True support builds don't go ham on experience gear. Zsader for example. Yeah, you get some bonus exp from Borne's. But that should be the end of it. You should be stacking defensive stats, immunity neck, and cdr. One of the prime examples of stacking bonus exp is putting a ruby in a Leoric's Crown. Well, that's a HUGE chunk of CDR. On my zsader I have only 3 or so seconds of downtime on AC:P at ~73% cdr. Remove the diamond from my helm and the downtime is shit. You also lose perma-law, if you use condemn it feels clunky, your blind is less reliable, etc. Yeah you can use In-Geom to negate this in lesser rifts being run for speed, but that that point who cares? The support is still doing their job, and its only actually efficient for them to use exp gear if the group they're with is quite good, and perma blinds, perma fears, they're all secondary to buffing the group's damage and speed and efficiently grouping mobs. I dunno, as for how blizz might change it, I simply feel like things tend to be either black or white for them and they haven't seem to like support builds in this game anyway, so I feel like they're going to, instead of working to create an interesting and enjoyable support playstyle for some/all of the classes, they're simply going to destroy a playstyle which is actually quite enjoyable for a lot of people. Pure speculation and lack of trust in Blizz on my part tho, I'll admit that.
Ugh, why do I not trust Blizzard to make adequate changes to support builds? I feel like they're just going to crush support altogether, making such builds useless. In any rpg I've played with others, I've found the role of support far more gratifying. In WoW I always gravitated towards tanking, and to a lesser extent healing. Sure, being able to effectively deal damage while avoiding damage can be fun, but for me, being able to protect your party and buff your party has always felt far more useful. And blizz has the terrible habit of being unable to find balance. It's either all or nothing for them. so RIP support builds soon, guess its back to DHmasterrace.
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True support builds don't go ham on experience gear. Zsader for example. Yeah, you get some bonus exp from Borne's. But that should be the end of it. You should be stacking defensive stats, immunity neck, and cdr. One of the prime examples of stacking bonus exp is putting a ruby in a Leoric's Crown. Well, that's a HUGE chunk of CDR. On my zsader I have only 3 or so seconds of downtime on AC:P at ~73% cdr. Remove the diamond from my helm and the downtime is shit. You also lose perma-law, if you use condemn it feels clunky, your blind is less reliable, etc. Yeah you can use In-Geom to negate this in lesser rifts being run for speed, but that that point who cares? The support is still doing their job, and its only actually efficient for them to use exp gear if the group they're with is quite good, and perma blinds, perma fears, they're all secondary to buffing the group's damage and speed and efficiently grouping mobs. I dunno, as for how blizz might change it, I simply feel like things tend to be either black or white for them and they haven't seem to like support builds in this game anyway, so I feel like they're going to, instead of working to create an interesting and enjoyable support playstyle for some/all of the classes, they're simply going to destroy a playstyle which is actually quite enjoyable for a lot of people. Pure speculation and lack of trust in Blizz on my part tho, I'll admit that.
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Ugh, why do I not trust Blizzard to make adequate changes to support builds? I feel like they're just going to crush support altogether, making such builds useless. In any rpg I've played with others, I've found the role of support far more gratifying. In WoW I always gravitated towards tanking, and to a lesser extent healing. Sure, being able to effectively deal damage while avoiding damage can be fun, but for me, being able to protect your party and buff your party has always felt far more useful. And blizz has the terrible habit of being unable to find balance. It's either all or nothing for them. so RIP support builds soon, guess its back to DHmasterrace.
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