on design philosophies of spear
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the whole spear thing of 'throw it if you have it' that makes them all use frenzy charges by necessity instead of interesting design is boring. it feels like a requirement or punishment instead of a reward. the whole bow thing of 'two things joined together' that makes them synergistic makes the design feel rewarding and powerful. instead of making everything use frenzy charges by default, its a lot more interesting if all the frenzy charge usage felt like a reward/payoff via skills like wind serpent's fury. a simple change to ice spear would have fangs of frost using frenzy charges for more payoff. changing its animation to be a slow start blood hunt, like a glacier slowing moving but resulting in a catastrophic collision. or making glacial lance leave the ice sheet every time but have it massively speed up the charging velocity of fangs of frost etc. since you guys always do these 'nature of' design philosophies so hard you also let them get in your way. Last bumped on Apr 29, 2026, 10:43:21 AM
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Change combat frenzy to be like ferocious roar in that you can socket another skill "into" it to always behave as if it were consuming a singular frenzy charge (and whatever other modifiers would be appropriate, maybe an you should forgo the opportunity to generate charges altogether with this enabled), or leave it alone and have it behave as it currently does.
Or maybe a support gem like "always behaves as though consuming a frenzy charge, but can not roll critical strikes". I'm sure there's ways to make things feel smoother. I'm not a scientist. I don't think they need to over-design skills anymore than they do though and in many cases it already feels like they are trying to tell you how to use the skills. I feel like that sort of stuff should be on support gems for us to discover and create that synergy ourselves. Not inherently on a skill to dictate what goes in your next skill slot. Maybe it means we get a lot more weapon-specific support gems rather than generic ones, which would be fine by me. Who am I to say anything, I don't respect my time either.
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