So I guess this will be another league dominated by Shaper phys-to-ele sticks.

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Aetherium написал:

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GoldDragon32 написал:

I can't fathom what they were thinking making 3 different added damage suffixes AND a Prefix just in Shaper. I mean, they could have at least made them all prefix or suffix and split them between shaper and elder so you could only have 2 of them at a time. Letting you roll 4 of them on one item is a serious oversight, 'chase item' or not.

I actually can see how that would be a very decent fix to the stat-stick craze.

Just look at the weapon picture that guy linked, that's just absurdly broken.

its broken yes but its a chase item, its not like every in the league has them

that particular one is obviously extremely broken, but it doesn't take much to make a shaper stat-stick better than unique options... honestly, just a t1 phys-as-ele already beats just about any unique stat-stick out there. One freaking mod, that's all you have to roll to already outclass any unique, and that's not because unique stat-sticks are bad; it's just how absurd the shaper rolls are.



Either the rolls should be local to attacks with that weapon (which, not really a great choice, since most of them take up prefixes that are needed to get phys weapon damage in the first place), or the rolls need to come down hard, having their values cut in half or further. In the latter case, you could still get stat-sticks that outclass uniques by a decent margin, but it wouldn't be so effortless as hitting one roll, you'd have to manage a combo of good rolls to top something like a Princess or Tempestuous.

tempestous were worth 1 alt even before shaped bases release so i think u cant compare rare item and unique that u will get before getting to maps. You cant really compare it to stuff like 3g prismatic eclipse either, thats just 1 alch unique as well. Its not a chase item and one u will get on 1st day of the league. There really isnt an equivalent to statstick with uniques as they are just outdated. You wouldnt get more dps out of using unique statstick in any circumstances compared to using lycosidae and using shield.

Overall i can only call your idea preposterous, that rare item with ilevel 80, that is very hard to obtain just the base should compete with unique that u will get in leveling process.

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Aetherium написал:

tempestous were worth 1 alt even before shaped bases release so i think u cant compare rare item and unique that u will get before getting to maps. You cant really compare it to stuff like 3g prismatic eclipse either, thats just 1 alch unique as well. Its not a chase item and one u will get on 1st day of the league. There really isnt an equivalent to statstick with uniques as they are just outdated. You wouldnt get more dps out of using unique statstick in any circumstances compared to using lycosidae and using shield.

Overall i can only call your idea preposterous, that rare item with ilevel 80, that is very hard to obtain just the base should compete with unique that u will get in leveling process.

Statsticks with uniques are outdated? They were still popular right up through 3.0 (because even those uniques were still substantial dps boosts), they only became outdated because shaper weapons effortlessly outclass them.


"very hard to obtain" my ass. Getting an amazing one like I_no's link sure, getting something that outclasses stat-stick uniques takes virtually no effort. Every weapon has at least one shaper mod granting phys-as-ele and one alone is able to exceed those uniques. Hybrid attribute bases (including foils, which only require dex but still get the same affixes as str/dex swords) have two of em available, and scepters have 3 (plus the ele as chaos). It's not remotely hard to find shaped weapons to use and it's not hard to get more phys-as-ele on them while also getting some other global stats most similar uniques don't have.

People will cry and they will be nerfed to the ground next patch don't worry. They still have nerfs in the bank.

I have shitty rolls paid like 40c and doubles DPS. I wonder what those mirrors do 4x damage? Yeah bit OP but I'll use it again.

Fake dual wields used by a two hander based ascendancy(Slayer) being the most popular thing
This game never ceases to amaze me

I don't care about the power they give us. I care about how "useless" the alternatives become because of these stat sticks.

Want to go a more defensive route? Don't worry, these stat sticks gives you so much offensive power that your passive points can mainly be defensive. What kind of melee character would use a shield in this META? No a character searching for power, that's for sure.

I was confident they'd make it into this league, but i think they will break it next league especially when their "super" boss gets annihilated in <10 seconds by some stat stick wielding demigod.

I'd have gutted them this league but thats a useless statement as I wouldn't have left fake dual wield this long anyway :p

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hwat написал:

Now please for noobs like me — what is stat stick and any links to any build guide about them? \

Anyone?