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heamn
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L H wrote:
Nitz wrote:
heamn wrote:just got a crafted balanced knife with scorpion blade on striking, does it synergize with assassin's MaelStrom MKV's for more knife?



Yes a bit, it won't have as many knives as your skill scorpion blade but it will get some more. Also the proc/skill sucks.


If you look at the SSSU Skull Cap, that proc will get multiple projectiles (granted it gets a flat bonus from the affix itself), but the proc is affected by +max knivs from MKV the same way that a paladin using
Cyclops
will get more mindflay beam procs from Slayer investment.



Maybe i have not tried enough, did upgrade MKV to 15, but still seeing 2 knives when it procs.

and yeah, that proc sucks...
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puting points into MKV does not the boost the proc the same as it boost the regular skill . the proc does not get as many extra missiles as the regular skill . this was discussed a few pages back viewtopic.php?f=4&t=124&p=169368#p169368
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aerial wrote:To clarify, if you test it with 1pt maelstorm you get 1 scorption blade proc, so it does seem to increase projectile count. But not as many as skill states.


It still partially works though. Probably just a small bug or miscalculation perhaps.

Knight_Saber wrote:Do druid bow skills still suck at procing 'on striking' effects?

Like, in 2012 MXL (I've played since Median 08, only just returned to the game), you'd have spore shot firing hundreds of arrows, but if you try 'Cyclops' X-bow (runeword) with 'Tranquilizer' bolt quiver (unique), you'd see fuck all procs.

Meanwhile, trap rat procs 'on striking' like crazy.

It seemed busted. Does it work better now, or do you just stick to shockwave's 100% punisher on kill?


Bow druid's proc a lot, yes. Most will use
Mr. Painless
Mr. Painless
Recurve Bow (Sacred)

Two-Hand Damage: (222 - 244) to (369 - 393)
(Druid Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 725
Item Level: 120
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.19 per Dexterity)%
9% Chance to cast level 50 Punisher Bolt on Striking
+4 to Druid Skill Levels
40% Attack Speed
Adds 25-150 Damage
+(144 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
-(25 to 30)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Slow Target (21 to 25)%
+100 to Dexterity
Physical Resist 10%
Socketed (6)
as endgame.
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Two questions:
1. Why Stormcrow and Maelestorm MKV have 42/53 mana cost at lvl 10/9 ?! Im about to quit lvling my throwsin just because of that.
2. What "hit recently" stands for in stormcrow skill description ? Is it 1s, 10s or 1hr ?
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hellgrind wrote:Two questions:
1. Why Stormcrow and Maelestorm MKV have 42/53 mana cost at lvl 10/9 ?! Im about to quit lvling my throwsin just because of that.
2. What "hit recently" stands for in stormcrow skill description ? Is it 1s, 10s or 1hr ?


Get some mana leech. It's not too difficult. Mana values were adjusted for these reasons. Are you playing the current patch?

2.) Get hit, throw stormcrows and count seconds until you get full amount of knives back. Pretty easy test. You can just go in the blood moor and find that out easily.
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1 . many of the assassin skills have high/unreal mana costs . it forces you to socket p.sapphires in weapon / use teganze amulet , MO with mana leech /MOA if going melee .

2. could be 5 seconds but i am not 100%sure
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High mana cost in early game is not single case for assassin, Ive seen many players complaining how they obliged to buy mana pots (all over again) in order to use their spells.
It might be good idea to reduce mana costs from certain spells for 10% on lower levels.
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I always play on most recent patch. There's no point of not playing. Ofc getting mana leech is easy but now it force you to get it and waste mo/socket slots for it. Otherwise you wont be abele to attack and probably in "late game" when i have like lvl 20 SC it will cost 100 mana with 1000 mana in asn mana pool ? So 10 strikes and you are fucked ?
I know that throwsin is powerfull build but with that mana cost it becomes usless as "starter" char. Also i also wondering why only assassin get fucked by doubleing mana cos of her skills.
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A naked assassin has 1800 energy at lvl 120.

Pollice Verso
Pollice Verso
Gauntlets (4)

Defense: (48 - 54) to (90 - 102)
Required Level: 10
Required Strength:
28
Item Level: 19
4% Chance to cast level 3 Time Strike when Attacked
+(24 to 40)% Enhanced Defense
+(7 to 10) to Strength
+(6 to 10) Life after each Kill
+(6 to 13) Mana after each Kill
Requirements -8%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (216 - 239) to (333 - 369)
Required Level: 27
Required Strength:
52
Item Level: 36
8% Chance to cast level 5 Time Strike when Attacked
+(58 to 75)% Enhanced Defense
+(12 to 16) to Strength
+(16 to 20) Life after each Kill
+(21 to 28) Mana after each Kill
Requirements -16%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (583 - 635) to (854 - 930)
Required Level: 44
Required Strength:
165
Item Level: 59
12% Chance to cast level 7 Time Strike when Attacked
+(92 to 109)% Enhanced Defense
+(18 to 24) to Strength
+(26 to 30) Life after each Kill
+(36 to 43) Mana after each Kill
Requirements -24%
Socketed (3)
Defense: (875 - 946) to (1274 - 1378)
Required Level: 52
Required Strength:
296
Item Level: 85
14% Chance to cast level 8 Time Strike when Attacked
+(109 to 126)% Enhanced Defense
+(25 to 30) to Strength
+(31 to 35) Life after each Kill
+(43 to 50) Mana after each Kill
Requirements -32%
Socketed (4)
could help.
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Having tons of trouble with the first level challenge with an iron spiral barb. Using http://forum.median-xl.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=18385 for a guide, have all of the suggested TU's at 3-4, but I'm getting wrecked. Can kill the mercenary guys fine, but Athulua just doesn't seem to take damage from me, and half the time I can't get close enough to hit her. Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong, something I'm missing? One issue I know about is very little of my gear is MO'd, but farming any substantial amount of gold is a huge pain, any rares only sell for ~1k at most. Other than that, I don't know what else to do, and I don't even seem to be close to killing her nevermind anything else in Tran Athulua