Most broken skills: Overpowered or Useless?

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Crash wrote:i stopped reading chuck's garbage after he said rock shock was good and "xis apostasy".


Wow you had quite the patience. I didn‘t get that far.
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Crash wrote:Plus, aren't you the one who built an assassin with abandoned crafts to beat laz within 1 day and quit for the whole season? Don't be so quick to call others out.


How ironic, aren't you the one who is calling people out first? And as a moderator you sure love dissing newbies out in discord.
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ChuckNoRis wrote:Suffix +(18 to 24) to Shadow Blade 82 99 40 217 Throwing Knives - overpowered

I barely remember using this a long time ago... Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Shadow Blade a single knife that can't really do anything in crowds? How would this skill be used, and why is it overpowered?
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it deals a shitload of (magic) damage to 1 target . mostly 1-shooting stuff . it doesn't have to be a crowd killer ,not all skills are designed for that , but since it's 1-shooting stuff , i am counting it on the overpowered skills list . also , since it's 1-shooting stuff , you can throw it in all directions around you if you spin your character , so it's not bad vs small packs either .
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ChuckNoRis wrote:it deals a shitload of (magic) damage to 1 target . mostly 1-shooting stuff . it doesn't have to be a crowd killer ,not all skills are designed for that , but since it's 1-shooting stuff , i am counting it on the overpowered skills list . also , since it's 1-shooting stuff , you can throw it in all directions around you if you spin your character , so it's not bad vs small packs either .


But it doesnt 1-shot everything anymore. That was changed a couple of patches ago to "only" 5k or 10k magic damage. I don't remember the exact value. Reason for that was that the proc killed everything easily with Maelstrom/Whichwind in a matter of seconds.
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Hmm... That sounds like it might be a decent skill for throwsin astrogha runs. Thanks for the info!
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it's 6500 flat magic damage in Sigma + the damage added to weapon from the ways , it is quite a lot considering you can access it quite fast from a craft (late nightmare/early hell) . it takes a lot for the wotg or wotp to grow as strong in comparison , so at that stage of the game i say it's OP - it can still 1-shot regular opponents . you can't farm ubers like duncraig or fauztinville with it since it's not a build designed for crowds , i did not claim that , but in some of the ubers where the aoe/multihit skills are working against you , it can shine - example below

AzureGladiator wrote:Hmm... That sounds like it might be a decent skill for throwsin astrogha runs. Thanks for the info!
if you want to avoid destroying the statues by accident , yes , it's a viable option
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titan015 wrote:And as a moderator you sure love dissing newbies out in discord.


I hardly use discord anymore.

If you have more to say, send a pm. im not going to argue anything more about this here.
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Useless skill: >>>>>>>>>>>>>Fire Elemental<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Just throw the whole skill away and give amazons a dodge passive. They had 3 different dodge/avoidance passives in Vanilla D2 and a critical strike. Now they're glass pistols.

#MakeAmazonsGreatAgain
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wall of text incoming - they are personal opinions

► Amazon skills


► Assassin skills


► Barbarian skills


► Druid skills


► Necromancer skills


► Paladin skills


► Sorceress skills
Edited by ChuckNoRis 6 years.