Demon Form Rant
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Ugh, this change gutted my build. Tried to pivot and it too failed. Such a wonderful waste of time and materials.
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If you think that helm with demon form wasn't a bug then I don't know what to tell you. Yes infernalist and blood mage both need work but demon form shreds things apart with even 50-100 stacks and minimally investing in some HP regen on gear with literally any spell of your choosing. It's not the end of the world.
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This feels fucking awful.
My build is crushed, and I don't really have time to level another. Was it even in the top 5-6 most OP builds??? Top 10?????? Jesus christ GGG, f*** off. |
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" I typically STARTED the map at 50-70 stacks, slowly and gently, and only around 100-120 stacks do you do enough damage to mobs and uniques to go quickly. Bosses can be attempted at 200+ stacks. Ending map with ~550 stacks or so with rarity gear, ending at 800+ stacks with normal high-res gear. Now its quite f**ked. |
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" What skills are you using? Even with incinerate and solar orb I was clearing packs almost instantly upon shape shifting. With ridiculous spells like Spark and 200+ stacks it's approaching the same levels as archmage sorc minus the extra layer of defense (MOM) as the mana sustain gets sketchy. I literally didn't have to wait at all to start killing things on tier 15 maps. Yes it starts a little slow but by the time you get to 50-1oo stacks everything dies the moment you touch it. Just get life (20+) regen on all gear pieces you can, + life on kill gloves/ring will allow endless sustain on big packs/breaches, and some 12-15% life regen jewels on the tree. I can get up to 150-200 stacks this way and am not speccing my entire tree to just go for jewels. I bet if you specced the entire tree on jewels you could still get to 400-500 stacks but may be severely lacking in the defense department. |
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" unless you are looking at one shot the boss, i can solo a boss easily with 20-70 stacks. but i do stacked a lot of +fire spell and fireflower | |
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Well, it was obviously not working as intended and it was very obvious that this was going to be fixed. No surprise here imo.
I think demon form can still be perfectly viable, but its definitely weaker without this interaction. And you probably need to spend a lot more on gear to get to a somewhat equivalent level of power. I think mastered darkness is fine though in general, once they actually fix demon form. From the information I gathered in the first few days, it appeared that they plan to fix the weapon stats not applying when shapeshifted. Since it seems to be more complex to fix this, they added the +6 Levels of spells to demon form to compensate for the lack of weapon. At least thats what I always read online, but not from GGG themselves so this might be wrong. I cannot really imagine that its intended to not apply weapon stats though, because with that in mind stuff like mastered darkness really makes no sense at all. So when they fix this eventually, the passive is absolutely fine imo. Last edited by creeten#4303 on Jan 16, 2025, 8:56:04 PM
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This sucks, they made the build unplayable.
Had 150div invested in this crap. unlucky |
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" master of darkness is great when i was low level, it give decent damage boost while still leveling. so i don't need to trade weapon often, and it max at 10 stacks, with decent life regen. i can keep it 100% uptime. master of darkness sort of carry me pass cruel difficulty without spending into gear much (most of my gear was still from lvl30 by the time i reach end game) but then the higher the level of return getting less, then i once i upgrade my gear, the master of darkness become redundant | |
" Bro you should know what you're getting into when investing 150div into a bugged interaction. People actually asking the devs to not fix the game is baffling. |
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