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pop pop Jul 22, 2017 @ 7:22am
Blight needs buff
So today i wanna talk about blight and its current state.

Blight- alternative DoT to bleed. Works better in cove and ruins.
Forces you to take antivenoum and spend extra inventory space (curios and some monster attacks). And thats fine. Would be wierd to have universal supply item to both DoTs.

So about blight that players can inflict.
Currently 4 characters can inflict blight.

Plague doctor.
Char that works all around DoTs/stuns. Plague grenade is strong but i still prefer incision with bloody herb over noxiuos blast for front row monsters.
Just personal prefference. You can get extra 60% chance with her class trinkets if needed.
Currently best blighter in dd. Wich is as it is supposed to be.

Abomination.
Its one of his playstyles that utilizes blight/stun. You would like to have one of aboms uncommon class trinkets that increases blight/stun%.
Some people say that beasts bile got nerfed. Havent noticed it myself.
Overall- second best blighter. And i use him at times.

Now where the problem begins.

Grave robber
Poison darts- worst skill that gr have to offer. Even worse than antiquarians blight. Usable only from back two rows. And you might say: hey! Thats reason why i drop pick to the face. False. GR isnt a char for slow playstyle. So you typicly wont get full dmg out of DoT. Also her uncommon blight% chance trinket fails to op raiders talisman. Best trinket in dd imo after buff. Not worht it to waste trinket slot on GR for her worst skill.

In short- you shoudnt ever blight with GR: not her playstyle and other skills just better.

And finaly- antiquarian.
Her blight can be used from any spot and can hit any spot. Thats compensates for weak power of blight itself. Only one of crimson court trinkets buffs blight%
So i would use stab over her blight. Only if i used protect me already.
She isnt there to be good combatant but i would rather see other skill in place of feastering vaipours.

So we have only two chars with good blight, one char that dosnt needs it and ts bad and one thats generaly bad at combat.
Very usefull DoT that is good only in easy ruins and not so easy cove.

My idea.
Give some extra base %chance over simmular bleed skills. That would make location design fall a bit throught.

Give blight to other chars!
The only one that would fit blight in char design and his playstyle is... Lepper.
Why? Because he is more tank oriented hero wich means his general playstyle is slower than average but with his big damage per hit it dosemt synergize realy well. Would be cool to have blight on top of his sword attack.. His body is rooten to insanity so that would make sense that his blade carries some plague.

Thats all i have to say for now. Waiting on your comments.
Last edited by pop pop; Jul 22, 2017 @ 7:26am
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Paranoia Jul 22, 2017 @ 9:26am 
Antiquarian´s Blight is better than her Stab.
Why? Because it has Debuff to enemy´s Blight Resistance, just like Abomination has.
Which eans that most enemies will not Resist Antiquarian for long, and she makes the rest of the team Blight easier too.
Indeed, Two Antiquarians Blighting everything is already pretty decent, add one or two Blighers more and the enemies melt. And while the last ones melt, one can swap to healing.
Lampros Jul 22, 2017 @ 1:12pm 
Originally posted by Paranoia:
Antiquarian´s Blight is better than her Stab.
Why? Because it has Debuff to enemy´s Blight Resistance, just like Abomination has.
Which eans that most enemies will not Resist Antiquarian for long, and she makes the rest of the team Blight easier too.
Indeed, Two Antiquarians Blighting everything is already pretty decent, add one or two Blighers more and the enemies melt. And while the last ones melt, one can swap to healing.

I agree with Paranoia.

I also like OP's suggestion that Leper should have some blight. God knows the Leper needs all the help he can get. So this would be killing two birds with one stone.
What The Sigmar? Jul 22, 2017 @ 2:35pm 
Yeah, it's much easier to build a bleed-oriented team than a blight-oriented team. We could certainly use some more blight strength to antiquarian and grave robber. Maybe a trinket that does +1 pt/rd blight damage for GR and antiquarian only?
The blight for a leper would be intresting, maybe hew can do some blight. Nothing strong like maybe two points of it.
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Date Posted: Jul 22, 2017 @ 7:22am
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