Dec 13, 2012, 7:15:27 PM Quote this Post
" Mark_GGG wrote: the skill actually executes correctly using weapon base attack duration. Cool, good change Mark. Maul diversity! =)	Posted by Exmorda on Dec 18, 2012, 12:00:19 PM Quote this Post
I haven't been playing a while, so I was hoping to get an update on Ground Slam. I see two nerf/fix to ground slam. Is ground slam still a decent skill to use?	Posted by Whoaness on Jan 12, 2013, 12:33:07 AM Quote this Post