poe and melee totems

hey GGG

i love the league.

question: melee totems, i belive it is unfair to just remove them, you can make spell totems and want totems and bow totems. they are dump and run.

so please find a way to make melee totems come back, not as a buff, but a way to play just like spell and ballista support.

ps. 15 nov com on now!!! today :)

The exarch boots has it, if you want to play the build i'm sure they're cheap on league start, especially in sctrade. You're stuck on a suboptimal link setup though.

I hated melee totem buffs. But also hate that they simply deleted the totems instead of just removing the buffs. Deleting them puts all the "classic GGG triple tap" memes to shame. At least all those gutted skills and playstyles and builds that were nuked from orbit by GGG's ham fisted approach to balance technically still exist and might be revived and occasionally are.

The Earthbreaker boots need to have ancestral bond removed from them and/or give an extra support built in so you can at least have a single 6L for your totems.

The boots are really really poorly designed they are at odds with what they're trying to enable as they sit. Anyone wanting the playstyle can only have a 5L and because of Ancestral bond they can't even have a supplemental 6L elsewhere for a melee skill. They feel like someone just slapped them together last moment without even thinking about this.

Want to know how bad they are? They aren't even interesting in SSF Ruthless when I dropped them on a run where I don't yet have a 6L and could theoretically use them scaling wise. A unique needs to be particularly shit to not be interesting in Ruthless and doubly so if its a pseudo 5L

To be fair, the changes we did get to melee were nice. They just need a bit more time to iron this out perhaps

Thx GGG for lookimg in to this i hope

While I don't disagree that the boots might need a touch up, it's important to note that Earthbreaker support itself got a pretty massive buff when they made the change to be boot only. Previously, L20 support gem gave you 0% more damage whereas the L25 one on the boots now give 24% more. It is effectively a 6L in damage for the mana costs of 5L.