An elegant way to balance Cast When Damage Taken

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allbusiness написал:

People that say CWDT has no cost are absolutely stupid.

Not being able to trigger Endurance Charges/Immortal Call/Curses/etc. when you want them to trigger is a massive deal.

More spurious insults from the greedy. You not only want your fully automated spambot to come free of mana costs, you want to be granted a license to manually abuse it as well. Is it too much effort for you to pop another copy of your curse gem into an empty socket and link that to a hotkey? Next I suppose you'll complain that your 6-link is now "nerfed" because Cast on Whatever uses up all your sockets...

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RogueMage написал:

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allbusiness написал:

People that say CWDT has no cost are absolutely stupid.

Not being able to trigger Endurance Charges/Immortal Call/Curses/etc. when you want them to trigger is a massive deal.

More spurious insults from the greedy. You not only want your fully automated spambot to come free of mana costs, you want to be granted a license to manually abuse it as well. Is it too much effort for you to pop another copy of your curse gem into an empty socket and link that to a hotkey? Next I suppose you'll complain that your 6-link is now "nerfed" because Cast on Whatever uses up all your sockets...

Your CWDT spell only works on shit that can't kill you in the first place.


People act like CWDT is the be all end all gem that keeps you alive against everything. No, most of the shit end game that can kill you one shots you anyways, so CWDT is absolutely useless against one shot k.o.. The only thing that CWDT is make it not so tedious to play a melee character. Period.


The ONLY reason why you leave it at level 1 is because you are using it as a way to cast endurance charges/molten shell or defensive curses. Period. And you STILL have to take damage for it to trigger.

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allbusiness написал:

Your CWDT spell only works on shit that can't kill you in the first place.


People act like CWDT is the be all end all gem that keeps you alive against everything. No, most of the shit end game that can kill you one shots you anyways, so CWDT is absolutely useless against one shot k.o.. The only thing that CWDT is make it not so tedious to play a melee character. Period.


The ONLY reason why you leave it at level 1 is because you are using it as a way to cast endurance charges/molten shell or defensive curses. Period. And you STILL have to take damage for it to trigger.

I'm sorry, please explain why levelling it beyond level 1 is a good thing to do. As far as I know there are two exceptions to this, which means 90% of the usage is better at level 1 than level 20

Why would we want a gem that is inherently better unlevelled?

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This thread is still a thing? I wanted to report some findings after using the gem for awhile.

1. I don't like the loss of control over my defenses. I also don't like that I have to get hit for them to trigger. Not reliable enough for my tastes, I will be removing the gem here soon, or leaving it on only to trigger a curse.

2. I don't like the loss of a gem slot in order to automate things. I think the gem is pretty balanced as-is.

3. In general, this is a gem that works really well at level 1. However, it is nice to have gems that work well at different levels. 99% of gems are best at level 20+, having some you don't level is cool. Also, leveling Clarity past level 3 or 4 is 99% of the time a waste and actually bad, but that is okay. Again, variety is nice and I can guarantee that a level 20 CWDT is going to see some good uses once the streamers find a good combo and the rest follow suit.

4. CWDT triggers my abilities a lot, but not usually when I need them. EC and MS work really well as prebuffs to duking it out with a boss, and this gem requires me getting hit first.

5. I don't get why people are scrambling to get the gem "changed." After further reading, I really think this thread is a clever trolling.

6. I have not had a chance to use the other gems as they are more difficult to obtain, so I have no opinion on if they are as balanced as this one is.

7. Lastly, I feel people are jumping to conclusions and have not even tried using it at higher levels. Not sure what the fuss is about.

Maybe it is fun for Kripp to use on a new league, but I find my end-game characters have no real use for it. Only exception is CWDT linked with Temp Chains. I will probably be using that combination here shortly.