BotT is a straght damage increase and should never be taken out. BotP is awesome when you get it above 25 with new elite density and i'm running around an 80% uptime of it. Zei works wonders because of the particular bonus calculation it does for Sentires (read: they get bonus based on both their distance from the mobs and yours, likely becasue they cannot move away) and the bonus is multiplicatove with the rest.
If no one brings Toxin, you can use it instead of BotP - usually in party is the zDPS that uses it.
With the changes to M6, your sentries account for about 50% of your total damage out put. So while enforcer is still good, you're really only getting half benefit out of it. It's why a lot of people have moved away from it.
Plus, gems like BotP and Zei affect all your damage - including sentries. Thus it's not like Enforcer is suddendly bad, it's more like BotP and Zei became suddendly better.
EDIT: they were both good choices even before patch.
enforcer used to be good because the old mara had basically 100% of your total dmg come from sentries. thus enforcer increased your total dmg output by whatever % the enforcer does.
now, with the new mara, a huge part of your total dmg is from your own hatred spenders (you actually casting cluster or multi or whatever), so the enforcer loses effectiveness because it doesnt buff your own casted damage. it still buffs the sentries, but sentries arent the main source of damage anymore.
And how did these gems were changed to become useful nowdays but not before patch? Just i feel i'm not understanding because i'm noob player yet.
Like Cying said, before the patch you would slap down Sentries with your 6pc Mara and the sentries would do all the work. Therefore the Enforcer gem got 100% use. Now the sentries only fire spenders when you do, basically doing half the work and therefore Enforcer is worth roughly half of what it used to be worth.
I am messing around and trying to find the best three for my taste. At the moment it seems like Bane of the Trapped, Bane of the Powerful and Zei's Stone of Vengeance are the three I like. Gem of Efficacious Toxin would be number four.
2-toxin gem if using MS or CA/maelstrom ( preferably with a Calamity)
3-can live without / rather have elemental bonus on amulet or smt like that. Simplicity gem might even be considered with either ES/JiS or EF/F..
BotT is a straght damage increase and should never be taken out. BotP is awesome when you get it above 25 with new elite density and i'm running around an 80% uptime of it. Zei works wonders because of the particular bonus calculation it does for Sentires (read: they get bonus based on both their distance from the mobs and yours, likely becasue they cannot move away) and the bonus is multiplicatove with the rest.
If no one brings Toxin, you can use it instead of BotP - usually in party is the zDPS that uses it.
EDIT: they were both good choices even before patch.
now, with the new mara, a huge part of your total dmg is from your own hatred spenders (you actually casting cluster or multi or whatever), so the enforcer loses effectiveness because it doesnt buff your own casted damage. it still buffs the sentries, but sentries arent the main source of damage anymore.
I am messing around and trying to find the best three for my taste. At the moment it seems like Bane of the Trapped, Bane of the Powerful and Zei's Stone of Vengeance are the three I like. Gem of Efficacious Toxin would be number four.