Fortify Wheel/Rampart

Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the Rampart wheel is? Its too weak for a normal build, even if it is permanently fortified. That 15% increased fortify effect translate into 3% reduced damage taken and reduced damage taken is a pretty weak defense mod because it just gets subtracted away from increased damage taken (shock, vulnerability, sextant mods etc).

How about giving it additionally 2% life reg when fortified, that would be great :^)

I mean, how old is this wheel? Like 3 years old and I've never seen a streamer or any player at all using it or at least I cant remember.

Not everything can be "Oh my God! I have to have that!".

But nothing should really suck so bad that no one would bother with it.

That's why they make the big bucks.

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Shagsbeard написал:

But nothing should really suck so bad that no one would bother with it.

Well but thats the state of Rampart.

They should buff it, can we all agree on that?

Like most of the nodes on the tree, just noob traps placed there to add to the illusion of depth.

Sad truth is most of the nodes on the passive tree are just useless, noob traps, and things you will never see anyone get unless they are just completely new to the game. They really need to look into breaking up the monotony of the skill tree.

Change the melee physical damage part to simply damage. I'd probably use it, then.

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Destructodave написал:

Like most of the nodes on the tree, just noob traps placed there to add to the illusion of depth.

Sad truth is most of the nodes on the passive tree are just useless, noob traps, and things you will never see anyone get unless they are just completely new to the game. They really need to look into breaking up the monotony of the skill tree.

Yea thats right.

Still it would be useful if it wouldnt be THAT undertuned in its numeric values. Its not even the fact that the balancing team was too cautious there but its like unchanged for 3 years while other parts of the skilltree that were undertuned like the ranger and marauder swordwheels got huge buffs and are OP now.

I mena seriously come on guys, _3 YEARS_ unchanged eventhough never used. Its also not some garbage scion cluster in the middle of everything but at the edge of the skill tree between marauder and duellist. There should be some useful stuff with good values.

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Shagsbeard написал:

Not everything can be "Oh my God! I have to have that!".

But nothing should really suck so bad that no one would bother with it.

That's why they make the big bucks.

GGG makes the big bucks off of hoarders like me that must buy more stash space:

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The_Human_Tornado написал:

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Shagsbeard написал:

But nothing should really suck so bad that no one would bother with it.

Well but thats the state of Rampart.
They should buff it, can we all agree on that?

IDK. I'd personally want to see the number of active builds in the last six months using those nodes, alongside all other nodes, to determine that. After all, perhaps you don't consider the value worth it, but others do, and they don't happen to have read the forums?

Ultimately, without some accurate information we can't do anything but speculate. You might provide some concrete data, rather than just opinion, if you went and dug through the ladder builds, though. That'd give you some real value in the post.

Plus, "GGG, zero of the top 15,000 builds use X, even in HC, here is my proof" is much more convincing, than "GGG, I assert this is bad and needs a buff", y'know? Shows you actually did some work to back up that opinion.

PS: I mention HC because I suspect that three percent less dying is much more valuable when pushing to 100 in HC mode than anywhere else, and it might actually see use there while SC completely - and correctly - ignores it.

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Arrowneous написал:

GGG makes the big bucks off of hoarders like me that must buy more stash space:

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Similar for all other unique gear types.

WTF man, you have a problem.

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SlippyCheeze написал:

IDK. I'd personally want to see the number of active builds in the last six months using those nodes, alongside all other nodes, to determine that. After all, perhaps you don't consider the value worth it, but others do, and they don't happen to have read the forums?

This is the closest thing I can find. Seems like there are quite a few nodes nobody really takes:

https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?heatmap

The most interesting for me is probably the power charges.