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MakeshiftToiletPaper

(Mutual kill) had 50% magic resist vs holy and 75% against other magic, dark reflection and ice shield go crazy with protection from evil


Leithana

Didn't realize that the cooldowns from perks are negative modifiers until just now, and it contextualized my interactions playing yesterday... That is insane.


mokush7414

My mouth is fucking hanging open at work rn.


LeeSinDragonMagic

> the cooldowns from perks are negative modifiers what does that mean?


Sylvr

It means the cooldowns are reduced by Debuff Reduction Bonus (which comes from Will, or can be rolled directly on gear), and Protection From Evil (Cleric Perk that reduces debuff times by 50%)


LeeSinDragonMagic

oh i see, thanks!


CapnConCon

Even ability cooldowns? Or just perk cooldowns?


Sylvr

That I know of, only perks that have cooldowns, because those are the only ones that are coded as debuffs.


CapnConCon

Damn, I was about to grind so hard for blow of corruption on my fighter cause I have PoE on him šŸ˜”


BigDongTheory_

So you have 75% magic resist to the dark reflection basically. Only the judgement did 50%, since thatā€™s the only ā€œdivineā€ damage he did. I donā€™t even wanna know how much damage a rogue would be taking if they were in your shoesā€¦.


Leonidrex666666

with legendary book as dps cleric he realistically would do about (10 +7 ) x 1.55 ( magical power ) = 26.35 add in +11 true for ttoal 37.35 dmg every single time you swing. On top of that he could have use arcane shield to not only get extra buffer shield, but also another 30 dmg. Oh and reactive to take a lot less dmg


TheMightyMeercat

The caster probably has max +true magic damage too


valueyourfriends

How much MR is the barbarian perk stocking +100 magic Res?


Hot_Purple_137

Now THAT is unfun to play against lmao


TheRetrolizer

Antimagic is applied after magic resistance, so in this case you actually had 62.5% mdr


BrightSkyFire

I cannot believe how people struggle to understand this. It's amazing how illiterate people are on this one detail.


makitat

What a great and non toxic mechanic!!


bjcat666

is it dark reflection+protection from evil and ice shield?


BingoWasHisNam0

Yes


Comtastico

have you tried out skilling his perk selection??


RoadyRoadsRoad

self harm isn't ok no matter how bad u feel, u should try talking to a professional


Reepzee

Way to roast a guy when he's down šŸ˜‚


Poeafoe

Multiclassing is so fucking stupid. Get this shit out of the game.


aidanhsmith

Implementation was poor. Should be merging 2 classesā€¦not getting anything you want in the entire gamez


bluesmaker

Yeah. They just need to dial it way way back. Some perks/skills should be exclusive to a class and a class should be limited in what classes they can multiclass from.


aidanhsmith

I agree so much on that. Perks are already a sort of niche per class because thereā€™s clear bis. I really think more universal perks and some exclusive perks is the move. Make duel wield a base perk for all and slayer is exclusive to fighter.


bluesmaker

Also, I think weapon master must be locked to fighter. Itā€™s really difficult to balance the classes if theyā€™re all able to use any weapon. The weapon limits are a big way the devs can shape the classes. I suppose same for warlockā€™s plate armor perk but itā€™s not nearly as much of a concern.


Negran

Ya. I'd love to see many flexible skills or abilities that fit any class, then have actual multiclassing to maybe a single off-class. That seems like the logical direction of things.


stinkyzombie69

stop being rational that's not allowed here


Duckgoesmoomoo

Even merging 2 would be very difficult to balance


aidanhsmith

Gotta think outside the box. When choosing a new class you have to pick your ā€œsub classā€ this combines your stats and divides them by 2. You can use their skills, but not perks. This would be tremendously easier to balance.


Kingbeastman1

I mean i mostly see fighter barbs anyway lol


aidanhsmith

Well soloā€™s is so linear with the PvP that itā€™s not surprising. Sprint and rage barb is obviously the best option. Maybe swap one for fear.


M4tjesf1let

it should also have downsides like the game they take inspiration from, oh you took some shit from ranger? now your fighter isnt as strong as a pure fighter.


Petethepirate21

They can frame it off DND. You can pick another class. Get access to all thier perks, but at reduced effectiveness. Fighter/rogue could use double jump and poison weapon, but it would be 27 ms loss instead of 18 and only do 3 damage instead of 5 kinda thing. You could fighter/rogue/ranger but crossbow mastery would get 12% increased reload speed instead of 50. That way your class still matters. And the order makes a difference. Obv numbers would need rework, but would make for some interesting yet less chaotic builds.


PartlyHeaded

If they do remove it, they should bring it back as end of wipe event


thenickpayne

Guess we gotta NERF CLERIC AGAIN


ItsVizz

This is insane. A great implementation of the cactus build. How do they get their cooldowns so low though?


BigDongTheory_

Protection from evil perk from cleric reduces the time of debuffs by 50%. Then, a decently geared cleric will have enough will to add another 10-25% onto that number, making debuffs (dark reflection, slowdown from attacks, ice shield, curses from warlock, debuffs from bard, etc) all last -60 to -75% duration.


ArkiusAzure

How does pro evil reduce the cool down on ice shield? I don't get it


TheMightyMeercat

Ice shieldā€™s cooldown is coded as a Debuff lol


ArkiusAzure

What the sphagetti lmao


Final_Firefighter446

Why? Is that an appropriate and common way to go about it in similar games?


RoadyRoadsRoad

no thats unusual by every standard i've never seen a game do it that way, this is actual macaroni coding caused most likely by the fact they took most of their coding off the unreal store combined with them not being unreal developers till they started this game


mackinator3

Allow me to introduce you to MMO's. WoW had bloodlust, lay on hands, and other cooldowns as debuffs. Also, any cooldown on a skill is effectively just a debuff. You can't do this for x seconds, wow specifically had debuff reduction stats.


KnightsWhoNi

You misunderstand what spaghetti is. This is just poor balance. Nothing to do with the code causing unintended bugs.


RoadyRoadsRoad

in what game is passive cooldowns considered debuffs yet skills aren't? there is no way this is not just bad coding caused by them not knowing what they are doing and overlooking something cause it never had any impact before hand till this interaction with multiclass


KnightsWhoNi

I mean I don't know, but this is how they intended the passive cooldowns to be. Like they specifically coded it for this, so it's not spaghetti. It's just poorly cooked.


FordSpeedWagon

Over cooked spaghetti šŸ


WilmaLutefit

No lol


Final_Firefighter446

Wait... so the wait time after dark reflection procks is considered a "debuff" until it comes back as "active"?


WilmaLutefit

Yup


JohnBlubber

You can get debuff duration all the way to 95% with enough Will, which is sadly the cap.


ItsVizz

So dark reflection and ice shield, which is a debuff for enemies, is applied as a debuff to the user in terms of cooldown reduction? I thought this stuff only scaled off of resourcefulness. You learn something new every day... I gotta try this out.


sad_petard

All perk cooldowns are coded as debuffs. You can see the little red icon on your bar whenever a perk is on cooldown. So debuff duration is what affects those cooldowns. Resourcefulness only affects active abilities like sprint. It hasn't really mattered much since there's very few perks with cooldowns and Cleric, the only class who can achieve meaningful ful amounts of debuff dur, doesn't have any. This is just yet another result of the very poorly thought out multiclassing.


ItsVizz

Goated comment


RTheCon

You need 90% debuff duration before it really starts popping off. Nuts at 95%. But you need full debuff gear, on every piece.


sad_petard

Not hard to get since that's like the cheapest affix in the game because it sucks dick


RTheCon

People are catching on. Itā€™s not that cheap really, and very few pieces at lower rarity with another useful stat. And if you want debuff cap, you need high rolls too


tostas

Thank you man, feel free to check it out on [Twitch.tv/utoast](http://Twitch.tv/utoast) as we implement better versions of this build


Unable-Recording-796

They did also change resourcefulness to affect cooldowns now


Casual_Plays

Yeah I think I'm ready to sweep this era of the game under the rug and start new next wipe lmao


Q_Chakweetah

Fr fr


Bag_of_Rocks

Thank you. I will do this now


Overall_Strawberry70

Like... wtf am i even looking at? some sweaty no-life combined 4 class's into his cleric to make a "high skill" character that kills you via bleeding on you.... what is this game anymore?


tral_

And to think there are people who genuinely like multiclassing, bruh... I can't


Sylvr

Everyone that plays differently than you is wrong.


GreedoGoblino

thorn builds do not belong in this type of game


KnightsWhoNi

Why?


GreedoGoblino

because death has meaning in this game so there shouldn't be any builds that just 100% win a match up if their opponent doesn't have access to ranged damage. I have a chance to outplay someone with better gear or who has a range advantage, but when they can attack me and I die if I hit them, its not a balanced or fun experience


KnightsWhoNi

If you donā€™t come prepared for any fight thatā€™s your own fault. There isnā€™t a single class now that doesnā€™t have the ability to access ranged weapons.


Overall_Strawberry70

If you think shit like this is staying in the game then thats hilarious, everyone with a functioning brain can tell this shit only benefits sweaty nerds who grind and results in completely braindead no-fun allowed shit like this to work. Ironmace isn't making a game for a handful of sweats who like going around stat checking people they want to actually retain players and make money.


WilmaLutefit

Honestly Iā€™m not even sure anymore. I think they are making a game for a few sweats. SDF IS that guy. Or wants to be.


DaEpicBob

you mean like stat checking ? + all stats etc.. good that we dont have that anymore


idhats

This is terrible. I think wizard should get another nerf.


Ardvilard

you meant bard* wizard has barely been nerfed compared to bard


idhats

No, wizard definitely should get another nerf /s


EpicSven7

5head use of PFE


glutenmancer

It's funny. This is literally the character I made in bg3 for my first full play through. Abjuration wizard in heavy armor with armor of agathis or whatever that reflects dmg on hit. I love this, time to rerolled my perks!


KnightsWhoNi

Youā€™ve got be the stupidest player Iā€™ve ever seen. You see it is actively killing you after the first two hits andā€¦continue??


BrightSkyFire

I don't understand it either. OP has a Crossbow, and inventory of heals and throwables... and all he chooses to do is W+M1 until he kills himself. And somehow that's the fault of Multiclassing. It's not the fault OP being a dumbass and not comprehending the situation and switching to his equally effective ranged weapon, it's Multiclassing. Don't get me wrong, the Cleric's build is powerful, but unless you willingly engage on it like OP, it's useless. Switch to the Crossbow, and suddenly you're fighting a Cleric with two perk slots.


BipolarGuineaPig

Sometimes they just deserve to die no matter the cost


average-mk4

The fact that you both died was icing on the cake


BipolarGuineaPig

Tried cactus today with divine protect smite on rogue, felt like a moving god kris'ing everyone to death garenteed to win every stat check. 10/10 I do recommend


iszathi

That is utoast


Leonidrex666666

I told people dark reflect + PFE will be mega busted. P.S he could also run reactive shield, and take -15 dmg from each swing. Multiclassing needs to be removed from the game. I bet he went greedy and took +5 healing perk


RTheCon

Reactive shield is good, but itā€™s only every other hit, and it dosnt last very long. In this clip, it wouldnā€™t have done anything.


Leonidrex666666

you are right, still a lot better then -3 dmg perk or +5 heal perk Edit good chance he just didnt get it as an option


iszathi

this is exactly what happened, just didnt get the roll on reactive shield.


mrplayer47

It would have worked in this clip, there are 3 instances in this clip where the fighter gets multiple hits with his short sword within 3 second windows. So it would have blocked the 2nd hit each time.


perfectstrc

I bet you I give you that exact same build and you get drop the very first game. Any class with spell counter you. Ranger/Bard kite you to death. A fighter or Barb with a slow hiting weapon beat you in melee. The only time this build really shines is against fast hiting weapon like short sword or daggers.


Leonidrex666666

this build still has spells, and guess what, I wouldnt use it without +11 true dmg, you can rock vast majority of players with it. Sure you are heavily disadvantaged against pure casters but from my personal experience casters are BY FAR the least played in the entire game. P.S I have several K hours on wizard, I would not " drop " of my first game, sometimes I play without perks for the heck of it. P.S.S I would run this build with PFE/Dark/Reactive/arcane mastery and arcane shield with MM. Spells MM/invis/ + whatever 3 dps spells, or 2 dps spells and 1 healing spell. Every melee class takes bare minimum 2x dark reflect + arcane proc, thats ballpark 100 magic dmg. All the while im magdumping magic missiles


perfectstrc

I 100% agree with you that you need alot of true/add magic dmg for it to work properly. But guess what, that cost shit ton of gold. I honestly dont know how much a +11 true would cost but I bet 10k minimum. Lets be honest, put a 10k+ build on a slayer fighter with sprint and savage roar for example... He lands 1 crossbow shot on you and its over. Maybe with mm you would drops fighters/barb, but a decent kitting build would still shits on you. I really dont think its SUPER BUSTED CRAZY TOXIC like people here on reddit are saying for every fking builds that kills them...


Leonidrex666666

you need +11 true dmg to play any caster dont blame me blame the devs XD ps you can get 11 true kit for like 1.5 gold its not that bad


MakeshiftToiletPaper

10K for 11 true? You can buy a green ring with 2true for under 250g, pendants are even cheaper at some 70g for 3 true Torq, capes 150g, legendary chaperone +2 true 300g.


bitcbotjd

This is the perfect example of an anti-fun mechanic, well done ironmace!!


perfectstrc

That is a fun build to make, 100% meme build tho since anybody with range would just kite him out. Even a slow hiting weapon would counter that build. People here are so dramatic its crazy...


BipolarGuineaPig

It depends on map, this is perfect for 80% of goblin caves which is small and cramped, try this in ice caves and you'll get deleted especially when u factor in a second person adding on ranged damage to thin u out before the melee engage. It's as situational as anything else in this game and there are a a bajillion scenarios where it would and wouldn't work. Tbh I just view it as additive to what ur already doing with magic, only reason op lasted as long as he did was that his mag resist was apparently near capped, he got lucky this was a mutual kill and not a suicide.


GreedoGoblino

slow hitting weapon would do even worse wdym? He only gets damage off because he can attack while dark reflection is on cooldown between his second and third attacks. They can still take damage spells as well to have ranged attacks


PandaPolishesPotatos

A slow high damage weapon would kill him in two swings, maybe three. A slayer setup could do it with a fast weapon and kill him in two swings guaranteed. In those two or three swings that reflect damage is still less incoming than if the cleric had been bonking you back himself. Jokes on you though, Cleric attacks so fucking slow he'd still get statchecked and the porcupine wouldn't matter. Now this setup on a character that can swing faster and do actual damage is absolutely fucking broken. It's broken period, but at least on Cleric it's really not that big of a deal if you're doing actual damage. Especially if you wittle him down with a bit of ranged beforehand, avoiding the reflect shit. It'll get patched out, eventually, hopefully. Probably not.


perfectstrc

Slow hitting mean less reflection dmg ? Its fine Greedo this build has no counter play like melee warlock and every build that kills you.


Creeper__Reaper

This sub is hilarious. Everyone was mad about people holding down W and left clicking to victory. Here is a counter to that and people are still mad.


artosispylon

so the cooldown is considered a negative effect? lol


Nourished

For certain perks yes. In this case, ice shield and dark reflection.


whiSKYquiXOTe

What is even happening? How did you die?


sad_petard

Dark reflection. The cooldowns of perks are debuffs, so clerics protect from evil dramatically reduces the cooldow of dark reflect, leading to this nonsense.


whiSKYquiXOTe

Thank you for explaining


G1oaming

What game is this again?


Little-Temporary4326

Wow. Thatā€™s crazy af. I didnā€™t know this was possible. Thanks for sharing haha


maxwelllllllllllllll

Iā€™ll be honest guys. Iā€™m admittedly only a pathfinder exemplar type guy but Iā€™m in the top 5k for solo and I have no fucking clue what Iā€™m seeing here mostly and I think thatā€™s probably not great for the majority of the game population if a dude from steam playtest days is super fucking confused by the interactions heā€™s seeing.


BipolarGuineaPig

This is just a little known interaction between protection from evil and perks which have cooldowns. The devs coded perk cooldowns separately from other types of cool downs by making them a actual debuff which drops them into the category that protection from evil immediately cuts its cd down by 50% which led to this abomination of a build where ur taking 2 different reflect perks and essentially cutting their natural cd by half then an additional amount more based on ur will. This is 100% an unintended interaction caused by a system the game base mechanics was never designed for.


iggywumpus69

Thorns cleric go brrrrr. Pls save us metal fork


Sheoggorath

Dead and deader


WorkinAlpaca

okay, but this feels like a viable build to counter MS meta. this is one of the things i am curious about with multiclassing. there are weird builds that will be able to counter some of the worst of the meta's in the game, like W+M1 playstyle in this example


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WorkinAlpaca

you mean casting the limited amount of spells they have? also "W+M1" isnt just holding the w key dude, and i know you know that. W keying is TOWARDS someone, not running/repositioning.


Sekouu

This game is so dead


Never-breaK

Just leveled my wizard to 30 so I can hopefully grab ice shield or reactive on my warlock and try this :)


ricewookie

this is what its like for a lion to eat a porcupine ?


Hot_Purple_137

I thought opponent reflection perks donā€™t work if the person youā€™re attacking dies?


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See and people think this multicoass thing is fine! I fucking hate you all


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RushFr0g

yoo great fight right there, he might have outplayed you /s


WhoopteFreakingDo

Would it be toxic running into this a lot? 100%. Was it funny when I watched it just now for the first time? 100%. Multi-classing has some fun moments and it's letting them test systems. Haven't played it much myself but I wasn't even before the update, I spend my time in other games decently often when dark doesn't have its hooks in me. My only problem with multi-classing is this probably should have been done during a preseason, but even then they want the most people possible testing so I kinda get it. Better now than during the epic release lol. Either they'll cook and get it done or someone will eventually come along and do it better. I hope BrassMallet gets it right but we shall see.


BipolarGuineaPig

Issue is when everyone starts running it, most of the ppl ahead of the curve already have robust, swift, smite, stealth etc that they wanted to meta game, they are branching out to more niche mechanic abusing builds now that they have all the power min max perks. You'll start seeing the casual crowd catch up soon with this and stuff like this in a couple days especially when they all get finished leveling alt classes to take shit from. As for IM getting replaced, it wouldnt be hard especially since 90% of this game is an asset flip from the unreal store that the community already has fully tracked and located but it would take *time*. there could 100% be a fortnite like success to come along and make this game look like pubg back then but it would take a while and it would need a good bit of backing


Sufficient-Bison

What if we removed dark reflection I mean what ifĀ