Unreliable In A Pinch

… it IS fun to use. Speak to anyone who uses hybrid builds.

 

Not to be that guy, but hybrid builds are objectively harder to use than mana regen builds. Even as a mage (the best class for hybrid), you're gonna struggle with keeping mana high, especially with a possible -3 mana regen essentially making passive mana regen non-existant. Whether it's fun to use, that's up to you, but I think Lunar Spine is the only actual used mana steal build for a good reason.
If this really is a change to Fatal, I guess it's ok..? It was always kind of boring with its four low-ish similar ids, but I think the whole 1-420 damage was enough of a gimmick to make it interesting. Not really a fan of making it mana steal-based (like so many thunder weapons already are or want to be), but hey, I guess that's where we use some cool mana regen gear and hope the -mana regen roll on Fatal is merciful.

 

I suspect a slight damage buff alongside this (note the 4/4 ms roll with a star, meaning base 3 or 4, same as Sitis). Weapons with negative Mana Regen tend to have high base damages.

Mana steal is actually incredibly strong on Mage. Personally, I would just slap Aquarius and Atlas, and that basically takes care of Mana (maybe add Dia Hydro Necklace or whatever as well, if you're like me and prefer a lot of sustain).

 

yea, it would be fun to use. The point of Mythics all along (i think) was to be gimmicky, rather than just good. Thats why Warp and Divzer are like, the 2 best Mythics. I'm hoping this is foreshadowing that all Mythics (except ones that are already gimmicky) are going to be changed to be made more like this.

 

I'm not sure why I'm the only one who sees this coming but, the minimum damage is probably going up.
Instead of the wand being unreliable due to the extremely high damage range, it will be unreliable due to it relying on mana steal to cast spells.
Because of the negative mana regen, you basically going to be running on empty, well until you get lucky enough for mana steal to work, For a brief second in time, a window will open for a massive spell.
This works really well with chain lighting due to it's of activating mana steal.

There attempting to change what it means to be unreliable. Not random, instead, the times you need it the most, you just may not have enough mana to cast with.

 

-3/4 implies no worse mana regen than Black or Sitis. I don't think we'll be seeing another Lunar Spine. I personally expect a similar min and a bit of a buff to max (maybe 500-600)

 

I think that'd be too op...
https://wynndata.tk/s/XL8gCF
reliable 30k meteors with basically no rng, good int, mr and ms, no negative defenses, etc.
I think the base damage wouldn't be that high...

 

I was saying base damage 1-550 or whatever, not 500s min as well.

 

Oh, I see. That makes sense.
https://wynndata.tk/s/KLsFgE
Seems still quite op... but then again, fatal is kind of op anyway so :shrug:

 

Never said it would be. An item doesn't need to be extreme to push a certain kind of play style.

 

i hope you know that 1-420 is already quite high

1-500/1-600 is like

a lot

 

Oh it's 420, thought it was 480 for some reason. I imagine it might get an 8-10% buff.

 

bRainWaSh?

 

ooooof wow thats hard

 

Ehhh what about lameme

 

Zero has give or take the same lore as Fatal; does anyone think that will be affected also?

 

I dunno what helmet that is, but I can tell you that having -3/4mr was a fatal mistake ._.

 

Zero is already pretty bad - Mana steal oriented Archer, without even access to powder specials, would make it even worse.

 

damn 10char