PureRage-DoD wrote:
100k over 8 seconds is about 11k dps. it is low. Compare to a melee attacking at 5 frames for 10k damage a swing (end of normal you get more damage than that usually)
thats 50k dps.
Yes you have pierce etc but thats comparing it to a melee. If you compare it to any other element it is super low.
My hydra sorc as an example (since apparently they are garbage and the weakest of the sorc builds) has 12k hydra atm. Each head gets about 9 attacks and there are 3 heads per cast. So dps is 3*12k =36k. Thats with unstacked hydras. You can tripple that once they are fully stacked, so that 36k DPS becomes 108kdps. Thats before enchant comes into play too. thats more damage per sec than a poison build gets over full duration at the same level. The reason poison is used so much is you can simply hit, then wait. If you had to apply that poison every 4 seconds then the builds become a little harder to play and the majority of noobs move on to something else thats easy to play.
just look at venom, you can hit 10k venom easily (thats 20k DPS) so the damage is around the same as any other poison build. However you need to apply that poison constantly so the majority of people won't use venom even though it generally has way more DPS capability than any other type of poison.
Hmm theres truth here, however,
blue_myriddn wrote:
how much absorb are bosses getting? is that on that unique charm too?
*edit* - answered my own question. Good lord, some crazy values in there!
Diablo:
res-pois-len 50 50 abs-fire% 60 60 abs-cold% 50 50 abs-ltng% 50 50 red-dmg% 50 50
Ya, numbers like that will make a huge impact on other damage sources and give poison a big advantage.
Basically theres no psn absorb, sure tehres psn length reduced by xx or whatever, but, the fact of the matter is, for bosses, psn is boss because the goddamn counters dont slay you.
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blue_myriddn wrote:
This patch is probably the best balance HU has seen in a long time.
Abominae wrote:
@Blue
Hmmm.... Sometimes I believe your logic is on another fucked up plane of existence.