Vaal spark

Not sure if GGG noticed how overpowered this skill is especially on a MF finder.

Someone even got to 100 in hardcore with it in just 130 hours of gameplay, claiming to have done 98.5-100 in a single session back on reddit a while ago.

Not only that you're clearing zones like dried lake in 1 minute or so. Its just ridiculous.

Shhhh.

It's not mainstream/popular enough to be nerfed yet.

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Sogolon wrote:

Not sure if GGG noticed how overpowered this skill is especially on a MF finder.

Someone even got to 100 in hardcore with it in just 130 hours of gameplay, claiming to have done 98.5-100 in a single session back on reddit a while ago.

Not only that you're clearing zones like dried lake in 1 minute or so. Its just ridiculous.

same goes for vaal burning arrow, link vaal burning arrow to lmp, gmp and trap and you have the most op single target skill in the game, also dont forget the fact it has a small AoE which stacking up with AoE nodes can basicly reach a point where it completely destroys any blue packs you come across and oblitirates high hp fire resistant bosses, it also scales extremly well with so many things in this game and has a good starting damage concidering its basicly like a burning arrow but improved into AoE and with the adition into shootgunning AoE with trap making this happend. immagine getting hit by 8 vaal burning arrows at the same time, yeah i wouldent want to go near that

Vaal Spark is a relatively expensive build to get running consistently, and even then you still need another skill to get your first Vaal Spark. Chill of Corruption is almost mandatory to chain Vaal Sparks together, and both Vaal Sentencing and Sacrificial Harvest are high-priority jewels. The need for so many jewel sockets also limits options with respect to rare jewels and tree pathing.

TL;DR -- Vaal Spark gives an appropriate reward for both it's level of investment and complexity. It's in a really good place right now, and shouldn't be changed.

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XCodesLIVE wrote:

TL;DR -- Vaal Spark gives an appropriate reward for both it's level of investment and complexity. It's in a really good place right now, and shouldn't be changed.

You're joking right? The investment is minuscule compared to 1.3 "broken" ST builds and generally low life in general but their mechanics were nerfed into oblivion. The cost was what made it ridiculous and these Vaal Spark builds are not even 1/20th in cost...

Yup, nerf the Jewels, leave Vaal Spark as is and problem solved.

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Yidam_ wrote:

Yup, nerf the Jewels, leave Vaal Spark as is and problem solved.

Why even suggest this, the jewels are there to enable builds to use vaal skills, if vaal spark is overpowered then it is the one that needs nerfed not things that can possible effect a number of builds.

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XCodesLIVE wrote:

TL;DR -- Vaal Spark gives an appropriate reward for both it's level of investment and complexity. It's in a really good place right now, and shouldn't be changed.

Don't kid yourself, Vaal Spark costs few ex, but it clears faster than split arrow with all mirrored gear (1500ex+), for example. It wipes the floor with every build, regardless of their cost or how difficult they are to gear. Think of a build. Whatever build you thought of, it's shit compared to Vaal Spark.

Vaal Spark is the most broken build in PoE history, and by an E N O R M O U S margin. It makes old burn prolif look weak and slow in comparison. As long as it remains like this, skill balancing in PoE is nothing more than a bad joke.

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toyotatundra wrote:

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XCodesLIVE wrote:

TL;DR -- Vaal Spark gives an appropriate reward for both it's level of investment and complexity. It's in a really good place right now, and shouldn't be changed.

Don't kid yourself, Vaal Spark costs few ex, but it clears faster than split arrow with all mirrored gear (1500ex+), for example. It wipes the floor with every build, regardless of their cost or how difficult they are to gear. Think of a build. Whatever build you thought of, it's shit compared to Vaal Spark.

Vaal Spark is the most broken build in PoE history, and by an E N O R M O U S margin. It makes old burn prolif look weak and slow in comparison. As long as it remains like this, skill balancing in PoE is nothing more than a bad joke.

+1 Anyone defending otherwise is playing it and don't want it to be balanced appropriately (I won't say nerfed because thats perhaps the wrong word, as GGG add jewels etc there will always be a way to break the game - I think its really cool to do this but max during that specific league, but afterwards needs rebalancing. No idea how they're going to do it though - both the jewels and the ring are cool build enablers separately, and I wouldn't really want them to to crush these items just to be able to cut vaal spark down). Must be done though, otherwise talisman will be vaal spark league.

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toyotatundra wrote:

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XCodesLIVE wrote:

TL;DR -- Vaal Spark gives an appropriate reward for both it's level of investment and complexity. It's in a really good place right now, and shouldn't be changed.

Don't kid yourself, Vaal Spark costs few ex, but it clears faster than split arrow with all mirrored gear (1500ex+), for example. It wipes the floor with every build, regardless of their cost or how difficult they are to gear. Think of a build. Whatever build you thought of, it's shit compared to Vaal Spark.

Vaal Spark is the most broken build in PoE history, and by an E N O R M O U S margin. It makes old burn prolif look weak and slow in comparison. As long as it remains like this, skill balancing in PoE is nothing more than a bad joke.

+1 Anyone defending otherwise is playing it and don't want it to be balanced appropriately (I won't say nerfed because thats perhaps the wrong word, as GGG add jewels etc there will always be a way to break the game - I think its really cool to do this but max during that specific league, but afterwards needs rebalancing. No idea how they're going to do it though - both the jewels and the ring are cool build enablers separately, and I wouldn't really want them to to crush these items just to be able to cut vaal spark down). Must be done though, otherwise talisman will be vaal spark league.