I was running the FO and MM build using my mirror ball, it came with 3apoc which allowed me to drop prodigy as each hit from the MM would grant me AP (9 if all crit on one target) and allowed me to sustain lots of orb spam. When their were more mobs, the resulting AOE would allow me to cap in 2-3 casts of MM, now it seems the AOE portion doesn't proc or the two additional projectiles.
Anyone else notice this, Is this a nerf to the AOE portion or mirrorball.
No offense to the forums, but the reddit post has info you guys are lacking (such as the info on Mirror ball, which was the exact question OP was asking), and a much easier to read layout as it's all compiled in the first post, rather than have to read 3-4 pages of peoples comments/questions in the thread here. Self-promoting is fine, but it doesn't really help when you don't have the info needed - some of the info is from the forums, yes, but they actually managed to find a few important things not from here.
No offense to the forums, but the reddit post has info you guys are lacking (such as the info on Mirror ball, which was the exact question OP was asking), and a much easier to read layout as it's all compiled in the first post, rather than have to read 3-4 pages of peoples comments/questions in the thread here. Self-promoting is fine, but it doesn't really help when you don't have the info needed - some of the info is from the forums, yes, but they actually managed to find a few important things not from here.
No offense taken - I agree with you that it's more concise. It just depends what you're looking for. Short textual summary of the most important changes? See the Reddit post. Shiny pictures and even a video of the changes (new Archon beam colors)? Our front page. A discussion about the undocumented changes? Our forum thread or the Reddit thread (whichever you prefer, I personally just don't like threaded discussions that's why DFans is my home). It's why I linked both - I think you should never ever rely on a single source. Obviously, when I feel that DFans offers the same information or is even the original source of information, I point this out. If another source mentioned it first or has more information, I'll be the last person to not acknowledge this - just see all the external links in my FAQ or my (now deprecated) wizard guide :-)
That said, Mirrorball is still far and away the strongest offhand - I am currently critting 4-5M with a single icicle. 15M per hit with 2.5 attacks per second? Then you switch the rune to the arcane one that does 37% more damage than icicle, with proper arcane boosting items ofc, and suddenly, you're doing 40M damage per second with your *arcane builder*. It's insane, really.
Just tested vs Ghom on T5 - about 40 seconds, still about 45m EDPS (he had 1.8b hp), same as before when I tested. White burn tick numbers were about 40m every half second at the end. I did notice I got hurt from the poison a lot more than last time, with 1/3 the LoH. It would be completely lame if they removed any special *inherent* effects from the extra missiles, like conflag's burn stacks or glacial spike's freeze - then it'd just be boring extra damage. So for now it seems us MB users are safe as far as MM runes go on the offensive side of things..
Anyone else notice this, Is this a nerf to the AOE portion or mirrorball.
Do you have a list of other changes?
http://www.diablofans.com/
There's also a thread on Reddit, which is using the thread on our forums as source, so you know where you'll find the news... just around the corner:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/85460-unofficial-patch-2-0-4-notes-share-your-findings
No offense to the forums, but the reddit post has info you guys are lacking (such as the info on Mirror ball, which was the exact question OP was asking), and a much easier to read layout as it's all compiled in the first post, rather than have to read 3-4 pages of peoples comments/questions in the thread here. Self-promoting is fine, but it doesn't really help when you don't have the info needed - some of the info is from the forums, yes, but they actually managed to find a few important things not from here.
Might be an idea if you also link to your source of information at the bottom of posts for things that may get edited in.
That said, Mirrorball is still far and away the strongest offhand - I am currently critting 4-5M with a single icicle. 15M per hit with 2.5 attacks per second? Then you switch the rune to the arcane one that does 37% more damage than icicle, with proper arcane boosting items ofc, and suddenly, you're doing 40M damage per second with your *arcane builder*. It's insane, really.