Ballista rework

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I played with ballista builds all 3 season, and in this post i want to say how to upgdrate this skill.

  1. Nodes “Shared enchancment” and “Contaminating shots” take 3 point each and give only 75% ratio. Need increase from 75%->100% ratio, 33% per point. Also any kind of penetration dont work on ballista. Like penetration with ignite or cold penetration. But penetration is damage modifier.

  2. Node “Explosive Delivery”. It give 40% less attack speed, so dmg in solo target decrese by 40%. I think need to change from LESS to DECREASE. And the main target dont take damage from explosion. I think need to delete tag physycal and do that main target get damage from explosion too with this node, but not get damage from bolt.

  3. Node Tainted Ammunition looks good, but with 10 sec duration, you most rebuff you ballista very often and gameplay not good. I think need increse duration of ballista or add new node that throw Acid Flask to ballista when we place it. And connection requrement 2 is big, pls decrease it to 1.

  4. Placement and duration. When we 6 or ballista, it very many time take us to place them, so while we placing them first ballsita already have only half time(may be more) reamining and because of fact we need to buff ballista with Aerial Assault, bossing on ballista is terrible exp.
    I think need to increase base duration to 20 sec or add some affix/unique/buff/node that give us place 2 or more ballista at same time.

  5. Node Armed Construction. It be nice if add node that give ballista shot this big explosion and dont explosion itself.

  6. Dark Quiver buff is bigg, but it need give not physical damage but bow damage, and need to increase duration of this buffs. Maybe if increase duration ballista.

  7. Heavy and Light bolts seem very weak nodes, because decreasing damage/attack speed. I think need to leavee only increasing stat and delete deacresing.

  8. Need very many points. It will be nice if some node will give stats as before but have less points. For exaple Flaming Shots have 5 max points and will give 15 fire damage and 50 ignite chance. Need to decrease max point to 3 and also will give 15 fire damage and 50 ignite chance with 3 point.

This was changing in ballista that make ballista gameplay very cool and add some new builds to this skill.

Now i want to say about cool ideas for ballista as unique or something same.

  1. Add something that can replace normal attack with bow skills. For exaple ballistas tha shoting with Detonating Arrow.
  2. Moving ballistas.
  3. Driving ballista.
  4. One big ballista.
  5. Two headed ballista. That can shoting 2 targer at same time.

Thank you for reading this post. My english is not good, so sorry if i have mistakes.

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I like your thoughts, but the ballista is like this now because it used to be very strong, and if you played all three seasons on it, you know what I’m talking about.

There is one trick here, but it only works if your acid flask has not been converted to fire. In the acid flask there is a node called poison pool. So if you throw the flask on the floor, and then put the ballista on this pool, the ballista will receive a boost from the Tainted Ammunition node. This also works if you have a cold flask.
If we talk about the fact that we very often have to buff the ballista, then nothing can be done about it, because you play for a class that constantly presses all the buttons in battle.

It would be cool if they made some kind of bow, or maybe other equipment, with which we can put all the ballista at once, even if it costs even more mana.

The primalist has a helmet that converts wolves into squirrels.
Now I want the ballistas to be converted into little spiders with miniguns)))

My egn is bad too

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Dont know this. But while we cant convert all damage into cold or poison is not very usefull.
Thank you for your comment.

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