SPOILER : Picture of GGG's meeting during Ancestral Call support gem's creation

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Shagsbeard написал:

The main problem with Dominating Blow is that it's relegated to a "Support Skill" in a game where there are plenty of skills that don't require support. You simply can't make it through the game with Dominating Blow as your only attack. There are encounters where it simply doesn't work. So you would need a backup skill that could get you through those encounters, and if your backup can do that, it's able to do the rest of the game too.

It's a neat skill... in a game with no role for it.

There was the 1-month race, I think before Harbinger?
After seeing all of Sexcalibure's threads I decided to give Dominating Blow a try during it.

It was fun, and I was mapping with Dominating Blow. (And zombies)
I mean, I was probably being carried a fair bit by the zombies and The Baron but I was doing okay except when Breaches showed me how bad things actually were.

It'd start out okay, except that when my dominated minions were dying (either by being killed or expiring) I was unable to get any more and I was quickly overwhelmed.

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NukeFonKillazz написал:

did they ban the op becuz of this

On probation, not banned.
And I think theirprobation was more recent than this thread.

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NukeFonKillazz написал:

did they ban the op becuz of this

He got a probation shortly after they told us that the Abyss monsters couldn't be dominated. He probably had a few choice words to say over PM about the lineage of the person responsible for that decision.

Running Dominating Blow to support Zombies is a pretty good build, but you really can't do anything with it that you couldn't pull off simply using Zombies. DB just makes it "more" and possibly faster. Makes it more fun too. But it doesn't make a build. You had a Zombie build, backed up with The Baron, backed up further with DB. The skill deserves better treatment than that.

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NukeFonKillazz написал:

did they ban the op becuz of this

It's about the only thing they ban players for.

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Shagsbeard написал:

The main problem with Dominating Blow is that it's relegated to a "Support Skill" in a game where there are plenty of skills that don't require support. You simply can't make it through the game with Dominating Blow as your only attack. There are encounters where it simply doesn't work. So you would need a backup skill that could get you through those encounters, and if your backup can do that, it's able to do the rest of the game too.

It's a neat skill... in a game with no role for it.

It's fun to use on a summoner build to get those rare mobs as generals in your zombie army apocolypse.

But completely unnecessary, and somewhat impractical. Actually getting a hit to connect (assuming tank isnt an issue) is pretty tricky with all the zombies, golems, spectres and skeletons attacking, even with the grace period between hits.

Ancestral Call doesn't support minions. It supports minion skills just fine. Your Dominating Blow will likely be able to Ancestral Call without an issue. The minions themselves will not, likely because of coding issues with having twenty Raging Spirits each spawn two ancestor spirits.

Also c'mon. I know it's one of Sexcal's things, but does anybody really care this much about Dominating Blow? The fundamental nature of the skill means it's never going to be much more than a fun party trick in a build that doesn't otherwise need it, because the times you need the best performance possible out of your build (i.e. burning down bosses), DB is inherently pointless. No amount of numbers buff is going to make "Kill critters to make them your minions" work as more than a random mappy funtime skill you have to set aside when it's time to get some work done.

As a random funtime skill it works fine. Making it work as anything but a random funtime skill would require enough of a rework that it probably wouldn't be Dominating Blow anymore. Dafuq is Grinding Gear actually supposed to do with this thing?