Content Update 3.16.0 -- Path of Exile: Scourge

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Psaakyrn wrote:

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PotatoSloth wrote:

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The following Support Gems now have a 120% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 140% for Attacks, and 100% for Spells): Cast on Melee Kill, Cast on Critical Strike, Awakened Cast on Critical Strike, Cast while Channelling, and Awakened Cast while Channelling.

Isn't this another mana nerf to trigger builds... E.g. CoC builds scale spell related supports(trigger) instead of attack, thus driving up the mana cost since 3.15 changes.

But now it gets another 1.2x increase in overall mana cost? wtf...? Or am I interpreting this wrongly?

Fairly sure you're reading it wrong as attacks usually can't be triggered to begin with (and not at all by the list here). So for attacks triggering the skills the multiplier is reduced from 1.4 to 1.2, whereas for spells triggering the skills the cost is increased from 1 to 1.2

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vipeer7 wrote:

This is a straight nerf to the gladiator.

If we do not take Versatile combatant our spell block will be close to 0 while with the reworked Ascenancy our max regular block will be 85%. Great. We die to spells.

If we take the Versatile Combatant keystone, regular max block goes down to 50+10% and spell block is 50%, meaning there is no benefit to spell block from having that extra 10% max block. Also. Any investment into spell block will be wasted at this point.

Also. Blood in the eyes. What is the point of blinding bleeding enemies when blind only works if you are stacking evasion, which gladiators dont do, because we want to get hit and block the hit in order to proc block-dependent stuff like life gain on block an if we dont block it, we are stacking armor in order to mitigate damage.

And finally. Fortify as is supposed to be, is wothless. You want to be tanky when you start fighting when you have lots of enemies around. After 4 seconds (best case scenario for getting 20 stacks of fortify) either the character or the monsters are already dead. The rework you proposed requires one to zoom around and kill, kill, kill. We dont kill monsters to kill them but to get loot and you can't pick it up anymore, because your 20% dmg reduction will go to 0 and the cost of that chaos orb is likely to be 10% of your experience.