Why does GGG not keep their promise?

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allbusiness написал:

On introduction Lionseye was not well made; it was BiS for bows at the time. The reason why Lionseye is not BiS is because some reworking of bow passives, changing of certain interactions, etc.


Essentially instead of nerfing Lionseye GGG just introduced power creeping on bows.

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pneuma написал:

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allbusiness написал:

On introduction Lionseye was not well made; it was BiS for bows at the time. The reason why Lionseye is not BiS is because some reworking of bow passives, changing of certain interactions, etc.


Essentially instead of nerfing Lionseye GGG just introduced power creeping on bows.

On introduction, Lioneye's was on a L40-ish bow and it had significantly less vanilla dps. The interesting part of it was the auto-hit (back when accuracy sucked) because it gave strength-archers a way to hit things without taking RT (and opened strength-archery up to using crit a little bit).

In CB, GGG fucked up and released it with way too much damage to go along with that auto-hit, as well as moving it up to a higher base bow.

Later, they introduced the higher %damage mods for 2h and bows (sorry Scrotie, you're wrong here). Lioneye's started to get competition, but only barely. It was still BiS for nearly all archers.

Later, they reworked accuracy so that it was much easier to get into the high 80s/90s accuracy without massive tree and gear investment. Lioneye's really started to get competition here as its "unique" quality was massively depowered.

Later, they reworked reflect to account for player defenses. Now Lioneye's auto-hit cut into player defenses, which significantly cut its power.

Later, they introduced Voltaxic and shit all over the bow category. Then they made Harbinger's have innate crit. Then they made Windripper because they weren't done shitting all over the bow category.

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The wand dealing no physical damage is uninteresting. This is not an "every wander" wand, this is an "ele wander" wand, which competes with rares that have 2-3 flat elemental prefixes and aspd, crit, accuracy/critmulti suffixes.

Note also that the "deals no physical damage" is a local mod. You can still use flat physical on gear to deal physical damage (though no ele wander really cares about that).

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ScrotieMcB написал:

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allbusiness написал:

On introduction Lionseye was not well made; it was BiS for bows at the time.

Pretty sure Tyrannical and Flaring and Emporer's prefixes were around then, too. So no, it's been fine the entire time.

I don't think the new wand is boring. It deals no physical damage; that's a relevant drawback, especially when you consider off-weapon jewelry.

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Alea написал:

why talking about lioneyes ?

Aegis Aurora
Kaom's Heart
Rainbowstride
Shavronne's Wrappings
Soul Taker
Stone of Lazhwar
Doryani's Invitation
The Taming
Rearguard
Soul Strike
Atziri's Splendour
Carcass Jack
Atziri's Acuity
Thunderfist
Alpha's Howl
Crown of Eyes
The Vertex
Prism Guardian
Voltaxic Rift
Windripper
Cybil's Paw
Bino's Kitchen Knife
Divinarius
Mjölner
Doryani's Catalyst
Redbeak
The Searing Touch
Piscator's Vigil


why talking about lioneyes ? ........

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Alea написал:

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Aegis Aurora
Kaom's Heart
Rainbowstride
Shavronne's Wrappings
Soul Taker
Stone of Lazhwar
Doryani's Invitation
The Taming
Rearguard
Soul Strike
Atziri's Splendour
Carcass Jack
Atziri's Acuity
Thunderfist
Alpha's Howl
Crown of Eyes
The Vertex
Prism Guardian
Voltaxic Rift
Windripper
Cybil's Paw
Bino's Kitchen Knife
Divinarius
Mjölner
Doryani's Catalyst
Redbeak
The Searing Touch
Piscator's Vigil

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ScrotieMcB написал:

But just in case you're confused on why it's so good, allow me to dispel the mystery: 100% Immortal Call uptime. If you ever take physical damage with Voll's Devotion equipped, you are simply doing it wrong.

Kaom's and Shav's have nothing on that.