vaal haste nerf

#blame hobopt

i say its dead. the aoe nerf most likely will kill it.

BF only felt good if you stacked a good amount of aoe, if that aint possible anymore due to diminishing returns, the skill looks pretty average all of a sudden.

Wonder how this will effect warchief totems, the area was already nerfed last patch if i remember. Now its potentially going to take another hit to AOE.

AOE Math/Description that Rory posted is bologna and extremely confusing.

It's basically going to be quadratically updated. In other words, if you invest TOO MUCH you won't see those (2125% AOE builds) anymore [Well, you'll see them but the effect isn't going to be that great], but it also means you don't need to invest too much now. It's going to be about the same really

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Feb 23 2017 04:55am

Their damage will still be insane tho

diminishing returns but restructured to be front loaded should be no problem, but we'll see exactly how they restructure it i guess

Chris has said a few times over the last couple years he doesn't want to touch Vaal Pact. Ghost Reaver I definitely think needs to be nerfed, since having 15k ES instantly refill becomes an immortal mechanic. That isn't the case when you have 7k HP, you can still get 1 shot or multishot in quick succession.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if they did nerf Vaal Pact anyway. Personally I really enjoy the Slayer leech mechanic I'd be happy if they turned Vaal Pact into something like that. Would still be broken when combined with Ghost Reaver, which should really be something more like "50% of your leech applies to Energy Shield"

I have always favored protectors with melee splash to warcheifs anyway.

Speculation for most things seems pointless until we see some numbers