Accursed souls

werdandi

With the TC nerf, i have been playing on Act with my different dailies.
I am SB fury and I tested IS, TC and Accursed souls on 3 dummies during a 30-second-test. From what I can see, it seems that Accursed souls do more damage than the other ones. I tried several times (one daily, then encounters/at-wills during 30 sec without any pet) and the result seems consistent.
AC spawns a temporary puppet and put a minor curse on all nearby foes in addition of its own damage.
May be it something to explore for trash mobs.
By the way, i have been very disappointed by IS.

ghoulz66

AC is a nice AOE daily for damnation builds.

If you're HB, gates of hell will hit way harder, but it's targeting is too terrible to use in the thick of things. It's hard to hit as many targets as possible with it, less you have classes in the party that can pull mobs into a clump.

onewingedmenace

ghoulz66 said:

AC is a nice AOE daily for damnation builds.

If you're HB, gates of hell will hit way harder, but it's targeting is too terrible to use in the thick of things. It's hard to hit as many targets as possible with it, less you have classes in the party that can pull mobs into a clump.

I'm playing a damnation build, would it be worth replacing TC with it once the nerf comes in?

werdandi

ghoulz66 said:

AC is a nice AOE daily for damnation builds.

If you're HB, gates of hell will hit way harder, but it's targeting is too terrible to use in the thick of things. It's hard to hit as many targets as possible with it, less you have classes in the party that can pull mobs into a clump.

As I said, I am SB fury and I have retested today a bit further on 3 dummies.
I included Brood of Hadar and Flames of Phlegestos in my 30 second test (I use AoH, FB and SS as encounters). I cannot test Gates of Hell as it is for HB only.
Accursed souls is the winner, and second would be TC (this latter can win sometimes). BoH and Flames are behind.
TC can sometimes give better damage but Accursed souls actually seems to have a boosting effect on Creeping death: at the end, it looks like I can have 10/15% better overall damage over TC.

Of course, it is just a test on dummies; i don't know what the result would be be on real mobs in the real server (I tested on the preview server since i only have 2 points allocated to AC in the real server).