Spears are wholly underwhelming, and parry is a meme

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zepberonha#9748 wrote:

the world record was just beaten by a guy playing spears, using parry all the time. Its a skill issue, spears prob gettin nerfed

Who cares about that? The 0.001% who plays nothing but campaign entire time? Awowahahh time to nerf things because some speedrunner can pull it off.

giga L take.

What does it mean for something to be a meme? I'd think that means it's good, because it's spreading, but that can't be correct.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

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zepberonha#9748 wrote:

the world record was just beaten by a guy playing spears, using parry all the time. Its a skill issue, spears prob gettin nerfed

Who cares about that? The 0.001% who plays nothing but campaign entire time? Awowahahh time to nerf things because some speedrunner can pull it off.

giga L take.

If something is called 'wholly underwhelming' I'd think pointing out any use case is a good argument.

Surely no one holds the position that twisters can't handle the end game so I don't need to push that point, and they'll probably be even stronger with the new ascendancy.

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Vari#0223 wrote:

If something is called 'wholly underwhelming' I'd think pointing out any use case is a good argument.

Surely no one holds the position that twisters can't handle the end game so I don't need to push that point, and they'll probably be even stronger with the new ascendancy.

Twisters sure need to be adjusted. But Parry? Parry is a meme and should be removed from the game. Unless Bucklers and Parry getting a significant reworks.
Rest of initial skills barely works in act 1. Instead they want us to generate charges. Jumping thru hoops to end up with almost no payoff. It's a bad game design.

The parry mechanic is game design by Dr. Mengele.

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Vari#0223 wrote:

If something is called 'wholly underwhelming' I'd think pointing out any use case is a good argument.

Surely no one holds the position that twisters can't handle the end game so I don't need to push that point, and they'll probably be even stronger with the new ascendancy.

Idk maybe read the original post or something. Being all grandstanding champion of logic demanding everything is explained to you in a 300 page thesis with by-the-dictionary definitions and all, what it means to be a meme, he said. This is more stank than reddit I swear... jeez.

If you don't know what this is about then just don't dilute the discussion or go play some spear with variety then come back.

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Vari#0223 wrote:

If something is called 'wholly underwhelming' I'd think pointing out any use case is a good argument.

Surely no one holds the position that twisters can't handle the end game so I don't need to push that point, and they'll probably be even stronger with the new ascendancy.

Even the guys who know close to everything about parry call it out as a shit skill.

Did you know you cannot parry the soft backhand from the miller, but you can actually parry the slam.

Because the only way to know it, is to study poe2db attacks for every boss.

Like in what fucking world is that a thing.

Also also, everybody and their mom stop using parry the moment you hit lvl15 because it's way too RNG.

Still hoping for a parry rework or straight up a ton of buffs.

Half the attacks instant stun you at early levels, mobs attack too slow and attack where you were half a second ago, overall, it's annoying and it's bad.

Bump, there's still time to at least boost parry's numbers.

Personally I thought Spears worked well with Druid. Parry combined with Wing Blast was a good crowd clearer, and thunderstorm and primal strikes made for a potent combination.

But after all the nerfs planned in the next update... I might agree with you about spears being underwhelming. It was only its synergy with Druid that made the weapon appealing to me, and a lot of that is being taken away.