Garbannoch
Fledgling Freddie
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2003
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i agree with bitte - the nerf won't affect hibs a lot since every group has a chanter that uses heat debuff and even with 10% resist piercing and WITHOUT relics you would cap after the debuff.
Atm there are 3 slots that can have items with resistpiercing (gem, staff and belt) which atm give a maximum of 15% passive resistpiercing. Most people will just swap the Traldor staff with Tartaro: 15% resist piercing pre 1.70 gets changed to 10% resist piercing and 5% more dmg (incl cap increase - very nice for hibs debuff nuking) post 1.70.
I would not rely on the "fact" that active charges don't stack with the passive resist piercing. Look at +spell range: Even if you cap it at 10% your range still increases when you use Zahur or Cloudsong charge which both have +5% spell range and +5% resist piercing.
Resist piercing was a nice idea which did benefit single dd casters a lot (especially alb and mid ones who don't have the luxuary of having a debuffer in each group). PBAOE was too powerfull with resistpiercing and it was probably the reason why it got nerfed.
Personally I don't think the nerf will be extreme (and especially not for hibs) and I also expected the nerf to come. Anyway, 1.70 which will go live together with NF is still a good 4+ months away.
Atm there are 3 slots that can have items with resistpiercing (gem, staff and belt) which atm give a maximum of 15% passive resistpiercing. Most people will just swap the Traldor staff with Tartaro: 15% resist piercing pre 1.70 gets changed to 10% resist piercing and 5% more dmg (incl cap increase - very nice for hibs debuff nuking) post 1.70.
I would not rely on the "fact" that active charges don't stack with the passive resist piercing. Look at +spell range: Even if you cap it at 10% your range still increases when you use Zahur or Cloudsong charge which both have +5% spell range and +5% resist piercing.
Resist piercing was a nice idea which did benefit single dd casters a lot (especially alb and mid ones who don't have the luxuary of having a debuffer in each group). PBAOE was too powerfull with resistpiercing and it was probably the reason why it got nerfed.
Personally I don't think the nerf will be extreme (and especially not for hibs) and I also expected the nerf to come. Anyway, 1.70 which will go live together with NF is still a good 4+ months away.