Multistrike

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Modchristian89 wrote:

is it soon time to fix MultiStrike ?

MultiStrike reduce's the mana cost of your ability - increases attack speed and it increases the damage you deal. you wont find a melee player who is not using this support gem or searches for it in order to use it.

the gem only reduces damage by 36% but at lvl 20 it grants 57% more damage + if you improve the quality to max it add's 10% more...

take a look at this as an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHO-Gmi83BE

there's many other abilities that are being spammed like this and pvp is a mess due to the extreme high attack speed of player's along with aoe or movement based skill's.

you no-longer need movement speed to avoid heavy damage but you can become close to immortal for a brief moment instead... there is not much use in trying to run either since all abilities land within a split second and are aoe based....

nerf multistrike before it is too late and by that i mean players getting too accustomed to it

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demivion wrote:

why doesn't multistrike apply to each hit of cylone instead of the tornado itself?

essentially each cyclone spin would hit 6 times instead of 2. Why does it have to spin 3 different mobs?

That would probably eliminate the massive desync

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Bukariin wrote:

I finally got my first Multistrike after thinking I'd never get that far on my Duelist.

And sweet Jesus, it's OP.

You could easily compare it to something like Faster Attacks, which is what I was using in my 4th slot with Dual Strike before I got Multistrike. I had Faster Attacks leveled up to 59, giving me 39% greater ROF. Without even leveling it, I compared DPS and found that Multistrike immediately gave me a few percent more DPS than Faster Attacks. Finding out that every level would grant me a few more percent was just lovely.

The other thing about Multistrike is that I don't have to be so careful aiming my Dual Strike anymore; without it, if a mob is running away (as skeletons are wont to do), I sometimes end up running in a circle around it, Dual Striking the ground uselessly. With Multistrike, I can jump into a crowd of mobs and hold down my attack button, and a few seconds later, there's no mobs. Cool.

Honestly, it would be nice if every other support were like this - making skills both better and easier to use. I don't mind that it lets me hit things without having my cursor directly on top of them (makes hitting small mobs way less of a headache), but it's significantly better than Faster Attacks in all relevant metrics; it's sad that my Level 59 Faster Attacks grants less added DPS than the Level 19 Multistrike when they effectively do the same thing with slightly different mechanics.

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Vipermagi wrote:

The aforementioned double-post, with a likely explanation too :)