Test Discussion Change To Weapon Buff

We've increased the duration of the precision/weapon DPS aspect of of Self Weapon Buffs to 20 seconds (up from 12 seconds). The cool down of the ability however remains the same at 12 seconds.

With this change, we hope that it will allow players access to longer weapon combos without being too restricted by this ability.

a very good change, thanks for doing this!

when does this go live?

Should go live with ep 35

Will this increase the duration of the VWD too?

Fatal, I wouldn't think so

It should, cause that was the main thing effecting people using long weapon combos

yeah, longer VWD time seems like a reasonable tradeoff for the reduction in damage and seems like it would be an excellent way to level off the damage disparity for melee combos, since there seems to be little interest in fixing it the correct way.

Just changing the weapon buff won't change much. The artifact need to be buffed the entire weapon buff. Players still won't use the long weapon combos if the artifact buff only last 6 secs

This will not increase up-time of VWD. The CD of Weapon Buff was unchanged so if you use VWD, you can still keep the same amount of uptime.

Meh.

Yeah I thought so because the uptime would be constant regardless. So with the way Im understanding it, theres no loss.

I understand that, but the actual VWD buff isn't helpful to players using longer weapon combos, some combos take longer than 6 seconds to perform and other longer ones you can only get one off in 6 seconds where as some shorter stronger combos can used 2 times or more. Of course that dips more into actual weapon balance though.

That is one of the goals behind the change to VWD and the buff to over all precision based attacks; that you don't have to be 100% reliant on VWD to deal good damage. There will be more precision artifacts as well as the recent buffs to some existing artifacts that include precision as to give alternatives. VWD will likely be the go-to for short combos where as another artifact (or future artifact) will be better for longer sustained combos.

Just like Might artifacts, we want there to be various builds in the future that are not limited by needing to have that 'one' artifact regardless of your play-style.

Doubt it works this way, but does the buffs stack lmao. Just wondering because it works like a regular power move and not an artifact effect like venom wrist and riptide

it doesnt since it didnt ever stack before.