Lightning Tendrils

How is Lighting Tendrils after the big buffs in patch 3.6.0? After using it a little bit, I still feel like the base AoE should be bigger. Not sure about the damage. Even at skill gem level 20, the radius will not even outdo Ice Nova's 30. A bit sad.

Lightning Tendrils seems to be stuck in a weird place of being small AoE (aka not as good as other dedicated AoE skills) that also does low single-target damage (aka not as good as raw single target DPS skills).



Last edited by Ymirok on Feb 1, 2021, 4:43:26 AM
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Ymirok wrote:
How is Lighting Tendrils after the big buffs in patch 3.6.0? After using it a little bit, I still feel like the base AoE should be bigger. Not sure about the damage. Even at skill gem level 20, the radius will not even outdo Ice Nova's 30. A bit sad.

Lightning Tendrils seems to be stuck in a weird place of being small AoE (aka not as good as other dedicated AoE skills) that also does low single-target damage (aka not as good as raw single target DPS skills).



Yep. I think they should give it a similar treatment to Incinerate, give it stages and extra radius per stage. It already has the "strong pulse" mechanic so maybe make those more frequent at max stages / per stage, maybe also make it give you stun immunity while at max stages just for extra QoL. Overall I think the damage numbers are fine with the powercreep today (Yes even without OP Harvest) but more QoL would be nice.
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old Lightning Tendrils was so mutch better - GIVE IT BACK - TYvm
does lightning tendrils actually hit or is it considered a channel spell like blight im assuming it actually hits as the gem says on the bigger pulse extra damage on ailments and hits
It hits and increases/reductions to cast speed affect how often it does so.

With the new rework every 3rd hit will be a guaranteed critical strike as well so you could use that for things as the Elemental overload keystone, Cast on crit support, the crit mastery for 50% increased effect of ailments from crits, or other items/gems .

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