Vaal spark

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SaiyanZ wrote:

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Zed_ wrote:

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TheAshmaker wrote:

Its fine. It does what it does well, but isnt dominant at every aspect of POE.

Sure it's not the best at everything. Only at gaining XP and farming items...

If people go around a map twice, once to farm xp and the 2nd to go back again to pick up all the items, then they're not the fastest at either. You have to double up the map clear time before comparing to other builds.

Or have someone like "RaizQT" who picks stuff while Sparkers carry him through map >_>

If you want to see really fast vaal spark clear speeds, you have to look at times on standard.

The havoc VOD was in the 1 month flashback, with beyond (and all those other bonuses). Add great items in standard and stuff like rampage gloves and diamond flasks (flesh and spirit or shadows and dust) and you're looking at consistent plateau runs under 1:50 (which isn't slowed down by stuff like adding extra shrines via zana). [big movement speed from the rampage streak, which is huge for vaal spark]. I wouldn't be surprised to see a run under 1 minute if you ran co-op with an aura buffer/curser.

Edit: With sufficient projectile speed, vaal spark clear efficiency isn't restricted to linear maps like gorge/plateau. It's very efficient for clearing big open maps like wasteland and springs.

3 MORE MONTHS BOYS

ubelievable..

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sidtherat wrote:

ubelievable..

For real even pre nerf Incinerate looks like an absolute joke compared to this, but I guess not a lot of people got their irl friends and guildies to come here to complain about it, so no nerf. :(

Planning all those other builds was a fun thought experiment, I guess.
And they even nerf Vaal Ground Slam instead, el oh el.

remember when lameblast wouldnt get nerfed for like two leagues straight when everyone was expecting it ? and lameblast was a far far worse offender.

Im even surprised they curbed almost all of the other *big* offenders.

hold on boys

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The Unique Jewel, Chill of Corruption, now has 50% chance to gain an additional Vaal Soul per enemy shattered, down from 80%.

doubt this is anything noticeable of a nerf to vaal spark, but hey its a start

It's a direct shot at the consistency of Vaal Spark. You're going to need to kill an extra pack per vaal spark to get your soul count back, and there's more variance with each Vaal Spark.

Considering the fact that Vaal Spark is a build with real weaknesses, I think this measured response plus the lack of a buff for Vaal Spark is is fine.

sadly it also guts my Vaal Ice Nova idea (less powerful than VS ofc) but oh well

Vaal Flame Arrow + Hatred + Crit + Infractem was also quite hilarious if not bonkers over the top..

Chill of Corruption is actually a good nerf to VS (it wasnt in the initial patch notes, got added few hours latter) - it leaves the door open but much harder to get to. but i doubt it will be enough, there are other vaal souls 'generation helper' and this jewel is only one of these