Arc and Dark Pact unintentionally nerfed by Runegraft of Refraction change in 3.28

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3.28 Patch Notes wrote:

Runegraft of Refraction no longer has Skills chain an additional time, and now has Projectiles chain an additional time.

I support this change in general as it was needed to balance some wand skills that were receiving absurd amounts of extra hits from this Runegraft, but two very underplayed and off-meta skills are also getting significantly nerfed by this: Arc, and Dark Pact when it is cast on Skeletons.

Before 3.28 goes live, can I humbly request that these two skills receive 1 additional Chain baked into the skill gems at maximum level in order to compensate for the loss of 1 Chain from this Runegraft change? Neither of these skills are anywhere close to overpowered or meta, so it's very disappointing that they are receiving a loss of power due to a nerf that was targeted at other skills. Thank you for considering my feedback!

Hello GGG, can we have +1 chain on Dark Pact?

I disagree that this was "unintentional", and its rather funny that you would come to that conclusion after quoting the line you did.

They explicitly made the decision to remove "skills" and change it to "projectiles" for a reason.

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cowmoo275#3095 wrote:

I disagree that this was "unintentional", and its rather funny that you would come to that conclusion after quoting the line you did.

They explicitly made the decision to remove "skills" and change it to "projectiles" for a reason.

This.

The change was clearly intentional, because non projectile skills could take the free chain without the downside of limiting projectiles.

Honestly, the idea that there would ever be a free chain as a mastery is pretty ridiculous.