Snapshotting

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werezompire wrote:

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werezompire wrote:

Will the damage from ground effects from skills like Fire Trap & Desecrate change if you swap weapons after they're created?

Why are people trying so hard to snapshot to begin with? I just dont get it.

It may be possible after the ground is burning and the corpses have been created that they remain even if you switch gems but i do hope they look into this as well.

I told it like it should be done some time ago, make all gear set on the char in any instance but the town instance to remove any kind of gear swapping in battle.

I wasn't talking about removing gems; I was talking about using gems in your secondary weapon/shield slots. They obviously intend for people to be able to have secondary skills attached to a second slot of equipment or they wouldn't have a swap weapon button or the second slot of equipment in the first place so I was just checking to see how it works. And using those second weapon/shield slots is the only way to equip more than 8 abilities at a time which is something that many summoners could really use.

Abilities that create something relatively permanent like a minion or totem adjust on the fly depending on your active equipment. I assume one-of spells (like a fireball) use whatever equipment you have at the time you cast it. Something like Desecrate is a weird in-between case where I could see it going either way which is why I asked for clarification.

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HeisenbergBlue wrote:

Nevermind...

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JNF wrote:

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GoatEatingToilet wrote:

I get what you are saying here, but wouldn't it make more sense to rally behind something like improving current minion gems instead of showing disdain over a mechanic change? I would much rather have the minion damage gem boosted and changed so that it is more damage instead of increased damage. That change alone could make the gem far more versatile and decrease the hurt from lack of mine/trap damage increases.

I'd say this is more of a need than a want at this point. People keep talking about how 'op' summoners are with and without snapshotting, but those same people likely haven't logged any time at all on an end game summoner without snapshotting or a 6L. A summoner should be able to perform adequately in end game maps by summoning a non-snapshotted, 5L minion, and that's just not possible at this point in time. Making the minion damage gem multiplicative, rather than additive, would at least bring us one step closer to such.