On the topic of an upcoming archer character, imo Merris's normal attack boons from the gods are way more interesting than any of the melee characters'. The differences to projectile count, speed, and piercing end up making a lot of them feel distinct from each other. All of the melee normal attacks feel like they kind of blend together aside from the status they apply. Doesn't help that melee attack area increases feel pretty difficult to notice a lot of the time. So I'm excited to see more ranged characters for that reason.

@matejbosela9093

7 ай бұрын

yep, exactly this. To put it in perspective, with Kront´s Sign of the Tornado he goes from like 200 range to 480 range. Thats about 1 cm / ~half inch in diameter (for radius, divide by two). You can literally count the pixels for Fate´s and Rampaging strike aoe increases.

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

This has been a pretty vocal point of feedback in the games discord so hopefully at some point in the future we see a change.

@sgtdimples6909

6 ай бұрын

yeah, I'd like to see each of the melee characters granted an innate modifier for their melee attacks added that wouldn't be as good as the god modifier, but would synergize more with the flavor of each character and make them feel different fro each other. IE: Kront has a baseline Rupture Avaron has a baseline weaken Skidi has a baseline knockback Nixi has a baseline wrathful strike %chance

The white raven does insane damage. What kneecaps it is that it mostly tries to hit a target once and then moves to the next target after that, with nearly zero area on the actual hit and all the travel time to get from one target to another. This is the same as other summons, more or less, but the difference is that there's so many of them and they all pick their own targets so you end up with what amounts to AoE. On bosses, if you can get the white raven to focus in, it is a solution to bosses. It is not, however, a solution to big run killers like homing/freeze archers and stacked heavy knights. Amazing sign, but only matters for 10% of the run.

multih-plikih-tihv, thats how i say it anyway. got a good chuckle from your little "stroke" xD gg nice vidd. ^_^

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

Thankfully I recovered 😁

White Raven would be a lot better if it prioritized high-health enemies and stuck around for the kill. I think that's all it really needs 😊

White Raven was a real monster at the end, which is when you really need it.

White raven Onyx dragon Green parrot Skeleton army Just get a revial, pick as much summon dmg buffs as possible and afk :v

Ive tried the Bird glyph too and the bird can definately hit like a truck if you build into it..but its more a single target damage type for sure. It's going to get overshadowed in the general content area of doing the map and killing trash; since it only hits one thing at a time; so you kinda have to build for AOE to do the content and the bird can do the bosses when you get there is sorta how this seems to work really. So the damage it does is likely going to be more on bosses and where it shines than what you see on paper in the stat sheet as your other skills are going to eat up all the mobs on the screen during the run to pad the trash stats. Ultimately though...its single target damage doesn't make it very useful for leaning on and does require support to make it work as it cant work stand-alone.

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

It's weird but I think you can build around the fact that you get a miniature boss killer and just plan on letting it do the dirty work

im having tons of fun with my skadi as a luck build. got the leprechaun boots, two rings with luck, the proc gloves, sign of the apprentice. i try to go for mort, leigong, summer. idea is max out any chance based stuff and boost your spell damage/crit chance. skills that are affected from luck is soul stealers, chain lightning, lightning auto, flare. summer boosts spell dmg, mort buffs luck.

I've never liked inventory/stash limits in games that don't really need them. "What does it add to the game?" should always be the primary question whenever you think about implementing game mechanics.

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

I do think there's a case for inventory limits for games where you have to make a choice about what to bring/keep. I HATE stash limits and weight systems though.

@Salted_Fysh

7 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff yeah, there's some games where it works and even some where stash limits can make some sort of sense but I really do think that outside of a very specific branch of the survival and survival horror genre where you want to reduce the player toolkit and turn it into a choice, it usually isn't a very fun addition.

I hope they add hover to see stats on floor loot.

mul·ti·pli·ca·tive

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

Words are hard

@Jason_P

7 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff #truth

It was the white raven that did the damage at the baron. It get stuck inside the boss and continuously damages the boss. So it bypasses it's 0.5 sec attackspeed. Have seen it happen to the big armor dudes where the bird gets to attack multiple times due to thier hitboxes are bigger. It scales of everything and i got the bird to do 10k + hits to the baron.

@5illyMe

7 ай бұрын

I suspect it just means the Raven also scales with attackspeed x8. Which basically means you can make it attack extremely fast. So when it only has one target in range, e.g. Baron, you can melt him in less than a second.

Alteration Ritual is actually a gift from one of Time's subordinate demi-gods, Santa Claus. Sign of the Beast was supposed to be a "Play the Beastmaster!" sign, but it's like you're just playing with those two ferrets at your side, and the ferrets are drunk. That said, the Dr. Acula kill was, AFAICT, due to getting Summoner at minute 0, _all_ the skele-buds, and enough gem-crack to reanimate a dead elephant. Any way you look at it, it's sick. Actually, with a different sign, this run has legs - if you forgive the pun. Obviously you cannot count on swinging a Summoner as your first level-up, but the synergy between Necromancy and curse-bestowing gifts, as well as curse-bestowers and Mayhem, continues to rule the roost almost as hard as the synergy between Force and Gem High. Mort/Time runs are just built better for Skadi. Do you have Sign of the Helper for Merris yet? A Helper Krom/Summer build might be funny as Merris wanders around, absent-mindedly purging the dead with FIRE thanks to moderate seeker-projectiles and blades/shuriken/what-the-fuck-ever.

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

I have every sign. I wasn't too impressed with the helper sign so far. Maybe i was doing it wrong. After thinking about this sign for a bit, it might actually be Skadi's best. All you have to do is build a character to handle non bosses, and the Raven will just have his way with everyone. Unless him flying up inside Dr Acula is a bug lol

@bearnaff9387

7 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff I think his targeting is random, so as long as you keep the arena clear, White Flight should take care of Dracula. I guess a Lightning build? Chain/Ball to keep the area clear so ADD bird stays focused on task?

You probably gonna have more fun in D2R or some fan project based on d2 (project diablo 2). Also PoE is amazing but complicated. And Last Epoch exist.

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

Last Epoch is imo the best current arpg. I haven't checked out recent grim dawn expansions but D2's closed bnet basically hooked me on online arpgs so it feels off playing offline single player after the first playthrough. I've played most of the d2 mods before d2r came out. POE is great, but I HATE the campaign at this point.

was hard to see the raven near the end, but i saw it hit 1300 near the end of the first run, didn't seem like movement or attack speed did anything. attack speed is weird for it anyway, since it hits once and moves to a new target anyway. on a side note, the mage woman seems pretty strong these days, with the unlimited shard pickup range and time warped strike with the bounces then fates with +projectile

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

The infinite range pickup sign makes her the best character in the game currently imo

I have a question, items that you don't pick, do they still get added to inventory at the end of the run or do you still have to pick up items as you see them on the ground?

@ellicg

7 ай бұрын

U have to pick em

Raven not really soloing dracula but that was a very fast kill :)

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, but he could have lol

raven probably scales out of spell speed if it does at *8 ratio the raven can be insane boss killer if you focus on crowds on your build with gem high which is broken summoner to give big dmg and brievety i think it can be good but still why to plaay this while you can get movespeed or levels to be much harder to kill

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

It's weird, raven is like auto win vs dracula, but kind of meh vs everything prior

Can't wait for the next stream. Runs will be lame from now on though. Lmao

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

I'll come up with something lol

@mickj9203

7 ай бұрын

@@gamingwithjeff ah, I'm not worried about it

You said you hate the extra projectiles, but you pretty much completely ignored the skeleton archers shooting at you. Why not concentrate on them?? Also, you had an ARMY of summoned skeletons when the blue slimes hit, but you RAN AWAY from the your minion army when they could have helped you. Did you do that on purpose or were you not paying attention?? You noticed when the summoned skeletons WRECKED the Necromancer boss, but after that you ran away from them again. Then AGAIN when the summoned skeletons CRUSHED Dracula you acted like you didn't even know what happened. Give your minions some love, man.

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

Mostly just trying to stay alive. Also, the raven was who I didn't give enough credit. Skellies are good but that raven was the one doing most of the damage.

What counts as stats

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

I think its just things that effect summons, spell damage/speed and summon damage. I may be wrong though

Diablo 4 is very disappointing at the moment. Some cool changes are coming, but the fact that's it's a live service game is such a bummer.

@gamingwithjeff

7 ай бұрын

So disappointing