Shroud of the lightless: where's the 5 link!? Not Cool GGG Many builds deleted (historic bow buff)

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Pizzarugi wrote:

Why not just get a 6l chest with high life (and maybe incursion %life mod) as well as an elemental penetration support gem? The old Shroud was kind of a weak version of a modern rare chest with high life anyway. Yes you lose out on one single abyss jewel, but I can't imagine that's the reason you'd be upset over the change versus the pseudo 6l it used to have.

I don't care about the abyss jewel socket in it, That is not what deleted so many builds from the game, It was the removal of the 5th link potential on the shroud.

Plenty have tried to solve the issue but unless i ditch my helmet there is no solution and if i ditch my helmet then its no longer a build.

The gloves just offer some increased attack speed, boots do nothing, there is literally no way around it if i want to use this item anymore.

There’s so many ways to use the chest now, arguably more since you aren’t limited to builds that rely on elemental penetration support. You can make 8+ link gloves or helmets, 10+ link squire builds, use thunderfists (do people still not realize that level 30 added lightning is the same power as 2.5 level 20 added lightning gems?), and of course, the big one (and truthfully, the coolest one IMO), a sick shako (level 35 added lightning level 10 volatility perphaps?) probably dozens of other ways to fit the abyss jewel stack archetype into a build now as well.

As a community; we need to be better about blasting GGG when they do something we don’t agree with. This change has opened up a whole new realm of possibilities for my build creation and I’m very happy with it. I’m sorry to hear your build got killed, but the game is at its best when we can explore new ways of doing things and this change did exactly that.

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stEasy clap wrote:

use thunderfists (do people still not realize that level 30 added lightning is the same power as 2.5 level 20 added lightning gems?), and of course, the big one (and truthfully, the coolest one IMO), a sick shako (level 35 added lightning level 10 volatility perphaps?)

I just gotta call this out for a sec...because it irks me and colors the whole post.

1) Level 30 Added Lightning = 2.5x Level 20: I mean this is just a classic case of disinformation! I mean...sure, if we are talking about raw numbers that is correct but that ignores HUGE swaths of intentionally missing information. Quality on Added Lightning that you can't get with the gloves. The fact that people likely wouldn't be running a level 20, and would instead be boosting those levels with +gem levels which cannot be done with that mod. Additionally, there's AWAKENED added lightning which at level 5 gives you +1 lightning skills which can MORE than make up the difference in power gained by the level 30 support, without handicapping yourself at all.

2) Forbidden Shako: oof....the biggest gamble that exists in the game. Hard to balance anything around that. You can do amazing things with it, but it doesn't really deserve to be in any "normal" conversation....

Give it back.


Without your socket system that PoE2 was supposed to bring (as an expansion to PoE1) which isn't coming now the item is locked out of usage for A LOT of builds, meaning they are no longer possible to run.

Bow builds became immensely more powerful while 1handed users had tons of builds edged out of the game and if you're a necromancer even with a single pet you're so socket starved you aren't even playing PoE anymore.

Please fix this.