So, I was just minding my business on preview, until I saw THIS artifact.
EDIT This was taken on preview. Mamalion showed us that on the latest devblog, it got reduced to a 3% buff, which is nice, but not as empowering.
Do you guys think this will become instant BiS for buffing builds, or is this just a tooltip reading error on my part? Any other... thoughts, opinions guys?
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@mimicking#6533 ,
@rgutscheradev,
@nitocris83 and to the members of the Cryptic dev team: could we get a version of this to test on preview?
I might be overhyping/overeacting to the artifact, but if it what I suspect it does, I would hope to be able to test it.
Recall that Eye of the Giant on preview was bugged and gave you much more power than intended....
I would hope to avoid a repeat of an incident like that...
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I do wonder if it stacks though.... can never tell with this game.
In regular 5 man party its 45% increase in effectiveness - and there were already complains that the wheel is providing too much of a boost.
Now go back to the stats of arti again - defence + deflect + life steal + power (assassins covenant) - usable by GF, DC, debuff CW and somewhat OP. After becoming bis arti spreads fast so expect over 90% of people who use those classes to use it (if they are not damage selfish). In regular party you run with 2 or max 3 dps leaving space for 2 or 3 users of this arti which is once again - too much.
Now some of you mentioned black heart and forgehammer - basic difference is that both of those artis are bugged (will be fixed eventually) as you noticed as black heart is not supposed to provide debuff and forgehammer is supposed to have 1 min cooldown at mystic. However this sigil is presumed woking as intended which puts it in front of those 2 demand wise.
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Well then, crisis averted (?)
I still have a feeling it's going to be BiS for supporter builds (still gonna use it on my Tactician) by virtue of giving a damage buff to your teammates, something that no other artifact does (unless you purposely let your teammates steal your Wheel - Fire or Tome buffs).
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But, you wouldn't believe how many people can't figure out how to use/place their Wheel - Fire at the right times...
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I know you were considering about it for your DC, but if you don't need Sigil of the Devoted and are a support player, isn't the small team buff still decently good? (Heart of the Black Dragon werido debuff scaling non-withstanding?)
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1.09*x=1.09x
1.09*y=1.09y
1.09*z=1.09z
Total damage dealt = 1.09x+1.09y+1.09z
Same as:
1.09*(x+y+z)
It is not equal to:
1.27*(x+y+z)
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I guess I did not express myself in correct way - the goal was to compare effectiveness of the artifact with such as wheel which would as darthzarr stated be 30% party effective. And merely noticing that in such situations sigil would grant more bonus than wheel which was already target of complains about too big bonus that it provides with fire buff (still not good comparison since active times of bonuses are different) .
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It wasn't even math its just basic deduction of usefulness. If you still do not understand what I wanted to say - simply go to sharps equation and observe it as follwing :
x + y + z = c/3 while c/3 = b (not sure about formula - even if its simple im pretty drunk at this point so sorry )
however the way artifact should interacts in my desiredd situation with is
9% * 10b
while wheel in such case would interact as
30% * 1b (or just b) or 30%/10 * 10b
(lol at my own formulas)
That is the only point of the party effectiveness - benefit for the raid / party composed as a single body.
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so for example if there are 2 players in the party the wheel buffs the 1 players damage by 30% for 46.666666666% uptime, which is a ~14% buff for 1 player and assuming they did equal dps before, it was a 7% dps boost for the party (2*1.07 = 2.14).
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