Cabalist (ailment) nodes are the biggest problems of Gate of Fates.
At least right now. A balance problem. I know that some other trees are not viable because some nodes don't work. That isn't the point.
Insidious Decay. Grievous Afflictions. Immortal Offering.
These are three horses of the Apocalypse in this game right now. The fourth was BE, but it was tweaked.
Ailment builds through these three passive nodes are totally oblitirating any other build type that people can create in this game.
Those three are busted as hell. Bleeding Edge was not the problem. Yes, it was overpowered (like, reeeally overpowered), but BE builds weren't counting on BE itself, they were (and are - oh yes, BE is still very viable) relying on these three. Ya'll ever tried to make a deep warrior / warrior + rogue trees BE build? That was horrible, i couldn't close a 90 exp with it while on lvl 65. Specced in BEAIL and did 140 with ease lol. Didn't bother of going further.
Crippling Decrepitude (two nodes - on of them is within Grievous Affliction passive, the other is on the way to it ) are also overtuned. +50% in one skillpoint? Lolwhat? Who's idea was to set those numbers? Incessant Infirmity, on the other hand, has +30% and it is more or less on the right spot.
But dont get me wrong - not the whole Cabalist tree is that way. Power of The First Men is balanced okey. Three skillpoints for doubling your dots on target is (not a sarcasm) a good trade-off. Primordial Insights and it's nodes are also on a good spot.
No other tree is coming even remotely close to those nodes and passives. Thorns? LoL gl hf with that. Deep warrior? With interesting combination for material damage? I tried it. Forget about it. Hunter? Necromancer? Have fun on your level expeditions (probably up to 100). A pet / warrior hybrid can go a bit (A BIT higher) then 100 right now after buffs and both shoulders equipped. And i am not talking about 187 progression, but about comfortable farming when you can do an expedition in 4-7 minutes. While you progress you can do like 10-15 higher, but that's it.
If somebody would ask me (no one ever would, but i'll say it anyway lol) - i'd make three things.
1) limit the Immortal Offering by 15 stacks total maximum from whatever source you can find. If you deal only rend damage - you keep 15 rend only stacks etc.
2) make Incidious Decay put only two stacks more. In other words, kill it's synergy with an Immortal Offering. But save the one with Grievous Afflictions - otherwise that would be an ineffective mechanical nerf. We don't want that.
3) keep Grievous Afflictions on the same spot it is now but nerf both Crippling Decrepitude nodes to +20% / -10%, and replaceIncessant Infirmity and one Master of Curses with it.
This would nerf those ailment build by 3 to 5 times aprox and made them be in-line with other straight damage builds.
NERF THOSE THREE AND GIVE US AN ACTUAL CHOICE
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