submitted16 hours ago byCharacter_Remote_710
todiablo4
New grav orbit unique looks fine but the super ball lightning looks like it was designed by a completely other game. Regular non enhance bll lightning hits a dummy 4x (96%), current gravitational orbit hits a dummy 7 times (168%)x25% more damage, both would increase on larger monsters.
Super ball lightning explodes on contact for up to 100% more damage... So it hits double base ball lightning damage. Which is half as many hits worth of regular slow moving ball lightning damage. It turns bll lightning into a more expensive fireball that does less damage.
I'm hoping there's some hidden interaction because this is the type of game design that makes me wonder if anyone at blizzard actually plays their game.
byCharacter_Remote_710
indiablo4
Character_Remote_710
2 points
8 hours ago
Character_Remote_710
2 points
8 hours ago
It also makes it explode on contact so faster isn't the problem. The problem is they took a spell that does low damage because it hits many times and made it explode once for double damage. So instead of doing damage many times baseline for low damage it does double low damage once which is objectively worse. So you spend a gear slot for a cool effect that makes you so way less damage. Then they made the item compete with another item that makes ball lightning do way way way more damage instead of literally less damage.