Ballista - Shared Enhancements

[Llama8]

@SrsBznz

@Aluxaeterna

Death Rattle

• Grants 50% to 100% minion crit multiplier (from 100% to 200%).
• Now also gives 5 to 10 intelligence
• Now also gives +1 to Sacrifice.

Death Rattle was also just nerfed for anyone but Necromancer.

It’s still a nerf for a necro.

@Heavy

it makes sense, since the Ballista is using Bow attacks, that’s why it doesn’t scale with your melee weapon damage, if you have one equipped.

Yes and no. It simply states “player damage”, and from my short testing not even global bonuses affected the player > Balista scaling unless you were wielding a bow. And again, it’s also an issue of needlessly pigeonholing the node in a certain direction when it already has some synergy with throwing skills.

That’s because the Ballista uses a bow attack, so the 45% of your melee damage will do precisely nothing to the Ballista’s bow attack. I’m not sure I’d call it “needlessly pigeonholing” though since the only way to get bow damage is by equipping a bow. Would you expect to be able to do lots of damage with Detonating Arrow if you had a melee weapon equipped?

You can argue that the node should state that it applies player bow damage.

@Heavy

@SrsBznz

Death Rattle was also just nerfed for anyone but Necromancer.

Turqouise Rings do have up to 35% Minion Crit Multi now, so it’s just a slight nerf overall.

Going from up to 200% crit multi to up to 135% crit multi is a reduction of almost 1/3, that’s a fairly sizeable nerf. Though given the base is 200%, it’s “only” ~16% in real terms (less so if you have other sources of minion crit multi & I can’t see any of those on the Necro passive tree.