What is your number 1 skill balance wish for 3.23?

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anti4z500 wrote:

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

1) Ancestral Totems being reworked to function as standalone skills only, buffs to melee while active being removed

2) Previous buffs from Ancestral Totems baked into melee skills at 1/2 their value.

So give melee skills (depending on skill) either 9% more melee damage or 10% more attack speed. Melee strike range bonus I can live without.
It wouldn't be op at all and it will make melee much more pleasant to play.
It's something melee community has been vocal about for years, hope we finally see the day.

i wonder why not remove totem buffs and just add this buff stats as mastery. and give ancestral they uniq aspect like it gives def or res or immunity to some random alignment

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

1) Ancestral Totems being reworked to function as standalone skills only, buffs to melee while active being removed

2) Previous buffs from Ancestral Totems baked into melee skills at 1/2 their value.

So give melee skills (depending on skill) either 9% more melee damage or 10% more attack speed. Melee strike range bonus I can live without.
It wouldn't be op at all and it will make melee much more pleasant to play.
It's something melee community has been vocal about for years, hope we finally see the day.

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Teret3 wrote:

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

1) Ancestral Totems being reworked to function as standalone skills only, buffs to melee while active being removed

2) Previous buffs from Ancestral Totems baked into melee skills at 1/2 their value.

So give melee skills (depending on skill) either 9% more melee damage or 10% more attack speed. Melee strike range bonus I can live without.
It wouldn't be op at all and it will make melee much more pleasant to play.
It's something melee community has been vocal about for years, hope we finally see the day.

Buffs are not the most important thing in totems, six-link totems deal almost half of your total damage. If you take totems away, also taking into account the fact that melee are already weak, the buff should be at least 80-100% more damage, this will simply cover the taken totems, which are not so difficult to place on the boss. So melee buff ideally should be 150% more damage to make them playable, if you take totems away.

And you say take away about 80% of their more damage and give them 9%-10%, that is -70% more damage, when they need +70% more to what they already have now with totems :)

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

6L Ancestral totems are things of the past decade. No one bases their melee builds around linking totems. It's more an afterthought when you have free sockets. Mainly when using 2H weapon.
Main reason for this is in todays PoE where endgame bosses are UE, Exarch, Eater, Maven and various invitations where whole screen is occupied with projectiles, degens and such, totems die instantly and it's hassle in the first place to cast them. No one likes to do that especially because as melee your damage uptime is already low and you're exposed by default. Wasting time on casting totems is bad gameplay.
Ancestral totems can give you extra damage for very short window of time but it's far from being reliable source of damage. Same goes for buffs they give.

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

6L Ancestral totems are things of the past decade. No one bases their melee builds around linking totems. It's more an afterthought when you have free sockets. Mainly when using 2H weapon.