jan 26 scepter patch Scepter disappointment

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Posted by: Yashuoa.9527

Yashuoa.9527

Allow me to rant plase regarding scepter in the patch.

They promised quality of life scepter modificationS in the jan 26 patch.
Yet they hardly changed anything.

They changed Shatterstone (again) and reduced its delay to 1 sec from 2 and cooldown increase to 3 sec from 2.
Rock barrier after cast delay reduced and hurl part 2 dmg increased by 10%.

I found these to be the least important changes tbh.
I dont mind them though. If they would have been done besides the needed ones.

The primary problems with scepter are.
Autoattacks being too weak and slow.
Dragon’s tooth having too big delay.

To some extend Rock barrier toughness increase.

Not propperly playable.
Scepter is not meta, scepter is not even good either.
It just doesnt work properly.
You cant hit people with a brain with Dragon’s tooth. Way to big delay, even when you combine it with a short cc.
Your autoattacks are too weak.

What could they have done?
Faster autoattacks and higher dmg.
Dragon’s tooth delay reduced.
Rock barrier toughness increase.

Now these 3 changes would have done something.

It would have fit in the patch well too, which increased auto attack dmg, dmg in general and reduced delay for some classes.
It would have fit right into such changes.

I dont understand the needed scepter buffs havent been done after their quality of life modifications announcement.
It probably wouldnt have brough Scepter ele into the meta or anything, but it would have made it properly playable and that would be nice too.

I have seen some changes that I like for other classes that I play. So I do see some good stuff in the patch, but regarding scepter, I am quite disappointed.
Especially after getting my hopes up, when they announced scepter quality of life modifications.

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Posted by: Coolguy.8702

Coolguy.8702

Scepter is fine, what it needs more than anything is nerfs cause of all the insane blinds, and instant dps. When scepter gets nerfed then we’ll talk about buffing it. L2p

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Posted by: Yashuoa.9527

Yashuoa.9527

Scepter is fine, what it needs more than anything is nerfs cause of all the insane blinds, and instant dps. When scepter gets nerfed then we’ll talk about buffing it. L2p

Nice trolling.

Besides, I dont mind some nerfs to less instants play in exchange for the mentioned minimal needed buffs.

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Posted by: Tomiyou.3790

Tomiyou.3790

Scepter is fine, what it needs more than anything is nerfs cause of all the insane blinds, and instant dps. When scepter gets nerfed then we’ll talk about buffing it. L2p

Serious or troll? I can’t figure this one out myself.

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Posted by: Tomiyou.3790

Tomiyou.3790

Scepter is fine, what it needs more than anything is nerfs cause of all the insane blinds, and instant dps. When scepter gets nerfed then we’ll talk about buffing it. L2p

Nice trolling.

Besides, I dont mind some nerfs to less instants play in exchange for the mentioned minimal needed buffs.

That’s where I would disagree, instant scepter play is the most fun thing about it. It needs quality of life buffs, so it can be viable outside of instant cast playstyle, we have to burn quite a lot of our cooldowns just to perform these, thieves for instance can burst much easier. They have to get in melee tho, that is the only tradeoff.

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Posted by: Randulf.7614

Randulf.7614

AH good, I was beginning to think I’d imagined they were going to change sceptre, but all seems virtually unchanged to me

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Posted by: MyPuppy.8970

MyPuppy.8970

Scepter disappointment? I never had any scepter expectations.

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Posted by: Aiglos.2907

Aiglos.2907

Scepter disappointment? I never had any scepter expectations.

This :P

Fear the might of Shatterstone!

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Posted by: Doggie.3184

Doggie.3184

The Audio of Shatterstone doesn’t match the animation anymore. It makes my OCD unhappy. XD

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Posted by: SchmendrickTheMagician.8247

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247

The Audio of Shatterstone doesn’t match the animation anymore. It makes my OCD unhappy. XD

It’s little details like this that show how much they truly care about eles.

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Posted by: kybraga.7103

kybraga.7103

The Audio of Shatterstone doesn’t match the animation anymore. It makes my OCD unhappy. XD

It’s little details like this that show how much they truly care about eles.

… You need to remember what class had the most ‘buffs’ for the longest time.

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Posted by: SchmendrickTheMagician.8247

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247

The Audio of Shatterstone doesn’t match the animation anymore. It makes my OCD unhappy. XD

It’s little details like this that show how much they truly care about eles.

… You need to remember what class had the most ‘buffs’ for the longest time.

Most certainly not eles.

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Posted by: BlackBeard.2873

BlackBeard.2873

The Audio of Shatterstone doesn’t match the animation anymore. It makes my OCD unhappy. XD

It’s little details like this that show how much they truly care about eles.

… You need to remember what class had the most ‘buffs’ for the longest time.

Eles have never had any core problems fixed. The only meaningful change they have ever introduced was fresh air. Since then, every “buff” ele has gotten were just band-aids to shut up all the QQ about being trash (see: celestial amulet).

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Posted by: Infusion.7149

Infusion.7149

The scepter is super weak compared to dagger ; scepter should be weaker than dagger but slightly stronger than staff auto due to range differences.

The problem is compounded by having to spec into condi (or Power Overwhelming which isn’t as good as Pyromancer’s Training) to make use of the auto attack on fire. It is also single target!

Arc lightning is also trash, it does terrible damage due to the channel.

If they wanted to buff scepter at the bare minimum they could start with 130 radius + 3 target on all auto attacks , lower the delay on Dragon’s tooth; give arc lightning vulnerability or some other condi.

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Posted by: Doggie.3184

Doggie.3184

The Audio of Shatterstone doesn’t match the animation anymore. It makes my OCD unhappy. XD

It’s little details like this that show how much they truly care about eles.

Not just Ele but the game quality in general.
It literally means they have no QA testing done at all because something like this is so easily noticeable. It’s embarrassing.
They rather ship everything unfinished and have us do all the testing for them on live instead of double checking their own work themselves.

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