Quote Originally Posted by Duckology View Post
As this change stands after testing on Lamania and even optimizing for imbue dice,.... Running a Ranger 18/ Arti 2.... my DPS is dropping about 25%.... Law damage on Cannith is 450-1100 on Lamania it's 180-800

Deepwood stalker has zero imbue die... so with half points in it and the other in Inquisitive , even tried splashing arcane archer to get an extra 4d to get those numbers... giving up 20% temp morale bonus to doubleshot and the extra damage from killer....

I understood the initial nerf, a bit heavy handed, but I could live with a character that was at the bottom of the DPS tree, but lowering the gap even more after spending over 1000 additional hours and MONEY, to get back 10% of what was taken in the first nerf this feels like the final straw to me. Some of us want to build a character and have spent literally thousands of hours getting all of the tetris gear and raid filigrees for that particular build, to have all of those gains wiped out in one update and then set back a few more pegs is really not my idea of fun. Grinding for progression is something I will do, grinding for regression is something I won't.
yes, it is a problem that I pointed out in the first preview with the inquisitive nerf. To compensate for the number of dice lost in many builds, we have to invest in other trees where we didn't have points before, and since the number of APs we have is the same as before, we have to give up other benefits to recover what we lost. Some inquisitive builds aren't affected much, but for others it's a huge nerf. I have the same problem as you with my ranger/arti inquisitive; investing in arcane archer means I have to change my enhancements, and it's a very big nerf because I lose a lot of things to gain only the imbue damage that I already had before. And if I don't change anything, obviously the imbue law is much lower.

But I will tell you that even my pure arti inquisitive has suffered a nerf. In his case not because of the dice reduction of the imbue law, but because a single imbue does less damage than the two he had before. A disaster, another nerf for inquisitive builds. As if they weren't overnerfed anymore...