yup that summs it up pretty much. I like poison as it allows me to focus on other things. Summoning minions during bosses. spamming poison nova is just raping your mana tho. This is why poison builds get such high numbers as the damage is spread over a set time and not dealt from each hit. In comparison to other builds that dont need to wait between attacks the damage is pretty low. People see huge numbers and assume "OMG THAT IS WAY OVERPOWERED". just an example:
a 15k frost nova from a sorceress can be cast 6 times a second over 6 seconds. thats 15k x 36. Thats 540k over 6 seconds. In comparison a poison nec with around the same skill levels will be doing maybe 180k - 200k over 6.6 seconds say. thats totaly shitty in real terms. Rabies is in the same boat. Since people hear of a 400k rabies etc they think "OVERPOWERED, NERF IT" but with the high duration it is spread over it is still pretty low damage per second compared with any other build.
400k rabies over 8.4 secs is still only 57k a sec. sorcs can easily get 15k damage 6 times a second (way more powerfull) melee builds can easily get 20k damage 5 times a second (almost twice as powerfull, not including deadly strike and crushing blow) and the numbers above would be. rabies druid would have to be pre patch, loaded with perf facets and full inv of skillers + anni heart and brain (roughly)
sorc would have to be level 90ishhave no skillers no facets and no anni heart or brain.
melee builds would be level 90ish too. easily obtainable weapons and equip for that kinda damage, no skillers, anni heart or brain needed again.
It seems poison damage has taken a real beating from people who see a high number and fail to devide it by the duration and multiply the damage they are doing by the frames per attack they are reaching.
Result: Poison builds are pretty much useless and are of no use to man nor beast. Bring back poison builds ffs. just looking at the numbers is dire. Obviously fools are gonna think a 100k listed damage is HUGE but its totaly garbage when its spread over 7 seconds...
Ps. wow that became abit of a rant. my bad but something needs to be done.
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