Max DPS Focused Proc Based Arcane Trickster Build

[Marshal_Lannes]

Procs from items that do not benefit from spellpower no longer benefit from the active metamagics on the spell that causes the procs to happen. This means that stacking procs is way less effective: going from benefiting from spell crit%, spell crit dmg, and metamagics [empower+maxi+intensify for 300 sp] ; to only benefiting from crit% and crit dmg.

0% = 1x, 100sp = 2x, 200sp = 3x, 300sp = 4x dmg. We are now at the 1x point, doing a quarter of the damage we were doing before with these procs.

This was never working as intended. The vast majority of "good" builds that people don't post on the forums are "good" builds because they are taking advantage of bugs. AT is still a remarkable character class. I never used the proc stacking (because it was cheese and not working as intended) and have still been dominant as an AT. I am not even optimized and run R10 just fine. People should stop looking for loophole builds and enjoy the game. Procs have gotten out of control. I honestly wish they would remove them from the game at this point. Adding procs invalidates the entire stat squish update. If you are going to add Byzantine ways to creep character power (through procs), then just go back to Deadly +21; that way everyone gets the codex creep. Adding mystery procs that stack or don't stack, trigger or don't trigger, simply makes them maddeningly difficult to understand, and most average players never use them as a result. The whole Oh, I'm stacking 5 procs, is terrible game design, and it's bound to be exploited by people. The Devs should also know better. You can't keep adding procs to the game and not think high-end players won't start requiring their builds to have a fistful of procs.

 

[infamousone]

Has the build been updated since the nerf?

No I quit for a bit, and probably won't update it for a while.

 

[VinoeWhines]

This was never working as intended. The vast majority of "good" builds that people don't post on the forums are "good" builds because they are taking advantage of bugs. AT is still a remarkable character class. I never used the proc stacking (because it was cheese and not working as intended) and have still been dominant as an AT. I am not even optimized and run R10 just fine. People should stop looking for loophole builds and enjoy the game. Procs have gotten out of control. I honestly wish they would remove them from the game at this point. Adding procs invalidates the entire stat squish update. If you are going to add Byzantine ways to creep character power (through procs), then just go back to Deadly +21; that way everyone gets the codex creep. Adding mystery procs that stack or don't stack, trigger or don't trigger, simply makes them maddeningly difficult to understand, and most average players never use them as a result. The whole Oh, I'm stacking 5 procs, is terrible game design, and it's bound to be exploited by people. The Devs should also know better. You can't keep adding procs to the game and not think high-end players won't start requiring their builds to have a fistful of procs.

The worst part(or one of them at least) is that Double Shot/Strike was done away with because of this exact reason in the excuse that there were too many procs for Servers to handle, for them to then, remove double procs in attacks, to just go and bring them back in other ways to "clutter the game more" and still keep adding "more effects/pets/visuals" to the game.

They need to put back how double Strike/Shot worked before, now that they're on 64bit Servers, and then.....if they want to "add" procs/effects/animation, it won't seem so hypocritical to go against what they said were their actions for doing the removal in the first place.

 

[Marshal_Lannes]

And what you propose benefits from simplicity. Everything is tied to doubleshot/strike. Not random magma, shadows, acid, blah, blah, blah proc.

 

[Jaspar]

This was never working as intended. The vast majority of "good" builds that people don't post on the forums are "good" builds because they are taking advantage of bugs. AT is still a remarkable character class. I never used the proc stacking (because it was cheese and not working as intended) and have still been dominant as an AT. I am not even optimized and run R10 just fine. People should stop looking for loophole builds and enjoy the game. Procs have gotten out of control. I honestly wish they would remove them from the game at this point. Adding procs invalidates the entire stat squish update. If you are going to add Byzantine ways to creep character power (through procs), then just go back to Deadly +21; that way everyone gets the codex creep. Adding mystery procs that stack or don't stack, trigger or don't trigger, simply makes them maddeningly difficult to understand, and most average players never use them as a result. The whole Oh, I'm stacking 5 procs, is terrible game design, and it's bound to be exploited by people. The Devs should also know better. You can't keep adding procs to the game and not think high-end players won't start requiring their builds to have a fistful of procs.

All of this. Arcane Trickster is still ridiculously OP compared to anything other than a fully maxed out Sorc.

It is beyond terrible that a one-trick gimmick build can be so much more powerful than 99% of other caster builds. From the very beginning more power should have been given to Force spells and Ambush should have been 25% and 50%. The fact that AT was released and the fact that nothing has been done to it in the 7 months since it was released just shows how little SSG cares about the game.

 

[VinoeWhines]

The only thing missing for the Arcane Trickster really is a Stolen Eldritch Aura.
It might as well steal everything from everybody, everytime.