EA will be an extra 5 MRR/PRR debuff from the light/fire barrier (and another 5 MRR/PRR from Shadows Upon You in EA). It's a solid combo to mix with a fire warlock (or a cleric/FvS) for making the whole party/raid do more damage. Group tactics have big payoffs; even for solo, it would likely be quite nice.
Thankfully, that's not actually how debuff math works (otherwise -100 PRR would be infinite damage, which it isn't, and we'd see 5m+ melee hits on big crits with ~-80 PRR)
You're claiming you hit and tested out -100 PRR? Or is there a dev post somewhere saying the stated formula is an oversimplification and they have their own pocket math?
This causes me to again wonder if -100% threat is actually the multiplicative inverse of positive threat to match this method. If so then -100% threat would mean 50% actual threat reduction.
Cool - I'll give these a try. Already got Tar, so I'm looking at adding 45% damage from self-debuffs between Melthorn and Shattered.
If you think the game is too easy, go run r10 raids. As far as I'm aware, most people don't even run mid-skull reapers quests. The current system rewards players based off how they play. Solo on flavor build, fun times to be had. Optimize a solo build, yay. Run in a party, more poeple to overwhelm mobs. Optimize all 6 or 12 people as collective, really push the limits. If they add MRR/PRR to mobs, then the color of people's attacks floating damage number would change because of damage reduction, and no one enjoys seeing their damage reduced all the time; there's more joy in seeing one's numbers go purple and grow.
The stated reason for the nerfs is the players outpaced the intended difficulty of the game. I agree, they don't need to do any nerfs, but I'm not an MBA working for a video game company worrying about jeweler kit sales.
The nerf'd the abilities that were outperforming everything else. Now people that didn't use hunt/snipe combos will be more on par. Now those that didn't go DB for an epic strike will perform similarly. Up until now, if one didn't go with certain ED combos, one was effectively a flavor build. Now they're all much more the same for output (sure that output is way less, but the gap between them has just been knocked out).
I'd be ok with them nerfing the numbers of HE but they are ruining their most lag/ping resistant mechanic. A twelve second boost state is the only thing they've come up with in years that does not fart into oblivion with the slightest ping. Did they take this away from Adrenaline? They did not nerf the over performing playstyle, that would be optimized melee dps and Razorclaw.
And the skills that were underperforming will continue underperforming. Removing DB and HE only harms playstyles that are not the ones that currently have the most dps. But it does not bring any balance.
You have no idea how disruptive that 1 extra second is. Just due to how it gels with boulders, it will throw off a lot of people's rotation. Substantially lowering DPS.