10-10-2006, 04:33 PM
Quote:Don't be so sure. The main reason it's in use is as an immunity breaker, possibly in conjunction with Lower Resist charges. It's not broken because it takes resistances way into the negatives, but because the Sorceress' only real weakness is now irrelevant. Yes, lowering the level of Conviction will help a bit, but the majority of the breakable immunities are low enough that low Conviction will still break them and let something else (Rainbow Facets, masteries, Lower Resist) do the rest, which still creates the imbalance present in the sorceress. The melee classes have long been capable of clearing everything out with the proper build, true, but look at the kill speed ratio (bar Blessed Hammer, which has its own set of issues).Well, how about the change comes with a change to the stats of conviction so that it won't break resistances for the first 5 levels? This would have the side effect of stopping paladins (who don't have a whole pile of +skills gear) from just dropping a point in it to solve their problems when they run into a physical immune.
Must be why all them Lightning Fury Amazons have the Infinity mercenary in tow.
An alternative solution is to replace convict-on-a-stick with 'conscience' aura, or something which has the same stats as convict, but no breaking ability (or a break to 95% ability, but no further reductions allowed. Which would probably be a pig to program, however).
I still think most of the other auras-on-items wouldn't be a problem if they were all level 1 only, or maybe it's just that I want such items.
-Bob