Of course it was too strong at the beginning but now at 1 second root (possibly lower with freedom perks) and 25 sec cooldown you might as well rework it.
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It’s fine , VG still have nullyfing orb and a lot of utility that make it S+ tier in wars
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25 second cd for 1 second root. XD
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With 5 meter range
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Nullyfing orb? Atleast learn the abilities before you say something is fine.
Well it’s fine for him! IDK how many times i have to say it - this mage hate is all a lobbying effort to make the most common build stronger. Ice shower threads have been going for days, basically blaming mages for rubberbanding and server issues.
Has this game ever had non-bugged roots?
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A weapon with abnormal selfheal, buffing allies, removing buffs, decreasing enemies dmg, root and high dps and compatible with many weapon is totally trash I agree
The community is just full of toxic cry babies. The change is important and good roots are to strong and chainable.
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You have no idea how the change fits into balancing. Just assuming its “fine” because it suits you.
Void gauntlet strength almost entirely revolves around scream. All those benefits you listed - you understand hammer has massive self heal build in, has build in damage reduction, slow, and exhaust, has an aoe knockdown, aoe stun, and aoe stagger + heal, and is high dps. IDK what’s wrong with build diversity.
These roots are just coming as ice showers and then grav wells. It doesn’t matter that vg root got nerfed if there are available options everywhere.
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No it doesn’t. Void gauntlet was created to be a bridge between int and focus.
A weapon designed as a innovative weapon for some new builds ended up as a second weapon just because of the scream.
Many GA user uses it just because of the scream, guess why because its broken.
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Just should make it to a 2 secs stun like shockwave.
1 sec root is useless.
they also do that with ice gauntlet - it’s almost as if there will always be off builds in a game that lets you equip any two weapons.
Hey I wonder what testing they did in between adding 10 seconds to the cooldown and cutting the effectiveness of the spell in half. Surely we will see a 15 second cooldown now?
NVM, they’ll just leave it because AGS can’t undo nerfs. Essence rupture will just get some insane buff in two months. The weapon needs a redesign, not just straight up nerfs.
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Had the same idea sometimes. Seems they don’t tested our thought about those possibilities
Trash Tier = Balanced Weapon.
If people like it and everyone uses it, = Overpowered Ezmode LMB monkey spam.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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No they dont - thats the issue with the way people request nerfs - the devs just add them wothout testing.
Scream: effectiveness reduced by 50%, cooldown increased by 66%.
Why even get in range for scream? People can just run axe + ig now.
Well the problem here is not balancing. It’s coding. Scream is a root and a root is not working with freedom. So what’s the easiest solution with their spaghetti code we have learned the last 6 month? if you cant fix it, break it. Make it trash so no one is using it again and doesnt complain anymore.
Just take the easy path, you know?!
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Well I am not sad about this but they better fucking balance out GA grav.
They have no subtlety in their balancing. I feel like the QA team, and now combat team are either bad at their job or have some management restrictions that tie their hands.
Cause tbh, 1 sec root is kinda worthless unless you have a giant bubble thrown from distance around it to keep them there. Especially with lag.
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At this point, they are balancing for the most popular build because they can’t afford numbers dropping any more.
I agree, the devs are overnerfing the void gauntlet. The increased CD on scream, void blade nerf and orb damage nerf were good enough. Reducing the scream is so dumb. Now people won’t use this as a main weapon. At best, they go greataxe + vg and only use VG for the oblivion. Why use VG when greataxe provides a gravity well that does the same amount of root, is easier to land and clumps up enemies better. It also has more burst damage and will always be useful even though it takes a lot less skill to land. The developers are truly screwing up with this VG nerf.
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same with the ice gauntlet with all the slows and roots. idc about root when i can’t dodge for 7 seconds
I made a forum post about how the way they are nerfing VG was dumb and they needed to change the passives not the active skills but they just didn’t listen lmao
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